All Films

Abortion: Beyond the Backstreet

2018 • 60 min • United Kingdom

The struggle to pass the 1967 Abortion Act and its continued ramifications to the present day. Featuring never before broadcast interviews with women who had backstreet abortions, those in the medical profession on both sides of the debate, and the politicians and campaigners who were at the forefront of the law on illegal abortion being changed.

Children Alike

2018 • 5 min • Sweden

Johannes introduces his new girlfriend Wilma to his sister Hanna. However, Wilma and Hanna are everything but strangers.

3 Centimetres

2018 • 9 min • United Kingdom

In the oldest fun park of Beirut, four young friends go on a Ferris Wheel. During this claustrophobic open-air journey, they touch on intimate subjects such as relationships and sex, but Suzie’s breakup advice for Joanna leads to an unexpected confession.

Malena Pichot: Estupidez compleja

2018 • 50 min • Argentina

This funnywoman champions feminism while explaining while walking down the street eating a banana is an extreme sport.

Palmetto State Walking Tour

2018 • 7 min • United States of America

Charleston is the only major American city in history to have a majority-enslaved population. By 1822 the international prices for cotton had plummeted. With Charleston in the slave economy's grip, the white ruling class would simply kill the surplus of unsalable enslaved human beings. Revolution became the only option for survival.

49 Mile Scenic Drive

2018 • 8 min

The compelling and amusing story behind one of San Francisco's most visually arresting signposts and the design change that tarnishes a legacy.

Wide Awake

2018 • 7 min

A hypnotized woman has a futuristic dream. It's a dream about love, sidereal trips and an attack of alien robots, through archival footage from the television of the future.

Life Out There Has It Been Seen?

2018 • 32 min • Portugal

Minas de São Domingos is a small village built on a mine in the Alentejo region of Portugal. Today, the mine, which in other times kept its neighbours in employment, is no longer operating. It is difficult to imagine a future for this slightly forgotten land, criss-crossed by ruins that bear witness to a happier era, and virtually abandoned by inhabitants forced to leave to find work elsewhere. It’s summer, children play in the street, tourists camp next to the river, adults burst into traditional song in the ruins of the mine. Here, everything happens as a community, as if being together was the only possible answer to the question formulated by the film’s title.

Unaware of the Nightmare

2018 • 9 min • Belgium

After leaving a party early, Mia walks home alone while listening to music. But she isn't alone for long - A silent threat becomes a screaming terror.

Birds in the Earth

2018 • 11 min • Finland, Norway

Sami dance students Birit and Katja Haarla dance through the villages and lost woods of Sápmi all the way to where the important decisions are made. The polarity of Nature and the Western way of life is filtered through sharp humour.

Abigaïl

2018 • 20 min • Switzerland

At nightfall, two lost souls find each other again in the woods, with enough time for one last dance.

Time Reversal Symmetry

2018 • 8 min

This project is a collaboration between artists and scientists at TRIUMF, Canada’s national laboratory for particle and nuclear physics. It’s not as daunting as it sounds: as playful as a vaudeville sketch, the piece uses pedestrian movement and references artists who have worked with the body and media—predominantly Yvonne Rainer, Trisha Brown, and Bruce Nauman.

In His Island

2018 • 20 min • Philippines

A small fishing community struggles amidst an oil spill. Meanwhile, part of that community is a prepubescent and cheerful young boy struggling with his identity who finds comfort in his dreams of becoming a mermaid.

Leo's Atlas

2018 • 34 min • France

With the collapse of the Soviet Union, Buran, the Soviet response to the NASA space shuttle programme, during the Cold War, was discontinued. Twenty-five years on, a photographer found one prototype of the five that were built, in an abandoned hangar of the Russian launch site in Kazakhstan. The Buran that made the programme's only orbital flight is no more, but nine-year-old Leo is convinced that someone hid it, somewhere in Siberia, and that he will find it. With Elizabeth, he rummages through satellite images, travelling the world in search of traces of the vessel, all without leaving the French seaside, where he spends his holidays. What they need is someone who helps find lost objects. A Siberian tiger will steer them in the right direction. This is a treasure hunt that blurs the limits between imagination and reality and whose sense of urgency contrasts with the long indolent Summer days.

In the Cave

2018 • 15 min • Italy, Slovenia

A life that goes off, one last goodbye in the room of an old speleologist. Darkness invades the view and seems to leave no escape, but unexpectedly beyond the darkness there is something, a new beginning, an elsewhere from which to start again. A world made of millenary rocks and concretions. A cave full of beauty and mystery, where nothing is what it seems.The only guide is a light on the head, whose shadows draw on the wet walls a new story. Exploring the wonders of the subsoil and looking for the way out of the eternal darkness, the viewer will be the protagonist of an allegorical journey in search of life and rebirth.

The Greek Connection

2018 • 13 min • Norway

A hobby astronomer with an inexplicable fascination for the dwarf planet Pluto comes across a mystery at night.

Pillow Talk

2018 • 8 min • United Kingdom

A coming of age film about best friends Cara and Lucy set in 1993. Lucy suspects that Cara has feelings for girls rather than boys and she is determined to get the truth out of her. Even at the risk of damaging their friendship.

44 Messages from Catalonia

2018 • 19 min • Spain

In 2017, the citizens of Catalonia voted to become an independent state, a result which was soon after deemed illegal in Spain’s constitutional court. Through conversations and WhatsApp chats recorded in the leadup to the referendum, join the voters as they head to the polls and anxiously await the results.

Once Upon A Time There Was A House

2018 • 5 min • Russia

Once upon a time there was a house that did not bother anyone, but there were always residents to complain.

Elinah

2018 • 19 min • Indonesia

Elinah (14 years old) is seven months pregnant and learning to be a stay at home wife. While living with her much older husband in a foreign city far away from her village, Elinah often chatted with the baby in her tummy to fight boredom and loneliness. In the midst of an annoying day, Elinah and her baby decide to go home, to each of their respective homes.

Sisyphus Condition

2018 • 11 min • Latvia

A man living on a remote rocky island where only stone and ocean surrounds him, seems to do some meaningful task. He is carrying stones, sometimes burying them and sleeping on them. He continues doing the same tasks, never revealing to the viewer the reason of his work. “Sisyphus Condition” refers to Ancient Greek mythological hero Sisyphus who was punished for his self-aggrandizing craftiness and deceitfulness by being forced to roll an immense boulder up a hill, only to watch it come back to hit him, repeating this action for eternity.

Skip and the Rhythm Rangers

2018 • 15 min • Netherlands

Dance is by far the most important thing in 14-year-old Skip’s life. He’s got big ambitions, so whenever he gets the chance to take part in a dance competition with his all-boys group the Rhythm Rangers, he’s completely committed to the rehearsals at the local dance school.

Perm Antiquities. The Elephant of Okhansk

2018 • 52 min • Russia

200 to 300 thousand years ago the banks of the river now called Kama were inhabited by mammoth’s and elephant’s ancestors. Presently fishermen have found the fossils of these in the steep banks of Kama. All of it started from there… In the film, you can see how the discovery of the trogonterii mammoth’s fossils became the center of the social initiative for people from the nearest villages and even the Krai’s administrative capital.

Hotel Bardo

2018 • 11 min

Hotel Bardo is an effort to convey something of the artist and author Brion Gysin in present time. Resisting biography—refusing historicisation—and instead attempting to harness a narrative borne by Gysin himself. A transcendent un-biography, Hotel Bardo is an ultra-travelogue set in a vision of the public domain in which the living and the dead pass freely to play with the idea of origins and posterity. It manifests primarily through experimental film, documentary, intervention and literature.