All Films

Cry Baby Blue

2018 • 8 min

A young woman goes through her recently deceased father's belongings, finding an old vinyl record and Polaroid photos that will change her life forever.

Force of Change

2018 • 15 min

In the West Yorkshire suburbs, John is confronted by his alcoholic father. At a punk gig in Leeds, the energy empowers him but encourages his father's anger to resurface.

On the Way to Tofino

2018 • 4 min • Canada

Color Super 8 film shot in Tofino, Ucluelet and Whistler, Canada. This film is part of the Journal of Drifting Hours series- Drifting moments, lyrical passages, memory impulses, landscape studies and visual notations captured on super 8 film

Pitore

2018 • 8 min • French Polynesia

Everyone knows Pitore in Moorea. Pitore is a sculptor, farmer, fisherman, canoe builder, fare builder, masseur and tattooist. He also makes medicines based on medicinal plants.

The Boy Who Wore the Sun

2018 • 15 min • Lebanon

David, a 21-year-old guy who wears a scoliosis plastic corset, hides a shameful circular scar on his stomach. one night, before one month of his skin graft surgery, he’s put in an uncomfortable skinny dipping situation with his friends at the beach. what will he do?

Mechanical Birds

2018 • 8 min • Australia

A stubborn old woman builds a mechanical bird, whilst losing her house.

Filipino tatoo Sampaguita Jay

2018 • 8 min • French Polynesia

Sampaguita Jay is one of the black and gray tattoo specialists in France. With the Mark of the Four Wawes Tribe collective, she popularized traditional Filipino tattooing, where she was originally from.

The Marvellous Defender

2018 • 50 min • Hungary

In the documentary about Olivér Halassy, the outstanding sports career of the legendary swimmer and water polo player is shown, and with the assistance of Olympic and Paralympic champions we also gain insight into the world of domestic water sports in the 20th and 21st century.

The Calm Sea

2018 • 10 min

Short Film ENERC

Senses of Time

2018 • 6 min

Senses of Time depicts the lyrical and poetic passage of time. The work focuses on defining subjective and perceptual time with close attention to stillness, decay, disappearance, and ruins.

Living With... Satan

2018 • 5 min

An interview with a young woman about her life as a Satanist with bipolar disorder. It was filmed in 2017 and edited in 2018. The video graphics were done with Cathodemer analog video synth emulator. Premiered in Pittsburgh at Blockbuster Microcinema on Jan. 28, 2018.

Turno de Noche

2018 • 11 min • Spain

An old scrapyard's guard is starting his job one night stand again. Meanwhile, a pair of thieves try to take their chance tonight, but J is always alert.

Mirror Matter

2018 • 12 min • Lithuania

Skarnulyte creates a post human mythology sharing her view of how scientific machines once probed and measured our universe. Some scenes document the LHC - largest particle accelerator in the world and the Antimatter factory. Antimatter in the form of anti-atoms is one of the most difficult materials to produce. Individual antimatter particles, however, are commonly produced by partocle accelerators.

Fedra

2018 • 25 min

Fedra recently married Theseus, a man much older than her and lives traveling on work In the meantime, she feels a strange attraction to her stepson Hippolytus, who is gay and has a relationship with Angelo. Alone at home, she approaches her beautiful stepson, Hippolytus, and cannot hide the passion that burns within her. Guilt, desire and fear run together inside her heart.

Eisnasen

2018 • 8 min

Ice sheets are being broken up, stitched back together, broken up, stitched back together - and all due to a running nose. Next to pandemics and wars, the issue of global warming has unfortunately taken a back seat. Unfortunately, the problem itself has not, it is more acute and current than ever. We hope that the film will once again draw attention to this important topic! Bo and Moco live in an icy cold world. Moco is blaming the ice for his snotty nose and starts melting it with his Bunsen Burner. At the same time Bo is trying to fix the damage with needle and yarn.

The Racial Politics of Abortion

2018 • 26 min

Acclaimed filmmaker Dawn Porter 's intimate and personal view of the often-overlooked stories of Black women who seek out reproductive services in America. This documentary gives a snapshot into the lives of Black healthcare providers, mothers and pro-choice and pro-life activists and shows how laws that restrict abortion access impact Black women and their families.

We Will Not Sell Our Future

2018 • 53 min • Greece

Dimitra and Garyfallia, two teenage girls, live in Halkidiki, which is threatened with an unprecedented environmental disaster by an open-air gold mining project. The two girls are drastically propelled into adult life. Plunged into the heart of the conflict over the mine's operation and the Greek financial crisis, they decide to fight for their future.

Conviction

2018 • 11 min

Henry is forced out of his comfort zone when his aversion to caffeine becomes a stumbling block in his day to day life.

El mercado de la inocencia

2018 • 44 min • Spain

Over the last two decades, Medellin has gone from being globally known as a drug traffic and extreme violence destination to becoming a thriving cosmopolitan city. Progress and peace have resulted in an exponential increase of tourism, but have also caused unexpected collateral damage: the rise in sex tourism in this Colombian city. Many of the illegal networks run by foreigners in the United States and Europe, offer Medellin guided tours that include underage prostitutes in their packages available for online purchase.

The Fortune

2018 • 3 min

What's better than take-out food, a good drink, and a fortune cookie that curses you for the rest of your days?

Knockout

2018 • 8 min

Ten year old Lukas acts out a bloody revenge on his bullies in this Tarantino-for-kids short film.

Blossoms in Agony

2018 • 8 min • Mexico

Jacinta lives with her mother Alma, who has now brought grandmother Soledad home, to look after her, as she's had a cerebral stroke. Jacinta lives Soledad's presence as an invasion of her intimacy, and feels jealous of the attention Alma pays to her grandma, leaving Alma more and more worn-out.

Starry Autumn Night

2018 • 7 min • Russia

Fantasy on the theme of a poem by Vladislav Krapivin.

Louis Theroux: Take My Baby

2018 • 59 min • United Kingdom

Louis heads to California, the US adoption capital, where the majority of newborn adoptions are carried out privately, creating a multimillion dollar industry. Agencies, facilitators and lawyers can earn thousands of dollars per baby.