Sandra Gets A New Fringe

Die Verwaltung des Internets

May 2021 •German

Who is actually managing the internet? What's it like? A short film in search of answers in uncharted territory. A film about the chaotic everyday office life of "The Administration of the Internet". The employees are responsible for order and organization in the network. They still work with outdated technology, only communicate with the outside world via a pneumatic tube and are obviously completely overwhelmed with their work.

Office Chatter

Invalid date •English

Four employees are getting ready for their morning meeting, but their minds are anywhere but work. These are their internal monologues, where their insecurities, anxieties, and thoughts about work and each other are revealed.

El ministro y yo

July 1976 •Spanish

Mateo Melgarejo is a notary public and scribe for the illiterate people of Santo Domingo, a neighborhood north of Mexico City's Zócalo. A squatter friend asks for his help in negotiating with the land census bureau to regularize a land title. After a great deal of frustration with the government bureaucracy, he writes a letter to the cabinet minister, earning an audience with him. The minister hires Melgarejo to reform the bureau, and the appointee proceeds to lecture the officials on their duties in a democratic society. At the end, he gives up the post, returning to Santo Domingo to help its poor residents.

The Afterlife

January 2014 •English

After dying in an unpredictable accident Simon is transported to a metaphysical realm where he meets Greg in the afterlife. Screened as part of CampusMovieFest 2014.

Night

Invalid date •English

Lisa is a struggling business woman working late one evening. It just happens to be the night a man seeks revenge on the lawyer who withheld evidence during his trial seven years ago.

My Bloody Valentine

February 2023 •

On a regular day in an office for a music company, a man must make a brave decision to either save himself or his colleague in an intense life-or-death situation.

The Day "Nu" Disappears...

February 2018 •Japanese

In the meeting room, members of the Special Investigation Unit and Ministry of Education desperately trying to find a replacement for the hiragana "Nu", a character being used as a symbol by the extremist terrorist organisation.

Skins

January 1997 •English

A successful, but unhappy man tries to be himself.

The Belko Experiment

March 2016 •English

A group of eighty American workers are locked in their office and ordered by an unknown voice to participate in a twisted game.

Clover

November 2014 •Japanese

Saya Suzuki is an ordinary employee working at a hotel. She falls in love with her elite boss Susumu Tsuge. Through their romance, Saya Suzuki grows as a person.

Mondays: See You 'This' Week!

October 2022 •Japanese

Akemi Yoshikawa discovers that her whole office is stuck in a time loop, repeating the same stressful work week over and over. Together with her colleagues she has to find out how to break the loop.

The End of the Crisis

January 2010 •German

Susanne is called to her boss's office. There she drinks from a cup containing a paralyzing liquid. When Susanne regains consciousness, she has already become a will-less, controllable puppet of the system.

David Brent: Life on the Road

August 2016 •English

A camera crew catches up with David Brent, the former star of the fictional British series, "The Office" as he now fancies himself a rockstar on the road.

Office Ladies Remodelling Lecture

January 1990 •Japanese

Inspired by Drop Dead! Stupid Office Ladies, a column in Monthly Gendai magazine.

The Candidate

August 2011 •English

An underhanded company man is offered assistance by a secret organization that immerses him in forces beyond his control.

Willbaht

October 2024 •German

The Call

May 2014 •English

Anna has got a new job, including her new own office, but now she has to figure out what to do there.

Strings

April 2023 •Swedish

A normal office worker with a grand passion for his violin playing confronts the strings that have been performing his life’s symphony.

Γραφείο συνοικεσίων

January 1956 •Greek

Occurrences of Questionable Significance

April 2020 •German

When forest animals invade our cities, the world is in disarray. Office vixen Fiona struggles with her banana phone addiction. Will she succumb to it? Temperamental bunny Barbara only gives her stag sugar daddy Nestor his special massage, after he dines her and plays the big spender. This obscure short film pinpoints postmodern tropes of consumerism, eroticism, and art with an homage to the theater stage and references to literature. This work uses a fantasy language and needs no subtitles.