A Lover's Discourse: Fragments

Cold Frost & Sunshine

A lonely librarian in a rough neighborhood has a special relationship with a student on the verge of expulsion. Margherita's poetic world is confronted by reality as she tries to get through to Nehorai.

Le jour sera comme la nuit

... And That's What a Marriage Is

A film director meet a dancer and they're go around the city all day. He found something in her that he doesn't found in his wife.

Visiting Linda

Erni realizes there is something off with her "boarding school" daughter after reading the grocery list.

The Bear

In the Deep South during the late 19th century, a young boy goes on the annual hunt in the Big Bottom where he confronts Old Ben, a bear that has always eluded the hunters.

Roller Coaster

A boys first weekend with the father after the divorce of his parents. Together with his friends, he makes a plan to turn that weekend into a horror trip, to punish his father. But then everything changes

The Platelayer

A group of plate-layers are packing the stone-bed under the rail with their pickaxes. They swing their picks in a coordinated, rhythmic way, thereby creating a sequence of rings, when they hit the stones or the rail, which sounds almost as music. When a train passes by, they stand silent beside the rail for a while, and then start the rhythmic beats again.

Love On Hylan Blvd.

Over 30 sentences across 7 cities across North America are featured in this crowdsourced short film! Check out this story about how a local couple from the late 80s faces love’s trials and tribulations over the course of 30 years. *DISCLAIMER: Everyone on set tested negative for COVID and provided documentation for the rapid/PCR tests prior to going to set. All spaces used by crew and cast members were deep cleaned, sanitized, and disinfected within a 12-hour window of their arrival, and again immediately after cast and crew left the space.

Second Encounters

In this tale of second chances, two ex-lovers run into each other in a restaurant. Both are with new partners. Both are unhappy. Both are still in love with the other. Dormant feelings rush to the surface and the opportunity to rekindle the past presents itself. Will the outcome be different?

Queen for a Day

In Sara's class, the popular kids, also known as the kings and queens, are subjected to daily humiliations, which include having their pants pulled down or water thrown on them, but this is only a sign of their elevated status. Sara is the only blond and blue-eyed girl in her class, and she is completely overlooked by the kings and queens who do not have blond hair and blue eyes. She has a secret crush on one of the kings, who is way out of her league, and she doesn't have any friends either, but would like to become friends with Karen, also an outsider who aspires to a better status. One day, Sara eyes an opportunity to boost her popularity by humiliating herself and thereby become queen. Karen instantly becomes her friend, she seems to catch the eye of her kingly crush and popularity appears within her reach. However, her happiness is short-lived, and in the end she learns a far more valuable lesson than how to be queen for a day.

Tour Eiffel

Filming In The Rain

A group of friends got together to make a short film as a school project.

Gay Jesus

Once upon a time in a cheap Jerusalem hotel room, Jesus and Judas are spending their time away from Nazareth between hot, sweaty, carnal love and preparing sermons for Jesus' growing fanbase. Enter Mary Magdalene, jealousy, Satan, and the Romans, and the once-perfect love affair between Judas and Jesus becomes a hellish ring of fire, leading Judas to betray his beloved Christ and the Romans to punish everyone for trying to turn everyone gay.

Pria

Caught between the traditions of his upbringing in rural Indonesia and his idealization of Western freedom, a teenager struggles with the expectations of imminent manhood.

Pedro

Pedro gets home at dawn. Before the young boy falls asleep, his lonely mother drags him to the beach.

Honeymoon

Sandra is travelling with Fay, helping her take the bus out of the country. A transphobic attack leaves them both stranded in the middle of nowhere. A sensitive and vibrant response to intolerance in the form of a gritty and realistic road movie.

Martha the Monster

Shy teenage monster making new friends in a new place. In a world where humans live alongside monsters, Martha finds herself stuck with a major identity crisis.

Lost and Found

As closeted teenager, Yuval, loses his mobile phone which is then found by a stranger. When the pair meet at the park, at first the stranger asks for a reward for finding it, but it soon becomes apparent that he wants more than what the boy is prepared to give.

Wuhan Driver

At the onset of the pandemic, a Chinese Uber driver in New York struggles to make ends meet as he picks up various passengers on a long and dreary night.

Enclosed World

A short animation by Makoto Shinkai in Lightwave 3D. Inspired by Haruki Murakami's book "Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World" with music by Tenmon.