All Films

Pilgrimage to Mecca

2017 • 29 min • Indonesia

In a village down at the slope of mount Merapi, Wening (80 years old) is preparing for the Hajj. Her departure this time has been planned long in advance as she is delegating her close friend Darmi's pilgrimage as well. This is as Darmi is unable to perform the Hajj by herself. Close to the day of departure, Darmi’s family holds to a ritual of recitation and prayer. Wening's husband Kusmin, however, makes Wening feel uneasy about going for the pilgrimage. Will Wening still perform the Hajj despite her husband's opposition?

Meet Me On The Bridge

2017 • 26 min • United Kingdom

Kati Pohler was abandoned in a market in China when she was three days old. Her parents left a note saying they would meet her on a famous bridge 10 or 20 years later. When the time arrived, it became a huge story in China, but Kati was living in America and had no idea. This is how she finally met her biological family.

Anne

2017 • 12 min • Brazil

The paths of a young woman raised according to the traditions, customs and culture of a capitalist and sexist society. Her life begins with a wedding, with a purchase where aggression, sexuality and silence meet in a long dance about what is right or wrong. Discovering the real world is just one step away, but is that step easy?

Dreamstone

2017 • 15 min

Heidi's dreams have been strangely real lately. In one of them, a man named Leer tells her that the gap between the dream world and the real world is endangered, and she must protect the dreamstone from the evil Maelstra, the hypnomancer.

My Brother's Keeper

2017 • 10 min • United States of America

A short meditation on brotherhood and the cost of war, My Brother's Keeper tells the story of two estranged brothers, Ethan and Jackson, who find themselves fighting on opposing sides of the American Civil War.

Metallurgists

2017 • 14 min • Ukraine

Mariupol is a city with one of the richest and most diverse collections of monumental mosaics from the Soviet era in the country. Do local residents consider their mosaics to be decorations of the city/district/building/factory, and are they aware of their artistic value? Can they compare themselves today with the people depicted in the mosaics? After all, the main theme of any Soviet monumental panel was the life and work of the "typical" citizen.

ReWrite

2017 • 16 min

After stealing a magical book from a wealthy suburban home, Mike opens the artifact to discover it is prophesying his murder. Faced with his imminent death, he must return the artifact to his killer in order to rewrite his future.

What Was It Supposed to Be Like?

2017 • 1 min • United States of America

Rather pointless, rather stilted, fetid; not what we want us going after.

A Photo of Me

2017 • 11 min • Australia

During a family outing to a cinema, a young boy falls asleep. His mind flashes back to an early memory where, as a toddler, his family try to take a photo of him in their backyard. As he drifts in and out of sleep, his memory and the present begin to merge. Dennis Tupicoff's 2017 short film premiered at the prestigious Annecy International Animated Film Festival. The film's combination of hand-drawn animation with live action clips of the 1950 Film Noir D.O.A,, awakeness with sleep, and past with present creates a surreal quality that emanates throughout the film.

Genaro

2017 • 18 min • Colombia

Genaro is a farmer who has been ordered by the paramilitary to deliver the dead bodies of their combatants and envelopes of money to the mothers of the deceased. He appears immune to the pain of death. His job has ripped his soul apart and now he hopes for only one thing: to find a very specific body among the dead.

CamperForce

2017 • 16 min • United States of America

For nearly a decade, Amazon has recruited thousands of RVers for a seasonal labor unit called CamperForce. Adapted from the book Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century by Jessica Bruder

What Goes Up

2017 • 12 min • United Kingdom

Imaginative little girl Abby is going to explore the stars. She even has her own a cardboard spacecraft. But the destiny of stars is to collapse, and when tragedy strikes suddenly, Abby must learn how to find light in the dark.

Why did I write the Bible

2017 • 30 min • France

Francis, a man in his sixties, is found in a diving suit, swimming in a river in the city center. Even his children, accustomed to their father's escapades, are surprised: since Francis knows he is condemned, it seems really unmanageable. Samuel and his sister must therefore find a way to accompany him at any cost.

The Real Santa

2017 • 9 min

What if the real Santa was an assassin kids could hire to kill their parents, and the only way you got to him was through a kid that had already used him?

Irupuram: Two Sides

2017 • 10 min • India

Portraying two sides of life in our society through a day of a lonely old man,who lives with his nostalgia in a busy hedonist world around.

Tiger's Dialogue

2017 • 18 min • Canada

Beginning at the Doors of Hell, on the Path of the Burned, this tale follows a meeting between an entomologist, a curious mind and a tiger, also known as Papilio canadensis or Canadian tiger swallowtail.

Emma Inspired

2017 • 13 min

Emma is a 23-year-old college grad with few ambitions and even less motivation. She's trying to get it together, even if no one can tell.

Danke

2017 • 4 min • United Kingdom

When Henry, a British soldier runs away from the battlefield, he finds an injured German soldier begging for mercy. He must decide to kill him or help him, unaware of the major consequences these actions will have in the future.

How Police Missed the Grindr Killer

2017 • 46 min • United Kingdom

The story of how police repeatedly allowed a serial murderer to slip through their fingers. Stephen Port date-raped and murdered four young gay men in East London within fifteen months and dumped all four bodies within a few hundred metres of each other. The film tells the story through eyes of the families of Port's victims, unpicking how the police failed to properly investigate each of the deaths in turn. The police's assumptions that these young gay men had died from self-inflicted overdoses of chem-sex drugs allowed Port to continue raping and killing innocent young men.

One Heart: One Spirit

2017 • 60 min • Australia

An Aboriginal Australian and Native American documentary narrated by award-winning actor Jack Thompson, One Heart-One Spirit tells the story of Kenneth Little Hawk, an elder Micmac/Mohawk performing artist, meeting the oldest surviving culture on the planet: the 40,000 year old Yolngu nation located in northern Australia.

Strange Says the Angel

2017 • 18 min • France

Seven-year-old Nina cannot be her aunt’s daughter. Nor can she be her father’s lover. In this world threatened by contamination, what then is Nina’s place?

Billy Connolly: Portrait of a Lifetime

2017 • 59 min • United Kingdom

Celebrating Billy Connolly's 75th birthday and 50 years in the business, three Scottish artists - John Byrne, Jack Vettriano and Rachel MacLean - each create a new portrait of the Big Yin. As he sits with each artist, Billy talks about his remarkable life and career which has taken him from musician and pioneering stand-up to Hollywood star and national treasure.

Hospital Green

2017 • 12 min • United States of America

A young man arrives to his deceased mothers estate to find his sister unable to let go of her troubled past.

The Monolith

2017 • 10 min

Pioneering NYC artist, Gwyneth Leech, enters a midtown art studio only to find that her skyline view will soon be blocked by the construction of yet another high-rise hotel. But as the perspective out her window permanently shifts, so does the artist's point of view. The Monolith is directed by Angelo J. Guglielmo, Jr. (The Woman Who Wasn't There), produced and shot by Andy Bowley, EP'd by Andrea L. Smith. Rosie Walunas adeptly employed the Adobe Creative Suite to bring over 200 pieces of Leech’s beautiful artwork to life using Animation, Motion Graphics and Compositing.