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Old Mammy's Secret Code

July 1913 •English

Jim Black, learning that his rival, David Durard, son of Colonel Durard, wealthy Southern wholesale grocers, has won the heart of Marion, plans to separate the lovers before war breaks out.

The Tale of Thomas Burberry

November 2016 •English

160 years in the making, a story inspired by the pioneering discoveries of our founder, reimagining key events that have shaped Burberry's history.

Happy Birthday Younis

January 2013 •Arabic

Younis is a taxi driver, who has passed the age of retirement. He drives an old car, which has never disappointed him. Today is his birthday...

Comfort

July 2020 •Korean

Hyunji approaches a man with the bait of a survey. The man continues to talk and eventually expresses his interest in Hyunji's seemingly suspicious but pitiful attitude. The moment you think Hyunji's intentions worked, the man makes another suggestion to Hyunji, and Hyunji listens to the man. Nothing is easy. In a world of deceit and deception, nothing comes without a price. The tension rises.

Gramercy

August 2020 •English

Shaq, a young man grappling with depression, returns to his New Jersey hometown, where his exploration of grief and brotherhood transforms into the imagining of an inner life.

A Trip to Heaven

August 2020 •Vietnamese

During a peculiar bus tour to the Mekong Delta, the 50-year-old Mdm. Tam bumps into her high school sweetheart. She's hopeful for a chance at reconciliation, but he might not be.

Carne

May 1991 •French

After a dreadful incident coupled with an ungovernable paroxysm of violence, a butcher will fall into a downward spiral that will burn to the ground whatever dignity still remained in him.

The Stench

November 2021 •Korean

In a housing unit, an old man's money has disappeared. All the neighbors are suspects.

The Son

April 2012 •Spanish

Pedro is a 17 years old boy who attends high school as all the boys do. In the afternoon he and his friends mess around. What Pedro loves the most is mothers baked beans.

Transmitter Receiver

November 2017 •English

In order to escape the monotony and boredom of the end of the school year, a young boy fabricates a transceiver-receiver to communicate with strangers in the sky.

Primo

May 2017 •Italian

On a visit to meet his girlfriend’s parents in a remote village in Tuscany, Primo is forced to prove his masculinity on a wild boar hunt.

For Elsie

April 2012 •English

Glenn is a disillusioned piano teacher, who once aspired to be a concert pianist. He is moving back to his parents house and is on the brink of giving up the piano for good when Kilov, a Russian gangster, offers him a unique opportunity: £10,000 if Glenn teaches his daughter Beethoven's "Fur Elise"... in a day.

Return to Toyama

August 2020 •Japanese

Takumi left Japan to go live in France despite his father’s disapproval. After a long absence, he returns to his hometown Toyama, a small port in decline on the north coast of Japan...

How I Beat Glue and Bronze

August 2020 •Serbian

The daily life of Mihajlo, a factory worker in a neglected industrial town. Testimonies about his life are given by the people around him. At times, these people are seen as part of Mihajlo’s daily routine, but after the character leaves the stage, their voices remain as the narrator. What they don’t know is that Mihajlo obsessively steals tools from the factory and suffers from lost love. And they can’t anticipate what is going to happen one morning.

Life on the Horn

August 2020 •Somali

For over a decade, toxic waste has been dumped illegally on the coastline of Somalia. The earthquake and tsunami in 2004 damaged the toxic containers and spilled waste, which caused the spread of diseases. Many people left their villages but some stayed and lived with the consequences.

Autism

July 2019 •Arabic

Autism by Salamtak, an awareness-evoking short cinema on how to discover and deal with autism.

But Milk Is Important

September 2012 •English

A man with social anxiety gets followed by a naive and clumsy creature. Terrified the man tries to escape, unaware that the creature is actually a helper with slightly unconventional methods.

FAMILY STORY

Invalid date •Indonesian

Based on the experience of the Director, this short film tells the story of a struggling family when a moment changes the family’s life. The mother figure becomes the light that moves the family to stay together.

Meu amigo que trabalhou com Manoel de Oliveira, que fez 100 anos

July 2012 •Portuguese

He Was a Friend of Him

February 2015 •Russian

After failing to commit his first murder, an aspiring serial killer decides that the most rational way to get started is to kill a friend who totally trusts you. This is how a lonely mentally unstable guy meets a naive next-door boy.