Lick the Star
**CURRENTLY OFFLINE** - A cruel clique of high school girls obsessed with social life wreak havoc on their classmates with their psychological torment in this early film by Sofia Coppola.
**CURRENTLY OFFLINE** - A cruel clique of high school girls obsessed with social life wreak havoc on their classmates with their psychological torment in this early film by Sofia Coppola.
20-something Sofia’s relationship with 30-something Claire is strained when Claire reveals she wants kids soon but doesn’t think Sophia is mature enough. Sofia sets out to prove she is ready to become a parent, no matter what.
After the death of his mother, a man returns home to a house -- that may or may not be haunted -- searching for clues about where she's gone in the things she left behind
A young woman explores her sexual autonomy through a series of discomfiting encounters, in Sofia Banzhaf’s uncommonly deft and perceptive look at millennial romance.
See how now established filmmakers used short filmmaking to hone their craft and begin to explore the styles and themes which we have come to associate with their names
A mother and her daughter are going through a very stressful time together. They hope that their stay at a spa hotel in the mountains will help relax the situation. But the isolated retreat becomes the setting for a physical and psychological nightmare.
After Sofia's husband is brutally murdered during a terrestrial invasion, she asks her local sensei to train her in the art of self defense.
Father and daughter share a sentimental moment, but trouble boils under the surface.
Little Sofía loves her grumpy granny: even though she is always hungry and eats what little food they can buy. Her pension is the only thing keeping her and her father alive. To what extremes will they go to once granny is no more?
With science fiction story-lines and topics of sexuality proving to be big discussion starters here on Short of the Week, it would have seemed like an opportunity missed if we didn't speak to emerging filmmaker Connor Hurley about his short film The Naturalist. Based around concepts of genetically altering sexual orientation and set in an unspecified dystopian future, we talked to the director about the influence of existing work on his narrative/tone and looked at how he went about creating a timeless aesthetic for his film: It's hard not talk about The Naturalist without first looking at the concept - where did the idea for the narrative come from? I remember I was probably around 12 years old, pursuing both my passion for filmmaking and facing questions of my own sexuality.