All Films

The Acid Sorcerer

2017 • 60 min • United States of America

The Acid Sorcerer is a dark and nihilistic horror film that borders between fiction and reality. The introduces the viewer to a serial killer, a drug addicted couple, a sadistic drug dealer, a cross dressing snuff filmmaker and a prostitute who has HIV. The characters embrace their inner darkness, struggle with morality, come to terms with their mortality and ultimately meet their demise.

A Walk Back to the Last London by Way of Watling Street

2017 • 18 min • United Kingdom

A film shot on an iPhone with a super 8 app documenting a walk made by Andrew Kötting with Iain Sinclair from Dover to London along Watling Street, sometimes in the company of John Rogers and sometimes in the company of Anne Caron-Delion.

A Gold Star Kid

2017 • 13 min • United States of America

One day, 9-years-old Matt is on the way to a restaurant and finds a 20 euro bill on the pavement. At the restaurant, Matt sees a soldier which reminds him of his late father who was a soldier. Matt decides to pay it forward in memory of his father.

El indefinido. La crítica de La la land

2017 • 13 min

In a post-La la land world, a man must decide whether he loves or he hates it

The Garden

2017 • 55 min • United Kingdom

After a silent, masked individual encounters a man with a television for an arm; horror, euphoria and madness ensue.

Spider Jazz

2017 • 2 min

A spider passionately practices classical music on her self-spun instrument. When a fly gets caught in it one day, the spider learns that making music is not about perfection but about improvisation and the fun of playing together.

Bangkok Dystopia

2017 • 29 min • Thailand

After accidentally taking a bus to the end of its line, a school boy befriends a prostitute. Together they search for a ride.

Dry Season in My House

2017 • 2 min • Indonesia

A woman surprises a man with a sensual dance in the wrong season. She made the rain, but the dancing comes by itself. An independent dance by a very independent woman. The dancing is not like the Indonesian tradition, but who else but an Indonesian woman can dance like that?

Grenzgänger

2017 • 10 min • Austria

During a taxi ride, the discussion between a vampire and the taxi driver reveals a series of murders.

Horse's Stone

2017 • 20 min • Mexico

Matilde, a dying little girl, will search for the stone that allow her not only to fulfill her dream of becoming a horse, but also, perhaps, even cheat death.

A Word to the Wise

2017 • 27 min • Portugal, Solomon Islands, Spain

The Solomon Islands — a constellation of 900 islands scattered in the South Pacific far from any major continent — remain one of the least disturbed places on Earth. There, you’ll find tangled jungles, crystaline waters and small communities of people who retain a deep and intrinsic connection with the ocean, land and history of their home. The story of the islands is told in this short film by Douglas Lui Fu’oa, a husband, father and amateur anthropologist who believes in living in harmony with nature, respecting the environment and understanding your roots

在中间 in Between 在中間

2017 • 5 min

We live in an increasingly virtual world without leaving the physical places our bodies inhabit. We are alone but at the same time we keep constantly contact with the world. The city feeds this dual mobility - physical and virtual - through a variety of situations, routines and rhythms in our everyday life. Spaces deeply encoded and propitious to individualism and indifference, transform us in spectators of places where no one is truly part of. This film is about this state of loneliness, about ambiguity and disorientation, darkness and silence. A space between confusion, chaos and liberation.

Cabin Pressure

2017 • 4 min

A safety and regulations obsessive is forced to revaluate things when a routine flight runs into difficulties.

Cincinnati Music Hall: The Next Movement

2017 • 56 min • United States of America

For 16 months the doors of Music Hall are closed as an historic renovation process ensues. CET is documenting this complex undertaking with compelling interviews and stunning visuals that provide the audience a seat at the table where decisions are made and progress is monitored. It all leads to the much-anticipated grand re-opening of Music Hall on October 6.

Treaty of Rome

2017 • 53 min • France

From Jean Monnet's idea of a transnational European army to the abolition of customs borders, seven years behind the scenes towards the Treaty of Rome. A docu-fiction "embedded" in the great and small histories of Europe.

Paul Gauguin, je suis un sauvage

2017 • 52 min • France

Perception

2017 • 16 min

A new hallucinogenic drug that allows you to relive your memories takes an emotional and psychological toll on Charlie and his sister Josi.

One Night Only

2017 • 10 min • Australia

In this defiantly affirming queer tale, a gorgeously decked-out Australian calls out his date for chastising his "femme" qualities.

Hope

2017 • 30 min • Norway

By transmitting signals from a radio tower, two survivors of the apocalypse desperately cling to the hope that they are not alone.

Ladushki

2017 • 14 min • Russia

Six funny stories based on folk poems, nursery rhymes: “Ladushki”, “Vodichka”, “Pies”, “By the bumps”, “Magpie-raven” and “Gray top”.

Undercovered

2017 • 53 min • Bosnia and Herzegovina

Following the 2001 terrorist attacks on New York City, one item of clothing has gained a scandalous global reputation: the headscarf. All over the world, a major debate is going on about whether Muslim women should be allowed to wear the headscarf in public.

Abjective

2017 • 3 min • United Kingdom

"On the edge of non-existence and hallucination, of a reality that, if I acknowledge it, annihilates me. There, abject and abjection are my safeguards." Julia Kristeva.

The Unseen Words

2017 • 27 min • Indonesia

The lack of show does not dampen the spirit of Distra Budaya members to keep practicing kethoprak, until one day they have an idea to make a performance to upload on Youtube, to be seen by them who can ‘see’ and can be known by the public. One spirit: to entertain the people.

Black Mamba

2017 • 20 min • Tunisia

On the surface Sarra leads an average life, the one her mother has planned out for her: the young Tunisian is taking sewing classes and preparing for marriage to a young man. But deep inside she is concocting a plan to escape this life – as BLACK MAMBA