All Films

On the Record: P!NK — Beautiful Trauma

2017 • 34 min

The Unlucky Australians

2017 • 57 min • Australia

In 1966, Gurindji stockmen & their families walked off the largest cattle station in the NT. Frank Hardy follows the story of the strike as told by the Gurindji people.

Caracas Vice Vol. 1

2017 • 1 min • Venezuela

Caracas, Venezuela. 1982. Ryan of the DEA and Carlos the PTJ join forces to stop the most dangerous drug lord of the country, Disco Herrera.

Z Fest

2017 • 16 min • Spain

Unaware of the zombie mayhem unleashed outside their tent, Pablo has a massive hangover and Ruth keeps a secret.

Looking for Reiko

2017 • 17 min • France, India

A man goes to Tokyo to have an interview with Ike Reiko, who was a singer and actress in the 70s. Wandering in the city, he films the unexpected things he discovers.

Trigonocephaly: A Documentary About Me

2017 • 6 min • United Kingdom

At 6 months old, Benedict was diagnosed with Trigonocephaly, a rare skull condition in which a baby's skull fuses together before birth. His parents were told he would have to have surgery shortly after his 1st birthday. 17 years later, this documentary created by Benedict himself and composed of home videos recorded between 1999 and 2001 explores the unlikely experience from his parent's perspective.

Who Killed Olof Palme?

2017 • 46 min

About the murder of Olof Palme Feb. 28, 1986. Palme was a strong willed and maverick Swedish prime minister. He was idealistic in the extreme in that he believed he could defeat evil forces in the world by the power of his moral stance and the strength of his convictions. New and old suspects and theories surface in this film. Plus a fairly new informer, Ivan von Birchan.

Antojo

2017 • 7 min • Ecuador

Short film by Camilo Toledo

Oluteco. The Dance of la Malinche

2017 • 1 min • Mexico

Sold by her step brothers, Malintzin serves as a translator for an spanish merchant. When visiting Tenochtitlan she is rescued by Moctezuma. The merchant, angry, charges the aztecs of robbery with Hernan Cortes, who invades the city under that excuse.

In Search of the Land Without Evil

2017 • 15 min • Brazil

In the ‘land without evil’ humans will find peace, according to the Guaraní. Not far from Rio de Janeiro, they have built a village where they can live according to their customs and their children can grow up equally influenced by ancient traditions and the modern world. The uncommented observation of their everyday lives full of games, laughter and music enables the audience to pose questions – and to search for their own right answers.

Donny The Drone

2017 • 12 min • Japan, United States of America, India, Bangladesh

Donny the Drone --the world’s first sentient machine goes on stage to accept a prestigious “Person of the Year” award as an auditorium of humans are confronted with his emotional and controversial story.

Lola's Rainbow

2017 • 22 min • United Kingdom

Lola's Rainbow is a film about the mundanity of life. It's about feeling trapped in the everyday cycle of repetition. The rainbow is symbolic for many reasons to many different people, however for Lola it symbolises a way out. In a world that is often dull and vapid, the rainbow's bright colours call to Lola. Dreaming of chasing the rainbow and actually doing it are two different things. Most of us give up and accept that life doesn't get better than the cycle that we find ourselves in. EAT. SLEEP. WORK. REPEAT.

A Part

2017 • 13 min

A make-or-break audition for Todd Wieczorek, an LA-based actor, forces him to confront his troubled past.

Dear Satan

2017 • 6 min • United Kingdom

A typo in a letter causes Satan to have a change of heart.

Swipe Right

2017 • 23 min • United States of America

'Swipe Right' is a musical comedy set in the era of internet dating over the course of one night in New York City.

Melon Grab

2017 • 10 min • Australia

Dysfunctional truth rap and suspended youth - the final skate between two best friends.

Dedication

2017 • 19 min • United States of America

"Dedication" is the story of a maid working in a hotel who uses a black magic spell in the hopes of harnessing the talent of one of the hotel's frequent guests - an eccentric writer - and passing it on to her unborn son.

Between Walls

2017 • 19 min • Colombia

Isabella, Mario and Cristina are trying to fill their loneliness in the wrong place.

Il était une fois... « Mommy »

2017 • 52 min • France

In 2014, the movie « Mommy » directed by Xavier Dolan, got the Special Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. This was a great achievement for this director prodigy from Quebec, who had just turned 25. The script - a tumultuous relationship between a single mother and his hyperactive and violent son - and the bold direction electrified the audience. Shot in Montreal, the documentary by Tessa Louise Salomé tells the genesis of this family drama. It also reveals the failures of the society in Quebec : the failure of the mental institution and the impoverishment of the middle class.

In Jesus’ Name: Shattering the Silence of St. Anne's Residential School

2017 • 42 min

A poignant all-Indigenous English and Cree-English collaborative documentary that breaks long-held silences imposed upon indigenous children who were interned at the notoriously violent St. Anne’s Residential School in Fort Albany First Nation, Ontario. Use of a homemade electric chair at St. Anne's and the incorporation of testimony about student-on-student abuse makes this documentary stand apart from other films about Canadian residential school experiences. This film will serve as an Indigenous historical document wholly authored by Indigenous bodies and voices, those of the Survivors themselves.

Daak Ghar

2017 • 50 min • India

Set in early 20th-century rural Bengal, Daak Ghar tells the story of Amal, a young boy with an incurable illness who gets caught up in the world outside of his window.

Subhumane

2017 • 5 min

A woman consumed by the darkness she feels from the betrayal of others lures her friends to their demise. (Shot entirely inside a real cave)

Desde Adentro

2017 • 14 min • Argentina

Mía finds a pendant with an ancient symbol while rummaging through her recently deceased grandmother's belongings. That same night she is tormented by a nightmare in which she finds herself in the middle of a forest clearing. Her friends decide to go to Mía's grandmother's field to clear up for the weekend. One by one her friends mysteriously disappear and Mia ends up in the same clearing as her nightmares, where a strange secret is revealed to her.

In the Dark, Dark Woods...

2017 • 4 min

In the dark woods, lived a woman with a soul so dark that she was rendered invisible.