All Films

Melon Grab

2017 • 10 min • Australia

Dysfunctional truth rap and suspended youth - the final skate between two best friends.

Dedication

2017 • 19 min • United States of America

"Dedication" is the story of a maid working in a hotel who uses a black magic spell in the hopes of harnessing the talent of one of the hotel's frequent guests - an eccentric writer - and passing it on to her unborn son.

Between Walls

2017 • 19 min • Colombia

Isabella, Mario and Cristina are trying to fill their loneliness in the wrong place.

Il était une fois... « Mommy »

2017 • 52 min • France

In 2014, the movie « Mommy » directed by Xavier Dolan, got the Special Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. This was a great achievement for this director prodigy from Quebec, who had just turned 25. The script - a tumultuous relationship between a single mother and his hyperactive and violent son - and the bold direction electrified the audience. Shot in Montreal, the documentary by Tessa Louise Salomé tells the genesis of this family drama. It also reveals the failures of the society in Quebec : the failure of the mental institution and the impoverishment of the middle class.

In Jesus’ Name: Shattering the Silence of St. Anne's Residential School

2017 • 42 min

A poignant all-Indigenous English and Cree-English collaborative documentary that breaks long-held silences imposed upon indigenous children who were interned at the notoriously violent St. Anne’s Residential School in Fort Albany First Nation, Ontario. Use of a homemade electric chair at St. Anne's and the incorporation of testimony about student-on-student abuse makes this documentary stand apart from other films about Canadian residential school experiences. This film will serve as an Indigenous historical document wholly authored by Indigenous bodies and voices, those of the Survivors themselves.

Daak Ghar

2017 • 50 min • India

Set in early 20th-century rural Bengal, Daak Ghar tells the story of Amal, a young boy with an incurable illness who gets caught up in the world outside of his window.

Subhumane

2017 • 5 min

A woman consumed by the darkness she feels from the betrayal of others lures her friends to their demise. (Shot entirely inside a real cave)

Desde Adentro

2017 • 14 min • Argentina

Mía finds a pendant with an ancient symbol while rummaging through her recently deceased grandmother's belongings. That same night she is tormented by a nightmare in which she finds herself in the middle of a forest clearing. Her friends decide to go to Mía's grandmother's field to clear up for the weekend. One by one her friends mysteriously disappear and Mia ends up in the same clearing as her nightmares, where a strange secret is revealed to her.

In the Dark, Dark Woods...

2017 • 4 min

In the dark woods, lived a woman with a soul so dark that she was rendered invisible.

Good Business

2017 • 5 min • Ireland

Humanity makes a deal with a new client. Based on the comic "Good Business" by Simon Roy

So Much for the Winners

2017 • 25 min • France

It's the end of summer in Créteil, in the Parisian suburbs. Sarah must leave her friends to go back to her boyfriend in Rotterdam. Following this departure, Arthur shuts himself away and decides not to talk until he has accomplished "something great".

Mother's Ghost

2017 • 10 min • Denmark

A portrait of the symbiosis of body and mind between mother and unborn child.

Between Borders

2017 • 52 min • Serbia

The film follows the refugee crisis in 2015 and 2016 from the perspective of a young Lebanese woman, Boushra Jaber. She came to Serbia in 2015 to work on her PhD. Driven by a deep desire to help she started working as an Arabic translator in a refugee camp in Presevo, on the Serbian-Macedonian border. During her three months in the field, Boushra faced personal and professional challenges that put her beliefs to the test.

The Watcher's Woods

2017 • 8 min • United States of America

A documentary filmmaker and his crew break into a crime scene only to come face to face with a mysterious old man.

Cups & Robbers

2017 • 5 min • United States of America

A robbery at a restaurant, but someone forgot to lock the door.

The Cult Next Door

2017 • 31 min • United States of America

A short documentary featuring a brief overview of Bill Gothard's ministries, and some of the consequences for his followers.

Birdlime

2017 • 11 min • Canada

Birdlime is the name for a sticky substance spread on branches to trap wild birds. This touching lm follows the life of a bird caught in a cage, but who tries by all means to escape.

Shake Up Brazil

2017 • 25 min • Brazil

One port, the discovery and two bodies in motion.

Sawankhalai

2017 • 15 min • Thailand

A footage inside Siriraj Hospital on the day that King Bhumibol Adulyadej passed away.

The Inuring

2017 • 10 min • United Kingdom

A bullied teenage girl finally confronts her sister to drag their fractured past out into the light.

The Beaning

2017 • 9 min • United States of America

An experimental documentary exploring a sinister theory surrounding the death of Cleveland baseball player Ray Chapman in 1920 and the subsequent rise of the Yankee dynasty.

A Drowning Man

2017 • 15 min • Denmark, Greece, United Kingdom

Alone and far from home, The Kid makes his way through a strange city looking for the means to get through his day. Surrounded by predators he is forced to make compromises merely to survive, his life of exile grows one day longer.

Survivor Type

2017 • 13 min

An adaptation of the Stephen King short story of the same name, the film follows a young surgeon marooned on a tiny island with scarce supplies and no food. Misfortune fuels insanity as the man turns to the unthinkable in order to survive.

Illusory Promises

2017 • 19 min • United States of America

A traveling young man and a hippie woman hitchhiking along the road don't exactly vibe together in this semiotic parable.