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- DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsPierre BatcheffSimone MareuilLuis BuñuelLuis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí present 16 minutes of bizarre, surreal imagery.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsVictor AndréBleuette BernonA group of astronomers go on an expedition to the Moon.
- DirectorDavid LynchStarsPeggy ReaveyA woman's dark and absurdist nightmare vision comprising a continuous recitation of the alphabet and bizarre living representations of each letter.
- DirectorDavid LynchA short continuously looping animation of six grotesque human figures vomiting.
- DirectorDavid LynchStarsCatherine E. CoulsonDavid LynchA double leg amputated woman sits and writes a long meandering letter while her ineffective nurse attempts to attend to her stumps.
- DirectorDavid LynchStarsJordan LaddEtsuko ShikataCerina VincentJohn's struggle to get out of a locked room with a sinister secret inside.
- DirectorRoman PolanskiStarsJakub GoldbergHenryk KlubaAndrzej KondratiukTwo men emerge from the sea onto the beach carrying a large wooden wardrobe with a mirror on its front. After the two men clean up and rejoice being in this new environment, they proceed to enter the nearby town, they carrying the wardrobe wherever they go. They just want to meet people and experience their new surroundings, but are largely shunned or ignored. In some instances, they are shunned even when their presence helps the situation. And in other instances of being shunned, they are beaten. And when they are ignored, the world just keeps going without them, often at the detriment of humankind. Ultimately, the two men, with their wardrobe, make a decision about what to do in light of their experiences.
- DirectorCasper KellyLarry MorrisSteve PatrickStarsFrank WelkerMary Kay BergmanScott InnesThe Scooby gang get lost in the woods while trying the solve the mystery of a mysterious creature lurking within the forest.
- DirectorCheryl FarthingStarsJulie GrahamJessica AdamsRachel GrimsteadIn this adult film, Kay has just moved into a new flat. Her neighbours are a stylish lesbian couple who are very much in love. Kay is fascinated by their easy intimacy and fantasises about erotic images of women and female sensuality.
- DirectorGillian AndersonStarsGillian AndersonBruce AlexanderSuzanne BertishGillian Anderson plays Blanche DuBois in a prequel to A Streetcar Named Desire inspired by the Young Vic's production in which she starred. The film place takes place in the days before Blanche's arrival at her sisters Stella's home.
- Dancer in a skeleton costume.
- DirectorDavid F. SandbergStarsLotta LostenDavid F. SandbergIn the underlit attic, an unsuspecting woman tidies up an already cluttered space; however, in the mysterious dimness, her eye catches a motion. Is this a trick of the mind, or is there something sinister hiding in the thick shadows?
- 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.
- DirectorBrian McElhaneyStarsAlex AnfangerNick KocherBrian McElhaneyLyle, sick of his girlfriend's annoying laugh, wants to end their relationship. Too scared to do it honestly, he enacts a scheme to convince her that they must break up because he is at the center of an epic battle between man, beast and fowl. Unfortunately, it all goes according to plan in this epic comedy filled to the brim with twists and turns.
- DirectorLouis LumièreA skeleton dances joyously, often collapsing into a heap of bones and quickly putting itself back together.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsJehanne d'AlcyJules-Eugène LegrisGeorges MélièsWith the help of a magic cauldron, Mephistopheles conjures up a variety of supernatural characters.
- DirectorD.W. GriffithStarsElmer BoothLillian GishClara T. BracyA tender young woman and her musician husband attempt to eke out a living in the slums of New York City, but find themselves caught in the crossfires of gang violence.
- DirectorLynne SachsStarsCarolee SchneemannBarbara HammerGunvor NelsonFrom 2015 to 2017, Lynne visited with Carolee Schneemann, Barbara Hammer and Gunvor Nelson, three multi-faceted artists who have embraced the moving image throughout their lives. From Carolee's 18th Century house in the woods of Upstate New York to Barbara's West Village studio to Gunvor's childhood village in Sweden, Lynne shoots film with each woman in the place where she finds grounding and spark.
- DirectorDomee ShiStarsSindy LauKai LiSharmaine YeohA Chinese-Canadian woman suffering from empty nest syndrome gets a second shot at motherhood when one of her handmade dumplings comes alive.
- DirectorDimitri VenkovA travel movie through different architectural styles of Moscow depicted as in upside down planet.
- DirectorTomoyasu MurataA young girl weaves her way through time in remembrance of her twin sister. A snow globe and the Rabbit-man help her along the way.
