#10345
Man-Kind

Man-Kind

2015 • 15 min • United States
👁️ 98
This short film tells the story of Tony Vargas, a middle-class working man who has secluded himself from the world after the passing of his girlfriend. He drags himself to work and has become so withdrawn that he tries to avoid all human contact as much as possible. The one person he doesn't mind speaking with is Lucy - the waitress at his favorite Spanish restaurant. One night, Tony meets Trey (an adolescent on the verge of his own breakdown) on a New York City subway platform. Tony can see the peril that Trey is in and decides to come out of his shell to help him. This single act of kindness will change the course of these two lost souls lives forever.
#10346
Stanley and Stella in 'Breaking the Ice'

Stanley and Stella in 'Breaking the Ice'

1987 • 3 min • United States
👁️ 98
Stanley the bird falls in love with Stella the fish. But there is a thick sheet of ice keeping them apart. Can their love overcome such an obstacle?
#10347
In Transit

In Transit

1987 • 15 min • United States
👁️ 98
A foreign musician is stranded at a New York City area hotel after the airline he was ready to take home collapses and replacement carrier flights are delayed. He bonds with a singing chambermaid.
#10348
On Time

On Time

1987 • 7 min • United States
👁️ 98
Through the streets and boroughs of New York, Jimmy, a bicycle messenger from the Albatross Courier Company is out to deliver a package "on time". Braving the perilous city streets there's nothing Jimmy can't handle...or is there? This 1987 comedy classic short shown worldwide marked the debut of Director/Screenwriter Ari Taub and captured the spirit of low-budget filmmaking in New York City
#10349
Jonathan of the Night

Jonathan of the Night

1970 • Duration unknown • United States
👁️ 98
Jonathan of the Night, is an urban vampire film before that became a trend in the nineties.
#10350
Hollywood Dinosaur Chronicles

Hollywood Dinosaur Chronicles

1970 • 42 min • United States
👁️ 98
Documentary showing how dinosaurs have been used in films. Trailers and scenes from moving about or with dinosaurs are shown.
#10351
The Way Things Go

The Way Things Go

1987 • 30 min • United States
👁️ 98
Inside a warehouse, a precarious 70-100 feet long structure has been constructed using various items. When this is set in motion, a chain reaction ensues. Fire, water, law of gravity as well as chemistry determine the life-cycle of objects - of things. It brings about a story concerning cause and effect, mechanism and art, improbability and precision.
#10352
Clouds Over Sidra

Clouds Over Sidra

2015 • 8 min • United States
👁️ 98
The Zaatari Refugee Camp is home to over 80,000 Syrians fleeing violence and war. Children make up half the camp's population. This is the story of Sidra, a 12-year old girl who has spent the last 18 months in Zaatari.
#10353
Slow Poke

Slow Poke

1933 • 10 min • United States
👁️ 98
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#10354
Norway: Land of the Midnight Sun

Norway: Land of the Midnight Sun

2024 • Duration unknown • United States
👁️ 98
A Traveltalk visit to Norway's fjords and the Lapplanders in the northern latitudes.
#10355
The Stage Hand

The Stage Hand

1933 • 20 min • United States
👁️ 98
When Harry Langdon made this film he was down on his luck and struggling to regain his footing. His second divorce left him all but penniless, his career as a star of feature films appeared to be over, he'd been fired by Hal Roach and now found himself cranking out short comedies for Poverty Row studio Educational Pictures. On top of all that, he was still straining to adapt his unique style, so suitable for silent cinema, to the very different demands of film-making with sound. As it happens, some of the talkie shorts Langdon made for Educational are surprisingly enjoyable, while others are awkward retreads of his silent material. But there was reason to expect that The Stage Hand might be something special: Harry co-authored the script and directed this short, his first directorial job since his ill-fated hitch at First National five years earlier. Under similar circumstances at the same studio in the mid-1930s Buster Keaton pulled himself together and produced Grand Slam Opera, his best film of the period; could Harry manage the same feat?Sadly, it's difficult to judge the quality of Langdon's work based on what survives of The Stage Hand. I've seen two prints of this film and both seem to be missing a middle section that's crucial to the plot. The surviving footage runs about as long as a typical two-reeler, so it's unclear whether this film originally had a longer running time or if Harry's bosses at Educational compelled him to trim it prior to release. It's also possib
#10356
Kickin' the Crown Around

Kickin' the Crown Around

1933 • 19 min • United States
👁️ 98
Smugglers are on the loose and a thriving black market in salami is plaguing the nation. Detectives Blackstone and Blodgett are hired to catch the smugglers. They are soon up to their ears in salami. But after managing to get themselves involved in their usual zaniness, complications, and scrapes, they emerge with arm-loads of salami.
#10357
Umpa

Umpa

1933 • 16 min • United States
👁️ 98
Dialogue and songs are all in rhyme (including one identical song), in the manner of later Columbia film "Woman Haters." Jack Osterman is smitten with a woman on a park bench, and cannot stop saying the word "Umpa" for the rest of the film, which involves his treatment by a doctor and his singing and dancing temptress nurses.
#10358
Plane Nuts

Plane Nuts

1933 • 20 min • United States
👁️ 98
Ted Healy and His Stooges alternate mildly risque vaudeville routines with semi-elaborate Berkeleyesque musical numbers with beautiful chorines.
#10359
Chasing the Sun

