All Films

Lady of the Night

2017 • 13 min • Norway

The dynamics of a group of friends changes when Martin arrives at a Christmas party wearing a dress.

Punda the Zebra

2017 • 52 min

‘Punda the Zebra’ tells the story of a little foal, from its birth to the end of the annual great migration. Less than an hour after his birth, he knows how to run. When you are one of the weakest species in the Savannah, it’s a question of survival. Little Punda discovers the herd and the essential skill of learning to recognize his mother in the middle of a jungle of stripes. We follow him on one of the largest migrations in the animal kingdom.

North Korea; Off-Piste

2017 • 12 min • North Korea, United Kingdom

Having been granted special permission to film inside one of the most secretive countries in the world, Britain's fastest snowboarder sets off to experience first hand this country we know so little about.

De Madrugada

2017 • 30 min • Portugal

In the hot month of August, Alice and her siblings go to their grandmother’s summer house. As the days go by, the house becomes a hive of slow straying bodies, as Alice becomes more and more engrained in her grandmother’s colonial past.

The Egos: Sequel

2017 • 58 min • United States of America

Will and the rest of The Egos are back at it, ready to create a sequel. This time, they're battling a city-wide avocado shortage, all while trying to shake off the catchy tune of "Despacito" that's stuck in their heads.

Longevity Peach

2017 • 18 min • Singapore

A little girl's parents have to go overseas for work, so she is sent to stay with her grandmother for that period. The grandmother only speaks Teochew, which the little girl can neither speak not understand, so the initial generational and linguistic gaps result in friction and misunderstanding, until an accident unexpectedly brings the whole extended family closer together, and the child bonds with both her grandmother and her parents.

White People Doing Improv

2017 • 4 min • United States of America

Ted White-Knockleby teaches comedy improv in Los Angeles.

A•sy•lum

2017 • 23 min • Netherlands

Swung back and forth between depression and euphoria, David Brown (29) has ended up in the umpteenth psychiatric facility. With stories and humor he tries to keep the madness at bay. Will he manage to stand on his own two feet again, or will he change into one of those ‘Valium zombies’ he only parodies right now?

CBeebies Presents: The Snow Queen

2017 • 44 min • United Kingdom

Stage musical adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s iconic tale in which brave village girl Gerda sets out to rescue her best friend Kai before the Snow Queen freezes him forever.

Laura

2017 • 10 min • Portugal

Laura is an essay film whose inception began from a project of research and collection of familial photographical archives. It departs from the exploration of the notion of images as bygone experiences in time which, from that timelessness, expand in space, thus creating small narrative moments.

3,000 Miles

2017 • 5 min

On July 5th, 2016, filmmaker Sean Wang moved across the country to live and work in New York City for one year. A personal documentary of his year, chronicled by voicemails from his mother back home.

Time, Ago!

2017 • 7 min • Russia

"Time, forward!" - two orchestral suites by George Sviridov, published for the first time in 1968 (first suite) and in 1977 (second suite). The suites were created on the basis of music for the film "Time, Forward!" By Mikhail Schweitzer (based on the novel of the same name by Valentin Kataev, shot in 1965, released in 1966), dedicated to the construction of the Magnitogorsk Metallurgical Combine. From the first suite, the most famous part is "Time, forward!". Subsequently, it was used in a number of films, in television and radio programs, documentary films about the first five-year plans, industrialization, and post-war reconstruction. Sergei Oskolkov composed his suite: "Time, back!" The film is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the revolution in Russia.

Experiment One: Lost

2017 • 4 min • Australia

A boy runs barefoot across a beach into a broken bottle. A woman suffers a panic attack on the street. The mundane life of a fireman is overlaid by the fragmented remnants of a burnt-out house. A deformed man's face fluctuates between broken and unbroken as a traffic accident occurs behind him. Electrical currents run through a boy's burnt legs. Something scurries through multi-coloured woods to the accompaniment of explosions. This is the world of British public information films, remixed and edited to create something new and experimental.

Eastern Front

2017 • 60 min • Russia

Much has been said about the Great Patriotic War (World War II), but more has not been said. This film shows the war with the eyes of the German soldiers. It is the story of an error of fatal choice that has been the cause of the most cruel war in the history of humanity.

Alone through Iran: 1144 miles of trust

2017 • 60 min • Iran, Sweden

The 45-year old Swedish woman, Kristina Paltén, ran across Iran to challenge her own prejudices against a culture and people she knew little about. She felt the very human need to trust in people.

Sierra Madre

2017 • 14 min • Philippines

Kalipay, a young girl, searches for her grandfather’s long lost ship in a conflict in between her family and the sea.

Fishes, Swimmers, Boats

2017 • 10 min • China, Russia

A film inspired by the poems of Paul Eluard: "Fish, swimmers, ships Change the shape of the water. The water is still, the water will only move for those who touch it.

Latency/Contemplation 2

2017 • 8 min

A short film by Seoungho Cho

Peter Brill's Diary

2017 • 29 min

The life and military career of Peter Brill, the last surviving Luftwaffe pilot who had trained for Hitler’s secret, aborted mission to bomb New York City.

Seems Like Dawn

2017 • 20 min • Peru

Dante works the night shift editing violent content for TV. Several encounters over the course of his day make him realize this overwhelming routine is not the life he wants.

The Bakery

2017 • 14 min

14min | Short, Comedy, Drama | 15 May 2017 (Monaco) A small bakery in the quaint French village of Castillonnès plot to banish British tourists forever, but a budding summer romance between a baker and an Englishman reveals an unlikely heroine.

La Chambre des merveilles

2017 • 53 min • France

Reconstruction

2017 • 20 min • Norway

A director made a short film about his family in an attempt to get to know his father better. The plan failed so he decides to try again.

Beyond Trauma

2017 • 45 min • Canada, United States of America

Most people experience trauma at least once. For many, the memories fade with time. But for some, they make it impossible to move beyond trauma.