All Films

Crossing Borders

2018 • 16 min

Escaping a refugee life from war-torn Syria sparks hope for a family looking to adapt to an American life.

Xiii

2018 • 24 min • United States of America, China

"XIII" follows an isolated young man named Mark, who believes there is a mystery behind the disappearance of the number '13' on elevators. His only friend, Billy tries to assist him, but finds himself surrounded, with the lonely friend, in bizarre dreams, visions, and memories.

Kurdish Factor

2018 • 56 min • Iraq, United Kingdom, United States of America

Democratic, pro-Western Iraqi Kurds are forward thinking, sensitive to women's rights, effective in the fight against ISIS and an important role in the 2 Gulf Wars. They stand on the threshold of an independent state and are a vital component in the establishment of long-term peace in the region.

Cheese. Travel from Switzerland to Russia

2018 • 26 min • Russia

In Nikolskoye village of Ruzsky district, farmers decided to restore the production of the first natural cheese of the Russian Empire. The tradition of making baked cheese dates back to 1795. The first cheese, named "Meschersky", was made in the home of Prince Meschersky in his estate of Lotochino. The sign of the village of Lotochina represents until now a merchant with a cheese wheel on a board. The prince had then brought from Switzerland a cheese maker named Johan Müller who developed a cheese recipe, founded a cheese-making school and settled in Russia with his family. Today, we managed to find his descendants; they live and work in the Alps. And make cheese. Very similar to the famous "Meschersky".

The Imperials Strike Back

2018 • 22 min • United States of America

"The Imperials Strike Back" was written in 1977 by ten year olds. The film was shot over two years with a regular 8mm camera and a gaggle of kids with a deep love of Star Wars. The Death Star has been destroyed and Han, Luke and Leia go try to find Jabba the Hut to pay him off. But on the way there they get captured by a new ship known as the Death Ship. Made before the release of "The Empire Strikes Back"– the title "The Imperials Strike Back" was based on a mis-reading of Star Wars Fan Magazine "Bantha Tracks" in 1979 when the title of the real sequel was announced. The film was finished around 1980.

1 meter/hour

2018 • 9 min • France

Caught up in our human lives, we miss out on the amazing. On an airplane wing, a company of snails performs a wonderfully slippery choreography.

Sophie's Ordinary Life

2018 • 19 min • Poland

Sophie has bad luck in life. She is a romantic, she doesn’t like her job and everyday, little inconveniences meet her. Real trouble starts when she meets her ex partner from whom she once ran away to another city. In the beginning, the girl believes in his transformation but their relationship turns into a string of fights and verbal abuse again. Sophie decides for a final resolution – she calls on her father.

Nostalgia

2018 • 16 min • United States of America

In an unstable marriage, Marion worries for her husband, Frank, as his behavior grows more and more erratic.

Giverny I (Négresse Impériale)

2018 • 6 min

This filmic collage, shot on location in Claude Monet's garden in Giverny, France, aims to examine the precarious nature of Black women’s bodily integrity, the ethics of care as resistance work, and how class position shapes the contours of violence. Set against the backdrop of the West's continued global imperialist campaigns and its historical artistic canon, this experimental video features a mélange of HD video, archival footage, and analog animation to assert an oppositional gaze in the re-telling of modern history.

One Day for Love

2018 • 18 min

One Day for Love

Día de los Tacos

2018 • 5 min

When business is slow on opening day of their food truck, Olivia and her chef cat, Ferdinand, concoct elaborate schemes to bring in customers.

Gamera vs Gyaos: Aerial Figure Battle!

2018 • 3 min • Japan

This is stop-motion animation produced, with respect to the masterpiece of japanese KAIJU film "Gamera: Guardian of The Universe (1995) ".

Barney: Het Verdriet van een Wereldkampioen

2018 • 45 min • Netherlands

Documentary about the life of the five-time darts world champion, Raymond van Barneveld. After winning the world title for the fifth time in 2007, constant pressure and the desire for success prevailed.

Kamchatka Bears. Life Begins

2018 • 52 min • Russia

Seven months of filming brown bear cubs life resulted in a movie that allows to plunge into the beauty of wild nature, and experience a boundary, beyond which a man should not interfere.

Cornered Star

2018 • 6 min • Germany

The post-industrial city of Marl, Germany carries the scars of the economic depression following the mining industry’s demise. City squares are filled with public sculptures bearing witness of past wealth surrounded by public buildings that are Brutalist masterpieces. Here, a horse stands alone. The horse is almost static, but in spite of his relative fixity, it remains the only source of life present in this deserted urban environment. The work looks at the archetypical forms of equestrian public sculptures and more broadly questions the use, codes and authority of public space artwork.

Haircut

2018 • 7 min

A modern couple can't connect over Lindsey's new short hair.

Eighteen Reindeer

2018 • 3 min

Produced for Glass Eye Pix as part of their 2018 Creepy Christmas Film Festival, in which each short is inspired by a holiday-themed word. This film, the tenth in the series, is inspired by the word “reindeer.”

Permanent Vacation

2018 • 24 min • Brazil

Messi and Johnny are invited to a party at Barra da Tijuca. When they get trapped outside, they have the entire night to explore the streets, and to discover that this place wasn't made for them.

The Great Saphir

2018 • 56 min • France

This film is the story of several civic and individual initiatives which consists of collecting waste, at sea and on land, to preserve the environment. We start by portraying these committed characters with the personal initiative of Emmanuel Laurin, "The Great Saphir", who combines athletic achievement and environmental protection. During almost 14 days, between May 25 and June 8 in 2017, Manu swam 120 km of coastline while collecting macro-waste to raise public awareness of the critical state of pollution in the Mediterranean Sea. This film is a reflection of the evolution of environmental activism: after the denunciation, these new whistleblowers adopt a positive approach and take action. They prove to us every day that we are all able to do that.

Belozubka

2018 • 14 min • Russia

The story is about an unexpected meeting in the distant taiga of a traveling artist and a charming shrew, Belozubka, the contact of two worlds - the vast world of man and the tiny fairy–tale world of shrews.

Step

2018 • 7 min • United Kingdom

The simple act of building a step leads to a narrative with questions and ramblings about procrastination and ephemerality of life.

Deathcar

2018 • 12 min • Greece

A girl argues with her father. 80 km/h. A boy drives drunk. 100 km/h. A boy is hanging by the window. 120 km/h. A girl is flirting. 140 km/h. A boy is handing out pills. 160 km/h. A boy has epileptic seizure. 180 km/h.

Les Vacances à Chelles

2018 • 20 min • France

It's summer in the Paris suburbs. It's hot, the city is deserted. Sometimes it's lonely when you stay home in the summer, and all you want is a little company.

Begin

2018 • 4 min

Begin is an experiment in non-specific narrative film. While preserving a large library of vintage Hollywood optical sound effects, the filmmaker became attracted to the sounds of slates, discussions, splices, and noise. These sounds were created, with much effort, to enhance specific narrative images. But these sounds can also tell a story as involving as the films they were created for. A silent picture edit was created from leftover narrative film footage. Like the sounds, the shots contain no specific narratives. The sounds and images were finally combined, forming relationships that set up and subvert narrative expectations. Begin is also a valentine to the craft of filmmaking.