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Ella Verneuil Capulet arrives at Jamie Murdock's apartment to borrow their gun.
For her birthday, Kira, a grey blur, tries to break free from the drabness of her provincial town and fit in with a group of trendy outsiders However, a series of sudden events and painful revelations force her to reconsider her values.
Roma is experiencing one of the most trembling moments in his life – his first love. To give the bright and cheeky Polya a valentine, he gathers all his strength into a fist, but an attempt to confess his feelings turns into a slasher...
Drawing from archival footage of ballroom, voguing, juke, footwerk, dancehall and dance practices across the African and Black Queer diaspora, and using music from electronic duo Drexciya, What if We Kept it Between Us? works towards re-centring genres of Black music that have been appropriated. Pushing against extraction and offering gatekeeping as a way to protect and preserve Black music and dance ethnographies.
In this film we follow three prairie boys as they finish a day of work and get ready to go out for the evening. The film highlights the playful nature of young Black men and demonstrates the cultural blending that exists between traditional western culture and African iconographies.
A woman and a child living in ancient times, separated from their tribe, are looking for water. After the woman faints, the boy begins to search alone.
Salvation is subjective. Ideological entrapment can be disguised as choice. Indulge in the world or suffer anyway, without freedom. Why not eat the apple?
A circle has no beginning and no end. Wheels burn on a road leading nowhere. The serpent consumes itself. The drive within that seeks meaning in destruction and cause for resurrection. A name from a dream and a promise: Keep Falling And I'll Find You. In Through the shadows to paradise we enter a study of cycles, repetition and drive using found and archival footage. This work synthesizes movement with a cinematic sound inspired by old Hollywood occult and the strange under belly of Americana, a liminal space where queerness lives. Through the darkness emerges an ephemeral beauty, as Kier Griffiths and Tyler Alexander-founders of HOMO- shape the visuals, with a live experimental score by Jared St. James.
Affordable housing is scarce in Hamburg.
A short film adaptation of a scene from the book, Frankenstein in Baghdad. The creature stalks an old man and takes his eyes, helped by his assistant, Fritzelstein.
Five mobsters, minus one who didn't show up, are tasked with retrieving a mysterious briefcase. What seemed like a simple job takes a turn for the worse on a fateful day for them all, except for the one who didn't come.
A young man comes across a YouTube tutorial channel and discovers some rather disturbing videos.
Riley, a young girl fascinated by the stars, wants to take after her former-astronaut grandfather and soar through space. Will she get there?
Geordie classic Purely Belter back 25 years on with new film and all star cameos Lovers of the original Purely Belter film will want to waste no time in watching a new short from some of its stars
A boy living in constant black and white finds a coloured flower whilst embarking on his walk. Upon picking the flower, his world gains diversity and colour, but how long will this phenomenon last?
