All Films

Purgatory: Entering John Carpenter's 'Escape From New York'

2018 • 53 min • United States of America

A brand new retrospective documentary produced by Ballyhoo Motion Pictures and featuring interviews with writer Nick Castle, cinematographer Dean Cundey, composer Alan Howarth, production designer Joe Alves, special visual effects artist/model maker Gene Rizzardi, production assistant David De Coteau, photographer Kim Gottleib-Walker, Carpenter biographer John Muir, visual effects historian Justin Humphreys, and music historian Daniel Schweiger.

Finding Fukue

2018 • 21 min • Canada, Japan

A Canadian woman returns to Japan in order to solve the mystery of her long-lost friend.

Hold On To Me

2018 • 20 min • Italy

Filippo did not expect to have to spend the day with Alice, a charming young girl with Down syndrome he meets on a train. On their journey, an unexpected bond forms between the two.

The Night of Plastic Bags

2018 • 19 min • France

Agathe, 39, has but one obsession: to have a child. She finds her ex, Marc-Antoine, a DJ, mixing techno in Marseille. As she tries to talk to him into getting back together, plastic bags come to life and attack the city.

Psychic Manjara 7

2018 • 56 min

Screaming nightmare, oozing fear!! The seventh collection of cursed videos.

Tig Notaro: Happy to Be Here

2018 • 58 min • United States of America

Comedian Tig Notaro unleashes her inner prankster in a playful stand-up special packed with funny anecdotes, parenting confessions and more.

The King of Oakes and Commerce

2018 • 8 min • United States of America

A night in the life of a pinball wizard.

One Leg In, One Leg Out

2018 • 15 min

After a decade as a sex worker, Iman attempts to pursue her dream of becoming a social worker to help her transgender community members. As she explores the option of going back to college, One Leg In, One Leg Out questions whether tenacity, ambition and a life long dream are enough to overcome a challenging personal situation.

Loki's Daughter

2018 • 15 min • Norway

Loki's Daughter is the story about Loki and how he brought dark magic to the humans to challenge gods and create chaos.

Unbroken: The Snowboard Life of Mark McMorris

2018 • 44 min

After a horrific backcountry accident leaves professional snowboarder Mark McMorris in the ICU, he fights for his life and faces an existential crisis.

This Kind of Spring Has Never Been Yet

2018 • 21 min

This personal essay relates the perception of space to the mental universe of screenwriter and director Pavel Juráček who found his “truly ideal place” in the town of Příbram. The sensitive combination of journal entries, intimate notes, and film fragments tries to break down conventional storytelling techniques to build an original world of timeless thinking.

Contratiempo

2018 • 12 min

Palo Santo

2018 • 15 min • Thailand, United Kingdom

Palo Santo, a city on a distant planet, on which human beings are a rare commodity, worshipped and idolized by an android society. Olly, along with the final humans, is recruited to perform in a series of bizarre erotic cabarets, for an artificial master known only as The Showman.

Oh, Hi Mark: Making a Disaster

2018 • 12 min • United States of America

A documentary about the making and shooting of James Franco's ‘The Disaster Artist’ (2017)

Blutch

2018 • 51 min • France

A four month odyssey by paraglider across Tadjikistan, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Sikkim and Arunachal to the border of Myanmar. Four months of adventure, of encounters, of uncertainties, of effort, of flights in the heart of Himalayan landscape.

Three Two One

2018 • 25 min • India

Snippets of events in an urban police station unfold the relationship between SI Piyush and ASI Ratika. Though they share an intimacy, Ratika is not yet ready to be in a relationship. Another SI Vishwanath has a sense of affection towards her, but he can not express his feelings to her

Halloween Horror

2018 • 4 min • United States of America

An unidentified killer sets loose on Halloween to terrorize the inhabitants of a home in Texas.

Wale

2018 • 23 min • United Kingdom

An 18 year old youth offender is trying to get his own business going as a mechanic. But enterprise isn't so easy when you're a young, black male with a criminal past. And it doesn't get any easier when you're framed by one of your new clients for a harrowing crime.

Troubled Youth

2018 • 3 min

A group of high school students hide out from a monster rampaging the halls. One of their classmates knows more about it than they let on.

A Kiss

2018 • 32 min

Abdi, a 12-year-old Syrian refugee living in an asylum shelter in the Netherlands, has fallen in love with the 15-year-old Leyli and wants nothing more than to have her be his partner for the summer disco. But Abdi lacks the courage to ask Leyli. After finding out that at the end of the week he and his family will be moved to another asylum shelter, our young hero embarks on an unstoppable journey to win over Leyli's heart and to seal it with an intimate kiss. Knowing that if he loses her, he will regret it for the rest of his life.

The Mime

2018 • 4 min • United Kingdom

A business woman encounters a mysterious killer mime in a London underpass.

Sheikh's Watermelons

2018 • 23 min • France, Tunisia

In exchange for a few watermelons he loves so much, an Imam organises emergency funerals. His ex-jihadist assistant suspects a conspiracy... A cutting and witty story.

The Scientist, The Imposter and Stalin: How to Feed the People

2018 • 56 min • France

The documentary tells two very different human fates in the 1920s Soviet Union. Nikolai Vavilov was a botanical genius, Trofim Lyssenko was an agronomist who made great promises and fake inventions. Each of them tried to solve the country's nutritional problem, but only one succeeded.

Salix Caprea

2018 • 30 min • Moldova

Salix Caprea (“Goat Willow” tree) is the type of tree that was supposed to cover a large meadow area in a small village in the Republic of Moldova. As part of a donation from foreign investors, a couple of thousands of trees were planted by the Americans. After a couple of years, during a visit along with delegation from the state, they wanted to see the growth of the trees. In a comedic investigation, the mayor and the police officer discovered the area all empty and the “goat willow” trees were all gone, eaten by…the goats.