All Films

Saltwater Baptism

2018 • 18 min

Santiago Gonzalez IV, a first generation Mexican-American, struggles with the tensions between his sexuality, nationality, and religion as he prepares for his college graduation.

Maricruz

2018 • 17 min

Maricruz's mother places her in the care of a local priest, Father Azarola, in the hopes the she would be cured of her homosexuality. Upon her imprisonment, Maricruz realizes Father Azarola is not the humble priest he presents himself to be. Permanently changed by his machinations, she breaks out of the hospital and fights to expose him.

Who Can Love Pikku Iso?

2018 • 12 min • Sweden

A lonely guardian of land, longing for a companion in life, battles uncomfortable dates and long distances in his search for love in this short puppet film.

Spinning Away

2018 • 20 min

Vans skate proudly presents Spinning Away, the follow up to our 2016 skateboard video No Other Way. Directed by Ryan Lovell and showcasing exclusive footage of the Vans skateboarding team who traveled the world to bring you full parts from Skater of the Year (2016), Kyle Walker, Vans signature pro, Chima Ferguson, and an introductory part from Vans newest amateur, Tyson Peterson. Spinning Away delivers the best in class skateboarding the way only the Vans family can. Away we go!

Bigger Than Life

2018 • 30 min • Germany, Italy, Macedonia

In Skopje, capital of Macedonia, the government wants to fabricate national history - with a monumental building plan worth over 80 million Euros. In "Bigger Than Life", we ask: Does it sell? Do we believe the city to be the origin of Europe and its cradle of ancient high civilization as they try to stage it? Who has the power to construct history? A music film in four acts.

Driver

2018 • 13 min

“Do you like money?” “I'll give you all I have if you kill me.” Some city night... Told by an attractive female customer that he'll receive a lot of money if he kills her, Uber driver decides to take her up on the offer... So they go to the promised place. As promised, a uber driver tries to kill a woman. Suddenly she changes her mind. "Do not kill me..." Uber driver is embarrassed when she suddenly changes her mind. And ... he feels the urge to kill more and more.

A Kalabanda Ate My Homework

2018 • 7 min • Uganda

A tale of a boy and his encounter with a Kakalabanda (a mythical creature that is said to haunt schools in Uganda) bringing a ridiculous twist to the infamous excuse “the dog ate my homework“.

A Prisoner in the Family

2018 • 12 min • Mexico

Out of desperation, a woman has kept her mentally ill son under lock and key for over twenty years. This film offers a view of what some people in Mexico face, when a lack of information, support and resources leave them with no choice but to figure out a way to survive by any means necessary. The day to day lives of many Mexicans are directly tied to their socioeconomic status, and unfortunately our protagonists have been dealt a bitter hand. This documentary is a window into the pain, hurt and circumstances that led a mother to lock her son in a room in the backyard of the family’s house.

The European Dream

2018 • 4 min • Germany

A metaphorical love story about the dream of peace, freedom and solidarity in Europe, with the reality of right-wing politics and terror trying to destroy it.

My Father's Name

2018 • 3 min

"I shed my father's name like a snake, and then I ate the skin." A video poem about inherited dust.

Amy's in the Freezer

2018 • 13 min

A bank robber unwittingly takes a serial killer hostage.

L'inversione dei poli

2018 • 10 min • Italy

Would you transform your body for love? Andrea and Serena are in a tired phase, their relationship seems to be at a standstill. At a party, Lilly gives the coup-de-grace to the couple. When Serena decides to abandon him, Andrea is at a crossroads and takes note of the renewal the relationship needs to be recovered. There needs to be a complete, total reversal.

Paris you got me

2018 • 9 min • Germany

'Art may change the inner as well as the external world' That's how our protagonist Ksenia experiences it. The street artist George lures her into his magic world of art illusions. An artistic dance about the realization of your dreams. Paris, you got me.

Fish in the Sea

2018 • 5 min

James Ransone and Ashley Smith star in this short.

Global Windshield, The Musical

2018 • 18 min • Netherlands

In this truly catchy musical fantasia, Momu & No Es use all the tools at their disposal to pull you into a hypnotic trance: poppy synthesizers, goofy GIFs, internet trash. But beneath the pulsing beats and fun animations is a dark harbinger of what’s to become of our hyperconnected, surveilled present.

Animales

2018 • 14 min • Spain

Rosa is a widow and lives alone, but this holiday has left to live with her grandson, Santiago. But Santiago has become something terrifying, diabolical.

The Pride of Del Rio

2018 • 10 min

Bruno “Ralphy” Lozano became not only the youngest-ever mayor of Del Rio, Texas, but also the city’s first openly gay elected official. The 30-something Democrat is also an Air Force veteran, a flight attendant, and really good at walking in heels.

I Am Not a Monster

2018 • 17 min • Ireland

A young man returns home uninvited to his brother's engagement dinner only to find himself fighting for his sanity against the violent, mind controlling growth on the back of his head. (ALTER)

Muay Thai

2018 • 3 min • Thailand

This intimate portrait of a Thai boxer, from New York-based filmmaker Josh Hayward, reveals the rituals and pressures experienced in Bangkok's boxing culture—an environment of grueling physical and psychological tension.

Jealousy

2018 • 7 min

An absent narrator watches and analyzes his wife's actions as she has dinner with a mutual friend.

Punch It

2018 • 20 min

Tom is a young skateboarder wandering around his town. Suddenly, he enters an abandoned amusement park closed to the public, where he sees a boxing machine that attracts his attention. From that moment on, everything will be different.

Una vez en la vida

2018 • 12 min • Argentina

Once in a lifetime

Perfect Man

2018 • 9 min • United States of America

Set in the very near future, a virtual reality addicted girl must follow a government mandate to remove her VR headset for 3 hours. When her dismal reality sets in, she goes online and orders Perfect Man: a robotic humanoid love companion.

Wait it Out

2018 • 19 min

When a self proclaimed 'anti-bully' is set up on a blind date with his recently out of the closet high-school bully, his notions of what it means to be a bully, a victim and a role model are tossed out of the closet.