Home Office: Un especial de Mirreyes contra Godínez

Hired Wife

September 1940 •English

Ad man Stephen Dexter asks his secretary Kendall to marry him as a loophole in order to protect his finances during an important business deal. Once the deal is completed, he asks Kendall for a divorce and is dismayed when she refuses.

Something Always Happens

December 1934 •English

Unemployed car salesman Peter is encouraged by his girlfriend Cynthia to approach the head of a petrol company with his plan for making petrol stations more attractive to customers. When the man rejects the idea Peter joins a rival company and becomes a great success.

Skins

January 1997 •English

A successful, but unhappy man tries to be himself.

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.

Sandra Gets A New Fringe

October 2023 •English

After making the life changing decision to get a new fringe, a disregarded office worker attempts to get her dismissive colleagues attention in increasingly bizarre and violent ways.

Office Ladies Remodelling Lecture

January 1990 •Japanese

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

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.

Two Dollars

March 2017 •French

After a week of leave, Sylvie is back at the Quebec company where she has been an exemplary employee for more than 15 years. She is then requested to attend a bizarre meeting.

Cold Turkey

October 1940 •English

Harry wins a turkey at a raffle.

The Vagrant

May 1992 •English

A business man buys a house, but he has a hard time trying to get rid of its previous tenant, a dirty bum.

Friendsheep

January 2010 •Spanish

A wolf gets a job in an office plenty of sexy and succulent sheep.

Carpool Guy

October 2005 •English

Joel Goodman is a hotshot advertising executive angling for a promotion, but he feels stuck - not least of all in traffic. A seeming answer to his prayers comes in the form of a homeless man whom Joel pays to sit in his passenger seat so he can use the carpool lane. The two form an unexpected bond, and Joel comes to realize that sometimes changing lanes can change your life.

Office Space

February 1999 •English

A depressed white-collar worker tries hypnotherapy, only to find himself in a perpetual state of devil-may-care bliss that prompts him to start living by his own rules, and hatch a hapless attempt to embezzle money from his soul-killing employers.

The Boss of It All

December 2006 •Danish

An IT company hires an actor to serve as the company's president in order to help the business get sold to a cranky Icelander.

Culture

October 1997 •English

A junior editor gets a nice promotion while working for a famous New York daily. With the function comes a secretary, a veteran lady accustomed in a certain working tradition. But her new boss goes on a different working culture whose motto is "Speed, efficiency and organization".

The Cobbler

September 2014 •English

Max Simkin repairs shoes in the same New York shop that has been in his family for generations. Disenchanted with the grind of daily life, Max stumbles upon a magical heirloom that allows him to step into the lives of his customers and see the world in a new way. Sometimes walking in another man's shoes is the only way one can discover who they really are.