All Films

Decorating Disney: Halloween Magic

2018 • 60 min

Ever wonder how Disney transforms their parks and cruise ships overnight with spooky decorations for Halloween? Freeform’s “Decorating Disney: Halloween Magic” takes you on a behind the scenes tour on how Halloween “spirits” spread throughout Walt Disney World Resort, Disneyland Resort, and Disney Cruise Line. Meet the Disney cast members that bring the frightful fun to life with pumpkins, ghosts, and ghoulish delights around every corner of these magical destinations. Cierra Ramirez from Freeform’s ‘The Fosters’ and upcoming series “Good Trouble,” hosts this “spook-tacular” special and gives you insider tips for how to make the most of Halloween Time fun.

A Song of Silence

2018 • 16 min • Bhutan

A girl, born deaf and wishing to hear, travels through the four elements of nature: earth, air, fire and water. But when her wish is granted, and she manages to hear the sounds of this earth, she is disappointed, overwhelmed with the noises of our digital world. Slowly, she falls back into silence.

Red Ape: Saving the Orangutan

2018 • 58 min

For the last decade, a team of frontline medics has been fighting to save Borneo's critically endangered orangutans. Armed with cameras, International Animal Rescue has documented their struggle: pulling apes from devastated jungle, giving emergency medical care, rehabilitating and releasing the healthiest orangutans back into the wild. This is both the story of their life-saving work and of how one of our closest wild relatives has been pushed to the brink of extinction. Combining genuine rescue footage with contributions from experts throughout, this documentary looks toward the future and asks what hope remains to save the orangutan.

Night Watch

2018 • 23 min

At a supermarket, Magno watches over boys with backpacks as they go along the corridors. Meanwhile, the night drags on slowly for Bismarck, a cashier.

Spark

2018 • 16 min • Netherlands

Fifteen-year-old Emma and her best friend Julia are enjoying their summer at a campsite in France. When a group of older French boys arrive, Julia only has eyes for them. Emma tries to participate, but it is not coming naturally. While Emma observes Julia in her first, playful explorations of her sexuality, Emma is being confronted with confounding feelings.

Christie Isn't Coming Back

2018 • 15 min • Israel

When Filipina stay-at-home nurse Christie disappears, Araleh is forced to help his brother tend to their dying father. Trying to protect himself, he begins scattering white lies, which only bring closer the inevitable end they all feared.

Crossing Spaces

2018 • 18 min

Three short films about three Micronesian women as they navigate the challenges of higher education while supporting their families.

Your Colours Kiss My Eyes

2018 • 17 min

A depressed cell phone addict confronts his agonising memories when his cellphone comes to life and attempts to seize his body.

Reach

2018 • 3 min

Dance film created by choreographer Botis Seva and director Billy Boyd Cape. An exploration of love, abandonment and fatherhood, commissioned by Random Acts and Sadler's Wells.

Mikkel Klint Thorius: Hvid Skyld

2018 • 56 min • Denmark

Mikkel Klint Thorius' first One Man Show: White Guilt

Home of the seals: On Brittanny's wild coast

2018 • 30 min

Some have called the coast of Brittany the Riviera of the North. The many coves with white sandy beaches appear to be idyllic, but the Atlantic here in the northwest of France is rarely calm. The tidal range can be up to six meters; that is up to three times as high as on the North Sea coast. A number of smaller islands can be found offshore - seals have discovered them as ideal places to bear their young.

Taxi Tales

2018 • 29 min • United Kingdom

A surprising journey through Middlesbrough, in and out of the cabs of three very different drivers - a young British-Pakistani entrepreneur who believes that immigrants have always been enterprising by nature, a local man who used to work in construction on towering glass buildings down south and an older seasoned driver who is in love with his job... until the day he falls out of it. Their stories uncover what lies beneath the surface of a post-industrial northern town and unfold into a state-of-the-nation tale.

Dream Machine

2018 • 8 min • Ukraine

Enerhodar is a city that functions with the routine of its power plants. Every day thousands of people return to the reinforced concrete hive. After work, Oleksіy, like the rest, gets on the bus, but he doesn't go home. He goes to create a free space of wood and metal. Or maybe it's a dream?

Truth in the Time of Chaos

2018 • 50 min

Psychologist and professor Jordan Peterson has come to fame, or notoriety depending on your perspective, over the last year. But many of those who found him through his criticisms of political correctness are saying they have discovered one of the world's most significant thinkers - why?

8

2018 • 13 min

8 minutes is the time it takes to fly from Switzerland to Germany. 8 minutes is the time light takes to travel from the Sun to the Earth. 8 minutes radically changed Andrew's life.

Finish

2018 • 12 min

Ilyas who works in an old gas station one day, on the way home, notices that a robot does his job. This will have an effect on Ilyas and thinks about the robot more every day.

3021

2018 • 14 min

Operation Holokaustus has killed all but one untouchable and he’s left alone in a hardly habitable planet because of the post-truth wars. When he tried to teleport to other planets, he opens communication with a fugitive scientist who happens to be the who preserved him.

Blowfish

2018 • 14 min • South Korea

Joon-tae and Suk-hyeon, senior and junior at work whose relationship dates back to college, are under a common mission to entertain an executive from their client company. They hold the one and only opportunity to impress their client and their company- the night driven for success.

Humo's Comedy Cup 2018

2018 • 49 min • Belgium

Finalists: Amelie Albrecht, Jasper Posson and Sander VDV. Jury: Guy Mortier, Tim Van Aelst, Guga Baùl, Elke Neuville and Seppe Toremans, supported by a professional jury. With guest appearances by Philippe Geubels and Jens Dendoncker.

Inside the Life of Bella Thorne

2018 • 18 min

After a hyper image-managed childhood as a Disney star, Bella Thorne is offering her millions of fans an unfiltered picture of herself as she strikes out into new professional territory and seizing the reins of her life for the very first time.

Maria and the Ashes of Melancholy

2018 • 17 min

On his remaining days, Nico embarks on a journey where he meets a mysterious woman in the forest. With her, he rediscovers love and faith and in the process rekindling his relationship with his father, Rommel

Shackle

2018 • 15 min • Russia

A once famous writer’s wife went missing. Their passionate and gentle - love, with time grew into an incurable disease that destroyed everything great that ever united them. She couldn’t take it and left him, and he is trying to fight his guilt, break free, let go of his wife and forgive her for disappearing, for betraying, for cheating, of which she confessed right before she left.

Cloven

2018 • 6 min • Bahrain

A short horror film based on a popular Bahraini folktale.

Unzipping

2018 • 15 min

Ella and Tsiki embrace in a routine kiss when she is suddenly pricked on the lip by an unknown source - a zipper hiding under Tsiki's tongue. In the thrill of curiosity, and a chance to escape her mundane relationship, Ella pulls the zipper to reveal Jurgen lying underneath. Jurgen is the antithesis of Tsiki, and Ella finds temporary happiness in the change he brings to her life. However, as the bliss of new love fades, so too does Ella's sense of fulfillment. She pulls Tsiki's skin from its hiding place in the kitchen and longs for the man she cast aside. She sinks in the realization that happiness cannot be manifested in others; the change must come from within.To her surprise, Ella soon discovers a zipper under her own tongue. As she stares at herself in the mirror, she contemplates the difficult decision of whether or not to pull.