All Films

The Oblique

2018 • 11 min

“The music, ‘Blues in B-flat’ by Volker Heyn, performed by cellist Anton Lukoszevieze, provides the framework for The Oblique. The title comes from an instruction in the score: ‘oblique down stroke’ — a call to the cellist to use an oblique bow. In the film branches of magnolia extend into the empty cavity of the cello, the space where sound resonates.” (JP)

Flowers for the Young Lady

2018 • 17 min • United States of America

This film takes you through a great journey with elements of both Western and Fantasy.

Waiting for a Miracle

2018 • 14 min • Estonia

A woman’s greatest joy is giving the gift of life to a new human being. Her deepest sorrow – the loss of a child. This very personal and touching film is not about death, it is about the beauty of life and how miraculous it is that we are alive. Waiting for a miracle was never planned to be filmed. It was dictated by the unique unusual situation, and life was the main scriptwriter. The director hopes that her work can be therapy for people in similar situations.

The Road to Independence

2018 • 60 min

To learn the story of its Independence, Olie Hunter Smart took on an immense challenge to walk the length of India, a 4,500km journey that saw him on his feet for over seven months seeking out untold stories of Independence and Partition. Olie’s route saw him trekking over snowy mountain passes high up in the Himalayas, battling intense heat in the northern plains, and being drenched to the bone by monsoon rains as he walked through the rural heartland of the country. Following in Gandhi’s footsteps, Olie immerses himself in the culture, being invited in by so many of the people he encounters, recording shocking and heartfelt first-hand accounts of India’s struggle for freedom gained 70 years earlier. Having never made a film before, this film is the culmination of almost two years of hard work, self-filming, writing, editing and producing, with invaluable support and music by Austin Vince.

The Last in a Line of Fishermen

2018 • 29 min • Sweden

I have returned to the island were I grew up. My dad has spent thirty years alone at sea fishing lobster. He was taught the trade by his dad, who learnt from his dad. A heritage pasted down from father to son. My father never got a son, only daughters and since I was a girl no one assumed I was interested. After I turned eighteen I left Sweden and moved to Australia. After a decade abroad I started to long for home. I return to the island to see if I have it in me, can I learn the things I was never taught as a child? Will the legacy fade with me or can I become the family's next lobster fisherman? /Karolin Axelsson

Poder

2018 • 19 min

Follows four black women who face their daily struggles and suddenly gain superpowers after taking a bath together at a waterfall.

Flies

2018 • 7 min

Almost a romantic comedy…

Im Park scheint die Sonne und es ist schön

2018 • 44 min

After Juliane's boyfriend ends their long-term relationship, she embarks on an almost restless search for something new to fill the void, while her best friend Tom has his eye on her. The sun is shining in the park and it's beautiful. The film deals with expectations of relationships and the attitude towards life of modern people in the big city.

Mais uma Tentativa Frustrada de Não Falar

2018 • 10 min • Brazil

Nowhere Bastards

2018 • 10 min • Mexico

In a small town in Mexico, three local hip hop artists find refuge from adversity in their music, representing the voices of their community in their lyrics.

UN Sex Abuse Scandal

2018 • 52 min • United Kingdom

A documentary about the UN sex abuse scandal where companies and staff working for the United Nations in the Congo and other Central African countries were involved in rape and sex abuse of local women. There have been over 1700 allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse against UN peacekeepers in the last 15 years. Ramita Navai reveals why it keeps happening despite UN promises to stamp it out. It was produced for Channel 4 and for PBS Frontline – and ARTE. The film won the Robert F Kennedy Human Rights Journalism award for Television – International. Nominated for 2019 Emmy Award for Outstanding Investigative Documentary. Shortlisted for 2019 Grierson Awards for Best Single Documentary – International and Best Current Affairs Documentary. In 2020, the documentary won the 22nd Media Awards for “Children’s Rights in One World” in Germany.

Binibining Detainee

2018 • 14 min • Philippines

A slice of the eccentric lives of Roca and Sammy, two members of the Gay Inmates Organization detained at the Pampanga Provincial Jail, intertwined with animated sequences of an inmate's incarceration story.

Baladí

2018 • 25 min • Colombia

Taking them down different paths and away from the place where they once dreamed they would be as women, as mothers or as professionals, a group of friends reunite a decade after graduating to learn how reality has fallen on each of them.

The Long Farewell

2018 • 4 min

The story of two souls on their last day together.

He Was Never There, Docupoem

2018 • 6 min

A short documentary capturing the recording sessions of The Weeknd's "My Dear Melancholy,"

Black

2018 • 4 min

A boy is awakened in the middle of the night by some noises in his room.

Herätä

2018 • 11 min

A couple seeks help from a sleep clinic to cure the husband's restless nights.

La bruma y el descanso

2018 • 14 min • Puerto Rico

Isolated in an old rustic house, a father must confront apparitions of his recently deceased daughter a day away from her funeral.

Hypnic Jerk

2018 • 5 min • United States of America

Hypnic Jerk unfolds as a dreamlike tale of a man who buys a banana from a street vendor and is drawn into a strange, shifting journey. Starring Thomas Roman Howell and Matt Bertzyk, the film moves between the everyday and the surreal, with quiet performances that bring depth and nuance. Through oblique gestures and subtle shifts in tone, Devereaux shapes a disorienting narrative that hovers between waking and sleep, humor and unease.

Alpine Whistleblowers - on the playground of the marmots

2018 • 30 min

These peculiar and roughly rabbit-sized rodents enjoy great popularity at the Grossglockner in the Austrian Alps. Before the last ice age, marmots used to live in the lowland of Tirol, but with the melting of the glaciers they were driven higher up into the mountains – a trend that will continue given the current climate change.

The Last People of Chernobyl

2018 • 52 min • Poland, Ukraine

The documentary was created during a charity expedition that was organized to help the last inhabitants of Chernobyl. It presents the life of people who never accepted the enforced evacuation, that was ordered after the Chernobyl disaster. They live on a poisoned ground despite all the restrictions and hardships.

Nishant Tanwar : Dilli Se Hoon B*@!%D

2018 • 59 min • India

Delhi boy Nishant Tanwar’s latest stand-up special “Dilli Se Hoon B*@!%D” is a code for all Delhiites to abide by. Known as bhai by his fans, Nishant shares hilarious life experiences, the background he comes from, his dad, his friends, his girlfriend and his girlfriend’s boyfriend.

Revenge of Gopnik

2018 • 18 min • Kyrgyz Republic

One night, two friends who were returning home after a party meet a mysterious man, after meeting whom their destinies change

Bro Night

2018 • 16 min • United States of America

Bro Night follows the story of three bros who during their weekly Bro Night get a mysterious phone call that will change their lives forever.