Movies: Slice of life

A young dreamer wearing a hat made of aluminum foil walks along the UFO Route in Lajas, Puerto Rico, contemplating extraterrestrial life, the collective unconscious, and the immensity of the cosmos....

The short film tells a slice-of-life story set in a family-run Chinese bakery, exploring parenting philosophies and the pressures faced by the younger immigrant generation....

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Tomás and Valentim are two young men who have just entered their twenties, full of dreams, illusions, and disappointments. The two enter a relationship seeking to fill the emptiness within themselves, but soon realize that for a relationship to work,...

After a life-changing trauma, a former professional swimmer distances himself from his two daughters. Will he find the strength to reconnect with them and rediscover the love that binds them together?...

Being a Cat Robot sure is tiring......

A thoughtful and meditative coming of age film that follows a meandering young adult. He, while on a call with a friend, realizes that it is the end of summer. Over the last few days of summer he struggles to face the nothingness of his future....

It’s live piano karaoke night: superheroes and average joes alike are at the bar, and all of them have baggage: crises of faith, turning points in life, etc.. Deep conversations will be struck, tunes will be belted out, and just maybe, by the end of ...

Staying with an old friend in a new city, a former Olympian aims to let loose on his last day. All the while an important decision looms above his head…...

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Written and Directed by Santiago Cantu, following a high school student and the loss of his brother....

A young woman stuck in her childhood home tries to find purpose and meaning despite living in a quarantined world....

Rye, a photographer, and Chris, a political science student, are in their final year of college, and have lived together in the same house for three years. While their bond has grown increasingly stale since first moving in together, they’re tethered...

Three friends journey through several US states in order to legally purchase marijuana...

After the era of Big Power Outages, Shang Jing City has become an international metropolis and being an idol has become the most popular career. Five girls studying at Music&Art Private High School work hard to reach their goal of being at the top of...

Rolling along on a bike or floating in a doctor’s office’s seasonal hamster display, Wheel Music explores the aesthetic feeling and social character of Sendagi, an old town in Tokyo under urban development in preparation for the planned Tokyo 2020 Su...

A pixalation animation about a woman's dream....

On a daily university van ride, two strangers exchange nothing but silent glances and louder thoughts. As days pass, their unspoken bond grows — until the silence becomes the story....

Experimental documentary dissecting artistic inspiration through raw imagery and collage, aiming to answer a defining question for artists: What to film?...

The paths of two strangers cross on a New Year's Eve spent alone, far from everyone. Driven by chance, they begin to reflect on their past and imagine what might have led them to experience that night together if they had met earlier....