All Films

Stories from the She Punks

2018 • 45 min • United Kingdom

Loud, fearless and (un)typical girls: Gina Birch (The Raincoats) and Helen Reddington (The Chefs), musicians and punk icons turned directors, serve up a fascinating documentary built on new interviews with the women who played instruments in punk bands in the 1970s. In accounts laced with wit, honesty and insight, pioneering players including the Adverts’ Gaye Black (bass), Palmolive from The Slits (drums), Shanne Bradley from The Nips (bass), Jane Munro from The Au Pairs (bass), Hester Smith and Rachel Bor from Dolly Mixture (drums and guitar), bassist Gina and guitarist Ana Da Silva from The Raincoats, as well as many others, we hear about acquiring instruments, learning to play, forming bands and getting gigs.

Te Quiero

2018 • 7 min • Canada

A young man struggles to explain the cultural nuance of saying "I love you" in Spanish to his English-speaking lovers.

Love Lasts Three Months

2018 • 18 min • Mexico

A young couple spends their last day together after agreeing on only dating for three months.

American Hate

2018 • 44 min • United States of America

Covers the legacy of hate in America and how it shaped the country as it is today. Reporters follow characters and experts from across the U.S. including the families of James Byrd, Vernon Dahmer and Medgar Evers, organizers of rallies in Charlottesville and Portland, and a reformed Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan.

Terror Nullius

2018 • 55 min • Australia

Hitch a ride into the dark heart of Australia with Soda_Jerk's TERROR NULLIUS, a blistering, badly behaved sample-based film that confronts the horror of our contemporary moment. Equal parts political satire, eco-horror and road movie, TERROR NULLIUS is a rogue remapping of national mythology, where a misogynistic remark is met with the sharp beak of a bird, feminist bike gangs rampage and bicentenary celebrations are ravaged by flesh-eating sheep. By intricately remixing fragments of Australia's pop culture and film legacy, TERROR NULLIUS interrogates the unstable entanglement of fiction that underpins this country's vexed sense of self.

Tears

2018 • 26 min • South Korea

A poor couple is about to have a plausible date for their 3rd anniversary. However, their plans to go shopping and go to an amusement park start to deviate little by little.

When Harri Met Salma

2018 • 11 min

A Muslim woman torn between two worlds defies family expectations to take charge of her life.

Overboard

2018 • 15 min

The arduous story of a witness: Marco. His family is forced to live in the shadow, threatened by the executioners and with no protection from the government. The dream of a kid, Matteo, who asks his father to buy him a helicopter to play with. He wants to save a little man who is drowning in a sea of blue cloth. Will Marco succeed fulfilling that dream and save the man in the sea?

Hero

2018 • 14 min

Anne is a girl with a serious passion for superheroes and justice. On her first day at a new school, she discovers that someone needs her help, and she will do whatever it takes to make things right. Even when her world is turned upside down.

Cavity

2018 • 2 min

Produced for Glass Eye Pix as part of their 2018 Creepy Christmas Film Festival, in which each short is inspired by a holiday-themed word. This film, the third in the series, is inspired by the word "candy cane."

Coexistence

2018 • 14 min • Saudi Arabia

Two Muslim immigrant students in America sharing a homestay like each other at first sight. As crazy football fans, they hit it off right from the beginning. However, as the day unwinds, politics intervenes, and they find out that are from two different Muslim sects. Shared moments and laughter are forgotten, and they talk of parting ways when a horrible encounter with a racist neighborhood bully brings them together again.

I Am Maris: Portrait of a Young Yogi

2018 • 52 min • United States of America

At 17, Maris Degener is a yoga teacher, a writer, and a survivor. After suffering from anxiety, depression and life-threatening anorexia nervosa, Maris finds her own path to healing and self-acceptance. Through fearlessly authentic testimony, personal artwork and poetry, and a devoted yoga practice, she travels from despair to inspiration.

The Road to Palmyra

2018 • 59 min • United Kingdom

Historian Dan Cruickshank and photographer Don McCullin venture into the heart of war-torn Syria on a dangerous mission to document the cultural destruction wrought by ISIS.

Harmony

2018 • 7 min • Russia

Sometimes you are told that the thing you believe in and that which really is does not exist or has never existed. Unemployed Roma (25 years old) is preparing for his first world championship in playing an imaginary guitar in the city of Oulu (Finland). Will the close Roma support his path to success?

LÄck

2018 • 12 min • