All Films

Filho da Lua

2018 • 23 min

The Memory of Robot Carnival: A Look Back at the History of the Classic Anthology

2018 • 23 min • United States of America

A visual essay on the making, release and restoration of Robot Carnival.

One Bullet

2018 • 16 min • Hong Kong

A man kills his friend with the only bullet of his gun after they have been trapped on a hillside under a cliff without food and water for 11 days.

Rhod Gilbert: Stand Up to Shyness

2018 • 60 min • United Kingdom

Stand-up comedian Rhod Gilbert presents a documentary in which he confronts his painful shyness, looking at why he suffers from it and what can be done.

Agua Viva

2018 • 7 min • United States of America

A Chinese manicurist in Miami attempts to describe feelings she doesn't have the words for.

Table For One

2018 • 9 min • United Kingdom

As Edward waits for midnight to strike, Henry comes to him and begs him to come to an arrangement.

Burkina Brandenburg Komplex

2018 • 19 min • Germany

A presumably African village, inhabited by Germans. BURKINA BRANDENBURG KOMPLEX describes a geographical construction that makes use of “our” medial and collective image of Africa and puts it to the test through inaccuracies. An archaeological find is made in a mine: a Ferrari®. We tag along with Joachim on his everyday rounds. He has his heart set on realising a common energy project. The Museum of Prussian Cultural Heritage is run by a woman of color. She presents artefacts from Western consumer culture with a special emphasis on German products. Joachim is involved in the ritualistic production of energy in the village, but gets excluded when the ceremony is nearing its finale, finally catapulting himself out of the “story/history”.

Meeting People

2018 • 46 min • United States of America

The story of a man being stalked by a note-writing maniac... and more.

Juna

2018 • 12 min • Germany

A dream shows Juna that she has only one last day to live. Ignorantly she initiated the process itself. The attempt to avert her fate failed. A story about the problem of artificial life.

Almir Valente

2018 • 26 min • Brazil

Documentary that portrays the work of the artist Almir Valente.

Shadow

2018 • 13 min

An honest and shy student, Jane, finds herself lost in the world of college dating. When her crush, Allen, doesn't clearly respond to her feelings, she is left vulnerable to the less admirable intentions of his competitive friend, Will.

The Man: at the Gates of the Rising Sun

2018 • 51 min • Mexico

A mentally unbalanced man wakes up in chains, in an unknown room. He must struggle to regain his identity and to break free before the bomb in front of him explodes.

How Steel Was Tempered

2018 • 12 min • Croatia

A father takes his son to an abandoned factory where he once worked. The building has long been reduced to a crumbling symbol of the new system. Nonetheless, the space will briefly be brought to life by recorded scenes of workers solidarity, inspiring a small gesture of defiance. That symbolic act will turn into a moment of catharsis and re-establish the relationship between the father and son.

Meteorlight

2018 • 10 min • United Kingdom

The story follows Spudling, a sheltered character whose parent runs the factory manufacturing light for the city's inhabitants. When finally granted permission to follow their parent into work for one day, Spudling discovers the secret of what is really powering their world...

The Kidnapping of Skylar F*cking Spears

2018 • 20 min • United States of America

When two best friends discover that the girl who bullied them mercilessly in high school is now a famous kidnapping survivor, they drunkenly Uber to her house to investigate.

Milk and Cookies

2018 • 8 min

Grace is five. She wants milk and cookies. Every day. Real bad.

Soroca's Bolishoi Theatre

2018 • 52 min • Moldova

Nicolae is a 9-year-old boy. He is a pupil at the Russian language school in Soroca. He really likes to go to school. He looks forward to going to the "last day of school" to find out if he is going to be accepted into the third grade. He knows all the streets of Soroca, because, together with his brother, Gena, they wander all day. Soroca - is a small town in the north of the Republic of Moldova. It is known thanks to the medieval fortress, the oldest on the territory of the country, but also thanks to the Roma community, that lives compactly in a neighborhood on a hill from Soroca. The Roma are eccentric here. They built big houses, some of them being replicas of known buildings in the world. Hence the name of the movie The Bolshoi Theatre, referring to the well-known building in Moscow, but also to the theatrical nature of the Roma people.

Child of the Earth

2018 • 12 min

A teenage patient in hospice care dons a VR headset to travel on a mission to the International Space Station. Leaving behind the confines of his broken body, he embarks on a spacewalk - a profound life experience which stirs his soul.

Pour pas être seul

2018 • 10 min

Vincent is involved in the making of a video game called Soulkeeper in which he plays the main character, a knight that came back from the dead. For his first day on the set, he's being followed by a TV crew.

Reflection

2018 • 3 min • United States of America

When a high school girl tries to give up what she loves in order to fit in, her reflection comes to life to remind her of her true self.

Ad Infinitum

2018 • 13 min • Turkey

At the center of a barren and mysterious universe stands a shed. From within, the Leader oversees his subordinates, but they cannot look inside. After an encounter with one of his subordinates, the Leader faces the fact that his authority is crumbling. In order to regain his authority, he decides to use brute force, but nevertheless the battle for authority persists.

Family

2018 • 25 min • Belgium

Lisa welcomes Youssif, Houria and their daughter Nour, while they’re waiting for their convocation at the Immigration Office. Between the will of kindness and communication issues, doubt and fear begin to settle in Lisa’s intimacy : who is this family?

Flyhole

2018 • 6 min • United States of America

Using appropriated text and images, the story of a housefly who transitions into a man in order to cruise a gay bar.

Sami

2018 • 12 min

Sami is an anticipation short film where a young conscript soldier finds himself at the frontline of a nameless war. Alone in his trench, boredom becomes his biggest enemy. There in the bottom of his hole that he will find an unexpected comfort.