"BUDKA" by George Alshevskij-Jones(2025)

Félix and the Fish(es)

Félix finds a young man lying unconscious on the beach and realizes he has scales on his back. Félix takes him home and takes care of him.

...Maybe This Time(en)

Fran, the assistant to university professor Paddy, is about to turn 30. She is having an affair with a married minister's aide, Stephen. She returns home to the country town she grew up in and has a fling with an old flame, Alan. She also begins sleeping with Paddy.

Bones(es)

Victor turns 21 in a month. Before he turns 21, he has set two goals: to lose his virginity and to weigh less than 50 kilos.

Tiresias(es)

Lucia, Carla and Nico are three siblings who have lived together peacefully for years. Carla has always been special, until one day that which makes her special disappears, or rather, do they think it disappears?

Rufus(en)

Rufus is a child with an extraordinary obsession: a burning, inþamed desire for anything red. Driven by this impassioned, scarlet fixation, which he can neither control nor understand, he shifts through life in a whirlwind of redness, entirely in the hands of his bizarre compulsion.

Passenger(en)

In this anime-inspired film, a vengeful spirit tries to possess Cora's body, but over time they form a dysfunctional relationship.

The Joke(es)

A bunch of friends are celebrating the birthday of one of them when they decide to play a joke on him. None of them could imagine the consequences that would befall them.

3/105(es)

One river. One death.

Eye of the Beholder(en)

An artist struggles to come to terms with the fact that his eyesight is failing.

Boydem(he)

This particular summer, at an age that falls between childhood and young adulthood, while their grandparents are taking their afternoon nap, Keren and Noam play games in the attic ("Boydem" in Yiddish) that introduces them to a new level of intimacy.

Night Child(sv)

Nattbarn is based on a graphic novel by Hanna Gustafsson, and is about 14-year-old Iggy, who lives a parallel life to escape everyday life. A story about identity, sexuality, borderland and friendship.

Once Upon a Time in America(en)

A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.

Le Banc(fr)

100m Freestyle(es)

Polo and Domingo spend their last days together between Ciudad Mendoza and Cordoba, in Veracruz, Mexico, before Domingo moves to another city for college. Domingo has to say goodbye to his girlfriend, Mina; while Polo deals with his feelings towards his best friend in the little time they have left.

An Ode to Solitude(en)

Exploring the duality between friendship and loneliness, this intimate narrative short tells the story of David, a bright young boy struggling with a broken home life, as he tries to reconnect with his childhood best friends as they search for something to do in their small suburban town.

A Piacere(en)

A violin student wrestles with her motivations for studying what she loves.

Polycephaly in D(en)

Informed by an underlying sense of anxiety and anguish, Michael Robinson’s Polycephaly in D nestles fragments of narrative within a collage of sound, image, and text that oscillates between the elegant and the discordant.

Persephone Mara(en)

A short romance about two adolescents named Persephone and Mara, who decide to escape from the world around them by locking themselves away in an old projector room at the Cinematheque.

Miles Apart(en)

While attending his sister Kathryn's wedding, Jeffrey and his partner Miles must deal with Jeffrey's mother who does not approve of their homosexual relationship.