All Films

l'avenir? de F.v.G.?

2018 • 4 min • Austria

A pan along a gallery of large washing machines in a laundromat. Two women speak sign language and a third feeds coins into the machine. Language is made visible. Language is a craft and serves to interpret what is and what might perhaps be. A silent film from a mythical universe, a realm of women who ask questions and patiently and ironically question everything.

Never Never Land

2018 • 9 min

Never Never Land is about our obsession with physical perfection, domination, and wanting to control everything – not only being the perfect human, but also creating him. Chance is replaced by choice.

The Island

2018 • 58 min • Germany, Spain

They were born and raised on a small island amidst a vast natural landscape - four sisters who now live in cities. Their parents have left Germany to raise their children far from consumerism and external control. On a visit back to the island, the sisters bring along some of the pace and concerns of our world today.

Videotape

2018 • 23 min

Carolina and Elsa, two friends of 10 and 13 years old who live in the same housing unit, enjoy a childhood full of mischief, video recordings and pop music in the nineties.

Substitute

2018 • 6 min • Canada

A question of daffodils, or representation as substitution, or substitution as representation: a film haunted by what remains unsaid and unseen

Nou Voix

2018 • 15 min • France, French Guiana

Nou Voix is an autobiographical video departing from the participation of Maxime’s father, as a Guyanese figurant in the movie Jean Galmot aventurier (1990), which deals with the history of French Guiana. By re-enacting a part of the film, Maxime and his father try to amplify other kinds of voices.

Cease & Desist

2018 • 3 min • Canada

A freelance graphic designer encounters a rare type of crickets.

Khuruf

2018 • 13 min • Spain

A road movie starring a Muslim family, a checkpoint and a flock of sheep.

Narration of Your Death

2018 • 10 min

Inspired by a poem written by the Mexican writer Denisse Taborn, a man describes in a very detailed and poetic manner how he would kill his ex lover, he exposes his motifs and methods, however there is one absolute reason why he cannot do it.

A Year Along the Geostationary Orbit

2018 • 16 min • Germany

A year through the distant eyes of meteorological satellite Himawari-8 – a hypnotic stream of Earth's beauty, fragility and disasters. Animation of satellite irradiation scan measurements, scientific data by meteorological satellite Himawari-8 courtesy of JMA/BoM/NCI

Unicorn

2018 • 13 min

A single father deals with the balance of raising his daughter and navigating his newly out gay dating life.

One Last Time

2018 • 24 min

A couple are going through a rough patch and sex becomes a lens through which we can explore and reflect on the delicate dynamics of a conscious relationship.

Bang Bang!

2018 • 1 min • Canada

Two girls sick of the daily grind thieve their way to riches. The duo strikes big, but will they bite more than they can chew?

Night Train

2018 • 3 min • United States of America

Two people go out in their car at night and are faced with an experience personal to themselves.

One of Many

2018 • 6 min • Croatia

I was one of many. I was one of everyone. And many were me. Croation animator Petra Zlonoga, who charmed us with the wonderful Dota (LIFF 2017), has created another disarmingly elegant Animator. A soulful journey of self-discovery, with a graceful and elemental spirit of creation, her new film is a twinkling, cosmological study, teeming with life and delicacy.

Cruciatu

2018 • 18 min • Brazil

In a lost corner of the world, just another village isolated from all the recurring rumors of any era. The trees take over leaving the loneliness evidenced as the darkness likes and appreciates.

The Black Virgin

2018 • 18 min • Colombia

Belisario's wife is very sick, a healer comes to meet her and gives him the mission to climb the Andes mountains to bring back an object buried in the snow to try to save her.

Papa-Figo

2018 • 16 min • Brazil

A child's play turns out to be a nightmare when they set out to challenge an urban legend.

Petit A

2018 • 31 min • Denmark

Anna arrives in Paris to visit her pregnant friend Caroline, who is having a birthday. Over the past five years, Anna has struggled to conceive, but has recently been told that it is pointless to continue fertility treatments due to her disease endometriosis. She's having a hard time hiding her jealousy over Caroline's pregnancy, and the gap between the girlfriends is growing.

Jérôme Noetinger

2018 • 12 min • Italy

Solo in front of the camera, the musician/improviser Jérôme Noetinger plays his reel to reel tape recorder, he manipulates a complex sonic organism through the power of recording and playback – using microphonic captures, electromagnetic static, and random radio.

The Frog and the Girl

2018 • 18 min • Portugal

Adaptation by the director Inês Oliveira from the traditional Portuguese tale «O Sapo e a Rapariga». The laundry room is closed and a young woman (Rita Cabaço) has to learn how to wash clothes by hand with the wise Deolinda (Isabel Ruth), who tells her a strange story of enchantment.

The Secret of the Closed House

2018 • 30 min • Portugal

On the riverside quay of the enormous container port of Lisbon two old decaying sky-blue painted buildings are located directly opposite to each other. One is closed and abandoned, the other inhabited by the two bright and inquisitive girls Ana and Matilde. Watching the closed building every single day and night the sisters get more and more suspicious. Strange phenomenons and movements behind the thick blue walls increase their curiosity. How is possible what their children`s eyes are witnessing? Who are those mysterious neighbours? How to discover old house`s secret?

I you me we us

2018 • 17 min • United Kingdom

I you me we is a double monitor work which portrays particular visual representations of warmth, care, kinship and growth. It features the hands of lovers and family members, interspersed with texts, words, language and questions posed by the artist.

Daemonia Neurofunk

2018 • 20 min

Surreal short film about Satan's children trying to cope in dystopian Finland.