All Films

Carlos Saura - Fotograf

2017 • 52 min • Germany

The film follows the Spanish film director as he publishes a book of his mostly unknown photography. His intimate and often surprising photos create a striking portrait of daily life in 1950's Spain that contrasts with dictator Francisco Franco's propaganda. The documentary follows the two-year process of narrowing down the collection and designing the book.

Livet Enligt Loreen

2017 • 59 min

For two years, Bengt Norborg, reporter at SVT News, everyday followed the singer and songwriter Lorine Zineb Nora "Loreen" Talhaoui. The two met for the first time in 2013 in Afghanistan, got good contact and a year later the decision was made to make this documentary. In the film we will come home to Loreen's mother Choumicha in Västerĺs, but also to the family home in Morocco, where she among other things meets her uncles. The film contains several deep interviews with Loreen, which gives a more composite picture of what she wants with her life the time after the Melodifestivalen and the Eurovision Song Contest.

On the Fence

2017 • 58 min

Nelson’s most recent work deals with topics of migration, demarcation, and borders.

Radiances I

2017 • 2 min • Canada

Video Painting Series

Esme

2017 • 4 min

A short film about gender dysphoria

Kū Kanaka/Stand Tall

2017 • 27 min

This documentary profiles the late Kanalu Young whose dive into shallow water at age 15 left him quadriplegic. Angry and defiant, he begins to change when he discovers an untold story of Hawaiian history which fires him up to become a leader of his people.

Death by Script

2017 • 9 min

A Hollywood script reader comes across a script that may or may not lead to the horrific death of anyone who passes on it.

Kinsetsu Textures from Planet-9

2017 • 3 min

In 2004 they discovered a new planet , since then known as planet 9 . This is an attempt to visualize textures , surfaces and organisms of this so called planet 9 , in an very abstract macro way, set to an pulsating original sound score trying to abduct the viewer into an out of this world audio-visual experience. All shots are live action and practical effects, no cg was used. Directed by Clemens Wirth

Smash the Fascists: OUST!

2017 • 17 min • Australia, Greece

A portrait of Athenian punk band OUST! ("OUT!" in English)

Hospitality

2017 • 7 min • Hungary

Yeast, flour, milk, salt.

(le) Rebound

2017 • 19 min • France, United States of America

A heartbroken young woman follows a hipster fling to France where she falls headlong into a hedonistic romp.

Offstage

2017 • 25 min

A famous romanian actor is kidnapped by the obsessed mother of a young man.

RIP 2 My Youth

2017 • 51 min

A Portuguese documentary about Isaac dos Santos, a 20-year-old going through the process of gender transition. From a very young age, Isaac realized that he did not identify with the female sex, having decided to change his life and his body when he was only 18 years old. The documentary lets you see the whole process of Isaac's transformation, a hard but rewarding journey marked by his strong charisma and determination.

The Forest Is Offended

2017 • 2 min • United States of America

A film poem thinking about the physics of sound, the need sound has to vibrate and bounce off a molecule or atom to return to our ears; thinking about this physical property as a metaphor for spirituality or love.

1/8

2017 • 13 min • Japan

Comparing the number of photoreceptor cells in eyes of human and hawk, hawk has about 8 times more photoreceptor cells than human. The title of the film is about human eyes. Figure of flying bird in sky as a small black dot is the intimation of things that human can not see. Human has been following the black dot by the desire to fly. On the other hand, bird has been distorted by human as an image or a sign.

Anything Perfect

2017 • 28 min • Latvia

Golf Clayderman. Art historians would call it "trash art", but the creators themselves consider it a moral hygiene, often found in Buddhist principles, which leaves behind the judgement of society and instead allows a carefree lifestyle. Tiny or overly significant - anything can be an ideal.

La débutante

2017 • 44 min

La débutante is a journey into the life of a 56-year-old trans woman who comes to the realization that it’s either transition or death. It’s an inspiring story on the blossoming of womanhood and a testament that it’s never too late to become who you are.

Mysteries of the Rainforest

2017 • 51 min

The island of Barro Colorado in the Panama Canal is full of mysteries, some involving the wide diversity of wildlife, and some involving the island itself. Every year, hundreds of scientists and students come here to uncover the rainforest's secrets, but this year is very different. The island is running dry and no one knows why. Follow several research teams as they observe, experiment, and conduct research in this pristine habitat, and most pressing of all, try to find out what happened to the rain and when it will come again.

When He Left

2017 • 4 min

Alan and Jonathan hug goodbye. For the last time.

Mogwai - Berlin Live

2017 • 60 min • Germany

Arte Berlin Live filming at SchwuZ.

The Oats Movie

2017 • 40 min

Two brave brothers will have to come together to over throw the evil omni Lord Kek, and reclaim oats for all.

Secrets of the Carpathians: The Immortal Forest

2017 • 52 min

Over the last few millennia, the European countryside has changed more than we can imagine. We drained wetlands, regulated rivers, cut down or transformed forests, exterminated large animals. And yet, there is one place that hardly changes. The Immortal Forest grows from the rocky soil below Kriváň. Its rulers are the centuries-old Arolla pines and their eternal guide, the bear.

Karens

2017 • 9 min

Two boys search for a life source.

Adnis

2017 • 3 min

A boxer trains with an old man in vacant building.