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- DirectorBill PlymptonStarsMatthew ModineWe all think of Santa as "Jolly old St.Nick". But who knew that he has a dark hidden past that's very un-jolly? This short film uncovers and explores Santa's flirtation with politics and greed.
- DirectorDustin Guy DefaStarsCaitlin DennisTipper NewtonIngrid Sophie SchramA young woman shares a story with a group of friends, who listen with rapt attention. The tale she tells sounds familiar - very familiar.
- DirectorDakota FanningStarsEve HewsonMalika SamuelYadira Guevara-PripAn apartment as a witness to someone's personal history, the kind of universal space in which we all find ourselves as we evolve into adulthood. An apartment as protagonist of the latest chapter of Miu Miu Women's Tales.
- DirectorAgnès VardaStarsJasmine ThiréMichel JeannèsJacky PatinA 14-year-old girl opens a package containing a magical magenta ball dress ten times her teenage size. Jasmine enters the folds of the dress, into a modern anti-fairy tale and everyday empowerment.
- DirectorZoe R. CassavetesStarsCaroline De MaigretAudrey MarnayPearl MarshlandZoe Cassavetes directs The Powder Room, an enchanting and dramatic short film set in London's Claridges hotel. In this world Cassavetes uses the romantic codes of the powder room to mirror the beauty and luxury of the Miu Miu universe.
- DirectorJulie DashStarsLinda Martina YoungAn experimental choreographed poem,made within the LA Rebellion movement of film students at UCLA.
- DirectorRobert FloreySlavko VorkapichStarsJules RaucourtVoya GeorgeRobert FloreyA wannabe movie star experiences the surreal horrors of dehumanization at the bottom of Hollywood's social ladder as his hopes for success vanish and his identity is reduced to a number.
- DirectorMatthew RossStarsBilly EastwoodLorien HaynesKip PardueAbout a young male actor/model fixated on succeeding with everything and everyone, in record time.
- DirectorNick ElliotBeing an independent short subject from 1966 it follows a day in the life of a drag queen on the streets of LA, a 'young lady' waits in her lonely apartment for her date to show up.
- DirectorJulie Dash"Our deepest memories live at the shoreline...where the Atlantic ocean meets solid ground"
- DirectorGuy MaddinStarsLeslie BaisCaelum VatnsdalShaun BalbarA scientist chooses a wealthy man over her two lovers but must heal the earth's core to save humanity.
- DirectorBill PlymptonStarsDaniel KaufmanAn animated look at the 11 essential steps to make the pilgrim's progess from finding a woman to making love to her. Along the way, our prototypical man gets advice about her eyes, her hair, her neck, her nostrils (and how they will flare as she becomes excited), the kiss, disrobing her (be subtle yet have authority), the hug, her nipples, and kinky accessories. At every turn, even as the exultant strains of Handel's Hallelujah Chorus signal that success is upon him, there are dangers and pitfalls. The journey requires steely resolve.
- DirectorWes AndersonStarsYasmin Kaur BarnAdrien BrodyLeo HattonLone passengers are traveling to join their loved ones for the Christmas holiday, but winter weather conspires to way-lay them.
- DirectorTakashi ItôStarsSeiko NakanoA woman's face disappearing behind, and emerging from, a pair of hands. Flashing lights. An empty building full of dark hallways.
- DirectorCharles ChaplinStarsCharles ChaplinEdna PurvianceEric CampbellThe Little Tramp escapes from prison; saves a girl and her mother from drowning; and creates havoc at a swank party.
- DirectorRyland Walker KnightStarsCuyler BallengerTyler BradyMitch CostanzaOn his first day out in the world after being released from a 5250 (the California police code for a mental health arrest), Stanley is beset by troubles at every turn in the road as he walks around Oakland: at home, with an ex, and on the street.
