All Films

Foreplay

2018 • 2 min

Insights on a casting couch.

Mau Nieto: viviendo sobrio… desde el bar

2018 • 57 min • Mexico

Performing at a bar, Mexican stand-up comedian Mau Nieto dishes on his modest upbringing, his failed relationships and his attempts to stay sober.

The Rugby Codebreakers

2018 • 59 min

Broadcaster and journalist Carolyn Hitt investigates why so many men gave up their dreams of playing rugby union for Wales, seeking fame and fortune among the mills of Lancashire and Yorkshire by committing an act that was considered tantamount to treason - switching codes to play rugby league. Her journey explores the impact of class, race and economic change on the game at the heart of Welsh identity.

Two Basilicas

2018 • 36 min • Germany, Denmark

A confrontation and comparison of two church buildings, which could hardly be more different, but also a dialogue between various concepts of church and community: the Protestant Grundtvig’s Church in Copenhagen and the Catholic Cathedral in Orvieto.

Metatron

2018 • 14 min • Cuba

Obsessed by the end of the world, Ernesto has spent years designing an island where humans will go to live should everything disappear. Following a particular method of research, the Cuban scientist shows us his prototype for a perfect universe, the “Metatron”, a sort of strange figure that articulates the circle and the cube, these perfect forms that exist in nature and should save us during a potential doomsday scenario.

My Neighbor Flora

2018 • 10 min • Brazil

Alice's life changes when Laura, the daughter of her neighbor on the wall, knocks on her door to ask if she knows anything about her mother. No one has seen her for days, neither Alice nor Laura, nor the lonely residents of the building.

Silence

2018 • 17 min • Norway

What does it take to climb the world’s first 9c? Bernardo Giménez' documentary shows what preceded on the afternoon of September 3, 2017 when professional rock climber Adam Ondra made a little piece of climbing history by sending his project in the Hanshelleren Cave in Norway. The route, eventually named Silence, received a new grade of 9c making it the hardest route in the world.

Who Rents There Now?

2018 • 12 min

Nangungupahan follows the different lives of people who occupy a room of an apartment through different points in time. The room may mean differently to each occupant; and by overlapping these timelines, we gain insight about our shared space and history, as well as the bigger structures outside that affect us.

Asexualove

2018 • 40 min • Czech Republic

Jana lived in social isolation. Ondřej suffered from depression. After discovering their sexual identity, they accepted themselves. They are like us, they just don't have sex. Two aromantic asexuals. Jana loves romantic stories, likes reading them and in the beginning of her career as a literary translator, romance novels were her daily bread. Ondřej hangs out with his friend Martina, who'd like to marry him. He lives with a gay couple and his cat, and sees it as an appropriate way of being himself.

Boca de Loba

2018 • 19 min • Brazil

Street harassing pressures. And a group of women seeks to invoke a urban wild spirit.

Afterlife

2018 • 15 min • Ireland

Joe is unhappy with his life and when he gets turned into a vampire he's offered the perfect chance to escape... but he soon realises that he can't escape himself.

Golpe Baixo

2018 • 3 min • Brazil

A boxing fighter about to enter the ring ends up engaging in a different and somewhat embarrassing fight.

The Day That

2018 • 26 min • United States of America

On the day of a father's unexpected death, six family members each seek ways to manage their grief. In the face of his sudden absence, the ordinary takes on heightened meaning. An ode to the beauty of life & death and the incomprehensible mystery of it all, THE DAY THAT is a poetic exploration that’s both profoundly personal and unquestionably universal.

Caldeira

2018 • 5 min • France

Inès has lived all her life in the shadow of her sister, a brilliant volcanologist. As a challenge, she decides to join a scientific expedition that plans to climb a volcano.

The Pioneer

2018 • 27 min • Japan

In a dystopian Japan, scientists have developed a new pill hailed as the ultimate forget-me-not. Although the miracle drug transforms society by warding off memory loss, it inexplicably has no effect on the narrator’s mother, a patient with early-onset Alzheimer’s. Deemed a threat to national security, the mother is taken into custody and sequestered away, compelling her daughter to embark on a searching journey back through the fog of memory.

Winterzwiebeln im Sommer

2018 • 14 min • Austria

Behind the back of her father, a big tradesman of organic food, a young journalist investigates the farmers which supply him. And she discovers an unexpected secret.

Who's Looking after Mum and Dad?

2018 • 30 min • United Kingdom

Documentary in which Leicester's Riaz Khan explains why looking after his gravelly ill father and bedridden mother under their roof is a family duty tightly bound to his culture.

12 Point Kill

2018 • 14 min

Oppressed by her overbearing and violent stepfather, a young woman takes revenge into her own hands.

Communism Peak

2018 • 19 min • Russia

1936 Lubyakino; A perpetual motion generator has been invented but with one important catch: it only works when a true communist looks at it. Vasiliev does this job well and without fault, but when a committee from Moscow arrive in search of 'enemies of the people', Vasiliev's resolve will be tested to the limit.

The Teacher's Wife

2018 • 32 min • Australia

She was a wife, a mother, a sister and a daughter. Lyn Dawson had everything to live for, so why did she disappear without a trace 36 years ago? Her husband Chris, a PE teacher, always insisted she abandoned him and their two young daughters to “sort things out”. Days later he moved his teenage lover into the family home. Two coroners concluded Chris Dawson murdered his wife but to this day, he has never been prosecuted. The case has gripped audiences around the world since the release of a new podcast, The Teacher’s Pet, by investigative journalist Hedley Thomas.

Lucid Nation

2018 • 20 min

Two middle-schoolers try an experiment at home involving ping pong balls, red light, and white noise.

The Looking Ceremony

2018 • 5 min

This film follows Isa, a real gypsy living in Andalusia, Spain, as she experiences a tradition in which older women in her family confirm her virginity.

Chasing the Dragon

2018 • 13 min • United States of America

Mid-case a trans detective gets blocked by local PD. Never beaten, she pushes back and discovers who the culprits may be.

The Last Seance

2018 • 16 min

Over the course of one terrifying seance, two sisters must defeat an evil demon.