All Films

From Here to Pisces Park

2017 • 5 min

Two good friends, Sabrina and Mel, go on a spontaneous road trip to an old amusement park, but not everything goes according to plan. The duo must not only overcome the speed bumps inherent in a long drive, but also the potholes that form in a tired friendship-- and will they make it to the park in time?

Splinter

2017 • 8 min • United States of America

A centuries-old vampire craves the company of loved ones and contemplates immortality.

A Husband And A Wife. A Votian Story

2017 • 5 min • Estonia

A woman sets out to cut the rye, but what lies behind the curiosity of her ill husband about just when the work will be complete?

Frenchies

2017 • 13 min

A fantasy satire film about how fear drives a nice guy into a judgemental person against his new neighbors, the Frenchy family - they are human with heads like French Bulldog.

Naughty Amelia Jane

2017 • 12 min

This film is a satire on the hilarious hypocrisy of society towards anything that goes against the 'conventional social order of things', told through a story of two girls who may or may not have had a connection.

The Messiah

2017 • 15 min

A young runaway finds refuge with a 17 year-old self proclaimed Messiah in a South Auckland garage only to discover that true salvation is in his own hands.

Blackjack

2017 • 23 min • Switzerland

Leila, who is singularly androgynous, works at a casino in a predominantly male environment. A croupier by night, she returns to her hotel in the early hours of the morning, while Camil, who occupies the room next to hers, disappears at dawn.The first time she sees him, he is leaning at his balcony, his appearance distraught and tears welling up in his eyes.

Dumb

2017 • 31 min • Russia

Transitional age is a difficult period, especially when you are in love. But what to do when the object of your love does not notice you? Fight and at all costs attract attention - the main character Anton decides and enters the path of confrontation with the older candidates for the attention of a neighbor who has been loved since childhood.

In Search of Tracy Lord

2017 • 22 min • United States of America

Playwright Philip Barry and actor Katharine Hepburn, both experiencing career downturns in the late 1930s, worked closely together to create the iconic character of Tracy Lord, Philadelphia “Main Line” socialite, for Barry’s play “The Philadelphia Story.”

The Little One

2017 • 10 min • Czech Republic

When Rong was a small child she and her parents moved from Vietnam to Prague. Now she is grown up and remembers that time and what it was like to feel like a foreigner.

Vanilla Whip

2017 • 16 min • Poland

Four people with different approaches to BDSM and visions of themselves. In this world anonymity meets self-awareness and safety confronts riding on the edge.

Shaman

2017 • 5 min • Canada

This animated short tells the story of a ferocious polar bear turned to stone by an Inuk shaman. The tale is based on emerging filmmaker Echo Henoche's favourite legend, as told to her by her grandmother in her home community of Nain, Nunatsiavut, on Labrador's North Coast. Hand-drawn and painted by Henoche in a style all her own, Shaman is the first collaboration between the Labrador artist and the NFB.

Sundogs

2017 • 16 min • United States of America

Mother is looking for work in winter when she stops at a diner to eat with her daughter.

Douvan Jou Ka Leve

2017 • 51 min • France, Haiti

Stemming from her personal experience, her close ones’ testimonies and surprising encounters, Gessica Généus, Haitian filmmaker questions the “disease of the soul” devouring her native island.

Rain Town

2017 • 12 min • Mexico

Carmen and her grandparents live in Oaxaca's Mixtec region. When a drought threatens her family's crops, Carmen finds a way to make it rain.

Karl

2017 • 4 min • France

Karl aka Grandsyeuxnoirs86 and Zoé aka Poussine98 have met on weirder.com. Their first date-in-real-life is scheduled at 4pm. Zoé is on time. Karl is late. Zoé does not like latecomers.

Double Pair

2017 • 14 min • Argentina

Two twin sisters are making a birthday cake. Like a two headed creature, they appear to be a projection of one another. In the brief afternoon they spend together, they relive past conflicts and some shared fears that come back to haunt them.

An Ant Work

2017 • 7 min • Belgium, France

We have a cold autumn day, a bear catches a cold while taking a bath in the river. Back to his cave, he sneezes so hard that a huge rock falls in the entrance, trapping him inside. Even with the help of an ant passing by and the badger, wolf, moose, and buffalo can't move the rock. But the ant has a better idea... Based on the children book "An Ant Work" by Zemanel and Vanessa Gautier, published by Flammarion Jeunesse.

Shark

2017 • 13 min • United Kingdom

While working in her mother's aquarium shop, Milli dreams of sharks.

Lo Que No Se Dice Bajo El Sol

2017 • 15 min • Mexico

Ana’s life changes radically; a divorce in her forties. Everyday it will be harder to continue pretending that all is fine in front of her family.

She's Marrying Steve

2017 • 23 min • United States of America

A 20-something woman gets invited to her ex-girlfriend's wedding to a man and decides to go.

Explorers

2017 • 6 min • United Kingdom

Explorers is a idealistic look at the future of space travel, seen from the perspective of those who dare to venture into the unknown.

Look at Me

2017 • 51 min • Norway

Four young dancers compete for a spot at their dream school, Norid Olin Cultural Academy, but only three will be accepted.

Touch of Death: Reflections in a Broken Mirror

2017 • 22 min • Italy

Working with Luigo Fulci and making 'Touch of Death'.