All Films

Under My Spell

2017 • 7 min

See what happens when you try to turn your golden charm to greenbacks.

Rouff

2017 • 7 min • Germany

Three-legged dog sketch Rouff is sad and lonely. To escape his loneliness, he folds a new friend, Pete, from the paper he is drawn on. Rouff and Pete's quest for the fourth leg is an adventurous story, not only for children.

Perfect Town

2017 • 4 min • Switzerland

Everybody aspires to be a citizen of Perfect Town – but display a deficiency or a flaw and you will be stripped of your superior status and forced to the rear of the interminable line of those clamouring to get in.

Medulla Oblongata

2017 • 8 min

Maldivian student Abraham Naim is better known as his alter ego: the powerful and sassy drag queen Medulla Oblongata, a notable figure in the Auckland LGBTQ scene. Medulla Oblongata explores where Abe is now and the life he left behind.

Brooklyn Breeze

2017 • 4 min • Russia

A musical stroll in old Brooklyn, both in its mythical sites and in less touristy places. Based on a composition written by a New York musician and conductor, Michael Arenella and his Orchestra.

Beles

2017 • 7 min • Eritrea, United States of America

An East African kid (Aginy Teklu) and his friends wakes up every morning to collect a valuable fruit called Beles from the deep mountains of his village.

Planet Hades

2017 • 6 min • United States of America

A treasure hunter heads for an alien planet and finds something unexpected.

What I Would’ve Told My Daughter If I Knew What to Say Back Then

2017 • 13 min • Philippines

The filmmaker talking to over 13 years of home videos in an imagined conversation with her daughter's younger years. The filmmaker's failed coming out when her child was only 3 years old inspired the initial concept for this experimental documentary.

Emoticon Man

2017 • 20 min

In a world where everybody wears emoticon masks, Nick meets Sophie, a woman that dares to express her feelings through her own face. The life of Nick will drastically change by having feelings that emoticons cannot describe.

Airbus vs Boeing: The Jumbo Jet Race

2017 • 51 min • France

The story of the rivalry between Boeing and Airbus is no doubt one of the greatest human and technological adventures of the 20th century. A modern-day western, with the protagonists trying out every underhand trick and bluff possible to achieve their aims. But it is also a story of power and influence, driven by geopolitical ambitions and struggles, where deals and contracts define a country.

O Dia da Exaltação

2017 • 11 min • Portugal

Portuguese short-film.

Arctic Peril

2017 • 46 min

The world's most pristine and least understood ocean, the Arctic, is under threat from chemical pollutants, plastics and climate change. In the northern regions of Norway, Canada and Russia, you can see evidence of steadily warming Atlantic waters moving further north. This film explores the impact these waters are having on the diversity of organisms and ecosystems that are unique to the Arctic.

Autobiography: Pass Through

2017 • 57 min • China

The first part of Wu Wenguang's Autobiography film series.

The Boldman Chronicles

2017 • 10 min • Uruguay

In an old bookstore run by an old man, a girl immerses herself in the universe of a graphic novel, which deals with the last moments of the life of an old superhero.

Fazenda Rosa

2017 • 9 min

Erasto Vasconcelos, a poet who perceives life, echoes the "Pernambuco-ness" of what surrounds us: the river, the birds, the mangrove creatures, the trees, what is planted for food, the people who sing to us, and the nursery rhymes.

The Sky is Falling: Three Months in the Life of Ustym Holodnyuk

2017 • 50 min • Ukraine

A film about the ideals that filled the hearts of Ustym and his peers during three months of the revolution. Ustym's character is revealed not through stories told by his family or friends or what he did, but instead through his concerns and motivations for which he stood on the Maidan. It is a personal story told plainly and directly by people from his generation about their shared experience. That experience reveals a sense of community with Ustym, not as a historical figure but like a dear friend whose pain and tragedy of fate becomes your own. This film forces the audience to not just feel remorse for a 19 year old who died on Institutstka Street three years ago, but also experience an anguish for their own wasted hopes and absence of initiative.

Divina Commedia

2017 • 1 min • France

A man looks for refuge in a remote mountain's bath house. Surrounded with nudity, trapped and in a closed environment, he begins to lose his head.

Sleep Tight

2017 • 6 min

A new horror from Paul Williams and Evil Hypnotist Productions.

Kidnap

2017 • 18 min

A young man kidnaps a young girl to impress his friends. When she gets an opportunity she knocks him out, ties him up, and interviews him back.

Sweet Darusya

2017 • 19 min • Ukraine

A story about the bitter fate of Darusya and her parents, who were tortured by Soviet NKVD officers during the pre-war and post-war periods of Soviet occupation of Western Ukraine. The events unfold in the remote mountain village of Cheremoshne, in Bukovina.

Carcasse

2017 • 60 min • France, Iceland

On a deserted peninsula, a group lives amidst relics from contemporary society. Part of a plane serves as a sheep shed, a car inner tube as futuristic Tupperware. Is this a parallel world or are we in the near future?

The Dream of the Dervish

2017 • 39 min • Macedonia

A documentary about the dervishes in the Rufai Tekke, in the Skopje neighborhood of Gazi Baba. Through interviews, we learn about the history of the Tekke, built in 1818. The philosophy of life and tradition of the Rufai Dervishes originate from the Ottoman era and are passed down through generations, like a legacy.

Millimeterle

2017 • 15 min • Switzerland

Measuring their power and proving themselves is part of the boys’ everyday life. Even for the 13-year-old gentle-natured Yannik. Until his best friend’s upcoming sexual curiosity suddenly puts him in a threatening situation. Where is the line between game and reality and what happens if that line is crossed?

Darkest Valentine

2017 • 3 min

Love has many very dark sides. It is best to whisper them very quietly to ourselves – and those who are ready to listen.