All Films

Wild Tides

2017 • 26 min

In the village, the boy offers help but is turned down by everyone. Later his friend asks him to help on their fish farm and take the motor to the neighbouring village afterwards. But he loses the key and is determined to find it although the tide is coming in.

The Run

2017 • 13 min

A man's eagerness to deliver his consciousness and unconsciousness in the hands of an application for the sake of a better life.

Miriam’s Desires

2017 • 20 min • Brazil

Miriam can’t stand social media anymore or the loneliness of her apartment. She wants to go out. She needs to go out…

Mater Amatisima

2017 • 55 min • Spain

Given the fetishizing and normalizing character that is given to motherhood in patriarchy in order to perpetuate the social order, do we truly choose to be mothers? Why is care, of fundamental vital labor, presupposed as an especially appropriate task for women?

Invisible

2017 • 17 min • Ukraine

When a student in a classroom provokes a young teacher, who has only started her career at a village school, it ashames and confuses her in front of the whole class. Coming back home, she cannot stop thinking of what has happened and for the first time in her life pushes herself to more and more new wild states. In order to cure her trauma, get rid of parent control, and to settle the situation with the student, she calls to her subconscious and it answers.

Captured in Sudan

2017 • 29 min • Sudan, United States of America

While reporting on the conflict in Darfur, Phil Cox and Daoud Hari are kidnapped by a local militia. Despite being imprisoned, the two men manage to surreptitiously film their capture. Follow Phil and Daoud on their harrowing journey, from capture to release.

The Baby Whisperer

2017 • 17 min • Australia

Ten year old Ruby's relationship with her beloved antique doll takes on a sinister dimension when she comes to believe she can be reunited with her dead mother.

10 Minute Time Machine

2017 • 10 min • Canada

The discovery of a time machine sets up the possibility of an unforgettable adventure for George and Lori...ten minutes at a time.

Scroll of Darkness

2017 • 8 min • Japan

One night as I was walking through the forest, a robber steals my bookmark. I chase him only to end up in an endless void of darkness.

Rødt speil

2017 • 58 min • Norway

Rødt Speil is a close-up of the now 80-year-old Kjell Pahr-Iversen, one of the central Norwegian non-figurative expressionists of the post-war generation.

Chasing Quakes

2017 • 53 min • Austria

Europe has experienced catastrophic earthquakes – even though the 'old continent' is not the most notorious region on Earth for strong quakes, the danger from below is very real.

The World Is Round So That Nobody Can Hide In The Corners: Part II — The Kiss

2017 • 5 min • Germany

Thousands of homosexual were persecuted, imprisoned and murdered by the Nazi regime. The Gay Holocast Memorial, in Berlin, intends to honor the victims of persecution and murder, to keep alive the memory of this Injustice.

Wasteland No. 1: Ardent Verdant

2017 • 4 min • United States of America

The interconnected circuitry. The aggregated flora. Alternating currents of the visual field.

While I Sing

2017 • 16 min • Brazil

A boy finds himself trapped in an empty space and tries, in vain, to communicate with the world around him. But his only form of communication is his flute, that seems to be unheard by anyone. Life passes through him in the midst of sadness and loneliness, where the empty space mirrors the feelings of a confused and angry being for not understanding the reason why he lost his freedom to live.

Parragirls Past, Present – Unlocking Memories of Institutional 'Care'

2017 • 23 min

Unlocking memories of institutional ‘care’. Parragirls Past, Present is a deeply moving immersive experience, presenting former residents’ visions of the Parramatta Girls Home today.

Lúcia Voltou a Fumar

2017 • 22 min • Brazil

Two years without smoking. But now, maybe, Lúcia will spend her whole life smoking.

Umi

2017 • 3 min

Umi is a short animation about a girl and her elevator of desires and nightmares.

A Month

2017 • 26 min • Kosovo, United States of America

The real life story of a blind woman with no home, living her four sisters pact of keeping her at their respective residences for a month each.

Fritz Haarmann: The Butcher From Hanover

2017 • 26 min • Germany, France

In Hanover, Germany 1924, the discovery of bones and skulls catches the authorities’ attention. Media covers the case and a suspect – Fritz Haarmann – is quickly arrested. Haarmann is a local butcher who manufactures his own sausages. Friedrich Heinrich Karl "Fritz" Haarmann (25 October 1879 – 15 April 1925) was a German serial killer, known as the Butcher of Hanover and the Vampire of Hanover, who committed the sexual assault, murder, mutilation and dismemberment of a minimum of 24 boys and young men between 1918 and 1924 in Hanover, Germany.

Prey

2017 • 2 min • United Kingdom

Prey is a short story about a love-hate relationship. A young girl in her early twenties is faced with her mother’s sickness and impending death, which appears in the shape of a black lion. The girl goes through dramatic emotional transformations throughout the film – from loving care to frustration, unwanted feeling of hate and, finally, acceptance and peace.

Out of the Blue, Into the Black

2017 • 20 min • Belgium

16-year-old Flament is stuck in a toilet cabin at a music festival and gets mortally wounded during a heavy storm. Not yet ready to die, he desperately fights time and space.

Pawns

2017 • 13 min

A game of chess in 1973 reignites the two players' vivid memories of their fateful meeting during the visceral Great War of 1914.

Barely There

2017 • 3 min • United States of America

A baby polar bear searches for his missing mother, while a force much colder than the frozen tundra searches for him.

Take Your Birth Control

2017 • 10 min • United States of America

This is a book excerpt adaptation from Anna Akana's "So Much I Want To Tell You: Letters To My Little Sister"