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Tom Waits: Tales from a Cracked Jukebox

Tom Waits: Tales from a Cracked Jukebox

2017 • 58 min • United Kingdom
Tom Waits is one of the most original musicians of the last five decades. Renowned for his gravelly voice and dazzling mix of musical styles, he's also one of modern music's most enigmatic and influential artists. Using rare archive, audio recordings and interviews, this film is a bewitching after-hours trip through the surreal, moonlit world of Waits' music - a portrait of a pioneering musician and his unique, alternative American songbook.
Bruno & Juliet: A True Love Story

Bruno & Juliet: A True Love Story

2017 • 11 min
The story of a friendship between two dogs
Antithese

Antithese

2017 • 29 min • Germany, Austria
The shy writer Stephan is tired of life in the big city. He is looking for peace and seclusion and that is exactly what he hopes for when he goes to a cabin in the mountains with his girlfriend Mia. With Stephan, inspiration soon sprouts and he gives himself to write. Mia, on the other hand, who has been skeptical of her lonely holiday from the beginning, suffers from frightening nightmares. When Stephan realizes that reality is mixed with what he writes, it is too late. Stephan has raised a demon and Mia is his prisoner.
Alien: Covenant - Prologue: Phobos

Alien: Covenant - Prologue: Phobos

2017 • 9 min • United States of America
A darkly twisted psychological drama, ‘Phobos’ is a short film set before the events of ‘Alien: Covenant’. The film follows the crew of the ill-fated colony ship Covenant, on what amounts to a highly unorthodox job ‘interview’ for their upcoming mission, masterminded by their employer, the Weyland Yutani Corporation.
Space Lions: The Story of Twilight Imperium

Space Lions: The Story of Twilight Imperium

2017 • 48 min
Popular review site Shut Up & Sit Down follows the creative heads of Fantasy Flight Games as they develop a new edition of their flagship game Twilight Imperium.
Agreement

Agreement

2017 • 24 min
Se-young goes to an agreement with the woman her husband raped.
Snowy Bing Bongs Across the North Star Combat Zone

Snowy Bing Bongs Across the North Star Combat Zone

2017 • 41 min • United States of America
Dance-comedy trio Cocoon Central Dance lounges about, passes gas, and bursts into bizarre dance routines while navigating outer space interludes, doctor boners, and a '90s-style girl group meltdown.
Borá

Borá

2017 • 11 min • Brazil
Sting: Beyond The Police

Sting: Beyond The Police

2017 • 59 min • Germany
The personal life and professional career of music superstar Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner, universally known as Sting, who became passionate about music at a very early age and founded the trio The Police in 1977 with Stewart Copeland and Andy Summers, achieving an immediate success.
Remembering Agatha

Remembering Agatha

2017 • 30 min • Australia
For Agatha, Christmas triggers sadness. She yearns for freedom laced with imagination, when magical creatures were part of a game played with friends in the forest. The death of her parents after a 1978 Christmas Party still haunts Agatha. She sees similarities between her parents' unhappy marriage and her own. The Black Madonna statue from her childhood visits Agatha, escalating her anxiety and goading her towards change. The discovery of a mysterious portal offers Agatha the possibility of resolving her grief and saving her crumbling marriage.
Propellers

Propellers

2017 • 8 min
This short film shows a relationship from the begining to the end and how it can hurts the person who is left behind.
The Ugly Christmas Sweater

The Ugly Christmas Sweater

2017 • 10 min
During her first days working at a social media company, Megan’s team is tasked with finding the best Christmas hashtag and she is determined to be the one to do so to impress her boss and the cute guy in her cubicle. However, when she is forced to wear her eccentric grandmother’s gift—an ugly Christmas sweater—her unfortunate turn of events may well be the key to winning over her new boss and her new beau.
The Fruitless Tree

The Fruitless Tree

2017 • 52 min • Niger
There is certainly some pressure to procreate in Western societies, but in some countries, it’s not even a question of choice. Married but childless, director Aicha Macky’s circumstance is judged unacceptable in her native Niger. Doctors haven’t been able to determine why she can’t conceive, but in her conservative Muslim society, women are always getting blamed for infertility, while men are rarely diagnosed. Speaking to her departed mother who died in childbirth, she expresses her deep sadness: “By giving life, you lost yours, whereas I’m dying a slow death by not being able to give life.” Drawing from her personal experience, Macky bravely addresses the taboo of childlessness and the stigma Nigerien women like her must endure. Through delicate, exquisitely shot portraits, and sensitive observation of other women’s secret suffering, she finds a way to affirm herself as a fulfilled individual among mothers.
The Hunter

The Hunter

2017 • 7 min
When John treks deep into the forest for one of his hunting excursions, he is met with more than just the thrill of the hunt.
La ragazza, il dito e Alino

La ragazza, il dito e Alino

2017 • 8 min • Italy
Four friends wake up after a drunken night. Unaware of what happened, they'll have to track down a mysterious girl, a lost friend and a missing finger in a day they will never forget.
Sara Kroos: Doorgefokt

Sara Kroos: Doorgefokt

2017 • 51 min • Netherlands
Registration of the eight solo show by the Dutch comedian Sara Kroos.
A Pot of Boiling Oil

A Pot of Boiling Oil

2017 • 39 min • United States of America
A short documentary about the making of Twin Peaks: The Return. David Lynch interacts with his cast while they tell some stories.
Nordic Light: A Composer's Diary

Nordic Light: A Composer's Diary

2017 • 58 min • Latvia
Directed by Renārs Vimba, this documentary film follows composer Ēriks Ešenvalds on his expeditions to the Arctic circle in preparation of his large-scale Nordic Light Multimedia Symphony, which was premiered in 2015 and has been performed in the US, Canada, Germany and Latvia.
Risk Factor

Risk Factor

2017 • 54 min • Canada
Risk Factor begins with filmmaker Robert Lang expressing confusion about his personal risks and the societal risks that seem to threaten us all. Which risk factors are truly dangerous? And which ones don’t matter? To gain insight, he decides to go on a journey to meet the world’s top risk experts.
Christina P: Mother Inferior

Christina P: Mother Inferior

2017 • 59 min • United States of America
Christina Pazsitzky hits Seattle with a biting dose of reality, telling truths about her childhood, getting older and the horrors of giving birth.
Piety

Piety

2017 • 28 min
Short transgressive horror film by Jack Mulvanerty and Johnny Dickie. “An inmate tells his story through interviews that reveal a tormented past of religion, depression, abuse and murder. “
The Winkles

The Winkles

2017 • 25 min
In Brignogan-Plages, thirty-year-old Zoé works with her father, Guy, at his bar "Les Bigorneaux". Since the premature death of her mother, she wears herself out by taking everything into her own hands. One morning, Zoé starts suffering from dizziness and nausea, which disrupt her daily life.
Magic First

Magic First

2017 • 35 min • Russia
In contemporary Russia there exists a hidden world - a world of magic and enchantment. Magicians have to hide from the nonmag society surrounding them, a society they are disdainful of, some even hostile towards. The Master of the Guard of the Supreme Council of Magic and Enchantment, Bakhrushin, loses his magic abilities and must not only avoid revealing this, but also prevent the war brewing between the magicians and the nonmagi.
Red Tale

Red Tale

2017 • 5 min • France
RED RIDING HOOD and BLUE BEARD are opposed in a dark fairy tale of lights. "Curiosity, in spite of its appeal, often leads to deep regret....it is these gentle wolves who are the most dangerous ones of all"Charles Perrault.