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Browse 49 movies from Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema
Women are lucky, they get to have the only organ in the human body dedicated exclusively for pleasure: the clitoris! In this humorous and instructive animated documentary, find out its unrecognized anatomy and its unknown herstory.
Aug 2017
Felix, fourteen, starts a relationship with an older boy, hoping to get caught by his conservative father so he can confront him.
Aug 2018
Vuk, a 30-year-old ex-convict haunted by his best friend's suicide, is trying to save his younger brother, Zizi.
Mar 2023
Within a society fearful of vampires, Ernesto Murciélago, a detective and luchador, must rescue a kidnapped basketball player and defeat the city's evil leader, L0L1TA (a fascist tape recorder).
Apr 2019
Two acquaintances desperately wish they didn't have to shake hands.
Dec 2018
A young woman's television stops working, so she gets a telescope to watch TV through her neighbor's window.
As an older woman is cleaning her home, she remembers that she is all alone in her home and dreams of the boy that once lived with her.
A woman dances out the effects of Lithium, a white crystalline solid used to treat manic episodes of bipolar disorder. Lithium helps to control the symptoms of mania, which may include a reduced need for sleep, poor judgment, hyperactivity, and sometimes hostility.
Unity in an art form (music), no matter genre or age.
A perverted boy looks through a peephole. He sees something he is not suppose to see, a woman farting in a bathtub.
May 2017
An animated documentary about a memorable event: in spring 1997, a coloring contest is launched for the release of a new variety of ketchup.
May 2015
On Valentine's Day, a young couple preparing to spend a romantic moment in the spa has their evening messed up by the appearance of a monstrous creature.
May 2018
Feb 2024
Francine faces the inevitable: she must sell her motorcycle, her greatest passion. Plunged into the apprehension of mourning, a potential buyer offers her an exchange that will bring her out of her torpor.
Visceral is an exploration of love and vulnerability found in new relationships. Meat and organs mix under the camera in a beautiful union to represent the intricacies of a relationship.
May 2024
Narrated as a letter to a mother, this short film traces the emotional undercurrents of leaving home and adjusting to a new environment, blending inner transformation with the changing landscape.
May 2025
A chase encounter between a wild woman and a rabbit. It is a union with otherness in a forest bathed in blue shadows.
Mathieu comes back from Alberta after his elder brother's death in order to dig out memories from the town where they grew up.
A suffering man enters a bizarre, dreamlike world where he's forced to confront the life he's considering leaving behind.
Apr 2025