All Films

Zwinglis Erbe

2018 • 55 min • Switzerland

A.D. 1519: When Huldrych Zwingli begins preaching as a priest in Zurich, the plague affects him. Looking death in the face, God's Word carries him through and he survives. Encouraged and strengthened, he turns Zurich upside down with the Bible in his hand. However, resistance - even from the closest circle of friends - increases more and more.

Camilla

2018 • 22 min • Malta

A screen adaptation of the short story of the same name by Clare Azzopardi from her collection of short stories titled, "Kulħadd Ħalla Isem Warajh".

Russi-Collombin, un duel au sommet

2018 • 59 min • Switzerland

It is the story of two young Swiss people who couldn't be more different and who meet in ski races around the world. From 1972 to 1975, from Sapporo to Kitzbühel to Wengen, Bernhard Russi and Roland Collombin fought a relentless battle for the title of the world's best ski racer.

Hitler's Balls

2018 • 7 min • Switzerland

Hitler is not dead. He is hiding in the woods. With a gypsy woman. Their son is Donald Trump. Two nazi hunters women are tracking him down.

White Electron

2018 • 5 min

A meditation on the atom. A film carried by the musical universe of Karl Boscovich.

A Trilogy of Love Stories

2018 • 48 min

Joy Belmonte and Boy Abunda Originals present A Trilogy of Love Stories that features gender sensitive short films dedicated to the memory of Bernardo Bernardo who stars in one of the short films. The three short are Young Love (starring Lorenzo Santiago and Rahcir Tan), A Love Story in the Time of HIV (Christian Bables and Aaron Rivera), and To Love and Not Be Loved (Eian Rances and Bernardo Bernardo). To Love and Not Be Loved is also Bernardo Bernardo's last work for cinema.

The Art of Acid

2018 • 15 min • United States of America

Mark McCloud is the world's leading collector Of LSD art. His 'Institute of Illegal Images' has over 30,000 framed hits of acid and traces the history of the drug's cultural influence through the unique art form used in its distribution - blotter art. After enduring and defeating aggressive prosecutions by law enforcement seeking to put him behind bars for life, Mark now appears to be more of a visionary than an outlaw and his museum has become a place of pilgrimage for believers in LSD's spiritual power.

Floodplain

2018 • 12 min

Partir

2018 • 7 min • Brazil

The short film “Partir” is a documentary organized by layers of time. Assembled with old files, images and music, Partir shows the story of a family. Current images of the demolition of a property, family heritage, are joined to archives in super-8 recorded by the father, in the seventies, and assembled with a soundtrack with lyrical songs performed by the mother between the 1970s and 2005. Between the scenes demolition, children play and dance with their mother's songs, recorded inside the house.

Sand

2018 • 23 min • United States of America

The grandmother figure in the story is an “artistic speaker” who performs in town but seems enigmatic to her own granddaughter. Over the course of the narrative, the granddaughter realizes that, far from succumbing to despair in old age, her grandmother is full of “young laughter that has found its way back to an old body.”

Musical Traumas

2018 • 10 min • Serbia

A rhythmic compilation of traumatic, but amusing confessions of former music school students. Milos Tomic uses drawings to transform his obsession with music schools into visualized sounds and pupils’ confessions. Tragicomic mini scenes about the joy and compulsion of making music.

All Eyez on Me

2018 • 11 min

An abstract and artistic exploration of the emotional world of lesbian sexuality. It aims to visualise the melting pot of emotions when women make love with women. Sensitive, passionate and hypnotic.

Tamino - live @ Les Concerts Volants

2018 • 31 min

Tamino is one of the most intriguing artists of the new Belgian scene. This artist of Egyptian origin weaves an intimate and delicately melancholy music, sometimes tinged with oriental influences. A haunting universe that fascinates from the first listen. We let you discover the phenomenon, from the top floor of the Institut du Monde Arabe.

Cured

2018 • 16 min

These people are sick of dancing.

Missing Teeth

2018 • 3 min • Canada

"Missing Teeth" visualizes the introspective self-loathing one experiences while standing in the shower.

Chasing Dreamsville

2018 • 51 min

After drugs take over a once booming Ohio town nicknamed "Dreamsville U.S.A.", six citizens look to rise above the adversity they were all born into.

Deborah

2018 • 28 min • Germany

Deborah vanished after her mother died. Her father Enrico is looking for her and finds clues in a strange village in Germany, where he soon finds out, that the town folk is living some ancient cult to get the dead back.

Always Online

2018 • 40 min • Norway

This Norwegian documentary asks the question if you really can go around without a smartphone and social medias in todays society. The movie follows 16 year old Elida as through a week without her smartphone and no access to her social medias. During the documentary we also get to hear the perspectives of some of her fellow classmates, a teacher, a professor in information- and media science at the University in Bergen, and leader of the local support group for victims of bullying.

Nevermore

2018 • 5 min

Based on Edgar Allan Poe's iconic poem "The Raven", "Nevermore" explores the musicality, stylized language, and the supernatural atmosphere of the iconic poem. A lone violinist tells the story of a raven's mysterious visit and conversation with a distraught lover to tracing the man's slow fall into madness.

Good Luck With That

2018 • 47 min • Canada

When 13 year old Samuel decides that it's about time to start asking girls out he finds out that he has no idea of how to do that.

Christmas at St Paul's

2018 • 59 min • United Kingdom

For the first time in its history, St Paul's has granted the BBC privileged access to film behind the scenes in the countdown to Christmas and on the big day itself.

Cuscus

2018 • 11 min

Cuscus's grandfather has the virus, so she is the only one who can get supplies. She must face great challenges as she travels a world devastated by a technological holocaust.

Take Me Somewhere Where No One Knows My Body

2018 • 12 min

A homage/ remake of George Kuchar's "Hold Me While I'm Naked"

Cedar Tree of Life

2018 • 11 min

A short, expressionist documentary, exploring the relationship between Cedar and three Indigenous women who work with it, weave with it, and live with it.