All Films

Europe's Last Wilderness

2017 • 44 min

A land of myriad climates and terrains, within whose boundaries lie some of the most complex and beautiful habitats on the planet. A continent whose limits stretch from northern realms of ice and snow to arid Mediterranean shores. A world shaped by the seasons, that gives life to wildlife as rich and vibrant as anywhere on the planet. This is Europe; wild and thriving.

The First Month

2017 • 7 min

Holly, an uncultured, southern teenager, tries to fit in an elite arts boarding school in California.

The Pine Tar Incident: Making of Tar Wars

2017 • 42 min • United States of America

An examination of the story of the infamous 1983 George Brett pine tar incident. This documentary is a behind the scenes making of a fictional film, "Tar Wars," the little known tale of the aftermath of George Brett's unforgettable blow-up.

Return to the Pleasure Dome

2017 • 4 min

A dancer encounters an unnatural menacing force to the beat of a rockabilly tune. Madness ensues as the surreal and nightmarish event unfolds setting the stage for the question of whats real and whats not. Is it a dream or hallucination?

The Death of Muffinhead

2017 • 5 min

The legendary underground filmmaker Nick Zedd returns with this fantastic account of the titular death of performance artist and costume designer Muffinhead.

Aliens

2017 • 23 min • Spain

Tesa Arranz, a key figure in the 1980s Madrid scene and the lead singer of the Zombies, has painted over 500 portraits of outer-space creatures. Confronting the singer’s paintings with the memories of her youth, her poems and diaries, ALIENS depicts an emotional landscape in Spanish history where happiness, nightmarish experimentations and alienation walked hand in hand.

H Is for Hawk: A New Chapter

2017 • 55 min

Helen Macdonald's bestseller H Is for Hawk told the story of a grieving daughter who found healing in training a goshawk. The goshawk is one of Mother Nature's own fighter jets, capable of finding and killing its prey with the speed of a lightning bolt. Now Macdonald digs deeper into the world of these raptors by following a family in the wild while raising and training a new goshawk of her own.

Best of Everything, Always

2017 • 12 min

Laurel has the best of everything; a luxurious house, an expensive car, a killer wardrobe, and hours of leisure time to waste away. Yet she still suffers from a crippling lack of purpose, a void in her identity. She only finds comfort in planning a secret ceremony that will remain unforgettable.

The Nurses of Blackchapel

2017 • 19 min

A strange patient increases her hold over the nurses of a psychiatric clinic.

Pixied

2017 • 9 min • Argentina

Mr Pix repeats a strict routine daily and the objects around him move, making him believe that he controls them. But one day he discovers the truth and finds himself like a character in a film.

Questioning, Requesting

2017 • 1 min • United States of America

Strings together what's strung together (please use yr tether).

Johnefe, 17

2017 • 13 min

A boy is offered a job at a farm not knowing he's being lured to his execution. Inspired by the False Positives scandal in Colombia.

Slice & Dice with Giggles

2017 • 3 min • United States of America

Giggles the Clown is looking for a new gig as a sushi chef.

Bawod

2017 • 20 min • Philippines

On the eve of her school’s annual Talent Show in a small rural village in the mountains of Iloilo, twelve-year-old Thirdy is worried she will not be able to perform because she could not afford to rent a traditional costume and pay the required contribution. Her ailing but affable grandfather, Cesario, acts as her sole guardian. He works as a bamboo farmer, but they could barely make ends meet. In the midst of all these, Thirdy starts having visions of a mysterious man. She believes the apparition is that of her long dead father while everyone else dismisses her visions as nothing more than fantasies or illusions. On the day of the Talent Show, everything unravels as village problems and family secrets finally collide.

Locker Room

2017 • 14 min • Australia

A teenage girl discovers her male friends’ secret group chat, forcing her to question her friendship with them.

Aktaban

2017 • 2 min

2 minutes of an audio visual assault on the senses with themes of cyberpunk & chaotic cinema meshed into one big huge mess. Filmed and edited within 2 days with zero budget/plan.

Valley of White Birds

2017 • 15 min • China

A fable of fear and rebirth that unfolds through a man’s pursuit of a mysterious white bird, Valley of White Birds utilizes a hypnotic, engrossing style of animation to encounter the magic that exists all around.

Errorist of Seasons

2017 • 27 min • Indonesia

Being fired from his job, Pulung follows his friend's advice to invest his compensatory dismissal to start a new business: inflatable boat rentals.

Body Double 35

2017 • 5 min

For Body Double 35, Dellsperger takes the second scene from Xanadu. Played by choreographer/dancer François Chaignaud, a sprightly group of Muses emerges dancing from a painting on the wall. At an exhibition at the Swiss Institute in 2016 Dellsperger reproduced the wall painting and in a strange switch the creation of the set precedes the idea of the film, even becoming its trigger. The entire equilibrium of things seems to be affected : the shots are reversed and Kira dances backwards until she becomes one with the wall. The loop is closed.

Happiness Guide

2017 • 12 min • Russia

Masha and Valya, vegetarians and abstainers, invite their former friends Natasha and Sergey over. Natasha and Sergey took a mortgage, they are planning a child. Natasha tries to persuade Masha to throw a wedding party, nevertheless she hints at Valya being no good for Masha. Masha in reply tells Natasha that her husband Sergey drinks vodka on the quite. Natasha makes a scene to Sergey. Masha tries to reconcile friends and convince them of their relationship being cracked. The guests are leaving. Valya blames Masha for climbing out of her business. Masha and Valya have a quarrel. Masha remains alone.

My Trip to Miami

2017 • 13 min

My Trip to Miami follows a well-meaning, misguided, tourist as he tries to self-actualize via Trip Advisors algorithmic script. My Trip to Miami is a documentation of a fantasy, a failure in image-based expectations.

Mr Martyr

2017 • 5 min

The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything

78.4 Fm

2017 • 15 min • Portugal

In the late 80s, in Portugal, Manuel (18 years) and Alfredo (21 years) have been broadcasters for three years at a little pirate radio on the village they live, in the attic of Manuel’s house – the Pluto Radio. After being told by Alfredo that he was interning at an official radio Manuel, not admitting to Alfredo what he really felt about the news he struggles with the dilemma of continuing alone or not at all with the pirate radio they both had started and grew together.

Demon at the Door: Our Heroin Crisis

2017 • 58 min • United States of America

Shocking, devastating and unflinchingly real. KOMO News' Eric Johnson looks at the heroin crisis in Seattle.