All Films

Like Dolls, I'll Rise

2018 • 28 min • France

From the 1840s until the 1940s, anonymous Afro-American women made rag dolls for their own children or for the white children they were looking after. Black, injured, forgotten and magnificent dolls, gathered together over the years in Debbie Neff’s collection, here lend their moving expressive features to the women that a century of slavery, segregation and racism tried to silence. Far from being the mute witnesses of their suffering, dreams and courage, these objects haunted by so many stories become, for the length of this film, the intermediaries of a discourse of self-affirmation and liberation. From Sojourner Truth to Maya Angelou,

Fallen Class

2018 • 34 min • Canada

Kristoffer Bradley Cruz, Alexandra Walton, and Ryan Tocheri (known collectively as "ARKavity") set out to make a documentary on a wealthy man named Walter Spinher du Fauguit. Accompanying him is his butler, Ronaldo, as Walter plans to see what it feels like to be "poor" for a day.

Coach Danny

2018 • 59 min

He's foul-mouthed. He's rude. He's just a man who takes his role as a coach seriously. Danny Hopskipple will stop at nothing until the Roychester Rapiers can take things to the next level.

The Delightful Sausage - Cold Hard Cache

2018 • 58 min

Watch your soon to be new favourite double act The Delightful Sausage aka Chris Cantrill and Amy Gledhill in ‘Cold Hard Cache’, as they set about to guide those in the community who need a helping hand with modern technology. Take a tour through the darkest corners of the Internet with this unique and inventive show, packed with energetic sketches, unsettling illustrations and silly adventures.

Ganne Under New Cover

2018 • 15 min • Russia

Anatoly Ganne is sixty two years old. For thirty three years he’d been in prison. During his life Ganne followed thieves' concepts: not to have any family and home - so that there was nothing to take away. Now he is settled in Moscow, got married and has a son. But Moscow authorities are trying to take away his house.

Your Uncle Richard: Week 5

2018 • 2 min

Founded in 2014 by Katelyn Douglass and Kelly Lamanna, Your Uncle Richard is a long-distance arts collaboration that connects an ever-growing family of strangers. Structured like a game of telephone, each cycle begins with one artist who creates a prompt and passes it on to the next participant.

The Third Eye of Simon Harker

2018 • 6 min • United Kingdom

Simon Harker resident of an ancient monastery travels the astral plane upon discovering something awaken in England...But he's not alone..even in his own body.

Horrors in the Witch's House

2018 • 25 min • Russia

A convict is released from prison and is in desperate need of money. He decides to sell his aunt's house but soon discovers that she is a witch and her house contains all kinds of evil horrors.

Salió con prisa hacia la montaña

2018 • 10 min

A man climbs a mountain.

.tv

2018 • 22 min • France, United States of America, Tuvalu, New Zealand

The much sought-after, two-letter web domain suffix of the title is examined as both a form of capital and an emblem of a country on the brink of a climate-induced catastrophe in this simultaneously humorous and illuminating essay film centered on the environmentally contentious Pacific Islands of Tuvalu.

Lives: Visible

2018 • 35 min

Lesbians in a box… two thousand private snapshots hidden away for over fifty years reveal the rich history of Chicago’s working class butch/fem life in the pre-Stonewall era. Spanning four decades, from the 1930s to the early 1970s, the snapshots provide a rare look at a vanished and vibrant Lesbian culture: images of lovers and friends as they played, posed, serially switched partners, worked, partied, drank, and aged. Now we all take selfies; these women used a Brownie camera to tell the story of their community. LIVES: VISIBLE explores the ephemeral nature of culture and the power of the images we make.

The Best Policy

2018 • 12 min • United Kingdom

Charlie cannot lie to save his life... nor that of others. When his best friend takes him to a house party hosted by the most popular girl at their university, will he be able to play by the rules or will he stay true to himself?

Home of the Resistance

2018 • 49 min • Croatia

In 1974 communist authorities built the so-called ‘Memorial Home for WWII Resistance Fighters and Youth of Yugoslavia’ in Kumrovec, a tiny rural hometown of the legendary president Marshal Tito. In 1991, when Yugoslavia collapsed 11 years after Tito’s death and the Croatian War of Independence started, the Memorial Home was closed, and it remained closed until today. Several attempts to repurpose the building have failed. Still, some fighters remain...

Macron à l'Elysée, le casse du siècle

2018 • 52 min • France

How did Emmanuel Macron, initially without a political party, manage to defy the odds and pull off an unimaginable "hold-up" by winning the presidential election?

The Girl and The Picture

2018 • 39 min • China, United States of America

This is a story of loss, legacy, and the power to change the future. It's about family and the memories we leave behind, a story that began 80 years ago in 1937, when eight-year-old Xia Shuqin witnessed the murder of her family in the horror known as the Nanjing Massacre. In just six weeks, 300,000 people were slaughtered at the hands of Japanese soldiers - victims of mass rape and murder. Xia Shuqin and her 4-year-old sister hid from the soldiers for ten long days, concealing themselves under the corpses of their parents and siblings. Madame Xia, now 88, shares her legacy of loss and survival.

Up Next: WEDNESDAY CAMPANELLA

2018 • 9 min • Japan

With playful lyrics, surprising samples, and big-tent EDM production, Tokyo trio WEDNESDAY CAMPANELLA push the limits of J-pop. This documentary spotlights the group’s iconic frontwoman, KOM_I, whose daring fashion sense and magnetic stage presence have made her a sensation in Japan. It includes clips from live performances, interviews with friends and family, and rare footage from the band’s early days.

There's Always Tomorrow...

2018 • 4 min • United Kingdom

A short fillm poem depicting the inner reflections of a broody afternoon.

Letting Go

2018 • 11 min • Estonia

A layered, complex film channelling the elegant, brittle austerity that sits at the heart of what it can mean to be an orphan.

Purpose

2018 • 5 min • Australia

The willingness to pass on the power of life to the next generation is maybe the greatest purpose of all.

Haunted

2018 • 30 min • Denmark

A mother, who rarely sees her filmmaker son, suddenly encounters a ghost outside of his childhood bedroom. He pays her a long overdue visit, to explore the mystery, and contemplate why his family has drifted apart.

The Love Circus

2018 • 20 min • France, Portugal

Alberto is 40 years old and lives with his mother in an apartment complex where he works as a concierge. One day, a circus group settles near Alberto’s residence, disturbing his everyday life and awakening his forgotten desire for independence and freedom.

Mia Donna

2018 • 16 min • Ukraine

The life of forty-six-year-old Oksana changes when her husband Tolik turns into a seven-year-old boy. Doctors are powerless, and nobody can turn him back.

La Flor de La Lengua de Vaca

2018 • 23 min

Camila lives her last days in the jungle as a guerrilla of the FARC-EP at the crossroads between an uncertain future of peace and the lingering memory of a childhood severely punished. Sent to a war hospital in the middle of the jungle, Camila begins a journey into her past, to the depths of an old wound that needs to be healed. A journey that ends up leading her to an unexpected reunion with her friend Ricardo, a young guerrilla recently amputated due to a mine.

Almas

2018 • 3 min • Brazil

The poem "I do not know how many souls I have" of Fernando Pessoa, as a filter for the emotions. What I saw, lived, heard and felt for life. A work without script. The short film was made entirely from the emotions that the poem brought. A dip in the soul and in the art.