Yesterday

Closing Time

This “Béla Tarr-esque” short presents a small pub right before closing time. The story is about a chess game which turns bad after the final move.

Son of Saul

In the horror of 1944 Auschwitz, a prisoner forced to burn the corpses of his own people finds moral survival trying to save from the flames the body of a boy he takes for his son, seeking to give him a proper Jewish burial.

Dealer

A drug dealer spends his day pedaling around Budapest visiting friends and clients.

Forest

Every day life for young men and women in Budapest is on display. All "teenage savages" at the time when communism disappeared in Eastern Europe, they now view the world in a sinister way. Examples: A woman becomes irritated with a man who has left his dog. A father has an argument with his wife about an alarming (to the parents) arousal of sexuality in their 10 y.o. daughter. A young girl is distressed by her growing realization that she is more and more like her sadistic grandmother. A conversation between two guys, apparently about an old car, takes an unexpected turn.

Before Dawn

Before Dawn has a single shot which is several minutes in length. Technically this is immaculate, visually it is stunning. The story is set in a field; where the field is we don't know, but a lone truck drives up into the field and stops. A horn beeps and from beneath the long grass thirty of so people appear and proceed to enter the truck. We take it they hiding from something and this is their doorway. The truck leaves, but only to be greeted by a mass of police and even a helicopter blocking their path.

Cinema 16: European Short Films (U.S. Edition)

A collection of short films by 16 European directors.

The Spectacle

A young Roma boy is lifted into the light, only to find it fades in an unexpected way.

The obvious secrets of aurA Hodor

aurA is a beautiful girl, a wandering soul, maybe just a ghost. She lives in a strange city, among strange people, perhaps in the same place where we live. The difference between her and others is that she is aware of it: there is no difference! Maybe she is the only one who knows this!