Jack wants to know if Ollie “like likes” him. But Ollie is meditating. So, he asks a bird instead.
Anna is thinking of quitting sex work. She hears screaming from out the window.
One day, Haru (25), who works as a bookstore clerk, reunites with Takeshi (45), whom she first met a few years prior, when she stopped him from jumping in front of a train. Takeshi offers Haru a job. Another day, Haru is worried about Yukiko (40) who is sitting on a bench in front of the station, and talks to her. This leads them on a small journey together. Haru takes along a cassette tape and recorder left behind by her mother Taeko, who died of illness when Haru was in primary school. Haru again faces regrets of not being able to help Taeko, which she had held for a long time.
A gruff man wanders an industrial landscape.
A couple's evening together is disrupted by a trip to the convenience store.
A couple's evening together is disrupted by a trip to the convenience store.
Three guys working the graveyard shift on and around a deserted urban college campus try to make it through a long and lonely night on the job.
One morning in the early 90s, florist Ádina performs domestic tasks after apparent disagreements with her husband, Ivo.
A man engulfed in the suffocating grip of loss finds his life fragmented. Struggling to navigate through his emotional fog, his mother suggests a retreat to her cabin – but an ancient entity that thrives on sorrow has taken root. The New England winter punctuates this love letter to creeping horror and slow cinema.
Whispers of Mumbai" is a contemplative, avant-garde short film that captures the essence of Sunny Yadav's life, a 19-year-old middle-class teenager residing in the bustling city of Mumbai, specifically Kandivali. Shot entirely on a phone camera with a limited budget, this film embraces the style of slow cinema, offering an intimate and soothing exploration of everyday moments in Sunny's life.
A group of young people grapple with identity, guilt and mourning after learning of a close friend's death.
A person receives old entries from their diary, unsure of who is sending them. They eventually arrive at a moment of transcendence.
Exploring helplessness, Pyre is an experimental short film which personifies death as a ghoul in a dress, drawing closer and closer until striking.
A woman meditates on her life in an 80-minute unbroken zoom shot.
A woman slowly fades into darkness waiting to see her son one last time.
Set in the sparsely populated lobster fishing villages of southern Nova Scotia, Plains is a cinema vérité approach to documenting the curious lives of Jon and Cat, a young couple who are developing politically left-leaning virtual reality video games. Against the busy backdrop of their art practice, we sit in on their quiet rural life, which, in its proximity to nature and the vast green and oceanic spaces that surround, echoes the romanticism of a simpler time. As the decaying world of physical labour and the mechanical industry faces up to an expanding digital empire, Jon gradually retreats into the alternative realities of his own design.
A man grapples with his anxiety, attempting to calm him self in the shadow of his idols. As the ideal and the real collide.