All Films

Playing House

2017 • 3 min • Turkey

A little girl is playing house by herself. She makes food out of toys and sets the table. Then a little boy comes in, and she greets him with joy. But things are getting darker while they pretending...

Carga

2017 • 15 min • Portugal

In a small fishing village, two boys are forced to take part in drug trafficking. When the eldest plans to escape, the younger one is forced to deal with the adversities of being left behind.

Flying Monks Temple

2017 • 55 min • China, Latvia

A dreamer by nature, Quanqi Zhu decides to set up a unique installation at the hillside of Sacred Songshan mountain in China. Despite the language barrier, his best companion is Latvian architect Austris Mailitis. As the building of the object begins, the creators themselves have to levitate between cultural differences, conventions and personal ambitions.

Fifteen

2017 • 11 min • Egypt, Belgium

On a hot summer day, a taciturn teen boy makes his way through the hustle of Cairo — with a baby in tow. His arrival at a hospital reveals the turmoil beneath his muted expression, in this stark and compassionate examination of trauma.

Nocturne

2017 • 5 min • Germany

At night the forest creatures gather to gamble, putting their innermost valuables at stake.

The Volcano That Changed The World

2017 • 53 min • Germany

Unlike what people may think, Krakatoa was not the biggest volcanic eruption in history. More than two hundred years ago, on April 10th 1815, Mount Tambora in Eastern Indonesia became a merciless killer. It unleashed the most deadly volcanic eruption in human memory, wiping out at least 117,000 people. And an entire civilization and its language disappeared. But the killing didn’t stop there. It has now been proven that this eruption could have triggered an extraordinary and little known cataclysmic event: worldwide climate change.

Alzheimer's: Every Minute Counts

2017 • 56 min • United States of America

Alzheimer's: Every Minute Counts is an urgent wake-up call about the national threat posed by Alzheimer's disease. Many know the unique tragedy of this disease, but few know that Alzheimer's is one of the most critical public health crises facing America. Because of the growing number of aging baby boomers, and the fact that the onset of Alzheimer's is primarily age-related, the number of Alzheimer's case is predicted to skyrocket in the United States. This will not only be a profound human tragedy, but an overwhelming economic one as well. Due to the length of time people live with the illness and need care, it's the most expensive medical condition in the U.S. Future costs for Alzheimer's threaten to bankrupt Medicare, Medicaid, and the life savings of millions of Americans.

Retour à l'inouï

2017 • 18 min • France

A sensorial documentary, full of mystery.

Apartment Inferno

2017 • 19 min • Japan

Who doesn't know this problem? You cheerfully kill someone, but how will you get rid of the corpse now? No problem for Yoshiki who is specialised in getting rid of anything in his apartment. Someday his junior partner Chiharu finds in the apartment a mysterious in blood-soaked woman, who is currently getting rid of some corpse parts. In the time Yoshiki isn't in the apartment they both get closer...

Coombs

2017 • 57 min • United Kingdom

Routine Pleasures, Slow Cinema.

Pickle

2017 • 21 min

After accidentally freezing the family dog to death, Oscar attempts to make good with his soon-to-be stepson by driving the family pet's ashes across the country.

Love You Thank You

2017 • 27 min

Lance relives the good and the bad in his past relationship to decide whether or not to see his ex-boyfriend, Adam, that night.

Goldilocks Zone

2017 • 27 min • Finland

Craving for love and excitement, Sierra seeks out her childhood crush, through whom she starts to deal with the loss of her brother. But bringing the past into the present isn’t as easy as she would’ve thought.

Piled Cloud

2017 • 25 min • Hong Kong

Lam Tung is an old man living a solitary life in his Hong Kong apartment. Since his children have grown up and moved away, he decides to let a room to an ambitious, young film student Cheng Yang. Both years apart in age and ideals, Piled Cloud provides a fresh look at the generation gap between two very different individuals.

Life Cycles

2017 • 4 min • United Kingdom

An observational exploration of routine, monotony, attention and distraction. Will we continue to let events pass us by uncontested, or will we decide to break the cycle?

El amor en los tiempos del Match

2017 • 29 min • Colombia

Laura and Diego are interested in meeting someone to start a relationship. Laura has never used dating platforms and Diego has decided not to go back to dating apps. They both venture to explore an application designed for this purpose.

Menarche

2017 • 17 min • Brazil

Luísa is forbidden to go out on the street by her mother after being harassed. At home, imagination is the limit.

Fatherland

2017 • 15 min • Georgia

Republic of Georgia, 2016: in a small town of Gori, the birthplace of Stalin, his followers gather to commemorate him on the 63rd anniversary of his death when strange things begin to occur.

Dymna Sumish: Between Hell and Heaven

2017 • 58 min • Ukraine

A whole generation grew up with the music of Ukrainian rock band Dymna Sumish. It brought not only energetic concerts with slams and crashed guitars, but also ideas: of propaganda resistance, vegetarianism, abstinence from alcohol and drugs. But in 2012, the band was put on hold, and its frontman Sasha Chemerov moved to Los Angeles. Musicians got back together in the summer of 2017 and gave a series of powerful shows. «Dymna Sumish: Between Hell and Heaven» is a movie about the comeback, friendship, and rock’n’roll. The film includes interviews with band members, concert footage from different periods and live performances, specially shot for the movie. And although the band split up at the beginning of 2018, we believe that its story and legacy still matter.

The Number

2017 • 14 min • United Kingdom, South Africa

The film looks at the myths and markings of South Africa's prison 'Number' gangs. Shot in graphic black and white, it investigates the secret code spelt out and spoken across the bodies of the inmates. The film immerses its audience in the world of the Number gangs, their history, personal journeys, codes and body markings.

The Cyborg

2017 • 5 min • United States of America

In an attempt to create and control the perfect human, a company fails to calculate the power of free will.

Wronged

2017 • 4 min • Indonesia

A prejudice that leads to the loss of an innocent life.

A Dream of Spring

2017 • 20 min • Taiwan

Zhao’s veteran dorm roommate, Feng, passed away. The borough magistrate is taking the ashes back to Feng’s hometown, but Zhao insists on keeping Feng’s ashes for one more day. Zhao drinks on with Feng and reminisces of their past romance with Ah-Feng the prostitute. Zhao decides to take Feng to bid Ah-Feng farewell; thus begins a journey in search for the last consolation of life.

Notes

2017 • 4 min • United States of America

Strange notes appear throughout the home of a lonely young man late one night, all while he is tormented by some mysterious entity over the phone.