All Films

Meat and Potatoes

2017 • 7 min • Australia

A vegan couple are stuck in the apocalypse without food. When Mark and Ann encounter a stranger, they learn that somethings got to give.

Sirius's Self Portrait

2017 • 4 min • United States of America

Sirius grasps images from his life, words from his dream. Piece by piece , he made them his self portrait.

Ma Mere L'Oye

2017 • 36 min • Belgium

"Music is a dream from which the veils have been lifted. It's not even the expression of a feeling, it's the feeling itself." This quote from Claude Debussy describes the musical world of this programme, made up of his own works and works by Maurice Ravel. In the choreography of Ravel's and Debussy's music by Jeroen Verbruggen and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, fluid lines, dream and atmosphere are strongly present.

Akide

2017 • 13 min

Tamang Duda

2017 • 60 min • Philippines

With or without sun

2017 • 3 min

Summertime sweetness meditation. Light reminder for the fall to come. Study for a solitary and (almost) spontaneous cinema in 1080p.

The Man Who Shot Tutankhamun

2017 • 60 min • United Kingdom

This is the story of an unsung hero of photography: Harry Burton, the man whose images of the Tutankhamun excavation created a global sensation in the 1920s. Explore the spectacular locations where Burton worked, including Tutankhamun’s tomb and the surrounding temples.

Ever Reaching Fairly Preachily

2017 • 1 min • United States of America

Flitter like tittertatter trying to breathe while working, like a mad hatter; the outofbreath feeling rising from recursive reforgettings (or their resemblances).

Acts and Intermissions

2017 • 56 min • United States of America

An hour-long collage essay, charging the discussion with her enlightened aesthetic of poetry, the archive, and experimental montage. As the Most Dangerous Woman Alive, Goldman’s life is seen as an ongoing negotiation of revolutionary purity and personal freedom, a complexity that Child mirrors in her own formal strategies. She layers multiple fragments of Emma’s liberatory legacy—from archive, from reenactment and from observational cinema—her speculative play with the revolutionary ideas extending to the present moment of feminist revolt!

Rasp

2017 • 3 min • United States of America

A man hears knocking at his door late at night and quickly discovers that something sinister wants to come in.

The Changeling

2017 • 25 min

The wife of a young man finds out that he betrays her. Trying to win her back, the man develops a plot during which he must convince his wife that she saw an completely different man. A man who looks like him, as two peas in a pod.

Telentrega

2017 • 10 min • Brazil

Elias is going through a troubled time: his son Rafael urgently needs a heart transplant. Disturbed by this harrowing wait, Elias begins to live on the edge between right and wrong, while envisioning an idea that could save his son's life.

Jordan Descending

2017 • 9 min • United States of America

No matter what button you push the old library elevator always goes to the basement first. When Dez's friend Jordan disappears, she must follow her down to discover its secrets.

The Glass Pearl

2017 • 16 min • Finland

The stifling existence of suburban Norway forces a twelve-year-old boy to spend his afternoons plundering rubbish bins, in search of something specific, something that might actually lead to a reward for him and his family.

Yibril

2017 • 18 min

Gabriel, a Spanish street artist in Brussels, answers a ringing phone he finds in the garbage. On the other side of the line, Hala, a Syrian girl held captive by smugglers is crying for help. After realizing they are close enough, he rushes through the streets on her search.

Brave Overseas

2017 • 4 min • Canada

What's in a name? Filmmaker Yung Chang explores the meaning and origins of both of his names: the one given to him in Oshawa when he was born and the Chinese name that drew him back to his homeland.

Texting

2017 • 3 min • Canada

A man in his late 20's engages in a text thread while home alone.

Mi Amor!

2017 • 7 min • Sweden

A couple deals with a dilemma which may endanger their relationship.

Electric Sandwich

2017 • 11 min • Brazil

A scientist confronts an evil corporation to get the ingredients of a perfect snack

1000 Smiles Per Hour

2017 • 15 min

1000 Smiles Per Hour. 1000 Smiles on a stage in front of an audience that uses you as a mirror, as a chance to look at themselves, into themselves. Into their deepest desires and fears. Into their humanity. But what about yourself? Who are you? You walk the streets towards a destination we do not know. You meet a woman whose relationship to you is unclear. You remain a ghost, who needs to wash off make-up, a mask, a second personality which you squeeze yourself into for a couple of hours every day. You're the one who smiles for us, who shows us who we are and who disappears in the shadow of ourselves.

Liquid Sky Revisited

2017 • 50 min • United States of America

Retrospective documentary on the making of the low-budget sci-fi cult classic Liquid Sky (1982).

The Needle Cross

2017 • 20 min • Mexico

In a village in Mexico, a family is destroyed by witchcraft.

East Hell

2017 • 8 min • United States of America

Two teenage goths try to summon a demon using a satanic ritual they found on Reddit.

Broken Flowers

2017 • 35 min • India

Three separate stories of loss,grief and loneliness interconnected through a fish.It explores the lives and relationships of 5 characters and their suffering!