All Films

Los Hijos del Maíz

2017 • 6 min

A documentary about women who still preserve the tradition of nixtamalizing corn as in pre-Hispanic times. Chicomecóatl is the Mexica goddess of fertility and the corn that gives man the seed that will be the sustenance of all their generations.

TMNT Team Up! - Comic Con Exclusive

2017 • 2 min

The Turtles take on Comic-Con! See what happens when they walk the floor and rub shoulders with other sweaty teenagers, meet their BIGGEST fan, and reunite with the man himself -- Kevin Eastman!

TMNT Team Up! - Turtle: Impossible

2017 • 3 min

There's a Saturday Night Binge Party in the Turtle Lair! Plus we discover what real fake news really is, a Foot Soldier takes a lunch break, Splinter spits wisdom from inside a cage, the triumphant return of Ace Duck, Shredder has mama drama, and Donny tries to defuse a bomb with a little help from his friends.

Employees Must Wash Hands

2017 • 1 min • United States of America

Employees must wash hands. Literally.

Golden Age

2017 • 15 min

A jaded teenager begrudgingly visits her grandmother, a former B-list actress with dementia facing eviction from her retirement home. While watching a "Casablanca"-esque film from the 1940's her grandmother starred in, the two are magically transported inside the movie where they must escape Nazis and stop World War II, all with the help of a fast-talking, Humphrey Bogart-like romantic.

Naranjas Sin Piel

2017 • 10 min

With the waves against him, Horacio takes Isabel and her mother to the other side of the sea. A journey that forces her to lose her naivety without losing her innocence.

Sulfur

2017 • 3 min

A virgin gets visited by the Devil.

Third Window

2017 • 15 min • Netherlands, Indonesia

A story about a business man that gets caught between reality and a parallel universe

The Animal

2017 • 9 min • Turkey

A woman hits a dog with her car in the middle of damn nowhere. Unhappily she cannot drive off. Her teenage son refuses to get into car if she doesn't euthanize the dog moaning in his agony.

Schizophrenia: The Voices in My Head

2017 • 51 min

A documentary tracking the daily lives, struggles and triumphs of some young Irish people living with schizophrenia. They speak openly about what it's like to live with such a severe mental health disorder and struggle with delusional thoughts and the internal voices that are so associated with schizophrenia.

L'Homme bleu

2017 • 19 min • France

Prey to his demons and alone in a hostile world, the Man in Blue has only one idea in mind: to find plastic materials, the essential ingredient to concocting a strange elixir.

Almost Home

2017 • 27 min • Hong Kong

The film is a resonant portrayal of the younger generation in the post-Umbrella Movement era. Two years ago, Ah-man (Ng Wing-sze), an independent yet stubborn university student, left home after a furious argument with her mum when the Umbrella Movement broke out. Now, she undertakes a new kind of lifestyle – a life of a vegetarian and an organic farmer. However, she never stops thinking of the taste from home. With the film's fragmentary narrative style, Ah-man’s story also reflects the ambivalent decisions between family and society of her friends.

Cinema Againts Power

2017 • 55 min

There was an undeclared war for nearly half a century in Bulgaria between the then government and the majority of democratic-minded filmmakers during the Communist regime. Paradoxically, most of the banned or censored out movies were made by members of the Communist Party, believers in their party's ideas and justice. The Communist Party aesthetics against the freedom to tell truth.

Basilisk

2017 • 11 min

Patrick leads a normal life until a meeting with a mysterious stranger changes everything. Can Patrick keep his grip on reality?

The Incursion

2017 • 24 min • United States of America

Socially marginalized and ostracized, a group of residents from the community of Tivoli Gardens in West Kingston, Jamaica seeks recognition for the injustice they endured during the 2010 government raid that left over 150 people dead.

Codes Abided

2017 • 8 min

A group of outlaws are being tailed by crooked cops. A man in each group wants to turn cheek, but sometimes the law of the crew overrules internal desire.

The Lappnor Project

2017 • 33 min

In the Finnish forests was an unclimbed route called the Lappnor project. It was considered to be the hardest climbing route in the world and perhaps impossible for a human. Nalle Hukkataival, a strong Finnish climber took up the challenge. It required almost four years of total commitment and his efforts were followed by hundreds of thousands of climbers around the world. When Nalle finally succeeded, it blew away the whole climbing world like nothing before. The first 9A boulder was climbed! The documentary follows Nalle's journey from the very beginning, all the way to the first ascent almost half a decade later. It captures the incredible dedication that was needed to deal with all the variables and to take that last step to open the next level of climbing.

Don't Panic

2017 • 32 min • United States of America

In their last days together, a group of friends find themselves confused with transitioning from the halls and classes of high school into the ambiguous world.

Rose Gold

2017 • 8 min

Brightly hued and sonically dense, Sara Cwynar's Rose Gold is a richly layered reflection on the relationship between colour, technology, material objects, and desire elicited from the talismanic powers of the Apple Rose Gold iPhone.

Niebla

2017 • 15 min • Argentina

Fog has a curious effect on cinema. On the one hand, it precludes the production of those images that seem artificial, on account of their sharpness. On the other, the mist gives each frame a mysteriously narrative quality. The joy of watching the sea and the beach under a blanket of mist allows eluding the world of the quotidian, to suspect the beauty of the uncertain and unstable

Neville Shah : What Are You Laughing At?

2017 • 50 min • India

What are you laughing at isn't just the name of the show. It's a question Neville has been trying to answer for a long time. Because what he finds annoying everyone else finds funny.

Spiritus Lepus

2017 • 20 min • Sweden

Hidden amongst the mythical undergrowth in a grimy operation room, six Rabbit Humanoid Surgeons haphazardly fight to save the life of a damaged soul.

Yours Faithfully, Edna Welthorpe (Mrs)

2017 • 5 min • United Kingdom

Chris Shepherd directs a short animation in tribute to Joe Orton (Entertaining Mr Sloane, Loot) to mark the 50th anniversary of his death. Joe Orton would write letters of complaint using the pseudonym of Edna Welthorpe. Using this persona, Orton would wind up companies, vicars and even ridicule his own plays. In this short we see what mayhem ensues when Edna writes to Smedley Jams and Littlewood home catalogue service.

DAM! The Story of Kit the Beaver

2017 • 12 min • Canada

DAM! The Story of Kit the Beaver is an animated film that’s not about your average beaver. It’s the tale of Kit, a very independent (and easily distracted) young beaver who loves to explore the sounds of the forest she lives in. Animated short with original orchestral score performed by The Toronto Symphony Orchestra.