All Films

Solo Waltz

2017 • 5 min • United States of America

T tries to capture the perfect shot. Subway at Grand Av - Newtown. Cinema.

The Unseen

2017 • 53 min

After a young couple moves into an old house to find some peace and quiet, soon they find themselves confronted with awkward neighbors, strange noises inside their new home. Soon they struggle to determine what is reality and what fiction.

Affection

2017 • 25 min • Hong Kong

The story is told from the point of view of a high school girl called Jessie (Jessica Wong) whose talent for the Chinese board game Go has earned her the nickname ‘Queen Chess’. She balances her time between practising Go and hanging out with her boyfriend (Yau Hawk-sau Neo). The former seems to win for this studious girl, but it is clear she’s also seeking something to pull her out of this lonely life of late-night computer games.

Tonetta

2017 • 18 min • Canada

Tony Jeffrey aka Tonetta is a musician and visual artist with a considerable following on Facebook and Youtube. Featured in Vice, The Guardian and on Tosh.0, Tonetta has fascinated, terrified and captivated audiences alike with his avant-garde style and infecticiously catchy songs.

Yof

2017 • 30 min • Russia

This is a story of one summer that ends along with the Youth. A village guy Seryoga looks at the world through a hole made in a poster of Tatyana Bulanova. A girl from a big city Nastya is just about to explore the world. Seryoga, Pashok and Redhead Mashka drag Nastya to the journey of their youth called 'Yof'. It is pretty hard to get out of it, it is impossible to forget it, you will always keep it in your memory like a song from the 90s.

You See Monsters

2017 • 58 min • Australia

An exploration of the work of a new generation of young Muslim artists, who use their work to explore issues of faith and identity and what it means to be Muslim and Australian in the 21st century.

The House

2017 • 5 min • Czech Republic

A little house embarks on a journey when his family moves to the city. You probably never thought about it, but when you move house maybe your house misses you.

Las historias de mujeres en prisión por delitos de drogas

2017 • 23 min • Mexico

The Mountains of Mourne

2017 • 12 min • United States of America

As Jordan, a social influencer, enters a hotel room, he logs onto his laptop and announces to his viewers that this will be his last post. As this short film continues, the reasons for this decision become quite clear.

Black River Falls

2017 • 7 min • United States of America

Music by Dick Connette from his album, Too Sad for the Public Vol. 1: Oysters Ice Cream Lemonade. Suzzy Roche sings the vocal. Dick’s lyrics were inspired by the reknowned photography book, Wisconsin Death Trip.

Something in the Darkness

2017 • 14 min • Spain

Veronica tries to overcome her fear of the dark. Her mother encourages her to sleep with almost all lights off. But this time, something is different... This time, there's something in the darkness

Nailed It

2017 • 59 min • United States of America

"Nailed It" chronicles the genesis and legacy of the 40 year Vietnamese nail salon and its influence on an $8 billion-dollar American industry. For mixed-race Vietnamese filmmaker Adele Pham it's personal, as she confronts her cultural conflicts and discovers her place within the community, by peeling back the layers of this niche trade seen by everyone but known to few.

Demon

2017 • 25 min

An injured stranger finds a pitch-black secret on his rescuer's property.

Fragments. Compositions

2017 • 24 min • Belarus

This project has been developed for 10 years and consists of several visual sketches on different topics. The main thing here is to observe life in all its manifestations

Melodica

2017 • 27 min • Belgium

Perceiving a closed world where beauty, architecture and geometry are given equal status to murder, love and philosophical thought. Like the concepts of Oscar Wilde’s portrait story of Dorian Gray, where beauty and sensual fullfilment are the only worthy pursuits of the protagonist, the film’s aesthetics are composed and imbued by painting. The references and events of Melodica are sourced from the painting The Golden Age by Lucas Cranach the Elder.

Liam & Kiki

2017 • 8 min

Fifteen-year-old twins Liam and Kiki discuss the correlation between sexuality and self-confidence.

Pix

2017 • 9 min • Germany

Explores the idea of reducing a person's life to just those moments captured in photos and asks poses the question how real these pictures actually are.

Salt and Sauce

2017 • 11 min • United Kingdom

Stuck in a post high-school limbo, Tammy works long days in the family chip-shop. The only relief from the daily slog is her friendship with her colleague Jordan and her love for photography. Through the people around her, Tammy soon realises she can’t avoid her future.

AirA&E

2017 • 10 min • United Kingdom

Britain, 2021. The National Health Service has been privatised. These desperate times call for desperate measures.

Blondie: Live at Soundstage

2017 • 54 min • United States of America

Inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2006, Blondie is still putting out new music and rocking out for fans everywhere! Debbie Harry and her band bring their eclectic mix of pop, rock and punk sounds to Soundstage, performing hits such as 'The Tide is High,' 'One Way or Another,' and 'Heart of Glass' in an electrifying concert audiences are sure to love!

Parents Visit Me in Sri-Lanka

2017 • 30 min • Russia, Sri Lanka

Downshifter Alex lives in Sri Lanka as a white king. Parents' arrival coincides with mystical appearance of the local deity, Shamka, in the village. Alex's peaceful life ends at this point.

Jason Charger

2017 • 19 min • Denmark

After the murder of his best friend, former I.C.T.A. (International Counter Terrorism Agency) agent Jason Charger tracks down the insidious terrorist organisation led by the ruthless Murry.

Big Surf

2017 • 8 min • United States of America

A short, experimental animated documentary about the disasterous breaking of the St. Francis dan in California.

Souvenirs

2017 • 18 min • Indonesia

Ibu Yati is indirectly burdened by one of the group's cultures preachings before her departure to Umrah. Ulfa is the only child of Yati and feels uncomfortable with the culture, because she thinks it is harming her and her mother, especially harming the initial intentions of the Umrah worship they will carry out.