All Films

Reindeer Family & Me

2017 • 59 min

Wildlife cameraman Gordon Buchanan travels to the frozen north, deep inside the Arctic Circle, to meet the ancient Sami people and the animals they hold so close - reindeer.

Deposition vol.3

2017 • 23 min • Hong Kong

The city is overwhelmed by consumerism and information. The constant barrage of information starts to glide past all of us. We are neither here nor there. We try to distinguish fact from fabrication—but we do not always succeed. We ponder on our existence and whether we are in control of our lives. Some people dedicate their lives to the Creator although the presence of a higher power is debatable. We wander from emptiness to emptiness, and realise that life is emptiness in itself. A societal revolution is in order but how should it be carried out? With no success in sight, would the revolution be rendered meaningless? The melancholic musings and rants of the young gloomy leftists are rarely answerable.

Protocols

2017 • 20 min • Germany

Everyone has dreams – for some it involves being, slaughtered and eaten. This documentary by Jan Soldat challenges cultural taboos through psychological discovery. Our question – do the three featured men want to be served with andalouse or samourai sauce?

Gina Is a C**nt

2017 • 3 min

Every office has a Gina. If you don’t know the Gina you are the Gina. And if you are the Gina, consider yourself lucky human beings are never 100% knowable. Even to themselves.

Norilsk

2017 • 23 min • Russia

Two students go to the Arctic Circle. The extreme north opens for them in the most magical and eerie manifestations. In search of an answer to the question "Why do people live in such hellish conditions?" they descend into the mine, meet with red-hot metal, open the ski season and communicate with the inhabitants of the northern city.

Search/Destroy

2017 • 20 min

The year is 2180 - strontium-90 fallout from a series of nuclear wars has created an underclass of mutants. Outcasts from society, despised by the ‘norms’ and given only the dirtiest and most dangerous jobs, hunting down the criminal scum of the universe, across countless star systems and even across time. Johnny Alpha is one such mutant, working for the Search/Destroy Agency, hunting down criminals for the Galactic Crime Commission, aided by his trusty Viking sidekick, Wulf Sternhammer.

Carl Lange

2017 • 15 min • Norway

Carl Lange lives a quiet life for himself, until one day he meets police officer Osmundsen who accuses him of raping a minor girl.

AURORA - Live in Nidarosdomen

2017 • 59 min • Norway

The Nidarosdomen in Trondheim is probably the most important church in Norway, the seat of the Norwegian metropolitans and bishops for almost 900 years and the coronation site of the Norwegian kings in historical times. In 2017, the exceptional 21-year-old Norwegian singer AURORA had the honor of giving a concert in the holy cathedral, also known as the "Heart of Norway". She performed in front of a sold-out audience together with her band and the TrondheimSolistene (ensemble/orchestra), Oslo Fagottkor (choir), Petra Bjørkhaug (organist) and Ruth Potter (harpist). This concert was recorded on November 2, 2017 and broadcast by NRK (Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation) shortly after Christmas on December 28, 2017. However, some songs that were originally played that evening were cut from the broadcast.

Constructing the Terrorist Threat: Islamophobia, The Media & The War on Terror

2017 • 57 min

Deepa Kumar, a leading scholar on Islamophobia, argues that U.S. media have turned Arabs and Muslims into the new face of terror, even though only a tiny fraction of Muslims and Arabs have ever committed a terror attack, and terror attacks by homegrown right-wing violent extremist groups have far outnumbered attacks by Muslims and Arabs since Sept. 12, 2001.

Rock ‘n’ Roller

2017 • 18 min • Russia

Sold-out stadiums, the roar of the fans, oceans of alcohol and easy-going friends... isn't that the life of a rock 'n' roller? But what's left when your friends abandon you, the fans find new idols and you find a court summons on a murder charge in your mailbox? This film tells the story of the life of the drummer for the cult Soviet band Zoopark.

The Clown

2017 • 17 min • Canada

A trained actor, the protagonist is dreaming of playing tragic heroes of the classical repertoire, but his career is going nowhere. In order to earn a living, he becomes “Coquetti the Clown” and gets hired to entertain kids at birthday parties. In the film, we see him on his way to fulfill one of his usual contracts, or so he thinks, not yet knowing that a lifechanging experience awaits him.

Older

2017 • 28 min • France

Amine is fifteen, a high school kid like any other. He has a girlfriend, Lou, and lives an ordinary life. One day, he has a bicycle accident, another one. This time, a young woman offers him a helping hand. She says his injured knee needs looking after, it's not a pretty sight. She lives nearby, so she takes him to her place. She's very relaxed with him, natural, sure of herself, happy in a world where everything seems so easy. He feels close to her, and finds her attractive. But is he attracted to her, or to this world that is so foreign to him? When he leaves, he notices that her apartment can be seen from the street, so he makes a plan to spy on her every day.

Zoltan Kaszas: Cat Jokes

2017 • 46 min • United States of America

Zoltan Kaszas performs stand-up comedy at Dry Bar Comedy in Provo, Utah.

Shallow Water

2017 • 19 min • United States of America

A group of adventurers arrive at a fabled fishing spot in Mexico only to realize that they are being hunted by a creature that lurks in the dark, shallow waters and that help will not be arriving any time soon.

Mommy Moments

2017 • 11 min

Lucy suffers through her older sister's baby shower, but she cannot comprehend the painful memories the event dredges up for her own mother.

Robbery 101

2017 • 53 min • Latvia

After another successful con, two reasonably experienced con-men - Richard and Harry, - come to a conclusion that this has become too easy and even boring and they decide to expand their horizons.

Sisak

2017 • 16 min • India

This short film follows the story of two gay men in Mumbai who meet and fall in love in regular train journeys. Burdened with the larger social (and legal) scorn the two are unable to say anything to each other.

Attack of the Tattie-Bogle

2017 • 60 min

A masked stranger attacks a group of friends at a cabin in remote Wisconsin.

Surviving Harvey: Animals After the Storm

2017 • 42 min • United States of America

Hurricane Harvey is one of the most catastrophic natural disasters in US history. Floodwaters from the storm have engulfed entire Texas cities leaving thousands of people and animals displaced and homeless. The documentary chronicles the heroic efforts of rescuers and volunteers who lend a helping hand to the animals displaced by the recent storm.

Born in Bristol: The Untold Story of the Birth of Country Music

2017 • 54 min

The birth of Country music in the true birthplace before it went to Nashville. The "hillbilly" recordings that opened the doors to birth country and rock and roll with Southern Appalachian roots with European and African marginalized and impoverished groups. These music sessions helped people survive the depression and developed rock for future American struggles, rocking the baby to the modern era.

Manila Death Squad

2017 • 13 min • United States of America, Philippines

An ambitious journalist challenges the leader of a violent vigilante group to a high-stakes drinking game that may score her a scoop or a bullet to the head.

Doppelgänger, Inc.

2017 • 14 min • Mexico

Edgar Wilson is a lonely clerk with a monotonous life. One night an advertising spot offers him to change his life but he rejects it. What he does not know is that he has been selected to be replaced by an unknown being.

Some Fleeting Romance

2017 • 17 min • Brazil

Bruno wanders through the city in search of affections he has never known.

Find You in The Crowd

2017 • 22 min • China

The younger Jing Nian and the older Lu Sheng have been playmates since they were children. After entering university, Jing Nian has been passionately chasing Lu Sheng over the years showing his true love for him. However, Lu Sheng really can't stand it and dares not face his innermost feelings. Emotions, this pair who are born with a tacit understanding, how should love speak out?