Son of the Border

NO STEP

A group of students are preparing works for an art exhibition, they belittle a myth that "Any inanimate object that resembles a living thing, is not just a dead-object"

The Last Love of Laura Adler

Yiddish live theater, a formerly lively theatrical form, is barely sustained by a few aging aficionados and its loyal but aged audience. Laura Adler is a big star of one of these troupes. She is attractive, middle-aged and quite content to spend her days performing obscure theater in her backwater town. One day, however, she learns that she is being considered for a part in a major U.S. film, and, while she is absorbing that news, she has an affair with a young man. Later, when she learns that she has terminal cancer, she decides to spend her remaining days onstage with her theatrical friends and family.

Slutty Goldfish Princess: Falling in Love with the Sea

An erotic fantasy story in which actress Yoko Satomi plays the role of a mysterious slutty housekeeper. Koji, a dull office worker, buys unsold goldfish and returns home, but his wife Emi runs away from home after a petty quarrel. There is an awkward atmosphere with his daughter Yukiko, who is a ronin student, but the situation changes when Izumi, who is a housekeeper, tutor and an experience-based sex counselor, shows up. An intense sexual experience is on the horizon, full of lust, love and forbidden desires.

Skin of a Mandarin

The film delicately follows 25-year-old Anna, whose mother has died suddenly. She wants to send her Orthodox mother on her last journey according to customs, but she runs into bureaucratic rules that do not allow Anna to dress her departed mother herself. This conflict brings her together with Maria, a 45-year-old funeral home worker, who in this story represents the hidden fears of death and grief on a deep emotional level.

Post Empire

Drug courier Sal has the war in him. When he meets the charismatic Sasha, his life goes off the rails and he botches an important coup. They flee together and Sal undergoes an astonishing metamorphosis.

The Peasants

A historical revolutionary film depicting the struggle of peasants and the Baku proletariat against landowners and Musavatists in 1919.

Two Zeeland Girls in Zandvoort

The adventures of two girls from Zeeland in Zandvoort.

Venganza gaucha

Girl

Ever since the 2011 revolution in Egypt, dozens of women have come forward about their experience with sexual harassment on the streets. Since then, a number of individuals and organizations have begun to monitor and help combat the situation. In this short film, Sondos Shabayek offers an animated reflection on how she believes Cairo society perceives women. In her signature style, Sondos uses a variety of characters and expressions to light-heartedly explore this serious issue. The audience is taken on a girl's experience of walking down a street – simultaneously sharing her journey and her responses.

Night and Jail Bars

The wife of a prison warden falls in love with one of his prisoners.

Adjust Tracking

The tables are turned on a miserable drunk after he rudely shuts off his stepson's gory horror video, in this grisly homage to 80's anthology horror.