All Films

Peripheral

2017 • 3 min • United States of America

A crypt tv short film

We Shall Return

2017 • 17 min • Angola

Angola's complex history seen through the eyes of a fake taxidermy sable antelope. She takes us on a journey that links colonial ideas from the past with contemporary reality. This short contemplation on the conservation of memory is a brilliant mix between static painted, staged histories, and a physical parade through the streets.

10th Date: Girls Night In

2017 • 42 min • United States of America

The cast of 'Love By the 10th Date' reunite and reveal all.

Free Period

2017 • 6 min

A Glaswegian standoff between a schoolgirl and a tampon machine. When schoolgirl Leanne can’t afford a sanitary pad she lines her underwear with toilet paper and ends up bleeding in front of her class during a presentation. Leanne overcomes this humiliation with a shocking act of rebellion - against a bully, a teacher, and against the stigma which acts as a barrier to her needs.

Ivan Abramov: The Solo Concert

2017 • 47 min • Russia

Solo performance of one of the most musical stand-up comedians Ivan Abramov.

Quartet for the End of Time

2017 • 30 min • United States of America

A music documentary about Olivier Messiaen's transcendent masterpiece, that he composed in a World War II prison camp, and debuted there on January 15, 1941. This film was completed on the 75th Anniversary of that historic premiere, and features "The President's Own" United States Marine Band Ensemble performing in rehearsal and at The Phillips Collection, in Washington, D.C. (Note by H. Paul Moon)

White Devil

2017 • 56 min

WHITE DEVIL is a Independent Feature Film about an Epidemic that has overwhelmed the nation and Andrew, a family man, suspects that his wife Julie might have it. His mission becomes to get his daughter Harlan away before she gets infected, but his gangster, money hungry brother, makes things tough.

That's why they were made

2017 • 6 min • Japan

A robot works at a factory repeating the same operation everyday. One day an unexpected visitor arrives and changes his routine.

Lip and Fist

2017 • 50 min • Japan

Akane Yamazaki works as a hostess at a nightclub (blowjob bar). When she meets a man, who makes a living from getting beat up, she falls for him and they run away together. But Akane discovers his dark past...

Pilgrimage to Mecca

2017 • 29 min • Indonesia

In a village down at the slope of mount Merapi, Wening (80 years old) is preparing for the Hajj. Her departure this time has been planned long in advance as she is delegating her close friend Darmi's pilgrimage as well. This is as Darmi is unable to perform the Hajj by herself. Close to the day of departure, Darmi’s family holds to a ritual of recitation and prayer. Wening's husband Kusmin, however, makes Wening feel uneasy about going for the pilgrimage. Will Wening still perform the Hajj despite her husband's opposition?

Meet Me On The Bridge

2017 • 26 min • United Kingdom

Kati Pohler was abandoned in a market in China when she was three days old. Her parents left a note saying they would meet her on a famous bridge 10 or 20 years later. When the time arrived, it became a huge story in China, but Kati was living in America and had no idea. This is how she finally met her biological family.

Anne

2017 • 12 min • Brazil

The paths of a young woman raised according to the traditions, customs and culture of a capitalist and sexist society. Her life begins with a wedding, with a purchase where aggression, sexuality and silence meet in a long dance about what is right or wrong. Discovering the real world is just one step away, but is that step easy?

Dreamstone

2017 • 15 min

Heidi's dreams have been strangely real lately. In one of them, a man named Leer tells her that the gap between the dream world and the real world is endangered, and she must protect the dreamstone from the evil Maelstra, the hypnomancer.

My Brother's Keeper

2017 • 10 min • United States of America

A short meditation on brotherhood and the cost of war, My Brother's Keeper tells the story of two estranged brothers, Ethan and Jackson, who find themselves fighting on opposing sides of the American Civil War.

Metallurgists

2017 • 14 min • Ukraine

Mariupol is a city with one of the richest and most diverse collections of monumental mosaics from the Soviet era in the country. Do local residents consider their mosaics to be decorations of the city/district/building/factory, and are they aware of their artistic value? Can they compare themselves today with the people depicted in the mosaics? After all, the main theme of any Soviet monumental panel was the life and work of the "typical" citizen.

ReWrite

2017 • 16 min

After stealing a magical book from a wealthy suburban home, Mike opens the artifact to discover it is prophesying his murder. Faced with his imminent death, he must return the artifact to his killer in order to rewrite his future.

What Was It Supposed to Be Like?

2017 • 1 min • United States of America

Rather pointless, rather stilted, fetid; not what we want us going after.

A Photo of Me

2017 • 11 min • Australia

During a family outing to a cinema, a young boy falls asleep. His mind flashes back to an early memory where, as a toddler, his family try to take a photo of him in their backyard. As he drifts in and out of sleep, his memory and the present begin to merge. Dennis Tupicoff's 2017 short film premiered at the prestigious Annecy International Animated Film Festival. The film's combination of hand-drawn animation with live action clips of the 1950 Film Noir D.O.A,, awakeness with sleep, and past with present creates a surreal quality that emanates throughout the film.

Genaro

2017 • 18 min • Colombia

Genaro is a farmer who has been ordered by the paramilitary to deliver the dead bodies of their combatants and envelopes of money to the mothers of the deceased. He appears immune to the pain of death. His job has ripped his soul apart and now he hopes for only one thing: to find a very specific body among the dead.

CamperForce

2017 • 16 min • United States of America

For nearly a decade, Amazon has recruited thousands of RVers for a seasonal labor unit called CamperForce. Adapted from the book Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century by Jessica Bruder

What Goes Up

2017 • 12 min • United Kingdom

Imaginative little girl Abby is going to explore the stars. She even has her own a cardboard spacecraft. But the destiny of stars is to collapse, and when tragedy strikes suddenly, Abby must learn how to find light in the dark.

Why did I write the Bible

2017 • 30 min • France

Francis, a man in his sixties, is found in a diving suit, swimming in a river in the city center. Even his children, accustomed to their father's escapades, are surprised: since Francis knows he is condemned, it seems really unmanageable. Samuel and his sister must therefore find a way to accompany him at any cost.

The Real Santa

2017 • 9 min

What if the real Santa was an assassin kids could hire to kill their parents, and the only way you got to him was through a kid that had already used him?

Irupuram: Two Sides

2017 • 10 min • India

Portraying two sides of life in our society through a day of a lonely old man,who lives with his nostalgia in a busy hedonist world around.