All Films

Leyla

2017 • 22 min • Netherlands, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Lejla, a young woman from Sarajevo, takes care of her elderly father and feels stuck in her life. One day she meets Vedad and they fall in love. He offers her the chance of leaving with him, but she's unsure of what's best for her future.

Two Homelands

2017 • 4 min • Serbia, Cuba, Spain

Two homelands have I, Cuba and the night.

The Fall of Lenin

2017 • 11 min • Ukraine

This ironic documentary film explores the farewell to the ghosts of the USSR in Ukraine. It takes viewers on a spiritual journey with the ghost of Lenin, guiding them through their past, present, and future. The film delves into the rise and fall of idols and the curious afterlife of history’s ghosts. It is inspired by laws adopted in 2015 by the Ukrainian parliament, which condemned the Soviet totalitarian regime and banned the use of Communist symbols.

Mirrorty

2017 • 11 min

About the mysterious disappearance of a man who lives alone in a city where people are vanished mysteriously, who is alienated from society and ignorant to social tragedies.

Le biberium

2017 • 25 min • Belgium

In a world where everyone is watched, where freedoms are increasingly reduced, Benoît and Rosalie are going to have their best day ever.

A Very Ghostly Murder

2017 • 58 min • United Kingdom

A group of adults are notified that they have won a competition to spend a night at the famously haunted Mermaid Hotel in Rye, Sussex. However they have not entered a competition and soon after arriving there is a murder and that they are locked in. The murders then begin in earnest.....

Electro-Pythagorus: A Portrait of Martin Bartlett

2017 • 45 min • Canada, United Kingdom

Electro-Pythagorus is an intimate and subjective portrait of the late Martin Bartlett, the Canadian electronic music pioneer who studied with Pauline Oliveros, David Tudor, John Cage, and Pandit Pran Nath. His contribution as an interdisciplinary composer, educator, and founding member of Western Front, though undoubtedly extensive, is in danger of being erased from cultural memory since his death from AIDS in 1993. Navigating an array of archival materials including letters, correspondences, notebooks, personal photos, and a huge body of unreleased music and field recordings held at the archives of Simon Fraser University, Electro-Pythagoras is a journey through the evolution of Bartlett’s musical time and space, softly guided by Luke Fowler’s insightful camera and montage—creating an experimental portrait that defies one-dimensionality.

Send

2017 • 31 min • United States of America

A crew of teenage boys attempts to satisfy and perform in a world of high expectations as they prepare mentally and physically for competition. Shot through the lens of an older sister, this intimate nonfiction portrait observes the interplay of the boys with their carefully-controlled world.

Cold Void

2017 • 21 min • Sweden

A short arthouse documentary about mental illness as seen through the eyes of Niklas Kvarforth of Shining. Cold Void is a personal portrayal of the man behind headlines of suicide, drugs and self-destruction. Addiction, bipolar disorder, passion and schizophrenia.

Playing House

2017 • 3 min • Turkey

A little girl is playing house by herself. She makes food out of toys and sets the table. Then a little boy comes in, and she greets him with joy. But things are getting darker while they pretending...

Carga

2017 • 15 min • Portugal

In a small fishing village, two boys are forced to take part in drug trafficking. When the eldest plans to escape, the younger one is forced to deal with the adversities of being left behind.

Flying Monks Temple

2017 • 55 min • China, Latvia

A dreamer by nature, Quanqi Zhu decides to set up a unique installation at the hillside of Sacred Songshan mountain in China. Despite the language barrier, his best companion is Latvian architect Austris Mailitis. As the building of the object begins, the creators themselves have to levitate between cultural differences, conventions and personal ambitions.

Fifteen

2017 • 11 min • Egypt, Belgium

On a hot summer day, a taciturn teen boy makes his way through the hustle of Cairo — with a baby in tow. His arrival at a hospital reveals the turmoil beneath his muted expression, in this stark and compassionate examination of trauma.

Nocturne

2017 • 5 min • Germany

At night the forest creatures gather to gamble, putting their innermost valuables at stake.

The Volcano That Changed The World

2017 • 53 min • Germany

Unlike what people may think, Krakatoa was not the biggest volcanic eruption in history. More than two hundred years ago, on April 10th 1815, Mount Tambora in Eastern Indonesia became a merciless killer. It unleashed the most deadly volcanic eruption in human memory, wiping out at least 117,000 people. And an entire civilization and its language disappeared. But the killing didn’t stop there. It has now been proven that this eruption could have triggered an extraordinary and little known cataclysmic event: worldwide climate change.

Alzheimer's: Every Minute Counts

2017 • 56 min • United States of America

Alzheimer's: Every Minute Counts is an urgent wake-up call about the national threat posed by Alzheimer's disease. Many know the unique tragedy of this disease, but few know that Alzheimer's is one of the most critical public health crises facing America. Because of the growing number of aging baby boomers, and the fact that the onset of Alzheimer's is primarily age-related, the number of Alzheimer's case is predicted to skyrocket in the United States. This will not only be a profound human tragedy, but an overwhelming economic one as well. Due to the length of time people live with the illness and need care, it's the most expensive medical condition in the U.S. Future costs for Alzheimer's threaten to bankrupt Medicare, Medicaid, and the life savings of millions of Americans.

Retour à l'inouï

2017 • 18 min • France

A sensorial documentary, full of mystery.

Apartment Inferno

2017 • 19 min • Japan

Who doesn't know this problem? You cheerfully kill someone, but how will you get rid of the corpse now? No problem for Yoshiki who is specialised in getting rid of anything in his apartment. Someday his junior partner Chiharu finds in the apartment a mysterious in blood-soaked woman, who is currently getting rid of some corpse parts. In the time Yoshiki isn't in the apartment they both get closer...

Coombs

2017 • 57 min • United Kingdom

Routine Pleasures, Slow Cinema.

Pickle

2017 • 21 min

After accidentally freezing the family dog to death, Oscar attempts to make good with his soon-to-be stepson by driving the family pet's ashes across the country.

Love You Thank You

2017 • 27 min

Lance relives the good and the bad in his past relationship to decide whether or not to see his ex-boyfriend, Adam, that night.

Goldilocks Zone

2017 • 27 min • Finland

Craving for love and excitement, Sierra seeks out her childhood crush, through whom she starts to deal with the loss of her brother. But bringing the past into the present isn’t as easy as she would’ve thought.

Piled Cloud

2017 • 25 min • Hong Kong

Lam Tung is an old man living a solitary life in his Hong Kong apartment. Since his children have grown up and moved away, he decides to let a room to an ambitious, young film student Cheng Yang. Both years apart in age and ideals, Piled Cloud provides a fresh look at the generation gap between two very different individuals.

Life Cycles

2017 • 4 min • United Kingdom

An observational exploration of routine, monotony, attention and distraction. Will we continue to let events pass us by uncontested, or will we decide to break the cycle?