Live Your Life Smiling

Sitcom for 1920s cinemas about the Winter family.

Arc

In a bizarre and decadent society, faceless characters are tirelessly trying to appeal to a body of bureaucrats in order to finally be allowed to have a face. Will they be happy when they can get a nose, a pair of eyes and a mouth?

A Sex Talk Over Cuttlefish

Based on an actual conversation between a father and son, this birds and bees lessons is anything but ordinary.

Model's Life

The pair of mannequins in the mattress section seem the ideal couple: Handsome, elegant and perfect. But when the mall closes and the lights go out, things are quite different.

Fuck Yourself and Dance

David is a guy with a job, some friends and fairly successful with women. He cannot complain, but he feels completely empty. Then, Elena enters his life and he idealizes her at once. David thinks he has found what he has been looking for. He thinks he is in love, he wants it very badly. This time, it seems everything is going to be fine. Or is it?

Bootleggers

This is the second silent (save for a song) slapstick comedy short about adventures of Worldly, Coward, and Fool. In a small hunting lodge three friends are making illegal moonshine. Bottled "product" fills shelves quickly. Life is good. But their dog Barbos doesn't understand that bringing a moonshine condenser coil to a police station is a bad idea...

Nirvana Police

A young policeman falls in love with a black panther.

Disasters Under the Sun

The film portrays a post-human dystopia featuring faceless 3-D avatars continuously tortured in abstract digital space, a terrifying image of a future where all humanity is uploaded to a virtual purgatory and endlessly abused.

Sun Knapping

Busy Bodies

In this short film, Laurel and Hardy wage battle with inanimate objects, their co-workers, and the laws of physics during a routine work day at a sawmill.

Magic Hock

The story of a hare who accidentally receives Santa Claus’s staff. Now he will teach his bullies a lesson: with this staff he can turn anyone into anything.

Treasure Chest

Tinker Bell hunts for pirate treasure while Vidia gets trapped in an adventure all of her own

Boogaloo and Graham

In 1970s Belfast two young boys discover the facts of life, aided by the help of their pet chickens.

The Bigger Picture

'You want to put her in a home; you tell her; tell her now!' hisses one brother to the other. But Mother won't go, and their own lives quickly unravel as she clings to life. Director Daisy Jacobs uses two-metre-high painted characters in full-size sets to tell the stark and darkly humorous tale of caring for an elderly relative. The Bigger Picture is quite simply the most innovative animated short you will see this year.

Coda

A lost soul stumbles drunken through the city. In a park, Death finds him and shows him many things.

Glumov's Diary

Filmic insert to Eisenstein's modernized, free adaptation of Ostrovskiy's 19th-century Russian stage play, "The Wise Man" ("Na vsyakogo mudretsa dovolno prostoty"). The anti-hero Glumov tries to escape exposure in the midst of acrobatics, derring-do, and farcical clowning. Several members of Eisenstein's troupe at the legendary "Proletkult" stage theatre in Moscow briefly appear in this little film.

Smart Talk with Raisin

Raisin, her brother Malcom and her orphan dog Hamilton host a magic show. This animated short was made for MTV's Liquid Television.

Getting Ed Laid

An 85-year-old professor staying in a hotel suite in Tokyo hires a hooker for one last hoorah. Afraid taking Viagra will kill him, he's waiting for a callback from a cardiologist when a quirky hooker shows up who is only around 20 years younger than him. Funny happens as these two lonely people discover - no matter what your age, life can surprise you.

#PostModem

A comedic satirical sci-fi pop-musical based on the theories of Ray Kurzweil and other futurists. It’s the story of two Miami girls and how they deal with the technological singularity, as told through a series of cinematic tweets.

Sol Levante

A young warrior and her familiar search for the sacred place said to fulfill wishes. It's best not to anger the ancient guardians and spirits.