All Films

Basement Bags

2018 • 1 min

A man discovers a mess in the basement below his home.

Beyond the Noise

2018 • 38 min

Two surfers seek refuge in the vastness of the ocean, away from the deafening clamour of humankind. Unchained and dangerously close to freedom.

China Grove

2018 • 14 min

Thirteen years after her seemingly normal father goes on a killing spree, a college senior and friends return to her hometown to uncover the secret of a macabre satanic cult and what her role is in their grand scheme.

Final Call

2018 • 21 min

Mak suffered a heart attack and was rescued on the way to the hospital. God gave him one hour to complete one last wish, so he went to find Choi Yuen Ting, his crush in elementary school.

One More Piton

2018 • 54 min • France

Georges Livanos. A name that hardly evokes anything, or not much, even in the heart of Chamonix, the Mecca of mountaineering. And yet, the one nicknamed “the Greek” in the 1950s, because of his paternal ancestry, was undoubtedly one of the most important French mountaineers of his time. High mountain guide, Yann Borgnet, is also passionate about the history of mountaineering. “The Greek” is one of the “old ones” who particularly marked him. Yann wants to follow in Georges’ footsteps. So the young guide imagines an alpine journey, designed to visit the great routes opened by Livanos. A dive into the heart of an immense vertical heritage, to meet a great, almost forgotten, figure of mountaineering and his heritage.

La necesidad

2018 • 15 min • Argentina

The need to recognize one's own history, a history that is individual and collective at the same time. A look into the past with promises that come and go and an almost inevitable destiny. The portrait of the Coceramic factory in the voice of its protagonists.

Cenizas en un Lienzo

2018 • 12 min

Ginés is a very sensitive boy who loses his old father. He is an artists and his brother, Rafa, works many ours in a factory. So Gines will have a mission: to throw the ashes of his dad on the cemetery where General Franco lies and over the real Madrid stadium.

Café Pendiente

2018 • 14 min • Argentina

Locke

2018 • 4 min • United States of America

A film by Jack Adam Miceli & Hunter Rock. The film premiered at the Quiet Corner Film Festival in 2018 and received the Award for Best Cinematography.

Hola, mi nombre es Oscar Lucero i les tengo una pregunta

2018 • 36 min • Chile

A film about the poet Oscar Lucero during the year 2012 in La Legua.

Inocente

2018 • 6 min

A boy struggles due to the death a someone close to him, someone whom he hated.

Kugelmenschen

2018 • 7 min • Germany

When the clairvoyant predicts the future in her crystal ball, it is hard work for her assistants. For years they have been trapped in the fortune teller's orb and have to act out scenes from other people's future lives over and over again. But one day there is an opportunity to escape.

Post Apocalyptic Desolation

2018 • 60 min • Russia

A soldier is transported to the future through a time portal and ends up stranded in a post apocalyptic world devoid of any life, or so it seems.

Gushegu Exile

2018 • 53 min • Denmark

In the shadow of a tree Salamatu separates pebbles from the beans she has found at the local market square. Nighttime is coming and her children are hungry. Gmanun is packing 14 years of life in bags and preparing to go home and Maate is controlling the local water pump with an iron fist. In Gushegu 100 women live in exile. They have been expelled from their villages because of witchcraft accusations. As years go by, the women become old and weak, and some are allowed to return home. However, years of separations from their families makes the repatriation challenging.

Saving Union Terminal

2018 • 43 min • United States of America

The 43-minute documentary tells the story of Union Terminal from its rise as a railroad station, fall as a shopping mall and vacant "white elephant" to its reopening as the Cincinnati Museum Center and $224 million restoration.

Maze

2018 • 7 min • United States of America

Layla, a young Muslim woman, lives with her husband and their seven year old daughter. As newly arrived immigrants to the US from Egypt, they reside in New York City. Her husband, who is a conservative traditional man, dominates her. She soon begins to question this interference with her liberty, as she sees that women outside of her community have the autonomy and agency to make their own decisions on how to dress and express themselves in public.

The C-quel

2018 • 15 min

The saga continues with Omari and Calvin who awaken after a hard night of partying and dealing with the aftermath of heartbreak and loss. Sequel to "The D" (2017).

Timmy

2018 • 15 min • Bulgaria

When an alienated mother returns to Bulgaria to abduct her own 12-years-old son, she learns that it is not always easy to avoid making the same mistakes. She is determined not to leave her son again.

In The Cage

2018 • 10 min • Japan

A mother and daughter wander through the forest. The mother flees from an invisible terror, choosing to remain alone with her daughter.

Wolta

2018 • 14 min

Zuzia – 12, has been training vaulting for two years and has extraordinary role topping the acrobatic pyramid. She is «flyer» lifted by the stronger and more experienced vaulters-«base». Another intensive season begins. During training sessions it becomes apparent that the girl has lost some of her grace and lightnes. At first the coach blames the «base» but they admit that Zuzia is to big to lift her. It became clear that she is «just growing» and her role is given over to a younger girl.

Melodies of a Mute Life

2018 • 27 min • Portugal

A young adult embarks on an odyssey between the corridors of depression and negativism after the loss of a loved one.

Outpost

2018 • 34 min • Belgium

A breathtaking helicopter landing drops us smack in the middle of an isolated community of miners in snowy Barentsburg. Recently coal mining became less profitable, but the geopolitical importance of Russian presence in the Arctic archipelago cannot be underestimated. So the miners keep steering their mine carts back and forth with a stubborn determination. A dark perspective on a society which seems to have reached a terminal industrial stage, heading towards total exhaustion.

Julius Caesar Was Buried in a Pet Cemetery

2018 • 4 min • United States of America

A short documentary portrait of the greatest pet cemetery in the world.

E

2018 • 2 min • Germany

In the unearthly world of E, hand-made meets hi-tech as characters appear to consume one another with their own, trafficked likenesses. Constructing her work entirely from laser-printed film stills (approximately 770 in total) lifted from Niklaus Schilling’s 1972 horror film, Nachtschatten, Zemlianski rips, layers, and paints these images with pastels and charcoal, then scans them back together into a bracing animation set to the eponymous song (“E”) by the Berlin-based band, Comb.