All Films

Postcards

2018 • 60 min • Croatia

Twelve 5-minute TV episodes about small Croatian towns and villages in which residents speak in strong dialects or foreign languages. The series includes episodes about Momjan, Gornja Stubica, Tounj, Vrboska, Zdala, Susak, Prezid, Bol, Susnjevica, Strigova, Blato and Lokve.

George Harrison - All Things Pass

2018 • 56 min

George Harrison was an English guitarist, singer, songwriter, and music and film producer who initially achieved international fame as the lead guitarist of the Beatles, but went on to sell millions of critically acclaimed solo records. Harrison was referred to as the quiet one of the Beatles, often in the shadow of John Lennon and Paul McCartney. However, he later acquired the respect of critics world wide and is now considered to be on the same level - if not surpassing - Lennon and McCartney as a song writer, a result of creating songs such as ‘Here Comes the Sun’ and ‘While My Guitar Gently Weeps’. Rolling Stone magazine even ranked him number 11 on their list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time," and he is a two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee.

The Sound of Your Heart Special 1

2018 • 60 min • South Korea

From a filial trip abroad to a rescue mission at home, Cho Jun's family and friends get themselves in and out of everyday hairy situations.

Are We Good Parents?

2018 • 9 min • United States of America

When Lauren and Bill’s 14-year-old daughter says she’s going to her first dance with her classmate Ryan, they question their preconceived notions of her sexuality and their openness as parents.

Celeste

2018 • 11 min

A peculiar maid decides to rebel against her abusive boss, but her plan goes awry and brings repercussions for years to come.

Nepenthe

2018 • 18 min

Nepenthe tells the story of a seven year old ogress who is now orphaned and has her childhood interrupted. She is hungry and without any food; so, she decides to go hunting for a boy in order to eat. This is how she traps Jero, a taciturn and solitary boy who is bullied at school.

Oil Spill of The Century

2018 • 44 min • France

In 1978, the Amoco Cadiz, a supertanker loaded with 220,000 tons of petrol, ran aground in Brittany, France. The accident caused the biggest oil spill France has ever known and is still today known as one of the 20th century’s biggest ecological catastrophes. Forty years later, Loïck Peyron tries to understand how nature recovered from the disaster and what lessons were learned from it.

In Lucia's Skin

2018 • 13 min

Lucia, a young mother, is consumed in her dark past. Her daughter, Camila, is the constant reminder of it. One afternoon in the circus, Lucia stops resisting the pain and decides to break the silence.

Aki and Peter

2018 • 12 min • United States of America

THE OTHER SIDE OF HOPE is dedicated to filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki’s longtime friend and collaborator, the film critic and festival programmer Peter von Bagh. In this new video essay, filmmaker Daniel Raim explores Kaurismäki’s oeuvre through the world of von Bagh.

Psychic Manjara 8

2018 • 51 min • Japan

Unpreceded evil video! Can you look straight to the end!? A circle of fear with vicious grudges and curses! A collection of shocking psychic images!

Sex, Fear, and Hamburgers

2018 • 20 min • Kazakhstan

The 30-year-old Iskander is a food-photographer who, due to his own indecision, experiences a crisis both in his work and in his sexual relation with his colleague and beloved Laura. He wants to change his situation by completing a promising project for a popular fast food chain. Because of a «red level of terrorist threat» in the city, while he’s working he ends up locked in a fast food with a random customer, Anat. The two have sex, then Iskander backs out, but Anat finds a way to get satisfaction. She teaches him not to be afraid of mistakes. Iskander gains self-confidence and shows his courage in his job and in sex with Laura, who finally gives him her respect and love.

The Jupiter Enigma

2018 • 45 min

What can the giant planet Jupiter tell us about the birth of our solar system five billion years ago? Drawing on new findings from NASA's Juno mission, scientists are peering into Jupiter's stormy heart to reveal the very origins of our solar system: a chaotic early time when smaller planets were flung space or sent into shattering collisions, and the fate of planet Earth hung in the balance.

Guion

2018 • 21 min • Canada

a short, narrative biopic that tells the story of Guion Bluford, as he grapples with the reality that he is to become the first African American man in space.

Unsolved History: Life of a King

2018 • 45 min • United States of America

This documentary explores unanswered questions surrounding Rev. A.D. King's death just 15 months after the assassination of his brother, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Seven

2018 • 12 min • United Kingdom

SEVEN unfolds in a stunning hinterland of rearing cliffs and vast seascapes, 50 miles within the Arctic Circle. Yet this is contested territory: outsiders are threatening a centuries old way of life as they seek to exploit the area's natural resources. Yohana, a teenage girl from a remote community in the Norwegian Arctic must decide the fate of the oil worker who has killed her father. In just seven seconds, she must make a life and death decision that will not only mark her forever, but also determine the very future of her people.

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: Last Round-Up Rollin' Grill

2018 • 25 min • United States of America

A prequel fan film to Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974).

J the Film

2018 • 44 min • Bosnia and Herzegovina, Italy

'J' tells the story of a man who lives an isolated life before encountering a woman that will open up, for a while, his controlled world. In 'J', time is at first an internal condition and, as the story unfolds, the effect of a mysterious mirror, where solitude is a condition of space itself and nearness and love are but a position of an impossible witness. Can space hold all the memories of a life without witnesses?

A Meowy Halloween

2018 • 48 min • United States of America

The sequel to "A Meowy Christmas" pits Ms. Whiskers and Chuck against supernatural evil! Or something like that.

Fish Tank

2018 • 6 min • United States of America

When a college student goes to his first hook-up with a mysterious older man, he must determine if his anxieties point to a darker truth about his host for the night.

Copa-Loca

2018 • 14 min • Greece

This is the story of Copa-Loca, an abandoned Greek summer resort. Paulina is the girl at the heart of Copa-Loca. Everyone cares for her and she cares about everyone – in every possible way.

Balls

2018 • 12 min

Balls takes as its starting point Heathcliff, the foundling character central to Wuthering Heights, and explores links between the Foundling Hospital story and the much-loved novel by Brontë. Cole’s film is inspired by two separate but intertwined stories; the real lives of desperate women and the babies they gave up to the care of the Foundling Hospital, which are meticulously documented in the Hospital’s archives; and Heathcliff, the foundling antihero in Wuthering Heights. Set in modern day Liverpool, the film shines a light on how the lives of women, celebrated or unknown, were so circumscribed by society in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and considers the extent to which progress has been made.

Live Stream from YUKI <3

2018 • 11 min

Yuki, a live streamer, comes across an unwanted guest when interacting with her audience. After an online party, she is destroyed by malice.The Golden Horse Award nominated creator Tsung-Han TSAI dedicate himself as writer and director of “Live Stream from YUKI <3 ”, his very first virtual reality experience. Through VR, the boundary between virtual world on internet and reality is no longer concrete. Annoying netizens, glamorous live streamer and audience behind the screen, will be able to know which is real and which is fallacious?

Bloodporn

2018 • 49 min • Germany

Vile Video Productions, in association with Sado Messiah Productions, is proud to announce the first ever North American release of the sex fueled and blood soaked German masterpiece BLOODPORN! With brand new cover art by the legendary Martin Trafford, as well as a behind the scenes making of special feature, this is a must have for anyone with a blood fetish!

Prom Night

2018 • 11 min • United States of America

Closeted prom nominee Callie is forced to make a life altering decision on the night of her senior prom.