All Films

Five Trees

2018 • 11 min • Singapore

A chance encounter led a pair of old ex-lovers to unite again under the Five Trees.

Framework

2018 • 16 min • Switzerland

It's summertime in rural France. A charismatic stranger happens upon three teenage boys. He has a gun in his car. Are they ready to go for a ride?

Torpor

2018 • 22 min • Greece

In the streets of fear, residents are searching for their local “heroes.” Bodies become docile, desires are suppressed and Alexandros remains a child of his age, against the imperatives of the era, of society and – above all – against the will of his father. Alexandros will need to abandon his teenage self once and forever and choose sides in an undeclared war, in a present shaped by others for him.

The Latent

2018 • 20 min • United States of America

Matthew, a young actor, has just starred in his first blockbuster film and is pleased with its mainstream success. However, he has higher artistic aspirations that conflict with the trajectory of his career. When renowned period and art film director, Thomas Dockery, contacts him to play the lead in an upcoming film, Matthew sees an opportunity to redirect his career. He accepts Dockery's invitation to visit his country estate ahead of the start of production. Over the course of the week Matthew comes to find that he and Dockery are more alike then he expected. Inexplicably, they find companionship based on a subtle mutual acknowledgment of each other's existential predicament of isolation and alienation.

Discreet Airlift

2018 • 15 min • United States of America

In Johnston County, North Carolina, residents seek answers regarding the role their state may have played in the CIA’s torture program

Pendant que les champs brûlent

2018 • 26 min • France

A young mother with a son in stuck of an unhappy marriage dreams of starting another life, a stranger on the side of the road and a saddle from a bicycle and a fire going out somewhere.

Love, He Said

2018 • 6 min • France

1973, San Francisco. Charles Bukowski, underground poet and punk ahead of his time, reads his poem Love to a wild audience who've come to see the pulp writer's provocative performance. But that day, instead of a punk they find a broken man hungry for love.

A.i.l.y

2018 • 8 min

A young humanoid is stuck trying to live out her life as Jules, a girl she has never even met.

The Elephant's Song

2018 • 8 min • United States of America

An old farm dog recounts the true tale of Old Bet, the elephant at the start of the American circus. Their mournful melody is hand-crafted using painterly clay-on-glass and oil pastel animation.

Death of an Umbrella Salesman

2018 • 18 min

Stanley Grimp, a door-to-door umbrella salesman, attempts to make a sale, avoid his alimony-hungry Ex and reconcile how his life turned out this way.

Autobiography

2018 • 2 min • Ireland

A man confronts himself.

Eden Hotel

2018 • 9 min • Italy

After death, life could be still bad. What would you be willing to do to reach paradise?

Tooton's Photography: In the Business of Making Memories

2018 • 41 min • Canada

The magnificent story of Anthony Maurice Tooton (I) as told by his Great-Grandson: Anthony McGrath Tooton (IV).

Skip

2018 • 12 min • United States of America

Tonight, Paul pops the question to Amanda. Everything is perfect; then suddenly - chaos. Now the couple find themselves stuck between two worlds.

Tonton Macoute

2018 • 13 min

An unruly teen survives the night while being hunted by the Haitian Boogieman.

Forever Manchester

2018 • 12 min

When news breaks of the bombing at Manchester Arena on May 22nd 2017, James and Lisa Barnes experience every parent's worst nightmare as they try to contact their daughter, Abi, who is attending the concert.

How French Women Like It

2018 • 53 min • France

In 2018, can we speak freely about female sexuality? It all begins with a bold question: “What do French women do in bed?” The interviewees describe their sexual practices, their desires, and their boundaries. Are they more fulfilled and uninhibited than the generations before them?

We Are Here

2018 • 21 min • Canada

A man is lost in the memory of his wife and the last good day they spent together.

Brother Blur

2018 • 9 min

A young boy mysteriously gains super speed and uses it to get back at his high school bully...

Untitled (M*A*S*H)

2018 • 11 min • Germany, United States of America

Leigh’s video work Untitled (M*A*S*H) (2018) imagines a fictive order of black nurses operating on the front of the Korean War, a conflict that began between the United States and North Korea in 1950 and never officially ceased. Like M*A*S*H—the long-running American TV show (1972–83) it parodies—the work directs attention to the overlooked life in the staging grounds. Showcasing the agonizing choices faced by those who staff the tented encampments of war, it perhaps also serves as a reminder that our neighborhoods remain a warfront too. Using only artist’s tools, Leigh asks: How do we transform ourselves and others?

Frozen Conflict

2018 • 60 min • Germany

For more than a quarter of a century, Russia has been conducting a peacekeeping operation in a conflict area between Transnistria and the Republic of Moldova. Starting from the observation of the trilateral “peacekeeping post” on the Dniester River, this documentary reflects the life in the region, which is sluggish under the supervision of the mission’s soldiers.

The Storms in Our Blood

2018 • 31 min • China

Uma, a 22-year-old African girl, travels thousands of miles across the northeastern China countryside, stepping on a journey looking for her baby’s father.

Natural Selection

2018 • 15 min • Russia

In the world where relationship is a real hunt and men hunt women, young Tyomik experiences a strange new feeling to his very first prey.

Haz: BDSM

2018 • 18 min • Turkey