All Films

Redención

2017 • 13 min

Mr. Ferre is interrupted his trip of pleasure by Capri to enter through a dark passage that will take him to a mysterious mansion, where he awaits an enigmatic butler who Pampers fulfilling all his desires. in the place while observing old guests in period paintings, a crackling fire illuminates the room. Mr. Ferre comfortable and aloof reclines on the sofa Louis XIV. Nothing seems to stop time except a hourglass that is shortening the moment it will revive the most distressing moments of his past, where Mr. Ferre was victim and executioner. Butler invoking his childhood will try to rescue the child who was once pure and innocent, so that Mr. Ferre can finally redeem himself and abandon the cruel revenge of guilt.

H.P. Lovecraft's The Rats In The Walls

2017 • 54 min

When Thomas Delapore moves from Massachusetts to England in order to begin rebuilding Exham Priory, his ancestral home, he is surprised at the dismayed and often hostile reaction of the local residents. The more he learns about his family's history, however, the more he begins to understand their reaction; and as he and his cats begin to investigate the sounds of the rats in the walls, he discovers just how terrible the true legacy of his ancestors really is. A motion comic adaptation of the H. P. Lovecraft story, with illustrations by Tau Ganabe.

The Chiltern Bubble Cars

2017 • 48 min • United Kingdom

The 19th May 2017 was the last day that first-generation DMUs ran in regular passenger service on Network Rail. These were the two class 121 Bubble cars owned by Chiltern Railways that were used on the Princes Risborough to Aylesbury branch. To record and commemorate the event, Video 125 cameras followed the single units (affectionately dubbed Bubble Cars) in the weeks prior to their withdrawal. The idea for this film came from the former Managing Director of Chiltern Trains Holidays, Tony Parkins, who has been closely associated with Chiltern Railways ever since his involvement with the writing of our Driver's eye view Chiltern Take Two. It was Tony's idea to produce this film and as such has not only co-written and researched the information but actually presents it to camera.

Lidija

2017 • 37 min • Latvia

A person’s face and eyes preserve experience better than any document or recorded memoir. Particularly if a person has experienced as much as the well-known dissident Lidija Lasmane-Doroņina. Actually, she does not even think of herself as a dissident. She received her three terms in prisons and labour camps – fourteen years in all – as punishment not for underground struggle but for daring to remain true to her principles, convictions and faith. The ideals Lidija obtained as a child – the idyllic image of Latvia as an independent country, strong family values and faith in God as a moral measuring stick for any action. Her eyes are bright even today, at the age of 91, and they look at this world full of life.

Baby

2017 • 7 min

A couple argue about whether or not they should have a baby.

Mother & Baby

2017 • 18 min • Ireland

For decades, Catholic Ireland locked its children into institutions if they were conceived out of wedlock - punishment for the sinning mothers. Revealing the children's perspectives, and including powerful archive, this documentary offers a painful yet cathartic insight into the cruel business of Mother and Baby Homes.

Coxinha

2017 • 12 min • Brazil

Coxinha is a short film that tells the story of two sisters - Piedade and Almira, who make the best coxinha in the city.

New Camera

2017 • 10 min • Portugal

Rafa is testing his new camera, Rui and Ana are picking him up. The camera keeps filming.

If I Could Bark

2017 • 15 min

In this companion piece to 2015's "If I Could Talk," Ryan, who had 40 years earlier saved a puppy who became his best friend, now has recently lost his wife. This short film finds him touched by and touching another dog's life, as Ryan spends the end of his life with this new canine.

Catastrophe

2017 • 2 min • Netherlands

When a sweet and innocent parakeet is found inexplicably dead in her cage, all fingers seem to point towards cat Rodney. To prove his innocence, he desperately tries to put the blame on others, with disastrous consequences.

Threads

2017 • 8 min • Canada, Norway

In this spellbinding hand-drawn odyssey by the celebrated Oscar-winning animator Torill Kove, a bustling urban habitat becomes an enchanting web of human connection. Threads explores how fundamental attachment is to the experience of being human.

To Let Her Go

2017 • 5 min • United States of America

Ben struggles threw the pain and heartache of seeing his ex with another man. Ben's imagination begins to race through many different scenarios of how he can win back the women he loves.

September

2017 • 13 min • Denmark

Else is stood up by her daughter and instead finds herself in the company of two other middle-aged women at a seaside hotel, where a very different day takes shape. Everyone in the unlikely trio has their own problems that make it difficult to see clearly and make the right decisions, and Else in particular must decide whether she wants to live life to the fullest. Perhaps life doesn't have to be so boring, even if you're over 60.

Leaving Your Skin

2017 • 32 min • Mexico

Wanda Seux, one of Mexico’s most emblematic actresses and showgirls during the 80’s, has fallen into an abyss, dragged down by the death of her mother, her solitude, and the passage of time. Wanda, however, struggles every day to rise from that vacuum and walk through that dark tunnel into the light of plenitude.

Cannipals Short Film 002: The Hammer

2017 • 4 min • United Kingdom

A short story about shiftin'.

Mustapha El Atrassi - Sans Modération

2017 • 46 min • France

In a detached tone, Mustapha El Atrassi takes stock of our society without any filter.

Kâbus

2017 • 8 min • France, Turkey

Istanbul 2016. As the city rumbles with the noise of explosions and the voices of ghosts from the war become deafening, a man tries to get to sleep.

Journey to Tataouine

2017 • 51 min • United States of America, Tunisia

Dr. David West Reynolds, archaeologist and a New York Times #1 best-selling Star Wars author, learned in 1995 that the original Star Wars filming locations used for Luke Skywalker's home planet of Tatooine had become lost forever. Not even Lucasfilm, producers of the Star Wars movies knew where they were anymore. This documentary follows Dr. West Reynolds journey to Tunisia in search of the locations behind that made up the alien home world of Luke Skywalker.

Penance

2017 • 8 min • United States of America

A couple is trapped in hell and forced to watch each other kill themselves the way they killed each other.

The Suplex Duplex Complex

2017 • 11 min

A neighboring pair of tag team wrestlers learn the downsides of life without a landlord.

Turned Away

2017 • 1 min • United States of America

David Mullins and Charlie Craig visited Masterpiece Cakeshop in July 2012, with Charlie's mother, to order a cake for their upcoming wedding reception. This is their story.

Beach Dance

2017 • 5 min • United States of America

Lucy can't seem to get comfortable at the beach. A silent dance film (set to Sam Cooke) about movement, impulse, and alienation.

At the Horizon

2017 • 30 min • Austria

An audiovisual snow storm in front of a black ground, a white horizontal line that divides the image, grid planes, unfolding and folding dimensions. Set to atonal, techno, and orchestral sounds; an abstract (non-)world beyond comprehension, a visual experience that one must intuitively sense. Lost in space and time – the big bang of consciousness

Hot Lead

2017 • 31 min

In 1984 the United States is plunged into a nuclear holocaust. 13 years later, two reluctant partners must maintain law and order. Tim Allcock is Wayne Baseman, an impulsive maverick who never has a plan. Trent Collins is Ricky "The Axe" Rodriguez, an aging albino-black detective with a death wish. When it's too late to save the world, there's one thing left to do: Protect and Serve.