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Jun 2026
Protozoa, a lonely fluke of nature, faces Earth's evolutionary winner, the mussels, to stop their evil plot of devolving all other life on Earth into complete extinction.
Jul 2026
Two teenagers are hired for a simple errand. The errand ends; the consequences do not.
Noah a devoted Christian struggles to come to terms with his sexuality and faith. In a desperate attempt to rid himself of these thoughts he undergoes a procedure to erase all the memories of the person he desires the most.
After getting harassed in the public toilets, two trans friends fight back. Or: a short film about pissing on transphobes.
After Peter's mother Mara dies in a tragic accident, his life unravels as he struggles with grief and loses his sense of direction. Seeking peace, he goes to a place that gave him comfort, hoping to escape the pain. There, he meets Tasha, whose presence gently encourages him to face his emotions, rediscover purpose, and slowly begin opening himself to healing and finding a way forward in life once again.
An old man has turned his solitary journey and homosexual sentimental education into a narrative. From his encounter with the filmmaker emerges a luminous portrait and an unflinching confession.
A return to form for the series finds Noah and Brennen experiencing odd dreams once again. But this time, things are different.
Samuel! Samuel!
Skin Graph is a powerviolence band currently split between Tupelo and Starkville while Gnarl is a project from Starkville that can only be described as a violent form of drone metal, and in January of 2026, two bands set out on a short weekend tour through the scenes of deepest of the deep south.
After being caught with illegal substances, a young man must prove his innocence to avoid conviction.
In the quiet village of Bardiya, 24-year-old Chadani Thapa cuts hair for men, a job rarely held by women in her community. Living away from her family for the past two years, she has built a life shaped by routine, resilience, and a growing sense of independence. As she sharpens her skills in a male-dominated trade, the emotional distance from her loved ones lingers in the background. Through everyday moments and silences, this documentary traces Chadani’s journey, not just as a barber, but as a young woman quietly carving out space for herself in a world that offers little of it. Her solitude becomes a landscape for reflection, and her work, a quiet rebellion.
Part of a series of found landscapes, filmed on a single 8mm roll.
Sent to the Connemara Gaeltacht against his will, Liam tries to escape, only to find himself trapped in an old fairy fort.
A woman who feels alone in the world discovers, through an encounter with other women who claim to know her, things about herself that she did not know, and in them she achieves something that seemed impossible: a family.
In this accumulating remix of 12 films (commissioned by the state of Western Australia in the 1960s and 70s) in 12 chapters phrases from the film’s original narration have been pulled on to highlight the ideological and material violence of the colonial project — unfolding through the banality of things like roads, railways, mines, agriculture, farming and the weaponisation of things we commonly hold dear, like “community” and “home”.
When Victoire, a young trans judoka, reaches the final of a regional competition, her opponent, Sonia, refuses to compete against her.