All Films

Precarity

2017 • 46 min

A three-channel video installation, working with the themes of risk, hybridity and the unfathomable to explore the city of New Orleans through the remarkable life and times of Charles “Buddy” Bolden, the first person known to have explored the sonic tonalities of the music we now call jazz.

Tama

2017 • 9 min • New Zealand

A young deaf Maori boy defies isolation to grow from an undervalued youth into a proud young man.

My Only Earth Is in the Moon

2017 • 19 min • Brazil, Portugal

Sergio answers 36 questions to make Gabriel fall in love. Did you know Glauber was a Pisces?

The Traveler's Longing to Pray

2017 • 10 min • Saudi Arabia

A year has passed since the death of my mother and two of my sisters.

One Small Step

2017 • 2 min • Australia

One of humankind’s greatest achievements has been to walk on the moon. It was marked in history as a phenomenal success. What if that first step had turned out a little differently? As Neil Armstrong is about to take his first step on the moon, something catches his eye in the distance. Naturally curious, he leaps out into the unknown territory to investigate. What he finds will forever change the course of human history.

Angels Gather Here

2017 • 50 min

Angels Gather Here’ follows Jacki Trapman’s journey back to her hometown of Brewarrina to celebrate her parents, Bill and Barbara’s 60th Wedding Anniversary.
 Going home is never easy for Jacki. Amidst the family celebrations she reflects on her life; her story symbolising the strength, dignity and resilience of many Aboriginal people in the face of adversity.

A Twisted Tale

2017 • 55 min • United States of America

A group of troubled teens are sent to a hippie camp to find inner peace. However, they are obsessed with the camps haunted legend of the FireLady... conjuring up the unsettled spirit in the woods.

Stand Up the Musical by Aadar Malik

2017 • 60 min • India

Stand Up the Musical is a one hour stand up special by Aadar Malik. The special is about music including stories of his life which are humorous and also funny.

Guest List

2017 • 57 min • United States of America

Tom Wallisch and the Good Company crew return with their second full-length film, Guest List, featuring world class urban, park and backcountry skiing, all with their trademark fun style. Travel the world with Good Company as they seek out new cities, fresh pow and never been done tricks. The Guest List for this party is stacked and just getting started!

Maria Adelaide

2017 • 15 min

Maria Adelaide, a simple woman from the Northeast, discovers in the great city of Rio de Janeiro an identity that remained hidden.

The Last Well

2017 • 20 min • Croatia

The year is 2037. Europe is in a state of complete breakdown. The owner of the last well of natural pure water becomes substitute father and husband. But when his well runs dry, he is forced to do the one last "trade".

Helen Maroulis: Girls Can't Wrestle

2017 • 45 min

People have doubted Helen Maroulis her entire life. Many believed there was no room for her in the sport. That didn't stop her though. Since she was 13 she believed that she would be an Olympic gold medalist and nothing was going to keep her from achieving her dream. In Episode 1, Helen opens up about the obstacles she had to overcome to become the wrestler that she is today.

No Heaven on Earth

2017 • 11 min • Slovenia

An elderly couple has been managing a farm for years. On a silent evening, while they are resting from, a busy day, a little spark of hope for some different kind of life lights up.

Winter Sun

2017 • 38 min • Bosnia and Herzegovina, Spain

Nana, a 80-year-old lady, needs a surgery. She and her husband, Dedo, had to leave their home in the small village of Hrsa and move temporarilly to Sarajevo in order to wait for the operation.

The Welcome.

2017 • 3 min • Slovenia

An experimental animation of still frames.

Collecting Steps

2017 • 40 min • Mexico

Almost at the end of her life, María, an 88 year old woman, decides to come back from her exile to Villa Sola de la Vega, the land where she was born and where her belly button was buried. To make this trip, she has to overcome obstacles like her deteriorating health by means of her faith and spiritual strength.

Concrete Affection – Zopo Lady

2017 • 12 min • Angola

Luanda, Angola. The streets are deserted, the buildings empty and no ships leave the harbour. What's left are ghosts and memories. Concrete Affection – Zopo Lady is inspired by journalist Ryszard Kapuściński's descriptions of the last colonial days in Angola in 1976 and the exodus of Portuguese and white Angolans from Luanda.

Horror, Sex & Hair Curlers

2017 • 18 min • France

Today, Françoise is spying on her husband Robert, who she suspects of cheating on her. The hairdresser is right to trust her instinct... She spots Robert stepping inside a gay sex club with a young man, as handsome as he is mysterious. Françoise is furious but she has no idea how weird and horrific this day is about to get!

Hunter

2017 • 9 min

Hunter is looking for Gossip every night. A short animated film by Ryoji Yamada

Eclipse

2017 • 10 min • Spain

The event of the century is about to take place, a spectacular total solar eclipse. A girl is going to witness it with her grandmother and, despite her happiness, she will have to face her fear of the dark to enjoy the moment when it gets dark in the middle of the day. But when that happens, both of them will understand that sometimes the mind is also overshadowed by a reality that can erase all its memories.

Variations

2017 • 7 min • Uruguay

Stefanía is isolated in her apartment. Without being able to express her feelings or find refuge in her partner, a dream appears, pushing her to leave her confinement. Only by moving away she will be able to face the pain and regain her bond with herself and with the outside world.

Keep It in the Dark

2017 • 13 min

A teenage girl with a dangerously inquisitive mind, is told of a hometown legend. Her curiosity leads her to the site of the legend: a mysterious shed isolated deep in the woods. A shed that may or may not be the home of the Jersey Devil.

Rosie's Return

2017 • 31 min

Rosies comes back for revenge, but she returns as Rosie. Neal is once again put through an awful ordeal and is reunited with his housemate Tim.

Trapped by the Internet - The Elodie Morel Case

2017 • 53 min

Police receive a strange call claiming that in a few hours, a woman will be kidnapped. The informer describes a couple, sitting at a café and claims the woman is in grave danger. Police rush to the café but find no one matching the couple's description. Then, hours later, a young woman, Elodie Morel, is reported missing. Then the case becomes even stranger. She had responded to an internet advert for models and was supposed to be meeting the casting director at a café. Could she be the woman?