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A family of immigrants is chased through the woods by border patrol. But they're not alone.

Alienation, is a coming of age story set in post-apocalyptic Australia after an alien invasion. Lorne, 35, wanders the desolate landscape, alone after the death of his son. On his travels, he encounters Finn, a brave 10-year-old boy who shapes his life and journey. The two boys bond and grow together, becoming companions and role models for each other in this isolated world.

A young man's friends and family begin to fade away as his fascination with the extra-terrestrial consumes him.

This short film shot in a small town in Sweden navigates themes of nostalgia through an original monologue, reflecting on gender identity struggle and the pursuit of a new beginning in a foreign land.

An animation-short about puberty, based on real life interviews with teenagers.

A reclusive young man gives an alien made from a sock a tour of his dishevelled and cluttered home.

It's as if everybody received a manual on how to be human, but not Alice... Can she find her humanity through a connection with someone else?

short experimental film about feelings of alienation

A film about the desire for light

Animated Short Film Directed by Silvia Carpizo.

Set entirely in the rural frontier area between Greece and Bulgaria, it is an austere story of a Greek man who wants to buy a baby across the border.

Gurus in the late Goryeo dynasty try to obtain a fabled, holy sword, and humans in 2022 hunt down an alien prisoner that is locked in a human's body. The two parties cross paths when a time-traveling portal opens up.

A lonely 11-year-old befriends two street children after running away from his neglectful parents.

A documentary in 10 chapters, built around interviews addressing the complex topic of personal data: how we use the web, the excesses, hopes brought by GDPR, local solutions, etc. The documentary is available on Peertube instances: https://peertube.fr/videos/watch/ea2d5153-4704-4a6e-8a13-d09a411c9760

Ean has a critical mission to return to the future to save everyone. However, she becomes trapped in the distant past while trying to prevent the escape of alien prisoners who are locked up in the bodies of humans. Meanwhile, Muruk, who helps Ean escape various predicaments, is unnerved when he begins sensing the presence of a strange being in his body. Traveling through the centuries, they are trying to prevent the explosion of the haava.

Set in the underground drug culture that has evolved among alienated Soviet youth, Georgi Gavrilov’s Confession explores the life of a 23-year-old Moscow heroin addict at several intervals over a two-year period.

A naked boy masturbates, accompanied by lines of poetry and caterpillars on the wall.

Lutfi works abroad and leaves his son Hossam in the care of his mother and her husband Emad and be a great fortune, Hossam commits with bad friends the crime of theft and injury of a woman in his car, they escape but fall down the license plate of his car, while chasing police officers him seriously injured by gunshot, arrives Lutfi and plans to smuggle His son is out.

Short Gusztáv cartoon.

The video work focuses on the alienation process of immanence, which is one of the essences of beings.

Suffering from insomnia, disturbed loner Travis Bickle takes a job as a New York City cabbie, haunting the streets nightly, growing increasingly detached from reality as he dreams of cleaning up the filthy city.

Feeling suffocated by a possessive boyfriend, work and suburban life, a young woman starts spending the weekends in her Paris apartment in order to reclaim some of her lost freedom.

Joseph, favored son of Jacob and great-grandson of Abraham, is sold into slavery by his jealous brothers. Rising to become prime minister of Egypt. Joseph governed the country during a seven year famine, during which his brothers visit Egypt seeking grain, only to encounter their brother, presumed long dead.

Tasmania, 1954: Slovenian migrant Melita abandons her husband and young daughter, Sonja. Sonja's distraught father perseveres with his new life in a new country, but he is soon crushed into an alcoholic despair, and Sonja herself abandons him at the earliest opportunity. Now, nearly 20 years later, a single and pregnant Sonja returns to Tasmania's highlands and to her father in an attempt to put the pieces of her life back together.

A 6th-century Scandinavian warrior named Beowulf embarks on a mission to slay the man-like ogre, Grendel.

Four independent stories set in modern China about random acts of violence.

In the immense city of Tokyo, the darkness of the afterlife lures some of its inhabitants who are desperately trying to escape the sadness and isolation of the modern world.

An unemployed Brit vents his rage on unsuspecting strangers as he embarks on a nocturnal London odyssey.

Beyond Citizen Kane (1993) is a British documentary film directed by Simon Hartog, produced by John Ellis, and broadcast on Channel 4. It details the dominant position of the Rede Globo media group in the Brazilian society, discussing the group's influence, power, and political connections. Globo's president and founder Roberto Marinho came in for particular criticism, being compared with fictional newspaper tycoon Charles Foster Kane, created by Orson Welles for the 1941 film Citizen Kane. According to the documentary, Marinho's media group engages in the same Kane wholesale manipulation of news to influence the public opinion.

Eva is beautiful, irresponsible, self-absorbed and emotionally disconnected. Her life is all about the right clothes, the right people and the right places. Her life is turned upside down when she loses her job and alienates her friends by cheating on her boyfriend. She soon finds herself among "common" people where she makes a surprising new acquaintance.

Twenty-something Freddy is becalmed in a podunk French village where the only sign of life is the local amateur brass band and youth aimlessly roaming around the countryside on scooters. He has an intense sexual connection with his girlfriend but has no joy or passion to give her. When she falls for a handsome Arab youth a tragedy unfolds.

