the things I keep from my mother

Listening

At a spa where talking is forbidden, an emotionally distraught woman finds solace in the company of a kind man and the two of them gradually fall in l

2003

Reasons

When a dinner party descends into a vicious sibling argument between Tom and Emily, their partners Jade and Norman can't wait to escape, but clumsy re

2022

Woodsman

In WOODSMAN, young couple Alan and Lottie make do with what they've got: each other. After an accident has left Lottie bedridden and nonverbal, the tw

2023

Orangutan

A vivacious aspiring social worker brings together five peculiar strangers to help solve their existential problems but finds herself in way over her

2021

Love and Magnets

Back in Montréal after spending five years in Guatemala, Julie moves in with her elder sister, Jeanne, a chronic liar and woman of rather loose sexual

2004

A Halt

A short film about communication.

2016

The Words

On his way to a nameless destination, a man decides to stop by his father's house. The awkwardness of the relationship between the man and his old and

2009

Arrival

Taking place after alien crafts land around the world, an expert linguist is recruited by the military to determine whether they come in peace or are

2016

Jerk Off Session

When Johannes gets caught by his girlfriend while laying on the bathroom floor watching porn and masturbating she doesn’t care and wants him to enjoy

2022

Petit Ruban

2023

Brother, Where Are You?

Two brothers, separated by time and prison bars, reestablish contact. Inspired by James Baldwin's short story, 'Sonny's Blues.'

2022

David

A young mute student goes to the movies when ditching school, but changes his mind when he meets an unemployed man who tries to communicate with him.

2005

Maschere: come superare l'incomunicabilità

2024

Chatô, The King of Brazil

The true story of Assis Chateaubriand, the first magnate of communications in Brazil. Due to his influence during the late 1930s up to the early 1960s

2015

The Wait

An enigmatic phone call from a psychic catapults a family into a state of suspended belief while waiting for their recently deceased mother to be resu

2014

Aloha

A celebrated military contractor returns to the site of his greatest career triumphs and re-connects with a long-ago love while unexpectedly falling f

2015

Domain

After a deadly virus wipes out most of humanity, the survivors are forced to wait alone in self-sustaining bunkers while the viral threat runs its cou

2017

Okay, Bye

A woman. A phone call. A reality unspoken.

Julia's New Friend

A 14 year-old girl builds herself a best friend to cope with the mounting pressures of adolescence.

2021

MM, UH, OH, AH

Bockey LEE, President of “Tong Hal Tong (go through,)” Communication, is a linguist and anthropologist who created the “MM, UH, OH, AH” conversational

2024