A father and son travel deep into the woods to make an offering to a mysterious force, but soon realize a key element is missing.
As he takes part in his brother’s bachelor party, 17 year old Louis is confronted by this ritual that both celebrates and denigrates commitment and masculinity.
With UK's leading short film festival forced online, we dive into the Encounters 2020 programme and take a look at what the festival has to offer this year - including some new films from some old S/W favourites
((The Festival is now over, and the links to the films have expired) We preview and link to the 10 short films you can watch for free in this year's "My French Film Festival"—Unifrance's innovative online celebration of contemporary French cinema.
A surreal portrait of a young woman as she finds her place within a roadside harem, a nighttime truck stop becomes an ominous playground for sexual desires and something much more strange.
A hand-drawn sequential telling of human history in all its horror and glory, culminating in our next evolutionary leap.
A young female tiger leads a leisurely life in an isolated animal kingdom. But as a volcano stirs in the background, other dangers rumble closer by.
Birdsong explores the dying whistling traditions of the Hmong people of northern Laos, whose sonic exchanges straddle the boundary between music and speech. The film follows the personal stories of three individuals from Long Lan village, as they reflect on their experience as practitioners of a vanishing musical language.
Many filmmakers look at short films as their teenage yearshappy to get past them and on to something bigger. Jossie Malis is one of the few who understood the power he'd created with his minimalist animated short Bendito Machine and has spent the past 6 years building a franchise around it.