- DirectorJean-Luc GodardStarsWoody AllenJean-Luc GodardAnnette InsdorfRevolutionary French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard conducts a twenty-five minute interview with influential and acclaimed American director Woody Allen on the cultural radiation, the ubiquity and significance of Television, and how Television compares with cinema as a medium and form of expression.
- DirectorVittorio De SetaA documentary of Sicilian men spear fishing and women doing laundry.
- DirectorAlfonso CuarónThis short documentary talks about autism like it's some sort of disease. Here, they use a bunch of fear mongering and saying that autism is a hopeless thing. In short, this is a really shitty documentary.
- DirectorWilliam Nicholas SeligStarsGertie BrownSaint SuttleA burlesque on the John Rice/May Irwin kiss in "The Kiss" (1896).
- DirectorGraham ParkesStarsLewis PullmanMat WrightTrian Long SmithDan spends his every waking hour tortured by the negative voice in his head, until he learns something shocking that allows him to break free.
- DirectorGraham ParkesStarsLev PakmanLewis PullmanMat WrightA boastful man claims that he can partake without letting his paranoia get the better of him.
- DirectorKarsten RunquistStarsDakota EvansZachary KruegerEric BaysThe story of a keychain that finds itself in the lives of four different people.
- DirectorRose LowderAn experimental film that focuses mostly on single shots of flowers that are woven frame by frame into a single film.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsJehanne d'AlcyGeorges MélièsA devil conjures up a dancing woman from a mystical flame.
- DirectorAgnès VardaStarsIsabelle AdjaniAgnès VardaIn 1986, the French Cinematheque completed its 50th anniversary and to celebrate its importance to cinema lovers through the years, the great Agnès Varda made this short tribute, narrated by Isabelle Adjani, presenting a contrast between the famous stairs from the place along with classic film images also revolving around stairs.
- DirectorRyan McGladeStarsTynan DeLongBrian FiddymentEdy Modica
- DirectorSophy RomvariA heart warming, short documentary that focuses on the deep bonds formed between a few selected owners and their canine companions.
- DirectorJono MitchellStarsMadison HatfieldMichael ReaganHannah AllineIn the not-so-distant future, a fiercely independent woman recruits the one-night-stand who got her pregnant for a cross country trip to get an abortion in one of the few remaining states that allows them.
- DirectorSean BakerStarsAkon AdicholPaloma ElsesserKris GrikaiteKHAITE is inextricably linked to New York. Fall/Winter 2021 celebrates this enduring and ever-evolving relationship at a pivotal moment for the city. The collection comes to life in KHAITE, directed and edited by Sean Baker.
- DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsPierre BatcheffSimone MareuilLuis BuñuelLuis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí present 16 minutes of bizarre, surreal imagery.
- DirectorZhannat AlshanovaStarsAna ShametajOn her regular day at work, Paola starts to feel that she is missing out something exciting.
- DirectorGuy NattivStarsJamie BellDanielle MacdonaldDaniel HenshallA destitute young man, raised by racist skinheads and notorious among white supremacists, turns his back on hatred and violence to transform his life, with the help of a black activist and the woman he loves.
- DirectorMillard MercuryStarsEwing TordellaEdith TrublanchetA humongous and obese anthropomorphic swine dressed like a fine gentleman in a fancy dinner attire tries to make a pass at a solitary lady having a picnic.
- DirectorTsai Ming-liangStarsKang-sheng LeeKang-sheng Lee is dressed in a red robe and walks slowly and patiently through a lively city.
- DirectorSophy RomvariStarsSophy RomvariBenjamin RomvariMarcos ArriagaA box of family photos unseen for decades awakens lost memories as they are viewed for the first time on camera.
- DirectorTod BrowningStarsJack BrammallElmo LincolnTully MarshallAn ex-convict reunites with his father.
- DirectorGuy MaddinStarsLouis NeginLegendary poet John Ashbery scripted this absurdist step-by-step guide to bathing, excerpted from Guy Maddin's feature THE FORBIDDEN ROOM and restored to its original form as a stand-alone film.
