All Films

Making a Mark

2017 • 56 min • Australia

Filmed during the inaugural year of the Ramsay Art Prize, Making a Mark is a chronicle of passion and creative trailblazing as a selection of finalists, all aged under 40, vie for the $100,000 prize. In a story that spans the globe from Europe to Outback Australia, we explore one of the most personally challenging and financially tenuous vocations, and find out just what it takes to live a life in the world of visual arts.

Shredtopia

2017 • 45 min

Focusing on good times all over, the bots travel to new spots only to realize that when you’re strapped in and having fun with the crew, you forget where you are anyways, it’s all “Shredtopia” to us.

Soft Spot

2017 • 12 min

When Kris's partner Jess comes home from an evening out, the night takes an unexpected turn. Kris, struggling with the surprise death of an ex-lover, side steps Jess's post gin and tonic come on's and inadvertently reveals too much. In the wake of Jess's insecurity the two of them may have to deal with the past instead of the present issue at hand.

Sine at the Canyon Sine at the Sea (by Kelly Gabron)

2017 • 7 min

Sine at the Canyon Sine at the Sea began as a video designed to be background eye-candy at an outdoor performance event and evolved into a protest against the reverberations of the neo-fascist nonsense percolating in American culture.

The Clarinets

2017 • 23 min

A young man from the suburbs comes to the city for some shopping. He misses the last train to home and roams about. Suddenly he meets another man, who offers refuge for the night.

Billy Connolly And Me

2017 • 60 min • United Kingdom

Fans from around the globe share anecdotes about how Billy Connolly inspired them, with contributions from Judi Dench, David Tennant, Andy Murray, Elton John and Peter Kay

O Violeiro Fantasma

2017 • 7 min • Brazil

Pancoran

2017 • 9 min • Australia

Motorcycles and cars are lost in the sound of traffic and disappear in bands sliced into film footage of Jakarta’s roads. The horizontal and vertical lines or checkerboard patterns emphasizing the density and chaos of the crowded roads were made by optically printing 16mm film.

Rarely Normal

2017 • 38 min

Gouzi is an excellent soccer player, but destiny sends countless curveballs their way. They have been living with a rare disease for 11 years, and during that time they fell critically ill 6 times, they were paralyzed 11 times, and they lost their hearing 4 times. Yet they keep on living their life with a playful and staunch spirit. Queerness, disability, life, love, affection and survival are just some of the pieces they use to puzzle together their own true self.

O Porco e o Seu Espírito

2017 • 11 min • Spain

"Man, in the need to explain and understand the world around him, gives the animal, especially on the symbolic level, the functions performed, at first only for himself. It is believed that the pig guesses its end, feels death, and on the eve of the slaughter spends the night beating on the door of the court, which is expressed with the belief that that night it gets up seven times to eat the owner". (Adrian Canoura)

Heartbeat

2017 • 14 min • Thailand

An ordinary man who can hear other people's heartbeat but his own heartbeat could not be heard, even using stethoscope until one day he met a girl who works together with him in a department store.

Under the Stairs

2017 • 3 min • United States of America

Kate tries to console the crying woman next door through the thin wall, but slowly realizes that might not be her neighbor after all.

Chloé: L'Eau

2017 • 1 min • France

Walkers

2017 • 15 min

a montage of a motif in Philippe Garrel's Cinema: walking.

Crave

2017 • 8 min • United Kingdom

A man deals with a horrifying addiction.

A Field Between

2017 • 15 min • United States of America

Amaryllis Fox recounts her transition out of the CIA

Earth to Isaac

2017 • 12 min • United States of America

After a tragedy, a father and son struggle to connect. Looking for answers in the stars, the boy, Isaac, begins searching through his attic for supplies to build an interstellar radio. As Isaac progresses towards his goal, both father and son are forced to confront their mutual loss.

The Voyage of Curiosity

2017 • 55 min

The goal of NASA's Curiosity Rover is to find out whether life could ever have existed on Mars and whether the planet is safe for humans. This film tracks the robotic explorer's perilous journey, from its risky landing to its momentous climb up the slopes of Mt. Sharp. It will rank as one of the great space missions, from Cassini at Saturn to Apollo on the Moon and Voyager beyond the solar system.

What is 'Yokoso boku desu'?

2017 • 10 min • Japan

This is the 4th music and animation series titled “Yokoso boku desu” (Welcome it’s me). This series consists of three songs. “Let’s Coritsu”(Be isolated), a song wising for an isolated situation to be connected, “Yoko is Naive”, a song by a mysteriyous woman who has been waiting for something for a long time, and “Kosokoso Bokudesu”, where an earthworm boy, a senior guy, and others extend their own necks. Through these three songs, what do you see in Yokoso Bokudesu?

Camel Toe

2017 • 11 min • Portugal

Bruno, a 26 year old man starts to enter the Drag culture in Oporto in 2015. Initially he's rejected multiple times in various show rooms for being "way too gay". After two years the name Camel Toe is now famous because of his excentric personality wich gives him a voice when it comes to the defence of all kinds of artistic expression and in the fight against prejudice. Camel Toe comes to chock, through his irreverence, the city of Oporto and to tell us the story of his life as a metaphore for the revenge of an whole comunity in the contemporary days.

Once There Was Everything

2017 • 6 min • United States of America

Kogonada looks at how the motif of doors reverberates through Robert Bresson's work.

Holy Night Lonely Nights

2017 • 13 min

Three men don't want to spend Christmas eve on their own. Melchior, Balthazar and Caspar wander through the city of Antwerp, hoping to find amusement and affection. They get confronted with themselves and the dangers of the night.

Hitler's Children

2017 • 51 min • France

This exclusive documentary recounts the crazy project of Nazi Germany which secretly gave birth to Aryan children as far as France. In these maternities for the rich called the ‘Lebensborn’, the Nazis raised ‘perfect’ children born of progenitors from the SS and women with well defined racial grounds. This plan gave birth to thousands of children who were called ‘Hitler's Children’. They were supposed to lead the world one day. It wasn’t until 30 years later that the existence of one of these centers in France was discovered. For the very first time, the children born in the ‘Lesenborn’ in Lamorlaye find out about their existence and disclose one the most frightening plans of History, as well as the dark secret of their origins.

Deux Cancres

2017 • 60 min

A father films the daily efforts and struggle of his son to do his homework. Completing the school tasks is an agony that oppresses the creative passion of a restless, imaginative boy. His father gets deeply involved so he can understand what the problem is, and spends an hour every day to help him with his homework. Days, weeks, years go by, and we observe how the eagerness to learn clashes with the ghost of school dropout. The endearing relationship between father and son, a real rollercoaster of emotions, reveals with a sense of humour the contradictions in the French education system.