All Films

Echosystem

2017 • 2 min • United States of America

An imaginary documentary of a mythical creature who blesses us with peace.

Radioactiva

2017 • 7 min • Argentina

Based on the first monologue of the director's one-person play by the same name. The character goes to a psychologist to talk about the gestation and birth of her drag persona.

Cleared

2017 • 3 min

Through phone calls with a prison inmates closest contacts we see how quickly the world is moving on without him.

Milk: Facts, Figures and Beliefs

2017 • 52 min • Germany

Milk - an essential food for our wellbeing? The highly processed white industrial product we are supposed to consume on a daily basis is suspected of causing numerous diseases of civilization. We take a closer look at the ongoing debate.

I Did It in Cancun

2017 • 20 min

Alfred is a constipated painter, he feels used and doesn’t paint anymore. While in transit in an airport, he goes to the bathroom and starts to have a vision that will free his inspiration.

Taxiklubben

2017 • 59 min • Sweden

Allonias decides that enough is enough. He works 12-13 hours driving his taxi every day and still has no money left to pay for rent and clothes for their three children. He begins a battle against Sweden’s largest taxi company owned by billionaire Rolf Karlsson. It leads to Rolf Karlsson selling the entire empire for around 2-3 billion SEK. But for Allonias it has a high price…

Firing Flares @ Unnoticed Glares

2017 • 1 min • United States of America

Shadows frighten what one oughtn't be gripping (that thing before/hind you).

Enchanted Moon Red Snake Silver Tray

2017 • 10 min • Spain

A snake charmer’s basket that brings forth only deaf creatures. A moon revealing a new side. Twisted heroines scratching their way out of a film still.

Redemption

2017 • 15 min • Brazil

A young woman travels to solve a matter of life or death. As she seeks to do what she needs, the city exposes itself with its curious characters.

Redención

2017 • 13 min

Mr. Ferre is interrupted his trip of pleasure by Capri to enter through a dark passage that will take him to a mysterious mansion, where he awaits an enigmatic butler who Pampers fulfilling all his desires. in the place while observing old guests in period paintings, a crackling fire illuminates the room. Mr. Ferre comfortable and aloof reclines on the sofa Louis XIV. Nothing seems to stop time except a hourglass that is shortening the moment it will revive the most distressing moments of his past, where Mr. Ferre was victim and executioner. Butler invoking his childhood will try to rescue the child who was once pure and innocent, so that Mr. Ferre can finally redeem himself and abandon the cruel revenge of guilt.

H.P. Lovecraft's The Rats In The Walls

2017 • 54 min

When Thomas Delapore moves from Massachusetts to England in order to begin rebuilding Exham Priory, his ancestral home, he is surprised at the dismayed and often hostile reaction of the local residents. The more he learns about his family's history, however, the more he begins to understand their reaction; and as he and his cats begin to investigate the sounds of the rats in the walls, he discovers just how terrible the true legacy of his ancestors really is. A motion comic adaptation of the H. P. Lovecraft story, with illustrations by Tau Ganabe.

The Chiltern Bubble Cars

2017 • 48 min • United Kingdom

The 19th May 2017 was the last day that first-generation DMUs ran in regular passenger service on Network Rail. These were the two class 121 Bubble cars owned by Chiltern Railways that were used on the Princes Risborough to Aylesbury branch. To record and commemorate the event, Video 125 cameras followed the single units (affectionately dubbed Bubble Cars) in the weeks prior to their withdrawal. The idea for this film came from the former Managing Director of Chiltern Trains Holidays, Tony Parkins, who has been closely associated with Chiltern Railways ever since his involvement with the writing of our Driver's eye view Chiltern Take Two. It was Tony's idea to produce this film and as such has not only co-written and researched the information but actually presents it to camera.

Lidija

2017 • 37 min • Latvia

A person’s face and eyes preserve experience better than any document or recorded memoir. Particularly if a person has experienced as much as the well-known dissident Lidija Lasmane-Doroņina. Actually, she does not even think of herself as a dissident. She received her three terms in prisons and labour camps – fourteen years in all – as punishment not for underground struggle but for daring to remain true to her principles, convictions and faith. The ideals Lidija obtained as a child – the idyllic image of Latvia as an independent country, strong family values and faith in God as a moral measuring stick for any action. Her eyes are bright even today, at the age of 91, and they look at this world full of life.

Baby

2017 • 7 min

A couple argue about whether or not they should have a baby.

Mother & Baby

2017 • 18 min • Ireland

For decades, Catholic Ireland locked its children into institutions if they were conceived out of wedlock - punishment for the sinning mothers. Revealing the children's perspectives, and including powerful archive, this documentary offers a painful yet cathartic insight into the cruel business of Mother and Baby Homes.

Coxinha

2017 • 12 min • Brazil

Coxinha is a short film that tells the story of two sisters - Piedade and Almira, who make the best coxinha in the city.

New Camera

2017 • 10 min • Portugal

Rafa is testing his new camera, Rui and Ana are picking him up. The camera keeps filming.

If I Could Bark

2017 • 15 min

In this companion piece to 2015's "If I Could Talk," Ryan, who had 40 years earlier saved a puppy who became his best friend, now has recently lost his wife. This short film finds him touched by and touching another dog's life, as Ryan spends the end of his life with this new canine.

Catastrophe

2017 • 2 min • Netherlands

When a sweet and innocent parakeet is found inexplicably dead in her cage, all fingers seem to point towards cat Rodney. To prove his innocence, he desperately tries to put the blame on others, with disastrous consequences.

Threads

2017 • 8 min • Canada, Norway

In this spellbinding hand-drawn odyssey by the celebrated Oscar-winning animator Torill Kove, a bustling urban habitat becomes an enchanting web of human connection. Threads explores how fundamental attachment is to the experience of being human.

To Let Her Go

2017 • 5 min • United States of America

Ben struggles threw the pain and heartache of seeing his ex with another man. Ben's imagination begins to race through many different scenarios of how he can win back the women he loves.

September

2017 • 13 min • Denmark

Else is stood up by her daughter and instead finds herself in the company of two other middle-aged women at a seaside hotel, where a very different day takes shape. Everyone in the unlikely trio has their own problems that make it difficult to see clearly and make the right decisions, and Else in particular must decide whether she wants to live life to the fullest. Perhaps life doesn't have to be so boring, even if you're over 60.

Leaving Your Skin

2017 • 32 min • Mexico

Wanda Seux, one of Mexico’s most emblematic actresses and showgirls during the 80’s, has fallen into an abyss, dragged down by the death of her mother, her solitude, and the passage of time. Wanda, however, struggles every day to rise from that vacuum and walk through that dark tunnel into the light of plenitude.

Cannipals Short Film 002: The Hammer

2017 • 4 min • United Kingdom

A short story about shiftin'.