Osiris’ Gift

The Mole People

December 1956 •English

A party of archaeologists discovers the remnants of a mutant five millennia-old Sumerian civilization living beneath a glacier atop a mountain in Mesopatamia.

Harpy Gee

March 2018 •English

Harpy and her pet goblin cat Pumpkin are enjoying a peaceful day in the forest, until a couple of baby monsters have a spat!

The Wrong Rock

August 2018 •English

A mushroom embarks on an epic adventure to find its purpose in life.

Sounds Good

November 2019 •English

A boom operator attempts to record the noise mushrooms make in this semi-experimental animation inspired by the world of sounds.

Cosmic Jacuzzi

April 2016 •English

Fungi

October 2022 •English

As he falls down the spiral of personal obsession; a delusional mycologist finds himself in the midst of seeking the unattainable. Morals won't play a role in his relentless pursuit of transforming his being into fungus.

Shrooms

August 2007 •English

A group of American teens comes to Ireland to visit a friend who takes them on a camping trip in search of the local, fabled magic mushrooms. When the psychedelics start taking hold, the panicked friends are attacked by ghostly creatures; but how can they determine whether what they are experiencing is reality or hallucination?

The Last Season

April 2014 •English

In search of the lucrative matsutake mushroom, two former soldiers discover the means to gradually heal their wounds of war. Roger, a self-described 'fall-down drunk' and sniper in Vietnam, and Kouy, a Cambodian refugee who fought the Khmer Rouge, bonded in the bustling tent-city known as Mushroom Camp, which pops up each autumn in the Oregon woods. Their friendship became an adoptive family; according to a Cambodian custom, if you lose your family like Kouy, you must rebuilt it anew. Now, however, this new family could be lost. Roger's health is declining and trauma flashbacks rack his mind; Kouy gently aids his family before the snow falls and the hunting season ends, signaling his time to leave.

Matango

August 1963 •Japanese

Five vacationers and two crewmen become stranded on a tropical island near the equator. The island has little edible food for them to use as they try to live in a fungus covered hulk while repairing Kessei's yacht. Eventually they struggle over the food rations which were left behind by the former crew. Soon they discover something unfriendly there...

She Does Not Drink, Smoke or Flirt But... She Talks

April 1970 •French

Housemaid Georgette loves to gossip and this causes major trouble to people around her.

The Mushroom Speaks

April 2021 •English

The film takes on a walk alongside parasites, symbionts and decomposers offering ideas of both interconnectedness and collaboration. Driven by a vision of resistance, the encounters seek possibilities of renewal and question what connects us when the world seems to be falling apart. With mushrooms and their allies the film invites to imagine a myco-cultural (r)evolution. What if the fungus could help us address and radically change our relationship to this world?

After Her

April 2018 •English

After finding a mysterious totem in a cave while on a hike with her friend, a wayward teenage girl goes missing.

The Sweater

August 2024 •English

Pressured into giving away his clothes, an emasculated young man obsessively attempts to reclaim his cherished sweater before it vanishes into the donation abyss.

WICCA_02

December 2018 •English

A man searches hopelessly for his friend in the woods.

When Fall Is Coming

October 2024 •French

The film tells the story of Michelle, who is enjoying a peaceful retirement in a charming Burgundy village near her longtime friend Marie-Claude. She eagerly anticipates her grandson Lucas spending the school vacation with her, but things don’t go as planned. Feeling lonely, Michelle loses her sense of purpose, until Marie-Claude’s son gets out of prison.

Hagazussa

May 2018 •German

In the 15th century, a young goatherd living alone in a mountain hut feels a dark presence in the woods.

THE BFA

August 2024 •English

Two YouTubers and their new cameraman go hiking in Tarsal Woods in search of Big Foot.

Looking for Mushrooms

November 1967 •English

During his year in Mexico, Conner hosted psychedelic guru Timothy Leary, who he had met on an earlier visit to New York. Conner and Leary occupied themselves with mushroom hunts in the Mexican countryside. It’s not clear whether their hunts were successful. But Conner’s staccato home-movies of their walks – combined with movies of previous mushroom hunts in San Francisco – became his film Looking for Mushrooms. The film rushes through the rustic landscape of rural Mexico, flitting past houses and through a crumbling graveyard. Not to be confused with Conner's re-edited 1996 version of Looking for Mushroom.

Mushroom 50th Anniversary Concert Live

November 2023 •English

The Australian music company and home to Kylie Minogue, Jimmy Barnes, Paul Kelly, Hunters and Collectors, Skyhooks and many more, celebrate its 50th anniversary with an all-star mega concert.

Fungus

October 2000 •Czech

This film essay about mushrooms and their connections to other living things tries to use the structure of mushrooms to explain nature, science, and civilization, all the while searching for various analogies, such as the similarities between mycorrhiza and other structures.