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2017 • 40 min • Russia

Varya is sixteen. Varya doesn't go to school. Varya asks that she be called Sasha. Varya has a goal - to go to St. Petersburg. She plays the violin in the train, earning a trip. But the trip of a dream turns out to be a dangerous adventure, in which everything goes not according to plan...

Islands

2017 • 23 min • France

A sexual reverie unfolds over the course of one ethereal night. Characters wander through an erotic maze of love and lust, blurring the lines between wet dream and lucid nightmare as a macabre, erotic stage performance sends a ripple of lustful desires through its audience and performers.

The Astronaut

2017 • 8 min • Netherlands

A short film recounting the travels of a lonely astronaut confronted by the unknown. Unfolding as a mystery, it becomes a carefully subtle, autobiographical examination of the feeling of loneliness and the existential issue of not understanding life on earth and ones place among it.

All Shook Up

2017 • 5 min • Canada, United States of America

A man tries to cancel his credit card after being mugged.

Ryan Hamilton: Happy Face

2017 • 56 min • United States of America

Small-town import Ryan Hamilton charms New York with folksy comic observations on big-city life, hot-air ballooning and going to Disney World alone.

The Father of Art

2017 • 15 min

Dale Schröder (1951- 2029) was a Swiss artist known for creating AI human hybrids using social media platforms. At the insistence of an ambitious art curator, Dale agrees to introduce his work to the general public. Captured by a documentary ‘filmmaker’, the show’s opening night is a disastrous blend of confusion, fear, and revulsion.

Fern Brady: Male Comedienne

2017 • 52 min

A sharp look at gender, class and Catholicism from this dark humoured ex-stripper. Male Comedienne addresses Brady's self-image, being mistaken for a man, and her complicated relationship with womankind.

Alba and June

2017 • 12 min

Two cousins find themselves at odds when their weekend at the beach devolves into a complicated love triangle.

Biswa Kalyan Rath : Biswa Mast Aadmi

2017 • 60 min • India

Biswa Mast Aadmi is a stand-up comedy show by Biswa Kalyan Rath, where he cracks jokes on topics. It's funny to the audience and they laugh, thus creating sound. This, in turn, encourages Biswa to crack more jokes, so he cracks more jokes on more topics.

La habitación de las estrellas

2017 • 16 min • Spain

Elena, 7 years old, is going for the first time to her grandmother's after years without seeing her. Grandma, old and touched by Alzheimer's, entrusted Elena with the complex task of bringing the stars, those, she says, are hidden around the house. The visit becomes an adventure to bring those stars to make real the grandma's last wish.

Super Taboo

2017 • 19 min • Taiwan

In Taiwan pornography is still a socially unacceptable taboo. Firmly and ironically, Su Hui-yu indulges in a visually powerful long shot enhanced by unexpected pop art colours. A classic hardcore esthetic is represented in a gallery of a tableaux vivants that demand their freedom, alternating movement and immobility, the denial of pleasure and the pursuit of it.

Arch

2017 • 29 min • United States of America

"ARCH" is about the adventure between a young girl and the faceless desert warrior that she befriends. M1K3, a fierce some being brought to life from the sand upon the interaction with Lilly. Together the two of them travel the wasteland, and after a short while, M1K3 discovers that Lilly has fatal radiation poisoning, a staple of the nuclear desert. The two of them decide to journey to "the safe place" in order to find a cure for Lilly, but to reach it they have to venture through Babylon, the wicked fortress of the wastes, and face the demons that lie within.

Stray Dog

2017 • 15 min • Canada

A money launderer finds himself in a bind on Christmas Eve when a case of mistaken identity leads to him spending the evening with an unpredictable runaway instead of his family.

Amy Schumer Presents Mark Normand: Don't Be Yourself

2017 • 42 min • United States of America

Mark Normand has been told the same advice his whole life: DON'T BE YOURSELF, whatever you're thinking about saying, don't. So in his first one hour special, Mark does just that.

Sham love Series - Stop That Wedding

2017 • 59 min • United Kingdom

As a rejected woman’s world – and mental state - disintegrates around her, hell hath no fury as she plots and maneuvers to stop the wedding of her ex-lover and his new fiancée. Cold murder is not out of the question. She must stop that wedding by all means necessary. ​Intrigue, horrors, twists and turns, woven into the mysterious suspense of Diana's story as she fights to avoid loosing.....

I Am the Doorway

2017 • 15 min • Czech Republic

A sci-fi horror film based on the story by Stephen King. A first person POV perspective allows the audience to get inside the head of an astronaut trapped in a spaceship, as a strange virus grows inside him, altering his mind. To save himself he must take drastic action.

10 Seconds More

2017 • 1 min • Italy

Imagine you had ten seconds more in your day. What would you change about your life?

Gila nunca fue serio

2017 • 55 min • Spain

Miguel Gila (1919-2001) was a Spanish actor and stand-up comedian, famous for his surreal phone conversations with imaginary people, and a skillful cartoonist; an idolized star, a king of laughter.

Louis Theroux: Talking to Anorexia

2017 • 59 min • United Kingdom

Anorexia, the pathological fear of eating and gaining weight, is now the most deadly mental illness in the UK, affecting around one in every 250 women. In this film, Louis Theroux embeds himself in two of London's biggest adult eating-disorder treatment facilities: St Ann's Hospital and Vincent Square Clinic. As he spends more time with patients both on and off the wards, he witnesses the dangerous power that anorexia holds over them, and finds himself drawn into a complex relationship between the disorder and the person it inhabits.

Astronaut of Featherweight

2017 • 28 min • Croatia

Astronaut of Featherweight is a dark vision of the hypercapitalist transhuman society in which body is a commodity and money is immortality. From space spa colonies to alien plantations, everybody is forced to take care of their bodies.

Kawaguchi 4256

2017 • 39 min • Japan

After the death of their matriarch, a dysfunctional family is reluctantly reunited under one roof. Tensions clash between an alcoholic father and his troubled children.

L’Argent A to Z

2017 • 51 min

In this essay, written and narrated by James Quandt in 2017, the film scholar explores the cinematic world of Robert Bresson and how L’ARGENT represents the summation of the director’s style.

Lembri Uudu

2017 • 24 min • Estonia

Until the restoration of independence of Estonia in 1991, a collective farm operated in the village of Pähkla in Saaremaa, which employed almost all the villagers. Lembri Uudu also worked there as a tractor driver. After the collapse of the collective farm, most of the villagers lost their jobs and Uudu died. Sometimes, however, it happens that a person's real life force comes out only after his death.

Sophia & Josh

2017 • 9 min • United States of America, Taiwan

Sophia, a high-class prostitute, attempts to induce an abortion in a hotel bathroom. When her pimp brother forces her back to work, she must find a way to hide her secret and keep her job at the same time.