The Nettle

Ben-Hur

In 25 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accused by a Roman childhood friend-turned-overlord of t

1959

Spartacus

The rebellious Thracian Spartacus, born and raised a slave, is sold to Gladiator trainer Batiatus. After weeks of being trained to kill for the arena,

1960

PARANdrOID

2024

El primer día

At a train station, a thief steals from a couple while the passengers are getting off the train. The boy runs after the thief and disappears. The girl

1962

A Different Tree

An eight-year-old girl tries to build a relationship with her absent father through a class-assigned family tree.

2013

Stone Cars

A teenage girl growing up in dangerous Khayelitsha township is faced with a difficult decision in the wake of a traumatic event. Olwethu Anita April a

2014

Love in Thoughts

A posthumous look at the last days of Guenther's life as he, his best friend, and his sister let loose on a four-day binge of alcohol, drugs, and sex.

2004

TINA

A 23-year-old revisits the family car he grew up with to experience the thrill of childhood again...

2024

Dotty

A lonely 9-year-old boy stumbles across a modest caravan in the American Midwest. Inside the caravan lives Dotty, an eccentric but kind women; old en

2013

Shallow

When newly elected MP Richard Dove runs over a young girl on a deserted forest road, he must decide to what lengths he will go to save his blossoming

2012

Mind Control Made Easy or How to Become a Cult Leader

Don't you want devoted followers? Helpful tips for luring people into your cult and psychologically manipulating them into devotion to you, and enforc

1999

Wandering

This short by Tsai Ming-liang, completed in 2021, was filmed at "the Dune" in Yilan, Taiwan, where the eight films in his Walker series were being sho

2021

The Rift

2002

Werewolf Orderlies

A young sailor descends from a local train. He goes to a nearby forest, which is full of strange men in medical uniforms behaving in an absurd and ecc

1984

Pim Pam Pum

2023

Undercut

Female high-school athletes become unlikely teammates in the wake of unspoken trauma.

2019

Henry John and the Little Bug

Dinner time in a remote home of a prairie family turns nightmarish when a band of blood spattered outlaws break through the front door in search of fo

2009

Growth

The rise and downfall of a family over the course of 20 years, in one living room, in a single shot.

2016

Bone

Alessio is a thirteen-year-old boy affected by Avoidant Personality Disorder (AvPD). Running away from home, he takes shelter in a place far from the

2018

Rocky

A boy looks for all sorts of jobs in a small town in order to pay for his sick brother’s medicine. He eventually decides to enter his rooster in fight

2018