Movies: Playground

Thousands of birds flock into a seaside town and terrorize the residents in a series of deadly attacks....

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life....

The lives of two lovelorn spouses from separate marriages, a registered sex offender, and a disgraced ex-police officer intersect as they struggle to resist their vulnerabilities and temptations....

It seemed like just another day at the park for Maggie Simpson. But when Maggie faces playground peril, a heroic young baby whisks her from danger and steals her heart....

A teen gang in a South London housing estate must team up with the other residents to protect their neighbourhood from a terrifying alien invasion....

Parole officer Jack Mabry has only a few weeks left before retirement and wishes to finish out the cases he's been assigned. One such case is that of Gerald 'Stone' Creeson, a convicted arsonist who is up for parole. Jack is initially reluctant to in...

A lonely shoe salesman and an eccentric performance artist struggle to connect in this unique take on contemporary life....

Two car manufacturers spy on each other to try to find out details and prices of a new sports car each is about to launch....

A fable of five vastly separate inner-city lives who struggle against their limitations in an interlocking tale assembled by a dark orchestrator....

Ian was born with cerebral palsy. All he wants is to make friends, although it seems impossible to achieve when discrimination and bullying keep him away from his beloved playground. However, this young boy is determined and won't give up easily. The...

An abstract, minimalistic showpiece of late structuralist film made up of 360-degree pans across a children’s playground – and to one of the gods of his cinephilic pantheon, Anthony Mann. In concrete terms, he alludes here to a scene in Mann’s Glenn ...

Mickey Mouse, Huey, Dewey, and Louie. and Daisy Duck teach about the importance of safety while having fun at the playground...

A Playground Day is a single-channel screen-recorded video with a voiceover of a narration of a fictional playground trip with my sisters. Through the illegible 3D scans of the playground, I constructed a fragmented visual story that depicts reimagin...

It's the end of the school year and today is the last chance for 12-year-old Gabrysia to tell her classmate that she has fallen in love with him. She sets up a secret meeting and blackmails the boy to show up. But what was supposed to be an intimate ...

Documentary about twin brothers who go back to their childhood home to discover what happened to a Patrick Lurzing, a boy who disappeared who nobody else seems to remember....

A teen girl decides she must break off a strained relationship, with one of her closest friends, in order to move on from her troubled past....

A metalhead gets passed down a satanic guitar that riffs to shreds....

An independent documentary directed by Bobbito Garcia and Kevin Couliau. The film explores the definition, history, culture, social impact and global influence of New York's outdoor summer basketball scene, the worldwide 'Mecca' of the sport....

A new documentary film about the nature of play, risk and hazard, set in a European adventure playground. Here, children climb trees, light fires and use hammers and nails in a play-space rooted in the belief that kids are empowered when they learn t...

A 1973 short film set in Chelsea’s Penn South....