The Thaw (2023)

A graphic disintegration of paranoia, perversion and violence in Chicago. (worldcat.org)

Something is not right. Tam and Gillian awake to a disturbance, they investigate. Not all is as it seems.

Short film about foster care promoted by TWINSET.

A matchbox collection unites a lonely woman and her cat.

A woman wakes up hanging upside down. When she screams for help, a phone rings and a voice helps her escape.

‘A beautiful, mysterious yet satisfying optical illusion…celebrates the early passing of a steam on the Thames. Using freeze-frame techniques, elaborate dissolves, and most of the resources on the optical table, this picture is, amongst other things, a Turner come to life. Rimmer’s concern with the surface nature of the film is most evident in this work which, in spite of its filmic complexity, is incredibly simple.’ — Donald Richie

Juliet Forrest está convencida de que a morte de seu pai em um acidente de carro nas montanhas não foi um acidente. Seu pai era um proeminente cientista trabalhando em uma receita secreta de queijo. Para provar que foi assassinado, ela contrata os serviços de detetive Rigby Reardon. Ele encontra um pedaço de papel com uma lista de pessoas que são "Os Amigos e Inimigos da Carlotta". Procurando por respostas, Rigby se encontra com diversos personagens do submundo: homens e mulheres perigosos que foram as principais personagens dos clássicos filmes de detetive dos anos 40 e 50. Filmado em preto e branco para permitir o uso de cenas de filmes antigos entremeadas com as do novo. É através deste recurso que o assistente de Rigby não é outro senão o próprio Philip Marlowe.

A boy experiences his first crush and heartbreak with a bike-riding ice cream woman.

A normal day turns into a day of adventure when an elevator that carries a boy does not stop where it should.

Every year, five to ten percent of all deceased Berliners are buried by the authorities because no relatives are found. Most of them are put into the ground by mortician Bernd Simon going alone. But sometimes companions do turn up and say goodbye in their very own way. An observational documentary about an undertaker who actually wanted to become an entertainer, a bizarre city portrait and a mirror of how we deal with death, mourning and commemoration.

Paris, 2054. A cidade é tomada por hologramas e telas de projeção, que emitem flashes e fazem barulhos publicitários. Bislane é uma bela mulher de 27 anos vinda do Leste Europeu, que encontra sua irmã Ilona, uma brilhante geneticista, em um bar. Inicialmente Bislane desconfia que Ilona foi ao local para provocá-la, mas se surpreende ao vê-la com Dimitri, um matador e traficante de drogas com quem Bislane possui uma história. Mais tarde, naquela mesma noite, Ilona é sequestrada quando se dirige ao trabalho. Karas, um policial rude que possui um passado negro, é designado pela corporação Avalon para investigar o sequestro. Só que ele está ocupado tentando desvendar outro sequestro, que teve um intenso tiroteio e chamou bastante a atenção da população.

Accused of killing his wife, a good man fights for his very existence.

Shots of Turin, deserted because of the pandemic, interweave with images of the movies that have been shot in the city ever since the dawn of cinematography.

A woman forgets who her daughter is, but things aren't as they seem. (Screamfest)

The supreme beings from "The Land of Plenty" take the day to engage the local fauna and enjoy their customary leisure activities. Let us observe.

The journey to enlightenment is fraught with paternal sacrifice and football.

In a sleepy coastal village a curse lies waiting. Legend has it one night centuries ago when a smuggler was delivering his illicit wares, the excise men pounced. One of the villagers had betrayed him. The smuggler was caught and quickly hanged as an example but, his widow was more than she seemed, the practitioner of an ancient religion of magic and sorcery. The villagers formed a mob to hunt her down as a witch, they brutalised her, tarred and feathered her, but before they could kill her she put one last curse upon the land; that nothing should flourish, no life or love, before taking her own life and spilling her blood upon the land.

Two drifters try to steal a car.