- DirectorRobert FrankStarsHarry SmithArtist and collector Harry Smith's room at the Breslin Hotel where he lived until his eviction in 1984.
- DirectorMiko ReverezaStarsMiko ReverezaThe insecurities and pent-up emotions of an immigrant in the USA give way to political ruminations and critical commentaries on the colonization of the mind by the American Dream. A montage of home movies from the title's years presents an anatomy of family ties and a reliving of one's own identity.
- DirectorDarwyn CookeStarsKevin ConroyWill FriedleTerry McGinnis as Batman helps Bruce Wayne fight a robotic Batman inside the Batcave.
- DirectorAuguste LumièreLouis LumièreStarsMadeleine KoehlerMarcel KoehlerMrs. Auguste LumiereA train arrives at La Ciotat station.
- DirectorJosephine DeckerStarsLisa DiazAdriana DismanMaggie MarionShe sails into the frame with verve, doom, determination! --And her teddy bear. Will the child pirate conquer New York? Or will New York conquer her?
- DirectorMike DivaAkiva SchafferStarsAndy SambergAkiva SchafferJorma TacconeThe Lonely Island spoofs notorious baseball stars Jose Canseco and Mark McGwire in this visual rap album set in the Bash Brothers' 1980s heyday.
- DirectorJennifer KentStarsCraig BehennaDaniel HenshallA Christmas e-card from The Babadook (2014)
- DirectorAri AsterStarsBonnie BedeliaLiam AikenRachel BrosnahanA vibrant Pixar-inspired montage (think the marriage sequence in Up) in which a mother, unable to confront the heartbreak of her son leaving for college, delays his departure by making him sick. Unfortunately, she goes too far, is helpless to reverse what she set in motion, and is forced to face the unfathomable consequences of her selfishness.
- DirectorAri AsterStarsBilly MayoLogan AtkinsonCasey DesmondA neurotic middle-aged man's trip to visit his mother is delayed indefinitely when his keys are mysteriously taken from his door. He is subsequently haunted by an increasingly sinister chain of upsetting events. (Although it is not made apparent in the film, it should be said that Beau once used a Ouija board.)
- DirectorPeter MullanStarsPeter MullanBob CarrDavid McKayVincent has newly become a father, and when his neighbor makes an insulting remark about his daughter, Vincent goes mad, and fetches his hammer.
- DirectorPeter CapaldiStarsRichard E. GrantCrispin LettsKen StottWhile trying to decide what Gregor Samsa wakes up as, Kafka's constantly being interrupted by knife-selling strangers, party noise, girls, fancy dress costumes, and other strange, dreamlike visions.
- DirectorPeter MullanStarsGary LewisVicki MassonLaurie VentryIn a squalid tenement building in Glasgow, two toughs lock a helpless young boy inside a broken fridge-freezer.
- DirectorLynne RamsayStarsLynne Ramsay Jr.Martin AndersonJames RamsayIt's the Christmas season. With her mom's help, Lynne, a girl of perhaps eight, dresses up; her younger brother Steven plays with a toy car. The children leave with their dad, who's affectionate with them. They walk down a railroad track where an unkempt woman waits with two children, about the same age as Lynne and Steven. The children go with them. They're all headed to a holiday party at a pub. Lynne notices that the girl acts all too familiar with her dad. What's going on?
- DirectorMorag McKinnonStarsRussell AndersonMalcolm ShieldsEddie MearnsA local council worker inspects three homes.
- DirectorDavid LynchStarsJack CruzDavid LynchToototabonIn a locked down train station, a homicide detective conducts an interview with a tormented monkey.
- DirectorEric KissackStarsShawn ParsonsScott BeehnerBrace HarrisIn the tradition of classic westerns, a narrator sets up the story of a lone gunslinger who walks into a saloon. However, the people in this saloon can hear the narrator and the narrator may just be a little bit bloodthirsty.
- DirectorKyle SawyerA mannequin at a used clothing store falls for his human coworker.
- DirectorPatrick HughesStarsNick RussellKestie MorassiWhere do you find love? Sometimes all you need is a sign.
- DirectorJennifer KentStarsSusan PriorLuke Ikimis-HealeyTrash VaudevilleA mother battles with her son's fear of a monster lurking in the closet, but soon discovers a sinister presence all around her.
- DirectorMike ClattenburgStarsRobb WellsJohn Paul TremblayJohn DunsworthTwo best friends, Rob and GW, spend a night out drinking before Rob moves away to start a new business.
