All Films

Abuses

2017 • 13 min

Three short stories about abuses and the perversity of the human being.

Le retrait des troupes

2017 • 7 min • France

Anna’s life is well settled. She and her boyfriend Paul, a young soldier, diligently prepare for the arrival of their first child as the future father is set to leave on a mission abroad. But a few days before the departure, the French state decides to withdraw all troops, and Paul tells Anna that he will be able to stay with her the coming months. The unexpected news cause a big dilemma for her.

Mark Mammone ... Who?

2017 • 36 min • United States of America

From comedian, Mark Mammone comes his debut comedy special titled "who?". in the opening sketch of the special, and through his comedy, Mark pokes fun at the fact that he is still a little known comedian in LA struggling for the attention he so clearly deserves. Mark introduces himself to you by taking you through his life, hardships, and even offers some advice for others in similar predicaments.

The Iron Peony

2017 • 30 min • Romania, United States of America

Naïve American newlyweds find themselves stuck in a sinister hotel in a small Transylvanian town.

Tina & Sendy

2017 • 17 min • Croatia

Two girls meeting at a porn audition, getting infatuated by one another and going through a journey in one day and one night followed by one dominant male figure, whose face we never see, but who plays as the force that separates them. It is a film about friendship and a metaphor for power and dominance that gets in the way of woman who could connect more strongly otherwise. Other than carrying that message, the movie has dark humor, a flashy and at moments uncomfortable atmosphere and a distinctive East European girl aesthetic.

Acute Pain

2017 • 11 min • Ukraine

Tolik had a dream, to flip over penguins over. It didn’t go well with the Antarctic. His dream came true in the Anti-Terrorist Operation Zone. But the film is not about it. The film is about teeth.

American Psychosis

2017 • 15 min • United States of America

Pulitzer-prize winning Journalist, Author and Activist Chris Hedges, discusses modern day consumerism, totalitarian corporate power and living in a culture dominated by pervasive illusion. American Psychosis is the first short documentary in a series of films that highlight a variety of issues under the umbrella of totalitarian capitalism and totalitarian corporate power. The intent of this series is to activate US citizens to fight against the corporate powers that are privatizing basic human rights, destroying the environment and oppressing the people.

Teta

2017 • 26 min • United States of America

In Teta, Alexandra Hidalgo tells the story of her journey nursing her youngest son, Santiago, for twenty-two months. Teta uses Hidalgo’s narration and the footage shot by her husband to portray the ups and downs of nursing a baby as a working mother of two. As the film shows Santiago go from his first nursing session minutes after being born to his last as a walking and talking toddler, Teta illustrates the transcendent emotional bond created by nursing, not only between mother and child but between all members of the family.

Min egen skygge

2017 • 29 min • Denmark

Sixteen-year-old Cathrine lives with her mother, father and little sister. She has a close relationship with her little sister, who is seriously ill and forced to take medication. It is also difficult for Cathrine to go to high school. One day she discovers that a man has started following her, but she is the only one who can see him.

The Protectors

2017 • 8 min

A short VR documentary exposing the dangerous and grueling reality faced by rangers protecting African elephants from ivory poachers. Over 30,000 African elephants die each year at the hands of poachers, and despite global outcry the trafficking continues. The biggest key to saving these elephants from extinction is the rangers working on the ground within Africa's national parks.

Hunny Bunny Bank Robbery

2017 • 47 min • India

Honey and Bunny In Bank Robbery is a slapstick fun riot. It is a story of 4 best friends who come together to help their neighbor, Mr. Khanna, to retain his job by solving a bank robbery and bringing the bad guys to justice.

Seedling

2017 • 8 min • United States of America

Amidst a huge storm, a couple experience an encounter with an alien species.

After His Death

2017 • 11 min • Israel

After the death of her father, Ayelet discovers that he had an affair with a man. Ayelet confronts her mother, and discovers that she knew about it. Ayelet decides to invite her father's lover to his grave, despite her mother's opinion.

Cyborgs: Human Machines

2017 • 44 min • Germany

Over the past few years, technology has improved our lives in so many ways. Now, some people, called trans-humanists, are taking the next logical step - they are fusing their bodies with digital implants to increase their abilities and expand their senses - they are becoming, in effect, real life cyborgs. How is life going to change for us all if some people have supernatural powers?

Castigo

2017 • 13 min • Brazil

Rose, a black domestic woman, finds herself forced to take her son to work.

My Sister

2017 • 20 min • Norway

An Autobiographical film about two young sisters first memory of death and the fear of dying.

Form B16

2017 • 8 min • Macedonia

Form B16 is a film about a man who gets the smallest piece of the pie. Stuck in a bureaucratic labyrinth, he goes through a number of absurd situations, and following the already established and predetermined steps, he somehow ends up at the beginning.

A Matter of Taste

2017 • 15 min • Canada

A library clerk wrote an ambitious essay on his native Quebec, but he has a hard getting people interested in it. These difficulties force him to reassess the values ​​he cherishes.

The Green Ray

2017 • 12 min • United Kingdom

A Green Ray that never features. Instead, we sense it, seeing beyond our own eyes, beyond the hills, we sense it for an instant. We are plunged into the unknowable, beyond the horizon, beyond seeing altogether. In a single, virtuoso 11 minute take, Barley takes us from lush sunsets. to beyond the green ray, and into the gloaming, into the heavy night's darkness, where we, transfixed, can do nothing but await the impending storm.

The Knife Salesman

2017 • 11 min

In a small nook of heat-drenched coastal Australia, a traveling knife salesman, Tom, visits upon Mary, a frustrated housewife. As blades grind on stone, tensions build as Mary’s two boisterous children observe the couple playing out their all too familiar roles.

Lunch Time

2017 • 15 min • Iran

A 16 year old girl has come to the hospital to identify the body of her mother. The people in charge at the hospital - due to her young age - won't let her into the morgue. After she insists that most of her family is in jail for criminal activities, they acquiesce...

The Manual

2017 • 29 min • United States of America

In a dystopian future, the last human is raised by a machine. He struggles with the loneliness of no human interaction and questions the teachings of a mysterious religious 'Manual' which the machine claims is holy.

Geomancer

2017 • 48 min • United Kingdom

Heralded by the futuristic computer-generated cityscapes that have become a signature feature of his work, Lawrence Lek’s mini-opus Geomancer is less inclined to map the building blocks of the urban architecture of tomorrow than to try and summon up the spirit of our rapidly dawning age - one whose characteristics, Lek implies, include the growing ascendancy of the cultural phenomenon of Sino-Futurism. As the geopolitical axis tilts further to the East, and as once-dominant economic/technological models are cast into doubt, Lek alights on a longstanding tension between the place of the human and the role of the machine, sharpened by contemporary hopes and anxieties around the rise of East Asia, and by speculations that new forms of artificial intelligence, already outperforming mere mortals in matters of automation and aggregation, will challenge us in more creative skills as well. (fvu.co.uk)

What's Wrong with Mom?

2017 • 2 min • Mexico

Something is happening to mom. Her daughter starts praying for her mom's health but soon she will find out what is happening to her. This short film is one of the five winning short films which were made for “My Annabelle Creation" competition as a promotion for the film Annabelle: Creation.