Petit Ruban

2023-01-01 | fr

Love and Magnets

Back in Montréal after spending five years in Guatemala, Julie moves in with her elder sister, Jeanne, a chronic liar and woman of rather loose sexual morals... Disillusioned with love, Jeanne is nevertheless engaged to Noël. However, Jeanne and Noël lead separate lives, and only communicate by leaving each other messages on the fridge.Everything suddenly becomes very complicated. Jeanne compels Julie to take up with Noël so she can have a fling with a passionate musician. Noël, meanwhile, sets Julie up with Michel -- without Jeanne's knowledge. Julie mixes things up even further. Egged on by her friend Marie-Ève, she alters the contents of the messages on the fridge in an attempt to breathe new life into Jeanne and Noël's relationship. Along the way, she also begins to fall for the seductive Michel. The tables are turned on everyone... In the game of love and truth, illusion leads to betrayal, but love conquers all.

2004-10-01 | fr

Body of Water

After a summer of keeping to themselves, a miscommunication finally sparks a conversation and a wholesome friendship. Away from their complicated family issues, they find refuge in the mornings together. The companionship soon becomes closer and the two must deal with this new feeling whilst juggling other emotions that live outside of their relationship and trying to communicate with each other.

2024-01-01 | en

Jerk Off Session

When Johannes gets caught by his girlfriend while laying on the bathroom floor watching porn and masturbating she doesn’t care and wants him to enjoy himself. That makes Johannes lose the feeling of shame he needs and sends him into an existential crisis and loses his ability to masturbate. Trying to regain that shame leads to an explosive confrontation for them as a couple.

2022-08-29 | no

Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven

After a worker kills a superior and commits suicide, each of his family members attempts to forge a path forward in life.

1975-07-07 | de

A Halt

A short film about communication.

2016-09-22 | fi

Brother, Where Are You?

Two brothers, separated by time and prison bars, reestablish contact. Inspired by James Baldwin's short story, 'Sonny's Blues.'

2022-11-11 | en

Okay, Bye

A woman. A phone call. A reality unspoken.

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David

A young mute student goes to the movies when ditching school, but changes his mind when he meets an unemployed man who tries to communicate with him. Through messages and games, the two will make a discovery they never imagined.

2005-03-11 | es

Woodsman

In WOODSMAN, young couple Alan and Lottie make do with what they've got: each other. After an accident has left Lottie bedridden and nonverbal, the two of them must find new methods to communicate, all while something enigmatic calls out to Alan from the other side of the nearby lake.

2023-04-26 | en

Chatô, The King of Brazil

The true story of Assis Chateaubriand, the first magnate of communications in Brazil. Due to his influence during the late 1930s up to the early 1960s, he has come to be called 'the Brazilian Citizen Kane'.

2015-11-19 | pt

Arrival

Taking place after alien crafts land around the world, an expert linguist is recruited by the military to determine whether they come in peace or are a threat.

2016-11-10 | en

The Words

On his way to a nameless destination, a man decides to stop by his father's house. The awkwardness of the relationship between the man and his old and ill father marks an ordinary visit that could very well be their last.

2009-10-01 | fr

Orangutan

A vivacious aspiring social worker brings together five peculiar strangers to help solve their existential problems but finds herself in way over her head.

2021-02-01 | en

The Wait

An enigmatic phone call from a psychic catapults a family into a state of suspended belief while waiting for their recently deceased mother to be resurrected.

2013-03-10 | en

Listening

At a spa where talking is forbidden, an emotionally distraught woman finds solace in the company of a kind man and the two of them gradually fall in love.

2003-10-03 | en

Vault-Mass 2287

On Christmas Eve in the year 2287, Jack Collins, a freshly appointed Overseer, is excited to celebrate his first holiday in charge of Vault 71. But just days before, a mysterious virus sweeps through the community, killing every inhabitant but Jack. Unable to accept the mass death around him, Jack dissociates entirely from reality.

2017-12-24 | en

Reasons

When a dinner party descends into a vicious sibling argument between Tom and Emily, their partners Jade and Norman can't wait to escape, but clumsy revelations quickly expose that the one thing they have in common is a truly awkward secret.

2022-06-23 | en

Domain

After a deadly virus wipes out most of humanity, the survivors are forced to wait alone in self-sustaining bunkers while the viral threat runs its course. Able to communicate through a networked video interface, the survivors wait for years and slowly become a motley family of sorts. But their fragile social ecosystem is shattered when, one by one, they start mysteriously disappearing from their bunkers.

2017-03-31 | en

Love Life

Taeko and her husband, Jirō, are living a peaceful existence with her young son, Keita, when a tragic accident brings the boy's long-lost father, Park, back into her life. To cope with the pain and guilt, Taeko throws herself into helping this deaf and homeless man.

2022-09-09 | ja