In his crusade for literacy, principal Ray Brown enlisted the help of the community and broke through the cycle of illiteracy in a small Newfoundland fishing village. He turned the struggling elementary school into a place where students were eager to learn and instilled in parents a sense of hope for their children's future.

In this comedy, a crime novelist spins a yarn to impress the apple of his eye. He tells her that he has been involved in a murder.

Nineteen-year-old Pavel Kříž spends all his free time in Prague's arcades, bistros and discos with a group of thieves called Roby. Pavel has a high school diploma, but works as a window cleaner, and a large part of his income comes from the scams, scams and thefts of Roby's crew, to whom he supplies guaranteed tips. So he's not too happy when the cleaning manager assigns him a young temp, Jana Hálková. Although the girl makes no secret of her distaste for Pavel's way of life, a fragile emotional bond develops between them. But this cannot last in the environment in which Pavel moves. The young man gets into more and more trouble - part of Roby's party is caught by the police and he cannot find the money to pay back the debt. The situation escalates when a group of thieves kidnap Jana...

Burnt is a horror-comedy short set in a kitchen, where an ordinary situation quickly spirals out of control. What starts as a routine moment turns dangerous when something unexpected—linked to heat, fire, or cooking—begins to go wrong. Blending dark humor with tension, the film uses the familiar domestic setting to create a sense of unease, turning everyday actions into a source of chaos and threat.

The BBC's 1965 adaptation of E.M. Forster's novel, screened as part of their Play of the Month strand, adapted by Santha Ramu Rau and John Maynard, and directed by Waris Hussein.

‘Burnt Bread’ follows the story of Deon, who returns to his estranged friend's home after years of absence. As memories blur and tension simmers, Deon finds himself trapped in a surreal loop of past mistakes, emotional confrontations, and unsettling realisations. As the lines between reality and his fractured mind collapse, he faces the painful truth of his abandonment, and the haunting consequences of never being able to move on, stuck in a bardo state.

Earth is being ravaged by environmental disasters.

An unfaithful wife is going to leave her husband, a failing carpenter, but he finds out about her lover and a murder takes place. Police try to identify whether the burned body is her husband or her lover.

Aggivald, 23, is living in a suburban boiler-house that is fuelled by books - books without endings. The biggest passion for the young man is to write a new ending for each book. Aggivald doesn't know that his family has a story of its own, a story that reaches back to the Soviet time and has no ending either.

Ten filmmakers were tasked with making surreal short film segments that loosely involve a cigarette. The result is Lynchian chaos in anthology form - the good ends, the bad ends, the loose ends, and the burnt ends. A sprawling anthology about all things cigarettes.