🔥 Popular Films

An opening salute to youth, a middle-aged man on a beach; a southern bog; waves lapping upon a sea shore; a cathartic romp at a disco; photo’s of a soldier pointing to the sky; a plane billowing with smoke; looking at a picture book; a story teller, Padraic Colum, reads from The Golden Fleece; as we page through pictures of Pacific Island sculptures; scenes of the sea shore transitions to a senior citizen - a Woman with a mask on a train, the same Woman entering the train, headed for her humble home, her temple. I never know what will get used in a video. I am a painter at heart, and treat words, images and sounds like paint. Sometimes things work out and voilà - a poem, a self-portrait, a vision.

Violence leaves scars, commitment heals. A doctor from Friuli saves women disfigured by acid attacks. His mission is to restore the smiles of women who, due to brutal violence, have lost everything: their face, their role, their dignity.

An Ocean City, NJ, drunk accidentally lands in Ocean City, MD, but still thinks he is in Jersey. He cannot believe what this Ocean City has to offer. After going through a state of denial, the truth sets him free to see how truly Ocean City, MD, is king.

London, 2031. Government surveilence has gone to a new level, with a new special force, the Crime Prevention Department, now in charge of tracking potential criminals and arresting them before any crimes are commited. One D.I. for the Department, DI Milo Keenan, is called to arrest a suspect before they carry out a potential shooting, however, things are not quite what they seem...

Love or money? An Italian couple plays a high-stakes game of Russian roulette on Christmas Eve as unexpected revelations threaten to unravel their dreams and challenge their bond. Original/Alternative Title: Double Dare

Mario is a 35 year old man, he is married and he has a little girl. He has fallen into the abyss of gambling addiction. His life becomes increasingly dark and isolated, until a small truth makes him open his eyes and see himself for what he has become.

Dario sits in the middle of a hill to talk to his stepbrother Miguel, meanwhile the zombies approach him, showing no fear, since there is a greater threat than the zombies...Genesis Project III: A New Dawn is the title of the series of novels written by Miguel García Bernal. This is the promotional scene for that novel.

When Jasmine (8), the daughter of the divorced couple Effi and Yaniv, disappears in the middle of the night as she sleepwalks, the two are forced to confront the unresolved pains of their family's breakdown.

A coincidental meeting takes place in a cemetery between a clown and a widow. A soulful, unique, communication develops that helps both cope with their loss.

Daisy is the stylist at an animal salon that welcomes all creatures. Paw and Scissors is a 2D animated film celebrating differences and showing that we are more beautiful together.

One day, Marika Hino and her boyfriend Seiji Matsuda arrived at the parking lot where his car was parked. She and he had planned to go for a drive. He asked her to take off her boots. Because his car was no-shoes-allowed. but she hesitated to take off her boots. Why wouldn't she take off her boots?──This short movie is a romantic comedy that makes you think about sexual consent. Original/Alternative Title: ブーツはお脱ぎいただきたい

Jaz is an agency worker given a simple task, to stay overnight at a student housing accommodation. There are just two problems; the weird lighting, and the unexpected coworker.

A man makes a vow. He promises not to cling to the past, nor be anxious about the future. He vows to focus solely on the present moment, to live vividly in the now. And yet, in contrast to his resolution, he finds himself immersed in the beauty of past memories. He smiles when he talks about the past, but feels drowsy when he tries to focus on the present. In the bookstore, traces of people who came and went linger like ghosts — fragments of memory, of time. Is this man, too, one of the bookstore’s ghosts?

Inspired by classic Japanese horror tropes and mythos. A reporter watches a cursed VHS tape, and soon they face their demise to the deadly curse.

A paranoia-fueled drug deal prompts an introspective and vaguely perverted descent

In a café, two beings. A couple.
Nothing really happens, except silence.
Smoke drifts between them, slow, suspended, pierced by light.
It invents another world, at the border of dream, where contours dissolve.
A fixed gaze sinks into emptiness — or perhaps into a memory.
Love — if it still exists — seems to have moved elsewhere, into a blurred zone of time. A song rises, like a breath from another film, another life.
It doesn’t try to accompany the bodies, but to pass through them.
The sound is worn, doubled, out of sync — something resists, no longer fitting quite right with the world.
And yet, within that dissonance, the bond holds — fragile, persistent, almost mystical. Here, cinema becomes the memory of a feeling.
It does not recount what once was, but what still insists:
the trace of a gesture, the persistence of a face,
the burn of a love that no longer knows how to speak. In the end, the bodies leave the frame.
What remains is the image of another couple, making love —
blurred, perhaps unreal, yet crossed by a desire still alive.
As if the couple, unable to love to the very end, entrusted the film with the task of continuing to do so. Original/Alternative Title: Each Other

After her mother's passing, Shuanghua performed a summoning ritual by the Nanmen River on a June night, hoping to retrieve her mother’s braid. A month later, the braid arrived as expected, but Shuanghua discovered it wasn’t her mother’s.

A narrative of memories, losses, and the longing for a land, that exists between reality and myth.

Underground Serenade follows the musicians through their daily life of searching for the perfect track and facing a challenging reality. Alongside authentically documented scenes the film fades into compositional coherences of diegetic sounds with picturesque landscapes far from dancing crowds.

Mario is a 35 year old man, he is married and he has a little girl. He has fallen into the abyss of gambling addiction. His life becomes increasingly dark and isolated, until a small truth makes him open his eyes and see himself for what he has become.

The near future for some of us.

Alex, a talented writer and academic, is paired with Charlie, an outgoing bookworm, for an English project requiring a creative adaptation of Romeo and Juliet. While Alex initially dreads the non-essay assignment, she and Charlie begin exchanging letters as "Romeo" and "Juliet," forming a deep connection through the project. As their friendship grows, Alex develops romantic feelings for Charlie but struggles to express them. Just as Alex begins to hope for something more, she overhears a rumor that Charlie is dating someone else. Heartbroken, Alex tries to suppress her feelings while maintaining her friendship with Charlie. On presentation day, unprepared, Alex is forced to read a personal letter to Charlie in front of the class. Despite her emotional turmoil, she delivers the letter, underscoring the bittersweet reality of her one-sided love.

Francesco, a young university student from Padua, accidentally discovers an old diary that belonged to his late father. Driven by curiosity and a sense of emptiness never filled, he sets off on a journey to Sardinia in search of a mysterious “treasure” mentioned in the diary.

Robin (27) and Lia (26) are expecting a baby when doctors suspect Lia has cancer. Desperate for money, Robin gambles, loses his workplace’s cash, and stages a robbery. The investigator uncovers the truth, but Lia’s diagnosis was a mistake—she is healthy.