- DirectorSteven SoderberghA poem is read aloud. The poem is about deletion of data and therefore truth.
- DirectorJulie DashStarsLonette McKeeRosanne KatonNed BellamyAn African American woman rises to prominence in a fictional movie studio in the 1940s by passing as a white woman, affording others some dignity in the business that frequently portrayed movies as an illusion of a purely "white world."
- DirectorLotte ReinigerNivea commercial from 1922 in which a margrave meets a marquess with the most beautiful skin. While dancing below her balcony at night, the marquess tells him her secret: She uses Nivea soap and Nivea cream.
- DirectorSegundo de ChomónA man tries to shave, but his mirror keeps playing tricks on him.
- DirectorJean-Luc GodardStarsJuliet BertoA couple argue loudly during a news broadcast about Palestine as the man shaves.
- DirectorAnne-Marie MiévilleStarsBruno CremerAurore ClémentRebecca Hampton11 year old Marie is terribly upset by her parents' separation. Her reaction is to cut herself off from the world and take refuge in books, music and dance. This short film is a complement to Jean-Luc Godard's film Je vous salue Marie.
- DirectorChantal AkermanStarsChantal AkermanA young girl shuts herself away in her apartment and goes about her business in a strange way, as she wastes the night in her apartment.
- DirectorAndrea ArnoldStarsLynda SteadmanStephen McGannLee OakesFrom the get-go, Arnold was fascinated by the careless, seemingly simple choices people make in their day-to-day lives that lead to unintended, complicated consequences.
- DirectorAlice GuyA tumultuous time in French history affects the life of one particular man, an innocent bystander swept up in the confusion around him.
- DirectorPaul Sharits
- DirectorPaul SharitsA split-screen film consisting of rapidly flashing colors, shapes, patterns, letters, words, and images.
- DirectorAlice RohrwacherDuring the COVID-19 pandemic, filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher gets in touch with her neighborhoods through her photographic lenses.
- DirectorTayler MontagueStarsRaven GoodwinMarcus CallenderSienna RiversA slice of life film set in the Bronx, New York-In Sudden Darkness follows the life of the Moore's, a working-class family trying to stay afloat in the midst of a city-wide blackout.
- DirectorCarole RoussopoulosMade when abortion was still illegal in France, Just Don't Fuck irreverently alternates images from the first feminist demonstrations in favour of abortion and the images of an illegal abortion using the Karman method, as well as conversations and TV footage.
- DirectorJake KoltonStarsRicardo DávilaChristopher SearsA couple's fragile relationship is put to the test after a sudden car accident.
- DirectorLiane BrandonStarsBettyA woman tells the story of how she bought an expensive dress that she never got to wear, and then tells the story again focusing on her feelings about the events she described.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsAn inventor dreams that his newly designed airship takes flight.
- DirectorJenni OlsonStarsSilas HowardThrough voiceover and static San Francisco landscapes this experimental narrative short tells the melancholy story of a young dyke pining over a one night stand with a straight girl.
- DirectorJenni OlsonStarsJenni OlsonA brief reflection on faith, self-loathing and Studs Lonigan - commissioned for the 2019 30th Anniversary shorts omnibus, 30/30 VISION: 3 Decades of Strand Releasing.
- DirectorTerence DixonStarsJames BaldwinA meeting with James Baldwin doesn't quite go according to plan for a group of presumptuous white filmmakers in this Paris-set documentary short.
- DirectorLeah ShoreStarsSarah Ellen StephensKarl JacobBrian W. SmithSamantha desperately wants to get laid, but is finding it to be difficult for some reason.
- DirectorMarlon RiggsStarsDjola Bernard BrannerJesse HarrisWilli NinjaDance, music, words and poetry in defiant celebration of the sensual and sexual pleasure of being black and queer.
