All Films

Motherland

2018 • 4 min

In a post-apocalyptic future, a migrant latinx man is on life support from the last plant on Earth. With only memories of his mother to guide him, he must find a way to preserve life on Earth.

Disney Parks Presents 25 Days of Christmas Holiday Party

2018 • 30 min

Jordan Fisher and Disney Channel’s “Coop & Cami Ask the World” stars Ruby Rose Turner and Dakota Lotus host “Disney Parks Presents a 25 Days of Christmas Holiday Party”. During this half-hour special viewers will enjoy special appearances and musical performances from fan-favorite Disney Channel stars, including Kylee Russell, Meg Donnelly (Disney Channel Original Movie “ZOMBIES”), Sadie Stanley (Disney Channel Original Movie “Kim Possible”) and Sean Giambrone (Disney Channel Original Movie “Kim Possible,” ABC’s “The Goldbergs”). Additional musical performances include Gwen Stefani, Brett Eldredge and Asher Angel.

The Summoned

2018 • 30 min

Paris, Spring 1920. Alphonse Maindron, trench veteran, receives the visit of a young journalist, François Duval. Here to ask him about recent events, as tragic as strange, which Alphonse would have witnessed.

Shangku Shelter

2018 • 53 min • Canada, India

Zanskar is a remote kingdom in the northwest Indian Himalaya, where local people are snow-bound for six months of the year. About 10,000 Zanskaris live in the isolated valley. In winter, mountain passes are blocked, the summer Jeep road closes and buses stop. Two decades ago, three friends founded a ski school - to enable winter travel in the valley, improve quality of life, and to encourage young people to stay in Zanskar by helping establish a culture of mountain sports. The film tells the story of this friendship, the ski school and the development of skiing in the area. Along the way a bigger question is raised. Most recently, the federal government announced a major road building project that will provide year round access to Zanskar. How can Zanskar's wilderness be preserved? It is only a matter of time before the winter road is completed, and the "Big India" rushes in.

Harriet Tubman: They Called Her Moses

2018 • 55 min

Discover the real Harriet Tubman in this compelling documentary narrated by Alfrelynn Roberts and featuring expert interviews with leading scholars, Dr. Eric Lewis Williams of the Smithsonian Institute and Carl Westmoreland of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center. It also features remarkable early 20th century audio recordings of African-American spirituals sung by former slaves.

Flamenca

2018 • 11 min

Laura wakes up with a hangover in Lucía’s home. Laura wants to get out of there, but Lucía finally convinces her to stay and have breakfast with her.

Night Drive

2018 • 17 min • France

Fifty-year-old Sabine is a truck driver. The sudden buyout of the company she works for by a large German corporation will upset her usual habits. Apart from the new rules, she also has to adapt to working with a partner, Manon, a young woman who is prepared to sacrifice everything to stay in the company. Fearing she'll lose her job, Sabine accepts to go on the road with Manon.

Halloween Party

2018 • 38 min

October 31, 1995 - Local hero and fire fighter Ben Davister is hosting his annual Halloween Party when a woman covered in blood shows up on his doorstep. Will it be a trick or treat?

One of the Boys

2018 • 11 min • Netherlands

At korfball practice, a timid young teenager finds himself forced to show his true colors upon witnessing his fellow players' locker room banter take a cruel turn at the expense of the most popular girl on their team.

Casulos

2018 • 13 min • Brazil

She just wanted to relax, but something coming from far away destroyed her plans.

code-verse

2018 • 18 min

Using musical pitch as a medium, Ryoji Ikeda translates various kinds of data into an almost abstract code—a perfect sequence of “phrases” that create audiovisual compositions like those in code-verse. A universe of code and a code poem, the installation transforms mathematical code into an independent symphonic or polyphonic work. code-verse has no narrative: it communicates with the viewer’s senses. Immersed in white noise, viewers are invited to contemplate the poetry of mathematical relationships and variations in code in the same way one listens to music.

The Rizzle

2018 • 5 min • Australia, United States of America

A mysterious video on the internet provokes viewers to perform an old, ritualistic dance.

The Gravedigger of Kapu

2018 • 16 min • New Zealand

Hone is the last of the old time gravediggers. He links the living with the dead. He is the keeper of their secrets. Tana is Hone’s apprentice who respects his uncle and doesn’t mind the physical work. However he finds the spiritual side of the job unnerving. Hone worries that Tana may not be able to pick up the role of the gravedigger and all that it entails. A series of incidents in the urupa (graveyard) lead them to both make final decisions.

Shark vs. Tuna

2018 • 44 min • South Africa, United States of America

A clash of true oceanic titans sees fights in the remote battlefields of Ascension Island. Tuna are often faster, fitter and bigger than the sharks.

Hasta el fin de Delfín

2018 • 54 min • Ecuador

A few years ago the indigenous musician Delfín Quishpe uploaded a video clip on YouTube of his song Torres Gemelas without imagining the impact it would have. For some, the video was strange and in bad taste, however his charisma and his lyrics made him a celebrity. After ten years, Delfín still has not overcome the hangover of fame and now he struggles not to turn off the magic of his music, in a world of ephemeral stars in the digital age.

Anachronic

2018 • 28 min • Brazil

A retired old man experiences strange surreal events at his apartment.

Shinya Tsukamoto Commentary "Fires on the Plain" 20 Year Journey

2018 • 59 min

Shinya Tsukamoto recalls the development of his adaptation of 'Fires on the Plain' by Shohei Ooka

Boys of My Youth

2018 • 5 min

Through eerie iPhone photographs of empty high school hallways and dimly lit locker rooms, a narrator reflects on his teenage sexual repression.

Surviving the Lagoon

2018 • 52 min • France

In the heart of the a vast ocean, the atolls of the Pacific are like oasis in a sprawling desert. Each one contains a unique and breathtaking environment. Where the reef breaks, the ecosystem of the lagoon flourishes. Filmed in UHD and extreme slow motion, this film captures the exclusive behavior of the creatures that live here, including sharks, whales, manta rays, groupers, and many more.

Dear Mama: A Love Letter To Moms

2018 • 55 min • United States of America

Celebrities send love letters to their moms in a heartwarming and touching night of tributes.

Lisa

2018 • 17 min • Russia

USSR 1960s. The writer lives in a studio apartment with his beloved Margot. The writer is writing a novel and wants recognition. In his imagination, he creates a family of characters. Hoping for success, the writer takes several chapters of the novel to different publishers, but gets rejections everywhere. Failures give rise to doubts and fears in the creator, which mystically are embodied in the image of a lady in a black dress. Lady is negative energy. One day, the writer decides to burn the manuscripts of the novel. At this moment, in the form of a hallucination, a Lady appears in front of him.

Last Days in Shibati

2018 • 60 min

Shibati, the last old area of Chongqing, the biggest city in China, is about to disappear. Zhou Hong, 7 years old, little prince of the streets, and Mrs Xue Lian, 70, godmother of the migrant workers, have to leave their beloved life in this charming neighborhood, to be rehoused in one of the thousands anonymous towers of the faraway suburb.

Oh My God, Is This A Joke?

2018 • 21 min • United Kingdom

Shoot From The Hip Presents: "Oh My God, Is This A Joke?" Shoot From The Hip improvised this entire play live at the Theatre Royal Stratford East in East London for their hit show, "Break A Leg". Expect Nazis, gunfights, romance and of course...the lusty Xavier.

Hand Mandala

2018 • 4 min

Five sets of hands form an ever-changing mandala.