Film Categories: comedy

  • Presentation

    Holly, an anxiety-ridden high school sophomore, is faced with the challenge of giving a class presentation. As a result, she considers self medicating with Xanax.

  • Reinaldo’s Motifs

    In 1927, Reinaldo Ferreira, a well-known journalist and writer who published under the pen name ‘Repórter X’, founded the cinema production company Repórter X Film, through which he directed four films that same year. Among them we find “O Táxi no. 9297” and “Rita ou Rito?…”, where homosexuality, transvestism and drug use feature explicitly in Portuguese cinema for the first time. “Reinaldo’s Motifs” is an audiovisual essay that focuses on a series of recurrent motifs in Reinaldo Ferreira’s cinematic work. A commissioned work by the Cinemateca Portuguesa, in which I tried to play around with these recurrences, in a manner…

  • America

    An Iranian journalist couple wants to move to America to escape the difficulties of their country. The woman receives her visa but her husband doesn’t. He stays in Iran and watches his wife find success on television and falls into a state of depression.

  • JUNK

    It’s a musical! Two gay men, one younger, one considerably older, are offered the contents of a recently deceased man’s dilapidated house in exchange for cleaning it out…items they hope to sell at a Raleigh, NC flea market…only to find nothing there but a mountain of ghostly vintage pornography…and personal memorabilia. As they sort through this debris, discoveries are made…not only of this man but of themselves, their unusual relationship, a generational divide…and loss. “The most offbeat buddy film of 2019 and beyond (as well as a future classic of LGBTQ independent cinema)” – Jed Ryan – Lavender After DarkHi…

  • Copsi

    A young couple (Mojdeh and Reza) are hosting Reza’s old friend Edmon in their house. Mojdeh has always wanted to become a journalist for Boojga news network. Not willing to adapt to the reality distorting culture of media, she never gets accepted. Reza is studious but an unsuccessful film maker. From the beginning Edmon grows fond of Mojdeh who is a reclusive painter. After multiple attempts Edmon finally gets close to Mojdeh but realizing her rebellious personality backs away. Edmon leaves the country and the circumstances get worse for Reza and Mojdeh who both suffer from Melancholia. The story is…

  • This Is A Safe Space

    It’s 2017 and the world is young, hip, and blindly woke. The tech world is teeming with ground-breaking ideas, the office kitchens are stocked with world class snacks, the offices industrial and modern, and the employees are liberal. This office is not exempt and in this world, socially correct buzzwords carry more weight than actions. Taraja, a cool and collected executive and Ashlynn, an upbeat, outspoken receptionist have decided that they have had enough. Enough of the comments, enough of the questions, and most of all enough of people touching their hair. As their day progresses, CEO and self-aligned ally…

  • Death of a Gentleman

    Playing tour guide, the director takes the audience through his own disintegration as an old man. Hints of his past loom about in the form of himself as a young boy and a beautiful woman who emanates a relinquished love – or love relinquished. All this, and eventually his own death, must play out in front of the dismissive narrator.

  • 16 Reasons Why I Hate Myself

    Matthew Lancit’s 16 Reasons Why I Hate Myself wryly plays with the concept of selfhood, traversing themes such as neuroticism, introspection and self-denigration. By allowing us an intimate look at sixteen of his supposed personal flaws from the physical to the psychological, Lancit posits the idea that we do not determine our identities but rather they determine us. (Sullivan+Strumpf Gallery)

  • TSSP

    In T.S.S.P., the 11th installment of the CHRISTEENE Video Collection, CHRISTEENE Turns, Stares, Shakes and Poses through Toronto performance collective HOTNUTS’ mega-dosed acid ass cracked world in search of the one thing she really needs. Tha’ Dick.

  • Aktion Toilet

    In ‘AKTION TOILET’, the 10th installment of the CHRISTEENE Video Collection, electro pulses lure CHRISTEENE back to the woods to amass sacred cults of Mystics and Queerdos against the darkness of the world as we know it.