All Films

Second Lane

2018 • 29 min • Finland

Second Lane is a story about drug addiction, living with it and fighting it. It is a documentary about people who use intravenous drugs and the professionals and peers working with those people. What happens when ‘Vinkki’, a social and healthcare counselling centre in Helsinki, closes its doors due to a lost contract.

Pure Flix and Chill: The David A.R. White Story

2018 • 32 min • United States of America

A satirical archive-based portrait spanning 30 years that follows the rise of Christian cinema’s most visible presence, David A.R. White, and how he came to found the largest Christian production company, Pure Flix. Made up entirely of over 50 interviews, movies, and TV shows, Pure Flix and Chill is a critical analysis of a failed culture war and its prophet.

Zoe 2020

2018 • 2 min

A short film about a girl named Zoe, and her mom. Dedicated to the victims and survivors of Columbine 1999, Santana High 2001, Red Lake 2005, Virginia Tech 2007, Sandy Hook 2012, Chardon 2012, Oikos 2012, Umpqua 2015, North Park 2017, Marjory Stoneman 2018...

Deviant

2018 • 10 min

In the early sixties, a sexually conflicted teenager finds faith and acceptance after escaping the tortures of electrotherapeutic conversion therapy.

Luminous Shadow

2018 • 22 min • Portugal

A meditation on the human form and its many representations over the centuries, this archaeological essay compiles images of statues, photos, sketches, and news clippings from Portugal’s Jose de Guimarães International Arts Centre. The filmmakers conjure a slipstream of interrelated origin stories via brief bits of narration and tableaux of various animal and mineral elements.

Hitler's Battle Against the Press

2018 • 45 min • Germany

As early as 1920, the journalists of the "Münchener Post" recognized the danger posed by Adolf Hitler. Consistently and boldly they wrote about National Socialism. The brave journalists and their newspaper are almost forgotten today. A single book has been published about them - in Brazil.

The Women’s Strike Continues

2018 • 52 min

Film about the struggle of women who work in municipal kindergartens and nurseries in Poznań (Poland). They fight for living wages and better conditions for themselves and the kids. In 2011, the women set up a union section. Since then they have learned to put pressure on their employers effectively, and they have also supported other workers during their struggles.

Ånga om sommaren

2018 • 29 min • Sweden

A trip on the Swedish lake Mälaren by a 115-year-old steamboat. The journey between Stockholm and Mariefred takes 3,5 hours. The steamboat Mariefred was manufactured over a hundred years ago and is one of the last steam-powered vessels on the lake. The steam whistle sounds when Maja, as she is called in Mariefred, steers into the bay towards the small town. A fanfare for the summer!

Obon

2018 • 15 min • Germany

Akiko Takakura is one of the last survivors of the Hiroshima bomb. During Obon, she receives the spirits of her parents and is haunted by memories. Finally Akiko experiences paternal love in the middle of the ruins of Hiroshima.

Opprørsskolen

2018 • 59 min • Norway

In 1967 three students started the Experimental High School of Oslo - FGO. They wanted to make a free and democratic school, where pupils and teachers were equals, and the curriculum focused on freedom, learning and mutual respect.

Mr. Turtle

2018 • 14 min • Mexico

Daniel Pérgules, known as “Kilos” is a turtle rescuer and animal rights activist. On his journey searching for turtle nests in the most remote parts of the beaches of Tecolutla, Veracruz, he remembers the day it all began, and how his work saved his life.

Jumbo: The Life of an Elephant Superstar

2018 • 60 min • Canada

The bones of the first animal superstar reveal long-buried secrets.

Adam Meet Eve

2018 • 11 min • United Kingdom

In the beginning there was nothing, then God created existence, then Adam and it was going to be Adam's job to start the whole "procreation" thing, there was just one slight problem - Adam was going to need to talk to Eve first.

My Ex-Girlfriend Is a Shovel

2018 • 14 min

After her girlfriend of three years breaks up with her, Coral realizes that her ex wasn't actually a person, but was in fact a shovel. Ultimately, Coral must confront her shovel ex-girlfriend to be able to move on.

Run for Your Life

2018 • 60 min • United States of America

A grieving detective who is thrust into a deadly game to bring someone back from the grave.

One Coffee and Four Seconds

2018 • 16 min

Two torturers meet for coffee after more than thirty years without seeing each other, to settle accounts from that time.

The Manor

2018 • 8 min • United Kingdom

Set in 1944. A battle in the french countryside leaves a German soldier alone to bury his fallen comrades. He is attacked by a lone American paratrooper and the two do battle around a country manor house, in a tense game of cat and mouse

Love Is Never Wasted

2018 • 22 min

A boy struggles to make sense of how he fits between two worlds and two mothers.

Photograph

2018 • 7 min • India

A couple revisit a photograph to save their fading relationship. The space they revisit echoes their relationship and memories.

Nicole Scherzinger: Cocofest

2018 • 40 min

Setlist: 1. Buttons (The Pussycat Dolls song) 2. Whatever U Like 3. Jai Ho! (You Are My Destiny) (The Pussycat Dolls song) 4. Baby Love 5. Stickwitu (The Pussycat Dolls song) (a cappella ending) 6. That's What I Like (Bruno Mars cover) 7. When I Grow Up (The Pussycat Dolls song) 8. Right There 9. Don't Cha (The Pussycat Dolls song) 10. Don't Hold Your Breath

Connected

2018 • 18 min • Poland

One day in the life of a 50-year-old couple. Blind Krzysztof goes skiing with Wiola, who is his wife and guide. They prepare for skiing in the early morning. Krzysztof mounts bluetooth kits on the helmets that will connect them to each other. They go to the top of the mountain in a chair lift, and the higher they go, the more we learn about their life. At the same time, weather conditions are changing, thickening mist falls on the mountain slopes. When Wiola and Krzysztof finally reach the summit, they must find each other and connect in the surrounding fog. A short documentary about love and passion.

Arthur, c'est papa

2018 • 18 min

Arno, in his thirties, is a transgender man married to Emilie. Four years ago, they decided to give birth to a child, little Arthur. This intimate family portrait tells us about the journey, the doubts and the hopes of this seemingly ordinary "new family". More broadly, it questions the patriarchal family order and bears witness to the universality of parental love.

NoEnd House

2018 • 14 min • United States of America

A thrill-seeker gets more than he bargains for when he enters a local haunted house which wields supernatural powers of unimaginable terror. Based on a popular creepypasta by Brian Russell this atmospheric short horror film features a haunting performance by Connor Keene and a chilling original score by Aaron Stafford.

IKEA for YU

2018 • 52 min • Croatia

Marija grew up in a family that lives Yugoslav ideals even today. Given that Marija and her family are of Serbian origin, who continued to live in Croatia, regardless of the pressures of the recent war, the Yugoslav identity is the one they felt closest to. She had always felt that her family's ideals were her own, until her life path turned her in a different direction. When she founded her own family with her husband, she began to question her parents' and grandparents' values, as well as her own, and if that was the environment in which she wanted to raise her son. Within a journey through the family history, Marija opts for a "new beginning" in a totally different environment and sets up a new home - in Sweden. This film is a story about growing up, separation from the nest, and accepting one's own value system, and how to get there, in the atmosphere of a stable and loving family.