All Films

Nightstand

2015 • 27 min • United Kingdom

An unsettling portrait of a destructive three night affair between two men - one is gay, lost and adolescent, the other is married to a woman and middle-aged. Set in the heart of Soho, a fracturing queer landscape, Nightstand is a whirlwind of repressed yearnings and urban loneliness.

Nightingale Floor

2015 • 4 min • Australia

A short film collaboration between string composer and musician Sallie Campbell, Aquarius Films and director David Barker to help raise funds and awareness for the tragic plight of the Orangutans.

Carefree

2015 • 24 min

Tara, a quirky, high-strung girl in her 20's visits her hometown for the first time in 8 years. Through a series of awkward encounters and ridiculously hilarious scenarios she finds that not too much has changed back home, yet everything has changed.

Mack

2015 • 15 min

An action comedy of two low level assassins assigned by their boss to aid the legendary killer Mack. Unfortunately for them, they start off their day late and everything goes downhill in a flurry of bodies and unlucky coincidences.

Behind You

2015 • 4 min • United Kingdom

A little girl’s favourite bedtime read is a creepy 19th century spectral illusions book, which hides a nasty surprise for the girl’s babysitter.

Exmas

2015 • 8 min

Two people meet after a Christmas party, both deciding whether or not to call their exes.

Code Geass: Akito the Exiled 3: The Brightness Falls

2015 • 60 min • Japan

After discovering the face of their true enemy, someone who is related to Akito and responsible for the Geass placed upon him, W-0 attempts to return to their base at Castle Weisswolf. However, stranded in Warsaw due to a complication involving their military identification, they are forced to accept the help of local gypsies, allowing the squad to take some time to deepen their bonds. Meanwhile, Britannian advisor Julius Kingsley and his guard Suzaku Kururugi begin working together with the Knights of St. Michael in order to crush the European resistance once and for all, armed with the destructive power of a giant weapon known as the Ark Fleet.

Gakuen Handsome The Animation

2015 • 32 min • Japan

The school love story is set at Baramon High School, a private boys' school for the prefecture's most elite. The protagonist is a seventeen year old boy who transfers into the school and meets various major players on campus, such as the outlaw teacher, the soccer captain, and a childhood friend whom the protagonist has not seen for seven years. The school presents opportunities for friendship, love and conflict, and changes are now bound to happen in the main character's life.

Monaco

2015 • 13 min • Australia

A young man who goes door to door in search of an automotive apprenticeship spends his free time kicking up dust doing donuts with his buddies on the outskirts of Melbourne.

Kamen Rider Drive: Type LUPIN ~Lupin, The Last Challenge~

2015 • 15 min • Japan

This is a Special DVD episode of Kamen Rider Drive, and the fifth special in the Secret Mission series. This special marks the return and final appearance of Zoruku Tojo as Kamen Rider Lupin after his defeat in Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider Drive & Gaim: Movie War Full Throttle.

Rust

2015 • 10 min • Canada

Part of the Life's Work series. Rust is a portrait of master iron artist Gordon Kennedy.

The Hangovers

2015 • 45 min • Serbia

Kolja and Cveja, long-time friends and fellow actors are trying to cope with debt bondage, which led to Cveja's eviction from the apartment by the executor. Beside personal, family and business misfortunes, they will experience series of incredible events during one day. What will the next morning bring?

Stallion

2015 • 15 min • Sweden

Adena has a crush on her cute teacher, David. At her graduation ceremony she finds out that they’re going to celebrate Midsummer’s Eve at the same place, so she decides to approach him.

Friend

2015 • 21 min • Kosovo, United Kingdom

The friendship of two boys is tested to its limits as they battle for survival during the Kosovo war.

Shells

2015 • 18 min

"Lovely morning but cold and frosty. One would not think there was a war on." These were famous last words from Private Benjamin Elliott. As the days of war passed, the mud became thicker, lice ran faster and trench foot inflicted itself upon many. Being the lesser evils of war, such physical effects rode alongside the masses of fallen men. Standing beside his brother, Benjamin can feel his mind deteriorating, his senses failing and sheer terror bubbling inside him. With every shell, the shock ricochets through him. His former life but a distant dream - how he will recover this he does not know.

Lights Out!

2015 • 10 min • United States of America

It's opening night for the original cast of the first premiere of the adaptation of Stephen King's Children of the Corn: The Musical! A documentary film crew follows the young thespians through a night of singing, dancing and TERROR!

Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin II - Artesia's Sorrow

2015 • 58 min • Japan

In the year UC 0071, three years after escaping the Zabi faction on an Ocean Cargo ship, Artesia and Casval are living happily in Andalusia, Spain, Earth under the identities of Sayla Mass and Éduoard Mass, respectively; masquerading as the children of Don Teabolo Mass, a long time friend of their father Zeon Zum Deikun.

Eleanor

2015 • 20 min

Golden-globe winner Ruth Wilson plays three different women whose lives become fatefully intertwined over one night. A truly innovative and haunting examination of the human psyche - Eleanor will replay in your dreams. A cinematic installation presented on three screens (one per character) that interplay as the narratives intersect.

Return

2015 • 17 min • Canada

A young couple purchase their new home to start a life together, only to find out the elderly couple next door have other plans for them.

Summer of Sarah

2015 • 24 min • France

It is summer, in the South. Everyday, Sarah, aged sixteen, sells doughnuts with her father on the beach. One evening she meets Baptiste.

Counting Backwards

2015 • 30 min

Fear, guilt and courage - three powerful emotions that flow through the lives of three women. As a teenager, Sally was brutally raped and, even though she's buried the scars of that attack deep inside, they're slowly seeping out, poisoning her relationship with her daughter, Kelly. Sally's lifelong friend, Jackie, tries to find a way to reconcile the two of them and, in doing so, ease the guilt she feels for letting her friend down all those years ago. As the past events come to light, we witness one incredible act of bravery that forces us to examine the well of courage we all carry inside.

Vessels

2015 • 16 min • United States of America

A young transgender woman considers a dangerous operation that may be her only option in gaining a more feminine body.

Polar Bear

2015 • 18 min • United Kingdom

Polar Bear pursues an act of violence as it ricochets through time. From Aaron as a young boy first encountering the bear, to ten years on, where his own rage finally explodes. Then over four more years on, a now young adult Aaron encounters Lea, both bound to and haunted by the same ghost of violence.

Quay

2015 • 8 min • United Kingdom

In 2015, Christopher Nolan curated a selection of short films by the surrealist animators the Quay Brothers to be distributed as a touring 35mm presentation. The three films—"In Absentia" (2000), "The Comb" (1991) and "Street of Crocodiles" (1986)—were accompanied by this brief portrait of the brothers at work in their London studio.