All Films

The nature calls the last legend of garden

2018 • 3 min • Albania

Four kids fight to the death for the garden. Very tragic.

Penrose

2018 • 2 min • United States of America

With some outside forces, a hiker realizes her unfortunate situation.

The Cleaners

2018 • 5 min • United States of America

In this stop-motion homage to 1970s crime films, two hitmen race to clean up their latest job while searching for a piece of evidence that could threaten to unravel their entire operation. All while being tailed by a mysterious figure who shares an eerie interest in finding what they're looking for.

Valentin

2018 • 11 min • Germany

A brother to his older sister. A portrait about the 2000s generation, about family pressure, being fifteen, money and world domination. A portrait of Valentin.

Eternal Sunshine

2018 • 2 min

an etude of decomposition exploring the shape of the image in a sequence from the film ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND

A Conversation

2018 • 5 min • United States of America

A man's life is turned around when he receives troubling news.

Pezas imposibles

2018 • 14 min • Spain

This work in nine pieces is a portic experiment on intimacy, in which we play with n impossible space to explore the 'inner places of two characters without identity, who relate, me and act in an ambiguous way, creating a kinu of theatrical dance that can drown you.

Abduction 2: Public Domain

2018 • 27 min • China

Some occurrences themselves are forgotten and being got rid of any copyrights. What’s more these occurrences were created and shared by people in a certain place. Although these occurrences are worthless, they are still meaningful for reservation. When the places that something occurred have changed gradually, will occurrences themselves die out soon? As an individual, I may record something.

The Subject

2018 • 10 min • Canada

An animator dissects his own body, extracting memories, emotions and fears that will nurture his work. As he cuts into his skin, various symbolic objects recalling his past emerge. Reaching the heart, he succeeds in identifying the burden he’s been dying to cast off.

Wil-o-Wisp

2018 • 10 min

Wil-o-Wisp explores how the practice of magic and coincidence influence the fate of a woman named Elspeth Blake. Rose frames her story against the backdrop of England’s Enclosure Movement, which privatized communal land and spurred violent upheavals in agrarian life.Rose models the chapters of Elspeth’s life after accounts of healers persecuted for their practices, which were considered deviant and threatening within increasingly regulated society. Weaving together the harsh realities of the rural English landscape with ghostly sprites and the ethereal forces of magic, Rose questions how our perceptions of the world, and of others, can so radically change within the fluctuating norms of society and the seismic shifts of history.

Mermaids and Rhinos

2018 • 16 min • Hungary

Eight-year-old Tilda’s memories of her family as surrealistic visions come into life: the circus member ex-mermaid grandmother, the erotically overheated mother and the disappeared father whose broken heart, anger and jealousy manifest as a rhino. Tilda’s life is full of grotesque, bizarre characters hungry for love.

The Final Day of Rudolf Nietsche

2018 • 26 min • Slovenia

A day in the life of Rudolf Nietsche, a man who has never even been able to secure a seat on the train, let alone his place in life; a man lacking that Z in his surname, a small yet crucial letter.

I'm OK

2018 • 6 min • Canada, United Kingdom

Following the end of a stormy love affair, Expressionist artist Oskar Kokoschka enlists in the First World War. After suffering serious injuries in battle, he experiences a series of memories and visions as medics transport him through the forests of the Russian front. Playful and imaginative, I'm OK explores the wounds of heartbreak and trauma. Inspired by the life and art of Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980).

Elephant Path – Njaia Njoku

2018 • 52 min • Central African Republic, Israel, United States of America

An indelible tale of friendship and commitment set against the luminous beauty of the Central African Rainforest. Together, elephant behavioral biologist, Andrea Turkalo, and indigenous tracker, Sessely Bernard, will be tested by the realities of war and the limits of hope for the majestic animals they have committed their lives to study and protect.

Mågaluf

2018 • 30 min

Four young men on the trip of their lives from Norway to Magaluf – the Mecca of party tourism. “Mågalúf” is a poetic and philosophical documentary film which tries to understand human behaviour and social mechanisms.

Turning Ten

2018 • 13 min • Egypt, United Kingdom

A ten minute wait in a medical clinic forces a young mother and her daughter to collude together at a pivotal point in time that will shape both their lives together.

Terrain de nuit

2018 • 20 min • Switzerland

Shabbos Kallah

2018 • 15 min • Israel

Holy Nuns

2018 • 5 min • France

Two eccentric nuns arrive late at the Holy Mass and get expelled from the service. While doing a cleaning chore as punishment, they accidentally break a valuable liturgical object. Full of regrets, they try everything to repair their mistake, but nothing goes as expected. Sucked into a whirlwind of improbable events, the nuns end up sliding down the slippery slope to sin.

Akif

2018 • 30 min

Akif has to avoid compulsory military service and there's only one way... He gets close to Ugur who is exempt from military service for being gay.

U-455: The Mystery of the Lost Submarine

2018 • 52 min

In Summer 2008, a mysterious submarine, German U-boat U-455 is discovered off the coast of Italy at 120 meters deep. For Lorenzo del Veneziano, an underwater marine archeologist, it's an amazing sight. The U-boat is intact! It stands almost vertically at the bottom of the sea, it's hull stuck in the sediment. What is the story of this ship? The history of U-455 & cause of the sinking are revealed.

Closed Circuit

2018 • 6 min

A robot cares for a ship full of sleeping passengers on an interstellar voyage, and one day she discovers she is not alone.

Walk

2018 • 13 min

Have you ever lost somebody? Have you ever felt something you don’t understand? “WALK" is a short film that captures the beauty of knowing the struggle of losing a loved one to addiction. How do you cope? Let’s not pretend. It’s difficult. There is a fine line between knowing and not knowing on both ends. It’s past the spectrum of pain.

He Flees

2018 • 4 min • Brazil

A thicket. A trail of blood. While one flees, another chases him. It's a race. While one is human, the other has ceased to be. It's a hunt. While one species will survive, the other will be extinct forever. It's a struggle. And whoever loses, dies.