All Films

Mustapha El Atrassi - Sans Modération

2017 • 46 min • France

In a detached tone, Mustapha El Atrassi takes stock of our society without any filter.

Kâbus

2017 • 8 min • France, Turkey

Istanbul 2016. As the city rumbles with the noise of explosions and the voices of ghosts from the war become deafening, a man tries to get to sleep.

Journey to Tataouine

2017 • 51 min • United States of America, Tunisia

Dr. David West Reynolds, archaeologist and a New York Times #1 best-selling Star Wars author, learned in 1995 that the original Star Wars filming locations used for Luke Skywalker's home planet of Tatooine had become lost forever. Not even Lucasfilm, producers of the Star Wars movies knew where they were anymore. This documentary follows Dr. West Reynolds journey to Tunisia in search of the locations behind that made up the alien home world of Luke Skywalker.

Penance

2017 • 8 min • United States of America

A couple is trapped in hell and forced to watch each other kill themselves the way they killed each other.

The Suplex Duplex Complex

2017 • 11 min

A neighboring pair of tag team wrestlers learn the downsides of life without a landlord.

Turned Away

2017 • 1 min • United States of America

David Mullins and Charlie Craig visited Masterpiece Cakeshop in July 2012, with Charlie's mother, to order a cake for their upcoming wedding reception. This is their story.

Beach Dance

2017 • 5 min • United States of America

Lucy can't seem to get comfortable at the beach. A silent dance film (set to Sam Cooke) about movement, impulse, and alienation.

At the Horizon

2017 • 30 min • Austria

An audiovisual snow storm in front of a black ground, a white horizontal line that divides the image, grid planes, unfolding and folding dimensions. Set to atonal, techno, and orchestral sounds; an abstract (non-)world beyond comprehension, a visual experience that one must intuitively sense. Lost in space and time – the big bang of consciousness

Hot Lead

2017 • 31 min

In 1984 the United States is plunged into a nuclear holocaust. 13 years later, two reluctant partners must maintain law and order. Tim Allcock is Wayne Baseman, an impulsive maverick who never has a plan. Trent Collins is Ricky "The Axe" Rodriguez, an aging albino-black detective with a death wish. When it's too late to save the world, there's one thing left to do: Protect and Serve.

La Isla de los Pájaros Sombra

2017 • 15 min • Chile

In his travels through the southern sea of Chile, the privateer Francis Drake discovered a strange island. The extraordinary events that he lived there described in his travel diary have disappeared just like the island.

Long Live The King

2017 • 8 min

Historically, even the most divided societies can find cohesion in the magic of war, forgetting disputes with their governments and setting aside their frustrations. This stop motion short takes a lyrical approach to the phenomenon of war; which, in this case, transpires on a chessboard.

The Sound Of Silence

2017 • 17 min

O SOM DO SILÊNCIO documents the lack of communication between people of different generations, using the example of ten-year-old Binho and his father Osvaldo.

Be My First

2017 • 11 min • Japan

A young Japanese girl riding the train posts a message from her phone to an online thread: 'I'm a high-school student and I'm a virgin, does anyone want to pay to be my first? It has to be tonight.' An exploration of lust, love and fetishization.

God Eats Love

2017 • 12 min • Russia

When Maria Alekhina and other members of the Pussy Riot group were tried for an action in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, Orthodox activist Dmitry Enteo strongly advocated punishing the girls. Now Alekhina and Enteo spend a lot of time together. Last week, with activists from The Other Russia, they went to the Ministry of Justice to conduct a public Bible reading — as a demonstration of their constitutional right to read the Holy Scriptures (and any other books) in public — without permission from officials.

Mindfuck

2017 • 6 min • France

A famous journalist must confront his biggest fear during a sexual encounter with a dominant man.

Maria

2017 • 14 min • Philippines

An ailing Polynesian matriarch must find the strength to lead her family one last time.

Widowed

2017 • 9 min

A lone detective confronts his late wife's killer.

Ere

2017 • 6 min • Philippines

Abi wants to be something that others do not want her to be.

Ni sí, ni no

2017 • 9 min • Ecuador, Spain

A ride to the country could turn in more than just a simple vacation for a mother and daughter.

Passive Aggressive Games

2017 • 5 min

It’s the Passive Aggressive Game Finals and for the first time in PAG history, the reigning champ must verbally fight her own daughter. In a competition to see who can keep their composure longest, who will leave with their dignity intact?

Fortem

2017 • 11 min • Paraguay

A young boy lives out his dream, but with a heartbreaking twist.

My Ailing Beliefs Can Cure Your Wretched Desires

2017 • 19 min • Hong Kong

Told through the point-of-view of the wandering spirit of the last Javan rhino that was poached in the jungles of Vietnam in 2010, the film takes us through a complex structure of narratives and visuals, both gruesome and beautiful, real and mythological, that have built and upheld certain Vietnamese traditions. From Chinese colonialism and its assertion through the practice of medicine, to French colonialism and their obsession with trophy kills, and throughout the Vietnam war, the animals tell a different side to the story.

Blackmere Harvest

2017 • 6 min • United States of America

The sudden death of their mother leaves Brandon and his younger sister Adelia alone and in search of a less expensive place to live than their hometown of Houston Texas. Brandon finds a ...  »

Touch of Dzenis

2017 • 12 min • Latvia

A female ninja tries to break ties with her spiritual teacher. The seemingly unexpected and humiliating death of her teacher is only the beginning of this process; it is a decisive step in her life. The action takes place in a specific environment, and the characters, references, symbols, and movements are directly related to the history of cinema, more specifically, to Japanese ninja films made in the 1930s–1960s.