40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under conditions similar to those of 1895. There were three rules: (1) The film could be no longer than 52 seconds, (2) no synchronized sound was permitted, and (3) no more than three takes.
The film tells the story of Russian emigree and the only survivor from ship crash Yanko Goorall and ...
A teenage skateboarder becomes suspected of being connected with a security guard who suffered a bru...
Secrets, rumors and betrayals surround the upcoming marriage between a young dissolute man and virtu...
A woman employs a gay man to spend four nights at her house to watch her when she's "unwatchable".
A young woman working at a retirement home takes an elderly man living there on an excursion into th...
In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Satrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic fami...
A Zen priest in San Francisco and cookbook author use Zen Buddhism and cooking to relate to everyday...
Socially inept 17-year-old cinephile Lawrence Kweller gets a job at a video store, where he forms a ...
The retelling of France’s iconic but ill-fated queen, Marie Antoinette. From her betrothal and marri...
Starting his new job as an instructor at a New England school for the deaf, James Leeds meets Sarah ...
Or shoulders a lot: she's 17 or 18, a student, works evenings at a restaurant, recycles cans and bot...
Fiona and Grant have been married for nearly 50 years. They have to face the fact that Fiona’s absen...
Filmmakers from all over the world provide short films – each of which is eleven minutes, nine secon...
Louise, who has just written a novel, comes to Paris to meet with a potential publisher. While in th...
Documentary short following French-Vietnamese artist Marcelino Truong on his journey back to Vietnam...
Henry Rollins narrates Lilly Scourtis Ayers' no-holds-barred profile of volatile Bay Area punk legen...
A young and successful insurance underwriter must allow her mentally unstable mother to move in with...
Born in Los Angeles but a New Yorker by choice, Barbara Hammer is a whole genre unto herself. Her pi...
Shut Up and Sing is a documentary about the country band from Texas called the Dixie Chicks and how ...
As the heir and current marketing director for one of the nation's biggest gun manufacturers, Libert...