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During a train ride, Ariel and Paul pass the time sketching their deepest fears. Their game takes an unexpected turn when Gilda, a mysterious passenger, intrudes on their exchange. Yet, her relationship with fear seems far less innocent than their playful drawings.
During Rio's Carnival, a street cleaner struggles with the loss of his sister and his work obligations. Amid the celebrations, he finds a lost child and sets out to help him.
A sleep-deprived, frazzled new mom embarks on her very first walk alone with her newborn.
A stark, monochrome animation echoing Lynch’s earliest works like Six Men Getting Sick, The Alphabet, and The Grandmother. A lone insect crawls up the side of a house in a hostile, barren environment. Inside, we glimpse what appears to be experimentation — or torture — driven by crackling bursts of electricity.
This cameraless video work features animated, digital northern lights and a luohti (a Northern Sámi yoik) by indigenous sami musician Ánnámáret on homeless, wandering spirits.
By drawing upon the spiritual iconography of the Bété people and other tribal groups in the Ivory Coast, the film examines the divine female figure in West African sculpture. These forms, traditionally found in wooden and bronze sculptures, are translated into animation through charcoal drawings and frame-by-frame relief engraving on copper.
Daria has written her first manuscript, about falling in love with a mysterious girl called ‘abi’ (blue). The night flowers in her garden hide the secrets of a country that has turned love stories into routine crime scenes.
Set among unused long takes from Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (Frank Capra, 1939), the film breaks traditional narrative flow as a stand-in wanders the Lincoln Memorial. Lost between monumental pillars, he repeatedly freezes before Lincoln’s statue, trapped in a ritual without progression.
Molecular gastronomy, pretentious self-realization, and the weird choice of having children are all ingredients in this semi-apocalyptic double date from hell.
Determined to have the perfect birthday, May’s party plans are complicated by kitchen mishaps, family drama, and the arrival of a serial killer.
Josefine installs the world's fattest bass box in her car before her evening date with Billy. Young love fills the night air, but the loud music does not impress everyone.
When a hopeless romantic meets his ex-girlfriend at a wedding reception, old flames are rekindled, but things are more complicated than they seem.
After recovering from a mental breakdown, a young woman shows up uninvited to a friend's gathering, where a game of Would You Rather threatens to push her over the edge.
'Masquerade II was recorded in Maastricht. I filmed puppets wandering through the streets.'
On her 34th birthday, Alesya retreats to the solitude of her remote home. When a mysterious box appears at her doorstep, her tightly controlled world begins to shift. A slow-burning, sensorial exploration of desire, resistance, and the fragile beauty of contact.
In the remote lands of New Zealand's South Island, the desolation of land and spirit forges an unexpected connection between two isolated strangers who, unbeknownst to them, are each other's only path to salvation.
Two newly-dead ghosts walk the streets of Athens, among the pulsing cityscape and the ghosts of history. They were outsiders in life: he, a queer Lebanese translator; she a half-Irish photographer. They wander the city together, finding consolation in the difficult beauty of life and its aftermath.
Surrounded by babies at her sister’s baby shower, Eva is forced to fend off questions left, right and centre about when she’ll be starting a family of her own.
Kielo finds it hard to sit still in class. She takes a break venturing into the corridors of her imagination.
The ocean is paradise for Fran the shrimp. Her deadly claws take whatever they desire. For the blind fish Milva, it’s a daily fight to survive. Fran sees her as beautiful and wants her to see the ocean in the same way. Can they overcome their differences?
In the countryside of yesteryear, in the mines and factories, these men of the past seem to share the same sorrows. Something seems to resonate within us today, maybe it's just an illusion, or maybe it's just the humbleness of everyday life.
With The Alphabet, Lynch took his first step into live-action, and the result remains one of his most unsettling short films. Inspired by a nightmare experienced by the niece of Peggy Lentz, the film thrusts us into a claustrophobic realm where the alphabet itself becomes a torment, chanted endlessly by a childlike chorus. A woman trapped in this linguistic nightmare conveys a raw anxiety about expectation, social pressure, and the fear of being reduced to a mere fragment of the crowd.
Two sisters meet after a few years of being apart, but the past seems to be the only thing that binds them together.
When the for-hire princess at a birthday party shows more interest in the father than the children, the situation soon becomes uncomfortable.
To draw new members, the church organizes a strange spectacle: a young man is set to fall from the church tower. He already commands a large following, and in the region, no one wants to miss this mesmerizing event.
An animated vision reminiscent of Eraserhead, depicting the ruins of an industrial world through charred, broken landscapes accompanied by a grinding mechanical drone. Suddenly, the noise drops out and the screen goes black. Silence settles in — a brief, merciful pause, as if the earth itself were finally resting after the apocalypse humans brought upon it.
Four good friends travel through time and space for an alchemical and sensuous celebration full of phantasms. Familiar yet unexpected faces appear along the way.
An experimental lo-fi documentary shot on a vintage smartphone, weaving cinepoetic images of Spoleto with AI-generated medieval Italian verse inspired by its modernist sculpture heritage.
History revolves around the Alexander Column on Palace Square in St. Petersburg, as if it were a cursed axis of time.
A short movement study on sapphic longing and obsession.