All Films

Extremist

2018 • 7 min

The headmistress tries to reason with a schoolboy who attended an unauthorized rally.

Through a Window

2018 • 16 min • Mexico

A man’s death awakes a sense of curiosity in Nellie, a girl who discovers empathy by mourning a stranger.

The Day the Beans Ran Out

2018 • 13 min • Iceland

A man lives a peaceful life after the zombie apocalypse until his food has started going missing. He’s determined to find whoever is stealing from him.

The Bicycle Thief

2018 • 8 min • United Kingdom

Riding through a children’s wonderland of ice cream parlours and amusement parks, a Little Girl’s innocent adventure is interrupted when her beloved bicycle is stolen. Forced to choose between giving it up, or giving chase, she sets off on a new and daring adventure in pursuit of the Big Man who has taken it.

Don't Know What

2018 • 8 min • Austria

A man gazes into the camera, breaths, speaks, and blinks. In playfully formal austerity, Thomas Renoldner explores the borders of the cinematic genre. Real film becomes stop-motion, language a hammering noise staccato. The film draws comical and intellectual potential from the transformation of organic movements and sounds into mechanical ones, from the dissolution of the world into abstraction and rhythm.

The Carnivore's Dilemma

2018 • 52 min

As the population grows and pressure to provide cheap food increases, there has been a drive towards industrialized farming. But are there alternatives? We travel across the world to reveal the worst excesses of intensive farming and positive alternatives that work in harmony with nature, offering a sustainable vision for the future of meat consumption.

Lady Hunters

2018 • 15 min • United States of America

Three moms become a vigilante death squad.

The Spy Who Raised Me

2018 • 60 min

Follow the emotional journey of Chelsea Dittrich, the U.S. born daughter of a former American-based Russian spy. Speaking with other children of spies as well as with her own father whose spying activities tore her family apart, she uncovers the effects this clandestine activity has on families and communities as a whole.

HeimÞrá: In Thrall to Home

2018 • 33 min • Canada, Iceland

Doubting details of her mother’s deathbed story, a skeptical daughter drags her brother on a genealogical goose chase through the Canadian prairies to the remote Icelandic highland. Determined to prove her mother spun tall tales, Erika delves into a basement full of file boxes only to find that family history triggers her own obsessive curiosity. Holed up with stacks of diaries, letters and pictures, Erika becomes spellbound by her increasing sense of belonging to an unfolding story.

Slayer

2018 • 10 min • Czech Republic

Slayers are people who hunt vampires and other monsters in a steampunk world. For them, it's like every other job. But not always everything goes according to plan.

Neither From Here, Nor There

2018 • 14 min • United States of America

After finding out that his financial aid has run out, Jose Fernandez spirals into a fit of anxiety a week before he's due to interview for a prestigious internship that could determine the course of his future.

Grands Canons

2018 • 11 min • France

On a drawing sheet, a brush makes colors appear in watercolor. An object of everyday life is drawn precisely by the hands of an artist. Then two drawings, then three, four, ... superimposed, condensed, multiplied, hundreds of drawings of immobile objects succeed one another on the screen. Grands Canons is an animation short film based on a series of observation drawings that, like the work of 19th-century entomologists and naturalists, systematically lists all the everyday objects that "go into the household."

The Rae the Doe Christmas Special

2018 • 5 min • United States of America

Celebrate Christmas this year with Rae and MimI! It's The Rae the Doe Christmas Special.

An Infinite Evening with Nick Jester

2018 • 48 min

A solo music comedy revue which asks the big questions: Why do we exist? What are we doing here? Why am I so random and hyper? Join Nick Jester for a 45-minute slice of infinity.

Haizea

2018 • 11 min • Spain

It's the last night of the graduation trip. An excellent opportunity for a young boy to declare his love to Haizea, the girl he likes. But he doesn't know how to do it. Or yes. Yes, he does. He knows too many ways to do it.

Flora

2018 • 9 min • Argentina

Flora, an 11-year-old girl who lives with her mother, asks about Leon's absence. Faced with the dissatisfied answers of her mother, she decides to go out and look for Leon.

Headstream

2018 • 14 min • Brazil, Germany

A series of surreal events highlights the malaise of a young woman facing the rituals of marriage.

Couture Behind The Iron Curtain

2018 • 52 min • Hungary

There was Pest fashion in the socialist system, a strange, mysterious grandmother, Klára Rotschild, who could hold a parlor in Paris in the 60s and 70s. There is a mystery today about the reason, and the price for this privilege. He could travel to Paris twice a year, watch the current fashion shows, and memorize the French fashion at home. Klara Rotschild - though not a fashion designer or seamstress, but a tailor - was referred to as the genius of the profession.

The Strings

2018 • 5 min

The Good Nazi

2018 • 52 min • Canada, Israel

By tracking scientists and Holocaust survivors in Lithuania, The Good Nazi tells the story of a Schindler-type Nazi officer who turned his back on his dark ideology and risked his life to save hundreds of Jews.

Brendon Burns: Selfies in the Grand Canyon

2018 • 54 min

In Selfies In The Grand Canyon Australian stand-up legend Brendon Burns takes on the age of selfie in sold-out underground locations across the UK including a zoo after hours, a comic book store, a primary school gymnasium and here in a disused bar in Manchester, closed for reconstruction. Raw, frank and very funny Selfies is underground comedy at its very best.

The Legend of Earth Traveler Sun

2018 • 60 min • China

When he was a child, he was witnessed by his father’s death in an expedition. He was timid and he no longer used his abilities. The Tuhang, who grew up under the adoption of Cai Shu, liked the daughter of the owner of the Gucci store. At the same time, the ruler seeks for a long life and makes the alchemist find his way.

Operation: Jane Walk

2018 • 17 min • Austria

The war zone of a dystopian multiplayer shooting game is used to embark some urban explorers on a winter walk, avoiding the combats whenever possible, as peaceful observers, inhabitants of a digital world, which is a detailed replica of Midtown Manhattan.

Jujuba

2018 • 8 min • Japan

The tired man standing on the platform is 27-year-old Ayumu Ueno. Facing an unwelcome trip to his childhood home, he goes to light a cigarette. What he finds in his pocket, however, is a jujuba fruit. The shiny red skin brings back vague memories of his second mother, Rèn Shìróng. Born in the Sichuan province of China, jujuba fruits were her favorite snack. At the time, he didn’t want to call her “Mom,” so at his father’s suggestion, she became “Sis.” As he thinks back on Sis, past and present meet, drawing us into a world neither dream nor reality. –"People can never really understand each other. Thinking back, I feel this way because of my former mother-in-law. That time, when Kansai dialect and Sichuan Chinese flew back and forth around me and I called my mother Sis, is recreated on expired 8 millimeter film. The expiration date of the film used is the same year that she walked out on us."