All Films

Calendar

2018 • 29 min • Russia

At first glance she is just an ordinary woman, but every couple of months her normal life comes to a halt. Unbeknownst to her loved ones, she goes on a long journey. She jumps from one type of transportation to another, carefully covering up her tracks and building a web of lies during her phone conversations. What is on her mind and what is the purpose of this journey?

Empty Spaces

2018 • 24 min • Brazil

Amidst the crisis in the Porto Alegre real estate market, a college student, struggling with a recent break up and her upcoming graduation, start looking for a new apartment to live in, only to find herself victim of an urban curse that follows people who live alone in the city.

Nova

2018 • 7 min • United States of America

NOVA is a film that investigates the building of genetically modified and scientifically improve human and its ethical impact. Jin, an ailing old geneticist and biochemist, created the heroin of the story Nova to serve his personal need, a daughter to love him.

Bjarne Hates the Camera

2018 • 40 min

A foreign filmmaker invades the life of her neighbour Bjarne, who unwillingly becomes the main character in a documentary about himself.

Matou

2018 • 4 min • Japan

The cycle of life, in reverse.

Land of Barry: The Thing What Came from Outer Space

2018 • 11 min

The lives of Barry and his supposed friend Oscar are turned upside down when an alien crash-lands in their backyard. Now they've got to go on the run from a soviet eugenics operation, and grapple with the fact they are part of a prophecy to destroy an intergalactic warlord.

Big Elvis

2018 • 11 min

A 960-pound Elvis impersonator is absolutely convinced he is Elvis Presley's secret love child.

Jouska

2018 • 7 min

A psychological drama about three characters; a young woman who wants to break up to his abusive boyfriend, a teen confronting his childhood friend, a thirty-five years old woman facing her brother, experiencing hypothetical conversations with them, only to see that it never goes the way it’s imagined, and each person’s confrontation or lack of it in reality differs.

Excursion to the Mountains

2018 • 4 min • United Kingdom

How can we hold on to the memory of someone without holding ourselves back? This is a film about being brave enough to capture new memories without denying the pain of loss.

Sheila

2018 • 15 min • Portugal

A film about the egocentric and superficial youth and the evermore consumerist society.

To See the Sea

2018 • 25 min • Portugal

A movie about relationships and affection with the sea as a cenario and link between these stories.

Ant

2018 • 4 min • Germany

An anthill is no simple thing. Each ant has their task and it’s hard to imagine what would happen if one wise guy rebelled and decided to do things differently…

My Brother Mitchell

2018 • 15 min

In rural New Zealand, a Maori boy comes to terms with the death of his brother, leading their mother in search of answers.

Inside Facebook: Secrets of the Social Network

2018 • 47 min • United Kingdom

Dispatches goes undercover in the secretive world of the people who decide what can and can't be posted on Facebook, exploring how their decisions are made and the impact they have on users.

Down There

2018 • 11 min • China, France

A blissful night is unexpectedly interrupted by a sound from downstairs. Different reactions are triggered as well as the relentless indifference.

Côté Coeur

2018 • 29 min • France

Maryline, 16, is in love with Aymeric who works with her at the harbor. But under the influence of Mars on this summer day, she saves Ludovic from drowning.

Sweet and Sour

2018 • 6 min

Wei believes that his traditional Chinese mom would have a hard time accepting his boyfriend. However, it turns out that she is more complex than Wei's supposed.

Selfish

2018 • 5 min • United Kingdom

Two girls, two phones and a filtered reality.

Childhood Memories

2018 • 4 min • United Kingdom

This multi-layered animation explores autobiographical memory and the cultural elements of our earliest childhood memory. Often episodic, this recollection of personally experienced past events often emerge from as early as three years old. After the age of five, these memories become elusive. A journey back to where it all began can be both beautiful and enlightening.

Two Puddles

2018 • 6 min • United Kingdom

When a family encounters two radically unusual puddles on a woodland retreat, unspoken tensions finally surface.

Grams

2018 • 16 min • France

When Caroline arrives for her grandmother's funeral, she and her daughter find the church empty.Odile, her mother, has postponed the service as she is not yet ready for the burial.

Cross My Heart

2018 • 14 min • Jamaica, United States of America

An American teenage girl visits her family in Jamaica and uncovers a secret that changes the way she sees the people she loves.

I Have To Say I Love You

2018 • 13 min

A documentary about resilience and the fight against suicide among trans people, the film portrays the characters’ relationships with their bodies, life and all that is sacred. It dives into the hearts of Aretha, Yago, Deniell and Ariel in an attempt to promote inner healing.

Nubes de Febrero

2018 • 12 min • Argentina

A few days of summer on the river. A family that was still that. There are memories volatile, that come and go. The feeling that the rain is nearby, a woman with a red hat, the trees at the side of the road. Perhaps the images are like small houses where safeguard the memory. And leave it inside something, so it seems certain.