All Films

Monsieur Kubota

2018 • 53 min

Mr. Kubota studies the Turritopsis dohrnii, also known as Immortal Jellyfishes, with the purpose of discovering how humans can live forever. Mr. Kubota is searching for eternity, because at the end of the day he is terribly afraid to die. And so he decided that he would not die at all.

Abducted

2018 • 19 min

People are going missing in Chavez County. One night while out camping in the deep woods with his dog Boo, Ned is shocked to witness a UFO landing. Despite the frightening experience, Ned feels compelled to return to the scene. But will his curiosity lead him to discover the reason behind the mysterious disappearances...or something far worse?

Past Is Growing

2018 • 8 min • Croatia

The past, the present, a change of perception. What is it that keeps us from going forward and why does the past keep pulling us back? When do we realize that our perception of things has shifted? Everyone goes through that process. What differs is how we experience and deal with it.

Momentum 142310

2018 • 15 min

The first part in a new series of computer animations by Manuel Knapp, Momentum 142310 deals on the one hand with spaces refracted by textures and on the other with a projection of them. Their temporality and after-images can be seen within a framework of 30fps by switching between two states of spatial folding. The camera has the task of following these events and is hovering through the architecture in an interplay with the randomly moving light source.

Coral Reefs

2018 • 22 min

During an ordinary visit to the library, a young girl pulls out a not-so-ordinary book from the shelves. As she turns the pages in this book about coral reefs, the city around her slips away and she finds herself surrounded by the coral cities of the sea and the mysterious plants and animals that live, hunt, and hide there.

Adversary

2018 • 17 min • United States of America

Carl Paladino is a Trump-supporting real estate magnate with a history of making racist remarks. In 2016, he faced opposition for re-election to the Buffalo School Board in the form of 18-year-old Austin Harig.

Entre Pó e Películas

2018 • 14 min • Brazil

The Baixada Fluminense already had numerous street cinemas, where members of the Rio de Janeiro had access to a good movie without worrying about the rush of the shopping malls, today with the end of the 35mm film, the street cinemas of Baixada became history. Thinking about the interaction of street cinemas, the documentary aims to show its importance to the population and the population coming from this peripheral area, in order to perpetuate the memory of the glory days of the theaters of the street, thus recovering a historical record of this I have a different look at the last survivor: the movie network CINE SANTA ROSA.

Came the Wave

2018 • 20 min • France

While a disaster hits the country, two women organize their survival in a lost forest.

A priori sauvage

2018 • 24 min • France

A sleepless man searches his neighborhood for the stone-marten that keeps him awake, and communicates via e-mail about it with a district mediator at the municipality administration.

Sunscapades

2018 • 5 min • United Kingdom

Happy-go-lucky triplets Lily, Milly and Billy are looking forward to a day at the beach, but their grumpy ol' dad won't let them have any fun. Time to make some mischief!

Copiloto

2018 • 17 min • Brazil

Microcosm

2018 • 15 min • Italy

After a deadly car accident, a camera’s super zoom becomes the director’s eye, wandering through a summery Rome in search of his lover for a last goodbye.

Travelers

2018 • 24 min • France

A fifteen-year-old child and his dog Spirale travel with a group of travelers. Winter approaches and life for the group and in the fields becomes more difficult. Either you adapt or have to leave.

Gas Flower

2018 • 13 min • Portugal

Zé is forced to work from an early age as a fisherman, as so many others did before him, to support his sickly mother. When he leaves to the other side of the river to ask his sister for help, his resolve — even before settings that are indifferent to his misfortune — becomes clear in a poetic way, even if all that is left for him is to continue his journey.

Kylie Minogue: BBC Radio 2 Live in Hyde Park

2018 • 60 min

Kylie Minogue delivers an electrifying performance at the BB Radio 2 Live Festival in Hyde Park, London.

Widdershins

2018 • 11 min • United Kingdom

A pampered gentleman's seamlessly automated life is thrown into chaos when he pursues a free-spirited woman, against the advice of his robot butler.

Flipped

2018 • 5 min • United Kingdom

FLIPPED explores the absurdity of a world where the roles of kids and adults are switched. The story follows a day full of bizarrely reversed interactions, unravelling the dynamics of this relationship, tackling topics about maturity and parenting in a comic way.

Back Home

2018 • 13 min • Japan

Back Home is an autobiographical documentary about the filmmaker’s heart-rending personal journey to reconcile with her estranged mother, who is about to undergo hip surgery in Tokyo. Filmed mostly by the director herself, the story explores the complexity of the Mother-Daughter relationship, which had been strained over the years apart by physical and emotional distance.

Wild Plants of Palestine

2018 • 10 min • Palestinian Territory

The film follows journeys of observational tours solicited by the Palestinian Museum and conducted by two professors from Birzeit University to collect photos of and information on the Palestinian Flora. The title is adapted from a collection of 123 images (circa 1900 to 1920) of wild flowers in Palestine found in the Matson Collection in the Library of Congress. Despite the tendency to trace the wild plants, the text in general aims at questioning the territorial extension of what is meant by the term “Palestinian”, while standing on insignificant topographical features of the (postcolonial) landscape in West Bank. Furthermore, it addresses photography as a practice and a tool of distributing and restricting information at once.

Mausoleum

2018 • 7 min

Mausoleum centres on a woman at her wit's end. When she sits down to dinner with her husband, she realises that time is running out to resolve her mistakes and take control of her life again.

Bradley Walsh: When Dummies Took Over the World

2018 • 60 min

Bradley Walsh tells the story of Britain's most famous puppet stars including Orville, Emu, and Sooty. They were once the stars of Saturday night TV but what has happened since?

悪の女幹部絶体絶命 悪の華ローザ

2018 • 60 min • Japan

Straight to video

Exteriores - Mulheres Brasileiras na Diplomacia

2018 • 53 min • Brazil

In 1918, Maria José Rebello from the state of Bahia applied for the national admission exam for the diplomatic career, a fact that left much of society astonished. Setting a precedent as the first woman to join the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria began a 100-year journey for Brazilian women in diplomacy.

Astartes

2018 • 13 min

Following the Argosa Uprisings in 482.M39, the Retributor Chapter of the Adeptus Astartes is tasked with assisting in the hunt for fleeing renegades and their leaders, and bringing down the Emperor's justice for their crimes.