- DirectorBen AstonStarsSebastian ArmestoAnna MaguireSarah BarkerA simple, domestic love story about a man who takes his skin off for his girlfriend, and why it probably wasn't the best idea...
- DirectorJérémy ComteStarsFélix GrenierAlexandre PerreaultLouise BombardierSet in a surface mine, two boys sink into a seemingly innocent power game with Mother Nature as the sole observer.
- DirectorMatthew A. CherryEverett Downing Jr.Bruce W. SmithStarsIssa RaeA father tries to do his daughter's hair for the first time.
- DirectorLes BlankStarsWerner HerzogTom LuddyMichael GoodwinA short documentary in which directors Werner Herzog and Errol Morris make a bet which results in Herzog being forced to eat his own shoe.
- DirectorTaika WaititiStarsRangi NgamokiHutini WaikatoTe Ahiwaru Ngamoki-RichardsSometimes first love is found in the most unlikely of places, like in the carpark outside the Te Kaha pub.
- DirectorSteven BognarJulia ReichertStarsDave ChappelleAliciana LopezDave Chappelle addresses George Floyd's death and racial injustice in a stand-up special filmed in Ohio.
- DirectorJonathan GlazerStarsSusanne BrownLee ByfordChristopher JuppA masked mob cruelly punish a lone masked man in this nightmarish short film.
- DirectorJonathan GlazerStarsAndrey BerezinBotis SevaDitta Miranda JasjfiInspired by a powerful involuntary mania that took hold of citizens in the city of Strasbourg just over 500 years ago, this film is a collaboration in isolation with some of the greatest dancers working today.
- DirectorCrystal MoselleStarsRachelle VinbergNina MoranDede LovelaceThe worlds of skate and fashion combine in a short for Miu Miu. Starring the ladies of the real-life skate crew "The Skate Kitchen", Crystal Moselle (The Wolfpack) crafts a charming modern fairytale about a day at the skatepark, and finding your tribe.
- DirectorPeter StricklandStarsCsaba MolnárGyula MuskovicsA confrontation between two swimmers in a locker room.
- DirectorChloë SevignyStarsCarmen LynchSamuel SummerGabriel BehrmannCARMEN is a portrait of an artist on the road. A brief examination of the highs and lows of performance and the loneliness that accompanies being in strange cities.
- DirectorMarcell IványiStarsSzilvia CzoborIlona SomogyiMargit GyovaiDuring a film course lead by Yvette Biro at the Hungarian Academy of Drama and film in 1995, the director students were shown a black-and-white photo taken by Lucien Herve in 1952, and they were given the task of writing a short film based on it. Three women are standing at the outskirts of a village, looking out of the picture in the same direction. This six-minute one-shot film shows what the Herve photo does not.
- DirectorNaomi KawaseStarsSakura AndôJiji BooWakato KanematsuA girl, Sakura, takes a journey from the enchanted nature of Nara to the chaos of Tokyo, encountering many things and people along the way. Moving like a tree that sways in the wind, the girl expresses a spirit that secretly runs through places and living things.
- DirectorWanuri KahiuStarsKudzani MoswelaChantelle BurgerTammy RichardsA sci-fi film about Africa in the future, 35 years after World War III, the water war.
- DirectorChris MarkerStarsÉtienne BeckerJean NégroniHélène ChatelainThe story of a man forced to explore his memories in the wake of World War III's devastation, told through still images.
- DirectorYorgos LanthimosStarsMatt DillonDaphné PatakiaSusan ElleA professional cellist has an encounter with a stranger on the subway which has unexpected and far-reaching ramifications on his life.
- DirectorPeter StricklandStarsJuli JakabMárton KristófMáté VáthThe repeated rituals of an online performer have a transfixing effect on her viewers, in this short exploration of sensual audio visual stimulation.
- DirectorWerner HerzogStarsPeter BrummGeorg EskaKarl-Heinz SteffelFour guys break into an old castle and find uniforms and military equipment. They then prepare to defend it from an imaginary enemy.
- DirectorWerner HerzogStarsLefteris DaskalakisAntonis PapadakisThe story of a solitary man who refuses to leave a Greek island (at one time a leper colony) is told by a strange variety of characters who don't have much to say except to repeat their tellings over and over again. But the person who has the final word on the matter, the lonely character himself, may not explain anything about his personal reasons for not abandoning the place.
