All Films

Mermaid

2018 • 9 min • Mexico

Documentary that tells the story of Vianney Trejo, a young woman who struggles every day despite her disability. We go through her daily routine, as well as her passion, swimming, where she has consistently achieved triumphs and has been considered for international competitions.

Debris

2018 • 10 min

Scraps of deciduous films and photographs accumulate and eventually create new scenes.

From Day to Night

2018 • 14 min • United States of America

A song of in-camera improvisations composed to the rhythm of the sun's energy throughout the passage of a day.

Waiting for Mr. Lynch

2018 • 2 min • United States of America

In 2018, David Lynch was once again the focus of LEFFEST Lisboa Film Festival's programme, with the extensive "Waiting for Mr. Lynch" retrospective. At the time, and because he was unable to attend the festival, Lynch offered a short film he made that week to be shown as a world premiere at the opening of the retrospective.

William's Cake

2018 • 6 min • Italy, Switzerland

In this fifth episode of the series, La torta di Guglielmo, Rossini, is “interviewed” by Gaia de Bernardis, presenting, this time, the cake that gives the clip its title: an apple pie, with cream, sugar, flour and butter. Together with the composer, musicologist Alberto Simoncini and the ever-present Stendhal. Of course, it follows from the title that the opera presented along with the dessert is William Tell, whose libretto was taken from the play of the same name (1804) by Friedrich Schiller, later elaborated by Victor-Joseph-Étienne de Jouy and Hippolyte-Louis-Florent Bis. Its first performance took place at the Paris Opéra on August 3, 1829.

Noxious

2018 • 60 min

Events over the course of one traumatic night in Georgia unfold as the reckless Kennedy discovers her lovers darkest secrets.

Vent

2018 • 18 min

Three years after a widespread radiation leak, Rose is frustrated and determined to convince her controlling boyfriend, Parker, that she is ready to take the gas mask and go outside.

Edgecombe

2018 • 15 min

Three snapshots of black life in Edgecombe County, North Carolina, a place where the racial injustices of the past continue into the present.

Koli 2.0

2018 • 48 min • Bangladesh

When the brash son of a local mafia boss falls for the drug addicted troublemaker Koli, all hell breaks loose.

Hotel Explotación: Las Kellys

2018 • 55 min • Spain

More than two hundred thousand women work as maids in Spain, and perform a task as fundamental as invisible in the hospitality sector. Our documentary covers the life, problems and struggle of the Kellys (the ones that clean the hotels). While the government proclaims the strength of the tourism industry in our country, as a flagship of GDP, its working conditions have progressively worsened, reaching a charge of one and a half euros per room. 'Hotel Explotación: Las Kellys' is the story of a fight to empower, organize and restore dignity.

The Bad Mexican

2018 • 15 min • Uganda

Youth unemployment remains a serious problem in many sub-Saharan African countries, including Uganda, Kenneth is a young Ugandan writer who has this one chance to get a job that will enable him to pay off a gangster loan shark (Moses) but his day doesn’t go exactly as planned, Moses won’t listen to any of that.

Capitán Escudo

2018 • 19 min • Ecuador

Origin story of Capitán Escudo, an Ecuadorian superheroe.

Mountain in the Hallway

2018 • 26 min

When Tate MacDowell and Brian McDonnell were diagnosed with cancer in 2016, they faced some tough realities. Nevertheless, they set their sights high: to beat cancer and climb the Grand Teton.

A Mother's Love

2018 • 18 min

A mother goes to the furthest lengths to try and find her son who disappears as a result of his addiction.

Alpaca Alien: PACALIEN

2018 • 3 min • Japan

A series of original Pacalien shorts which aired during commercial breaks on Toonami.

Roohi

2018 • 7 min • India

It's 1996 and Roohi has decided to follow her heart and be with the person she loves.

Short

2018 • 20 min • Azerbaijan

"Short" tells the story of Sakhavat who lives in a village, where, according to a tradition, nobody allows their daughter to get married to someone who has never served in the military.

Thawed

2018 • 7 min • United Kingdom

The future: A woman has brought back her husband from cryogenic suspension...well, most of him.

Death to Philippine Cinema!

2018 • 20 min • Philippines

Joe is a telewriter for GM8's biggest regional soap opera, Sa Pagtila Ng Ulan. Nearing their series finale, Joe is at odds with the soap opera showrunner, who wants a cliché ending for the show. A battle of external and internal conflicts arises as Joe tries to deal with the pressures of catering to the general audience's taste and his own creative fulfillment.

Nosotros

2018 • 20 min

Carlos and Fran have been partners for some time. Alex is a friend of Carlos's childhood. Love. Friendship. Threesome. Relationship. Couple. Love triangle. A night of madness will be the cause of altering the meaning of all these words. Will the three characters be able to define what they feel?

I See Only Light

2018 • 17 min • Russia

The first documentary about the frontman of the popular rock band "Nerves" Zhenya Milkovsky. This is not only a story about the attitude of a rock musician. It is about constant movement, search, humanity, of course, about music and about you and me.

After She's Gone

2018 • 15 min

When their only daughter suddenly dies, a grieving mother and father are forced to confront their once competitive relationship over her - and their failing relationship with each other.

Nowhere

2018 • 17 min • Croatia

An exploration of the personal experience of leaving, returning to and re-shaping identity. Its structure revolves around the depiction of Neli Ružić's site-specific sculpture Before the Dawn and Bogdan Bogdanović's monument Guardian of Freedom, both of which were set around the Klis fortress in different times, left to entropy and social change. The state of these sculptures activates the archaeology of time, invisible and erased history. The intention of the work is to use the mediums of film, narration and image to evoke the entanglement of personal, autobiographical and historical situation, individual and collective memory, as well as the concept of identity as an unstable construct.

Back in My Body

2018 • 12 min • United States of America

BACK IN MY BODY is a short documentary about musician Maggie Rogers returning to Alaska, a place that has had a huge impact on her life.