The Pirates of Capri (1949)

Jo and the Pirates

Jo and the Pirates is a short film about Jo (Joanne), a fourteen year old girl living in her second foster home with two malicious foster siblings, an overworked foster mother, and the foster mother's layabout brother. On Halloween, after protecting her best friend from a neighborhood bully, Jo hides in the woods. She discovers a strange piece of glowing metal that takes her aboard the bridge of a space ship crewed by intergalactic pirates.

Curse of Pirate Death

Over a century ago Pirate's Point was overrun by pirates, led by Abraham LeVoy, who became known as Pirate Death. He looted from the town, slaughtering over 150 men, women and children and then hid the treasure. Unaware of the terrifying and tortuous nature of Pirate Death, a group of college students researching their "pirate" heritage decide to locate the hidden treasure of Pirate Death.

La Rosalía

Mother

After the death of the family's matriarch, her husband and son must confront not only the corruption in society around them but the corruption within themselves.

The Dinner Parting

Susan and Henry are hosting a dinner party, while trying to make good on a lie concerning the recent death of their father. Unexpected guests arrive, causing the night to unravel despite Susan's best efforts.

Los dos de Michoacán

Viva Knievel!

The legendary stuntman plans his most incredible stunt yet while battling the mob in this action-adventure.

Little Ta Adventures: Memory Forest

Long Live the Dockers

Robert Ménégoz’s film depicting the struggles of French dockworkers in the winter and early spring of 1950 is meant to evoke the feelings of insecurity, exertion and danger of this profession whose rights were not sufficiently reflected in post-war France. At the same time, the heroic image of dockworkers is meant to mobilize against American policy, the Marshall Plan, German rearmament and the war in Indochina. Banned by the censors in France, the film won the Grand Prix for Documentary at the 1951 Karlovy Vary Film Festival.

Playground

Sérgio shaves his beard, getting ready to leave the house. The sun goes down and Sérgio goes to Bairro Alto. Against the wild crowd, he drinks beer, rolls cigarettes, takes drugs. He talks about life and finds a friend. Bairro Alto is his playground. He robs a closed bar and gets in a hassle. He becomes sober again once her friend feels sick, and Sérgio feels responsible for her. He ends up alone in Cais do Sodré. As Oscar Wilde said “One must never regret that a poet is a drunk, but that drunkards are not always poets” and Sérgio is in fact, a poet.

The Swimming Club

If you happen to be transgender and you want to go swimming, which changing room do you go into? In this short documentary we meet a group of trans activists who have taken matters into their own hands and set up a safe space swimming club. It is a film about the healing effects of community and the relief that comes after taking the bravest plunge of all - to just be yourself. It is also an ode to universal joys of swimming.

Westender

Set in a fictional medieval world, this is the story of Asbrey of Westender. Once a great heroic knight, he has mysteriously fallen from grace. One night he drunkenly bets and loses his ring, his last possession of worth. He then embarks on a mission to regain his ring and, in due course, confront the demons of his past.

Honeycrisp

Honeycrisp tells the story of Hannah and Greta Lawton - two estranged sisters with a turbulent past who meet up to clean out their suddenly deceased parents cabin and repair - or end - their relationship.

No Time for Tears

No Time for Tears is a moving, sympathetic portrayal of the challenges faced by all those who enter this most demanding yet rewarding of professions – from routine operations to more serious conditions, from anxious, sometimes hostile parents to workplace romance. The lives of the staff and patients of Mayfield Children's Hospital are inextricably woven together with the laughter, tears and devotion that lie behind the work of restoring children to health and happiness.

Dolly Doings

A Dolly short.