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An adopted boy named Bruno wants to follow his dream of becoming a famous musician. His best friend, Thomas, has always been very supportive to Bruno and is helping him making major steps into the right direction. However, Bruno has to overcome some of the biggest obstacles in his life in order to reach this dream.

The third of Daniel Eisenberg’s thematically connected film essays about postwar Europe, PERSISTENCE, an award-winning feature-length experimental documentary in gorgeous color, once again explores the relationships between past, present and future in a complex portrait of the city of Berlin (divided from 1961 to 1989 by the grandiose Berlin Wall).

A film made using the YouTube Kids algorithm.

El, a young anthropomorphic hyena woman, navigates the shadowy, litter-strewn back alleys of a sprawling futuristic city, where anthropomorphic animals and sentient robots of endless variety call home. El is in search of something lost to her and she is determined to find it. In hopes of answers, she heads into the inner city for something that could help...

It was to be the greatest animated film of all time. Not just an eye-opener, but a game-changer. Richard Williams demanded nothing less, investing nearly three decades into his movie masterpiece. From as early as 1964 he ploughed most of the profits right back into his pet project, a feature inspired by the Arabian Nights and provisionally known as Mullah Nasruddin. He assembled a team of inspired young artists—and brought in the best Hollywood craftsmen to teach them—and devised what would be the most elaborate, kaleidoscopic, mind-boggling visual sequences ever committed to celluloid. Years passed. Potential financiers came and went. Work continued. But it was only after Roger Rabbit that Williams had a studio budget to corroborate the munificence of his imagination.

Blank's TV documentary on Straub-Huillet.

A young tourist is invited for an artistic collaboration. This opens to him the door to another dimension which can be a reflection of his own unconscious desires.

An experimental short about the relationship between music and color.

In 1971, some young Peruvian playwrights founded the group Yuyachkani, a Quechua word which means: "I am thinking, I am remembering. 25 years later, in 1996, the group celebrates its anniversary, performing a retrospective of its most important works, which allows them to think and remember about the scene they have traveled

A young play actress considers an out-of-the-ordinary job offer she has received, jeopardizing her personal and professional relationship with her current co-star, minutes before a performance.

A paralympic athlete that tries to beat a record ends up stuck in a time loop.

Documentary about Charles Olson, exploring his life and the significance of Gloucester, Massachusetts.

This poignant documentary portrait by writer, director, and producer Rodney Evans chronicles the experiences and creative process of photographer John Dugdale as he adapts to his loss of vision due to an HIV-related illness.

Grappling with the loss of her beloved, a programmer begins employment at a tech company specializing in high-end, artificial companions.

A short documentary profile of the Anthology Film Archives, shot on the eve of the move to the historic 2nd Avenue Courthouse. Staff and patrons are interviewed, and films preserved by Anthology are spotlighted.

A short documentary about Suzan Pitt and her animated films, Asparagus (1979), Joy Street (1995) and El Doctor (2006).

A salesman pursuing a potential client takes tenacity to new heights, and depths.

After the death of his boyfriend, Abraham relives the abuse he endured as a child.

About memory and identity and the disintegration of both. "For it is hard to discover the winged vertebrates of prehistory embedded in tablets of slate. But if I see before me the nervature of past life in one image, I always think that this has something to do with truth. Our brains, after all, are always at work on some quivers of self-organisation, however faint, and it is from this that an order arises, in places beautiful and comforting, though more cruel, too, than the previous state of ignorance." W.G. Sebald, After Nature

A pair of time-traveling detectives, sent to investigate a cold case murder in 1957, uncover the horrible, cosmic truth of humanity’s ascendancy, unraveling their perception of time and space.

A city teen travels to Montana to go hunting with his estranged father, only for the strained trip to become a battle for survival when they encounter a grizzly bear.

Daffy is an agent representing Sleepy Lagoon, trying to sell him to talent scout Porky. Daffy spends a great deal of time and energy explaining and demonstrating what the kid can do, while the kid sits on a couch licking a giant sucker.

In China, Ben & his friend watch a ping-pong competition on a communal village TV, and Ben's dreams begin. Ping-pong is in Ben's heart, but he can't ask his mum for money to buy the balls & paddles.

Slug McSlug, a notorious bank robber, is chased by police after his latest heist. He reaches his country hideout, where he is promptly visited by an uninvited Daffy Duck, who is a door-to-door vendor of a variety of items.

Seen through the lens of a window pane, Outside Looking In invites you to peer through a window of a quaint apartment, where a lone Ballerina’s beautiful, yet daunting story unfolds. Her every movement speaks volumes, portraying the dedication and sacrifice she pours into perfecting her art. As days turn to nights, her passion and resilience shine through, illuminating the world behind the window with a story of determination and grace.

Amidst the urban transformation driven by progress, bulldozers dismantle 'illegal' settlements, leaving countless lives shattered. In the aftermath of such upheaval, one basti, sacrificed to conceal poverty during the G20 summit, and another basti, abandoned by authorities without alternative housing, illustrate the stark realities of displacement. The film delves into the daily struggles of individuals who persist in the rubble of their former homes.

The Pink Panther has problems waking up in the morning and buys a cuckoo clock, but it causes more problems.

Featuring a salesman and a consumer, this animated short is a humorous study of the patterns that define buyer-seller relationships. The Persistent Peddler is based on Claude Cloutier's hit comic strip La Légende des Jean-Guy, first introduced in Quebec humour magazine Croc.

When a desolate and vulnerable girl is forced to enter an orphanage with her younger siblings, she must overcome harsh adversity and hardship to propel herself to a hopeful, academic future.