Élan Vital

A young man’s desire spirals into obsession as he tries to reshape himself in the image of someone else.

A series of lighthearted performative vignettes that explore the duality of immigrant and queer life— the longing to return to the familiar geographic, cultural, and bodily coordinates of one's past, alongside an equally compelling desire to assimilate into a new culture and identity. Through a collection of absurd scenes depicting both the attempts and failures to fit in, the film illustrates the felt incongruities of this experience in a hybrid form.

Three incompatible fantasies are channeled through a cast-iron Tub and its discordant inhabitants.

Lee, a young, withdrawn girl, has a secret crush on her brother's friend Peter. Instead of showing her feelings directly, she lives in her imagination, but everything changes at the Halloween Party when she finds Peter lying alone and unconscious in the forest.

In the shadow of a looming pandemic, a shared home becomes a closed world, where fear redraws boundaries, reality blurs, and two lives drift apart.

A woman's quiet routines begin to fray as the unseen weight of external unrest presses in, blurring the line between interior calm and a mysterious collapse.

A Muslim immigrant in the United States faces an inner conflict between his faith and his desire to adapt to Western life, leading him to discover the true meaning of belonging.

A painter has a breakdown while trying to paint her masterpiece.

Ben has a cat his landlord won't let him keep. Unfortunately, his landlord is at his house and he doesn't have a car. Ben and his feline friend must trek across rural Appalachia in search of her new home.

A boy leaves his home in the quiet Bubble Jungle to search for his aunt and a family heirloom she possesses. far off in the Flashing City.