All Films

Camille Saint-Saëns' The Carnival of the Animals

2017 • 23 min

A series of humoristic animations sewed to the fourteen movements of Saint-Saëns' suite. Each starred by an animal.

Heimlich

2017 • 19 min • Greece

Heimlich is homely. Paris lives in an unhomely home. Serena wants a home, in a place you wouldn’t exactly call Paris. They drink. They talk. They merge. In water, beer and memory. A frog leaps. Strange. Stranger. Unhomely. Unheimlich. Stranger than home.

Milo

2017 • 10 min • United States of America

A grieving old man attempts to recreate his past in the hope of reliving cherished memories.

Becky Watts Killed for Kicks

2017 • 45 min

The story behind the murder of 16-year-old Becky Watts, who was killed by her stepbrother Nathan Matthews and his 21-year-old partner Shauna Hoare in Bristol in February 2015. This programme documents the huge police manhunt that unfolded in the wake of her disappearance, and the police investigation which eventually brought her murderous stepbrother to justice.

Anum

2017 • 19 min • Mexico

Anum is a sad young man who, trying to get away from the city to erase bad memories, will meet a strange being.

To Duration: A Tribute to Peter Handke

2017 • 40 min

Based on Handke's 1986 poem "Canto alla Durata". The film explores the concept of duration through the Austrian writer's life and work, featuring actor Bruno Ganz reading poems written by Handke.

Discovering Heaven

2017 • 10 min • Canada

A documentary about Captain Dale Black, a pilot who died in a famous airplane crash in Burbank, California which was covered by the LA Times. After coming back to life, Black shares his near death experience as the sole survivor of a non-survivable plane wreck.

5 Euros

2017 • 11 min • France

33 internships at 33 years of age, and still no job! Thrown out by his dad, Jean-Claude finds himself on the street with only 5 Euros in his pocket. Will he put them to good use?

Polly

2017 • 38 min • Sweden

When Jacob's ex-girlfriend Polly comes to visit, the pair can barely contain their excitement. Since their teenage days when they were an item, Jacob has long since been out of the closet and in a happy relationship with boyfriend Nicholas, so both he and Polly have a lot of catching up to do. Sure enough, Polly's visit extends into a long stay as the trio relish each other's company. However, all good things must, eventually, come to an end.

Ace and Anxious

2017 • 14 min • United States of America

Emma, an asexual graphic designer with generalized anxiety disorder, learns of the stress-reducing properties of sex, and decides to place an ad on Craigslist for a test sexual partner to determine if it will help with her panic attacks.

RELAW: Living Indigenous Laws

2017 • 8 min • Canada

For thousands of years, Indigenous peoples have governed their territories according to their own laws – safeguarding land, air, water and communities to sustain their cultures and economies. Drawing on the lessons learned over two decades of work with Indigenous peoples on Indigenous law-based approaches to land use planning, impact assessment and other aspects of environmental governance, in 2016 West Coast launched the RELAW program (Revitalizing Indigenous Law for Land, Air and Water).

The Maria Orsic Story

2017 • 53 min • United States of America

Widely recognized as the inventor of earth's first flying saucer, as a woman Marija Oršić (1895-1945) struggled against discrimination to achieve an incredible technological feat which only today is being fully recognized. A famous medium, leader of the Vril Society, alleged partner to Nikola Tesla and admired by Adolf Hitler. Marija Oršić disappeared from the face of the earth in 1945.

The Hungry Stones

2017 • 17 min • India

Neel, an ambitious businessman, has bought a crumbling palace to transform into a luxury hotel. He fails to realize that the stones come to life each night, engulfing anyone that dares to trespass.

Ovum

2017 • 17 min • Argentina

A reclusive fisherman's life is forever changed by a mysterious discovery.

La via della Conciliazione

2017 • 54 min • Italy

Everyone knows the view of Via della Conciliazione with St. Peter's Basilica framed behind it. The most famous postcard of Rome, the background used by correspondents all over the world. Few know that this street hasn't always been there, and in fact shouldn't have been from the premises.

Surreal

2017 • 29 min • Canada

When the laws of mankind no longer exist, what becomes of ones humanity when survival is their only focus?

Fried Barry

2017 • 3 min • South Africa

Fried Barry is a heroin junkie who spends his days in an abandoned building walking around tripping from his latest hit, going through his ups and downs and reliving old memories.

The Blender

2017 • 3 min

Teenage girl Chloe wants to be heard by her parents, but a blender is in her way.

Rubber Coated Steel

2017 • 22 min • Germany, Lebanon

May 2014: two unarmed Palestinian teens are killed by Israeli soldiers on the West Bank. Abu Hamdan made an audio analysis to ascertain whether rubber or live bullets were used. The film centres on the gunfire, yet no shots are heard. "Rubber Coated Steel" does not preside over the voices of the victims but seeks to amplify their silence, questioning the ways in which rights are being heard today.

A Margem

2017 • 18 min • Brazil

On an importante night for Camila, something unexpected happens and puts her in contact with her mother, the only one able to explain whats to come.

Adult Under Construction

2017 • 53 min • Denmark

Our host sets out to find a scientific explanation for her erratic behavior during adolescence. Characterized by immense hormonal and physical changes, every person can relate to this life stage, filled with intense emotion, moodiness, and challenge. Now, research and new technologies allow us to gain a better understanding of what is happening inside our brains during these tumultuous years.

Saihat's Mysterious Talisman

2017 • 10 min

Nothing Happens

2017 • 12 min • Denmark, France

On the cold outskirts of town, something is about to happen. In our own way we are all waiting for something to happen.

Swing-by

2017 • 4 min • Japan

Animation by Ayano Yamazawa. Music by Keiichi Yasui.