New Movies
Wake Up
A group of young activists set out to make an environmental statement by vandalizing a home superstore as it closes. But their plan goes terribly wrong when they become trapped inside and must face a deranged security guard with a gruesome passion for primitive hunting. As the night fills with violence and terror, the teenagers find themselves in a desperate fight for their lives.
UNTITLED MENTAL EPISODE
After an unproductive appointment, the Subject returns home as their bottled up emotions reach a boiling point.
The Blood Brothers
The movie tells of Philippine history before Islam came in and is being told in the perspective of two brothers and how the education of the other drove a wedge between them but served as a catalyst to their cultural differences. According to Montano, this project was borne out of his most meaningful visit to the municipality of Upi in Maguindanao where he met Adamat.
Alfiya & Ahmed
It's the summer of 2010, 14-year-old Alfiya and her 17-year-old brother Ahmed are home alone, bored out of their minds, they decide to do things to keep themselves entertained.
Chasing Johnny
Johnny, a local activist, is wanted by the police after a robbery gone wrong. Paul, his childhood friend, comes back home after 15 years to find him before the police. Investigator Anna Radoszewski is also on Johnny’s trail. Thus begins a search in which memo- ries and secrets resurface. In a social context that shakes the town, everybody is looking for Johnny, who soon becomes the symbol of a revolt.
at the bamboo green
A one take recording of a family's visit to the bamboo green at the foot of the Helan Mountains.
Camera Test (King Cadbury)
A documentary readymade about family lore and chocolate biscuits.
Sueñan las Piñas
Two sailors go into conflict when one of them abandons their mission to persue the wishes of a talking pineapple.
As The Night Fades
Gabrielle and Leonardo are a young couple used to a complex routine of erotic games. When their relationship enters a crisis, they start to seek new fantasies, each of which are more dangerous and destructive.
Paranoia
After surviving what appears to be an attempted murder, Mason begins to live in constant fear of his attacker returning to finish the job.
NET
A self-isolating, college photographer, who has drifted away from her closest friend, takes up a friendship with the lonely owner of an antiquated computer she meets during a power outage at her school.
Sonaten
The Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin by Johann Sebastian Bach are considered “the Himalayas of violinists". Yehudi Menuhin first recorded the complete works mid-1930s. The film, focuses on the Sonatas. It is a true dialogue between the recording of Yehudi Menuhin and Claire Bourdet, playing them today. The different movements are played in turn until they are merged into an unexpected polyphony. This is a film about music as an image of time.
Final Wager
Former sports gambling addict Chance needs $60,000 to save his mother from nursing home eviction. So he falls back into his old habits, only to learn he's never lost a bet on Christmas. Is this the Christmas miracle he's been waiting for? Or just an addict who can't control himself?
Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying
Don’t Let the Sun Catch You Crying is a short meditation on love, grief, and imagination. The hand-drawn animated documentary was created through a collaboration between mother, elder and narrator Edith Almadi and filmmakers Natalie Baird and Toby Gillies. This poetic piece celebrates life and the transformative ability of art to elevate and transcend us. Through vivid drawings and Edith’s simple yet magical words, the film explores our enduring bond with loved ones who have passed. In honouring her son’s life within the cosmos, Edith’s artworks embody colours, shapes and metaphors that remind us of the timeless power of love, gravity, and grace until our final breaths.
Pandasaurus
An egg discovered on an island hatches and becomes a new breed of cuddly ... and deadly. The now fully grown Pandasaurus is the star attraction of a failing zoo until it escapes and goes on a rampage of destruction in an attempt to return home. Now it's up to two zookeepers to track down and capture the beast in hopes of stopping the most bizarre beast the earth has ever known.
Road to Malmö
Go behind the scenes of Luxembourg Song Contest as the final 8 contestants prepare for the big finale.
Novoland
It tells the story of the free and undisciplined ranger Yun Zhan and his master who are implicated in a bizarre case. They are accidentally suspected by the princess Shi Qiutong and the guard An Xuewu as the murderer. In the process of proving his innocence, Yun Zhan gradually finds the direction of his life and meets Shi Qiutong. They joined forces to solve the strange case, and since then they have shouldered their own missions and responsibilities to protect the safety of the people in the imperial city.
