Shorts from: China, France, Germany, Portugal, USA.
This short film program includes the following films:
The Death of the Fish
Eva Lusbaronian, France (14 min)
Through the mimicry and embodiment of dance, a girl tries to save her mother from depression.
Orlo with Karma
Kangdrun, China (23 min)
Romance blossoms at cram school between Orlo, an independent tomboy, and Karma, a new student with attitude.
Arguments in Favor of Love
Gabriel Abrantes, Portugal (10 min)
As the world ends, two ghosts enact the death throes of a relationship.
Two People Exchanging Saliva
Alexandre Singh & Natalie Musteata, France/USA (36 min)
Angine, a rich housewife, and Malaise, a shop girl, begin to form a bond in a repressive society where kissing is punishable by death.
Skin on Skin
Simon Schneckenburger, Germany (30 min)
Against the backdrop of a fomenting revolt, two workers in a German slaughterhouse find one another.
Supported by
Community Partner
Various
Various
2024 & 2025
Various
Animal cruelty, mild violence, self harm, mental health, suicide, death and loss
Book Tickets
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Sinners
2025's unexpected box office sleeper is that rare beast, a genre movie full of bold invention and surprise. We are in Mississippi in the early 1930s, and the opening of a new blues joint on the edge of town is the signal for all hell to break out.
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
A harried mother (Academy Award nominee Rose Byrne) clings to an unhelpful therapist (Conan O’Brien) as she struggles to cope with her daughter's mysterious illness in Mary Bronstein’s darkly comedic psychological drama.
Islands
In this sly, engrossing mystery, a dissolute English tennis coach in a Canary Islands holiday resort falls under suspicion when the husband of a beautiful guest disappears after a night of heavy drinking...
All That's Left of You
Jordan's submission for the Academy Awards, All That's Left of You makes the most of its epic format to chronicle seven decades of Palestinian history while tracking the psychological impact of cycles of exile and oppression on three generations.
L'Étranger
Recreating 1940s Algeria in vivid, high contrast black and white cinematography, L'Etranger is erotic, enigmatic and brutal in equal measures, a masterful screen version of Albert Camus's insoluble classic of existential alienation.