My First Teacher, or a Bachelor Party in Russian

Boys want to fuck the first woman in their lives beautifully. After going through the various candidates, they stop at the professionals.

Memories and Desires, or: Letters from Garek Babquis Concerning “The Diagnosis”

Institutional bureaucracies affect a researcher's relationship; in turn, a break-up sends him towards a diagnostic assessment.

High Side x Bol D'or - Le Film

Once Upon A Time in Odessa, or How to Leave the USSR

The popular pop show club “Odessa Gentlemen” took part in writing a script on the topic: how to leave the former USSR. Odessa became an arena where the interests of Soviet intelligence and the last Jew who had not yet le

Let Us Go and Burn Her Body; Or, The Devil Done Let Out

A young female paranormalist is pursued by a man claiming to be the devil in human form.

March 8, or Good morning, my love!

A Movie Is a Movie Is a Movie (or Out-takes from a Meeting with a Happy Man)

In 2001, during the first edition of the New Horizons Festival (held in the town of Sanok), we showed five Jonas Mekas films. A few months later, while in New York, I went unannounced to the Anthology Film Archives and m

Red Aninsri; Or, Tiptoeing on the Still Trembling Berlin Wall

Ang, a transgender sex worker with a pretty, feminine voice is assigned a special mission as an undercover spy. She disguises herself as a cisgender man to enter into a romantic relationship with Jit, a belligerent yet i

kaze no e (or why the wind whispers among the leaves)

Four young researchers in Big Sky Country begin to wonder about the vastness of the world and greater cosmos. If non-human presences were capable of harboring intelligence and communicating, what information could they p

I love you or everything will be okay

Sasha is a young man in search of a true connection and longs for the past, when things seemed better, especially when he used to play soccer with his friends. Although he has a girlfriend and a desire to be an actor, th

Babbage’s Calculating Machine or Difference Engine

A rare, live-action, and close-up study of the only existing Babbage Difference Engine, a machine designed in the first quarter of the 19th-Century by English inventor and mathematician, Charles Babbage. The engine, desi

Blanket Statement #2: It's All or Nothing

A quilted call and response. A battle of extreme extremes.

The Bachelor's Baby, or How It All Happened

Left destitute by the death of her young husband, Ethel Wynne lives with her old nurse, Hester O'Brien, a laundress. During the day Ethel works as a clerk in a toy store, leaving her babies in the care of Hester, and in

Encounters I May or May Not Have Had with Peter Berlin

The film guides the viewer through the process of making contact with a figure who exists only in his own photographs—70’s gay sex icon Peter Berlin. The film is structured in three parts, which were made chronologically

In The Name Of Scheherazade Or The First Beergarden In Tehran

Forget everything you think you know about storytelling! And get ready for a very surreal trip. Narges Kalhor plunges us in a funny and deconstructed joyful apocalypse of a web of stories while following four characters

Safran, la ruée vers l'or rouge

Elton Medeiros - Or the Sun Shall Be Born

Beautiful tribute to the composer Elton Medeiros. Together with his last partner Vidal Assis, he sings, tells stories and moves.

A Sleepless Entity (or The Thai's Prometheus)

A story about an entity that refuse to sleep and continue burning, no matter how many time it has been trampled upon.

The Snapshot Fiend; or, Willie's New Camera

A boy named Willie "snaps everything in sight" with his new camera. His targets included: Family members (Ma, Pa, Grandma, Grandpa), family pets (the cat, the old horse, and a St. Bernard), the "scandalous" image of a yo

Co-op Politburo, or Will be a Long Farewell

An entrepreneurial young man organizes an unusual cooperative. Its members are doubles of prominent political figures, each of whom left a noticeable mark in Russian history. Like the propaganda teams of the recent past,