AMY & FROG doesn’t have the flashy animation techniques or beautiful action choreography of the other works in this program. It does however offer a warm and soothing fairytale through its simple, even childlike style. Let’s take a break and follow Amy to meet her friends, to find her courage and confidence. – Xige Yi

AMY & FROG doesn’t have the flashy animation techniques or beautiful action choreography of the other works in this program. It does however offer a warm and soothing fairytale through its simple, even childlike style. Let’s take a break and follow Amy to meet her friends, to find her courage and confidence. – Xige Yi

A woman moves to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career, with her grandmother in tow.

Amy, a depressed seventeen year old high school girl, is visited by her guardian angel Oliver after wishing she had never been born. Oliver shows Amy how important she is to the people in her life.

Three adult siblings come together in Montauk after the death of their father and confront the truths of their childhood. Amy has Down syndrome and has spent almost her entire life in group homes, and her older siblings, Maggie and Jacob, come to realize that she is perhaps a very different person than they had thought.

The story about a family that must maintain an insatiable grandmother.

Self-described misanthrope Elle Reid has her protective bubble burst when her 18-year-old granddaughter, Sage, shows up needing help. The two of them go on a day-long journey that causes Elle to come to terms with her past and Sage to confront her future.

A young woman purchases a bed n breakfast unaware of the home's blood-soaked past. Twenty years earlier a cannibalistic elderly woman owned the establishment and now the murders are about to start again...

The director’s grandparents, who have been together for over 60 years, recall (and re-edit) fragments of their life together. The film, originally intended as part of a video installation, captures a return to a nonlinear past, while also probing how textures and the materiality of images can be inscribed onto the cinema screen. 　　“A play of light, shadows, and pixels, Alma Buhagiar’s film comes from afar, from a cinema now forgotten where a superimposition, a portrait dissolving into the landscape, could be suspense, climax, could be a story in itself. Beyond its rarity, the charm of this PATCHWORK is mainly the unspoken seriousness of this game of filming with the grandparents. Of course, showing their love is certainly a pleasure, listening to their spells is a curiosity, and making them dance in each other’s arms is pure joy. Still, it is just as certain that the three of them are aware they are staging scenes for eternity, equally concerned with the past, present, and future. In fact, it may be that this is what any home movie is doing.” (Călin Boto)

A tale of real-life British aviation pioneer Amy Johnson, the first woman to fly from Britain to Australia, who would later mysteriously disappear.