All Films

Solo: A Portrait of Angela Hewitt

2018 • 4 min

One of the world’s leading pianists and foremost interpreters of Bach’s music, Angela Hewitt appears in recital and with major orchestras throughout Europe, the Americas and Asia.

Sanctuary Hills

2018 • 24 min • United States of America

Sanctuary Hills is a 24-minute animated machinima drama created using Fallout 4 and Blender. Set during the final hours of the Sino-American War, the film follows the Washingtons, the only Black family in a gated community, who are denied access to the nuclear vault they paid for due to government-enforced racial discrimination. As the bombs fall, they are left to die—only to survive through a horrific mutation caused by radiation. Transformed and enraged, the Washingtons return to claim vengeance on the community that betrayed them.

He Came Home

2018 • 8 min

The Shape returns to Haddonfield and stalks a woman through Halloween.

Ciao, Isabella

2018 • 5 min • United States of America

A young woman enjoys her newfound freedom.

Exciter!! 2018

2018 • 60 min

A revival of a popular revue — this Flower Troupe performance garnered very favorable reviews in 2009 and 2010, and also ran as a national tour in 2017.

Ub-13

2018 • 12 min

Following a misjudgement by its ambitious young captain, a German WWI U-boat is forced to wait for a prolonged period on the bottom of the North Sea, facing the threat of enemy torpedo ships. This causes unprecedented physical and mental challenges for captain and crew.

Milestone

2018 • 13 min

Aviv is an aggressive boy from a normal family. During another family trip - in one moment of sibling violence Aviv first understands the consequences of his violence. The film was shot in the actual places the real events took place.

The day we stopped bullying

2018 • 4 min • New Zealand

This film is one that goes back in time, literally! two bullied boys come to a mysterious stranger to buy a time machine to fix their bully, what happens next?

Tom Cat

2018 • 8 min • United States of America

It's hard to find your place in the world, especially for Tom, who identifies as a cat. As he works to become more comfortable in his own fur, can Tom find acceptance in his everyday life?

Tuesday Evening in Jianye

2018 • 5 min • China

Audiovisual views of Jianye in Nanjing, China

Landscape Tempos 17-24

2018 • 19 min • China, Japan, France, Canada, United States of America

Landscape Tempos are audiovisual views (scenes, occurrences) that reflect the rhythm and tempo of isolated moments in urban and rural landscapes. This edition includes tempos shot in China, Japan, France, Canada, and the United States.

Forgotten Landscape

2018 • 4 min

Exploration of a landscape through the emulsion of expired Agfachrome film stock.

The Great Ride

2018 • 6 min

An inspirational Short Film about the power of passion and dedication for something you love. How sport can be the engine of our daily living.

Sand on the Floor

2018 • 56 min • US Virgin Islands

Sand on the Floor uses the living history of the oldest Synagogue in continuous use under the US flag, as a vehicle to take you deep inside the Jewish heart and Jewish mind. Historians, rabbis and congregants take us through time, from the Congregation's Spanish Inquisition roots, through its American Reform present to its uncertain future. The film gives us an intimate look at Jewish life, shedding light on its traditions, rituals and mysteries. And in the process, it pries at the cracks dividing the Jewish world today.

Over Zij, de Overzijde

2018 • 10 min

Short documentary on the South of Rotterdam

Love Me, Fear Me

2018 • 7 min • Germany

'What would you be willing to do for them to love you? '

NoirBlue

2018 • 27 min • Brazil, France

NOIRBLUE opens space to fiction and an atlantic navigation of some peripheral bodies. This exercise interrogates presence, absence, speeches and time to produce an extemporary dance aligned to two specific colors: the blackness of the skin and the ultramarine blue pigment.

Cat Days

2018 • 11 min • Germany, Japan

Jiro, a little boy, feels sick. His father takes him to the doctor. She diagnoses a harmless condition, but it shakes the core of the boy's identity.

Animal Within

2018 • 12 min • Peru

Humans, Animals, Earth, Wind and Water, converge with the same energy of a filmic fire, which crosses and relates them. By the appropriation of educational images of 16 mm films, which in the past were used to educate us, Animal Within evokes a poetic collision between images of the human and the animal.

La Ceri-se

2018 • 13 min

Ryan, a female fashion photographer who is struggling with how society continues to view, label, and restrain her inside of the "straight vulnerable girl" box. Ryan's journey is a visual illustration of the importance of self-love and acceptance.

Afterimages

2018 • 15 min

"Afterimages" is a short story about one plate from the archive of Ryszard Kisiel, the creator of "Filo" - one of the first gay zines in Central and Eastern Europe. The evoked negative from the end of the ‘80s is the starting point for both Kisiel's personal history and the portrait of the gay scene of the late PRL.

Why Do You Kill Them?

2018 • 12 min

After 50 years, a former soldier returns to Tlatelolco square, where he participated in the massacre of dozens of students.

Like Every Morning

2018 • 17 min

Like every morning... An ordinary day starts, punctuated by the automatisms of a man worn by his peers. His only happiness: a morbid passion that should be, like every time, a mere formality. But afteer this day, nothing more will be as before..

My Gossip

2018 • 15 min

Incorporating live-action stop-motion and digital animation, this personal documentary colorfully explores the radical importance of women's close friendships by examining the filmmaker's relationship with her own best friend, and how women's close friendships were historically weaponized against them.