All Films

Slow Dance

2018 • 5 min • Sweden

During a middle school dance, a boy is struggling with his courage when experiencing his first love.

Pour 585

2018 • 5 min • United States of America

In a dystopian world populated by animated wine glasses, a timid character tries to escape an important rite of passage.

Megg - The Margin Who Migrate to the Center

2018 • 15 min • Brazil

Megg Rayara overcame obstacles that should not exist to get where she is. Get a Doctorate Degree is a very important victory not only for her, but also for the transvestite community. For the first time in Brazil, a black transvestite wins a Doctorate Degree. It is the margin that migrates to the center, taking all its history with her.

Xavier

2018 • 8 min

April 20, 2017 - Avenue des Champs-Elysées. During an attack, police officer Xavier, among his injured fellow-officers, was shot dead. There are broken dreams and unanswered expectations of peace. But there is no place for hate, dialogue and tolerance being the only possible solutions.

Introduction To Epilogue

2018 • 9 min • Latvia

"Introduction to Epilogue" is a colorful, allegorical film about the fear of death. Life will always last a lifetime and it will always end in death. And the end will always be a new beginning.

Empty Cages

2018 • 36 min • Norway, Sweden

The activist group Empty Cages (Tomma Burar) practices civil disobedience. They carry out well-planed actions against industrial animal husbandry and release a few individuals to bring attention to a problem. Follow a group of activists in behind closed doors as they fight animal oppression.

Miracle Hunters: Zilaiskalns

2018 • 26 min • Latvia

Documentary charting research at an ancient holy site. Miracle Hunters: Zilaiskalns, is about Zilaiskalns (Blue Hill), an allegedly sacred place and its own local spirit man Anatolijs. The place is associated with the Marta of the Blue Hill, a legendary woman with extraordinary abilities.

Shiro's Story Part 2

2018 • 14 min • United Kingdom

Following Shiro's Story (Pt.1), Kyle has gone ghost with Kira and Kyla and has not been seen or heard from in the past year, leaving Shiro no choice but to give up hope in reuniting his family. But with a price on Kyle's head, Shiro repays The Plug before getting back to work on his own weight after leaving his day job. One day Shiro's ex-girlfriend rings Shiro and says she misses him and begs to be taken back. Shiro subsequently agrees but with one demand, she sets Kyle up to die. She then agrees, and the plan is hatched for Shiro's young G's to take the hit on Kyle allowing Shiro to take Kira and Kyla away and rebuild the family that was once torn apart. But with the planned hit on Kyle unsuccessful, and Shiro still hung up and angry with Kira setting him up and taking everything he had away in the first instance, the move away isn't so straight forward.

Of the Essence

2018 • 12 min

A Time Protector confronts his rogue ex-partner to save and preserve the space-time continuum.

Three Colors and Other More

2018 • 14 min • Brazil

Serginho was one of the founding members of the historic Coligay fan club, the first fan club formed exclusively by homosexuals in the history of Brazilian soccer. Here, he tells a bit about his story and also about his relationship with Magia, one of the most recent seven-a-side soccer clubs in Brazil, formed only by homosexuals, who compete in championships and tournaments exclusively for LGBT's with the goal of bringing together a space of respect and welcoming amidst the still sexist and prejudiced scenario in soccer.

A Poem Play

2018 • 2 min

Preschool Poets is a series of eight short animated films based on poems composed by four and five year olds. In this film, Delanie imagines a world locked in routine. Parents work two jobs. They can’t come home because they work a double. Even the pleasure of a hot tub has a time limit.

The History of English

2018 • 26 min

Today, more people learn English as a second language than any other in the world. The formation of modern English is paved by warfare and the fall-and-rise of ancient tribes and civilizations. This is the saga of a language that wouldn’t quit—responding to invasion after invasion by snagging the conquerors’ most useful words, streamlining their grammar, and turning their tongue into today’s linguistic superpower. The result is a language that has double the vocabulary of any other language. Today, more people learn English as a second language than any other.

Single Player

2018 • 5 min

2nd place winner at the 2018 NVGFF.

Mystery Box

2018 • 10 min • Sweden

A woman on vacation on a small island outside of Stockholm finds an old metal box in her fishing net. Leaving it in a shed nearby to dispose of later, she soon discovers that some mysterious artefacts are better left at the bottom of the ocean.

Atila

2018 • 20 min • Albania

Kujtim, a fisherman trapped between a haunting past and a hopeless present, works on his father-in-law’s boat. At a crossroads in life, he takes a perilous gamble and ventures deep into the sea.

Interpreting Twain

2018 • 15 min • United States of America

"Interpreting Twain" looks at how Mark Twain has been interpreted (and misinterpreted) through the years and asks why it's so important for a new generation to follow the man in the white suit.

Mystery Skeletons of the Sahara

2018 • 44 min • United States of America

An investigation into prehistoric, fossilised human remains found in the Saharan Desert.

The Slows

2018 • 20 min

In a regenerating post-apocalyptic world, the only remaining traces of naturally reproduced life face extinction.

1953 – The Outlawed

2018 • 13 min

1953 – The Outlawed centers on the last part of Alan Turing’s life, traveling to Greece to study morphological regularity in nature while his body is being altered by an enforced hormonal treatment. The agonizing surgical incision that is a narrative hinge in the film, slashes into the convulsed boundary between laws and transgressions, natural and technological becomings: a cut that does not separate politics and bodies but complicates the forms in which they crossbreed.

Xhu

2018 • 17 min

On September 7, 2017, Mexico suffered an earthquake with a magnitude of 8.2 degrees. The most affected communities were in the states of Oaxaca and Chiapas, the most economically and educationally marginalized states of the country. The media and the government turned their eye toward the Isthmus of Tehuantepec region for a couple of days, where hundreds of thousands of victims have been left homeless, without workplaces, churches or educational centers.

The Value Of Things

2018 • 3 min

Satire on everyday life. A reflection on the value and personal relationships between individuals. How to act in front of current reality?

Jornada Internacional de Cinema da Bahia: Por um mundo mais humano

2018 • 40 min

The documentary shows the Journey at the Brazilian Culture ICU and his death shortly after, along with its creator and morator, Gido Araújo. The film takes a journey through the 35 years of existence and resistance of the most important cinema movement in Bahia. The most prestigious filmmakers from Brazil and many others from different countries passed through the Journey, always keeping the motto in mind: for a more humane world.

Hunger

2018 • 9 min • Norway

This short film is a story about Vera who is desperately in love with Susanne. Vera is getting obsessed and hungry for love when her feelings are not responded. Egoism takes over and leads her in a bloody direction when she discovers her need to own something more.

Oprah Winfrey Presents: Becoming Michelle Obama

2018 • 60 min • United States of America

Oprah and Michelle Obama sit down for a conversation about Mrs. Obama's much-anticipated, upcoming memoir, Becoming. Here, Mrs. Obama explains why the word "becoming" sums up her journey.