Pollux 2018

Pollux 2018

Pollux 2018

Pollux 2018
23m | Short, Drama | 8 September 2018 (France)

Storyline:

No summer camp this year for 13-year-old Vivian and Max because of the imminent closure of the factory where their parents are working. But Vivian has a plan to make money and allow them to go to the camp anyway. Accompanied by Tom, their childhood friend, they will run into a race against time.

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Pommel 2018

Pommel 2018

Pommel 2018

Pommel 2018
20m | Short, Drama, Sport | 2018

Storyline:

Set within the world of competitive gymnastics, Pommel is a coming-of-age drama about the tumultuous relationship between two young east Asian brothers as they compete for recognition and approval in an up coming gymnastics competition. When their Coach begins to recognise potential in Noah, Isaac, his older brother and a gifted gymnast, begins to develop deep feelings of jealousy and resentment. Noah suffers under the harsh treatment of a scornful Isaac as the two vie for recognition; Isaac seeking the approval of his Coach, and Noah, unbeknownst to Isaac, works desperately to gain his acknowledgment.

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Grass Labyrinth 1979

Grass Labyrinth 1979

Grass Labyrinth 1979

Grass Labyrinth 1979
Kusa-meikyû (original title)
40m | Short, Fantasy, Romance | 12 November 1983 (Japan)

Storyline:

A young man’s determination to recover the lyrics and music to a song he loved in his childhood in an exploration of widely variant perceptions of reality. Akira is haunted by a “bouncing ball” song that he remembers his mother singing when he was a small child, and now on the verge of a sexually active adulthood, he wants to find the origins of the song. He ostensibly wanders into a time-warp in which aspects from his childhood and adulthood mix together. In this never-never land he comes across a beautiful woman/witch who is lost inside the labyrinth of her mansion, just as the young man is lost in the labyrinth of time — and on some levels, perhaps the labyrinth of his subconscious.

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Dotty 2013

Dotty 2013

Dotty 2013

Dotty 2013
10m | Short, Adventure, Drama | 18 October 2013 (UK)

Storyline:

Dotty is a touching film centered around an unlikely friendship that highlights the beauty in friendships that cross a generation gap. A lonely 9 year old boy stumbles across a modest caravan in the American Midwest, inside the caravan lives Dotty, an eccentric but kind women old enough to be his grandmother. Dotty invites the boy into her rainbow decorated caravan that is littered with exotic memorabilia from her past, and in particular an incredible collection of brightly colored shoes. The boy, who has a hidden sadness he wont discuss and a suspicious bruise on one arm is able to forget about his troubles momentarily as Dotty and the boy embark on a journey that spans her colorful life.

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