All Films

La Persistente

2018 • 22 min • France

A ski resort, somewhere in the French Pyrenees. Ivan solely lives for his motorcycle - the sentient, loving, breathing La Persistente. When a local rival tears her away from him, Ivan's obsession becomes to win her back…

Talk with Dust

2018 • 16 min

Talk with Dust is part of a series of videos which are ultimately sequences of a whole. Both a concept and a blurred narrative. The latter is not explicitly delineated in the course of the series but it is intuited. The sequences generate, rather than a narrative, a concept.

Hermanos de sangre, compañeros de ideas

2018 • 30 min • Argentina, Bolivia

Juan Martín Guevara travels to Bolivia on the 50th anniversary of the murder of his brother Ernesto “Che” Guevara. The encounter with people strengthens him, but he does not stop questioning the ways of evoking his figure and asking himself what do we do with this myth?

Travel Stop

2018 • 16 min

Shot at the World's Largest Truckstop in Walcott, Iowa, the film contemplates the interiors of a Midwestern highway rest stop, creating an essayistic portrait of a familiar site of travel and transience. With attention fixed on the ideological overtones pressed to the surface in the objects for sale, Travel Stop examines how identity is called upon, regressed, emptied, overburdened, or parceled when traversing the non-places along the US interstate. "That the world of things can open itself to reveal a secret life-indeed to reveal a set of actions and hence a narrativity and history outside the given field of perception-is a constant daydream that the miniature presents. This is the daydream of the microscope: the daydream of life inside life, of significance multiplied infinitely within significance." - Susan Stewart, On Longing

A New View of the Moon

2018 • 4 min • United States of America

Wylie carries a telescope through the streets of Los Angeles to offer passersby a new and closer look at a familiar object: the moon. Because everyone needs to keep looking up. Because it is a beautiful and wondrous sight to behold the body of the moon.

Like The Dream Of Laura

2018 • 3 min

The story of the actress who found the way to defeat the minotaur.

Toto

2018 • 17 min • United States of America

The career of an embittered former horror star who longs for his glory days comes gruesomely full circle.

Gift

2018 • 32 min

Caio receives a birthday "gift" from his friends -- a night with call boy Fernando. During the three hours of their meeting, the two will go from an initial aversion to a mutual and almost improbable attraction, slowly discovering and confronting the reality of both.

O Jirau da Hydro

2018 • 5 min • Brazil

On February 17, photos recorded leakage of tailings from the deposit basin of the miner Hydro Alunorte, the company and the state government denied any incident. The Evandro Chagas Institute released a report confirming the contamination in several areas of Barcarena. The daily lives of the local population was directly affected by yet another environmental disaster.

Blocked

2018 • 6 min

A Black woman in an abusive same-sex relationship struggles to leave.

We Are Still Here

2018 • 12 min • Mexico

Ana and Claudia get trapped in a bathroom during the military occupation of the university. Claudia is caught by a soldier, leaving Ana alone for days in the bathroom, trying to survive and find hope. Based on the experiences of Alcira Soust during the military occupation of Ciudad Universitaria during the movements of 1968.

Solo

2018 • 15 min • Portugal

"Solo" tells the story of J, a saxophonist who finds a heart beating in his saxophone case, on the eve of his big concert at the International Jazz Show.

Blitzed: Nazis on Drugs

2018 • 58 min • United Kingdom

The effect of Pervitin on Nazi Germany.

Tea Land

2018 • 30 min

In Taiwan, five runaway migrant workers from Southeast Asia work illegally on a high-mountain tea farm. They become “family” for they were on the same boat. After one of them dies with his savings gone, the trust among the other four people broke down.

Tears Ox

2018 • 54 min • Brazil

A political film about horror and solitude.

Clichés et ramasse-miettes

2018 • 20 min

Cinema was originally silent. But was it truly silent? Then sound came along and changed the way we see, understand and create images. A true lesson in philosophical and aesthetic cinema freely conducted by the director, Clichés et ramasse-miettes invites us to rediscover our relationship with sound and our conception of the vraisemblance of sound, through fragments taken from works by Henri-Cartier Bresson, Jean-Luc Godard, philosopher Georges Didi-Huberman and others. An essential film to appreciate Claude Beaugrand's artistic vision.

Shame

2018 • 24 min • Bulgaria

Macho is a poor boy, who skips school to work on a construction site. The only ray of light for him is his girlfriend Donna .Yet, she is ashamed of his mother, who works as janitor in their school. Macho has to chose between his mother and his love, and he finds his own way to deal with his emotions.

Coercion

2018 • 17 min • United States of America

The story of two dysfunctional brothers trying to bury a body. When personal matters and morals interfere, things take a dark turn.

Aaj Amar Pala

2018 • 18 min • Bangladesh

Arthur Janov's Primal Therapy

2018 • 45 min • Sweden

An associative view of the days, nights and characters that enclosed the life of Arthur Janov, which defines in the conclusion "It's never too late to have a happy childhood". Arthur Janov (1924-2017) was a classic instance of being the right charismatic therapist at the right time - the zeitgeist. Dr. Janov first heard about the embryo to the primal scream through one of his patients when he performed conventional psycho dynamic therapy. It was an absurd theatre performance by Raphael Montañez Ortiz called "Mommy, Daddy" presented in London, 1966. The birth of Primal therapy happened when Arthur Janov's book, "The Primal Scream" was published early 1970.

Dark Side of the Moon

2018 • 7 min • United States of America

An elderly man gets the chance to reconnect with his wife, who has already passed away. She guides him to find the answers to the questions he has struggled with for years.

The Lights

2018 • 16 min • Russia

The story of friendship, help and the importance of maintaining family ties. We really want to give each of you a fairy tale. It's time to go home!

In Search of Ozu

2018 • 46 min • United States of America

In this documentary, filmmaker Daniel Raim delves into Yasujiro Ozu's remarkable late work, in which the master made the leap from black and white to color. In his stirring tribute to the great filmmaker, Raim examines Ozu's life and work through archival treasures such as his diary and the red teakettle from the family drama "Equinox Flower" (1958); sits down with Ozu's nephew and the producer of the director's gently elegiac final film, "An Autumn Afternoon" (1962); and interweaves many scenes and images from the vibrant and humane films with which the director capped his career.

Instinct

2018 • 18 min • United States of America

A psycho-sexual thriller about Isabelle, a lonely gallery owner who meets a dangerously seductive performance artist and discovers they have more in common than expected. Will Isabelle allow herself to let Camila in without giving in to her true nature?