This romantic drama by Michelangelo Antonioni follows the love life of Vittoria, a beautiful literary translator living in Rome. After splitting from her writer boyfriend, Riccardo, Vittoria meets Piero, a lively stockbroker, on the hectic floor of the Roman stock exchange. Though Vittoria and Piero begin a relationship, it is not one without difficulties, and their commitment to one another is tested during an eclipse.

This is the story of three characters (brothers Tomek and Jacek and their neighbor Magda), each of them is in their own way lonely and alienated. The title character makes herself secluded. Tomek's alienation results from his neurological disease, and Jacek contacts the world mainly via the Internet. This is also a film about love. Love of one brother to the other and of one alienated human being to the other. All together it creates a very universal picture with a Polish entourage.

Bhutan: The World’s Happiest Man tells the story of Mr. Bishnu, an aging Bhutanese-American in Ohio, who dreams of returning to his homeland. After his unexpected death, his family faces a conflict over his final resting place, torn between past memories and present realities. This emotional drama explores themes of love, loss, and the search for belonging.

A mathematical genius discovers a link between numbers and reality, and thus believes he can predict the future.

A sister and brother face the realities of familial responsibility as they begin to care for their ailing father.

A recently-widowed science fiction writer considers whether to adopt a hyper-imaginative 6-year-old abandoned and socially-rejected boy who says he's really from Mars.

A disaffected media executive spends his days watching violent programming on the television screens in his office and his evenings neglecting his frustrated wife at home. The monotonicity is disturbed when he is contacted by an old friend who confides in him he is being threatened by mysterious assassins.

A timid young woman who lives with her domineering mother accepts an Adult Video scout's offer to "become somebody else" by performing in porn videos. As she rises in popularity, the boundaries between her two lives begin to disintegrate.

The tale of Boris, a young musician living in Hollywood. We chronicle two days in the life of Boris as he experiences a bizarre and unsettling mystery that leads him on a journey to the Los Angeles River.

Tahar is a 20-year-old Sahrawi man who lives in the Basque Country. However, his family continues to live in the Tindouf refugee camp. One day, he receives a call from there: his father is dying.

A family is forced off their farm due to drought, and move to Sydney.

A nine-year-old girl who has just moved with her parents to Hamburg, Germany, is desperate for finding a best friend. The daughter of a Brazilian father and German mother, Lola is a little girl who dreams she's a rock star, but mostly dreams of having a best friend.

The fantastic story of how an ancient martial art, Chinese kung fu, conquered the world through the hundreds of films that were produced in Hong Kong over the decades, transformed Western action cinema and inspired the birth of cultural movements such as blaxploitation, hip hop music, parkour and Wakaliwood cinema.

TransWorld SKATEboarding is proud to present our 24th video, The Cinematographer Project. We’ve assembled 13 of skateboarding’s finest filmmakers to each produce their own original three-to-five minute short. The result is a truly creative and diverse take on the current world of skateboarding. Featuring: Jon Holland, Mike Manzoori, Bill Strobeck, Russell Houghten, Dan Wolfe, Chris Ray, Brennan Conroy, Beagle, Torsten Frank, Lee Dupont, RB Umali, Christopher Middlebrook, Alien Workshop

Dan, a budding street artist, supports himself with smash-and-grab heists. But his father's return from jail reignites his demons and pushes him to flee.

A documentary on the life and work of Brazilian rapper Cláudio Márcio de Sousa Santos, aka Speedfreak$.

Documentary about the world of hip hop and the daily life of those who seek to survive from music in Brazil, all set in the traditional neighborhood of Lapa Carioca.

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When party girl Sasha Li blows through most of her trust fund, she is cut off by her father and forced to go back to China and work for the family toy business.

A special examining the appeal of real-life daredevils and heroic figures compared with their fictional counterparts as portrayed in adventure films.

The story of two people who feel lost in their own lives and, through their encounter, find a piece of themselves again.

Live Performance & Music Videos

Kill Your Babies follows Dorian, a true crime fanatic, as she attempts to write the perfect crime and soon finds she is caught up in one herself.

This comedy chronicles the experiences of Juliette, a young woman who undergoes a deep exploration of her sexuality as she is given a series of special lessons in sex and philosophy by the extremely decadent Dolman. During the course of an evening Dolman helps demolish Juliette’s conservative ideology and replaces it with his own libertine perspectives. Juliette becomes an enthusiastic convert in this bicentennial production of the Marquis de Sade’s classic book.

Director Murray Siples' love/hate letter to Vancouver weather captures both the mundane and the thrilling experience of living on the West (wet) Coast. The winter rain colours every aspect of city life, but people cope, wielding umbrellas like swords, clutching coats and hats against the constant deluge.

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A young couple buy their dream home in New Orleans, only to be tormented by an obsessive mother who believes the house should be hers.

A concert of the industrial band Ministry, filmed during the famous "The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste" tour with guest artists like Ogre (of Skinny Puppy) and Jello Biafra (of the Dead Kennedys). 1 Breathe 2 The Missing 3 Deity 4 So What 5 Burning Inside 6 Thieves 7 Stigmata 8 Jello Biafra 9 The Land Of Rape And Honey Filmed September 3, 1990 at the Riviera Theater - 4746 N. Racine Avenue, Uptown, Chicago, Illinois, USA

A commentary on fossil fuels and climate change

Darren prepares to move out while Vikki takes another lover - Ian Sinclair. Worried about losing his son forever, Darren engages in one last playtime with Benjamin.