All Films

Shattered Vow

2018 • 5 min

James recounts to a police officer the fateful day he witnessed the murder of his girlfriend Sarah, but his regret for his actions seeps into the story.

Dark Web - Fighting Cybercrime

2018 • 40 min • United Kingdom

Virtually anyone with an Internet connection will be the victim of a cyber attack at some point in their life. It's no longer a matter of 'if,' it's a matter of 'when'. In the fight against this new legion of criminals, our only hope is to embrace the full potential of A.I. It's not about man vs. machine - it's about man and machine vs. Cybercrime.

In Stalk

2018 • 12 min

A woman searches for her boyfriend in the small town he disappeared in, with no idea of the nightmare that awaits her.

Paleo Impulse

2018 • 2 min • Italy

Paleo is a video clip shoot at the famous homonymous music festival in the French canton of Vaud in Switzerland, where many hippie-techno-pagans gather every summer since 1977. The editing style is a tribute to the reworking of psychedelic theories and the New Age proliferation within rave culture in the early 90s from the perspective of the late second decade of the new millennium. In the footage, the ritual ingestion of psychedelics is symbolically replaced by a liberating dance through a powerful fast montage that epitomizes the frenzy of intoxication achieved through psychedelic plants. A revival of a revival of a revival.

Passage

2018 • 6 min • France

Deprived of light, the earth's activity slows down, cools down, falls asleep. Heat is followed by cold, agitation by calm. When the atmosphere stops diffusing the sun's rays, it lets the stars appear and the true sky, deep, black and unchanging. The short and vivid cycles of earthly life give way to cosmic eternities. This is the moment that a tiny soul, that of a cat, chooses to leave the earthly plane.

G.r.a.s.s.

2018 • 9 min

The film documents the devastating flooding at a Golden Retriever Acres Senior Sanctuary (G.R.A.S.S.) in Spring. TX.

Mevsimlik Yaşamlar

2018 • 17 min • Turkey

"Seasonal farm worker families talk about their "seasonal life" in the fertile land of Çukurova, Adana."

Lay Off

2018 • 6 min

Stuck with a no-good employee too charismatic to fire and a tyrannical boss who won't take no for an answer, middle-manager Mick Amsterdam is about to learn he's swimming with sharks.

Valentine in Things City

2018 • 7 min • United States of America

A research and design project that imagines the future of post-human spaces like Google data centers and Amazon warehouses. Using the same artificial intelligence code that organizes logistics infrastructure, a fictional fulfillment center at the scale of a city has been procedurally generated. Things City is designed to accommodate only delivery drones, logistics bots, and packages as its citizens. Through the eyes of the city’s machines, we watch as a girl enters Things City on Valentine’s day searching for a lost package.

Dying Light

2018 • 12 min

Dying Light is a psychological thriller about a visually impaired woman who's afraid of the dark. She has to overcome her fear to escape the darkness that has entered her house.

66 Scenes of Uzhgorod

2018 • 37 min • Ukraine

A documentary cover of Jorgen Lett's famous film "66 Scenes of America". Similar scenes from Jorgen Lett's film were shot during a year in Uzhhorod, which makes it possible to rethink the city through the prism and vision of a film shot in the 1980s in the United States.

The Study

2018 • 9 min • United States of America

Inside a remote cabin in the woods, six strangers take part in a medical experiment that’s hiding a dark secret.

A Warm Place

2018 • 2 min • Sweden

Short, experimental clip of tall buildings, lots of them, plenty of vacant apartments and cosy weather - a warm place.

Chocolate Chip Cookies

2018 • 13 min

To complete the entry test of the Bravery club, a friendless young boy Charlie puts laxatives into chocolate chip cookies and delivers it to the creepy old man Jack living next door, but eventually finds friendship with him.

Anarchy in the Philippines

2018 • 9 min • United Kingdom

An intimate journey into the heart of the small but powerful DIY punk movement in modern-day Philippines. They hitchhike, beg for food, screen print bootleg band t-shirts, and help vulnerable members of their community. But President Duterte's violent 'War on Drugs' makes a punk lifestyle an incredibly dangerous choice.

Mapas Afetivos: São Paulo

2018 • 52 min • Brazil

An emotional geographic reading of the city of São Paulo, created through hundreds of love stories from its residents. Neighborhoods, streets, parks and houses that sometimes no longer exist, or are invisible to most people, come to life in the stories told by the inhabitants.

How to Cheer Up Loneliness

2018 • 13 min • Ukraine

A horse named Camelia thinks it's unfair when someone is sad. And so she goes in search of Loneliness to cheer her up. Along the way, she meets those with whom Loneliness often visits. And all together friends rush to the rescue. This is a fairy tale that even Loneliness should not be lonely.

Cosmic Adventures

2018 • 14 min

Kent Lasershaft is a superhero for the ages. A defender of the weak and hero of the innocent. He’s also the creation of Kent Edwards, a quiet nerd who finds solace in his fantasy creation: the world of Cosmic Adventures! But what Kent does not realize is that the biggest threat to his fantasy world is not his fictitious villains, but rather, the hubris of its own creator.

Fork in the Road

2018 • 10 min

Struggling with her girlfriend’s ongoing denial, Lorena is left with the repercussions of the poor decision that follows that heartbreak. She finds herself at a crossroads having to make one of the most difficult decisions a woman could face.

Fail Delete

2018 • 16 min

Inspired by the various languages of photography, the shy and discreet photographer Beto Pêgo, who has always used his camera to hide in the crowd, looks deep into the mirror and gives life to the extravagant and narcissistic drag queen, Betina Polaroid.

PAJUBÁ - Vivendo a Interseccionalidade

2018 • 10 min • Brazil

"Pajubá" is a language created by black LGBTs as a mode of resistance. Given this, the present short film seeks to rescue the reality of people who experience in their own skin the strength of intersectionality between race, gender and sexuality in the São Francisco Valley region.

Room 16

2018 • 9 min

A group of friends, looking for a place to drink, kiss and dance, go over the limits when they decide to break into a motel room, not knowing that, because of their mixed feelings and a sense of immortality, their fun won't last long.

Shadow of Drought: Southern California's Looming Water Crisis

2018 • 42 min • United States of America

This Emmy award-winning documentary examines the severe drought California suffered from 2012 to 2016 and the consequences it had on the state’s complex water management system. Despite recent wet winters, California’s water supply will continue to be threatened by ongoing population growth and longer, more frequent droughts caused by climate change. Southern California, an arid region especially vulnerable due to its reliance on imported water, has been a pioneer in the use of innovative water technologies. But as a shadow of drought hangs over the state, much more needs to be done to avert the region’s looming water crisis.

A Passage

2018 • 17 min

A video and installation project produced in Agarak and Meghri. The project tackles the political economy and social ecology of border infrastructures in Southern Armenia. By focusing on two significant events that illustrate the dominant political shifts in the region, ‘A Passage’ looks at how processes of rapid militarization and neoliberalization have restructured these borders.