All Films

Audacity

2015 • 55 min • United States of America

Aspiring comedian Peter is encouraged by his friend Ben to perform at the local comedy club. But stage fright isn’t Peter’s only fear. When confronted with one of today’s most divisive issues, he feels compelled to speak, but can he? Challenged by his coworker Diana to defend his convictions about homosexuality and gay marriage, will he have the courage to stand for what he believes—even at the risk of losing a friendship?

María Bonita

2015 • 19 min • Mexico

The Mexican diva of cinema, María Felix, age 80, is staying as a guest at the home of a family in Veracruz. There she meets the daughter of the owners, Agatha, age 16, who wants to know what does the actress do to be so beautiful at her age. They become friends, live adventures and María reveals her secrets.

Nives

2015 • 23 min • Italy

15 year old Nives meets 22 year old Amber at a party, sharing intimate looks and smiles. Both girls discover and experience the charm of attraction and seduction.

Check Please

2015 • 16 min • United States of America

In a fancy restaurant, Ben plans to propose to his long time girlfriend only to find out that his ring was mistakenly sent to the wrong table.

Cassette Girl

2015 • 8 min • Japan

In a futuristic world where militaristic robots known as the “Media Police” have outlawed entertainment and banned outdated media formats, a young woman and her robotic companion aim to recover vintage content stored on video cassettes and battle their evil robot overlords to protect “obsolete” media from being lost forever.

Isuca: Gokuraku

2015 • 25 min • Japan

The OVA will be bundled with the 7th volume of the manga, scheduled to ship on August 26, 2015. It will be a sea bathing episode.

Incomplete

2015 • 12 min • France

An old man, almost deaf, observing and listening to hospital patients. A 12-year old boy, with a pain-insensitive disorder, feeling like a super hero. A nurse, who lost all sense of smell, treating wounded soldiers during WWII. A mute man about to become a father. And a young lad into a coma surrounded by his owns. Five stories in one film, five characters facing their disabilities.

Scooby-Doo! and the Beach Beastie

2015 • 22 min • United States of America

Scooby-Doo and the gang investigates a new ghost at a water park resort.

Bird Hearts

2015 • 25 min • Norway

Benjamin's insecurities bubble to the surface when his girlfriend Maya recounts a past sexual escapade in Brazil — and a quarter-life crisis ensues. Bird Hearts cleverly dissects Nordic liberalism and the fragility of the male ego.

Fifteen

2015 • 20 min • United States of America

A serial killer is using Periscope video streaming app to film his grizzly murders live.

Universal Prayer

2015 • 6 min • Mexico

We seek to find the inner light of each one and thus turn on new lights, to leave the paths illuminated, so as not to walk blindly and alone. It is having a real awareness of our actions, that our life is a commitment and that if each one of us acts, a great change will be seen in the world. The power of life is to give us existence.

Every Moment

2015 • 7 min • New Zealand

When a hotel housemaid is dumped by her boyfriend, a guileless bellboy leaps into the breach, helping her see past present heartbreak. Yes, life is full of ups and downs but every moment counts.

Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song

2015 • 60 min • United Kingdom

It’s Christmas Day on a remote human colony and the Doctor is hiding from Christmas Carols and Comedy Antlers. But when a crashed spaceship calls upon the Doctor for help, he finds himself recruited into River Song’s squad and hurled into a fast and frantic chase across the galaxy. King Hydroflax is furious, and his giant Robot bodyguard is out-of-control and coming for them all! Will Nardole survive? And when will River Song work out who the Doctor is? All will be revealed on a starliner full of galactic super-villains and a destination the Doctor has been avoiding for a very long time.

The Nose

2015 • 10 min

Created using collage, stop motion animation, pixillation, and live action footage. Inspired by Nicolai Gogol’s short story, “The Nose” follows the peregrinations of a part who has left the whole to begin its own subversive narrative.

Another Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire

2015 • 5 min • United Kingdom

"A 2015 pilot I made for a BBC webseries, rejected after I got into an argument with the commissioner." - director Charlie Shackleton

Dakota

2015 • 12 min • United States of America

During a routine investigation of an abandoned truck, a Border Patrol Agent uncovers something that will cause him to question the very nature of his job.

Inner Jellyfishes

2015 • 24 min • Canada

A young man meets another one in a bar and their relationship winds up in a one-night stand. But under the sheets, it may be when skins touch that loneliness is the deepest. Through this fleeting maelstrom of flesh and men that are all alike, each one seeks to be someone.

Beasts

2015 • 12 min • Portugal

The story of Lucas, a 13 year-old kid who swears vengeance to the man that abuses his mother in exchange for a miserable life.

Our Faust

2015 • 18 min • France

One of the misfortunes of Boris Vian - and a misfortune for those who love him - is to be born and especially to be dead a bit too soon to have known the new wave. We saw him actor in "A pocket love" and "The Bel Age", Pierre Kast, in "Dangerous Liaisons 1960", Roger Vadim, where he held the role of Prévan, which was like a glove . His friend Prévert had designed him the cardinal's role in "Notre-Dame de Paris" by Delannoy. But never did Boris dare to put on the stage what he had written for the screen: he believed the thing impossible. An episode from the tv-mini-series "Collection rue des ravissantes: Boris Vian fait son cinéma."

Woodshed

2015 • 12 min • United States of America

A 13-year-old boy must drive his drunk uncle to the convenience store to buy cigarettes.

Para Sonia

2015 • 4 min • Spain

Black Chook

2015 • 11 min • Australia

They were Australia’s bad days. Men killed other men and laughed. All that was left for the children of the dead was to remember. If they had the strength.

E

2015 • 11 min • Canada

5 women : 5 tales of ordinary oppression.

The Student

2015 • 50 min • Netherlands

Lana, a teacher in high school, does not know what to do about Benny, a new student, who is an aggressive yet coldblooded alfa male. Benny intimidates her and she tries to escape his dark magnetism.