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Knock, Knock, Knock follows Hana, a young woman who confines herself to a tiny box-like room. She interacts with the world by listening through the thin walls that separate her from her neighbors. Hana is consumed by thoughts of death, only to be confronted by an unexpected death.

Kujirai Taichi has been selected to be the leader of the staff at the Taiji Municipal Whale Museum. Despite enlisting the aid of Shiraishi Yui who came from a Tokyo aquarium, and the museum curator Mashiba Nozomi, Taichi and the staff are perplexed by the low turnout of visitors. Then Taichi hits upon the idea to hold a staff created "whale festival" in order to generate hype for the museum. One day however, the "whale festival" is in danger of being cancelled as the opening quickly approaches.

Girish, a well-to-do engineer, is happily married to the love of his life, Vidya. The couple also have a talented young daughter. Unfortunately, things don't really work out between Girish and Vidya and they decide to get divorced. After his divorce, Girish is in a tough financial situation and he approaches Vidya for a land deal. They decide to sell the land to help Girish get back on his feet. However, the court procedure forces them to stay together for a couple of days during which the reasons that led to their divorce unfold.

A frustrated dancer faces off against his inner demons on the dance floor.

In an impoverished country, rife with contradiction, a young girl is torn between her obligation to her family and the influence of foreign visitors. Ashmina, 13, lives at the outskirts of Pokhara Nepal. Her home, nestled between a beautiful lake and the Himalayas, happens to be the paragliding capital of the world. Forced to skip school, she helps her family make ends meet by working at the landing field in return for small change.

Five year old Leyla who has deep emotional connections with nature and animals, lives with her parents and grandparents in a country house located in the middle of a huge garden. Only some days left for Eid el Adha (Muslim feast for sacrifice) and there is a feast rush in the house. Sheep which is bought to be sacrificed in the feast, lives in the hut next to house for several days. But Leyla who visits the sheep occasionally to slop it has a smart idea to rescue it.

A girl waits for her lover to regain his memory, lost due to an accident.

Phantom Islands is an experimental film that exists at the boundary of documentary and fiction. It follows a couple adrift and disoriented in the stunning landscape of Ireland’s islands. Yet this deliberately melodramatic romance is constantly questioned by a provocative cinematic approach that ultimately results in a hypnotic and visceral inquiry into the very possibility of documentary objectivity.

Ali had a severe accident that had to lie down in a coma. Although his body lays helpless and has to race between life and death, Ali's soul remained alive like a human being.

Christmas Day 2018. Isabelle Barrere has just been elected President of her Party. Her son Jupiter, a parlementary assistant, has been put in charge of the reception of a unique official gift: The Ortega Ham.

A woman documents her experience as she stops sleeping in order to gain total control of her life.

Eight years after a cataclysm and disease ravaged the human race, leaving just one in every ten surviving, all social structures have crumbled like sand castles. All remaining animals have been consumed and no sowing has yet been possible. It is Man at his most basic, destitute level.

Two girls reflect on their secret desires in this romantic fantasy short film.

A young girl finds her ideal type in a small bathhouse which runs by her mother. She is strongly attracted to something and awaits her. It is not possible to know whether the women's scent, which she has not yet had, is yearning for her.

When Wolf refuses to fight his best friend Alexander during a weekly boxing match, the whole village turns against him. He tries to convince Alexander to join him leaving the village, but his overly romantic message runs into a wall.

In a society full of mistrust of foreign people, a Swiss lawyer with Arabic roots becomes a victim of prejudice towards the Arab culture.

Simge, who feels imprisoned in her relationship, asks a delivery guy to pretend to be her boyfriend for rehearsing a break up talk but this rehearsal puts her into a place she wouldn’t imagine.

OMBRE is a shortmovie about the sorrow of mourning. After a car crash a woman lost his boyfriends. For surviving to the pain she create -unconscious- a personal world where she can live without face up to reality. But this world starting soon to mutate in a nightmare. So she is forced to face the reality and make a strong act for being free.

Jani is branded as a curse by the society after her mother dies while giving birth, which makes it a struggle for her and her brother to survive in their day-to-day life.

Driving through the desert, a man and woman negotiate the terms of their relationship in this exploration of patriarchal power dynamics.

A sister struggles to keep her brothers together when the eldest, a recovering drug addict, returns from rehab.

A woman receiving a phone call, and what happens after.

Anyone who has ever been to Japan knows the problem of Alex (speaks English), Mikako (speaks Japanese) and Karen (speaks both): Communication can be a very cumbersome affair, especially when you are in love.

A short story about a girl called Anya, who is bullied at school. One night her low self-esteem turns itself into a monster which disrupts her in her sleep. The scaring business takes an unexpected turn, and Anya finds herself with a new - albeit reluctant - friend.

Joel works as a night caregiver in the building where Mari lives, his cousin, an independent woman, recently divorced, with whom he maintains a relationship based purely on sex. On Christmas' Eve, Joel is fired from his job. He must abandon the one that had become his refuge, to return to the small house where his mother and grandmother live, an old woman who suffers from Alzheimer's. Overcrowding and illness make the holidays hellish days.

Near the walls of the Kremlin, a real duel unfolds between two former friends over a girl of exceptional beauty and supernatural powers named Olesya.... But who is Olesya?... a 16-year-old feeble-minded girl, the week-long wife, a blessed fool with superpowers, able to light up lamps and electrocute in the bedroom. She is a literary character living in 21st century Moscow, unaware of her own beauty and power. For the two young and rich playboys, Olesya's 'spicy make-up' takes on a whole new meaning. But what can this pretentious duel change in an iPhone-world full of infidelity, vanity, and cruelty?

A successful writer and his estranged brother reunite at their father's funeral, but their reunion is complicated by an insensitive spouse, tequila consumption, and the haunting memories of a dead squirrel.

