All Films

On Girls

2017 • 15 min • Canada

Melissa, 19, calls her boyfriend from a small public rest room, leaving two frantic messages, begging him to meet her there. She walks into an abortion clinic waiting room. Looking at the stricken faces of other women waiting, she must consider whether to stay or run.

Gut Hack

2017 • 16 min

A bio-hacker seeks to cure himself by swapping his microbiome with a donor's, a controversial and dangerous technique.

Wonderland

2017 • 14 min

A young girl struggles to fix her family while stranded in Vegas over Christmas.

Tenderness

2017 • 6 min

Music by Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, 16mm color film by Paul Clipson.

We Always Find Ourselves in the Sea

2017 • 21 min • United Kingdom, Canada

A windswept ghost story set on England's southeastern coast.

The Melancholy Man

2017 • 5 min

The Melancholy Man tells the story of the world’s saddest man who meets the world’s saddest woman. Through a fantastical lens, these characters come together in their harmonious misery and find something that surprises them both.

Lost and Found: An Athenian Story

2017 • 25 min • Greece

The story follows Ero, a former police woman, who works currently as a private investigator. An old man, Elias, will pay her a visit and assign to her to find his long lost daughter and give her a special box.

May I Cosplay?

2017 • 13 min • Thailand

Growing up under the pressure as a witness in the parents' fights, May is doing something to piss her parents off, hoping that they can digress their hatreds on to her instead.

Thar: India's Great Desert

2017 • 45 min • India

Revealed, Thar takes the viewer through the vast arid and semi arid regions spread across the west of India. The documentary reveals how this land called the Thar is much more than an inhospitable desert.

blasFêmea

2017 • 10 min • Brazil

An audiovisual experiment showing female power in its various possibilities. It evolves through three narrative moments: the prologue, the central narrative, and the epilogue. The first materializes and at the same time rebels against the cultural construction of the "cult of the Phallus". In the second moment, we can see the formation of a network of protection and mutual help among women, exalting their bodies and their powers. And the last moment is practically a making off, with real scenes of all the women in the cast recording the video.

Muerte Súbita

2017 • 15 min

A young couple lost their baby by apparent sudden death

Baku Diaries

2017 • 20 min

First short film of the trilogy.

Study of Sergio Canavero

2017 • 7 min • Mexico

A reporter investigating the story of Sergio Canavero, the elusive neurosurgeon who claims it's possible to do a full body transplant, talks to Elisa, Canavero's former lover. A work of fiction loosely inspired by the real Sergio Canavero.

Harry Styles: Live in Manchester

2017 • 56 min • United Kingdom

Harry Styles performs new tracks from his number one debut album as a solo artist, alongside covers of classic songs. He's accompanied by his band and performs in front of a live studio audience.

Flores

2017 • 26 min • Portugal

In a natural crisis scenario, the entire population of Azores is forced to evict due to an uncontrolled plague of hydrangeas, a common flower in these islands. Two young soldiers, bound to the beauty of the landscape, guide us to the stories of sadness of those forced to leave and the inherent desire to resist by inhabiting the islands. The filmic wandering becomes a nostalgic and political reflection on territorial belonging and identity, and the roles we assume in the places we came from.

The Power

2017 • 14 min • United States of America

The Power is changing lives. You will consume The Power. Media messiahs will righteously annihilate fear and discomfort.

Still Water Runs Deep

2017 • 16 min • Nigeria, United States of America

A father must withstand his emotions and preserve his pride when his estranged son mysteriously disappears.

Zane's Stand-Up Promo

2017 • 2 min • United States of America, Denmark

A promotional short for a fictional stand-up special.

Mafia and Italy: A Bloody Pact

2017 • 55 min

In 1992, the anti-Mafia magistrates Falcone and Borsellino were murdered in Palermo, the capital of Sicily. For a long time, the public believed in a story of revenge. Today, a lawsuit is challenging this hypothesis. With exclusive testimonies from judges, politicians, and witnesses under protection, this film reveals several decades of incestuous links between the State and the Mafia.

Speed

2017 • 1 min • France

Two would-be thieves bumble their way through a corner store robbery gone very, very wrong.

Faces of Union Hidalgo

2017 • 21 min • Mexico

In Unión Hidalgo, Oaxaca, México, there is a group of people who pay homage to living characters in the community through urban murals, generating an identity that is reflected on the walls of traditional houses.

Turn

2017 • 7 min

Be careful who you rent from. The wrong choice could be your last.

My Teacher Is a Thug

2017 • 45 min • Singapore

Jia Tianxiong (Li Nanxing) is a gambler and addicted to drinking. He was asked to do a mission to spy on someone and disguised himself as a teacher in SCP school. He met Zeng Kaixin (Bonnie Loo), a teacher in the school. But, on Kaixin's birthday, her foster father told her that he is not her biological father. Kaixin was devastated and felt angry with her biological father for not reuniting with her and her mother who had passed away. Will Kaixin ever find her biological father?

The Weight of Honor

2017 • 56 min

Filmed over five years, THE WEIGHT OF HONOR follows the lives of the caregivers of veterans who have been catastrophically wounded in America's longest war. Their lives are transformed overnight to 24/7 caregivers tasked with caring for their war-wounded. The film reveals the family dynamic, their relationships before the wounds of war, and now, the uncertainties that lie ahead.