All Films

Knock Knock

2018 • 13 min • United States of America

Sinia tries to help the kids next door, but when their mother becomes a true danger, she does nothing. Stricken by guilt, she decides to check on the kids, and what she discovers pushes her over the edge into a chilling reality.

Untold Story

2018 • 28 min

Untold Story, – executively produced by Advocate/DJ/Producer, Zeke Thomas, and CEO of crowdMGMT, Brand & Artist Manager EJ Jamele and creator and survivor Kevin Marshall – chronicles stories of sexual abuse from an unsuspecting group of people – black men – and documents how these men, despite their seemingly quiet but torturous struggles, rise above their personal tragic experiences after decades of torment.

Andrew Maxwell - Showtime

2018 • 54 min

Exploring political and personal disasters of recent years with absurd characters, mischievous improv and a healthy dose of bigot baiting, Dublin born Maxwell is one of those class stand-ups who’s stylistic simplicity only heightens their skilful aplomb.

Struggle

2018 • 1 min • United Kingdom

A teen girl struggles with the pressures of performing well at school and pleasing her parents. She faces bullying and boy problems. Drink blots out her inability to cope.

Remittance

2018 • 10 min • United States of America

A disenchanted Filipino cruise worker falls to pieces when she is unable to contact her ailing son.

Giitu

2018 • 18 min • Norway

A woman returns home to her father and childhood home, after being gone for over 20 years. Her purpose for the visit is to deliver the message that her fathers former wife has passed away.

Love In The Midst Of Climate Change

2018 • 16 min • South Africa, United States of America

Love In The Midst Of Climate Change is a documentary that highlights ordinary people doing extraordinary things to survive and lead decent lives in the teeth of adverse circumstances. This short will highlight Khoelife Soap Farm which is located on a smallholding in Gordon’s Bay, a seaside village just outside Cape Town, South Africa. Khoelife oils and soap gifts to the world are cooked on solar power and biogas, rooted in indigenous knowledge, vegan-friendly, not tested on animals and handmade in South Africa. This Is Khoelife mission to saving the ecosystem we all share.

My Moon

2018 • 9 min • United States of America

My Moon is about Earth's relationship with Sun and Moon. The story revolves around the sad nature of the way they have to co-exist, as Earth needs both emotional and practical values from both the Sun and Moon.

Phallaina

2018 • 59 min • France

Straddling the line between graphic novel and animation, Phallaina tells the story of Audrey, a young girl who suffers from hallucinatory fits. When Audrey undergoes medical tests, a neurologist discovers that she has an anomalous cerebral structure that enables her to hold her breath for long periods of time. This story of personal transformation in which mythology meets cognitive sciences is the first scrolling comic strip.

Pink Gold

2018 • 20 min • Mexico

Portrait of shrimp fishing in the Sea of ​​Cortez in Mexico.

Brooklyn Experience

2018 • 60 min

Brooklyn Experience is an immersive drama that explores the daily lives of a dysfunctional white family as they go through the current US immigration crackdown.

Workshop

2018 • 50 min

This is the story of the famous first film workshop set up by the filmmaker Alexei German in 1988. The studio debutants are now well-known masters. They share their memories about their teacher who helped them throughout the work process. The core of the film is the story told by Sergei Karandashov, a graduate of Alexei German’s workshop and the author of the project Workshop. The author's version of the film.

All For One: Media Enabled Musketeers

2018 • 38 min • United States of America

People with disabilities are the largest minority in the United States (57 million people) and in Russia (13 million people). This film follows the adventures of Russians and Americans with disabilities, who like the characters in the Dumas novel, work together for the common good… but they wield cameras not sabers. They make films to empower themselves, educate the public, create more opportunities, and build friendship between the people of Russia and the United States.

Red Dress. No Straps

2018 • 9 min

Year 1985. Tehran. Iran-Iraq war. It’s just an ordinary evening at the grandparents’; Grandad is listening to Voice of America on the radio. The glamorous popstar is showing off her strapless, red dress on a poster. Granny is making her little granddaughter a dress. The granddaughter is eagerly waiting for her dress to be made; a dress exactly the same as the popstar’s. Red. With no straps.

Re-Gifted

2018 • 2 min • United States of America

A decorative object struggles to lead a meaningful existence as it gets stuck in the cycle of re-gifting

La Chasse

2018 • 6 min • France

The disappointments of a near-sighted hunter who mistakenly brought along a rabbit in place of his dog. In the end, no animal was harmed.

The Noise of the Light

2018 • 24 min • France

Pablo and Marius found out a surprising thing regarding their childhood friend, Alice. She manages to synthesize in a sound way the light that she is exposed to. This gift is gradually transformed into a curse when it becomes the instrument of their musical experiences.

The Song and the Sorrow

2018 • 43 min • Canada

Musician Catherine MacLellan—the daughter of Canadian singer/songwriting legend Gene MacLellan—grew up surrounded by her father’s music. He committed suicide when she was 14. The Song and the Sorrow follows Catherine as she journeys to understand her father and face her own struggles with mental illness. Through archival footage and intimate interviews with friends, family members, and musicians who knew and played with Gene—including Anne Murray, Lennie Gallant, and the late Ron Hynes—the film reveals a troubled and loving man who was never at ease with fame or money.

Dziadzio

2018 • 12 min

As summer days grow longer, 22-year-old Stefania — who lives with her aging grandfather — begins to spiral into fantasy in Aaron Ries' unpredictable and darkly comedic drama about intergenerational disconnect and malaise.

Godfather I

2018 • 5 min • United States of America

A short film by Maria Lassnig, shot in 1974.

Urn

2018 • 5 min

A woman scatters her mother’s ashes into a lake, but finds it’s not so easy to throw away her past.

The Strange House in the Mist

2018 • 15 min • Portugal

A lost pilgrim finds a strange house on the edge of the abyss and its mysterious occupant.

Just Die, Juliett

2018 • 20 min • Russia

“When you raise a winner, you grow a warrior. In the warrior you need to kill love so that he can win. Mom raised a daughter, a good warrior, did not take into account only that the warrior does not care who to kill. ”

As Though Nothing Could Fall

2018 • 4 min

An imagery odyssey through the rise and fall of heroism. Was there ever a rise?