All Films

Thursday

2018 • 15 min • Russia

The heroine's son is admitted to the hospital in critical condition. A mother in distraught, pleads to the doctors to save her child, but is met with harsh reality of medical incompetence.

Racket Slingers

2018 • 53 min • United States of America

James, a shy, but passionate captain with a love for his tennis team, The Racket Slingers, must compete in one final match to win the ultimate prize of U.S. Open tickets. However, The Racket Slingers must defeat the infamous and intimidating Court Queens, a group of elite and skilled teenage girls.

Eikasia

2018 • 25 min • Portugal

The movie follows a young adult that lives in an abandoned world. His dreams and memories are his escape from the reality. After some strange events, he begins a journey looking for answers.

Mj

2018 • 13 min • United Kingdom

In an attempt to find acceptance in purpose in an alienating post-millennial world an unhinged young woman develops a violent addiction to social media.

Cliché

2018 • 8 min • Canada

A trio of young people. A dark cabin. A killer on the loose. Sound familiar? You bet it does.

Traces

2018 • 13 min • Belgium, France

Thirty six thousand years ago, in the Ardèche river gorge, when an animal was painted, it was hunted. When it is again time to go hunting and painting, Gwel is appointed head of the group of hunters while Karou the painter and his apprentice Lani set off to paint the walls of the great cavern. But they hadn't counted on meeting a cave lion.

Are You Holding Me, or Am I Holding Myself?

2018 • 12 min

Are You Holding Me, or Am I Holding Myself? is a self study examining the relationship between our minds and our bodies, our thoughts and our actions, and the sometimes insurmountable gaps between what we think we want to feel and what we actually experience.

Short Wave

2018 • 15 min • Iran

The short film is a narration of a man who is struggling with the disturbing sound of his environment and doing anything to keep silent.

After Ashes

2018 • 15 min

After a plague wipes out most of humanity, transforming them into mindless creatures, The Grim Reaper struggles with boredom as he kills time more than he does people. Kali Kaminski, the lone human survivor, struggles to maintain her sanity while keeping creatures and lethargy at bay. These two individuals inevitably meet and find kindred spirits in one another changing both of their outlooks on the world they find themselves trapped in.

Mangashlyk

2018 • 19 min • Kazakhstan, Russia

1942 year. Pavlodar. Kazakhstan. Far Eastern military echelon. Tanker Stepan hopes to meet his mother. The soldier Litovkin is faced with a difficult choice - to fulfill the order or to skip mother to son.

No History in a Room Filled with People with Funny Names 5

2018 • 31 min • Thailand, United States of America

This film takes the rescue mission of 13 kids that were stuck in a flooded cave in Northern Thailand as a central focus to examine how the force of propaganda, spirituality, Royal History storytelling, Cold War politics in Southeast Asia and localized beliefs come together to create a new myth of representation for everyone to believe and take part in.

Mark Sipka: My Special Family Special

2018 • 53 min

Mark Sipka tells funny jokes and stories about his family with them onstage. As the youngest Sipka, Mark finally gets sweet revenge against his older brothers, pokes fun at his sister-in-law, and roasts his parents in this fun, family-friendly stand-up special.

Alice Comedies Vol. 2

2018 • 40 min • France, United States of America

4 gems from Walt Disney

Between Dog and Wolf

2018 • 8 min

The hour between dog and wolf, is an indeterminate time. It is the moment when day becomes night, when just briefly at dusk, one thing can be taken for another: friend for foe, sleep for death, you for me, dog for wolf. These scenes from a coast where the Roman fleet is thought to have first landed in Britain – in a language thought to be closest in sound to spoken Latin – are part of an ongoing philosophical enquiry set on the Isle of Thanet. The screenplay is adapted from writings by Virginia Woolf and Raul Ruiz.

Area C

2018 • 10 min • Palestinian Territory

In the West Bank, Area C is a Palestinian area surrounded by Israeli settlements. Facing poverty and violence, a clever and sensitive Palestinian child tries his hardest to keep his home and family safe from aggressive settlers, even if just for a little while.

Caribou in the Archive

2018 • 8 min • Canada

In Caribou in the Archive, rustic VHS home video of a Cree woman hunting caribou in the 1990s is combined with NFB archival film footage of northern Manitoba from the 1950s. In this experimental film, the difference between homemade video and official historical record is considered. Northern Indigenous women hunting is at the heart of this personal found footage film in which the filmmaker describes the enigmatic events that led to saving an important piece of family history from being lost forever.

Apollo 8: The Mission That Changed The World

2018 • 44 min

At 6:31 a.m. on Saturday, December 21, 1968, the world held its breath as NASA launched the first manned mission to the Moon in history.

Trailer Boys

2018 • 22 min • Singapore

Trailer Boys follows the journey of Muhammad Irfan Rafieh, a key member of Abam2 Trailer Singapura, which is a community of heavy vehicle drivers from Singapore. Truck drivers are mostly seen as uneducated and unskilled compared to the rest of society, especially in fast-paced competitive Singapore. This film explores how young truck drivers in Singapore such as Irfan find ways to break stereotypes and improve how society perceives them through their day to day work and their trailer club.

Underworld's Flower

2018 • 3 min

Short film about modern Hades and Persephone’s myth.

Chopin

2018 • 13 min • Sweden

“All you need to know is that he loves quail eggs.” This is what Vonna-Michell’s father told him about French sound poet Henri Chopin, who subsequently has been the subject of a decade-long research project. Vonna-Michell’s rapid-fire monologue ties together the debris of this research in an opaque cabinet of wonders.

Mannn

2018 • 6 min

Story of two young men who live in Pigneto. One undecided about revealing his true essence hides, fights, cries. The other one irreverent and ironic, he knows that he has nothing to lose and that in the end love will not triumph this time

1 in 10,000: Act I

2018 • 8 min • South Korea

If the odds are stacked against you, what's the point?

Monk

2018 • 5 min • Ukraine

To whom does a monk raise a glass? To whom does he read his prayers? When the sun sits down the river, everything becomes gray and it's more difficult to distinguish between white and black and the borderline between them. The monk crosses this line in search of the answer.

O Poder Negro

2018 • 3 min • Brazil

An excerpt from Neville D'Almeida's debut feature "Jardim de Guerra" (1968), focusing on the Black Power speech made by a character played by Antonio Pitanga.