All Films

Aunty Donna: New Show

2018 • 58 min • Australia

A cheeky taping of Aunty Donna's singular award winning "New Show". Filmed at the famous Enmore Theater in Sydney, and featuring all three of the Aunty Donna boys, "New Show" is legally a 'comedy'.

Soy un ser cuyas raíces // I am a being whose roots

2018 • 12 min • Canada

Soy un ser cuyas raíces // I am a being whose roots reworks Jacques Madvo’s Countries & People: Venezuela to explore labour and migration. Taking the final words of the film’s voice-over as a starting point, Soy un ser cuyas raíces // I am a being whose roots pairs Madvo’s film footage with a text-based conversation with young Venezuelan literature scholar and language teacher Angel Said Dominguez Pinto. Dominguez Pinto relocated to Panama in 2014 to make a living teaching English, Spanish and German in Panama City after Venezuela’s economic collapse. Over e-mail, we co-authored a conversational text, exploring migration, labour, exile, and hemispheric relationships.

Midnight Screening

2018 • 5 min • Netherlands

A misty midnight. Music plays in one house, in the other, a man brushes his teeth. More and more sounds are heard yet the darkness hardly reveals where it's all coming from. It's midnight. Isn't anybody asleep?

Another Life

2018 • 15 min

The Labyrinth

2018 • 20 min • Colombia, France, United States of America

A voyage into the labyrinthic memories of a Uitoto man, who worked for the drug Lords in the Colombian Amazon back in the 80s. Following his path between the forest and the ruin of a Narco´s mansion imitating the Carrington mansion in the soap opera Dynasty, the film unfolds the hallucinatory account of a near-death experience.

Long Distance Train

2018 • 5 min • United States of America

A living person and a ghost balance their long distance relationship.

Maw

2018 • 18 min • Belgium

Richard has an unusual fantasy: he gets sexually aroused by the idea of being devoured by an animal. In a contact add he gets to know Max and with that encounter the chance of making his fantasy real. But does he dare?

Number 12 Looks Just Like You

2018 • 13 min • United States of America

A nagging feeling leads to a late-night walk and a conversation between two women about the Twilight Zone and marriage.

Scissors and the Cat

2018 • 18 min

The cat has disappeared in a night of torrential rain; they say if you point a pair of scissors to your doorstep and silently call the cat’s name, a mysterious force will lead your cat back. Half a world away, I silently call my cat’s name, and my memories take me across the waters of the underworld, as things I have lost in the past now stand before my eyes. As the scissors slice time open, can the cat find its way home?

Hugs?

2018 • 3 min • Australia

How come nobody wants a hug from the bear?

San Juan River

2018 • 13 min • Mexico

In the river San Juan were found the bone fragments of Alexander Mora Venancio and Jhosivani Guerrero de la Cruz, two of the 43 missing students from Ayotzinapa. The official version said that the river San Juan was the last place where the remains were seeded. This is the experience of a river that carries their names, a river that cries and overflows the streets.

Egg

2018 • 11 min • Denmark, France

A woman is locked in her home with an egg, which she is both attracted to and scared of. She eats the egg, she repents. She kills it. She lets the egg die of hunger. EGG is a poetic short film based on a small yet significant moment of the director’s own life. It portrays a moment of shame, defeat and yet of victory.

Sword of the Dead

2018 • 8 min

upon returning home from exile a ronin finds the island he once knew plagued by a dark curse and overrun with zombies.

In Trance We Gaze

2018 • 20 min • Taiwan

Under constant regimes of discipline and incorporation, rituals, faiths, bodies, and the position of man and god all trend towards uprootedness, where we lose our links to the land and to others. Time is dissected into ever more infinitesimal parts. Those who could not keep up now appear within the gaze of a stopped frame. Regardless of man or god, all destruction and rebirth meet at this point in search of a safe corner.

4032 soluppgångar

2018 • 28 min • Sweden

A sci-fi film set in 2156 on the Jupiter moon of Ganymede. Tariq and his son Lailuma have just landed and are waiting for Sanaz, who has been left on Earth. One day they see an explosion in the sky, then radio contact with Earth is lost.

Stations

2018 • 23 min • France

The Alps in winter. Men and machines perform a strange ballet to shape the mountain. The terrain resists and blurs the boundaries between real and imaginary.

3 Anos Depois

2018 • 13 min • Portugal

A woman returns. Now that the night has fallen, a storm approaches.

Come & Take It

2018 • 25 min • United States of America

"Come & Take It" captures the transformation of a young woman to leadership of America’s most irreverent anti-gun violence movement called #CocksNotGlocks. After concealed carry of handguns is legalized on the University of Texas campus, Jessica Jin posts clever humor on social media and with the help of a tight-knit group of young female students, a movement is born: The Great Texas Dildo Revolt.

Black Stone Cherry - Rock Am Ring 2018

2018 • 42 min

Blame It on the Boom Boom White Trash Millionaire Lonely Train Burnin’ Stir It Up Me and Mary Jane In My Blood Foxy Lady Cheaper to Drink Alone Family Tree

Standing at Dawn

2018 • 14 min

"A short film exploring the tolerance of youth. Set in the Ukraine during World War II."

White Lilacs

2018 • 6 min • United Kingdom

Flowers, family, and friends.

Ladder to You

2018 • 4 min • United Kingdom

Inspired by the loneliness experienced by older people in our society, Ladder to You is an insight into the life of Eric, an old man dealing with the loss of his wife. We follow Eric’s day-to-day life and become immersed in the solitude he is trying to overcome. Through his feelings and memories of better times we get to see what it’s like for the thousands of old people who live every day without any human contact. Ending with a message that love can beat despair, Ladder to You can also hopefully inspire people to give a little more time to the older folk who live amongst us.

If This Isn't Love

2018 • 15 min

An unseen photographer works hard to create perfect images of marital bliss. Yet the events beyond the edges of the frame tell a very different story.

Ismael

2018 • 14 min • Mexico, United States of America

After mutilating his face in a machine accident, Ismael, a lonely factory worker, struggles with his identity, his dreams, and his memories.