All Films

Escape from Syria: Rania's odyssey

2017 • 22 min

Rania Mustafa Ali, 20, filmed her journey from the ruins of Kobane in Syria to Austria. Her footage shows what many refugees face on their perilous journey to Europe. Rania is cheated by smugglers, teargassed and beaten at the Macedonian border. She risks drowning in the Mediterranean, travelling in a boat meant to hold 15 people but stuffed with over 50. Those with disabilities are carried across raging rivers and muddy fields in their wheelchairs.

Slowdive: Pitchfork Live

2017 • 30 min

Slomo, Catch the Breeze, Slowdive, Star Roving, Avalyn

Ultraman Geed Preview Special

2017 • 30 min

A special preview episode of the series, Ultraman Geed. This episode aired on July 1st, 2017.

De este mundo

2017 • 11 min

Rita and Carla dream of having a baby and face the decisions that come with that desire. Marga struggles for the recognition of her motherhood. Flor, with her daughter, reveals the strength of their bond. Three intimate perspectives on motherhood beyond traditional molds, three stories from this world.

For 30 Years, Nancy Would Sit Out on the Street Corner and Watch the Sunset

2017 • 12 min

Sam Hamilton’s 16mm film clocks in at just under eleven and a half minutes. For its entire duration, four teenagers sit silently in a row on deckchairs.

Magritte's Train

2017 • 1 min • Israel

Tribute to Rene Magritte's surrealistic world. A train exits the saxophone and passes through the frame, forming a comic strip that presents us a modern, alienated society.

The Outsider

2017 • 18 min

Claire is excited to participate in her boyfriend's family tradition.

Rented House

2017 • 10 min

Award winning Telugu short film

Timberline

2017 • 12 min • United States of America

For decades, the Navy base known as Sugar Grove Station provided jobs and a sense of stability for the residents of Sugar Grove, West Virginia. Now, it’s being auctioned off to the highest bidder. As their mainstay fades away, members of the community consider the "Upper Base” of the former Navy post, where an NSA listening post remains operational—and sealed off from the rest of the town.

Meet Up

2017 • 26 min

After being stood up on a date, a romantically starved gay man meets an attractive yet enigmatic stranger. With the promise of weed and a 'good time,' the young man agrees to give him a ride home, completely unaware of what the night will unfold.

At Yafa

2017 • 12 min

As nine of us touched down in the desert oasis known as Tel Aviv, Israël, little was known of what laid beyond the great gates of Israeli customs. Over 10 days our humus powered crew, led by local skate guide Ofer Or would bomb coastal hills from northern points of Haïfa to Tel Aviv where spots flowed as if they were from a bottle of endless Munischewitz on Shabbat. Lest we forget about the marble plazas of Ashdod... magical. A few found their deepest, most spiritual selves in the ally's of Jerusalem's old city. Sprawling across the tomb of Jesus, only to be lost again the following day in the blazing banks of the Dead Sea and through the desert to Eilat. Enjoy our 4-wheeled pilgrimage into the Holy Land !

The Project

2017 • 60 min • Cuba

We are roaming around a futuristic, geometric construction whose structure emerges in a milky white. But a matter eroded by time is what now appears, lit up by torchlight, like the remains of a lost civilisation that these men dressed in yellow suits are collecting, beneath the gaze of a child concealed behind the vegetation. It is down to the “citrus tristeza virus”— a disease leading to the decline of trees — which struck the families living in this region of Cuba, who survive, now, in the virtual ruins of a former agronomy school inhabited by “New Men” familiar with the latest orange-growing techniques.

Ngupelngamarrunu, Night Time Go

2017 • 30 min • Australia

Night Time Go is an exploration of the Australian settler state’s attempt to remove Indigenous people from their lands during the Second World War, and the refusal of the Karrabing ancestors to be detained. The film begins by hewing closely to the actual historical details of a group that escaped from an internment camp in 1943, but slowly turns to an alternative history in which the group inspires a general Indigenous insurrection that drives out settlers from the Top End of Australia.

Når knoklene blir til gelé

2017 • 46 min • Norway

A meeting with Michael Krohn, the vocalist of legendary Norwegian rock group Raga Rockers, where he tells about his life before and with music.

The Return of the Monster

2017 • 1 min • France

A little boy is bedeviled by recurring nightmares of a monster that just won’t go away.

The Best Customer

2017 • 15 min

The Kruchowsky family owns a funeral parlor. One day, an old man orders twelve funerary wreaths with sympathy messages for many relatives and friends. Mr. and Mrs. Kruchowsky become suspicious and start to investigate this potential cold-blooded assassin.

Trek of the Mutants: Undercurrent

2017 • 60 min • China

In this tale of martial arts action, a band of adventurers led by a young monk embark on a dangerous quest to find the truth of good and evil. Facing off against poisonous grass, deadly rivers, and nefarious forces, the Mutants fight to find their true powers.

Return to Chernobyl

2017 • 53 min • Poland, Ukraine

Chernobyl after 30 years captures imagination people all over the world. It is mysterious place with many myths and legends. After failure in Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in 1986 116 thousand people has been evacuated. But not many knows, that over 300 thousand people were involved in remedying the effects of the disaster. For many years they were preparing for unique event: operation of sliding new shelter, which has forever covered old sarcophagus on fourth reactor. Return to Chernobyl is a story about people fighting with unknown element and one of the most unusual structures in the world.

Charlotte

2017 • 48 min

Autism: A Family's Journey

2017 • 51 min • United States of America

When JR Cairns was two years old, doctors diagnosed him as autistic and predicted that he would be institutionalized by age 17.

Wholly Holy

2017 • 8 min

Experimental film by Richard Kerr.

Close

2017 • 20 min

Jéssica, Suyanne, Bruna and Nathália are detained in the Prison Unit, located in Aquiraz, Metropolitan Region of Fortaleza. A space, several stories, the same hope shared by all: resist and fight for the end of prejudice.

Sleeping Silence

2017 • 12 min

Before the Premiere of Helen's opera performance, Helen learns that her mother is at the hospital. Her dresser Joanna accompanies her. Will this visit clarify their ambiguous relationship?

Jelly Sandwich

2017 • 3 min

Locked in a room. Fighting against secrets. Swallowing the secret with the discomfort that causes for other people. Bleeds from the inside. Closing the sandwich and taking a bite.