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From dirt comes pavement, from the hot sun gazes drenched in light and reflected back. A constant state of movement in tandem with nature, a natural process for two. A road movie set against the towering Colorado landscape. Sound. Color. Digital.
Whilst their parents are going through a divorce, two sisters discover a reality quite different from what they had imagined.
Eraserhead Xiu Xiu is a new live concert with accompanying film & full-length album that uses field recordings, concert specific homemade instruments, organ, modular synths, vocals, flashlights, electrical interference, and elements of musique concrete to express the bizarre emotionality, conflicted sexuality, relentless darkness, and singularly unsettled moonscape of this most incredible of midnight masterpieces.
Lola wishes to spend her final days back in her province in Bicol but finds herself too weak to travel. Thankfully, her local community swoops in to help!
A young teenager attempts to ride a skateboard.
A biologist trying to invent human cloning to bring back the love of his life.
A secret agent faces unexpected obstacles during a time-sensitive mission.
After an accidental ritual, the protagonist's favorite films begin to literally interfere with his reality, gradually bringing to the limit the feeling that has accompanied him from the very beginning.
Glassjaw live at Hellfest 2026
Royce is a young, successful director trying to come up with a new idea, putting unnecessary pressure on his shoulders to stay in the spotlight and not let His fans, agents, and studio execs down. He falls into his mind, getting lost, and wrestles with his conscience, but still has a hard time coming up with an idea. As his girlfriend is on the rise and taking the spotlight from him, as tonight is her huge movie premiere, he learns that his agent invited the studio execs to the premiere. At the last second, he gets a new idea, but is distracted and ultimately blows up their relationship.
DON'T LOOK OUT is the debut short horror film from C&Zfilms. Awoken at 3:37 AM by mysterious knocking, a lone resident investigates his pitch-black home, only to discover a cryptic warning note left under the door—one that promises horrific consequences if ignored. Written, directed, edited, and starring Cole Capowski, this suspenseful short delivers a chilling look into what lurks just beyond the window in the dead of night.
ALWAYS GET YOUR TABLETS PRESCRIBED.
A history of two universities in Houston's Third Ward and the fluid world around them
Born out of a stream of consciousness, "La signora del male" seeks to evoke the sensation of a caress – what precedes it and what follows it.
A story about the messy, complicated love between two reckless souls — and drugs, of course.
Inspired by a true-ish story, this tale dives into the quietly epic, absurdly mundane test of human patience: waiting at a crosswalk.
After two consecutive heartbreaks, Felipe begins a quiet journey of self-discovery that forces him to confront his emotional dependence and the fantasies he projects onto the people he falls in love with. A Self-Love Story is a drama about loneliness, identity, and the difficult realization that the most important love story begins within ourselves.
In this canceled 1970s film, Nathalie Grantstein is forced to immigrate to the United States to escape the attacks on her village. In doing so, she risks being found by her abusive husband, who had left several years earlier to join the New York mafia during Prohibition. At the last moment, she devises a clever scheme to escape him for good, even if it means going against all of her religious beliefs. (Short film created for Eric André's competition: making a film inspired by his album "Film Scores for Films That Don't Exist".)
