The Last Cinema

A family of six's fresh start on 1990s Vancouver Island unravels as their youngest child, Sasha, witnesses the increasingly dangerous behavior of her older brother, Jeremy.

While out to avoid spending time with her narcissistic and promiscuous mother, sixteen-year-old Jo has a brief affair that leaves her pregnant and abandoned. When her mother remarries, Jo's only support becomes her friend Geoffrey, a homosexual.

A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as her last chance.

A searing look at a day in the life of an assistant to a powerful executive. As Jane follows her daily routine, she grows increasingly aware of the insidious abuse that threatens every aspect of her position.

Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell.

An outrageous erotic poem focusing on the daydreams of a beautiful boy prostitute who, from the seclusion of his ultra-kitsch apartment, conceives a series of interlinked narcissistic fantasies populated by matadors, dancing boys, slaves, and leather-clad bikers.

A theater director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to create a life-size replica of New York inside a warehouse as part of his new play.

Judge Clarence Thomas' nomination to the United States' Supreme Court is called into question when former colleague, Anita Hill, testifies that he had sexually harassed her.

When a brilliant nine-year-old working in a sweatshop gets a chance to attend school, she must make a difficult choice for her and her sister's future.

In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, and neglects her daughter and husband. Lawyer Jim Train is devoted to his career, not his family. Helen Christianson wants to find a new spark in life, while Annette Jennings tries to rebuild hers.

When a pastor is shaken by the visible faith of a street-corner preacher, he is reminded that true belief always requires action. His response ignites a journey that impacts everyone it touches in ways that only God could orchestrate.

Davey Gordon, a New York City boxer at the end of his career, falls for dancer Gloria Price. However, their budding relationship is interrupted by Gloria's violent boss, Vincent Rapallo, who has eyes for Gloria. The two decide to skip town, but before they can, Vincent and his thugs abduct Gloria, and Davey is forced to search for her among the most squalid corners of the city, with his enemy hiding in the shadows.

Feeling awkward and isolated, an imaginative and strong-willed teenage girl runs away from home with an older punk rock drifter.

After returning home to his long-estranged mother upon a request from her deathbed, a man raised by his parents in an orphanage has to confront the childhood memories that have long haunted him.

The legendary Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arcel change each other's lives.

The career of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo is halted by a witch hunt in the late 1940s when he defies the anti-communist HUAC committee and is blacklisted.

When lapsed Jew and former cardiologist Harry suddenly decides to spend his retirement as a pig farmer in Nazareth, Israel, the move deeply shocks his family and his new neighbours. Back in New York, Harry’s ex-wife Monica is trying to manage the lives of their adult children, Annabelle and David, as well as her own.

A lesbian college graduate, trying to bankroll her own photography business, works as a high-priced New York City escort.

Grieving parents journey through an emotional void as they mourn the loss of a child after a tragic school shooting.

An aging, out-of-work actress accepts one last job, though the consequences of her decision affect her in ways she didn't consider.

Smokers (Los Fumadores) is a drama about two Cuban exiles living in Miami, Rita and Gustavo, and their day-to-day lives. After tragedy occurs, Rita's estranged son Manuel arrives to spend time with her. He soon becomes obsessed over a family secret regarding his deceased sister. He attempts to come to terms with this secret while reconciling with his mother.

Daisy and Lila are best friends. At a suburban house party, shifting desires and tough choices force them to reconsider their place in the world and what they mean to each other.

A grieving woman’s reality and memories begin to blur as her adoptive mother, Mother Nikki, reaches out to her from the spirit realm. She must speak to her mother one last time—or risk losing the ability to love herself and others.

Longing for a baby, a stripper pursues another man in order to make her boyfriend jealous.

In countless meeting rooms, an employee wants to resign. Her motivations don't matter, what matters is the catharsis of resignation.

A reflection on man's relationship and needs with the earth, with the self and with hope.

The short film poem KYKLOP is dedicated to a mechanical eye as an autonomous being. Round wheels and targets similar to him seem to arouse the interest of this main character. The atmosphere is thundery, thunderous. It reminds of the cyclopean thunder demons from the "Theogony" of the ancient Greek poet Hesiod. KYKLOP (2023) is another autonomous part of the film cycle by Telemach Wiesinger and Alexander Grebtschenko that began with TURBULENCE (2022) and its pairs of mechanical wings.

In this single character-driven movie, we follow the life of meta, an archaeologist. In her excavation she comes across an old ruin and unknowingly falls trap to a curse. This curse later leads her head to get stuck in a mystical pot. It is the nature’s payback to her unknown karmic cycle.

Born from steel and glass Kino Kopf is created by two inventors. They are assembled by their mother, a nurturing artist, and their Father a greedy entrepreneur. Kino Kopf is the first of its kind a sentient humanoid VHS camera. They are given a life by their mother but presented to the world by their father. Kino Kopf is the next big sensation and spurs a technological revolution. They are soon forgotten and alone as new models surpass them. Kino Kopf is left alone to contemplate if they ever had a soul, as visions of an electric cowboy dance through their dreams.

When Aziza finally shares a recurring dream, it’s what she leaves unsaid that reveals her fractured sense of self. Aziza’s dream – in which she must sing a song – takes her on a journey through the post-industrial hills of the American Rust Belt, the eternal fields of Egypt, and the most repressed parts of her mind.

A man breaks in a house, in which he never went before. However, he seems to got some memories of it...

An experimental film that explores the minds of a teenage couple experiencing an unintended pregnancy and their struggles with social pressure, discrimination, and abuse.

The line between isolation and creativity begins to blur for a group of teenagers. Some are free, some are not; but all have moments of passion and beauty.

Two robots embark on a quest to become human.

Six women in Paris traverse the anxiety of the city after dark. A filmmaker struggles to understand the film she is making. A Black single mother refuses the categories imposed on her. A former sex worker reflects on her past. A poet gives up trying for a child. Taking place over a single night, the film intertwines dream, fiction, and reality, liquefying one into the other.

Guided by a queer deity, a closeted man is forced to confront his parents as he tries to regain his lost sense of identity.

A multi-awarded 23 minute short film about pansexual punk rockers in a toxic relationship in London’s underground music scene