Chasing the Sun

1957 • 31 min • United States
👁️ 98
A theatrical travelogue telling a story of travel in Central and South Florida seen through the eyes of an Austrian artist. Color cameras caught the iconic water skiing girls at Dick Pope's Cypress Gardens in Winter Haven. The fil...
#10360
Horsing Around

Horsing Around

1957 • 16 min • United States
👁️ 98
A sequel (sort of) to "Hoofs and Goofs", The stooges are taking care of their sister Birdie who has been reincarnated as a horse. When they learn that her mate "Schnapps", a famous circus horse, is about to be destroyed, they got to the circus grounds to rescue him. The stooges are successful, and Birdie and Schnapps are reunited.
#10361
Trees and Jamaica Daddy

Trees and Jamaica Daddy

1957 • 7 min • United States
👁️ 98
"Trees and Jamaica Daddy" was the first of a UPA series (short-lived) that featured two different subjects (plot, characters)running about 3.5 minutes each, on a seven-minute reel. The first one here was titled "Trees", featuring a little girl named Hattie giving her version of the birds, the bees and trees. The second one on the reel was called "Jamaica Daddy", about the animated Hamilton Ham and his band, who tell all about, in music and the usual UPA animation style, Jamaica Daddy, and his family tree in calypso fashion. "Ham-and-Hattie" were not a team, and did not appear together in this cartoon.
#10362
Heart and Soul

Heart and Soul

1988 • 40 min • United States
👁️ 98
This is a bunch of stuff for the 1960s rock group The Monkees for their 1987 comeback album "Pool It!" on here you will find 80s interviews with the group as well as three music videos for "Heart & Soul", "Don't Bring Me Down" and "Every Step of the Way"
#10363
On the Passage of a Few People Through a Rather Brief Moment in Time: The Situationist International 1956-1972

On the Passage of a Few People Through a Rather Brief Moment in Time: The Situationist International 1956-1972

1970 • 22 min • United States
👁️ 98
The Situationist International (SI) was an international organization of social revolutionaries made up of avant-garde artists, intellectuals, and political theorists, prominent in Europe from its formation in 1957 to its dissolution in 1972. The intellectual foundations of the Situationist International were derived primarily from anti-authoritarian Marxism and the avant-garde art movements of the early 20th century, particularly Dada and Surrealism.
#10364
Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Goes a Fishin'

Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Goes a Fishin'

1956 • 11 min • United States
👁️ 98
Dana Andrews and director Fritz Lang join Ralph Staub in this edition of Screen Snapshots, discuss their own fishing exploits and watch film on other Hollywood personalities, Glenn Ford, Eleanor Powell, Charlie Riggles and Sonny Tufts, working with the rod and reel on a fishing trip.
#10365
How Near to the Angels

How Near to the Angels

1970 • 42 min • United States
👁️ 98
Janet wants a temple marriage, but her steady boyfriend, Kent, is inactive. At a church fireside Tim introduces himself and proposes. His mission president told him to get married within six months. Now Janet faces a choice.
#10366
Calling All Cuckoos

Calling All Cuckoos

1956 • 6 min • United States
👁️ 98
A clockmaker goes into the woods in search of a cuckoo and finds Woodpecker. Figuring a coo-coo could double as a cuckoo, the clockmaker sets out to capture Woody, take him home and put him to work on the clock. Woody figures otherwise, and introduces the clockmaker to an angry bear. Chaos follows.
#10367
Free Fish

Free Fish

2025 • 23 min • Palestine
👁️ 97
Free Fish is an intimate short documentary filmed entirely in Gaza during one of the deadliest years in recent history. The film follows two brothers, Mohammad and Ahmad Kaloob, separated by siege and displacement, yet bound by the sea. Mohammad, displaced in Khan Younis with his two young daughters, fishes from the South and tries to find alternatives for the boat and net he lost in the bombing of Gaza Seaport. Ahmad, still in the North under total blockade, risks his life each morning near the Al-Shate’e refugee camp, what was once a livelihood is now a daily act of survival, the coastline is militarized, boats are shot at and hunger is used as a weapon of war. And yet, the brothers return to the sea. They cast their nets and their memories, into waters that no longer offer freedom, but still carry meaning. Fishing becomes a fragile ritual of resistance, of connection, of presence. The film also follows Rami, Mohammad’s teenage nephew, who lost his twin brother during the genocide and now fishes alone. Through him, Free Fish becomes not just a story of survival, but of grief, inheritance, and the quiet defiance of those who refuse to disappear. AWARDS:
#10368
7x4

7x4

2025 • 10 min • Belarus
👁️ 97
Sometimes we need to pause, to be alone with ourselves. If we don’t, life itself halts us — forcing us to confront the big questions… The roots of our stumbles… the essence of self… Relationships and the duality of masculine and feminine… Primal forces and the seasons’ turn… A winter river… a spring sky… '7x4' is an art-parable about seven steps from the depths of personal crisis toward heaven. Each step holds four introspective haikus — self-contained, yet bound by a shared pulse. The verses intertwine with stark winter landscapes and visual echoes of Hesse’s 'Steppenwolf'. Images often used for Instagram gloss here reclaim a deeper purpose: to mirror inner fractures and quiet epiphanies. In '7x4', even AI-generated glamour becomes a lens for raw, philosophical art — where every frame whispers: 'Look closer'. AWARDS: