The Cinematheque

Free Admission

In different ways, each of these films explores the power of the imagination, cinematic and otherwise, to reshape our world and even invent new ones.

Pub November • Agnieszka Osiecka • Poland 1960 • 10 min. Shot in silent-era style, this film chronicles love, lust, romance, and heartbreak in a shabby pub.

Jump Cut • Rumen Russev, Vassil Kotzev • Bulgaria 2017 • 7 min. When one is a film editor, life can be constructed in a number of ways!

The Burden • Niki Lindroth Von Bahr • Sweden 2017 • 14 min. A deadpan meditation on how life, however lonely, can be imagined to be happy.

Seed of Hope • Gediminas Siaulys • Luxembourg 2017 • 11 min. In the near future, on board a space mission representing humanity’s last stand, an astronaut discovers the reason behind his unexpected awakening from cryosleep.

Fongopolis • Janna Kozuch • Slovakia 2014 • 13 min. Getting to a music competition can sometimes lead to even more imaginative flights of musical fancy.

Hungarian Rhapsody 2.0 • Szabó Maté • Hungary 2011 • 4 min. A colourful and global re-imagining of the famous composition by Franz Liszt.

4:15 End of the World • Catalin Rotaru, Gabi Virginia Sarga • Romania 2016 • 15 min. A hitchhiker on a remote Romanian road has some important news about the fate of the world. He should know: he’s Jesus Christ. Or is he?

Follower • Jonathan Behr • Germany 2018 • 10 min. A dark and unsettling and entirely plausible tale of the dangers of texting and other forms of social media. Creepy.

Dans les bois • Salomé Bertolone Lopez, Maxime Dartois, Marjorie Grinda, Zoé Guillet, Alissa Mazouz, Rebecca Wahler • France 2018 • 8 min. A cow accepts an invitation to dinner from a wolf. Trouble is, she’s what’s on the menu!

Slope • Eduardo Brito • Portugal 2016 • 7 min. A poetic, minimalist examination of memory and landscape.

Timecode • Juanjo Giménez Peña • Spain 2016 • 15 min. Two security guards discover that they share a rich, dancing imaginative life, despite being stuck looking at video surveillance screens in parking garage.