All Films

Grey Black and Blue

2017 • 60 min

In this film, 4 Palestinian revolutionary activists bear witness to their imprisonment in Israeli jails and their life after prison.

Oddlands

2017 • 30 min

Des and Tam are members of a clean-up crew in a strange toxic wasteland. It’s a lousy job, but it’s the best they can get, and it may just get them what they want. When they stumble upon what may be the wasteland’s last human survivor, these determined but lowly Level 7s will have to decide between saving humanity or saving themselves. ODDLANDS is a story about two unlikely heroes who manage to find a little hope in the strangest of places. The question is, what will they do when they find it?

Narcis și Fifi

2017 • 29 min • Romania

A story about the struggle of Narcis, a 2.000 euro debt to some gangsters and a dog named Fifi.

The Fruits of Clouds

2017 • 10 min • Czech Republic

Furry lives in a clearing surrounded by dark woods with a pack of animal friends. Their only food is rare orange seeds that transform into large glowing fruit as soon as they touch the ground. Furry’s friends are afraid to venture into the scary woods, but he’s bored doing nothing but waiting.

Fares

2017 • 21 min

Young Tunisian boys breakdance, hop trains and contemplate escape in this sui generis slice of life.

O O O O

2017 • 2 min • Italy

Short film by Ignazio Fabio Mazzola.

The Drift

2017 • 51 min • United Kingdom

The Drift traces the shifting economies of objects in contemporary Lebanon. The film moves between three main characters: the gatekeeper of the Roman temples of Niha in the Beqaa Valley; a young mechanic from Britel, a village known for trading automobile parts; and an archaeological conservator working at the American University of Beirut.

Uummannaq Children's Home

2017 • 36 min

Short film by Yang Bo.

Lauluja utopiasta

2017 • 57 min • Finland

The story of Agit Prop, communist band established in 1970.

Balloon

2017 • 27 min • Japan

A great adventure in the comfort of a room thanks to a microscope. The infinite universe that expands if you look at a medaka, a leaf, an udon and a stone. Before you know it, you are lost in the small world around you. A big world. This work is a diary of observation from the sowing of the Fusenkazura seed to the withering away.

Future Tense

2017 • 9 min

A look at construction cranes around Nashville as figures trapped by the ambivalent forces of capitalism. The piece continues my interest in the landscape, not as a mere pictorial representation, but instead as a point of perceptual inquiry to examine the outer world in an attempt to understand the inner world.

The Great Barrier Reef

2017 • 45 min

The well-known actress and world champion in freediving, Marina Kazankova, presents the most beautiful and wonderful reef in the world: the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. Threatened by the ongoing global warming and over acidification of the ocean, it is fighting for the preservation of this unique UNESCO World Heritage Site. She takes us on an extraordinary journey from the Hardy Reef across the Whitsunday Islands to the unique Coral Cays. It is accompanied by a variety of reef-based life forms such as whale sharks, turtles and the rare, up to three meters long giant grouper. Once again we experience the underwater world of the world’s largest reef with its hidden caves, mysterious shipwrecks and fantastic horizontal waterfalls.

Three Steps

2017 • 20 min • Georgia

Thirteen-year-old Mariam lives with her father, Rezo, in the poor slums of Tbilisi. They share a one room shack. Mariam and Rezo are barely making a living, being forced to steal at times. Along with the struggle against poverty, Mariam also has to deal with the facts of becoming a woman and the fear that her father would betray her in order to make money.

Great American Eclipse

2017 • 42 min

Mike Massimino witnesses the 2017 solar eclipse in Charleston, SC.

Have Heart

2017 • 13 min • United Kingdom

A looping GIF has an existential crisis.

3,5 Liras

2017 • 17 min

Salih is a employee in a market without any social security. Instead of his own food that he brings everyday he accidentally eats another employee, Hacer's lunch. Although he feels regretful eventually Hacer gets a receipt which tells her cost of lunch that causes a burden for her employer 3,5 Lira.

Akado

2017 • 7 min

The wife has bought a new TV and asks Evgeni to connect it to the cable net- work and fix it on the wall, so she can watch “Let’s Talk”. Evgeni finds online the phone number of a specialist for TV installation who comes with a delay of two hours. Evgeni first notices blood on his clothes and on his tools, and then recog- nizes in him the hero of a documentary film about serial murderers.

A Baker's Dozen

2017 • 3 min

When a lonely, anti-social man stops by his usual bakery for his usual one cookie, the baker insists he take a dozen cookies instead. Reluctantly, the man complies, forcing him out of his comfort zone and into unexpected friendships.

Cat Fight

2017 • 24 min

In his studio, a painter starts a painting. Outside, his son improvises some graffiti on the walls of the house. Both of them wish to pay tribute to their family cat, which disappeared following a nocturnal fight with another cat. The latter, a black cat, lost an eye, and its owner, a writer and bookseller, comes to bring its news. The former, a white cat, never came home...

Field Song

2017 • 6 min • United States of America

Roberto E. Olivera (67) has spent his life working the fields of Ventura County. As a boy, he survived poverty and a brutal stepfather. This film follows Roberto, now an old man, for one day, as he tours the fields where he used to work and recounts the lesson his late mother taught him — that everything in life is temporary.

The Theme

2017 • 20 min • Russia

Betrayal is the worst thing that can happen between people. It marks the death of intimacy and trust. Betrayal can only be committed by somebody close, and a person who once trusted or even loved you can suddenly become an enemy.

An Inventory of Some Strictly Visible Things

2017 • 7 min

"In a nod to Perec, Torossian’s An Inventory of Some Strictly Visible Things is a riveting account of the everyday in a small post-Soviet republic: a country obsessed with the catastrophic... It is a powerful celebration of the extraordinary in the ordinary; an essential respite from the white noise of the White House, and the tyranny of the headline." —Bomb (2017)

Sadie's Baby

2017 • 26 min

Queer performance artist and sex worker Sadie Lune’s unique motherhood journey begins in San Francisco, California and ends in Berlin, Germany. A process of art, friendship, partnership, and love.

Tzzd

2017 • 7 min

An elf falls asleep in the metro of Buenos Aires. What does he dream of? Maybe of being a young Bolivian man, a robot constructor, evolving in a city that seems to have been built by a child with a wild imagination. In his film, Eduardo Williams continues his project of connecting disjointed terrestrial. From Buenos Aires to La Paz, we move from cool to warm colors, from a fruit and vegetable shop to a dark cave where big metal figures are fabricated. Or maybe something else is being made there. Indeed, it is far away in the phantasmagoric woods of Fontainebleau that those metallic experimentations come to life as agile as voguing dancers. In a few minutes, we travel through three countries, two continents and through the bodies it captures, the voices and sounds it registers, it is the entire world manifesting at our senses.