The Royale
Grandmaster of Chess, Wilhelm Steinitz, goes into battle with one of the best conmen in history, Gregor MacGregor. Tensions flare, and sanity is called into question. Who will win?
From and to Nature, We Return
In a mesmerizing visual journey, it explores the deep connection between humanity and Mother Earth, calling us to reconnect with nature and live in harmony with its cosmic rhythms.
dark room
A struggling writer sells his books on the street. One day, he discovers a mysterious flyer on a tree, leading him to an unknown company where nothing is as it…
Supernatural Crime Unit: FBI
Supernatural Crime Unit: FBI is the third series of the Supernatural Crime Unit. When a series of grisly serial crimes grips the nation, Special Agent Charlie (Nicholas Vlahos-Sten), a brilliant…
Tuesday Blues or DON’T LOOK BACK
A poem put to film. A young man wandering through Paris, facing himself, the world, and existence.
In the garden
In a quiet garden, a woman savors a cup of tea, her chicken nestled nearby, as birds flutter overhead and sunlight dances through the leaves. With a soft smile, she…
Gangsta to Grace
Gangsta to Grace is the true story of Letitia “Chuckie” Scott, a preacher’s daughter who spiraled into the streets, hid a double life, and let her father take a 15-year…
Finnish and paranoid dream
How to talk about the future when it seems there is no future? The world exploded and it only remains a voice formulating hypotheses about a future that will be…
The Threshold
After twenty years of silence, Sophie meets with her mother Eva – a person who was once her father. This intimate encounter in the stuffy apartment of a ruined tenement…
The epilogues
The end of the world has already arrived, not everyone knows it but it is already here. If it weren’t so, what else could all those news reports broadcast daily…
RICHARD ORLINSKI, The Art Documentary
Documentary about French sculptor Richard Orlinski, who broke the codes of the art world. Richard Orlinski is a French contemporary artist and sculptor celebrated for his innovative approach to art,…
Chanting of the Dunes
Chanting of the Dunes recounts the life of Wahbi Al-Hariri-Rifai who was an accomplished international artist, architect, archeologist, and author. It is told through the mixed perspective of his wife,…
Pyramidshire
"Pyramidshire. A dream to change the history of Basilicata" was an event that lasted less than a day. It took place in 2012 in the natural landscapes of Vùlture (Basilicata…
Weronika & Archie – A Timeless Wedding Story
Set in the stunning palace gardens of Janów, Weronika & Archie said "yes" during an elegant outdoor humanist ceremony surrounded by history, candlelight, and emotion. This day was filled with…
Oz Doesn’t Exist
Mikee goes walkabout to break free from the safety of a lie and reveal the truth, that Australia is in fact, a fabrication.
Test Strike
A short AI film exploring morals in medieval Japan. During that time, samurai practiced a custom known as "tsujigiri" (辻斬り). This film is a brief sketch of how such an…
Dark Orange
A young couple appears to live a peaceful life, yet beneath the surface their relationship is fractured. The woman struggles with the weight of a one-sided emotional bond and makes…
No-Land: No-Landers
‘No-Land’, a hypothetical underwater residential area in a parallel universe, set in the situation of the disappearance of land. In a surreal underwater apartment located in ‘No-Land’, six eccentric citizens…
The Shericks
When her mother disappears while visiting an old acquaintance, Patricia rushes to a small border town where she finds herself amid a game of cat and mouse in which no…
Run Carlos Run
This is an experimental film, the leading hero of which is one person. The film has been shot for 8 years. The main hero wakes up in the morning and…
The Pit and the Pendulum – a musicabre
Musical short film adaptation of the classic Poe story (from the makers of "The Tell-Tale Heart - a musicabre", winner of over 60 film festival awards). A desperate composer imagines…
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KHAYA – Home is where the Mind is [South Africa] 2021
We share a few intimate days & nights of secluded suburban life with Abe Gabriel Zen as he struggles to come to terms with losing his beloved & pregnant wife,…
I Hate You and Everything You Represent
A man falls in love for the first time but feels guilty about it
Henry Needs A Cat
When a favor for a roommate puts Henry in contact with an unexpected force, he is given a chance to reflect on what he wants most out of life.
Zero Coordinates
Two German army generals meet in an underground bunker to exchange canes of power during World War II.As he is about to exchange canes, the phone rings and announces Hitler's…
Resurrection under the Ocean
"Resurrection under the Ocean" is about the resurrection of a man who was helplessly sinking to the bottom of the ocean, after falling to the bottom of the ocean, with…
I am a dream machine
I want to believe, that inside this black square that you see, we bring the same laws of the universe out there: chaos, order... time, space. Perhaps form and counter…
A Fistful of Coins
A grandmother’s stroll with her grandson takes a detour when she sees a store with a promotional sale that she simply can’t ignore.
Rebirth of Venus
The film is based on a text about oppression. The dilapidated and overgrown Piranesi-style buildings are inspired by the iconic architecture of two of the most totalitarian regimes in European history
Open Water
A music-driven short about a mystical world and the open sea. About fear and overcoming it.
THE BEGINNING OF OUR END
A story about how the steps we take today will effect the Future of Mankind
A Virtual Investigation
When the daughter found new evidence 20 years after her mother's death, she has engaged detective to find the truth.
Kasturi A story of Untoucable man
This story is about a guy who is suffring with a mental disorder knowns as Misanthropy.This movie deals with his journey to fulfil his strange intention.
DILEMMA: SOME ADULTS STORY
The film is about four adults and their dilemmas to evade morality and seek please, which leads them to inescapable tragic situations.
Aquatoria
The Сaptain accidentally falls into the dream of an Indian, who demonstrates to him three women from the 70s, 80s and 90s - each of them escaped from a noisy party to welcome a new day at the port.
Breathing In
Dealing with the anxieties from the lives lost due to COVID-19, a woman learns to find peace in the midst of chaos.
If you are where I’m not
Tooba unexpectedly ends his relationship with Kaveh. Kaveh looks for the reason. He realizes that their disagreement over the issue of voluntary assistance to poor people has led to Tooba's decision.
Gazing
Siavash is a man around his 30s who lost both of his parents during a traumatic childhood event. In early life, this trauma brought him a lack of perspective in…
Do You Think God Loves Immigrant Kids, Mom ?
This film tells the struggle of Armenian families migrated to Turkey/Istanbul who try to provide education for their children despite all the circumstances. In the core of this struggle, which…
Death Offers Life – last moments of Vincent Van Gogh
The story is the fictional account of the last five minutes of the acclaimed painter Vincent Van Gogh who was a failure in his lifetime. Death who has come to…
The Single Man
Ten eligible ladies. One lucky single man. One Zoom link. Endless drama, laughs, heartbreaks, and breakthroughs. Totally unscripted and improvised.