Night Session

Blue Poetry

2023

A strange phenomenon occurs to a fisherman named Ucup that causes him to realize something is off about his daily meal.

Sticks & Stones

2019 · ★ 7.3

A short story about a boy who hurts himself and impresses a girl, all with the same shovel.

The Box with Eight Eyes

1978

The 2nd short film as part of the Magica series dealing with pre-cinema. In the 18th and 19th centuries, optical views were shown in optical boxes with magnifying lenses. The showmen organised a real spectacle, with a barker, music and sound effects. The views played with light (transparencies, perforations). A series of engravings shows the public's enthusiasm for these shows. The second part of the film is a reconstruction of such a show. First, there are views of Paris, Venice, Constantinople and Versailles, followed by various disasters: plague, floods, fires and shipwrecks.

The Truly Magical Lanterns

1985

The 6th short film as part of the Magica series dealing with pre-cinema. Featuring demonstrations of magic lanterns by children.

Shutterspeed

2025 · ★ 10

Fifteen-year-old Cas poses for his school’s trainee teacher and amateur photographer Jard. When he becomes painfully aware of the power imbalance between them, he seeks to reverse their dynamic.

Go To Hell Goliath

David is rejected by the Academy of Arts before he can even begin. But instead of leaving, he infiltrates, becoming a ghost in the institution. He launches his resistance by plastering posters reading 'Go To Hell Goliath'. His true opponent is not just bureaucracy, but the dean herself – Ms. Goliath, the face of institutional power.

Denko

1993 · ★ 6.8

An African mother will do just about anything to protect her child. Bilaly is a simple peasant who is blind. He wants to “know” a woman before he dies, but try as his mother might, she cannot find someone to oblige. She finally gets an idea – an idea that completely stuns the village.

Noctámbulos

2019 · ★ 1

Six lonely insomniacs wander the streets of a melancholic city at night in search of affection, meaning, identity and a pug dog.

Five Steps to Accept Farewell

2016 · ★ 8.3

YeJoo and EunMin spent two years as a couple so far. One day, YeJoo wants to finish the relationship that she had with EunMin. EunMin gets angry and asks if there's another girl. Yejoo says she got a boyfriend.

Pinch

2023

A student in her final year of high school battles a silent illness, which she hides from her mother, as she continues to be quietly overwhelmed by the pressures of family, peers and society.

More Sex & Violence

1999 · ★ 5.7

Twelve skits in six minutes: the first one and the final three are about sex, in between are sketches of blood, death, murder, truck crashes, a tough day on the toilet, a slip on a banana peel, and an omnivorous Elvis. In several vignettes, Plympton draws on the essentially comic image of men wearing jackets and ties in a world gone awry. Women, who don't appear all that often, cheerfully participate in the sex and don't hang around for the violence.

Dead Bait

2016 · ★ 4

Lisa is fried in the heat of the sun. She is sick, miserable and out of water, but finds a lake to cool down in. A local sports-fisherman spies on her, but when Lisa drowns, he is stuck with a blond, naked "dead bait". What to do then?