Movies: Slice of life

VICIOUS is the debut short film from independent director Nella Tirkkonen. Based out of Helsinki, the city is also the backdrop for this slice-of-life story, following a night of drinking in a small dive bar....

On a bachelor party, Lucas, a withdrawn and shy man, evoques the last memory of his first love...

The Orange is a drama about a lonely man reliving the night he met his soulmate....

In 2006 Berkeley, amidst the throes of first love, queer teens Nina and Jay grapple with understanding Jay's uncharted trans identity. Nina's well-intentioned but misguided efforts to assist push them apart....

On a daily university van ride, two strangers exchange nothing but silent glances and louder thoughts. As days pass, their unspoken bond grows — until the silence becomes the story....

A clumsy and rather unskilled, but good-hearted son of two Asian restaurant owners, concocts a new way to help the family business....

A thoughtful and meditative coming of age film that follows a meandering young adult. He, while on a call with a friend, realizes that it is the end of summer. Over the last few days of summer he struggles to face the nothingness of his future....

In the first day of liberation, partisan Meke enters the palace where the king used to live....

A young man decides to wear a camera on his head and record every second of his life for a year....

A slice-of-life ingrained in the COVID-19 pandemic. How a college student navigates minor inconveniences during the online era....

It is Friday the 13th in Ezpeleta, in the Buenos Aires suburbs. Like every Friday, Fer, Juja, Pepo and Robi meet after school to rehearse with their incipient punk band. Different conflicts and worries prevent them from moving forward and the rehears...

A hidden encounter between two high school lovers....

The second part of Sound! Euphonium: The Final Movie....

"A Place for Ashes" is the story of two sisters: Phoebe, an anxiety-ridden college dropout with a guarded personality, and her younger sister Taylor, a bubbly micromanager with a sunny disposition. The two of them discover how they can rebuild their ...

19-year-old queer Slovenian Klara spends the last hot summer night with her friends Nejla and Lars before she goes to study abroad. The film is an ode to the Ljubljana queer community, young love and that last summer before adulthood....

A week after the events of the first film, a new girl arrives. She appears kind but this soon proves to be a form of persuasion on her part....

An intense short movie showing a turbulent marriage. The wife is always smiling. The man gets angry time and again....

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The story of a group of plateau oil rig workers and how their lives change when they move from the rural grasslands and into the city....

Before Elijah sells his van "Theresa" for a home with his partner, friendship and memory are left vulnerable in the outdoors on a final surf trip to the Oregon coast....