All Films

The Dust

2018 • 13 min • Latvia

Small dust creatures live on the bookshelf and find the world around them to be their home. One of them, a little wise Dusty, suddenly encounters a boy. Their friendship turns the boring everyday life into a great adventure...

The Thousand and One Nights

2018 • 16 min • Turkey

Kurds living in a village in eastern Turkey Seyithan (12), Arabian Nights fairy tale meets with the teacher by classmates and the school looks for a way of finding missing stories.

Osama & Ayman

2018 • 7 min

Osama and Ayman Abdeldayem are brothers, skateboarders, entrepreneurs, Americans, and Muslims. As they skate through the streets of our nation's capital, they navigate growing Islamophobia with characteristic style and humor.

Into Promenade

2018 • 4 min • United States of America

abstract short

Blind Date

2018 • 6 min

Two attractive young men are looking forward to their dates. But for one of them his date is going differently than planned.

That Thing

2018 • 12 min

Tabby is taken by surprise when her date Patrick abruptly reveals an odd bedroom quirk. She's initially put off, but over the course of this micro-farce she finds herself feeling a little ambivalent, even intrigued.

Lost Time

2018 • 8 min

Paul Wager played the drums professionally for over 40 years, performing countless gigs and sharing the stage with the likes of BB King and Isaac Scott. However, after suffering a minor stroke he discovered that he could no longer keep the beat and with that painful realisation, his professional career was over. In filmmaker Leo Pfeifer’s documentary short Lost Time, Wager reflects on a life of music which was lost and whether the term drummer still applies to him. Premiering on Directors Notes today, we spoke to Leo about bringing this intimate exploration of what happens when a drummer loses his time to screen.

Princess Ball Gown

2018 • 14 min • Turkey

Wedding rituals grounded on non-verbal social agreements represent the perception of society in general. Wedding dress is a symbolic part of these rituals. The process that a wedding dress has went through can be considered as an embodiment of the formation of women identity in society. Like most of the women, wedding dressmakers also dream of being a princess once they wear their wedding dress. On the other hand, dressmakers are certainly aware of the fact that they promote the already existing image of women in society because of their job. While they also recognise the truth is way different.

The Night That Holds You

2018 • 12 min • New Zealand

A young woman is obsessed by memories of her lover, who had vanished the previous summer.

Dzimtenīte

2018 • 28 min • Latvia

Marger is a retired provincial cantina engineer who is unpleasantly surprised by the sudden departure of his wife. Realising that he will spend the rest of his life alone, he decides to make an end of himself. However, just as he is about to extinguish his life, the Master, a magical being with fantastic powers, knocks on the door of his house.

Crop Circle

2018 • 26 min • United Kingdom

Filmed on and around the Church Road Estate in North West London, where Nines grew up, the short film is a perfect transfer of Nines’ iconic brand of music directly on to celluloid– a gritty, realistic tale filled with humour and presented in his signature, laid-back fashion.

Wicca

2018 • 8 min • United States of America

I was scrounging around the neighborhood for inspiration. Within a block from my apartment, I found a wild mushroom in the grass, and an advertisement for a psychic named Sara.

Deferral Theatre

2018 • 35 min • South Korea

Deferral Theatre (유예극장) is part of the Yeosung Gukgeuk Project (여성국극 프로젝트2008-present), through which siren eun young jung reanimates a forgotten genre of all-female Korean opera from the 1940s to 1960s. By focusing on the construction and performance of masculinity in yeosung gukgeuk, siren excavates histories of non-normative gender identities, intimacies, and sexualities in Korea. Deferral Theatre engages in the works and life stories of three contemporary artists: Nam Eun-jin (a male-role yeosung gukgeuk actor), Minhee Park (a traditional gagok performer) and drag king Azangman, provoking questions around the patriarchal invention of a “tradition” and gender norms.

Stretch

2018 • 12 min • United Kingdom

Sebastién is a gay acrobat living for the thrill of the circus. Now the oldest acrobat in the troupe, he fears each show could be his last, as an uncertain future awaits. This beautifully languid documentary catches the final leap of a long, idyllic youth.

Samaritans

2018 • 52 min • France

The Samaritans are a unique minority in the Middle East. The only holders of dual Israeli-Palestinian nationality, their population of just 780 individuals is on the brink of extinction. In the West Bank, on the heights of Nablus, Abdallah Cohen, grandson of the high priest, is searching for a new path.

Everglade

2018 • 19 min

Isolated in the remote Floridian swamp, a woman turns to dark means and the occult to help her control a mysterious creature.

Eat Up!

2018 • 21 min • Malaysia

Karina is a young waitress who dreams of making a name for herself in the competitive sport of food eating. Her appetite for success is extremely useful but unforeseen challenges prove to be more than a mouthful.

Goga Rasovic and the Pasha of Scutari

2018 • 3 min • Serbia

The plot begins in Shkodra, where the local pasha promises a great reward to the one who brings the head of the famous hero Goga Rasovic. Goga’s godfather Zef Cegu accepts a dishonorable job and sets out to kill Goga.

A Death in Mali - Requiem for Empire

2018 • 14 min • United States of America

The war in Mali is seen through a kaleidoscope that gives the whole thing an unexpected beauty and fascination. An anti-war film. A sung requiem provides the soundtrack.

De la Naturaleza del Hueso

2018 • 2 min • Mexico

Mexico 1968.

As Grandes Distâncias

2018 • 7 min • Brazil

Rise and fall movement.

Blacksmith

2018 • 15 min • United States of America

Blacksmith is a 15-minute poetic documentary that highlights the work of Rob Flurry, the resident blacksmith at the Spindletop-Gladys City Boomtown Museum in Beaumont, Texas.

Ghost Film 1

2018 • 2 min • France

"A ghostly silhouette appears on the damaged, scratched, overexposed film. Letters appear, as an attempt to picture the shortcomings that punctuate a relationship damaged by psychic illness." (the8fest)

#1915House

2018 • 55 min

A century of secrets are hidden behind the fresh paint and modern additions. Peeling back the layers is letting something escape, and he might not see it till it's too late.