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Even before we know ourselves, when we are little the only thing we want is to be loved. "Alice By Night" is an observational fiction. It shows us the common state we are when in love and the determination when being after someone. An analysis on the old illusion that the prince charming will come and fill the emotional weaknesses we have in life.

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What happens when the one you commit to spend your life with ends up taking it instead? This series looks at partner-homicide cases; stories of wives killing husbands, husbands killing wives (much more common), and love turning to loathing as passions get out of control.

The turn of a year in a snowy village in Sweden documents the need for change and continuance. A collective film about rites and times. Dala-Floda, Sweden, has 680 inhabitants. In the depths of the blue light of winter, six filmmakers ask themselves what it means to start a new year. Emerging locals formulate their views on time and our need for rituals and reoccurring events. Their answers parade poetically through the snowy and cold village landscape. A sort of time travel takes place and recalls ordinary as well as extraordinary memories and identities. The commonplace is our need for measuring time, our need for a beginning and an end. A ninety-year-old woman shows a way out of the never-ending dream phase of the evoked Phantom Carriage (Selma Lagerlöf) and exclaims: "Really, you ought to reset yourself. You have to feel completely at zero again".

A documentary about movie director and local entertainment factotum Charles E. Cullen, a wild ride as he continues his self made path from chicken farmer to the top of the entertainment world.

Chateau Neuf is a loose and improvised anthology about the student-house of the same name, in Oslo. We visit the different associations that reside in the brutalist building –from the Pizza-association to the beer-breweres– as we follow one of the guards around his duties, in his final days before moving to a different town. Strange things start happening, with mystical entities seeming to leak out from the seams of the building.

Dominic Littlewood goes behind the scenes with the hidden army of workers shifting goods and services from the factory floor to the front door.

Modern humans have been around for about 200,000 years. With Earth being 4.5 billion years old, this might seem like only a small speck of time, yet our story is long, rich, and full of transformation. And now, we've turned the entire history of humanity into our second animated movie! From the first humans in Africa to ancient tools, art, rituals, catastrophes, and civilizations, experience all of human history in just one hour, one second at a time.

In this impressionistic short film, we see a man and his dog wandering through the woods, perpetually engulfed by a mysterious, otherworldly fog. They are looking for trees to cut down.

A drunk goes to a job interview.

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Two close and very wealthy friends, Vijay and Pranlal, decide to cement their friendship to a relationship when Vijay proposes marriage on behalf of his sister, Shobha, with Pranlal's son, Amar. Pranlal agrees, and preparations are on for the marriage to take place. Vijay finds out that Pranlal and his men are using their business as a front for drugs and smuggling, and he decides to cancel the wedding. Pranlal is angry with Vijay, but refuses to give up his criminal career. When Amar finds out about his dad's spurious activities, he kills himself. Pranlal, humiliated and angered, vows to avenge Amar's death, and wants Shobha to be Amar's widow for the rest of her life, which is not acceptable to Vijay. Then Shobha meets with a handsome stranger named Jackie, who rescues her. She offers him employment with her brother's firm, and they fall in love with each other.

A minimalist film about folks doing everyday activities in Oslo, in the autumn.

A four-part documentary series in which stand-up comedian Serine Ayari uses humor to delve into the soul and bliss of a country. Because if you really want to get to know a country and its inhabitants, humor is the best indicator: what makes people laugh? How do they laugh? Who are the favorite targets of ridicule? Are there taboos? Who do they find hilarious? And can they laugh at themselves? In search of answers to those questions, stand-up comedian Serine Ayari travels to Germany, Lebanon, Denmark and Japan. Successively the least funny country in the world, one of the unhappiest countries in the world, the most egalitarian country in the world and the most special country in the world. Serine always goes to the capital's comedy club, where she makes a humorous road trip past meaningful places and people under the wings of a local guide.

A follow-up to the horror/comedy anthology The Carnage Collection.

A heartbroken insomniac and a has-been boxer - both stuck in the past - set up an underground boxing club in their university in an attempt to cope with their lack of closure.

Rashid, a Syrian theater director and political refugee, is working with other refugees on a performance. During a retreat at a beach house with his secret lover Adrian, tensions rise. The strain of their relationship weighs not only on Rashid’s real life but also on their play.

A "Khan" has taken over several villages and is oppressing the villagers. Finally, a young man, with the help of his friend, rises up against Khan and brings peace back to the village.

Solitude

Clyde, a student struggling with a minesweeping addiction, discovers magical dice, creating an entry to the depths of the universe and leading to the interdimensional office of a therapist, Pam. Through the help of Sensei Dijon, Clyde works to overcome the addiction and evetually to overcome the oppression of the psycotic therapist.

Expelled is a short film that follows the journey of a student who gets expelled from his university for participating in "political activities".

A supermarket worker is visited by a very unusual ghost.

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Over a summer two women begin an unexpected romance.

Fuzzy purchases a saloon with a large sack of gold from the mine he owns with his partner Billy. When a crooked lawyer uses underhanded methods to try taking over the saloon, Billy works to bring the lawyer and his no-good gang to justice.

Prelude to a portrait of Jean-Pierre Facquier, ch’l’eintailleu (wood carver) in the Saint-Leu district of Amiens: a free mind self-removed from social determinism, who gives new life to wood through constant dialogue, both with nature and his alter ego, the puppet Lafleur..

Dora is a German-raised teenager visiting her enigmatic Brazilian grandmother for the first time. While trying to return to Germany at all costs, she discovers the incredible history behind the women of her family.

Eight-year-old Iris's heart condition threatens her dream of becoming a professional dancer.

These seven friends are in for a school year that'll test their friendships, loyalty, patience, and their ability to solve quadratic equations.