1. Young Man on the Bar Masturbating with Rage and Nerve (Muchacho en la barra se masturba con rabia y osadía)
Dance and prostitution play the same role for Cristhian’s body. Virtuosity, desire, technique, and sex intertwine, granting coherence to a way of life that offers many answers to few questions. A leitmotiv that reconciles opposites and contradictions. Answers that are sometimes painful, like all truths.
It has an average vote of 5.3 on TMDB.
2. Typhoon Tamara (Тайфун Тамара)
The story of an energetic Russian woman, Tamara Fedorovna who moved to Leninabad in the 1950s and, as a pensioner, became a trainer for a men’s soccer team and performed in the local amateur theater. Then, after three or four years, thousands of Russians would have to leave Tajikistan as would Tamara.
3. Ten Meter Tower (Hopptornet)
10 Meter Tower is a short film taking place in a swimming pool with 6 cameras aimed at the tallest diving tower. All focus is on the 43 people between 9 and 78 years old. They have one thing in common, this is the first time in their lives they climb up to the platform to make the decision whether to jump or not. The situation itself highlights a dilemma: to weigh the instinctive fear of taking the step out against the humiliation of having to climb down.
It has an average vote of 7.105 on TMDB.
4. Vasiliy (Василий)
This is the story of Vasiliy Ilyin, a retired farmer from the village of Ryshkovo, on a first time journey to see the world, New York, the ocean, and a cover photoshoot for Esquire Russia
5. Owl Gets in Your Eyes
A cinematic haiku by Chris Marker.
It has an average vote of 5.25 on TMDB.
6. Tchaïka
A still, highly overexposed shot of a car bridge and the river below. A cinematic haiku by Chris Marker.
It has an average vote of 4.375 on TMDB.
7. Petite Ceinture (Petite Ceinture)
A cinematic haiku by Chris Marker.
It has an average vote of 4.5 on TMDB.
8. Eyebrow
A documentary crew films a young man, whose eyebrow started thinning a year ago, trying to reflect on everything in his life as he is having traumatic day to day experiences in which he is a victim of social exclusion.
9. Anatomy of Goth
What does it mean to be goth—to be an outsider, to live both on the margins and in the midst of society? Filmmakers Jordan Hemingway and Alban Adam prize open the coffin on a world of darkness and light, exploring its multiplicities and intersections with subcultures and the ever-present experience of queerness.
10. McLaren's Negatives
An intimate look at cinematographic creation, this visual essay shares with us secrets of the legendary Canadian animator Norman Mclaren and his personal view of filmmaking.
11. Hiroshima: A Mother's Prayer (ヒロシマ・母たちの祈り)
The horrors of war and the devastating effects of the atomic bomb.
12. The Mythologist
The many lives of Henry Azadehdel, aka Armen Victorian, aka Henry X, as told by the peace activists, UFO researchers, botanists and everyday people who encountered him - whoever he was.
13. Symptoms in Schizophrenia
Shows masked mental patients enacting various schizophrenic symptoms as they were understood at the time. A disturbing film that raises questions about the condition and treatment of its subjects. “Abstract: This film describes and demonstrates four types of schizophrenia. Filmed at various New York institutions, it shows patients singly and grouped in large, outside recreational areas. Some patients are blindfolded. Symptoms shown include: social apathy, delusions, hallucinations, hebephrenic reactions, cerea flexibilitas, rigidity, motor stereotypes, posturing, and echopraxia.”
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
14. Castle to Castle (D’un château l’autre)
Spring 2017, in between the two rounds of the French presidential election. Pierre, a 25-year-old scholarship holder studying in a big Parisian school, lives with 75-year-old Francine, who is disabled and wheelchair-bound. Politically and socially opposed, they are perplexed and disoriented as they witness the unfolding electoral spectacle. While waiting for the results, they engage with each other, as Pierre tries to take care of Francine’s body and she attempts to heal his voiceless resentment.
It has an average vote of 4.2 on TMDB.
15. ACT (Акт)
Several fragments of one day in Leningrad in the autumn of 1989, refracted in the imagination of the artist.
It has an average vote of 6.5 on TMDB.
16. Agua de coco (Agua de coco)
Ana is a woman who fears motherhood when she remembers an episode from her childhood. By recognizing the women in her family, she manages to overcome her fears.
17. Oil (Нефть)
Found footage short about oil.
18. Return of the Desert Bighorn
After all native desert bighorn sheep were eliminated from Texas by the 1960s, conservationists began the long fight for their return. Now, after many years of hard work and trial and error, healthy populations roam parts of the state. Return of the Desert Bighorn follows wildlife biologists as they capture, collar, and relocate desert bighorn to restore populations in West Texas.
19. Those Who Wander
What are they? What do they seek? When all the lights go out, they will wander. And you will never see them.
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
20. Obāchan (Obāchan)
Obāchan is Japanese. She left her native archipelago in 1941 to marry one of her compatriots, 17 years older, settled in Mexico. Through fragments of family films, manga and sequences that she has shot, Nicolasa Ruiz sculpts a complex and delicate memory landscape between the two shores of the Pacific.