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This Oscar-award winning short film follows Heather (Sally Hawkins, The Shape of Water, Blue Jasmine), a shy lady who works at a helpline call center. When she receives a phone call from a mystery man she has no idea that the encounter will change her life forever.
Winner of Best Short Film, Live Action at the Academy Awards. Winner of Best Narrative Short at the Tribeca Film Festival.Read More »
A static camera observes a room as it slowly fills with thirty-six characters from different stages of life, as they move in loops through an absurd dance of social disconnection.Read More »
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After participating in the Ni Ni Roku Incident of February 1936, Lieutenant Shinji Takeyama has been given orders to execute some of his fellow mutineers. He decides to commit seppuku, and his wife Reiko vows to kill herself with him. They make passionate love, then commit suicide.Read More »
Ang, a transgender sex worker with a pretty, feminine voice is assigned a special mission as an undercover spy. She disguises herself as a cisgender man to enter into a romantic relationship with Jit, a belligerent yet idealistic student activist with an evil voice.Read More »
A fascinating storyteller captivates fellow passengers in a crowded train car, but conflicts slowly arise.Read More »
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By reviving memories that remain of her disappeared friend, Sabine tries to resurrect and mourn.Read More »
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Harrington s final film before he died in 2007, Usher is a remake of a short he made in high school based on the classic Edgar Allan Poe story The Fall of the House of Usher. He once again expresses his interest in the occult by casting known members of the Church of Satan, Nikolas and Zeena Schreck.Read More »
The final instalment of John Paizs’ “Three Worlds of Nick” trilogy is an amusing melange of ’60s spy thrillers and other classics. Super secret agent Nick attempts to liberate a top secret microchip from the clutches of multimillionaire Quinton Frost. Paizs pokes fun at the jet set, the Cold War and Jean-Paul Sartre.
The film stars Canadian television personality Peter Jordan as the protagonist, and John Paizs in his reoccurring silent Nick character. Guy Madden (credited as Gal Madden) also has an unbelievable cameo, as does George Toles.Read More »
Lina, a film director, learns from her friend Judith that Bastien, the highly professional sound editor she works with, is a serial seducer. Lina doesn’t pay much attention to it, especially as she can’t see any signs of him corroborating this reputation, but those around her keep asking her questions…Read More »