All Films

You're a Good Man!

2017 • 1 min • France

Under his big brother's pressure, Willy will have to become a man...

House Call

2017 • 10 min • Czech Republic

Artur is a teacher who after many years comes to terms with his sexuality. He ventures outside of his comfort zone (meets with one of his former students) to determine if it's not too late to be something different. The only thing that stands in his way is an ex wife and son.

The Son, the Father

2017 • 13 min

The event on a young boy's birthday has consequences far into the future for himself and his family.

#TBT to That Time Archer Met Kingsman

2017 • 3 min

Digital short that sees the self-proclaimed "World's Greatest Spy" (Sterling Archer), come face-to-face with Kingsman super agent, Gary "Eggsy" Unwin.

Saint Hubert

2017 • 22 min • Belgium

A forest ranger lives a peaceful life in eastern Belgium, but during a national police investigation a conflict arises. But it turns out to be much more: a confrontation between nature and the modern world.

This World We Live In

2017 • 20 min • United Kingdom

Joey, an image-conscious 22 year-old student swept up in a new city begins to fall into an addiction of drugs to repress his inner demons. A provocative and twisted short film that aims to bring light to one of the darkest issues that face the gay community.

Ordinal (SW/NE)

2017 • 43 min

The film traces the cultural and environmental influences of a soil-dwelling, pathogenic fungus, Coccidioides immitis, and its associated disease, valley fever, in California's Central Valley. Interweaving past, present and mythological time, the film draws upon historical and cultural references, including the plight of migrants during the Depression, the spread of the disease in recent years, contemporary theories of climate change, and the significance of the desert wind in ancient Assyria. In Ruperto and Keagy’s film, natural phenomena remain neutral, fleeing from any kind of judgment and avoiding binary oppositions of positive and negative, destruction and regeneration, life and death.

Like a Fish out of the Water

2017 • 15 min

Woojin, a 25-year-old Korean student tries to adjust to a new city where he doesn’t speak the language. Confusion, despair and bad breath makes him face his mental barriers and open himself to a different culture.

Fantasia de Índio

2017 • 18 min • Brazil

Since I was a child, I heard my mother speaking about my indigenous ancestry. Two decades ago my maternal uncle went to meet the Xukurus looking for traces of our past. I decided to continue this search.

Running Lights

2017 • 11 min • Finland, India, Lithuania

This is a story about the eternal miracle of life and death. The unfortunate death of a wild hare turns into a remarkable experience for children who find his body and bury it in a sand box. Now buried, the hare’s life fades away and dozens of magical creatures that lived inside him leave his body in search for a new home. The hare’s life ends by merging with nature, but is reborn in the plants and animals around it. This fairy-tale for children encourages us to think about what death is.

The Unconquered

2017 • 5 min

The Institute of National Remembrance, Fish Ladder and Juice present “The Unconquered” – an animated film that shows the fight of Poles for freedom, from the first day of World War II to the fall of communism in 1989.

Goodbye, America!

2017 • 12 min • Russia

A young Cuban of Russian origin Ivan returns to his historical homeland and immediately becomes involved in a cycle of events that put him in front of a serious choice.

Anoche

2017 • 8 min • France, Italy, United Kingdom

Three memories that become one. An attempt to merge heterogeneous materials: a film sequence shot in Rome, a photo from the 1930s, a noisy soundtrack. Fragmented lines, exploding bass frequencies and flickering.

Iphigenias Night

2017 • 25 min • Taiwan

Driving home from the airport, Jie was forced by a policeman onto a different path, where he ran into a stranger. In a white uniform and ancient Greek mask, the stranger carries a message ..

Clean Sweep

2017 • 6 min • United States of America

Two hitmen, Ray and Mick, are ordered to kill a man who has wronged their boss. The pair soon find out that the man they are after is more than he appears to be.

Vinyl

2017 • 12 min • Brazil

Stefan has a troubled childhood living with his father and in his mother figure he finds an escape from his nightmares.

Dauga Spirit

2017 • 17 min • Latvia

Pioneers of the Latvian psytrance movement from the viewpoint of a very suspicious alien.

Videotape

2017 • 19 min • Italy

Suburbs of Rome (Italy), Summer of 1993. On top of a wide valley, a group of four kids has built a small shelter in which they spend the afternoons after schooltime. On one of those summer afternoons, the kids take their bikes and go for a journey through the paths of Tolfa and Allumiere. Suddenly, they discover a beautiful medieval farmstead. They don't know it yet, but what they'll find in it will change their lives forever.

Ashleigh

2017 • 4 min • United Kingdom

A moving portrait of one woman’s struggle to pursue her life-long passion of becoming a dancer. Born with cerebral palsy, and told as a child that she would never be able to study or work in the mainstream, Ashleigh refused to take ‘no’ for an answer and today is an inspiration to others.

Rhythm of Being

2017 • 7 min • Switzerland, United Kingdom

For an instant, I am. The light touches me gently and I live, burst and shine. This constant, irreversible, rhythmic drift from being to not. Only the memories left. Escaping desires. The love and the pain. I only have an instant of life. So please. This film is an ode to the rhythm of being.

Scar Tissue

2017 • 15 min • Netherlands

A casual hookup takes an intimate turn when Sami, a Syrian refugee from Damascus, meets Johan. In the course of a night in Amsterdam, the two men will confront some truths, and unsettling secrets, about the very different worlds they come from.

Suffer the Little Children

2017 • 30 min • Russia

A strict elderly teacher suddenly begins to seem (or not to appear?) That the students in her class are no longer children, but terrible monsters, pursuing their mysterious goals.

See You on the Other Side Dear Friend

2017 • 28 min • United States of America

Short documentary about Twin Peaks: The Return.

The Night-Time Winds

2017 • 45 min • United States of America

A psychological thriller. Estranged sisters reunite. In Glorious Black and White.