All Films

Under Bone

2017 • 5 min

A narrated experimental-drama featuring ethereal vignettes linked by a woman’s devotion, grief, and ancestral evocation as she traverses stories beneath her rib cage.

Reprisal

2017 • 9 min • Lebanon

A young woman becomes anxious at the news of the return of her husband, who disappeared 30 years ago during the civil war.

Labyrinths

2017 • 53 min • Spain

The insidious power of eating disorders is swift and devastating. Sufferers are left at the mercy of dangerous thoughts and turbulent emotions, isolating themselves from their loved ones who struggle to protect them. This sensitive film approaches anorexia and bulimia from a deeply personal angle, revealing a family fighting to remain unified in the wake of this brutal illness.

Streaming Wonderland: Puppies Crash Christmas

2017 • 33 min • United States of America

Clocking in at about 33 minutes, “Puppies Crash Christmas” features a range of puppers — a Pomeranian, a beagle, a West Highland terrier, a husky, and more — creating absolute doggo destruction around the Christmas tree and at the dining table. No gift is left unscathed or food left untasted. In fact, the so-called credits to the scenic pay cheeky tribute to all that was sacrificed to the puppies’ choppers. Embedded in the video are references to numerous TV shows such as “Game of Thrones,” “30 Rock,” “Twin Peaks,” “The Good Place,” “Parks and Rec” and more. While some Easter eggs are obvious, eagle-eyed viewers will be rewarded with some far more obscure references. It’s the Christmas gift that keeps on giving.

2 Lanes

2017 • 56 min

2 sci-fi stories By Villain TV that take place in urban Alabama.

Goose in High Heels

2017 • 22 min • United States of America

A tale told in three intertwined stories focused on a writer driven by glory. He struggles to complete a masterpiece, with inspiration from a life-long muse, about love, betrayal and horror based on childhood memories. After an encounter with an unnatural force, the writer realizes his true prize.

Başrol (Yaşar Kemal)

2017 • 46 min • Turkey

The legend of Yaşar Kemal, the Homer of Turkey, in Başrol

Stains of Oxus

2017 • 23 min • Tajikistan, Uzbekistan

Stains of Oxus evokes an oneiric journey through the greatest Central Asian river, Amu Dariya – known in Greek times as Oxus, portraying the transformation of landscape and witnessing people that inhabit its riverbanks, beginning from the high plateau of Tajikistan to the lowland desserts in Uzbekistan where the river finds its end. Uzbekistan where the river finds its longest journey is one of the two land locked countries in the world, making water a sacred element of nature. Stains of Oxus attempts to bring back a memory of how water has been worshiped and taken care in the tradition. This abstract topographic journey awakes the question of Central Asian ecosystem and landscape, traditions of caring about water and brings up the problem of water mismanagement in the region in a poetic way.

Flight Paths

2017 • 12 min • United States of America

Shot from the perspective of an avian observer, Robert Todd’s camera traces pathways and patterns that exist on the street but to which we rarely pay any attention. The procedural nature of the way the camera scans the scene alienates our senses and implies sinister intentions.

Commodity City

2017 • 10 min

Commodity City is an observational documentary exploring the daily lives of vendors who work in the largest wholesale consumer market in the world: the Yiwu Markets in China. The film explores moments of tension between commerce and individuality, between the goods for sale and the humans who sell them.

8 Borders, 8 Days

2017 • 60 min

After waiting 15 months with no answer to her application for resettlement in the United States, a smuggler’s raft offers a single Syrian mother of two her only option for escape. 8 Borders, 8 Days documents the family'ss frightening eight-day journey to safety.

My Fucking Problem

2017 • 45 min • Netherlands

For Anne penetration has been both painful and impossible for the last ten years. She does make love with her boyfriend, but he's never been able to enter her. She's tried different therapies, but to no avail. Still, she wants to be able to. Where does vaginism come from? Can one have a happy sexlife without penetration?

Rio Ferdinand: Being Mum and Dad

2017 • 58 min • United Kingdom, United States of America

Rio Ferdinand a year after losing his wife to cancer as he tries to come to terms with the loss and its effects on him and his three children.

Who Are You October?

2017 • 56 min • Burkina Faso, Belgium

A woman puts on her most beautiful dress. The iridescent reflections pierce the darkness, from which emerges archive footage showing the attack of the Burkinabe National Assembly by 'bare-handed' demonstrators in October 2014. They were opposing the amendment of an article of the constitution demanded by Blaise Compraoré, who had been in power since the assassination of the ‘father’ of the Republic of Burkina Faso, Thomas Sankara, on 15 October 1987. "Qui es-tu Octobre?" retraces this story through a family living in a district of Ouagadougou.

Meat with Bones

2017 • 8 min • United States of America

He is Earth, Sky, and the Universe. He is Creation's creator.

Soul Catcher

2017 • 12 min • United States of America

Earth's "garden" is fragrant with temptations but has far too many "thorns". He got "stung" and fell...got up...and fell, again and again!

Vantawhite Pages Almanac Issue 1: The Black Square

2017 • 28 min • France, Russia, United Kingdom, United States of America

2048. A day in the life of some of Earth's inhabitants. It's the century of commercial use for Black Square, and "Vantawhite Pages" is the world's largest company. An almanac of human history has been created on Vantawhite Pages using ink from Vantablack.

Anarchy in the UK: The New Underground Cinema

2017 • 56 min • United Kingdom

The definitive documentary that chronicles the UK's 'Misrule Cinema Movement' boom from (2010-2016) This period of social revolution and unrest gave birth to a new wave of pent-up creative energy & determined filmmakers who started shaking the chains of the mainstream film industries rigid cage by making movies on mobile phones and using Youtube and Facebook to promote their films. Building their own cinemas and staging guerrilla-style movie screenings throughout the country also became a big part of this movement.

Forgotten the Queen

2017 • 11 min

FORGOTTEN THE QUEEN is a short animated film that digs into themes inspired by the life of Edith Swan Neck. Eden’s drawings and collages are brought to life by Glenn Whiting and tossed into the time-line like flotsam from a demented passion. Meantime Edith’s eyes fix on the man-shadows overhead, resplendent in their didactic belief systems and stupid hats, which seem to have blighted women since the beginning of time. King Harold would not have approved because despite the fact that time itself can touch you like a feather, stupid men keep firing their bloody arrows.

Carneiro de Ouro

2017 • 26 min • Brazil

John Hemmer & the Showgirls

2017 • 35 min • United States of America

Singer John Hemmer reunites with his band of showgirls from the famed Lou Walters Latin Quarter nightclub in New York City, and in doing so, finds renewed purpose.

(100ft)

2017 • 3 min • South Korea

Minjung Kim's (100ft) consists of a single uninterrupted shot, lasting an entire 100ft roll of 16mm film, as two figures with different sized feet traverse a vast, striated landscape.

The Alaska Effect

2017 • 9 min • United States of America

The Alaska Effect: a shortform, run-and-gun style piece that is one part odd, two parts ice- a Good Enough documentary film.

Exoplanets

2017 • 14 min • United States of America

NASA may have just gotten one step closer to the answering the question: are we alone? The Spitzer Telescope has made a groundbreaking discovery of exoplanets that could be similar to our own. And as Kepler also continues its search, our understanding of the universe continues to be redefined.