All Films

Bad Beat

2018 • 4 min • United Kingdom

A young man fueled by the arrogance of his opponent must win a game of blackjack at any cost, even if it means bending the rules.

Jobs? Never!!

2018 • 22 min • United States of America

Jobs? Never!! is an intimate glimpse into the soul of the 40-year-old legendary skater and iconoclast Jim Greco. Shot on Super 16mm & 35mm, this short-film follows Greco as he navigates through his days: living, skating, falling and dreaming in Los Angeles.

Or / Our (Budapest)

2018 • 4 min

Quenched in the Klimt’s gold, the aurora upon Budapest shines of thousand fires. The tiny birds seam to be flying from the firmament and dancing. Immensity and calmness enter indeed in resonance with the fluxes of the Earth. Our entrails, as pulled by the forces of the underground lavas, remind us of the power of patience. The quest for light, the quest for love can begin in the vibrations of this letter of incandescente images, fanned with emotions.

Quick'n'Clean

2018 • 13 min • Germany

Ria is a young girl working at a dry cleaner's. Not much to expect here, apart from the fact that she's expecting. It's ten minutes before the shop closes, when her boyfriend Lenny steps in to hide a mysterious suitcase. He's looking for a safe harbour while she makes a quick and clean decision.

Otherland

2018 • 13 min

A vogue dancer performs at a Voodoo Carnival Ball, an important dance contest where he will have to prove himself to be accepted by the local ballroom community. Based upon the biographical story of Elvin Elejandro Martinez.

Good Heart

2018 • 5 min • Russia

In the prehistoric forest lives primitive family. Mom in this family is strict, wild, gloomy. She just wants everyone to be full and healthy. But everything changes when the son brings the puppy home...

Eternal

2018 • 16 min • Australia

During one night, 3 teenagers; James, Royston and Saskia seek to escape their troubled home lives, only to find that they may have brought the trouble with them.

Lenin's Tears

2018 • 24 min • Russia

Marina Kalashnikova meets a fool on the forest road who predicts her grief. After this meeting, the life of Marina turns upside down.

Shaholly

2018 • 4 min

This story talks about the struggles of a congenital amputee who was once told that she could never become a model.

Charlie Chaplin Lived Here

2018 • 39 min • United Kingdom

In 1960s London, Bill Douglas and Charlie Chaplin nearly meet…

Verengo

2018 • 60 min • Spain

In a 25 years-old home video, a kid insistently asks his dad if he can play with the camera. Once an adult, he returns to reflect on how all those years that passed have affected a place where time seems to have come to a halt. The cycle of life as seen by its protagonist and spectator.

L. Cohen

2018 • 48 min • United States of America

A view of an Oregon farm field, observing a solar eclipse and incorporating a Leonard Cohen song.

I'm Dead

2018 • 8 min

When Joe discovers his next door neighbour dead, he's forced into making a terrible choice - secretly dispose of her corpse or be framed for her murder.

The Letters That Guided Us

2018 • 30 min • United States of America

The Letters That Guided Us opens in the wake of the US involvement in the Vietnam War. William Warren has just returned home from his tour and is seeing home and the people he left behind for the first time in years. Through the course of the 30-minute film, the audience hops into an adventure meeting allies, enemies, and people in between as they track three distinct storylines of William's life.

Hold the Sun in Your Hands: The Erika Jacoby Story

2018 • 8 min

Hand-drawn animation illustrates Holocaust Survivor Erika Jacoby’s memories of surviving Auschwitz. Produced by students aged 12-17 in a Righteous Conversations Project summer workshop at Harvard-Westlake School in Los Angeles.

The Men Behind the Wall

2018 • 28 min • Israel

Tinder. Woman looking for a man, man looking for a woman. It could have been so simple if she wasn't Israeli and the "man nearby" wasn't behind the wall, in the East Bank of the Jordan River. Israeli filmmaker Ines Moldavski meets Palestinian men she met on the Internet to get them to talk about their need for love and desire to possess.

Eight Images from the Life of Nastya Sokolova

2018 • 29 min • Russia

Russia has a surfeit of overqualified graduates. Nastya Sokolova is one of them. Her career, if you can call it that, gave her a plethora of unexpected work experiences: from desk slave in banking to head bookkeeper of an illegal brothel. The film’s eight tableaus detail the various workplaces, colleagues and situations. To finish it off: deadpan commentary.

The Other Side of the Door

2018 • 7 min

A companion film to Wild Nights.

Obsesión

2018 • 6 min • Spain

Short film about abuse.

Slug Life

2018 • 7 min • United Kingdom

We watch one young woman’s unconventional attempt to take control of her own love life by growing the perfect partner - a beautiful giant slug. Both freaks of nature, it’s a seemingly perfect match; until the slug is introduced to the outside world where he develops a taste for dinner parties and stimulating conversation.

Good Intentions

2018 • 9 min • United Kingdom

After a woman is responsible for a hit and run, spooky things starts to happen to her. A small thriller about people that are not always the best at making decisions.

Those Who Desire

2018 • 24 min • Spain, Switzerland

In the South of Spain, a multicolored pigeon race will be won not by the fastest bird, but the one who will be able to seduce a female pigeon and fly alongside her the longest.

Visit

2018 • 13 min • Netherlands

There is a meal on the fire. The cat walks across the table. In one smooth shot, we see there is still warmth in the large, secluded house of fresh widow Thea. Still, her son is worried about her. One stormy day, he drops by to check how his mom is doing. Wouldn’t it be better if she moved to a nursing home or if he arranged home care? Thea resolutely rejects all suggestions. She does not need more care, she claims. The question is if this is really the case.

Undream

2018 • 7 min • Canada

Undream depicts an imagined future where utopia and dystopia collapse, inspired by the photomontages of Superstudio – a major force in the Radical architecture and design movement of the late 1960s. Undream leads the viewer through an isolated landscape, overhung by a monumental structure. The architecture morphs between impossible surfaces and underlying order, interfering with the landscape as it undulates in and out of existence. Swept up in this movement, we are suspended in an impossible abandoned territory between the built environment and the natural world.