All Films

Ordinal (SW/NE)

2017 • 43 min

The film traces the cultural and environmental influences of a soil-dwelling, pathogenic fungus, Coccidioides immitis, and its associated disease, valley fever, in California's Central Valley. Interweaving past, present and mythological time, the film draws upon historical and cultural references, including the plight of migrants during the Depression, the spread of the disease in recent years, contemporary theories of climate change, and the significance of the desert wind in ancient Assyria. In Ruperto and Keagy’s film, natural phenomena remain neutral, fleeing from any kind of judgment and avoiding binary oppositions of positive and negative, destruction and regeneration, life and death.

Like a Fish out of the Water

2017 • 15 min

Woojin, a 25-year-old Korean student tries to adjust to a new city where he doesn’t speak the language. Confusion, despair and bad breath makes him face his mental barriers and open himself to a different culture.

Fantasia de Índio

2017 • 18 min • Brazil

Since I was a child, I heard my mother speaking about my indigenous ancestry. Two decades ago my maternal uncle went to meet the Xukurus looking for traces of our past. I decided to continue this search.

Running Lights

2017 • 11 min • Finland, India, Lithuania

This is a story about the eternal miracle of life and death. The unfortunate death of a wild hare turns into a remarkable experience for children who find his body and bury it in a sand box. Now buried, the hare’s life fades away and dozens of magical creatures that lived inside him leave his body in search for a new home. The hare’s life ends by merging with nature, but is reborn in the plants and animals around it. This fairy-tale for children encourages us to think about what death is.

The Unconquered

2017 • 5 min

The Institute of National Remembrance, Fish Ladder and Juice present “The Unconquered” – an animated film that shows the fight of Poles for freedom, from the first day of World War II to the fall of communism in 1989.

Goodbye, America!

2017 • 12 min • Russia

A young Cuban of Russian origin Ivan returns to his historical homeland and immediately becomes involved in a cycle of events that put him in front of a serious choice.

Anoche

2017 • 8 min • France, Italy, United Kingdom

Three memories that become one. An attempt to merge heterogeneous materials: a film sequence shot in Rome, a photo from the 1930s, a noisy soundtrack. Fragmented lines, exploding bass frequencies and flickering.

Iphigenias Night

2017 • 25 min • Taiwan

Driving home from the airport, Jie was forced by a policeman onto a different path, where he ran into a stranger. In a white uniform and ancient Greek mask, the stranger carries a message ..

Clean Sweep

2017 • 6 min • United States of America

Two hitmen, Ray and Mick, are ordered to kill a man who has wronged their boss. The pair soon find out that the man they are after is more than he appears to be.

Vinyl

2017 • 12 min • Brazil

Stefan has a troubled childhood living with his father and in his mother figure he finds an escape from his nightmares.

Dauga Spirit

2017 • 17 min • Latvia

Pioneers of the Latvian psytrance movement from the viewpoint of a very suspicious alien.

Videotape

2017 • 19 min • Italy

Suburbs of Rome (Italy), Summer of 1993. On top of a wide valley, a group of four kids has built a small shelter in which they spend the afternoons after schooltime. On one of those summer afternoons, the kids take their bikes and go for a journey through the paths of Tolfa and Allumiere. Suddenly, they discover a beautiful medieval farmstead. They don't know it yet, but what they'll find in it will change their lives forever.

Ashleigh

2017 • 4 min • United Kingdom

A moving portrait of one woman’s struggle to pursue her life-long passion of becoming a dancer. Born with cerebral palsy, and told as a child that she would never be able to study or work in the mainstream, Ashleigh refused to take ‘no’ for an answer and today is an inspiration to others.

Rhythm of Being

2017 • 7 min • Switzerland, United Kingdom

For an instant, I am. The light touches me gently and I live, burst and shine. This constant, irreversible, rhythmic drift from being to not. Only the memories left. Escaping desires. The love and the pain. I only have an instant of life. So please. This film is an ode to the rhythm of being.

Scar Tissue

2017 • 15 min • Netherlands

A casual hookup takes an intimate turn when Sami, a Syrian refugee from Damascus, meets Johan. In the course of a night in Amsterdam, the two men will confront some truths, and unsettling secrets, about the very different worlds they come from.

Suffer the Little Children

2017 • 30 min • Russia

A strict elderly teacher suddenly begins to seem (or not to appear?) That the students in her class are no longer children, but terrible monsters, pursuing their mysterious goals.

See You on the Other Side Dear Friend

2017 • 28 min • United States of America

Short documentary about Twin Peaks: The Return.

The Night-Time Winds

2017 • 45 min • United States of America

A psychological thriller. Estranged sisters reunite. In Glorious Black and White.

Overwatch Animated Short "Rise and Shine"

2017 • 10 min

Mei wakes up years from a Deep Freeze Sleep to find that Overwatch has been disbanded, the world is completely different than the one she use to know. Mei is the last surviving scientist at Ecopoint: Antarctica. With limited resources and time, Mei must use science to figure out a way to get help to Survive.

Elja - 376 A.D.

2017 • 30 min • Germany

The summer of 376 AD. The Gothic female warrior Elja is forced to give in to the marauding Huns and to seek shelter for herself and her clan in the Roman empire. Once at the border they must wait for orders and provisions from the Roman authorities. Elja tries to understand the Roman plans in spite of the language barrier.

The Everlasting Man

2017 • 15 min • Portugal

Bernardino Fernandes emigrated to Canada in the sixties. Over two decades he filmed hundreds of Super 8 reels, organizing them methodically and obsessively. The Everlasting Man ends an old process, transforming Bernardino's urge of cinema into a film about the images of his memory.

Coup de Grâce

2017 • 26 min • Portugal

A man, Francisco, works in an open-pit mine. He goes to see his boss about taking the following day off. At first the boss doesn’t want to allow it as there is so much to do, but he finally concedes. The next day his daughter calls on him, a visit he no longer counted on. They spend the day with one another. The longer they are together, and the later the night gets, the more absurd the situations and moments they experience become.

Made by Hand

2017 • 14 min

Fernando cannot forget Sofía. She left some time ago and still the littlest things remind him of her. When he meets Liz, he starts to manipulate his own memories so that he can move on, but his own mind has created a strange being that will stand in his way.

Gijs

2017 • 55 min

Soldier of Orange, Goede Tijden Slechte Tijden, Havinck, Paul Verhoeven, Frans Weisz, Joop van den Ende and Barbra Streisand. There's one man who connects this all: Gijs Versluys. The documentary 'Gijs' focusses on his career and everything he has meant for Dutch film and television from the 60's up until the late 90's. Through personal stories from his inner circle, including famous film directors Paul Verhoeven and Frans Weisz, we are given a look into the life of film of this man. With every film and project, we get to know him better: who Gijs was and what he has done for the film and his surroundings. His unique way of producing makes that he was able to accomplish so many great things. It is a personal approach of an important period in Dutch film and TV. By highlighting the life of Gijs Versluys, we find out how much he has meant for the careers of many.