Karen is resigned to a life of suburban ennui, the dreams of her youth a distant memory. On an autumn afternoon as she struggles to get her baby to sleep she is disturbed by a door-to-door Salesman. Desperate for adult companionship she engages with the enigmatic Salesman. He claims that he can sell her something that will radically change her life; he offers Karen, an opportunity to fulfill her long forgotten dreams and ambitions.
A swimming instructor is taking a class when a young girl's scream echoes throughout the public pool. Parents rush to pull their children out of the pool, assure them everything’s okay, and then flock to hurl accusations at the most likely subject… the one remaining person in the pool.
This animated short by Theodore Ushev is like a whirlwind tour of Russian constructivist art and is filled with visual references to artists of the era, including Vertov, Stenberg, Rodchenko, Lissitsky and Popova.
Nice Coloured Girls is a short film classic by Tracey Moffatt, one of Australia's foremost visual artists. Three Aboriginal women cruise through Kings Cross and pick up a 'captain' (a drunken white man). They encourage him to spend his money on them and to drink until incapacitated while they steal his wallet and race off to catch a cab, self-satisfied. Nice Coloured Girls contrasts the relationship between Aboriginal women and white men in the past and present.
A young father, separated from his wife, takes drastic measures to see his newborn son, who he feels is being unfairly kept from him. However, alliances shift and feelings change as accusations fly in the course of a phone conversation.
A short Estonian animation about a rabbit who creates a mechanical being that struggles to navigate a frantic, pop-art world.
The Good Teacher is a film about the lives of school teachers in a low-income urban area and the challenges they face while trying to provide a quality education to students. Dominique Daily is a first year school teacher who gives up his football career after an injury to teach Math at Louis Jones high school while struggling to cope with his short-lived life long dream of being a football star.
Devin, a concerned neighbor finds himself in the middle of a crisis when he suspects his neighbor, Ashley may be getting abused by her boyfriend. He is faced with a decision to further investigate the suspected abuse or to take the advice and not intervene in the situation.
A young artist is caught in between the world of fantasy and reality. There he finds a girl that he can't understand, explain, or identify.
An old woman thinks back to the murder of her husband by British officers.
Why is a high-school girl such a snob?
A film about a small, clumsy donkey, that "didn't mean to do that," to whom for the excuse, and everyone responded, "for not meaning to they’re mighty mean to you," except for the kind girl...
A woman working as a cashier at an illegal gambling parlor pushes her luck by stealing money from gamblers as a way to pay off her own debts. When one gambler realizes he’s been cheated, he returns with murderous intent and the already dismal situation spirals out of control.
Three witches are trying to lower the water level in their flooded house. However, a dramatic incident occurs.
How had this floating street been formed? What sailors, with the aid of which architects, had built it in the high Atlantic on the surface of the sea?
Two desperadoes in the middle of the Mexican desert, fall to the charms of a young barmaid, and use their skills in order to seduce her.
In a hat shop, a difficult lady customer, with her dog is looking for the perfect hat. The salesman does his best but the lady's jealous dog has other things in mind.
Pierre is fascinated by the Russian politician Mikhail Gorbachev, who, as General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, manages to rekindle hope in spite of the ossified system in his country. Pierre goes to the streets of Paris and tries to persuade people to live a new life ...
Swell is a smartphone app that changes your mood through sound. When a young couple tries to control each other’s settings, they find their relationship threatened by an unintended cacophony of emotions.
A slum boy's wake and his father's efforts to give him a last moment of dignity.
