All Films

Ádám fullad

2018 • 22 min • Hungary

What makes a boy a man? A film about childhood, family and growing up.

The Lost Piece

2018 • 6 min • Malaysia

A Malaysian Chinese short film about the struggles of Chan, in recovering her mother's memories and fixing their broken relationship when he knew that Fen, is diagnosed with Alzheimer.

Deep Waters

2018 • 17 min

The difference between a dream and a nightmare is just the moment when you decide to wake up.

Guilty

2018 • 6 min

The country is polluted due to carbon dioxide on Earth. But, Diego, Michael and Alejandro will do everything in their power to play their favorite sport.

Rehearsal of the Futures: Police Training Exercises

2018 • 18 min • Hong Kong

The motions and gestures of military riot police, slowed down while performed by dancers, are surprisingly beautiful. Menace and violence estranged from context and time looks eerily strange, and all too familiar. In this gallery piece, Isaac Chong Wai somehow anticipates, a year early, key images of the Hong Kong protests.

Warm Comedy about Depression, Madness and Unfulfilled Dreams

2018 • 22 min • Slovakia

Two adolescent sons and their parents. A family whose members have known each other for so long that their mutual affection can feel like cabin fever. They all have dreams they want the others to validate, perhaps even more than their need to fulfill those dreams.

A Story in My Skin

2018 • 16 min

Political activist Kader Affak—the unforgettable surveyor of Tariq Teguia’s film Inland—runs a charity on the same premises as Le Sous-Marin literary café that he is renovating. In powerful chiaroscuro, he tells Yanis Kheloufi about the final days of his mother, a constitutive episode that gave birth to his unshakeable faith in the Algerian people.

Muttererde

2018 • 45 min

A film series that calls for femme forms of ancestral history in the face of the often interrupted historical knowledge of the African diaspora in Europe and elsewhere.

Bhairava

2018 • 14 min

“Bhairava” evokes facets of Shiva, the Lord of Dance, as both the destroyer of evil and the guardian of time. He is fierce and drives terrible deeds, but he is also the Divine Protector and Supreme Guardian; his intention springs from pure compassion. In this work, carried by a strong and deeply evocative musical score and by the singular energy of the ancient site of Hampi, dancer and choreographer Shantala Shivalingappa embodies the presence and distinctive qualities of Bhairava. With her technical mastery and refined expressivity, she alternates between moments of precise symbolic gestures and more abstract body language surging from the powerful and omnipresent persona of Bhairava, creating a vivid incarnation of the deity.

The Great 60 Days

2018 • 10 min

Dr. Kim Tam-gu is experimenting on fruit flies in the research lab of the Korea Research Center of Bioscience and Biotechnology. He is developing a substance that can dramatically increase activity in brain cells. After a series of failures, one fruit fly finally has a huge reaction. Its intellectual abilities have exploded, enabling it to speak! After 60 days, we're learning about the life of the great fruit fly through Dr. Kim's interview.

fragile women

2018 • 7 min • China

At a picnic in the countryside, the woman accidentally strikes a shuttlecock into water. The man leaps into the river and then I hear the mountain wind.

Kioku Before Summer Comes

2018 • 18 min • Greece

An everyday memory collage of two siblings who are feeling nostalgic for the summer.

Twilight

2018 • 1 min

Exploring the relationship between sound and picture, the film is inspired by the two lights (twi-light) found inside of film projectors.

Chapero

2018 • 20 min

Ismael is a young gypsy who is thrown out of the house. The boy will meet Nines on the street, who introduces him to the dark world of the night, which will lead him to meet all kinds of unscrupulous characters.

Azula

2018 • 15 min

Rafael is a rent boy that begins an unexpected and intense love affair with a senior executive. It quickly escalates into a heart-stopping reality and threatens to turn his life and personality upside down.

Exit Strategy #1

2018 • 8 min • United States of America

I develop debilitating chronic pain after a head injury and seek answers about why I cannot heal. I start unraveling the aftermath and realize my pain has dissociated me not only from my mind, muscles, and bones, but from the world. Segments inspired by Christine Miserandino's Spoon Theory of chronic illness. The first in a series regarding my ability to cope with my emotional and physical traumas.

Monogram Hunters

2018 • 26 min

Invited to a gathering at a 7th Ward bar, the artist captured a rehearsal by a traditional Mardi Gras Indian “tribe”. Marcopoulos films the members training a new generation in the rules of the dance. There are specific codes and gestures which prepare each participant to do battle with rival tribes come Mardi Gras. The chants date back generations, and the drum rhythm coheres this tight-knit group of men to the wider collective of the neighborhood bar.

Bla Bla Land

2018 • 13 min

A couple lives happily in love until one of the parties tells the other that they have contracted HIV. What initially could be cause for separation, perhaps help strengthen their relationship.

El mar se mueve en una espiral

2018 • 16 min • Chile

Photographic and sound story, through the encounter of characters with their stories of a time without end.

Mushrooms Pepperoni

2018 • 7 min

This is a story about memories and first experiences; about friendship, weed, and a lot of pizza. A story about the underground youth.

Nem Eu Me Aguento

2018 • 20 min

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Duvall Et Al

2018 • 21 min

An ill-tempered older man, Duvall, and his caregiver, Mercedes, struggle to get along, especially after she tries to get him to talk about his son's suicide. After finally pushing her away, he must learn to open up or be left alone for good.

Satisfied

2018 • 2 min • France

We all have desires that we leave aside or that we do not listen.

First

2018 • 10 min • United Kingdom

When a brother and sister go on a weekend hike, secrets are revealed and their intention to bond is thwarted by the mysteries of the forest.