Naomi's Birthday

PALOMA

November 2023 •Spanish

Paloma is a young adult who finds herself living in automatic mode, following every imposed social norm, already working in an office and living alone in a studio apartment. Her daily life passes fleetingly and with little taste, until one night, after a long day of work, she receives an email titled FOR MY FUTURE SELF, which prompts her to change her life.

Apple

June 2018 •Norwegian

A young woman invites her literature teacher to a discussion on a story about a man who wants to freeze the moment. She suggests that he is writing to disguise his own inner desires. They fall in love, and life takes an unexpected turn.

Vigilantes

September 2013 •Greek

Two brothers define themselves as vigilantes and try to protect their property.

Ablution

September 2017 •English

The bond between a disabled Muslim father and his son is tested when love is pitted against religion.

Pareidolia

January 2012 •English

An abstract narrative, exploring the landscape/architecture of the body as a container of memories. Layers of stories, dreams and memory fragments are interconnected like muscle fibers

Brotherly

May 2008 •English

Based on a true story of two brothers in 1970's Ohio. It tells of their abandonment by their alcoholic parents and how the brothers turned to each other for support.

Death of a Stag

January 1951 •French

Russian emigré Dimitri Kirsanoff’s film, alternatively titled Death of A Stag and Une chasse à courre, is a post-war study of a traditional stag hunt. The pursuit of the animal finds a cross-cutting parallel in the felling of a tree in the forest.

Bee

August 2020 •English

A young Black girl from humble beginnings struggles to be accepted at her new affluent school.

The Morning After

April 2018 •English

Family tensions erupt when Nicole introduces her girlfriend to her father the morning after the 2016 US Presidential election.

The Quiet Room

February 2018 •English

When Michael attempts suicide and doesn’t leave a note, he inadvertently awakens Hattie, a demon that haunts the psychiatric hospital he's in. Now he must find a way to stop her rampage before she kills everyone he connects with.

Perspective

January 2009 •English

A cynical claymation artist gets a special camera that changes the way he sees the world.

Èvanescence

Invalid date •Italian

Sad Beauty

July 2020 •English

In a heavily polluted world, a young woman mourns the disappearance of animal species. When she falls ill due to a bacterial infection, nature appears to send her a message in her hallucinations.

Unfold

September 2012 •English

Elias and Susan in New York, between love, exile, and the Arabic revolution.

Touched

July 2003 •English

What happens when two profoundly lonely men who are strangers, one older and gay, and the second younger and questioning, take one last chance at making a sincere human connection? Based on true events in the life of the writer/director.

Marion

Invalid date •French

The short tracks the tense fifteen minutes before Marion's – France's only female bull jumper – first performance in a packed French arena. As she prepares, being the only woman in the team, the film explores her battle against misogyny and prejudiced attitudes. A journey of one woman through an all-male world – juggling motherhood and the contentious pursuit of her passion.

Bestiary, or the Parade of Orpheus

January 1995 •Portuguese

One of the adventures of João de Deus.

The Ugly Little Boy

January 1977 •English

Edyth Fellows is a nurse recruited for an research project with a time travel device that can snatch any being from any time and bring it to the present. The first such test brings an Neanderthal child to the project and Fellows is responsible for his care for the interim. As she manages this task, Fellows is increasingly revolted at how the scientists dismiss him as little more than an animal, especially when his real intelligence shows. This growing moral dilemma comes to a head when Fellows realizes what they plan to do with him and she cannot stand by and let it happen.

Visions of Europe

May 2004 •English

Twenty-five films from twenty-five European countries by twenty-five European directors.

Kingdom of Happy Fallacies

August 2020 •English

Shy high schooler Clementine struggles to play it cool when the boy of her dreams befriends her.