Genres: narrative

  • Night Blue

    Maani is restless. Nina is obsessed. Maani shuttles from hotel to airport on the international fashion circuit, while Nina holes up in her studio, dreaming of designs for her antique fabrics and delicate beads. This morning Maani arrives at Nina‘s studio and finds herself curiously suspended. She wants to stay, but Nina is sure she cannot. The characters and story in this film are the result of a collaboration between the actors and director in seven months of improvisation.

  • Cat Swallows Parakeet and Speaks!

    A gothic romp through a crumbling hospital. The last time you saw a tabloid, maybe the headline read “Man Gives Birth to Nine-Pound Baby Girl,” or perhaps, “Melt Fat Away As You Eat Your Favorite Foods!” Taking such absurd claims as its starting point, “Cat Swallows Parakeet and Speaks!” puts the “Arabian Nights” saga through a surreal feminist revision. In the classic tale, a mythical character must tell stories to survive a man who is trying to murder her and all other women. In this version, Scheherazade is a strikingly beautiful model recovering in hospital after an ulcer operation. She…

  • Dead Body

    Hassan, a funeral poet, is going through writer’s block. Sitting at his desk in a small cramped room with his girlfriend lying on a mattress he leaves for some “air” – instead he drifts and deviates into much more, including an endless procession of chewing gum, a rotund Hungarian “delivery man” and a sexy Russian woman. Hassan’s journey has a metaphysical aspect to it and life in this surreal world is focused on the strange work, anxiety and humour that hovers over death.

  • Soleil, Le

    A cyclical journey on foot, bicycle, and car with a tunnel of darkness and a majestic celebration of light through natural elements and spectacular landscapes.

  • Rozsa Utca and Rozsa Utca 2

    A bird’s-eye view of this Budapest street, complete with a small grocer, a pastry shop, and colourful characters on a car arguing over a green screwdriver.

  • Fountain

    A woman journeys through Istanbul streets and a dense sea of markets, people and sounds.

  • Elevator

    A man comes out of an elevator and descends into an abyss of striking visuals – including a spectrum of endless tables and chairs, an abandoned snowcapped car and a phone booth – before getting lost in a hazy cemetery.

  • Judas at Midnight

    film contains TWO MINUTES AFTER MIDNIGHT & THE JUDAS KISS see individual titles for details and rental price

  • Lucky Bugger

    A young boy spending the afternoon at the beach with his parents wanders off on his own to explore. In the isolated dunes, he spies two gay lovers.

  • Goodbye, I Have to Go

    A film about friendship; two women visit their old meeting place to exchange their goodbyes as they move on in life. Starring Victoria Balsom and Maria Calleja, music by Victoria Balsom.