- DirectorWerner HerzogStarsPetar RadenkovicMario AdorfHans TiedemannThe film features several horse trainers and other track workers talking about their roles at the track, always eventually interrupted by an older man who claims to be the true authority, and demands that they be thrown out. One recurring young man, the first to appear, claims that he protects the horses from enthusiastic racing fans. He does not appear to be employed by the track, but seems to provide his services voluntarily. His protection from "fanatics" gives the film its title. The film is shot in a documentary style, but the sheer implausibility of the dialogue leaves the exact nature of the film ambiguous.
- DirectorDavid LynchStarsScott CoffeyRebekah Del RioLaura HarringIn a nameless city deluged by continuous rain, three rabbits live with a fearful mystery.
- DirectorPedro AlmodóvarStarsTilda SwintonAgustín AlmodóvarMiguel AlmodóvarA woman watches time passing next to the suitcases of her ex-lover (who is supposed to come pick them up, but never arrives) and a restless dog who doesn't understand that his master has abandoned him. Two living beings facing abandonment.
- DirectorAgnès VardaStarsBill BrentHuey P. NewtonStokely CarmichaelA short film of interviews and protests at a rally to free Huey P. Newton.
- DirectorAgnès VardaStarsRoger CoggioAnne OlivierJacopo NiziA humorous travelogue of the French Riviera.
- 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.
- DirectorAndrea ArnoldStarsNatalie PressDanny DyerJodie MitchellA struggling single mother is determined not to let her four young children be an obstacle in the pursuit of starting a relationship with an old acquaintance.
- DirectorAndrea ArnoldStarsJoanne HillFreddie CunliffeVeronica ValentineA teenage girl gets ready to go out to meet her boyfriend, despite her mother's loud verbal disapproval of her clothes. She goes out to a deserted area with him and he begins to touch her up and have sex with her, however a dog reveals the true nature of her boyfriend.
- DirectorKati MacskássyChildren's everyday lives in the Komló settlement in the 1970s as portrayed through their own colorful drawings, animated with help from art teachers, revealing a both cruel and playful reality.
- DirectorGyörgy CsonkaStarsGyörgy KálmánAn investigation into a blue horse with roller skates in an apartment building turned into a nightmare.
- DirectorIstván BányaiOne day, an ever-growing man goes out for dinner in a posh restaurant. He devours everything around him, from the food on his plate to buildings, cities, and planets, ultimately eating the entire universe.
- DirectorAgnès VardaStarsValérie MairesseAli RafieThérèse LiotardA couple find their erotic love mirrored perfectly in the architecture and mosaics of Iran.
- DirectorWalerian BorowczykStarsBona Tibertelli de PisisFeaturing Bona Tibertelli De Pisis's excellent erotic graphic works - wife of writer André Pieyre de Mandiargues while working in her atelier, together with fragments of her graphic works inspired by one of Remy de Gourmont's writings.
- DirectorPéter SzoboszlaySet in the allegorical space of an abandoned room, a frustrated mind feels the distorting effects of aggression and paranoia - including visions of butterflies, the Mona Lisa and nuclear fallout
- DirectorAgnès VardaStarsCaroline BaudryCatherineAgnès VardaWhat does being a woman really mean? How do women live the status society reserves for them? A group of women, beautiful or not, young or not, gifted with motherly instinct or not, answer before Agnès Varda's camera.
- DirectorIstván OroszA typical apartment building in Budapest and their residents from the aspect of a young boy playing football sometime in the end of the 1980s at the time of the change of regime in Eastern Europe. Is there a way out from here? A geometrical paradox and a political parable at the same time.
- DirectorAgnès VardaStarsAnna KarinaJean-Luc GodardEmilienne CailleA subtitle warns, "Beware of dark sunglasses." Anna and her lover, whose looks in bowler and bow tie are reminiscent of a young Buster Keaton, kiss chastely on a bridge overlooking the Seine. He dons sunglasses and waves as she runs down a stairway to the river's edge, then watches in horror as she's knocked flat and loaded into the back of a hearse. In vain, he gives chase. Disconsolate, he buys a large funeral wreath and a handkerchief from sympathetic vendors. He removes the glasses to wipe his eyes and realizes they are the cause of all his woe. He replays the farewell without the glasses.
- DirectorPeter TscherkasskyA tangled network woven with tiny particles of movements broken out of found footage and compiled anew: the elements of the "to the left, to the right, back and forth" grammar of narrative space, discharged from all semantic burden. What remains is a self-sufficient swarm of splinters, fleeting vectors of lost direction, furrowed with the traces of the manual process of production. (Peter Tscherkassky)
- DirectorAgnès VardaStarsJulie DepardieuFrédérick E. Grasser-HerméSilvia UrrutiaMagic, synchronicity, love and loss around the Place Denfert-Rochereaus and its famous statue of the lion of Denfert.
