All Films

Minion Moments: Overkill

2017 • 1 min • United States of America

A Minion equipped with a virtual reality hand device takes on a seemingly simple task: combating a bug. However, things escalate quickly as the Minion uses a giant robotic machine to deal with the situation, leading to over-the-top chaos and hilarity in classic Minion fashion.

Lilith

2017 • 5 min

Ana escapes through the forest pursued by Lilith, who is looking to steal her last breath.

TrailBlayzer: The Alundra Blayze Story

2017 • 57 min

After blazing a trail for women in the ring and in monster trucks, Alundra Blayze finally returns to WWE in an emotional reunion and career retrospective. Nearly 20 years after dropping the WWE Women’s Championship in the garbage on national television, Blayze's legacy is immortalized by her induction into the WWE Hall of Fame.

Anubumin

2017 • 18 min • Austria

In Nauruan, Anubumin means »night«—and darkness is what the fourth joint film by Zanny Begg and Oliver Ressler begins with. The small and inconspicuous island of Nauru with close to 10,000 inhabitants lies in the Pacific at a great distance to the mainland. But Nauru is a tragic place steeped in history that has been overwritten by numerous narratives. The film addresses these different narratives, starting with the early exploitation of the island and its calcite and phosphate deposits by the colonial powers in the 19th century. After the golden 1970s, when the »Birdshit island« was flush with money, the phosphate was completely mined and the island state soon became insolvent. Since then, Nauru has turned into a gloomy place: 80% of the area is uninhabitable; the attempt to tap new sources of income led to the wide-scale practice of money laundering.

Burn

2017 • 15 min • United Kingdom

Grace meets a mysterious woman at an art gallery that leads to a series of both exciting and frightening events to confront internal conflicts she cannot escape.

The Two Companions

2017 • 18 min

The film revolves around Antara, a typist and Ananya, BPO employee and explores the realm of unspoken unadulterated love which goes beyond the reach of materialism.

Fake!

2017 • 2 min

Inspired by the Liar In Chief and his Minister of Disinformation, we give you the newest invention of late stage capitalism: "alternative facts"!

Ria Lina: Taboo Raider

2017 • 58 min

With an impeccably-polished sense of comic timing, Ria Lina takes aim at the cultural obsession for political correctness. Taboo Raider sees Lina bravely tackling a range of thorny subjects including Christian philosophy, Max Clifford, and the Paralympics.

Do you like Chow Shing Chi?

2017 • 21 min

Min-kyu, who is separated from his girlfriend, goes to Hong Kong. It's a journey to escape from suffering, but Min-kyu's complex mind is rarely solved. Min-kyu tried to leave the hostel. He met a woman as soon as he opened the door. Unlike Min-kyu, who is embarrassed, the woman enters his hostel. After a strange first encounter, his trip to Hong Kong begins as if it is a coincidence.

El domingo

2017 • 12 min • Spain

My Big Bollywood Wedding

2017 • 51 min • United States of America

There are few ceremonies in the world that are as lavish or as vibrant as Indian weddings. And for Indian-Americans, the unions are just as extravagant here in the States, with an average cost of half a million dollars. Witness the big Bollywood marriages of three couples as they attempt to balance millennia-old traditions and modern American sensibilities.

Sleepwalker

2017 • 5 min

Lily must defeat the demons that lurk in her nightmares if she is to save herself and the woman she loves.

Alias JJ, The Celebrity of Evil

2017 • 54 min

This is a shocking documentary where the audience will meet Jhon Jairo Velazquez Vasquez known as Popeye or Alias JJ, Pablo Escobar’s right-hand man until he decided to surrender to justice to save his life. After serving a twenty-three year prison sentence he became the only survivor from the Medellin Cartel. Velazquez has called the public opinion attention because of his controversial statements before the justice and the media, involving Escobar with high government members, the police, and criminal organizations worldwide. Through interviews with witnesses, victims of the Medellin Cartel and different public opinion figures, this documentary intends to contrast those stories that have made Alias JJ famous.

Sting: A Free Man

2017 • 52 min • France

100 million records sold, 16 Grammy Awards and a place on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: Sting is a genre-breaking, unique paradox in the world of music. Yet we know so little about the man. Behind the global rock star hides an intellectual, a free and frail man who uses his art to express his inner thoughts and bear the battles important to him.

Wedding

2017 • 21 min • South Korea

Hearing-impaired Ji Hwan attends the wedding of his high school best friend, Song Hoon. As the ceremony takes place, Ji Hwan replays in his mind a particular moment from the past and a secret he wasn't able to reveal him that day.

Jokinen

2017 • 45 min

Moving somewhere between historical research, a detective story and an arts and crafts club, the film is based on documentary research. However, it is unconventional, both in terms of form and narrative structure. Jokinen is constructed from newspaper and book quotes as well as the artist’s own narration. Since the piece directly cites texts from the 1930s, it uses some language that is offensive from today’s perspective. By exposing a story from the 1930s, the artist asks whether there are any similarities in the present and the past.

Samadhi Part 1: Maya, the Illusion of the Self

2017 • 60 min • Canada

Samadhi Part 1 (Maya the Illusion of the Self) is the first installment in a series of films exploring Samadhi. Samadhi is an ancient Sanskrit word which points toward the mystical or transcendent union that is at the root of all spirituality and self inquiry. The saints, sages and awakened beings throughout history have all learned the wisdom of self surrender.

Habeas Corpus: The Making of 'Psycho Cop Returns'

2017 • 43 min

Retrospective documentary on the making of the low-budget horror slasher film Psycho Cop Returns (1993).

USS Indianapolis: Live from the Deep

2017 • 60 min

Hosted by Emmy Award-winning broadcast journalist Miles O’Brien, USS Indianapolis Live - From the Deep takes viewers through the wreckage of the Fifth Fleet’s naval flagship, which lies more than three miles below the surface of the Philippine Sea. Lost for more than 72 years, the U.S. Navy cruiser was found and positively identified in August through careful analysis of wreckage and markings by the expedition crew onboard the Research Vessel (R/V) Petrel, owned by Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Paul G. Allen.

Water Memories

2017 • 9 min

The racism between their families forces Carla and Helena to keep their friendship as a secret. They both share a dream: to be Olympic swimmers. And for that, they train in secret in the city pool when it's closed. Carla gets selected by the national team, leaving Helena behind. One year later, Carla gets back to the swimming pool with the intention of talking to Helena, but that day, they're found and stalked by a stranger.

Lightdancer

2017 • 17 min • Indonesia

Al’ya, a light-miner girl, desperately needs the help of her father, Qu’rai, to perform a forbidden sacred ‘Kirakira’ lightdance to resurrect an ancient being before they are stopped by a mob of angry villagers.

50 Shades of Gay

2017 • 46 min

50 years after decriminalization of homosexuality in Great Britain, actor Rupert Everett explores the way both the gay community and public attitude towards gay people have changed.

Extinguished

2017 • 4 min • United States of America

In a world where flames represent love, it's easy to get your heart burned.

Tooth Fairy

2017 • 6 min • Uruguay

A greedy young boy discovers that the Tooth Fairy is a stickler for the rules in this frightening permutation of the folk figure.