Como en Arcadia 2015
7min | Short | 2 November 2015 (Spain)
Storyline:
A melancholy, dreamy voyage back to cruel adolescence, which condemns us to live without the possibility of return. We journey into the beginning of time, when mortals lived like gods, without worries and with never a thought about old age, to meet an attractive, beautiful boy who will let us into the garden of eternal youth for a while.
Soft 2006
14min | Short, Drama | 20 April 2007 (UK)
Storyline:
A man gets home from work, shouts some complaints at Scott, his teen son who’s upstairs, and heads to a mini-mart for a pint of milk. There he’s accosted, harassed, and jeered by six youths in hooded sweatshirts, and he’s punched by their leader, a budding sociopath in white. Dad walks home. The gang trails about a block behind. At home, Scott confesses he was in a fight today but didn’t hit back. His father tells him that he must defend himself, then does nothing when the gang arrives in front of their home and starts hollering and throwing things. Finally dad goes outside. Is that going to be it?
Nito is a young teenager who attends to class with children younger than him due to his psychological retardation. Children in the class make jokes and mock Nito continuously. Stirred by them and under the slogan they put in their head, Nito will try to lose his virginity.
Zero de Conduite 1933
Zéro de conduite: Jeunes diables au collège (original title)
44min | Short, Comedy, Drama | 7 April 1933 (France)
Storyline:
After the holidays, Caussat and Bruel are going back to the boarding school, where their life is sad, dull, as all prisoner’s ones. But there is plot setting up for a revolt…
Charlie Says 2013
24min | Short, Drama | 29 June 2013 (UK)
Storyline:
A young boy’s lie cuts through the calm of a family holiday and leaves a trail in it’s wake that threatens to grow into something more dangerous as dusk approaches.
An unhappy lion mascot, a straight talking chick fed up with sexual double standards, a hypochondriac 18 year old gay guy who just got into med school: all these colorful characters collide in fragments filled with sex talk and humor, with the ever inspiring New Orleans as a backdrop.
Runaways Luke and Ellen are caught breaking into an older, Victorian styled swimming facility one evening. As they only want a warm place to sleep, Martin, the person on patrol, lets them stay on the proviso that they don’t break anything else. As Luke and Ellen go swimming in the pool, Luke spots Martin voyeuristically watching them. That small act begins an emotionally charged situation involving all three, but which was only supposed to involve Luke and Martin.