The Love Effect

Chikon Nindo and the Hunters

A strange disappearance in the Sierra Mazateca.

2020

Sergeant

One night in Belgrade, a young guy meets a man for casual sex. By morning, different expectations can bring a new light on this chance meeting.

2012

Beach Read

A romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut engage in a summer-long challenge that may just upend everything

Half-Light

A couple debates having unprotected car sex late at night.

2023

Sunday Dinner

Early dialogue free short by Bent Hamer.

1991

Famous Boners

This Passing Parade series entry looks at three instances of people who either caused or were the victims of errors.

1942

Cannibals

Just 10 minutes from the center of Madrid (but also from Rome, Paris, London ...), hundreds of hungry men meet in a fortuitous and secret way. Some ar

2009

Words in Your Hair

Two bored extras from the ‘Tristan and Isolde’ opera roam the underground of the Garnier Palace.

2019

The Christmas Gift

A son's letter to Santa for Christmas turns his father's evening into a thriller he did not ask for.

2018

Long Distance Call

Henry is alone in a silent and darkened apartment, anxious and waiting by the phone, as his small child sleeps. Finally, a call. His wife Claire is on

2011

US

A mother and daughter reunite after having not been in touch for ten years.

2016

Background

Ruben is an anodyne guy attracted by the unusual beauty of Alba, an enigmatic woman. Both live in a peculiar silent universe, with established and sur

2018

Jem and the Holograms

As a small-town girl catapults from underground video sensation to global superstar, she and her three sisters begin a one-in-a-million journey of dis

2015

Blackbird

A story about friendship between two boys coming from different social backgrounds, but with the equally bitter family experiences.

1988

Daisy Kenyon

Daisy Kenyon is a Manhattan commercial artist having an affair with an arrogant and overbearing but successful lawyer and family man named Dan O'Mara.

1947

Secret

Ye Xiang Lun, a talented piano player is a new student at the prestigious Tamkang School. On his first day, he meets Lu Xiao Yu, a pretty girl playing

2007

Funny People

Famous and wealthy funnyman George Simmons doesn't give much thought to how he treats people until a doctor delivers stunning health news, forcing Geo

2009

Smoke Signals

Young Native American man Thomas is a nerd in his reservation, wearing oversize glasses and telling everyone stories no-one wants to hear. His parents

1998

Sound of Silence

We meet two girls in the middle ground between childhood and adolescence, a time where it is easy to misjudge the difference between right and wrong.

2019

Concern for Welfare

Ali is a gay Lebanese probationary constable and kicking against her Muslim brother's controlling behaviour. When she attends a 'concern for welfare'

2018