🔥 Popular Films

It's lockdown - we cried, we laughed, we stressed, we cooked. A pandemic narrative is suggested in five short dance films: A Dance for A; Zooming; Nature Morte; Turbulence; and Test Kitchen. Employing at-hand technology - computers, iPhones, portable lighting, green screen - all films are shot in a single apartment. Awards: Best Quarantine Film; Best @home COVID-19 Short; Best New Media Dance Film; Best Experimental; Best Short; Best Director Cell Phone Films; Best Art Film and many more.

In the modern society, following social rules do not always guarantee the safety of citizens and we 've got to be more careful ourselves.

Street trials sensation, Danny Macaskill, is back with a new project - Way Back Home. The film follows Danny on his journey from Edinburgh to Dunvegan on the Isle of Skye. AWARDS:

A short film about navigating mental health during a pandemic lockdown.

To Live from the Land is a dark cinematic parable set long after a time of catastrophic change. A crafted ambiguous glance into a world of dust, decay and degradation. A land inherited by the lost.

In a secret place, there exists Wendy. Restless and with no grand objective, she dances in fear. The colour red haunts her, obfuscating her reality in a sad shade of pink. AWARDS:

A girl moves between fantasy and reality as her birthday doesn't quite go as expected.

The Ordinary in the Hidden, where the veils of time are lifted to reveal startling truths. In the misty corridors of Victorian London, cryptograms tucked away in 'The Times' challenge the modern mind. These seemingly indecipherable messages, once considered the whispers of an era long past, now resonate with new life in the digital age. This film intertwines ancient philosophy with the enigmatic art of cryptography, setting a stage where the theories of yesterday become the digital revelations of today. As the narrative unfolds, we're drawn into a labyrinth of history and mystery, where Pythagoras' musings on numbers and existence dance with the digital zeitgeist of our time. The fates themselves, caught between whimsy and destiny, traverse our world and others, challenging the essence of reality. From the icy graves of the HMS Terror and Erebus to the cosmic musings of Einstein, this tale contemplates existence across the ebb and flow of time. AWARDS:

Dominique is desperate to to play the title role in her husband Jean Claude's bio-pic "No Sunrise for Selena," but why won't Jean Claude cast his voluptuous British bombshell wife as the beloved Tejano pop star? Could it be the influence of his Latina temptress of a maid, Isobelle? Somewhere among big houses and bad shoes, bulimic husbands and waxers with whips is... Bed Bath and Beyond.

A man goes to a village and changes how people perceive each other."Stone Soup" is a heartwarming short film that explores the transformative power of community, reminding us that sometimes, all it takes is a simple, shared experience to break down the walls we build around ourselves and discover the joy of connection. AWARDS:

1768 Giorni, is a documentary which was filmed for seven years and narrates the history of the former Sicily president Salvatore “Totó Cuffaro, elected president two times in 2001 and in 2006 with more than one million and 700 thousand votes and sentenced in 2011 for facilitating to Mafia and revealing professional secrecy. The documentary narrates his political life, the detention, his return to freedom, the Trip to Burundi, his degree and the return in politics. A story narrated through his trips, his stories and the point of wiew of his relatives. AWARDS:

Set in the Sicilian hinterland of the 1940s, on the very day of the occupation of Pantelleria, "Nessun menta" tells the story of the fulfillment of a child's desire to no longer hear adults lie. But will it be the right choice? We'll find out by going through some stages of a marriage of yesteryear, letting ourselves be inspired by the seven deadly sins. AWARDS:

Distopia Future: A man in an abandoned dead place finds a device which seems to be defective but still has enough battery to watch the last minute of humanity. A memory scene,... will it be remembered? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBp9WZ_RPOw AWARDS:

When a young girl with Tourette's encounters a struggling street performer on a city bus, a quirky and inspirational friendship is formed causing the world around them to alter in unexpected ways. AWARDS:

The jersey devil who's really an alien be friends a woman named Agnes in 1967 AWARDS:

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An engineer has a week to invent a 'real' four-dimensional printer. AWARDS:

Mr Dutilleul invites his boss to dinner at his home, expecting to create a good enough impression to get a promotion. Before he arrives, his wife dismisses her maid. Finding the crisis at home, Dutilleul goes out to buy cigarettes. Meanwhile, Mr Pavillon arrives, takes Mrs Dutilleul for a maid (as she wearing an apron over the dress), and neither she, nor her husband, tell him the truth. Dinner must be ready, and be served, as Mrs Dutilleul pays attention to the guest of the house, nevertheless...

A high-end car thief falls in love with a blind Arabian princess whose father will only allow them to wed if he can pass a series of three challenges.

Ordered out of town by angry Judge Beaumont, vagrants Stanley and Oliver meet a congenial drunk who invites them to stay at his luxurious mansion. The drunk can't find his key, but the boys find a way in, sending the surprised woman inside into a faint. They revive her with what they think is water, but is actually gin, and all get tipsy in the process. Outside, the drunk realizes he's at the wrong house and stumbles off. Eventually, the real homeowner arrives, none other than Judge Beaumont.

An American couple become the center of attention in a rural pub in 1950s Ireland when wagers are made on the wife's psychic abilities. AWARDS:

The last chapter of the invasion trilogy made by Lutey film. If in "The Rooftop" it was the house to be invaded and in "The child is hiding in the woods" it was the mind, in "We're Coming Back" invasion becomes a threat to all humanity. AWARDS:

My mother lost her memory and I move to the nursing home, where my high demented mother lives, and invent a new daughter-mother relationship for the both of us. I document my time on film - so I am at once a daughter, a nurse and a documentary filmmaker. We are both pushed to our emotional limits. Thus, the tragedy of my mother's illness also creates a new beginning. Original/Alternative Title: Ich versteh die Welt nicht mehr

Despite Oswald the Lucky Rabbit and his cartoons being popular and well received at the time, they have been vastly overshadowed over time by succeeding animation characters. It is a shame as, while not cartoon masterpieces, they are fascinating for anybody wanting to see what very old animation looked like.'Wonderland' to me is one of the better Oswald cartoons overall, and by far one of the best of the batch from 1931 alongside 'The Farmer', 'Country School', 'The Bandmaster', 'Radio Rhythm' and 'The Hunter'. This is saying a lot seeing as most of the 1931 Oswald cartoons from personal opinion were average or less, the pretty weak 'Northwoods' faring weakest. None are must-avoids however.Maybe 'Wonderland' takes a little while to get going, it's once Oswald is up the beanstalk when the action picks up significantly, and figuring out how everything will be solved and ended is not a surprise.However, the animation is good, and some of the most imaginative of any Oswald cartoon. It is smooth and detailed with Oswald's movements, gestures and expressions still very much natural. Drawings are fine and there is little if any choppiness or incompleteness.Even better is the music, so catchy and has such an infectious energy that toe tapping and singing along is likely to happen. All the gags are very amusing and often more so than that, boasting some imaginative moments when up the beanstalk.The pacing is lively and synchronisation is good. Oswald is an endearing protagonist and th