All Films

Aga

2017 • 60 min • Iraq

Aga is a story about a Kurdish child who escaped the Ba'ath regime during the Anfal of his family and village. Aga is also a reminder of the suffering that Kurds have suffered at the hands of their enemies.

The World on a String

2017 • 7 min

After six years of marriage, Laura needs to find some solace - in the arms of a stranger.

Game of Cones

2017 • 23 min • Germany

Daydreamer Ben is hopelessly in love with his colleague Sophia from the ice cream parlor, yet unsure if she returns his feelings. In a moment of humiliation he rises above himself and finally overcomes his fear of making the first step. Between sundaes and cups of coffee: The beginning of true love.

Forgotten Activism

2017 • 15 min • Italy

Volonté, the militant. How many people know this singular and important aspect of the great Milanese actor's life? "Forgotten Activism" attempts to reconstruct a particular profile of the actor Gian Maria Volonté, the one concerning his political commitment, an aspect that is often neglected and ignored. A life spent on acting, but at the same time on politics, with the fixed idea of always wanting to change things and have his say, denouncing the abuses of power - as in the case of the anarchist Pinelli - and social inequalities. A character that can be defined to all intents and purposes as a fighter, a 'revolutionary in an actor's uniform', who exposed himself without trying to mediate his positions, sometimes extreme and as a true outsider.

To the Bone

2017 • 13 min

TO THE BONE is classic kitchen sink, British drama with a revenge twist. It focuses on the injustices of the work place and the ritualism of trade work and the dynamic between the old guard and the new apprentices.

30 Minutes with Laura

2017 • 9 min • Spain

A man receives a phone call. There is to go immediately to a restaurant, Laura has to talk to him. It's a matter of life or death.

Colorful Dreams

2017 • 5 min • Mexico

In a black and white world, a girl goes to sleep, finding dreams in color.

Zorn bakom kameran

2017 • 58 min

About the Swedish artist Anders Zorn's unknown passion for photography. Some of them models for later works and others are innovative photo experiments.

Rincón del ángel

2017 • 15 min • Argentina

A young man meets an old countryman who convinces him to dig a well in the middle of the field. When the old man refuses to reveal the purpose of the task, the young man warns that it could be something more than a simple gauchada.

One Shoe

2017 • 5 min • Portugal

A woman has just confessed and the Priest forgives her sins. She prays several Our Fathers without stopping, in continuous rotation. She is a beautiful woman, attractive and also, in her kneeling legs, we see that she only has one shoe, just one, the other is missing. We seek after the beautiful woman's missing shoe.

The Blind well

2017 • 8 min

Inside a small roadside salon, three men mock a newspaper photo of a fair-skinned groom who has married a dark-skinned bride. Their laughter is cruel, their views shallow. At that moment, a young man with dark skin walks in. Offended by their remarks, he challenges their narrow ideas and sparks a heated debate. What begins as casual gossip soon turns into a clash of perspectives on beauty, prejudice, and identity. The title “Pottakkinar”—literally “The Frog in the Well”—is borrowed from a Chinese idiom that describes a person too narrow-minded to see the vastness of the world. This intimate, single-location short film is a raw and unbiased reflection on racism and the everyday ignorance that feeds it.

Grape Leaves

2017 • 8 min • United States of America

Salma, a well-respected, Arab American professor, is stunned into silence after her world is shaken in the wake of an unthinkable tragedy. She is forced to rethink the relationships with those closest to her. How she reshapes her life will alter all she understood and trusted. With the love of her family, Salma regains the hope and strength she needs to ignite future change.

Reel Therapy

2017 • 8 min • United States of America

Two People Fighting Through Depression, Each Finding A Way, To Cope Through Film.

Landscapes of War, Landscapes of Peace

2017 • 49 min • Germany, Serbia

A journey through the chronology, aftermath and a potential conclusion of a military conflict, as reflected in the topographies that the war, either physically or contextually, shaped and altered.

Saturday

2017 • 20 min

Saturday focuses on the Seventh-Day Adventist (SDA) Church, an evangelical Christian denomination with an apocalyptic expectation, that celebrates the Sabbath and practices immersion baptism rituals on Saturday. Through the figure of the SDA Church appear the themes of hope for a better life and the desire to flee the daily mundane, which here manifests in a religious mode, but takes form elsewhere in the practice of particular dietary rules and extreme sports. Shot mostly in 3D, the film combines scenes recorded at SDA Church sites in the USA, Polynesia, and the Kingdom of Tonga with images of food, surfing, and medical tests; together, they immerse us in a parallel world of hope and belief – of transparencies and opacities. Meanwhile, text scrolling at the bottom of the screen materializes both a source of information and a desire to escape from it.

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!