- DirectorYelyzaveta PysmakStarsJulia BenedyktowiczAnna DluzniewskaYelyzaveta PysmakFollows an amusing tale about anorexia and butts.
- DirectorPeter TscherkasskyStarsBarbara HersheyFootage from The Entity (1982) is edited into an abstract nightmare.
- DirectorPeter TscherkasskyThe official trailer of the International Film Festival Viennale '99.
- DirectorPeter TscherkasskyFrom the exit of the Lumière ' s factory in Lyon the workers come out in two diagonals to the left and to the right.
- DirectorPeter TscherkasskyMirrored frames being split by white margin and trying to reassemble again like the poles of a magnet, a train approaching station and colliding with itself in white-hot blistering chaos.
- DirectorAki KaurismäkiStarsCarl-Erik CalamniusMatti HyvönenArto MalmbergWorkers of a foundry eat their lunch and watch Lumiére brothers film Leaving the Factory (1895).
- DirectorRuben ÖstlundStarsBahador FoladiRamtin ParvanehLeif EdlundAn attempted bank robbery. Follows the thought process of two confused witnesses, the filmographer and the producer.
- DirectorAgnès VardaStarsFouli EliaUlysse LlorcaCharles de GaulleAgnès Varda interviews two subjects from a photograph she took 30 years earlier.
- DirectorPeter TscherkasskyA woman goes to bed, falls asleep, and begins to dream. This dream takes her to a landscape of light and shadow, evoked in a form only possible through classic cinematography.
- DirectorPeter TscherkasskyStarsPeter TscherkasskyOn a weekend in June 1983, in what was deemed a "country outing," an impressive number of Berlin-based artists went to a small German village to give the local residents a taste of Berlin's avant-garde art scene. Back in Berlin, the footage was manipulated to produce an "experimental examination."
- DirectorAki KaurismäkiStarsSilu SeppäläSakari KuosmanenHeinäsirkkaThe all-star American boxer Rock'y defends the Free World by fighting against a gigantic opponent from Siberia named Igor. A musical parody uses the song by Sleepy Sleepers.
- DirectorYoshihiro AkaseSatoshi KonFollows a woman as she becomes fully awake.
- DirectorGaspar NoéStarsBéatrice DalleCharlotte GainsbourgAbbey LeeTwo actresses, Béatrice Dalle and Charlotte Gainsbourg, are on a film set telling stories about witches - but that's not all. 'Lux Æterna' is also an essay on cinema, the love of film, and on-set hysterics.
- DirectorCharlotte WellsStarsMegan McGillAnita VettesseDavid LeithSixteen-year-old Allie begins to accept the magnitude of a recent loss.
- DirectorAgnès VardaStarsLouis AragonMichel PiccoliElsa TrioletThe story of a poet's (Louis Aragon) love for his wife, the writer Elsa Triolet.
- DirectorAgnès VardaStarsHervé ManganiLouis BecSaskia Cohen TanugiA real estate agent tries to sell a 7-room house with kitchen and bathroom to a young couple even though he had previously sold it to its former owners.
- DirectorPark Chan-wookStarsHak-rak ChoiGi Ju-bongIn-bae KoTwo different families claim the body of a woman killed in a catastrophe.
- DirectorMichael MahaffieStarsJim JonesAn immersive and intimate documentary filmed entirely by The Peoples Temple in Jonestown.
- DirectorShin'ya TsukamotoStarsShin'ya TsukamotoTakahiro MuraseTakahiro KandakaA man wakes up to find himself locked in a cramped concrete maze of corridors, in which he can barely move. He doesn't remember why he is there or how he got there. He has a terrible stomach injury and is slowly bleeding to death.
- DirectorShin'ya TsukamotoStarsNariaki SenbaNobu KanaokaKei FujiwaraHikari is a boy who is bullied and teased by the other boys at school because he has the odd distinction of having an electricity pole growing out of his back. However, one of his classmates, a girl named Momo, comes to his rescue. Hikari thanks her by sharing his secret possession with her: a time machine. He then activates the time machine which transports him 25 years into a dark, dystopian, world of the future. There he encounters members of the Shinsengumi Vampire Gang in the process of hunting a woman named Dr. Sariba who is revealed to be Momo's future self. She explains to Hikari that she had been long expecting his arrival from the past and that he has a crucial role to play here -- he and he alone must save the world.