- DirectorChristine ChoyCynthia MaurizioChristine Choy and Cynthia Maurizio offer a rare look at the degradation faced by women in prison, interviewing women who suffer daily within a system that disregards their humanity and neglects their basic needs.
- DirectorRick RochaStarsRick RochaA.L. CookM. Henry JonesAn esoteric "day" in the life of Victor Jones. A voyeristic look at a young man, waivering inbetween his unconcious mind and his concious life. All for the sake of the theater, and love. A chracter study with themes, of isolation, illusision of self, reality, and fantacy, and if there really is a difference between them.
- DirectorStephen QuayTimothy QuayStarsFeliks StawinskiInside a box full of curio, a puppet who is recently freed from his strings explores a dusty and forlorn commercial area. The explorer becomes ensnared into miniature tailor shop by baby-faced dolls.
- 201910m7.1 (324)ShortDirectorBrandon CronenbergStarsDeragh CampbellNeil BennettIan Ottis GoffA psychiatric patient with a brain implant that allows her to relive her dreams finds her reality being encroached upon in unappetizing and surreal ways.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsMuch to our amazement, an elegant and masterful illusionist detaches his own head effortlessly from his shoulders for a once-in-a-lifetime performance.
- DirectorJoseph StrickStarsRichard HammerInterviews with five former American soldiers who were present at the March 16, 1968 attack on the village of My Lai during the Vietnam War; they discuss the orders that were issued leading up to the attack, their expectations of what they would find there, and the subsequent massacre of the inhabitants and destruction of the village, as well as possible motivations for the killings and rapes which took place.
- DirectorDustin Guy DefaStarsGayle RankinHannah GrossA woman is confronted by a stranger, who believes she's been edited out of their story.
- DirectorVittorio De SetaA documentary about Sicilian fisherman tending their boats, nets, and catching some huge fish.
- DirectorTaylor SwiftStarsSadie SinkDylan O'BrienTaylor SwiftA man and a young woman who fall in love, but slowly drift apart in time. Based on Taylor Swift's song 'All Too Well'.
- DirectorCurtis HarringtonLong considered lost, THE ASSIGNATION was Curtis Harrington's first color film. It was shot in Venice, Italy, and follows a masked figure through the labyrinthine canals of the city, building to a spectacular climax.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsFernande AlbanyJehanne d'AlcyUsing every known means of transportation, several savants from the Geographic Society undertake a journey through the Alps to the Sun which finishes under the sea.
- DirectorCurtis HarringtonStarsIsabel HarringtonRaymond S. HarringtonA woman sits knitting on the porch of her home when a man appears and takes the knitting from her.
- DirectorJean-Luc Godard"In the Darkness of Time", filmed by the ideologue of the French "New Wave" Jean-Luc Godard, represents an essence of visual reflection of the Time.
- DirectorCarolee SchneemannStarsCarolee SchneemannJames TenneyAn experimental short in which a couple engaged in lovemaking is superimposed over ocean and beach scenes.
- DirectorJulia DucournauStarsGarance MarillierYacine N'DiayeAude BriantJustine, who goes by Junior, is a 13-year-old tomboy with pimples and a unique sense of humor. After unexpectedly contracting a stomach virus, her body becomes home to a bizarre metamorphosis.
- DirectorRyan McGladeStarsPat CartwrightFred CisternaKelly DeCaro
- DirectorYann GonzalezStarsRomy AlizéeFrance BaiseJulie BrémondA rainy city, a foggy night. Lust lurks in a dark alleyway lit by flickering neon as bodies fuse to the sounds of a haunting sax.
- DirectorCaitlin CronenbergDavid CronenbergStarsDavid CronenbergDirector David Cronenberg faces his own mortality in this surreal short film. The creator of "The Fly" and "Dead Ringers" manages to observe himself after death, all curious about the body that peacefully rests in bed and to which he reacts very tenderly.