All Films

Gusla or the Spirits

2018 • 9 min

This is a surreal trip through a gorgeously animated landscape of chickens, pierogies and Lenin. Adrienne returns to Poland to visit her grandmother, aunt and uncle. While there she hears all manner of stories about the country’s communist past. In the heart of the home—the kitchen—ghosts of old, both real and imagined, are confronted, reworked and released.

The Legend of the Hospitallers

2018 • 20 min • Ukraine

Eastern Ukraine during the war against Russia. A young girl travels to the East to find her beloved, who volunteered to fight in the war. One night, she hears a cry for help on the radio. Thinking it is her boyfriend, she goes into enemy territory. But it turns out to be another soldier. The girl saves him and realizes that her destiny is to save people. During one of the battles, she gets into an accident and becomes disabled. But despite this, she creates and leads a medical battalion called "Hospitallers," which saves hundreds of people on the battlefield.

Ricardo Quevedo: Hay gente así

2018 • 58 min

Droll comic Ricardo Quevedo hits Bogotá with a set that touches on embarrassing misunderstandings, sex talk, the thrill of being scared and more.

Tuesday

2018 • 11 min

A writer’s path to understanding that destruction of real life is a source of inspiration.

A.W. A Portrait of Apichatpong Weerasethakul

2018 • 47 min • United States of America

Canadian actor and filmmaker Connor Jessup (Closet Monster, Falling Skies) profiles Apichatpong Weerasethakul, a maverick of Thai cinema who explores the slippery nature of time and consciousness with a sublimely idiosyncratic, often surreal approach to film form.

The Flatwoods Monster: A Legacy of Fear

2018 • 45 min • United States of America

Unlock a decades-old mystery that included a government-ordered military examination of a purported alien crash-site, and multiple UFOs seen by countless residents of Braxton County, West Virginia.

A Wedding Day

2018 • 15 min • Algeria, France

Karim, a French crook in exile in Algiers, lives off petty scams. In this open-air prison, he drags his spleen around other hoodlums.

Letter to São Paulo

2018 • 3 min • Brazil

A ride through the underground of São Paulo is also a ride through one's memories.

Dinner Party

2018 • 13 min

A VR film about the Betty and Barnet abduction

The Jonah Movie

2018 • 52 min • United States of America

In 1999, Jonah Sorrentino's dream came true. He signed his first record deal. A year later, he was dropped. What followed was a journey of faith and perseverance as Jonah sought to shape and define the genre of christian hip hop music.

Scotland 78: A Love Story

2018 • 60 min • United Kingdom

In 1978, Scotland had a team of brilliant footballers and mercurial manager in Ally MacLeod. Featuring rare archive footage, this is the story of when a nation dared to dream.

D.J. Demers: [Indistinct Chatter]

2018 • 59 min

Stand-up comedian D.J. Demers jokes about his life with hearing aids, the impending doom of turning thirty years old, and the perils of performing on cruise ships. Filmed live at Theatre Passe-Muraille in Toronto, Canada.

Waco: The Longest Siege

2018 • 51 min

It began as a raid, turned into a 51-day standoff, and ended with the destruction of a five-story building and 75 people dead. The 1993 Waco siege of the compound belonging to the Branch Davidians riveted the nation and drew swarms of media from around the globe. Now, a quarter century later, we revisit the American tragedy through rarely seen footage and interviews with local journalists, federal agents, and former and current members of the sect.

Being Me

2018 • 27 min

High school students Jae Nam and Seo Hyun are happy just to be together. But after an unfortunate live broadcast, Jae Nam is suddenly nowhere to be found.

Ran

2018 • 20 min

The movie follows Ran's journey, whose main desire is to fulfill his potential. He is ready to deal with difficult experiences of not being accepted by his family and friends, physical and emotional changes, and even dangers to his health, but he is not willing to give up on himself and his happiness.

The Sunset Channel

2018 • 17 min • Canada

A housebound man thinks he might be the only witness of a disturbing event on his television.

The Constant Evening

2018 • 15 min

A tense, sexual encounter between James and a mysterious young stranger reveals significant yearnings from James's former relationship.

5x7

2018 • 37 min • Italy

A beautiful collection of pictures ties Frank Cancian, an elderly photographer and retired professor of anthropology, American with origin from Veneto, to the people of Lacedonia, a small town in southern Italy. Thanks to the rediscovery of the photos taken in 1957 by the young Cancian in that rural village where he had arrived almost by chance, the story resumes there where it was interrupted 60 years earlier. And the thread of memories ties back to people and places, bringing with itself some essential reflections on how photography can become an ethnographic look at small communities.

CarOuzel

2018 • 3 min • Italy

Hunting, a vicious merry go round, a carousel for savage adults against wildlife. Avoid the circular logic of thinking about hunting in a roundabout way. Hunting must be stopped now, discursive roundabouts about the possibility of regulating it are circumlocutory escape routes! In this video, you hear ouzels singing in a cellar, deprived of sunlight, exploited and commodified, sold as call birds. Ouzels are highly sought for their wondrous vocalization. In turn, as in a death carousel, they are then used for attracting other birds that will be killed by legalized exterminators, otherwise called hunters.

The Rain in Spain

2018 • 10 min • Turkey

'The Rain in Spain' tells the story of a sex robot in near future. The title is a reference the iconic movie 'My Fair Lady'

The Showtime

2018 • 8 min • Ukraine

Plain film show the audience stops outraged how behave around. At this point it appears that this is the first test viewing the tape, and the hall is not the usual audience and crew.

I Killed Vincent

2018 • 14 min • France

On 29 July 1890 Vincent Van Gogh took his last breath. Despite the painter's silence about the circumstances, his death was put down to suicide throughout the 20th century. In 2011 following their investigation into Van Gogh's last hours American researchers Gregory White Smith and Steven Naifeh delivered a new version of the facts.

Zero One

2018 • 2 min • China

Zero One is a code-based generative video commissioned by Zero One Technology Festival 2018 in Shenzhen, PR China. This project consists of multiple interlinked generative systems, each of which has its customized features, but collectively share the core concept of an evolving elementary cellular automaton.

Glory Hole

2018 • 19 min

My secret friend, I will take you to the ocean, where we can swim endlessly. Our souls can collide in the depth of the ocean and get lost in the abyss. There is no password this time, as you wear out in empty endings every day, just imagine this time. Imagine the sweet peace in the depth, to not get lost among light and nothingness.