All Films

Running 62

2018 • 15 min • Australia

Zibeon Fielding, Aboriginal TSI man and long distance runner is preparing to run a crazy 62 kilometres. Driven by passion to help those he loves, Zibeon will run further than he ever has before in the heart of Australian desert.

Fags

2018 • 5 min • Belgium

An exploration into manhood. Forms with flashy colors attract, repel and influence themselves as they grow up.

Gems

2018 • 12 min • United States of America

"as work in progress: treasures found in the streams around me."

Impermeável Pavio Curto

2018 • 20 min • Brazil

Jacqueline has what some people would call a strong personality. The teenage girl lives with her aunt and faces some problems at school. Her daily company is a bicycle with which she wanders through the neighborhood. One day, Jacqueline and her aunt hit the road, but things don’t go as expected

Morbid Obese

2018 • 15 min • Brazil

Diego is an actor who was obese and emaciated 43 pounds in 2 years. He must deal with the insecurities and possibilities that this new body represents.

Ruin

2018 • 13 min

In a post-apocalyptic world, Mark is left with only one purpose: revenge.

Camera Obscura

2018 • 30 min • Serbia

After a war, a poet isolates himself in an abandoned village. He is trying to endure in reality by fighting the traumas from the past.

Caterpillarplasty

2018 • 5 min • Canada

Amidst a grotesque but slickly animated menagerie of extreme plastic surgery, a man demands an operation that will realize his inner butterfly.

Detour

2018 • 10 min • Germany, Hong Kong

As Hong Kong increasingly loses its sovereignty under China’s control, Momo leaves home for Berlin, hoping to finally breathe the air of freedom. But life doesn’t look like what he imagined—instead of advancing his fashion career or finding love, he ends up working and living in a Chinese supermarket. Momo soon finds himself straying even further, going on an uncanny journey with other outcasts in the city of Berlin.

Notes on the Shore

2018 • 14 min • Cuba

This film about the life of Cubans without a roof over their heads shows how they go about their everyday activities: preparing food, discussing politics, singing songs, reading old texts by Fidel Castro, and sleeping off a hangover. Fourteen minutes of detailed observation of people overlooked by others.

Godfather III

2018 • 2 min • United States of America

A short film by Maria Lassnig, shot in 1974.

Aya

2018 • 60 min • South Africa

After meeting a man online, Aya is kidnapped by human traffickers.

The Bethroted

2018 • 22 min

An advertising executive, engaged to be married, is convinced he's being stalked by a succubus, but is afraid to tell his fiancée for fear of being labeled insane. But are his experiences real or just wild dreams stemming from the prescription drugs he's pushing?

I Did Not Forget You

2018 • 45 min • Russia

The story of the short but brilliant life of Ergasha Khamraeva, actor and playwright of the Soviet cinema who laid the foundations of the new art in Uzbekistan. The film is dedicated to those who fell during the Great Patriotic War.

Topo y Wera

2018 • 49 min

A young couple of deported Mexicans gets by in Tijuana between resourcefulness and petty theft. The little they earn goes into drugs and slot machines. She was raised in Los Angeles and he spent his life in gangs, which left him with a bullet wound in the head that sometimes affects his memory. But all the wounds, the drugs and the gambling cannot help them forget that at one time they were a real family with a child they loved tenderly, until the day the Tijuana authorities took her away. Time goes by and Wera’s love for Topo becomes nothing but a bitter memory that accompanies her in her descent to hell.

The Interrogation

2018 • 18 min

The Interrogation is a video constructed entirely from still film photography and photo shop collage – playing out as a photomontage along with a voiceover. The work is two narratives intertwined. One comes from an audio recording of the artist interviewing a local officer from the Commission for Discipline Inspection. The other narrative is a short story written by the artist and inspired by Ingmar Bergman’s movie Persona (1966).

O Grande Amor de um Lobo

2018 • 13 min • Brazil

In the quest for true love, a young man makes reality his own film.

Tasmanian Ghost Town Project: A Diary of Lost Memories

2018 • 57 min

A Documentary series about Tasmanian Ghost Towns, exploring forgotten communities frozen in time.

Nazirite

2018 • 60 min • Russia

Alexander, a spiritual guru, treats life as a ongoing practice: he leads developmental trainings,specializes on Tensegrity, and being a life coach is eager to help his own daughter to deal with her illness - bouts of depression. He takes her to the sea. As the drama unfolds,we observe,how the world around Alexander begins to oppose his inner practice. Everything around him lives in compliance with a unfathomable law. He is infected with something subtle,something of tremendously erotic nature. Alexander has to make an inner choice: make an act of transgression to find his way out of sensual chaos and find himself. Even if the choice has to be painful. The goal of the film is to explore human nature, which often finds itself on the verge between spiritual-religious and sensual entity.

Fear & Loathing

2018 • 3 min • United States of America

Paul finally decides to confront his fears one morning.

Heroes Of The Zer00s - Episode 5

2018 • 56 min • Netherlands

Tracklist: Eminem – Without Me Kelis – Milkshake The Black Eyed Peas – Shut Up Robbie Williams – Sin Sin Sin Snoop Dogg ft. Charlie Wilson & Justin Timberlake – Signs Janet Jackson – All For You Alphabeat – The Spell Fergie – Big Girls Don’t Cry more http://philizz.nl/heroes-of-the-00s/episode-5

Invaders

2018 • 14 min • United Kingdom

On Christmas Eve, a small UFO struggling to find his place in the universe follows his two mischievous friend's down to earth, whilst trying to impress and gain their acceptance he inadvertently changes Christmas forever.

Tiger Oak + Echo

2018 • 20 min • Lithuania, United States of America

When Echo, who longs for his older brother's approval, is allowed to join a risky ambush against the Soviet forces, he makes a mistake that costs him everything.

Tamar

2018 • 14 min • Germany, Israel

Tamar, a 33-year-old Tel Aviv comics artist, watches passersby, listens to their conversations and translates her impressions into comics with an ironic expression. She peels off the mask from a society, in the eye of the storm, that claims to be liberal and in which everyone has an opinion about everything. Secure between her four walls, she touches the darkest spots of her life- a bomb attack, a failed marriage, coping with depression. A young, modern woman in today's Israel.