The Open Boat

Letters to the Man I Love

November 2021 •Afrikaans

Set within the aftershocks of South Africa’s Apartheid, a gay farmhand writes letters to his lover.

Ladyboy

October 2011 •Danish

Kristian, who is a transvestite, still lives at home with his mother Emma, because she loves him just the way he is. Life as a transvestite offers many humiliations from the outside world, but with his mom, Kristian feels that he can be himself. Until one day when Emma meets the alcoholic Søren, who does not have the same tolerance...

Visions of Europe

May 2004 •English

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

Squish

September 2020 •French

FLO has to go to Marrakech for work. So, it’s TOM who takes care of SAM, their 5-year-old son. Flo left him a list of tasks to complete during his absence. Despite this, Tom forgot Sam’s guitar course. From his ryad, Flo calls to blame him. Tom hates being caught. He picks up Sam. The car comes out of the garage at full speed. SPRÖTCH. Tom just crushed something…

Circle

July 2009 •English

Damu(10year old boy) , leaves his home to buy Jagarry .On the way he meets his friend Manya . They stop at a Bioscopewallah. Damu realizes that he is not having enough money and he decides to earn some quick money . This greed takes him to play a game . After the game Damu goes to the shop . But he walk back with tearful eyes.........

The Lane

July 2015 •Marathi

Galli (The Lane) is about the people and the Life in the Lane . The Lane in the times of a modern small town India which is restless and wants to break free from its shackles of convention, moral and existential crisis and the rigid socio-cultural structure. The Film tries to explore the incidents happening in Seven days time . It highlights the contrasts, similarities , paradoxes , randomness and abstractness of contemporary human life with the universal themes of Birth, Trust , loneliness , Frustration , Friendship , Happiness and Death. There are Fifteen stories in two forms which try to define LIFE and The Lane connects them.

Walk with Kings

September 2020 •French

A father, reconnecting with his son, is the victim of an incident that suddenly shakes up his fragile reconstruction.

Rien lâcher

September 2020 •French

Beskyt deres egne

October 2017 •Danish

Jacob's Paradox

May 2015 •English

In one tragic night, Quantum Physics Professor Jacob Matthews loses his wife...his everything. What he does to get her back will bring him to the edge of madness.

Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor

November 2013 •English

The Doctor struggles to help the only remaining crewmember of a crashing gunship. The people of the planet below offer to save his life, but at a dear cost to the life he's lived for hundreds of years.

Warmth awaits outside

April 2024 •German

The plans and youthful spirit of two brothers are burdened by addiction during their post-graduation summer.

Was halten Sie vom Tod der Wilma Montesi?

October 1977 •German

The life and death of the fictional star Wilma Montesi is reported in the form of a staged newsreel. Excerpts from films of various genres and eras are juxtaposed with "documentary material" about the star's public and private life. By stringing together clichés and cinematic quotations, a certain reporting and narrative style about the glamor and misery of show business is presented in a critical and ironic, but at the same time entertaining way.

I, Divided

January 2011 •English

A young man struggles with identity and mortality after he discovers human remains in an open field.

Old Nick

February 2024 •English

An ex-hitman bored with his mundane life, revisits his past.

The Sheltered Women

October 2020 •English

Claire visits a women's shelter in search of her missing mother, but an encounter with a mysterious woman suggests all may be a façade.

Infection

July 2022 •English

A group of friends decide to stay overnight in an abandoned theatre... only to find it overrun with zombies!

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.

A Visita do Velho Senhor

January 1976 •Portuguese

Short film by Brazilian filmmaker Ozualdo Ribeiro Candeias.