Short Film Pleasure

Shaking Tokyo
"Shaking Tokyo" is about an agoraphobic man, called hikikomori in Japanese. He sustains himself on pizza, living off of money left to him by his father. One day, he does the unthinkable: he makes eye contact with a pretty delivery girl — the first eyes ...
3×3
A night watchman spends time on a basketball court throwing a ball into the basket. He has become an expert. He shows his abilities to a simple janitor, who also like him, is there all night. Directed by Nuno Rocha / Portugal / 2009
Chienne d’Histoire
Constantinople 1910. The streets are overrun with stray dogs. The newly-established government, influenced by a model of Western society, uses European experts to choose a method of eradication before deciding, suddenly and alone, to massively deport the dogs to a deserted island away from the city. Won Golden ...
Children Lose Nothing
A cinematic poetry from Lituhanian auteur Sharunas Bartas. Segment of "Visions of Europe" omnibus film. Directed by Sharunas Bartas / Lithuania / 2004
Dans le noir du temps
"In the Darkness of Time", filmed by the ideologue of the French "New Wave" Jean-Luc Godard, represents an essence of visual reflection of the Time. Godard shows the audience a real Pandora's box, which seems to be hidden all the horrors of the world: the last ...
The Perfect Human
An elegant and humorous film-in the guise of a serious anthropological treatise-spotlights "The Perfect Human", a model of the modern Dane created by our wishful thinking. The Man (Claus Nissen) and The Woman (Majken Algren Nielsen) are in an empty white room with only the essential ...
One Moment
Poetic, affectionate, lyrical, and elegy for actor Rudolf Hrusinsky composed of a wordless montage of slowed film footage spanning Hrusinsky's entire career that embodies the human experience: toil, rest, education, romantic love, rejection, desire, aging, frailty. A recurring interstitial black screen with the words "ten ...
The Internet, The Truth Behind The Conspiracy
A journalist embarks on a crusade that will put his life at risk to find out the truth behind the conspiracy surrounding the Internet. Does the Internet really exist or is it all just a conspiracy? Join us in this quest for justice and truth where ...
When it Will Be Silent
In the aftermath of an apocalypse, a man's tragic loss leads him to an unequivocal decision. Directed by Dan Sachar / Israel / 2009
One Fine Day
This film is basically about a farmer who travels a few miles to a dingy, remote country cinema to watch Kitano's Kids Return, only for the showing to constantly break down because of an inept projectionist (played by Kitano). Segment from “Chacun Son Cinéma” (To Each ...
Plastic Bag
This short film by American director Ramin Bahrani (Goodbye Solo) traces the epic, existential journey of a plastic bag (voiced by Werner Herzog) searching for its lost maker, the woman who took it home from the store and eventually discarded it. Along the way, it ...
Chosen
The Driver is carrying an Asian child who has been chosen for a strange ritual. He must drive him through a dark night in the city to get to a monk's house, while eluding several American cars out to get the child. A part of BMW ...
Ticker
The Driver finds himself in a dangerous, yet highly political situation; this time being pursued by a helicopter gunship while carrying a passenger with a suitcase... the contents of which will decide the fate of a nation. A part of BMW "The Hire" film series. Directed by ...
Hostage
The Driver races to locate a kidnapped victim locked in the trunk of an abandoned car somewhere on the water's edge. Linked to her only by cell phone, the driver narrows in on her location in a desperate race against time and tide. A part of ...
Where is my Romeo
Women in the cinema watching a film "Romeo and Juliet".. Segment from "Chacun Son Cinéma" (To Each His Own Cinema) collective film of 33 shorts directed by different directors about their feeling about Cinema. Directed by Abbas Kiarostami / Iran / 2007