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Three Little Cats

2012

A little cat witnesses the passing of his family.

The Last Cupcake

2025

When a woman working in an office is tempted by the final cupcake from the snack stand in her office, she must fight tirelessly to have it from a colleague who keeps getting there before her.

Dreams of Paper & Ink

2022

An elderly novelist re-visits the crossroads of his first and 2nd love through memory, imagination and a typewriter.

Fish Out of Water

2008

Fish Out of Water manages to unfurl its light-hearted tale of young man and the sea, without a word of dialogue. Avoiding the morning traffic jams, our man (Nick Dunbar) finds peace by rowing each day to work in the city. But when a seductive blonde unexpectedly enters the picture, he finds his morning boat ride heading in unexpected directions. Directed by Lala Rolls (Land of My Ancestors), Fish Out of Water was invited to play in the 2005 NZ Film Festival, plus another 10 overseas fests. Victoria Kelly composes the brass and banjo-inflected soundtrack.

Sharp Candy

2012

Lelaina was mellow, eating marshmallow.

Awena’s Dressing Room

2012

Awena was left alone when war took him away from home.

Stringless Puppets

2022

A young man living far from his beloved one wastes his existence absorbed in modern distractions until he loses contact with her.

The Little One and the Giant

2025

This stop-motion animated short film draws us into a post-apocalyptic world through the eyes of a solitary hamster. Wandering through the ruins of once-thriving cities, he scavenges for objects, searches for water, and tries to care for the last surviving plants. One day, he stumbles upon a pair of binoculars. Through them, he spots a strange house covered in flowers, standing in the middle of the urban desert. Intrigued, he sets off to explore and discovers the Giant, a plant-like creature trapped inside its own overgrown sanctuary. Terrified of the outside world, the Giant dares not cross the walls of its home. Petit decides to help. Together, they embark on a journey that’s as simple as it is extraordinary: to make the Earth bloom again.

Volpina

2021

The Silence Between

2022

While moving out of their home, a desponding couple recollects on their crumbling relationship.

Weekends

2017

Set in 1980s Toronto, a young boy shuffles between the homes of his recently divorced parents.

Blurred

2014

A mysterious old man and a dark past made up of classic cars, beautiful women and the excesses of his youth.

Most Flew South

2020

A devastating plague has wiped out half the population of New York City, leaving it in a perpetual state of emergency. After years of lockdown, a young man, Paul, puts on his hazmat suit and ventures into the abandoned streets to meet Justine - a woman with whom he has developed a romance online, but never met. Paul has dreamed about this day, but doing this in reality is something else entirely. Will they be able to overcome their anxieties - and is it worth the risk?

Phantasia

2024

X-ray images were invented in 1895, the same year in which the Lumière brothers presented their respective invention in what today is considered to be the first cinema screening. Thus, both cinema and radiography fall within the scopic regime inaugurated by modernity. The use of X-rays on two sculptures from the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum generates images that reveal certain elements of them that would otherwise be invisible to our eyes. These images, despite being generally created for technical or scientific purposes, seem to produce a certain form of 'photogénie': they lend the radiographed objects a new appearance that lies somewhere between the material and the ethereal, endowing them with a vaporous and spectral quality. It is not by chance that physics and phantasmagoria share the term 'spectrum' in their vocabulary.

It Wasn't God's Will

2007

The story of Ramiro, a young boy, who is leaving to war; his return and his missing with the love of his life, Laurinda.