All Films

Attack of The Dead: Osovets

2018 • 23 min • Belarus, Russia

August 6, 1915. After several unsuccessful attempts to assault the positions of the Russian army, the command of the German troops is decided on a new one. On the eve of the attack on the position of the Germans deliver cylinders with chlorine. Lieutenant Kotlinsky accidentally learns about the upcoming use of chemical weapons, but he does not have the time and opportunity to protect his people. All that remains for him is to set up a company to fight to the last.

A Live Broadcast

2018 • 12 min • United Kingdom

Gareth Holland, the young charismatic presenter of a dreadful infomercial show goes through a rough day of shooting. He is then taken aside by his producer who lets him know of a request from the show's sponsors to finally meet him.

Art Prison

2018 • 22 min

A snarky critic navigates violent personalities and inflamed egos while incarcerated at a prison for the arts.

Slope

2018 • 7 min • Portugal

And then, a house will appear to be waiting you: as in a slope, this is a leaning story on the memory of places and things, on returns and new beginnings.

Lifeline: the Untold Story of Saving the Pulse Survivors

2018 • 53 min • United States of America

On June 12, 2016, Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida was the site of one of the deadliest mass shootings in the history of the USA. Lifeline will take you behind-the-scenes to see how the blood center and hospital raced against the clock to save the victims' lives. Hear the emotional stories from both the survivors and the blood donors themselves who unknowingly saved their lives. Hear the emotional stories from both the survivors and the blood donors themselves who unknowingly saved their lives.

As I Sat in His Car...

2018 • 10 min

Through a collage of found footage, reenactments, and digital manipulation, the intersection between queerness and age is explored through a reflection of youthful regrets.

Clean Blood

2018 • 11 min • United States of America

A Christmas movie about family, the apocalypse and an immaculately pregnant man.

19 Schaffarik Street

2018 • 19 min • Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Slovenia

The countess (50) and Anja (22) are sitting with their guests Sergej (35), Boris (50) and Ivan (25) in an elegantly furnished drawing room in a semi-dilapidated house. It is dinnertime. The countess concludes how the house they are sitting in is very familiar to her, and Anja reaches the same conclusion. Soon the countess realises that Anja is her daughter and that the house is theirs. It all becomes weird when the countess pays attention to the guests, food and drink. She cannot comprehend why they are all these and why she made this expensive dinner when she has recently spent all her money. Anja and the countess feel something terrible will happen tomorrow. To make matters worse, musicians come to her home…

Escape

2018 • 8 min

JaBig, a Montreal-based DJ, is on a quest to beat the record for the longest continuous bike ride in a single country. Join him on the last day of his ride to discover what happens when you stop listening to all the reasons why you shouldn’t, and listen to the voice inside you, telling you to go.

Just Between Us

2018 • 13 min

During a game of Seven Minutes in Heaven, Bree and Connor must navigate how to get what they want while ensuring their reputations stay intact.

Ready Or Not

2018 • 12 min • Hungary

An expensive car arrives to a poor Hungarian village. The kids playing hide and seek in the streets are very attracted by the car. The driver let them try out the vehicle. When it’s full of children, they go for a longer ride.

Planet of the Birds

2018 • 44 min • United States of America

From the North Pole to remote islands, birds can live almost anywhere. How do these resilient animals thrive in such different environments? They have become hardy and versatile through their bodies, feathers, movements, and songs. In this global birding tour, we learn about these nomads of the sky.

F.o.t.o.g.r.a.f.

2018 • 36 min • Russia

A short film based on the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. fictional universe, combining the “Picnic to the curb” of the Strugatsky brothers, “Stalker” by Andrei Tarkovsky and the “Exclusion Zone” location around the Chernobyl NPP. According to the scenario, an agent of the peacekeeping forces, nicknamed "The Photographer", arrives in the Zone to prevent a global scale catastrophe, which could be caused by an experiment that went out of control at a scientific lab.

The Staying Kind

2018 • 21 min • United States of America

Florence Albertine is a 26-year old widow. Her husband, Charles, a soldier in the United States Confederate Army, left home ambitious and determined to resist invasion from the North and was killed in action by a Union cannon strike. Victor, their 7-year old son, understands why his father isn't coming home and cares for his mother through her own attempts to do the same.

Carnivore

2018 • 13 min • Sweden

An irreverent financial thriller where the thrill is in the company you eat.

Atlantic Salmon: Lost at Sea

2018 • 55 min

An epic journey through the oceanic kingdom of the Atlantic Salmon in an attempt to unravel the mystery of their life at sea. Salmon are plummeting to critical levels. The cause is mortality at sea. For the 1st time, using the latest DNA technology, scientists are tracking the salmon from the rivers into the vast North Atlantic and back again, in hopes of finding an answer before it's too late.

Lessons from a School Shooting: Notes from Dunblane

2018 • 23 min • United States of America

In the wake of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre that took the lives of 20 first graders and their teachers, local clergymen Father Bob Weiss receives a letter from a fellow priest in Dunblane, Scotland, whose community suffered an eerily similar fate in 1996. From across the Atlantic, the two priests forge a poignant bond through the shared experience of trauma and healing.

Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America

2018 • 60 min • United States of America

When Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered in Memphis, TN on April 4, 1968, he left a legacy of profound change, yet there was still much unfinished work. This one-hour documentary explores the key battles in the Civil Rights Movement that transformed American society--from the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955 to the Chicago Campaign which led to the Fair Housing Act of 1968. The special will uncover what it took to translate protest into real legislative change.

Solar Odyssey

2018 • 52 min • France

Europe and the United States are working together on an unprecedented journey to learn more about the impact of the Sun on our planet, to really know what its atmosphere is like and how it affects our environment; since solar radiation increasingly affects our lives and telecommunications.

Through the Eyes of an Astronaut

2018 • 28 min • France

Directed by Franco-German duo Pierre-Emmanuel Le Goff and Jürgen Hansen, Through the Eyes of an Astronaut is a 28-minute documentary based on images shot on board (and outside) of the International Space Station (ISS) by Thomas Pesquet, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) youngest astronaut, and the 10th French astronaut to travel into space. Enjoy the highlights of his six-month space odyssey, the Proxima Mission, 400 km above the Earth. Pesquet docked with the ISS in November 2016 for a 196-day, 17-hour, and 49-minute mission. The filmmakers and Pesquet had agreed to a shooting plan before the mission, but the result exceeded their expectations! Pesquet kept a daily visual diary -he brought back more than 600 hours of footage, including 40 in IMAX format, sharing his thoughts and feelings on the beauty and fragile nature of our planet, and man’s place in the universe.

Mo Amer: The Vagabond

2018 • 56 min • United States of America

Arab-American comedian Mo Amer recounts his life as a refugee comic, from traveling with the name Mohammed to his long path to citizenship.

For You

2018 • 18 min • Poland

Marta has just graduated from prestigious vocal studies in England. She comes home after three years of absence. Family and friends welcome her with a surprise party, in order to celebrate her homecoming and success. At the party, the girl meets her old love whom she once abandoned for realizing her own musical ambitions. Only she knows that her education abroad finished with a failure. Marta avoids confrontation with her relatives’ expectations and searches for safety in the old relationship.

To the Moon and Back

2018 • 12 min • Cyprus

A young man has to tell his girlfriend that he has been accepted on a one-way mission to Mars.

Last One Screaming

2018 • 11 min

What happens after the final girl survives a horror film? Ashley, the sole survivor of a weekend trip to a cabin in the woods with her friends, finds herself at the mercy of an FBI psychologist during an interrogation. Is she crazy, or is there more to her story?