All Films

The All Seeing Blind

2017 • 17 min

The golds of Saddam, the last booties of the Iraqi war, are smuggled into Turkey by hidden in the cotton. Blind workers are used to pick the gold from the cotton but the smugglers try to prevent any possible thefts by telling the workers that it is rock they are picking from the cotton. They don't know that there's a seeing eye among the blind workers.

Brexit Shorts: Time to Leave

2017 • 4 min

In her garden in the Home Counties, leave-vote Eleanor wonders why the Brexit vote hasn’t made her happier.

Apathie

2017 • 25 min

Four young friends with different life perspectives venture out of the suburbs and are confronted by a tragic fate, questioning everything and themselves.

Lima

2017 • 2 min

Oats Studios short exploring the ideas of multinational corporations, secret government programs and failed scientific experiments.

Gardiennes

2017 • 14 min • France

Acha and Myriam, fifteen years old, are bored out of their skulls in their social housing project. Sam, the leader of a gang of boys, asks them to be gardiennes for him. Honored, they stand in front of the main entrance of Building C, convinced they are participating in exciting drug deals.

Saint Bathans Repetitions

2017 • 20 min • Canada

A series of cinematic portraits shot in domestic spaces in a former gold mining town in New Zealand expand into a tapestry of glistening natural light and vaporous movement, created via a painstaking process of in-camera layering effects.

Vault-Mass 2287

2017 • 29 min

On Christmas Eve in the year 2287, Jack Collins, a freshly appointed Overseer, is excited to celebrate his first holiday in charge of Vault 71. But just days before, a mysterious virus sweeps through the community, killing every inhabitant but Jack. Unable to accept the mass death around him, Jack dissociates entirely from reality.

Last Night

2017 • 3 min • Uruguay

Manuel waits impatiently in the bank of a square where his friend Juan is trying to finish telling his story. Manuel begins to show interest when he realizes that his partner is narrating the night itself that is happening and that everything points to a disastrous end.

Maverick

2017 • 20 min • Belgium

The day Stan and his family are about to move, Stan thinks that he shot down a plane. Frightened but with confident spirit, he goes into the woods to find the crashed device.

The Man Who Wasn't There

2017 • 9 min • Macedonia

The ghost of a dead man strives to find his other half.

Vando aka Vedita

2017 • 21 min • Brazil

Vando (aka Vedita) is not seen for a long time in the streets of Barra.

Move

2017 • 60 min • United States of America

This documentary explores the aftermath of a 2015 mass shooting that took place during an anti-violence community basketball tournament at the Boys and Girls Club in Rochester, New York. Members of the Community along with family members of the victims join together to speak out against the needless violence that took the lives of multiple children and young adults and injured many others.

Make a Wish

2017 • 12 min • Sweden

Anita and Gunnar live a calm, retired life. They don’t make love anymore. They watch TV. When Anita makes a wish and is visited by a young, virile TV show host, the couple is suddenly faced with life-changing events. Make a Wish is a comedy about dreams, and about what happens when you get too much of a good thing.

One Two Zero

2017 • 15 min • Poland

Justyna is a nine year old girl who is training professionally rhytmic gymnasts. Her life is filled with trainings and competitions, where she often has to exceed their own limits and weaknesses. Every day she needs to be stronger and more determined if she wants to beat her colleagues in all competition races. Despite all the enormous efforts she not always manages to stand on the podium. When she loses her hopes for wining she decides to start training five-year gymnasts by herself.

StarGirl

2017 • 20 min • United Kingdom

Stan is an ageing sheep farmer who's at odds with life and out of hope. During a meteor storm a mysterious female alien arrives on his farm, she appears to be lost. As they attempt to understand each other a bond is formed and Stan teaches Voyager about what it is to be human. Their fate and Stan's is sealed when the StarGirl confesses her real reason for visiting Earth.

(oo)

2017 • 7 min • South Korea

One boy battles his own personal tsunami of nose-water.

Iron Hands

2017 • 11 min • China, United States of America

As a 12-year-old preps for her final try-out for the traditionally all-boys Chinese youth Olympic weightlifting team, she gets some valuable pointers from a surprising source.

Fabulous

2017 • 20 min • Brazil

A glance at the queer universe throughout vogue battles, an emerging street subculture in which gay, transgender and other LGBTQ people take the lead. The film sheds light on the movement and on the expressiveness of the bodies, while stepping into the space of dance – from the backstage to the stage –, exalting diversity and the LgBT culture.

SIGAŌ, about silence

2017 • 19 min • France

In the city, a space that all mechanical things fill with their buzz, we search for the murmur of leaves, the creaking of footsteps, the breathing of living beings. Walking through the alleyways, the libraries, the green spaces… Hearing a secret. Chasing silence, the breath within the concert of everyday sounds.

Life With Bacteria

2017 • 53 min • Russia

A film about Andrey Shestakov, head of the microbial biotechnology laboratory at Moscow State University. Together with his team, he travels all over the planet, from the Caucasus to the White Sea, with the goal of finding and testing microbes useful for mankind.

Generation Y X Sluts

2017 • 14 min • France

The same place, the same questionnaire, seven girls from generation Y, gathered for the same project: "Are you ready for porn?" Their weaknesses, their reactions, their attitude facing a camera... A closed door to enter the porn industry.

The Probation Officer

2017 • 9 min • Germany

The working week is almost over for the probation officer Müller, but Mr. Wolf remains... and he's not a piece of cake.

The Beast Inside: Creating 'Wolf'

2017 • 56 min

Featuring brand new interviews with producer Douglas Wick, screenwriter Wesley Strick, and special effects artist Rick Baker, THE BEAST INSIDE: CREATING »WOLF« examines the making of Mike Nichols’ WOLF (1994) in all its stages from original idea to final appearance.

Chirp, Buzz, & Other Sensations

2017 • 15 min

When Angie -a fifteen-year-old girl raised in a conservatively religious household- begins experiencing her very first sexual attraction, she goes to extremes to rid herself of these "sinful" sensations.