The Second Look

Teddy the Rough Rider

February 1940 •English

This short follows the political career of Theodore Roosevelt, beginning in 1895, when he was appointed police commissioner of New York City. In 1897 he was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Navy. His charge up San Juan Hill during the Spanish-American War in 1898 is re-created. He becomes vice president in March 1901 and assumes the presidency when William McKinley is assassinated six months later. According to the narrator, Roosevelt refused to be beholden to political bosses, doing what he believed to be right for the American people.

Autonomous

January 2016 •English

When a mistrustful rogue, who earns a living by sending "obsolete" humanoid robots to the scrap heap, has a change of heart and decides it's time to call it quits, he stumbles upon a conspiracy that will reveal his life's darkest secret.

Расскажи мне про завтра

August 2020 •Russian

Aniksha

September 2020 •French

In the wake of her arranged marriage, a young woman in Mauritius begins a job at a call centre. Her first steps toward independence have repercussions no one could have expected.

Shooting Star

September 2020 •French

On a family trip to observe the shooting stars, Chloé, a withdrawn teenager, discovers a dazzling attraction for her mother’s new boyfriend.

Cendol

May 2016 •Malay

The past life of a successful doctor named Alia with her disability brother. It centers around the lives of past successful doctor named Alia with a disabled brother. They were orphaned when both their parents died in a road accident. Demi sustain life, Alia and her brother sell Fried around the village. Following the difficulties of life, her brother was finally handed to the host family because Alia wants her ambition to be a doctor.

Unbreakable Signs

August 2014 •English

Chris intends to leave the village where he lives, aware that he will have to face Those We Don't Speak Of. Short film inspired by M. Night Shyamalan's The Village.

Sous mes yeux

March 2007 •English

A girl, on a summer's day, by the sea. Her father is troubled by his seductive sister-in-law under her eyes. Shel is too small to say, but she is not too small to see and understand.

Millennium

May 2013 •English

13-year-old Karl and Thomas have been childhood friends but are now drifting apart. Thomas likes Katzy and Katzy likes Karl. The boys have stolen 30,000 kroner because Thomas wants to impress Katzy with an unforgettable party.

Early to Bed

March 1975 •English

Alan Bleasdale’s television debut, this beautifully observed drama stars Alison Steadman as a woman having a passionate tryst with the boy next door while her husband is at work.

Tenants

December 2015 •Polish

Justyna, a young woman who’s the main protagonist in the film, buys a flat at a bailiff auction regardless the risk it may bring. When she wants to move in it turns out that the keys she was given do not fit the locks. A dream about a place of her own turns into a nightmare.

The Roma Project

May 2015 •English

After a deadly car accident, a boy finds himself trapped in a sinister hospital and begins to wonder if he could be more than human.

Maurice

March 2015 •French

Everything would be fine. Maurice had made up his mind. He had made a list: pick a date, announce his retirement, sell the car, see old friends, and empty the garage. Then, die with dignity.

Red Lights

April 2013 •English

A young Dutch boy goes on a boy's night out with his friends in Amsterdam for a night of sex,drugs and rock and roll. But an expected encounter with a sex worker shows him something he could have never imagined.

Touch

June 2016 •English

When a single mom, facing eviction, is offered a night’s work, she unsuccessfully seeks a babysitter for her two small children. Desperate, she reaches out to the last person she wants to ask for a favour.

Coup de grâce

November 2013 •French

In Paris, a bewildered young man confides in his barber about an unusual encounter.

Excuse the Pardon

October 1930 •English

A convict is released, then lured back to prison, because he was pardoned by mistake.

Last Halloween

January 2011 •English

In this short film, Sarah and Matt have a 'unique' relationship. But when they throw a Halloween party, things take a turn for the worse.

Defining Fay

January 2012 •English

A greedy multinational company, a poetic vision of the end of the world, an extraordinary drug-induced dream, great love. Not necessarily in that order.

Room Service

May 2005 •English

In Room Service, Ethan rents the “services” of Stone, 90s TV-actor-turned-escort and the object of his adolescent dreams, and discovers that childhood fantasies can be more satisfying than adult realities.