All Films

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.

Orizaba's Peak

2017 • 11 min • Mexico, Spain

In a cozy bistro, an increasingly heated discussion between two good buddies reveals their latent sexual prejudices, as one admits to feeling finally set free by a book he has just read.

Clown Face

2017 • 10 min • Canada

Ah, to see ourselves as others see us. Michael's mid-life crisis was a flame out. Left his wife. Bought a Porsche (used). Now, lonely and looking to make amends, he's seeking forgiveness and counsel from his angry daughter. Laurie sees right though him.

The Hag

2017 • 8 min • Canada

It seems like an ordinary night when Emily turns out the lights in her apartment, little does she know that her night would become a living nightmare.

The Pastels

2017 • 3 min • United States of America

A crayon named Blu is working on an art project that he plans to enter into a multi-artist competition, but to his dismay, his friends have suggestions on how to improve it.

Return to Bamako

2017 • 52 min • Switzerland, Mali

Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb…Daesh…Boko Haram.** So many extremist movements, of which Africa has become a breeding ground, have declared war against Western values and people. Beyond the misunderstandings that often paralyze us, we have to ask ourselves the real question: **how did we get here?** Filmed in Mali, *RETURN TO BAMAKO* is a deep dive into the land of Islam, seeking to understand the causes and challenges of the threat posed by the rise of radical Islamism to all societies. The Islamist wave did not come about accidentally, but instead is the result of recent history, of which Westerners are the actors, because in the vast majority of cases, it is the failure of a political and economic system, copied or imposed by the West, along with unbridled globalization, which opens a gaping hole and allows the rise of extremism.

In, Over & Out

2017 • 10 min • France, Austria

There have been countless tributes made to the Lumière Brothers´ Workers Leaving the Factory since it was first exhibited in 1895, but few have been as technically ambitious, aesthetically assaultive or conceptually compelling as Sebastian Brameshuber´s In, Over & Out.

Body Image

2017 • 3 min

A woman is tormented by her compulsion to stay thin.

Pride of the Buffalo Soldier

2017 • 5 min • United States of America

African American soldiers throughout the 19th and 20th Centuries faced discrimination and segregation, yet many still chose to fight for their country.

I Wanna Die (or How I Learned Not to Die)

2017 • 8 min • Portugal

A man tries desperately to kill himself, but consistently fails to the amusement of the Narrator, who may or may not be behind his failure