All Films

The Secret Story of Stuff: Materials of the Modern Age

2018 • 59 min • United Kingdom

Designer and engineer Zoe Laughlin explores the world of material science, uncovering the innovations in manufacturing that are set to change the world we live in.

Two Late Elves

2018 • 3 min • United States of America

Produced for Glass Eye Pix as part of their 2018 Creepy Christmas Film Festival, in which each short is inspired by a holiday-themed word. This film, the twenty-third in the series, is inspired by the word “elf.”

On the Border

2018 • 15 min • China

A Korean teen named Hua Dongxing decides to leave his remote village. To realize his desire, he goes in town looking for his father and asking for travel expenses. This search takes him on a wondering roam.

The Roar of '84

2018 • 12 min

A newspaper plays "inside baseball" to unearth forgotten photographs and stories of the 1984 Detroit Tigers World Champions. Detroit Free Press veterans Bill McGraw and Mary Schroeder recount this crowning moment in Detroit sports history through thousands of photo negatives and one sport writer's score book. Produced for the Detroit Free Press in 2018 ahead of the induction of Alan Trammell and Jack Morris into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Le roi est mort

2018 • 7 min • Canada

To everyone's surprise, Suzie Lapointe, the queen of the school, turns down her boyfriend's invitation to a ball in the middle of a physical education class. Maxime, Léo and Clovis see the opportunity and therefore decide to run to try their luck with it. Who will she choose?

Night of the Living Sluts

2018 • 9 min • France

They keep coming back in a bloodthirsty lust of human flesh ! Pits the sluts against the living in a struggle for survival !

Only Fools Rush In

2018 • 13 min

When his student visa expires, Carlos spends one last night in New York with Mark.

Vostok N°20

2018 • 50 min • France

Daily life in a third-class Transsiberian wagon named Vostok N 20. Between discomfort, shared meals, boredom and confessions to strangers, people spend their time as they can. In the form of literary counterpoint, poems of Marina Tsvétaeva told by Fanny Ardant illuminates the feelings of passengers: their loneliness, their desires for freedom and love.

Toro

2018 • 60 min

Documentary about the fighting bull

Sail

2018 • 13 min • France

Love letters never sent. A miniature ship that never sailed. Papers rolled in its veils. A voice emerging from the sea around it.

The Pursuit

2018 • 18 min • United States of America

An Armenian-American woman struggling with cultural and familial pressures tries to live her truth and do right by her daughter.

Love and the Demonic Psyche

2018 • 7 min • Australia

A hallucinatory retelling of the Greek myth about Pan and Syrinx's brutalist romantic love. Inspired by the short films of Maya Deren, Curtis Harrington and the art of Rosaleen Norton and Brett Whiteley, 'Love and the Demonic Psyche' channels French poet Arthur Rimbaud's proclivity for a derangement of the senses, culminating in a Cocteau style blood painting invocating the horned God of Panic. Encompassed in psychedelic visuals and Moroccan trance music, this film should be viewed in the spirit in which it was made.

Um Toque de Aurora

2018 • 15 min • Brazil

Luis, a former goalkeeper and Sara, a Braille teacher, are about to make love for the first time ... Although the only thing they have in common is the fact that they are blind.

This is My Chair

2018 • 4 min

Once upon a time, in Los Angeles, California, two girls found a magical chair outside their front door. These girls saw endless beauty in the simplicity of the chair; within it's fabric, they saw themselves.

Kin's Hair

2018 • 6 min • Hong Kong

Hong Kong's story is a history of loss, embodied (or rather disembodied) in the hairs on Kin's head, which fall out one by one.

The Saint Louis Browns: The Team That Baseball Forgot

2018 • 58 min • United States of America

St. Louis is viewed as one of the best baseball towns in America, however, the city's major league history is not confined to the Cardinals. For five decades, St. Louis fielded a second professional team - the St. Louis Browns. The Browns tendency to be remembered as a mere punchline has obscured their place in history, but their story is more than their reputation would suggest. It's the story of what could have been but never was. Of baseball legends lost to time. Of glorious gimmicks. As a beloved team turned fraternity of failure. This is the story of a team that found its place in history by losing its home. It's a story forgotten no more.

The Guest

2018 • 30 min • Poland

The life of a Polish farmer, Wojtek, and his immediate environment, shown through the eyes of the young Swiss filmmaker, Sebastian. Despite the harsh working conditions he has known since childhood, he has never lost his joy of life, warm-handedness and humor. Living all alone in a big house, he likes to welcome guests in search of company and friends in need of help. It's where Pawel, a young alcoholic with nowhere to go, finds shelter. Wojtek does his best to look after him. Is he up to the challenge?

Picasso Metamorphoses in Blue and Pink

2018 • 52 min • France

In Pablo Picasso's career, a blue and pink period gets the attention they deserve. It is between 1901 and 1907 that the seeds of all his future work lie, for it is then that Picasso turned his back on his father's teachings and broke free from academic constraints and himself at the beginning with everything that crossed his path. This documentary takes a look at Picasso's various metamorphoses, shaped by a struggle between zest for life and dark thoughts. A world shared by his friend Jaime Sabartés, who wrote it in a collection of memoirs. Art documentary (2018) by Gaëlle Royer.

Brown Rice

2018 • 5 min

Shows some of the everyday struggles of a gay man in today's society. From the pressure to be physically fit to the drug culture, peer pressure and the toll it takes on the members of the gay community.

These Dead Souls

2018 • 11 min

An audiovisual essay on Douglas Sirk's film The Tarnished Angels (1957). Analyzes a central scene 40 minutes into the narrative, and also refers both backward and forward in order to show the film’s richly elaborated logic of part and whole, repetition and stasis, drama and entropy.

Tiny House

2018 • 18 min

Inspired by a true story. After being diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, Lee copes with his illness by developing a tiny house that will accommodate his deteriorating body.

Amor, Avenidas Novas

2018 • 20 min • Portugal

Manel is twenty years old, lives on Avenida Almirante Reis and idealizes love inspired by the relationship of his parents. Out of compassion, he hands over his double mattress to Nicolau and his girlfriend, who returned to Lisbon. Manel is alone with the mattress that he exchanged with his friends and on his way back home when he invades a film set, with a team entirely composed by girls. One of them, Rita, a beautiful production intern who helps with the mattress.

Words Are Things

2018 • 2 min • New Zealand

Some day we’ll be able to measure the power of words but in the meantime let’s be careful about the words we use.

Night Terrorizer

2018 • 2 min • United States of America

A woman has trouble to sleep peacefully, for a reason she doesn't even imagine.