Short film from 1920 about a flower thief, restored by Eye.
Social & External
Repurposing and manipulating classic film footage and the filmmaker’s personal footage, the film weaves a phantasmagoric narrative of a Chinese lady named Ma Li who dreams she is a Caucasian named Mary.
In the thick of the 1998 political tension in East Java, Indonesia, a guard leaves his post despite rumours of ninjas terrorising the town at night, to meet with his lover.
Two young brothers are separated at camp and forced to compete in rival tribes.
Two women of different backgrounds encounter one another at an oceanfront resort. They then discover a hidden bond that allows them to escape from their realities.
While Tamaki’s partner Sui was away for the summer, she consumed a watermelon seed and began growing a watermelon in her body. They make a promise to eat the ripe watermelon together.
Unseen explores racial fetishisation and micro-aggressions through the eyes of Lien, a young woman who hopes for more than society is willing to offer her.
Pool Blue is an attempt which tells, without dialogue nor rationality, a connection fantasized between two men. It is the fantastical projection which reveals certain eroticism. Pointless and discreet, the desire is present, two men are careful, gauge to the point to create a link of seduction. This link is intelligently staged, it is invisible with the eyes of the other swimmers, mysterious for both men and very explicit for the spectator.
A gentle physician saved an injured rabbit in the forest, not knowing that it was actually a Rabbit Spirit. The Rabbit Spirit decided to visit the physician in a human form, and they started to become closer. But when the Rabbit Spirit hears the story of the White Snake, and how human and demons are not destined to be together, she begins to doubt if she should stay at the physician's side. (Short film sequel to the 医女和兔子精的故事 music video)
When an accident befalls Hipolita, her unusual ward finally has a chance at freedom.
When six year-old Katya explores the experience of death, she discovers life like she has never seen before.
A young woman returns to her rural Mexican village after a few years away to find out if her first love can be revived.
After numerous military operations, Major Müller can't find a way back into civilian life. Following his urge to communicate, the Major is looking for listeners and encouragement. He doesn't find either. Instead, the repeated monological memory of his own heroic deeds determines his present – with all the consequences. This 30-minute short film is based on the statements made by the mercenary Siegfried Müller in the documentary “The Laughing Man” (Walter Heynowski and Gerhard Scheumann, DEFA studio for newsreels and documentaries, 1966), as well as records from the German colonial period in Africa. An intensive contribution to the necessary public debate about the consequences of military operations.
At the end of his older brother’s wedding in the lush English countryside, a young man struggles to deal with his sexuality.
Bobby Stone is 13 and in love. Problem is that he's in love with his best friend Dylan and Dylan doesn't feel the same way.
Two boys and close family friends, Jeremy and Alphonse, American and French, spend a few weeks together in Jeremy’s house in Brooklyn. Jeremy is confused about his understanding of the friendship, while obsessed with the ducks in the Prospect Park’s lake and finishing a school paper about their migration. Alphonse likes to ride bicycles and doesn’t want to leave town. The ducks inevitably leave, Alphonse goes back to Paris, and Jeremy stays in his house, but all of them depart to something new.
A retired soldier opens up a barber shop so as not to be financially dependant on his wife, a fish seller.
In French colonial Vietnam, a nervous young woman has to satisfy the brutal General’s taste for a traditional dish to save her family from capital punishment.
A man returns to his childhood home after a nervous breakdown to be taken care of by his younger brother.
