In the latest true-life portrait by the Austin team of Ivete Lucas and Patrick Xavier Bresnan, a veterinarian’s series of home visits culminates in a painful but very kind-hearted experience with a special patient. – Notes by Jason Anderson, TIFF Programmer, Short Cuts. A New Yorker Release. Upcoming Screening Schedule North American Premiere: TIFF -(Shortcuts…
SYDNEY & KIM is a film about the demise of a close friendship, exploring how sickness and debility transform what we hold most dear. “Equally motivated by Mumblecore filmmaking of the 1990s and the New Topographics landscape photography movement of the 1970s, Sydney & Kim theorizes SoCal “shitty heaven” as an allegory for the ubiquity…
A 10 minute coming-of-age film about an 18 year old trans boy who becomes enamoured with a passing cyclist, set in rural Oregon.
In an alternate-universe London where social outcasts, court jesters and raconteurs rule, a young outsider (JAXXON D. SILVA) wakes up on his birthday and greets his neighbors with a simple antisocial pickup line. Does the nameless punk really want to be ignored by the rogue’s gallery of fellow misanthropes or, does he just want to…
Taking a drunken cab to his mother’s grave, robbing a porno from the local liquor store, John Little (Sonny Hall) meanders from the realities of his daily existence into a fantasy life where there is beauty in the bleakness.
Four celluloid love letters sent from different parts of the world to Velvet Underground agent, Warhol collaborator, and renaissance Factory man Paul Morrissey, director of Trash, Flesh and Heat.
Emerging Dutch filmmaker Angelo Raaijmakers paints an excruciating vision of a seemingly rare phenomena in this visually striking short film about a young man obsessed with having a perfect physique and the frightening lengths he will go to to achieve sculptural perfection.
A young girl uses her innate gifts to fight back against an abusive local boy in this witchy revenge fantasy starring up and coming Mexican actress Ruth Ramos.
OTHERS is a collection of eight surreal vignettes comically exploring what it means to be connected to another person. Each piece focuses on a different person in the midst of a seemingly mundane moment, connected by an umbilical cord to an innocent and unpredictable being.
Anna works as a cashier at a local supermarket, sleeps alone in a noisy apartment complex, and drifts through her daily routine. The one thing that makes her feel alive is a potent version of Pop Rocks that sends its user into a dreamlike, hallucinogenic state. .First time director Rinio Dragasaki crafts surreal atmospheres that…