All Films

Happy New Year

2018 • 9 min • Netherlands

On the last day of the year, a dispirited work-at-home phone interpreter has her moribund life turned upside down when she answers an unexpected emergency call.

No Word of Farewell

2018 • 17 min • United States of America

A schizophrenic girl on the verge of suicide encounters someone through a ham radio.

Living There Is Not Hell, It Is the Fire of the Desert. The Plenitude of Life That Stayed There Like a Tree

2018 • 58 min • Chile

The wind, the birds, the sweat, the hands, the wheelbarrow, the drought and the burial. Could it be possible to disappear in the desert? Totoral is a village that fades away behind its hills. A village that emerged and learned from the land and its animals, and from staying safe. The desert is constantly changing, the trees dry up, and they, the men, with their animals, wipe away their footsteps and their presence as time goes by.

Hi-Five the Cactus

2018 • 9 min • United States of America

A musical stop-motion short in which a devastating drought descends upon a small town in the old west. The lone cowboy resident and a motley crew of animals must rely on the sacrifice of a sentient cactus to survive... if he's willing.

Joel Creasey: Fame Whore

2018 • 59 min • Australia

Australia’s acid tongued prince of comedy, Joel Creasey, takes to the Sydney Opera House stage for a sizzling night of no-holds barred, adults-only stand up. With his unique brand of sass, Joel takes the audience on a roller-coaster ride through his celebrated “coming out”, his Twitter beef with Russell Crowe, Zumba classes with his mum, partying with Carrie Fisher and opening for Joan Rivers in New York. Joel’s journey will leave his reputation in tatters and the rest of us in stitches.

Tandem

2018 • 6 min • Canada

Húmus

2018 • 17 min

A videodance short-film of the avant-garde / experimental dance group of the same name based on the book "Húmus" (released in 1917) by Raul Brandão.

Welcome to the Strange

2018 • 60 min

Four new tales of terror: First up is "The Tattoo" in which Chip wakes up from a blackout with a hangover and a mystical tattoo on the back of his hand. His one-night stand from last night has more information, but something is amiss. Next is "The Neighbor", where a young widow is woken up with a late night call from her neighbor Ken. A light on in Renee's cottage sends her out in the storm to investigate. "Planet of the Monkeys" finds four survivors of the ape-pocalypse struggling to cope with the inherent cuteness of their simian overlords. Finally, in "Number Nine" a downtrodden security guard has taken an interest in the exploits of infamous serial killer, and struggles to stay sane as his murderous daydreaming brings him to attempt to live out his dark fantasies.

Flying Eggs

2018 • 8 min

A teenage boy takes playfulness a tad too far when he interrupts a man on his morning run by throwing eggs out the window.

Prefect

2018 • 16 min • Russia

The story of a hipster who has reached power, who has become the prefect of the fictional metropolitan area of Vostochnoe Medvedkovo. Finally, talking about tile, cycle paths and the rescue of old estates can be supported by real deeds! Or not?

The Tip

2018 • 9 min

Harold and Anders have been friends forever. But there is one little thing that they can't agree on.

Miasma, Plants, Export Paintings

2018 • 28 min

The devastating tropical climate created strong fear and anxiety in the British troops who stationed at Hong Kong after the opium wars. The 19th Century myth of Miasma, the bad air, related epidemic diseases with air, environment and race, which later helped to consolidate the vertical segregation on Hong Kong island. Acclimatization efforts were made in pace with expansion of the British Botanic Empire, a global network of scentific researches of plants, which circulated not only botanic specimens but also images created for the purpose of study. In the particular case of Canton in South China, local commercial artists were commissioned to make plant paintings. This work examines the peculiar dynamics between imperialism, scientific research, race and the right to look in 19th Century Canton.

Are You Wild Like Me?

2018 • 10 min • United States of America

A Feral Girl Finds Kinship in the Forest.

Queda D'Água

2018 • 23 min • Brazil

Lara and Elias are two brothers who return home after years. Strangers to each other, they need to perform a task given by their mother.

Wild Medicine: Animals' Superpowers

2018 • 52 min • Germany

Animals are true superheroes. They have superpowers that we humans can only dream of. Some grow back their limbs after they have lost them. Others let huge bones grow on their heads at a rapid speed. And some can go into hibernation for months without losing muscle. Their skills could help humans against Alzheimer’s, heart attack and osteoporosis. But these superpowers are still a mystery. How do animals do that? Scientists are trying to solve the riddles to help save human lives.

Red Sun

2018 • 3 min • Spain

The HADAL project, that includes SOL ROJO (Red Sun), is an immersion into the oceanic abyss.

Bimi Shu Ikaya

2018 • 52 min

Bimi became the first Huni Kuin women to organize her own village, an activity once exclusive to men. In her life's trajectory, due to her strong and determined personality, she faced a series of hardships, especially due to the hierarchy and traditions of the Huni Kuin people, an essentially patriarchal society, resulting in the organization of a new village in which she develops many roles, including that of Shaman Healer, keeper of many ancestral knowledges of the Huni Kuin people.

A Ghost In Her Eyes

2018 • 19 min

A lost soul travels through canvases, cabins and time itself to a bygone era, where he discovers the transformational power of true love.

At Midnight Plays a Dance-Tune

2018 • 30 min • Netherlands

When the Dutch filmmaker Roy Seerden’s mother dies, there’s no holding him back. Sex, drugs, roaming through the night: his life transforms into a bundle of energy, grief and detachment. At the same time, he can’t help thinking of Antoine, the strange neighbor from his youth. Antoine the non-conformist, who was eventually thrown out of his home and ended up on the street. Without putting it into words, Seerden draws an obvious parallel between Antoine and himself.

Beta

2018 • 19 min • Germany

A young woman finds herself in a cold cellar room without any recollection how she got there. Two men alone with her. Both captors try everything to get information from her. Are these men her kidnappers or is there any other reason why she is held captive?

meanwhile the waves

2018 • 17 min

In a deckchair under a beach umbrella in the middle of a traffic island, Julia sits listening to the Cranberries’ ‘Zombie’ at full volume – simply existing, in a world that seems to take little notice of her as it keeps on turning. Even her brief nervous breakdown at the hairdresser’s merely ebbs away, like waves that gather only to dissipate again. Between a Russian Orthodox mass and the beach, a search for identity unfolds.

Lament for Mankind

2018 • 5 min

A narrator discusses human nature- and the impending decline of civilisation.

Transformation Scenario

2018 • 20 min

Blockbuster movies are increasingly produced based on the use of algorithms. We have grown accustomed to watching scenes in which numerous automated charac-ters populate the screen. Animated by algorithms, they interact as an artificial crowd that appears lively and real. Simulated life originated in computer games and movies, but is meanwhile influencing many areas of the real world. In addition to urban planning and evacuation plans, market forecasts are also determined by virtual scenarios. To what extent does this impact our society and thus our life? Do we already sense a change?

And in shallow waters, then i learned not to swim but to lie

2018 • 18 min • Spain

Footage from summer of 2018 that explores the passing of time regarding the little things in life.