All Films

L'Homme à la tête de kraft

2013 • 10 min • France

Antoine and Emma are on their way to a festival a few kilometers away from Trouville. Suddenly, a man in the middle of the road, bare-chested, with a brown sack on his head, blocks their way.

Frayed

2013 • 9 min • United Kingdom

A young woman escapes the claustrophobia of her bus journey by imagining an animated fantasy land.

Into the Dark Woods

2013 • 23 min • Poland

The romantic trip of Wisienka i Robaczek to the forest slowly turns into a nightmare, when a dark truth about the house, where they spend the night together, reveals.

I Can't Live Without A Dream

2013 • 30 min • Hong Kong

Pak-kiu works as a gaffer while waiting for his first break in front of the camera. An inviting target of ridicule, he remains unwavering that he will rise above the sordid realities of the glamorous world of film-making with his determination to be a proper actor rather than a star. So when he is offered a bit part as a cancer patient in a new film, he jumps at the chance to practise method acting, literally getting into his character and inhabiting him through claiming membership of a support group, which reunites him with an old classmate. However, the reunion, shrouded in a façade of altruistic motive, leaves him ill-prepared for a role in real life that is not so easily dismissed as a character in the script...

It’s Time for Supper

2013 • 8 min • Japan

Playtime ends at the five o'clock chime. And there comes the indefinable time between vanishing playtime and dinner time at home.

Murder on the Victorian Railway

2013 • 58 min • United Kingdom

Part documentary, part recreation, this movie is an exploration of Britain's first railway murder. Based on the book by Kate Colquhoun.

Broken Pines

2013 • 29 min • Latvia

The mundane life of Rita, a nurse and a single mum, changes when she sets eyes on a young photographer named Ernest. Meanwhile, an unexpected encounter with her ex-husband and the father of her child brings back hopes and desires of the past that challenge Rita’s true feelings.

Kowabana J: After School Ghost Stories 4

2013 • 51 min • Japan

A number of terrifying experiences take place in a school! In "Toilet Hair", a girl in a school uniform talks to a stranger in the school bathroom. When she goes to school one day, she sees a girl who looks exactly like the girl she saw in her dream in "MAGIC" and 4 other stories.

Lakewood Plaza Turbo

2013 • 9 min • United States of America

Naïve K.O. comes of age, develops his burgeoning powers and works his first job in a video game-inspired world.

You Are More Than Beautiful

2013 • 27 min • South Korea

What is beauty? Truth created from whith lie.

S for Sally

2013 • 14 min • United States of America

When her 10-year-old daughter Sally starts having difficulties, Mona sets out to help her despite no support from her husband Phil, the schools or the church.

This Actually Happens a Lot

2013 • 3 min • United States of America

When a girl at a party confronts a guy about his social anxiety, he starts to float in the air.

Under the Bridge of Fear

2013 • 14 min

Hard-boiled private eye Hamilton Drake is called in by notorious society dame Georgia Thurlow to chase down the rat who's been blackmailing her and a famous movie star. But in this sapphic underworld, nothing is ever black and white.

A História do Olho

2013 • 3 min • Brazil

Ivan Cardoso short film adapted from a Georges Bataille story.

Entracte

2013 • 5 min • France

A cleaning lady with a monotonous everyday life and a mime artist without success, will meet through a glass.

Not with Fat Sophie

2013 • 21 min

Simon is 14 years old and, like most teenagers, he is struggling through this thankless period. He is uncomfortable in his body and has lived for a long time in the shadow of his friend Stéphane, who is more handsome and more popular than him.

Nowhere

2013 • 29 min • Mexico

Ximena, Gaby and María are stranded on a deserted beach trying to get rid of a mysterious package that they stole the night before. Haunted by their own fear, they go looking for help. Richie, a local boatman, becomes their accomplice. During their journey, their fears and their friendship will be exposed, because they are about to embark on a trip that will take them inside themselves.

A Private Act

2013 • 28 min

A young widow, Senora Paloma Ruiz, is perversely ambushed by Colonel Blanca, the very man who orchestrated the torture of her husband during Argentina's notorious 'Dirty War'.

Disgrace

2013 • 14 min • United States of America

Milo, a rebellious young child, has been experimenting with different outlets for his angst and budding sexuality. When Milo's worn-out and irritable father discovers a disturbing secret of his son's, he takes his son's punishment too far - creating unfortunate consequences for the whole family. Disgrace is a relentless study of top-down aggression.

A Common Experience

2013 • 10 min • Canada

A poetic exploration of the multi-generational affects of Canada's Indian Residential School system, based on the personal trials of Aboriginal playwright Yvette Nolan.

The Humble Beginnings of the Balloon

2013 • 3 min

Balloons were originally created for scientific experiments in 1847. But what event changed history to spark widespread use of the way we utilize them today?

Portraits of Voyages: Lithuania - The Hill of Crosses

2013 • 4 min • France

A short animated telling of the Hill of Crosses in Lithuania, a place of pilgrimage consisting of a formidable accumulation of crosses that was often razed during the Soviet period. Coming to replant a cross was then an act of resistance.

Dead All Night

2013 • 27 min • Canada

DEAD ALL NIGHT - In the tradition of 'Mad Max', 'Escape From New York' and 'The Warriors' comes violent, blood-filled action film that tributes the 80's style of film making.

The Writer’s Dilemma

2013 • 8 min

Authors Libby Daricek and Mark LaSalle are each working to finish their respective novels — Mark’s being a crime thriller, and Libby’s an emotional drama. But as they describe scenes from their works (and propose changes to their pieces), their collaborative relationship is put to the test, especially as they learn they may be competing for the same goal.