Canada Vignettes: December Lights

Animated film of a traditional Franco-Manitoban tale that resembles the story of the first Christmas.

Daddy's Girl

Involved in a very awkward situation at a shopping mall during the Christmas season, Lucía and her sister try to tell his father that they are no longer two little girls, but two teenagers who keep some unspeakable secrets.

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Lucky Fares

One of the Three Kings and Santa Claus spend Christmas in jail, talking about what their future will be like in a world like this.

Birdsong

The Three Wise Kings travel in search of the Messiah, with unexpected obstacles on the way.

Cirilo

It is a society immersed in chaos and violence, a balloon addressed to the wise men gets stuck in Cirilo's corral.

Peaceful Reflections of the Apocalypse

The Rapture begins sucking the worthy into heaven, while leaving the rest of the world to embrace frantic chaos. This is one humble man's recounting of that fateful day. Guest starring Jesus.

Sound Speeds

An invisible and disrespected sound mixer becomes infatuated with the lead actress.

Location

The melodramatic story of a pink crew’s tragi-comedic adventures on location. A fictionalized adaptation of set photographer Ichiro Tsuda's 1980 book The Location (Za Rokēshon), an illustrated 229-page document about the cameraman’s experiences with pink cast and crew on the sets of several films produced in the late 1970's.

Last Call at Murray's

Closing night at a rural bar gets complicated when a blizzard traps a motley crew of misfits overnight.

Wild Horses

Joan's efforts at teenage rebellion are frustrated by her illness and her overbearing mother, until her increasingly vivd dreams and an overzealous tutor inspire her to realise her independence.

S&M Sally

Lesbian couple Jamie and Jill explore the underground world of S&M while their friends David and Lola compete to see who's cool enough to go through with a threesome.

Jeune Femme

Broke, with nothing but her cat to her name and doors closing in her face, Paula is back in Paris after a long absence. As she meets different people along the way, there is one thing she knows for sure: she's determined to make a new start and she'll do it with style and panache.

Tall Girl

Jodi, the tallest girl in her high school, has always felt uncomfortable in her own skin. But after years of slouching, being made fun of, and avoiding attention at all costs, Jodi finally decides to find the confidence to stand tall.

The Fall of Rock and Roll

Omnibus film, consisting of three independent parts: in the first story, Koma, a failed rocker, wants to prove to his producer father that newly composed music could be better than his. He becomes a mysterious masked folk singer-known as Ninja. In the second, Dracula is killed... again. This time he does not dies oby way of a wooden stake, a silver bullet, or a cross. A blonde woman manages to deprive him of eternal life without the help of sunrise. The last story is about Eve and Djuro. She is creator, he is a musician. They live in a harmonious relationship, but a love letter brings division among them.

Pattabhiraman

Health inspector Pattabhiraman won’t turn a blind eye towards food adulteration, and it has earned him numerous transfers, enemies and more. His latest posting is in Thiruvananthapuram. What awaits him in the capital city?

Suffering Bastards

Two brothers try to get back the nightclub that was swindled from their mother.

The Border Post

At a small border-post on the Yugoslav-Albanian border, yet another generation of soldiers suffering the usual amount of boredom awaits the end of their service, counting days to the moment when they should take their uniforms off for good. It is the spring of 1987 and the thought never even crosses their mind that they would, in fact, put them back on quite soon and go to war.

Love and Other Crimes

Anica lives in New Belgrade, a miserable district of tower blocks and concrete. She is mistress to Milutin, a wealthly local criminal who owns a solarium and runs a protection racket. Anica is determined not to grow old in this dump where neither love nor life seems to offer her a decent future. One grey winter’s day Anica has an idea to steal money from Milutin’s safe, get on a plane and leave the country forever.