All Films

Come Back Home

2018 • 20 min • Vietnam

Having a car accident at night, a man comes to a strange house nearby to ask for help. What he sees in the house makes him more confused and worried.

The Barber

2018 • 5 min • India

The film revolves around a person with a traumatic past which affects his thoughts in the present.

The Man Who Died Once

2018 • 40 min • Nepal

Tragic circumstances bring together the wife and the mother of two migrant workers - one from the east, the other from west Nepal.

Naissance des étoiles #2

2018 • 12 min • Canada

Witnessing my daughters passage though childhood with a 35mm Russian movie camera.

Pity Party

2018 • 60 min

PITY PARTY follows twenty-nine-year-old Liza, as she begins to experience an emotional breakdown. She has the perfect guy, the perfect home, the perfect body, and - friends. Liza's life is #blessed. Regan and Kennedy, Liza's childhood frenemies, annoyed by her incessant whining convince Liza that she should throw a "positivity party" for New Years. Out with the old, and in with the new. Besides, the mysterious virus breakout is only happening in China. What have they got to worry about?

Bad Dreams

2018 • 8 min • United Kingdom

A boy in bed thinks something’s escaped the cellar. Suddenly, a deformed face looms over the boy with a harrowing scream. This bad dream is remembered by a man as he shaves, making him cut his neck. As he bleeds, he wonders "How many shaving cuts would it take to bleed to death?" He decides his guest locked downstairs needs a shave.

Before Today

2018 • 14 min • Brazil

This short drama follows a woman after she suddenly runs away from a promising date, and asks the pertinent question: what would you want to tell your younger self?

Shift Change

2018 • 10 min • Spain

Alicia and Vero are room watchmen in an art gallery and only see each other during shift change. A work of art will test their feelings.

The Olden Heralds

2018 • 23 min • Cuba

Seiji Ozawa — Back to Japan

2018 • 53 min • France

The 82-year-old Japanese Seiji Ozawa is one of the last remaining conductor legends of a golden era. Portrait of the ambitious maestro and educator who made the western repertoire really well known in Japan.

By This River

2018 • 3 min

Phil Solomon's unreleased GTA film. Made in Grand Theft Auto V.

Metal From The Dirt

2018 • 13 min • United States of America

A document of the originators of the DIY Rez Metal scene, and the bands that are now carrying the torch, including I Dont Konform, Mutilated Tyrant and Born of Winter. From a generator-powered show in the Arizona desert to a band practicing in a traditional Navajo dwelling called a Hogan, this story — told by Navajo ("Diné") bands and individuals involved in the scene — explores the creation of Rez Metal in the Eighties, the juxtaposition of old and new Navajo traditions and the link between heavy metal and native pride.

We Build the Country - The Country Builds Us!

2018 • 4 min • Serbia

Three-channel video (black and white and color, three-channel sound) commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, for the entrance to exhibition "Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948–1980".

Yolanda

2018 • 58 min • Canada

Coming from the countryside to visit a friend, Solange 75, rediscovers Montreal. She talks to everyone with confidence and does some portraits of the people she meets. She meets Tom, a younger, moody and disillusioned man. Fictional scenes are interwoven with documentary scenes: portraits of Montrealers and snatches of conversations taken from life.

My Dead Dad's Porno Tapes

2018 • 14 min • Canada

A short documentary that follows director Charlie Tyrell as he tries to uncover a better understanding of his deceased father through the random objects he inherited. Including a pile of VHS dirty movies.

The Front Door

2018 • 7 min

Steven goes downstairs to lock the front door but notices some odd intruders.

The Thing on the Shelf

2018 • 2 min • United States of America

A few days before Christmas, a child goes to bed with dreams of sugar plums and Santa Claus in her head. But when she awakens, it isn't to the sound of the jolly one coming down the chimney.

Émergence

2018 • 7 min • Canada

Katiana talks about her experiences as a woman in Haiti. As a woman, she faces many limitations and abuses from men who are more privileged than she is. Despite the difficulties of her condition, she has found the courage to achieve greater personal and financial independence.

Theriso: A short story

2018 • 2 min

A short tour in Therissos. Therissos is one of the most historic villages of Crete (Greek island).

Araf

2018 • 46 min • Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Turkey

Araf is an essayistic road movie and diary of a ghostly character, Nayia, who travels between Srebrenica, Sarajevo, and Mostar in Bosnia. She has been in exile since the war and returns for the 22nd memorial of the Srebrenica genocide. The film is guided by her diary notes of the journey, which merge with the myth of Daedalus and Icarus – Icarus being the name given to the winner of a bridge diving competition in her home country.

Truck Slut

2018 • 15 min • United States of America

A lonely, gay 13-year-old reflects on his complicated love for his volatile sister, the night she humiliated him, and her disappearance from their small, Southern town.

Swinging on a Star

2018 • 4 min • United States of America

A deep sea fisherman is attacked by a sea monster and must climb into the stars to get back to his daughter.

Clear Skies

2018 • 16 min • Sweden

Nasim and his mother are on the run and hiding away in a house in the forest.

At a Loss

2018 • 20 min • United States of America

With relationships sometimes comes loss. Emily and Mario experience the waves of relationships and how to deal with the inevitable.