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Two old friends, one severely down on his luck, reunite to attempt a get-rich quick scheme that goes, predictably awry. Hard-luck Paul, recently out of a job and rudely dumped by his girlfriend, has to sell his car in order to pay his rent. Lying around in a depressed fog, he is contacted out of the blue by an old friend, Freddie, a mysterious man ineptly obsessed with all things Asian. He has come to town to conduct some kind of quasi-legal business transaction he is convinced will leave him wealthy. As Paul learns more about the scheme, he becomes inexorably involved until he has to put everything on the line.

In suburban Buenos Aires, thirty unemployed ceramics workers walk into their idle factory, roll out sleeping mats and refuse to leave. All they want is to re-start the silent machines. But this simple act - the take - has the power to turn the globalization debate on its head. Armed only with slingshots and an abiding faith in shop-floor democracy, the workers face off against the bosses, bankers and a whole system that sees their beloved factories as nothing more than scrap metal for sale.

One man's courage and will to break loose from the system, and the ability of one individual to bring down the kingdom.

Inside a computer a space-time is revealed in which image and sound become numbers and motion manifests as rhythm, flow and chaos. This tracking and integration experiment removes the superficial identity of video to detect kinetic disturbances in everyday environment.

The only thing colder than a Canadian winter is Canadian bureaucracy (probably). Based on five real life stories, Romy Boutin St-Pierre and Joe Nadeau pay homage to the nation-wide stress headache of phone calls with the government in this surprising short.

Udin, a young boy, drifts through his quiet routines inside an old bus yet within him he carries a world far heavier than his years.

In a future where systems of control spread out to the furthest reaches of the planet, a woman tries to survive in a realm of naturalized oppression. Her art is her weapon and an expression of resistance.

Our main guy, Zhao Fang, gets thrown into a fantasy world—but there’s a catch. He’s stuck as a powerless, disgraced young master, with only a loyal maid by his side. Sounds rough, right? But Zhao Fang isn’t sweating it. Thanks to his deep gaming experience, he quickly cracks the system, exploits game-breaking glitches, and starts power-leveling like a pro. With every secret realm he conquers, Zhao Fang unlocks new abilities, takes on crazy system-assigned missions, and proves that he’s no ordinary player. He’s here to dominate the game world, one upgrade at a time.