A nine-year-old autistic boy is found dead in the bath tub. His mother Ingrid, who spent her life caring for him and loved him dearly, is being investigated for murder.

A young man and woman discover the beauty of Tokyo at night as they wander around the streets of the capital after the last train leaves. Winner of multiple Moosic Lab 2018 awards in the Short Movie category.

Faced with the possibility of losing his loved one, an European pianist refugee plans to coerce a shared relationship with hidden intentions.

Embarrassed by her un-American look, a young girl betrays her younger sister during their first Sunday at a Chinese-American church.

The Great Dante, a prestigious magician, accidentally dies during a risky magic trick. Thirty-five years later, his son Lorenzo, also a magician, presents a show at one of the city's most important theaters. From this point on, a series of murders will begin to occur that someone tries to pin on him. Lorenzo will have to find out who it is and why this person wants to implicate him

Marathon runner Jonas Widmer is looking for a way to overcome his tragic past. As a result, he becomes more and more entangled in an ominous double life. The true drama about a well-known top athlete, who evolves into a serial offender.

An impressionable Launceston Elliot comes under the spell of the iconic Sandow The Magnificent. He seeks out his idol and becomes his protégée.

In a small mountain valley in Italy, the former criminal Cesare discovers the corpse of his nephew Fausto.

A single mother and her eight year old son meets her man from her past after nine years.

The Night Thief is a warmhearted drama set in the suburbs of Helsinki, Finland. It tells the story of a Somali man, Farah, whose car starts to disappear mysteriously at night. Although the car always shows up in the morning, Farah starts to run late from work, and fears that he could lose his job. Farah’s wife is moving to Finland from Somalia and if Farah were to get fired, his wife’s residency permit would be in danger. Due to the circumstances, Farah decides to do whatever it takes to catch the thief. In the end, things take an unexpected turn when Farah finally faces the person who has been stealing his car.

A man's past catches up to him, now he must face his consequences in game of roulette.

Four people are thrust into four unknown situations, and required to make a choice. With their happiness, lives and families hanging in the balance, what consequence will they face?

Euripides' Heracles, a passionate tragedy of intense pathos, performed by an all-female cast and directed by Emma Dante at the Greek Theater in Syracuse.

A dramatization of the accounts of the students, parents, teachers and administrators caught in America’s school-to-prison pipeline, which pushes underprivileged, minority youth out of the classroom and into incarceration.

A comfortable life, a successful jade business—all this until the protagonist finds himself in a situation that plunges him and his entire family into tragic circumstances. A man who seemingly can buy anything, including power, finds himself powerless against a series of random events. Having lost a loved one, he decides to take a desperate step.

It is the hearts that make real countries, not the borders drawn on the maps, the land of earthly love without a map, without a geographical border

An autobiographical short film adapted from a collection of memories from various moments in this woman's life where she wanted to die.

Over the years, those small sticking points pervading Krister and Kristina Carnemos's marriage have filled them both with doubts over a future together.

Favela resident Ursinho, an overweight mixed race 30 year old introvert, fantasizes about his dream Adonis: one of Copacabana's high end male prostitutes.

Working in the same documentary team, Jin-seong and Mira receive a call that they should go shooting again right after a night shooting. Jin-seong driving a car asks Mira to shoot some insert shots because he should get some sleep when arriving. Mira takes insert shots with the camera that she handles for the first time. Soon, she falls into the world of the frame.

From a paradisiacal space, seen as a ruined room-house, around a gallows blossoming like a Japanese cherry blossom in spring, Apostol Bologa tells us his journey from darkness to the light of resurrection. His memories become the movie Apostle Bologa. A saint who (tells us), beyond death - saints and heroes never die, do they?

It is 1999 in Bishop, a small town filled with secrets. Three sisters, Belle, Rachel, and Jessa are trying to cope with the absence of their mother and maintain a normal life. Silently repressing them is Rick, their damaged father who, adrift himself, is growing increasingly obsessed with the rapture that he believes is imminent. With home anything but a refuge, the sisters must cling to one another to survive.

A woman must safe herself and escape from a bizarre black room where she waltz with her biggest fear and trauma. A Choreography of Violence is a short experimental film that tells a story about love gone wrong, domestic violence, and freedom. The story is told through contemporary dance, with no dialogue, for the entirety of the film.

The members of a reading group exchange cultural and literary references with such vigor that there’s little room for anything else: an attempt to leave the modern world behind or merely their own solitary existences?

A broken hearted man is sentenced to death for the murder of a storekeeper.

Puerto Rico: Young and pregnant, Wilma fears becoming absorbed by motherhood like her sister Luisa, losing both herself and her artistic aspirations. On this morning, her mother, a santera, presents her with a startling premonition: Life has other plans for her, her children and her family.

A lonely janitor hires a struggling actress to reenact ten favorite memories of his dead wife.

An old unmarried couple broke the monotony of their daily lives when the woman’s estranged husband reached out to them, seeking reconciliation and forgiveness.

When Max, a down on his luck strip club owner, has his life and livelihood threatened by local gangsters, he turns to his wife's connections for help and hires a hitman to solve the problem once and for all. But before long, Max is blinded by his newfound power and his family finds him spinning off the rails as the body count piles up.

In late 1970s Philippines, a military-controlled militia oppresses a remote village, spreading terror both physical and psychological. Fearless young doctor Lorena opens a clinic for the poor but disappears without a trace. Her activist poet husband sets out to find her.

Following a tragic accident, two damaged souls find each other in a dark, messed up situation.

In a corporate world void of human interaction, Ennis has lost her ability to relate to others. When the company fires her and forces her into a crowded tenement building, Ennis must overcome her fear of human connection to begin again.