Campton Manor
An author tries to investigate a decades old mystery and finds himself stuck in his own ghost story.
My World, Your Melody
A choir of tropical frogs performs infectious pop in delightfully unsettling animation from Costa Rican-Canadian artist Bianca Shonee Arroyo-Kreimes. Riffing on karaoke companion videos and the swipe-n-scroll conventions of handheld media, she infuses candy-coloured digital animation with the spectre of ecological collapse.
Salman Rushdie: Through a Glass Darkly
Salman Rushdie speaks to Alan Yentob about the devastating knife attack he was subjected to in 2022, losing his right eye and almost his ability to write.
MAKING A NETFLIX-STYLE SHORT FILM ALONE (NO CREW CHALLENGE)
A filmmaker (who's been on real sets before with actors and lighting and stuff) tries (as a challenge) to make a short film alone (despite having many filmmaker friends who are always wanting to help him out on his projects). His girlfriend documents the process.
The Final: Attack on Wembley
As England reach the final of the Euros at last, 6,000 ticketless football fans storm Wembley stadium, leaving destruction in their wake.
The Painting
Utilising the Alexeïeff-Parker pinscreen technique, this visually poetic non-narrative film revisits Diego Vélasquez’s 1652 portrait of Queen Mariana of Austria with genuine feeling.
Le Mur de l'Atlantique, une forteresse au service de l'ennemi
Unblending
For people living with structural dissociation, falling asleep can be a challenge—a time when multiple contradictory thoughts conspire to keep you awake. Drawing on her experience with somatic healing, Michelle Ku puts these thoughts to rest in a few vivid minutes of hand-painted animation.
In the Shallows
Walking down the street or sitting on a commuter train, few of us can resist the siren song of that small, illuminated device in our pockets. Through a carefully choreographed collision of hand-made sculptural collages and ink and paint animation, In the Shallows, by first-time NFB filmmaker Arash Akhgari, takes us on a deep dive into the shallow and fragmented world of news, entertainment and ads, where we can easily drown in the dangerous allure of mass media intoxication.
Corpus and the Wandering
One dancer, one body, one phone. In a time of collective alienation and technological mass control, one woman rediscovers her soul and reclaims her mind. A short, experimental self-portrait composed of 100 video screens, Corpus and the Wandering transcends the walls of a fragmented grid system to uncover the shared humanity in each of us, and our place in the cosmos.
Mobile Suit Gundam SEED FREEDOM
In C.E.75, the fighting still continues. There are independence movements, and aggression by Blue Cosmos... In order to calm the situation, a global peace monitoring agency called COMPASS is established, with Lacus as its first president. As members of COMPASS, Kira and his comrades intervene into various regional battles. Then a newly established nation called Foundation proposes a joint operation against a Blue Cosmos stronghold.
Laugh Proud
Nine diverse LGBTQ+ comics each perform a short set connected by a hostess with the mostest in an orgiastic one-night stand starring fresh comics to veteran comic Jason Stuart and the world's first intersex comic 7G.
For Sale
When his life hits rock bottom, a shady salesman finds a last-ditch gig selling a haunted house.
Stalemate
Husband & Wife, Myles & Sofia, two members of a dying marriage decide to retreat to a vacation home in hopes of salvaging their lost love. Not only for themselves but for the sake of their daughter Louisa. Their desperate retreat to salvage marriage soon turns into a desperate survival from violence by someone uninvited.
Society of Clothes
When morning arrives in Society of Clothes, shirts and pants step outside the closet, transforming into living entities. In the world of the film, everyone exists solely as clothes, wandering into the streets bodiless and faceless. But the routine of this strange place is disrupted one day when a human child with flesh and bones appears, turning their everyday existence upside down.
Olly Alexander's Road to Eurovision '24
Documentary following singer Olly Alexander as he prepares to represent the United Kingdom at the long-running celebration of music, the Eurovision Song Contest. Cameras follow the Years and Years singer on the promotional circuit as he releases his song Dizzy, juggles press attention, performs at European parties in Madrid and London and prepares for the event itself