The Bad Companions

Mark The Great

November 2022 •Greek

An inside joke between friends leads to a debate on when their friend Mark matured.

Fragments

October 2015 •English

Chloe, a straight talking film director, tries to convince her friend Sam to be an actor in her next short film. Just after finding out that he once again didn’t get into medical school, Sam meets Alex, a hypochondriac 18 year old. A love triangle forms in these self-reflexive, humoristic fragments filled with sex talk , set in New Orleans.

Vive le sport

January 1969 •English

Two British girls in a classic brightly colored 'Mini Cooper S' car are being chased across Europe by a not so sinister organization who are after a colour 35mm roll of film that's been hidden beneath one of the Minis spot lamp covers.

Birthday Wish

August 2014 •English

Starring Mike Brayden, Yvette Angulo and directed by Ryan Casselman. Birthdays can be tough. Often a reminder that our lives are moving at rapid speed, and while you may have aged a year older over night, you realize that not a whole lot else has changed. That is certainly the case with Jeff, a greeting card creative who has the 'birthday blues' and struggles to find someone to share his birthday with.

Vigário Sport Club

May 1927 •Portuguese

An ironic comedy to the sports world about the corrupt gears of football. As goalkeeper, figure a dwarf...

Fire

May 2011 •Portuguese

“There must be a different solution than the one from hell’. Full unadulterated terror (and music). 'The best class always ends with a lesson'. Almost baroque in its ambition and detail, Akerman and Seabra Lopes’ mesmerising short film delves deeply into the hard-wired dread of music lessons. Sewn around Schubert’s steely Opus 1, which is itself based on the no less terrifying legend of Goethe's Erlkönig, their film is a revelation.” International Film Festival Rotterdam.

Where Hazel Met the Villain

April 1914 •English

Where Hazel Met the Villain is a 1914 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Phyllis Allen.

Ñeñeñe

May 2014 •Spanish

Mario has prepared something for Cristina, but she doesn't seem very interested in knowing what it is.

Hey, Taxi!

April 1925 •English

The Pirates

October 1922 •English

Comic hijinks on a pirate ship with British comedian Lupino Lane.

A Culpa é do Sol

December 2023 •Portuguese

Shyness

August 1996 •English

This animated short is a parody of the Frankenstein story. Dr. Frankenstein creates a monster only to find out that his creation is too shy to go out and frighten anyone. The good doctor and his malevolent assistant Trevor try to find ways of helping their creation overcome his condition.

Vomitose

January 1996 •English

A boy ferociously slaughters his friends, family, neighbors, and even strangers.

Antoine and Colette

June 1962 •French

Now aged 17, Antoine Doinel works in a factory which makes records. At a music concert, he meets a girl his own age, Colette, and falls in love with her. Later, Antoine goes to extraordinary lengths to please his new girlfriend and her parents, but Colette still only regards him as a casual friend. First segment of “Love at Twenty” (1962).

Auf eigener Faust

January 1997 •German

The First Lady is kidnapped by a megalomaniac. To save his wife, the President goes into battle against the madman who is protected by Amazons.

Jester's Flaming Hot Mac'n cheese

July 2023 •French

Léandre, a lazy young adult without much ambition decides one night to break the monotony of its daily life to help Greg, the neighbourhood pusher to... do something, he doesn't quite remember. This decision will plunge him amidst bloody settling of scores which he will desperately try to escape from, motivated by his hatred of Jester's Flamin Hot Mac n Cheese!

So I Didn't Sleep Very Well Last Night

March 2022 •French

An accounting of dreams I’ve had while filtered as a D*sney cartoon.

Creation

August 1989 •Polish

A music conductor, and family man, gets involved in a tragic accident. Luckily the operating surgeon has developed a pioneering medical solution. Loosely based on Roald Dahl's short story “William And Mary”.

Gartenfeind

January 2014 •German

Hello Carter

October 2011 •English

Recently sacked and interminably single, Carter is in a rut. So when he spies his beautiful ex-girlfriend through a library bookshelf, for a brief moment, things promise to get a whole lot better. But she is nine months pregnant. And about to go into labour.