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Franz Himpsl is an athlete, teacher, trumpeter, chaotic spirit, and founder of the Unterbiberger Hofmusik. Together with his wife Irene and their sons Xaver, Ludwig, and Franz Jr., he breaks through the barriers of Bavarian folk music, blending it with jazz and influences from around the globe. Their motto: Respect – and don’t piss your pants! The film accompanies them on musical journeys around the world: to Marrakesh, the pyramids, Alexandria, the Nile, and even the skies above Iran – while Father Franz returns to his roots in the “Woid,” the deepest Bavarian Forest.
A short collection of spontaneous images and sounds merged in one film.
A conversation between Derrick Gloop and William Fletch about the worst masks known to humanity- the ones that don't cover your face.
Shot on a single roll of Super 8mm film, with no editing or retakes, RUSSIA follows a poor young man from the Egyptian countryside as he confronts a haunting memory of his past and the lingering weight of his actions. Inspired by Emad Abu Saleh’s poem “Killer.”
Letters from Tibet follows an exchange across time between a British colonial officer and a contemporary archivist. Tracing how Tibet has been framed through colonial correspondence, photography, and cinema.
A son receives a call from his overbearing mother long after her death.
Evelyn is no stranger to street harassment from vulgar men — she has to bury herself in her phone just to stay sane while walking home. However, as she slowly loses her identity to being the victim of a gore-obsessed stalker, this dependency on distraction leaves her unaware of just how dangerous her situation has gotten.
During a student date dinner, Casper meets Eline, a girl he has been set up with. While it's meant to be a fun and casual introduction, Casper hopes it might be the beginning of something more.
Murmurs in the Distance begins with an encounter with a gap: the absence of a substantial historical and visual record of the women’s protests of March 8, 1979 in Iran. Through photographs, recordings, testimonies, and archival fragments, three artists from another generation, living in different countries, search for what has been preserved, what has disappeared, and find their own reflections along the journey. The archive becomes both a source and a place for questioning. The short documentary Iranian Women’s Liberation Movement: Year Zero (1979) offers one of the few surviving visual traces of the protests, while testimonies bring other forms of memory into the present. Rather than reconstructing a complete history, the film stays with these fragments and silences, asking how an archive shapes what can be remembered, seen, and understood as history.
A young woman fights for survival against a mysterious botanical infection
Caught up in the chaos of her responsibilities, a young woman is oblivious to the turmoil weighing on her life as she leaves work. However, her pent-up emotions begin to surface, her reality is transformed, and she must overcome the obstacles in her mind to find herself.
Returning to his “taxidermy museum” childhood home, Tyler sorts through his grandmother’s belongings as memories of her dementia resurface.
The lads, whilst on the run from the ever persistent and ruthless Deputy O'Leary, seek aid from Greyville's local street merchant and all around odd case, Dalondis. Who offers his hand in keeping the lads out of O'Leary's relentless sight as he continues to hunt them down for a crime they are unaware of.
When a heartbroken woman seeks revenge on her married lover’s family, his daughter mistakes her for a mermaid.
A middle-aged man who is in the habit of smoking begins to be confronted by the image of an elderly lady every time he does so; as the woman’s presence becomes more frequent, the smoker begins to rethink his habit.
Spring, 2019. Cody disappeared one night. He left his father $167 and Isaac a note... Now both men are picking up the pieces, never anticipating their paths will cross.
A short film about dead parents and play, made by 10 year old Janne Elens.