Once U

Documentary following the lives of pensioners at the Royal Free Hospital in Chelsea.

After her father’s violent death, Native American teenager Margo Crane flees down Michigan’s Stark River in search of her estranged mother. On the way, she encounters allies, enemies, danger, and the beauty of nature, all while coming to grips with her past and her own identity.

A funny story about the relationship between a beloved cat and a newly bought bird.

A short web-drama

An officer's wife has a romantic dream about her husband's man (servant) and comes to believe it is true. Meanwhile the husband has asked his servant to help him, after the war, to suggest ways to ignite the romance he and his wife had before the war, as well as find a way to make money in a post-war economy.

Billie is a rambunctious teen ready to take on the world, when she returns from holidays everything is different. Students at her school have started wearing ‘Electrophobes’ devices used to moderate emotions.

A man defends his ranch from gunmen who want to stole his land.

This film is about a Catholic high school teacher in Kalocsa, Hungary who while doing research in local history discovers the lost Jewish community that once thrived there. She shares her research with her students, teaching tolerance, fighting prejudice. She organized a memorial for this lost community, which was attended by the Mayor, the Archbishop, several survivors and second and third generations. At the same time the neo-Nazi party of Hungary held a demonstration and a young girl visiting from New York was hit by a sling shot while attending a memorial service at the newly restored Jewish cemetery.

In the barbershop, a costumer contends with a barber hard-selling hair tonic, an obnoxious customer with a theory about World War I, and a dizzy manicurist (Grace) who engages him in typically crazy conversation.

The mental breakdown of Lukas Kinep as he wakes up staring at the mirror as green dots appear in his face.

Part-poem, part-film, Alone Once is a micro-short shot in lockdown in the UK, using a camera phone. It explores the absence of touch and isolation in the Age of Coronavirus.

Considering himself a reincarnation of a dead soldier, historian Bassel Abi Chahine has the remarkable ability to recall details from the Lebanese civil war, which mostly took place before his lifetime. Standing in front of the projected photographs from his personal collection, Abi Chahine embodies the suppressed trauma hidden to his generation.

Konrad Steiner's first film

Short Costa Rican drama

A pair of rail-riding bums exit their boxcar in the town of Excema, where they get work as waiters and have trouble with clams, bottles of beer, and pies.

Lucas is a boy who walks through the city in search of a job to survive but his journey finds the memory of his love.

Japan 2022 Twice

The first Once Halloween

After a mysterious voice starts talking to them, Pip goes off into a strange forest where they find themselves changing into different animals.