All Films

Drowners

2017 • 1 min

Be careful not to bring something back from the other side....

Mimosa Tank: A Prologue for a Film

2017 • 35 min • Germany, United States of America

A collaborative essay film regarding Fritz Lang.

Beat Bugs: All Together Now

2017 • 50 min • United States of America

After winning a local talent show, the Beat Bugs journey to compete on "The Bug Factor," a televised singing contest held in faraway Rocket Ship Park.

Work and Play

2017 • 7 min

Brings together new personal reflections from Kubrick’s collaborators and unseen materials from his personal archives to shed light on this unique cinematic achievement. The short documentary first played alongside the 2017 re-release in theatres of The Shining.

Fever

2017 • 10 min

Four high schoolers across the world reveal their primal selves when faced with moral dilemmas.

The Tyranny of Consciousness

2017 • 24 min

Lady Bunny at the end of the world.

Pattern Recognition

2017 • 8 min • Canada

To celebrate the BFI's Thriller season, filmmaker Daniel Cockburn explores the power of sound to terrify and unsettle. Using sounds from Hollywood's best-known thriller and horror films, Cockburn makes familiar noises frightening and leaves us wondering... What's that sound? And why won't it stop?

Intersection

2017 • 9 min

A road trip forces a young woman and her two besties to examine their identities and place in the American South, in this smart and poignant film that explores friendship, ally-ship, and intersecting identities.

Worth Every Penny

2017 • 14 min • Israel

An animated voyage into the realm of payed sex encounters. The texts are taken from internet forums, where sex consumers compare and rate the quality of prostitutes performance.

Just a Few Words

2017 • 8 min • Hungary

“… it might not have been a question of right and wrong. Which is to say that wrong choices can produce right results, and vice versa.” –Murakami Haruki

In Defence Of Freedom

2017 • 6 min

This short film is literally a conglomeration of all the beautiful dialogues that were said by Nawazuddin Siddiqui in the feature film Manto(2018) by Nandita Das.

To Pluto

2017 • 15 min

A cancer patient who is looking for redemption forms an unexpected bond with a nurse who is questioning her life choices

His Quiet Mind

2017 • 32 min • Canada

Twenty-three-year-old Alroy Scott, who suffers from OCD, finds himself at the edge of his sanity after his best friend gets into an accident. Stuck with the debilitating & obsessive thought that the accident is his fault, Alroy is sent to group counseling sessions to confront his mental illness head on.

Hexed

2017 • 10 min

A woman is 'kiss-hexed' by a homeless person and must find another person to kiss by midnight or she expires - an unlikely love story.

Ms. Strangedisposition or: How I Desire to Be Rich

2017 • 15 min • Japan

Yukio, content with living off sugar daddies, has his life changed when a girl named Yuki appears in his home on a snowy day. They soon form a connection through spending their ordinary yet satisfying days together. 6 months passes and summer is approaching; something Yuki longs for but is simultaneously afraid of.

Coming Apart

2017 • 17 min

"Our analysis of such a rich film should not be a rigid, either/or proposition. It remains for us, almost 55 years on from Contempt’s initial release, to fully grasp Godard’s modernist gestures, poised between a fullness of mythic and classical meaning, and the possibilities of a newly fragmented universe of signs."

Valencia Road

2017 • 7 min

While driving to the reading of her father's will, Catherine is faced with an anomaly on the side of the road.

Ftl

2017 • 15 min • United Kingdom

A lone astronaut testing the first faster-than-light spacecraft travels farther than he imagined possible.

LEGO Frozen Northern Lights

2017 • 22 min • United States of America

Elsa, Anna and friends search for the Northern Lights.

Saint-Louis Square

2017 • 1 min

Two gentlemanly pigeons sit next to the fountain at Saint-Louis Square in Montreal, playing checkers and enjoying the summer weather. Little do they know the dangers that lurk. Part of a series of NFB Public Service Alerts.

Extravaganza

2017 • 6 min • United States of America

EXTRAVAGANZA mixes 3D animation and live-action footage in a bitingly funny satire. You are a puppet trapped in a stunningly offensive puppet show, performing for a clueless executive (Paul Scheer). Confronted with his glaringly obvious blind spots and prejudices, EXTRAVAGANZA asks: can technology change society for the better, or does it just magnify our worst traits in new ways?

Race Through New York Starring Jimmy Fallon

2017 • 15 min

Face Jimmy Fallon and all your favorite characters from NBC's "The Tonight Show" in a fun-filled race through, below and above New York City. Board the unique "flying theater" and you'll speed through the busy streets of midtown Manhattan, soar over skyscrapers, even dive into the East River as you hurtle neck and neck towards the finish line.

Making a New American Nutcracker

2017 • 60 min

The Joffrey Ballet creates a new version of "The Nutcracker" set in Chicago at the time of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition.

White T and Feeble Things

2017 • 30 min

Takara only wears spotless white T-shirts, but lately can’t seem to keep any of them clean. Meanwhile, he meets a mysterious contract killer and struggles with insecurities about his girlfriend. -JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film