Tough Luck

People on Saturday

August 2020 •German

A sunny Saturday afternoon in Zurich. In the middle of a crowded square a businessman is lying on a bench, seemingly asleep. Someplace else, a teenager is longing for appreciation. A commuter is fighting the ticket machine. The film shows ten tableaux of everyday situations in the city. The people in them are confronted with small or big problems. Each one of them is a Sisyphos, endlessly rolling the little stones of daily life up the mountain.

Lawn Maintanance is not a f#cking vocation

August 2020 •English

Craig Joeman is your average, friendly, lawn connoisseur. He has no qualms with how his local parks are being maintained. Until something changes.

The Box Assassin

August 2020 •English

A pizza delivery boy finds himself in the middle of a clash between a gangster boss and a legendary assassin who the boy has unknowingly delivered instead of pizza.

Eminem, Where Have You Been?

May 2009 •English

Where's Em been? School, fool. But despite his fame and fortune, this exclusive documentary shows that returning to the halls of high school wasn't exactly easy for this international superstar.

The Blanket

August 2020 •English

Shot and crewed by Riley Stearns while in quarantine, and described as "an exercise in trusting instincts and embracing limitations."

Dissecting Gwen

March 2017 •English

After the anxiety of taking a home pregnancy test causes GWEN to faint on her bathroom floor, she is forced to have a discussion with the personified Voices in Her Head: ROMANTIC, REBEL, ANALYTIC and FEAR - each unabashedly offering their opinions on what her future should look like.

Tony Speed

May 2018 •French

One last Bite

February 2021 •English

A woman attempts to give her amnesiac boyfriend one last real date during the zombie apocalypse.

MasterChat GPT

January 2024 •Portuguese

At 3 AM, a girl tries to cook instant ramen noodles with instructions from ChatGPT

Play Schengen

August 2020 •Norwegian

A gaming company is creating a videogame for kids about the European Union. You play a national bird needing to breed and nest across borders, but you can only fly as allowed by your visa rights. We follow two game designers as they transform the European Union into pixel graphics in an effort to make Schengen catchy. The question they face: is it possible?

Pistenzauber

July 2016 •German

Black comedy set in a ski resort. When a few rules are bent during a late night run with a snow groomer, things start to go terribly awry...

Lyman H. Howe's Famous Ride on a Runaway Train

May 1921 •English

A runaway train speeds down the track.

Santa / Claws

Invalid date •English

A little boy's desire to meet Santa Claus takes a dark turn.

First Death Experience

May 2001 •Bosnian

Dado Bratovic is comic-strip artist from Sarajevo. In 1996, after the war, he goes to get his ID card issued and finds out that he was reported dead just after the war started in 1992. Now he has to prove that he is alive.

Shadow Boxer

November 2012 •English

When a young man finds himself alone in a club after hours, he pretends he's in a martial arts movie only to be interrupted by his crush, leaving him embarrassed. But has the power of his imagination brought something dark to life?

The Classmate's Frolic

February 1913 •English

A comedy about a group of school girls who bring a street musician to school with them.

The Delicious

June 2003 •English

A conservative yuppie banker finds an unusual piece of clothing in his closet and tries it on. Soon, it has taken over his life.

Caminandes: Llamigos

January 2016 •English

In this episode of the Caminandes cartoon series we learn to know our hero Koro even better! It's winter in Patagonia, food is getting scarce. Koro the Llama engages with Oti the pesky penguin in an epic fight over that last tasty berry. This short animation film was made with Blender and funded by the subscribers of the Blender Cloud platform. Already since 2007, Blender Institute successfully combines film and media production with improving a free and open source 3D creation pipeline.

Meaning of Robots

March 2012 •English

This short film profiles the benevolent Mike Sullivan, who has been in the process of shooting a stop-motion robot sex film in his New York City apartment for the last ten years. Obsessed with the meticulous construction of the miniature robot porn stars, his apartment now overflows with thousands, leaving him only tiny paths to navigate and no place to film his epic.

Rex the Runt: North by North Pole

January 1996 •English

The gang journey to the North Pole, and drill a hole to find out "What's at the center of the Earth?"