All Films

Shock Therapy

2017 • 7 min • United Kingdom

Jim is afraid of everything. In order to face his fears, Jim will bring everything he is afraid of into his house. It doesn't quite work out as expected..

Alpha Hippie

2017 • 30 min

Centered around new age douche-bag / weed farmer, Sage, who divides the commune in Topanga Canyon that he shares with his best friend Max, and their multiple girlfriends, after Sage accuses Max of stealing his kale chips recipe to launch his fad health products line to success. Sage makes a deal with big-time drug lord / gangster rapper, Honey Bear, to train Sage as his protégé in his pride-fueled ploy to one-up his now ex-best friend, and take back what he believes is rightfully his: Alpha Hippie status.

Who Should We Let In? Ian Hislop on the First Great Immigration Row

2017 • 60 min

As Brexit Britain prepares to draw up new rules on who is welcome here, Ian Hislop takes an entertaining and provocative look at the decades from the Victorian era to the First World War, when modern Britain introduced its first peacetime restrictions on immigration.

Now You See It

2017 • 3 min

A short film about environmental damage.

Flatbush Misdemeanors

2017 • 15 min

Dan and Kevin, longtime friends, adjust to their evolving surroundings in the community of Flatbush, Brooklyn. A raw comedy of city life, this prize-winning short served as the foundation for what became the critically-acclaimed Showtime series, Flatbush Misdemeanors. Made on zero-budget, the first installment of Flatbush became Oscar-qualified after winning Grand Jury Awards in its film festival run. Critics have called it "funny, smart, inventive and constantly surprising" and "street-level filmmaking at its finest."

Måla

2017 • 22 min • Denmark

A young man finds himself on a remote farm in the Swedish forest where an unexpected guest arrives in the dark. As they stray into each other's minds and hearts, they get to know each other and themselves better.

Vétérane

2017 • 15 min • Canada

Camelia, an escort with a troubled past, is newly employed at an erotic massage parlour in eastern Montreal. Met coldly by her competitive new colleagues, she struggles to establish a clientele while maintaining her dignity.

Strange Bird

2017 • 60 min • United States of America

The film tells a story in the life of a young teenager from a broken Midwestern family who can not sleep. She believes a band of ragtag outlaws, who kills their victims in their dreams, will chase her down to her demise. The young teen Carrie Sane (Presley Bishop) visits a neurologist, Dr. Steve Blackburn, in hopes that he can cure the unstoppable seizures that she is plagued with day by day and monsters that haunt her at night.

Kheer

2017 • 7 min • India

As we age, life can get lonelier and the definition of relationships, mature. 'Kheer' is a delightful serving of love and companionship where secrets get accidentally spilt and shared.

El carteo

2017 • 14 min • Chile

Before MSN, Facebook, and the Internet within reach of all, young people communicated in a simpler way: using pencil and paper. Year 1997: hundreds of love letters come and go between the lyceum of girls and the boys' institute. Piñi, a shy girl with a deep secret, will see in the card the ideal opportunity to approach who has stolen her heart: Lizzie, her best friend.

Chasing The Lion

2017 • 17 min • Canada

Chasing The Lion is the story of Lionel Sanders' ascent from drug abuse and mental illness to one of the best up-and-coming long-distance triathletes in the world.

ami. exe

2017 • 18 min • France, Japan

Wanderings of the young Ami in the streets of Kabukicho, Tokyo.

Keeton Olson For HOA President: A Mild Inconvenience

2017 • 19 min • United States of America

Once the self-identified big shot of the cul de sac realizes that he will have to run a campaign for President of his neighborhood's Home Owner's Association against his new Black neighbor, a man is forced to prove that he is the leader that his upper middle class community has always needed. Racial tensions, self- doubt, mental breakdowns, and debates about fern height could put everything the residents of Glacier Falls know into a whirlwind of change. But nobody is going to take this away from this man's rightful place as President-not without a fight.

Life After

2017 • 12 min • United States of America

Based in New York City, “Life After” is about Nisha, a single mother and Indian immigrant living in Queens. After her only child, Zara, passes away unexpectedly, Nisha decides to learn about her daughter’s life in Manhattan. Out of her element, Nisha is forced to examine parts of who her daughter was that she had tried to ignore. Most significantly, Zara’s sexual orientation. Only through meeting her daughter’s partner, does Nisha finally begin to grieve the loss of her child.

Les Intranquilles

2017 • 13 min • Switzerland

Three young men dressed in military uniforms roam around a ghost town. Walking, taking breaks in a variety of landscapes, they decide to go and see the sea, perhaps for the last time.

The Human Face

2017 • 14 min • United States of America

By giving meaning to each and every mark on his sculptures, artist Kazuhiro gives meaning to his own life. Experiencing what is behind every wrinkle of time on the human face, transforms a superficial mask into a window to the soul.

Set Me as a Seal upon Thine Heart

2017 • 13 min • Israel

A gay sauna encounter between a young man and an older man becomes an unexpected lesson about love.

In Beating Cells

2017 • 24 min • Germany

The sun is setting on couples Rico and Eva and Friedrich and Julia's forest road trip. Tight bonds have formed across the group, none more so than between free-spirited Rico and vertical thinker Friedrich, who is coming to terms with a side of his sexuality that had previously remained in the shadows. As the foursome drink, party, swim and while away the hours by a picturesque lake, the food supplies dwindle, and the sheen starts to come off their idyllic escape.

Richard Harrington: My Grandfather's War

2017 • 60 min • United Kingdom

Richard Harrington, star of Hinterland and Poldark, sets out to trace the journey of his grandfather, who went to Spain 80 years ago to fight fascism in the Spanish Civil War. In this journey of self-discovery Harrington travels from Wales, through Paris and across the Pyrenees into Spain, uncovering the reasons for his own lack of political motivation and discovering a story that kick-starts his own political awakening.

Frozen Princess

2017 • 16 min

Few days before Epiphany, Antonio and Carmen read the letter that their son has written to the three Wise Men. A very special gift on the list of the child will test the convictions and love of the parents.

The Back 80

2017 • 51 min • United States of America

Suzanne's life was turned upside down when a Bigfoot ran across the road in front of her one night. As she tries to understand what she's seen the creature arrives at her doorstep and sends her into a downward spiral looking for answers.

Resurface

2017 • 27 min • United States of America

A suicidal war veteran finds like-minded souls in a surf therapy program that helps traumatized soldiers heal while riding the waves.

Young Girls Vanish

2017 • 16 min • France

Between 1652 and 1657, 58 girls were devoured by a wolf in the Essonne, France. Four centuries later, in the same place, young girls vanish.

Diquà Dai Monti: Where the Mountains Begin

2017 • 27 min • France

Beneath the blazing summer sun in Corsica, sixteen-year-old Horace loses his dog. After a trying to find the animal, Horace and his gang suspect a man of Arab origin who lives outside the village.