All Films

Disney Parks Presents a Disney Channel Holiday Celebration

2017 • 57 min • United States of America

The Raven-Symone and Issac Ryan Brown from Raven's Home take the stage as the hosts of the broadcast a rundown of the proceedings; musical performances from Disney Channel stars, a sneak peek at Disney's Hollywood Studios Toy Story Land, and surprise Disney experiences for families that "share the joy."

The Making of the Album… Lindsey Buckingham/Christine McVie

2017 • 17 min • United States of America

An inside glimpse into the making of Lindsey Buckingham and Christine McVie's first ever album as a duo.

S

2017 • 5 min • Brazil

A number of androgynous figures inhabit an underground world of train carriages and tunnels. Performing ritualistic choreographies which combine breakdance and voguing, two iconic dances that originated in black American communities, the characters project a utopian scenario that prefigures Roque’s interest in queer as an emancipated state of hybridization.

Styrofoam

2017 • 4 min • United States of America, China

Guo Jie is one of the estimated 277 million rural migrant workers in China. In Shanghai, Guo Jie buys and collects styrofoam boxes from markets selling fresh produce. She takes them to a seafood wholesale market where she resells them to wholesalers who will store fish in the boxes.

Poor Magic

2017 • 7 min

"Poor Magic effects a beautiful yet terrifying rendition of contemporary consciousness, gesturing towards civilisation's listless drift beyond the corporeal, and technology's infinite desire to penetrate and artificially replicate human essence. Computer-generated crowd simulations run berserk in dreamlike repetition, while a 3D endoscopic journey takes us through the body's most intimate passages."

Luther and His Legacy

2017 • 55 min • Netherlands

A personal essay on the legacy of Martin Luther on the basis of 16th-Century drawings and paintings where the director draws parallels with today's communication explosion/distribution of "news" and the necessity to be digitally literate.

La peur du vide

2017 • 15 min • France

Simone is an isolated old lady, whose daily life is punctuated by a strange pile of rubbish, so imposing in her small apartment that it prevents her from living normally. One day, Simone dares to touch it.

The Seduction Trap

2017 • 57 min

Jin-soo and Soo-jin visit the mountains on their day off. However, Jin-soo falls for the cabin owner Yoo-ra. While his girlfriend takes a shower, he approaches Yoo-ra. He witnesses her dancing sexily and seducing them and he falls even more deeply into her. After going home with Soo-jin, Jin-soo returns to the cabin and spends a night with Yoo-ra. The next morning, Jin-soo is about to say bye to Yoo-ra and leave when something unexpected happens to him.

Snow Bears

2017 • 58 min • United Kingdom

The enchanting true-to-life tale of polar bear cubs and their mother on a 400-mile journey from their birth den in Svalbard to the pack ice surrounding the North Pole.

Porsche: Decades of Disruption

2017 • 28 min • United States of America

Since World War II, Porsche has manufactured cars that have disrupted the automobile industry, like the 911.

Jivari

2017 • 23 min • India

Jivari, in Indian Classical Music, refers to the overtone-rich sound characteristic of classical Indian string instruments such as Tanpura, Sitar, Surbahar, Rudra Veena and Saraswati Veena. Jivari can refer to the acoustic phenomenon itself and to the meticulously carved bone, ivory or wooden bridges that supports the strings on the sounding-board that produce this particular effect. The film attempts to trace the bridge between the craftsman and the musician by exploring the intimate bond Zakir Bhai and music shop hse with classical music, and how this bond has evolved over the years, interspersed with letters

Spring Like Lovers

2017 • 31 min • Japan

Kazu becomes distrustful of his current partner Shin and goes to see his ex-boyfriend Takashi. But he finds out that Takashi has gotten married to a woman and feels that he is left with nowhere to go.

I Will Love You, May I?

2017 • 55 min • Russia

An Algorithm

2017 • 40 min • South Korea

When putting on a play on a lesbian’s suicide attempt, Yun-jeong, an open lesbian in school who plays a leading role in the theater production accuses Ji-won of writing the play without having a better understanding of homosexuality. As such accusation hurts her feelings, Ji-won intentionally approaches Yun-jeong’s ex-girlfriend, Min-a and revises her play script that gradually begins to resemble the story of a real-life ex-lesbian couple, Yun-jeong and Min-a. At the same time, Ji-won gets carried away by her growing feelings for Min-a.

Time Travel

2017 • 10 min • United States of America

The film, an animation, unfolds in three acts: Act I, "Cyrano", wherein Cyrano makes all manner of boasts and compares his lady-love to the marvels of the universe; Act II, " Prometheus", in which pagan forces are compared with the supposed genteel nature of the 19th century; Act III, "Time Travel", wherein there is a hop-scotch of Time Travel! In which the viewer moves among various 'times', partially drawn entirely from imagination, partially from allusion to specific visual historic and pre-historic periods. It is not a straight-line progression, rather a flipping back and forth through glimpses of various ages, carried along by the surreal antics of its objects and characters.

The DANY Video

2017 • 29 min

Hardbody Entertainment Presents A Dany Publication of an Emilio Cuilan film

Gas Can

2017 • 15 min • Canada

A Cree family in 1970s Saskatchewan must ask an old farmer for help when their car runs out of gas while moving to the city.

Roar: The Most Dangerous Movie Ever Made

2017 • 42 min

Actress Tippi Hedren and her family set out to make a unique film by spending ten years living with and filming 150 untrained lions, tigers and assorted wild animals. Despite good intentions, over 70 cast and crew were injured making the film.

Burning Action Super Heroine Chronicles 28 - Melty Saver

2017 • 60 min • Japan

The 28th film in the Burning Action Super Heroine Chronicles tokusatsu series

Followed Back

2017 • 9 min • United States of America

Thriller short film about an astronaut battling PTSD.

Onward Lossless Follows

2017 • 17 min

A password-protected love affair, a little vapor on Venus, and a horse with no name ride out in search of a better world. Against the mounting darkness, a willing abduction offers a stab at tomorrow.

Breathing House

2017 • 12 min • Japan

Last gasps of the Seiza-sha house in Kyoto devoted to Torajiro Okada’s still-sitting meditation method from the late-Meiji era’s intercultural ferment. -JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film

Half Eaten Cow

2017 • 18 min

Within the framework of the project "Strengthening Local Capacity to Protect Children's Rights" funded by the European Union, six films were created, which tell us about the difficulties that children face in the difficult path of getting an education.

Innards

2017 • 11 min

A former child actor reconnects with his twin brother to discuss a role they once shared--as the lead in a schlocky, shot-on-video cannibal film, "Innards."