All Films

Plus Ultra

2017 • 13 min • Spain

"Plus Ultra" is the motto of the Spanish state. This slogan was used to encourage navigators to conquer new territories and to forget the warning from mythology: "Non Terrae Plus Ultra" (there is no land beyond here). The Canary Islands, testing ground for the tactics used during the colonization of the Americas, becomes the setting for a tale about this land.

Vergüenza

2017 • 10 min • Spain

Two friends. A dress for their university graduation, which is just around the corner. One of them has something to say. She’s bursting to say it.

Visit

2017 • 3 min • France

Apartment 76 has belonged to the same family for fifty years. The great-granddaughter has followed on from the great-grandmother. Before moving, she examines each corner, revealing family treasures, and haunting them in an attempt at appropriation through language.

Billy's Blowjobs

2017 • 16 min • United States of America

A man seeks the numbing comfort of anonymous sex, until a chance encounter which may change his outlook on life. Inspired in part by Andy Warhol's film "Blow Job," this new film brings the arthouse tradition to the gritty streets of contemporary Los Angeles.

Epic Fail

2017 • 5 min

In a time where post-truth news divides and conservative politics fails to lure in young voters, a extraordinary vote for world peace has dramatic consequences. Epic Fail is an avant-garde essay that questions how we perceive truth, information and politics, seen through the dual lenses of our real and virtual identities. Moved by the political events that shook 2016, the film is inspired by Jean Paul Sartre’s “Nausea”; or how we can develop visual embodiments of our emotions as a catharsis on how to deal with reality.

Door

2017 • 4 min • France

In the middle of the night, a woman has to deal with a mysterious intruder...

Is It Too Much to Ask?

2017 • 30 min • India

This short film follows the journey of two friends Smile and Glady - looking for a rental apartment in Chennai and the obstacles and social stigma they encounter in not just looking for a home but being single and the fact that they are transgender women.

Investigations of a Dog

2017 • 25 min • Bosnia and Herzegovina, Norway, Poland

Limits of hospitality and friendship tested by a guest.

Monsters Got Talent

2017 • 5 min • Brazil

Kevin, Big Joe and Molly open auditions for a talent competition in a city of monsters, and search for the best performer from singers to magicians worthy of the grand prize.

Shieldmaiden

2017 • 16 min

Set in medieval Norway, a young Viking woman named Sigrid must fight to survive when violent raiders invade her homeland.

Nutag – Homeland

2017 • 6 min • Canada

A non-narrative hand-painted visual poem about diaspora, homeland, and the tragic mass-deportations of the Kalmyk people during WWII.

A Final Truth

2017 • 11 min

1977: Elga, 60, now resides in a hospice waiting for the end of her life. Her comfort comes in visits from her physician Sara, whom she entertains with tales of her former love in 1930's Berlin. 1933: Elga (and Weimar Germany) are succumbing to the National Socialists. But she is remembering her true love, a beautiful young Jewish woman. Now, for the first time, Elga tells Sara the true ending to her story and looks to the one moment that defined her life.

Leon Trotsky - The Life of a Revolutionary

2017 • 45 min

To mark the centenary of the Russian Revolution, the International Marxist Tendency and In Defence of October campaign present this original documentary celebrating the life and accomplishments of one of the revolution’s main leaders: Leon Trotsky.

Rain River Falls

2017 • 58 min • United States of America

Night after night as Elizabeth would drift off to sleep she would wake up with visions and desires that she could not explain, And to a mysterious figure who always seemed to appear. Now Elizabeth has vanished and certain guests who visit the town of Rain River Falls claim to have the same visions and desires. Who was the figure? And what happened to Elizabeth?

Their Voices

2017 • 25 min • Poland

The young students have their own magic world, hardly accessible for the others, the "normal" ones. By a subtle observation and without a spoken word we access their everyday life throughout the year.

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.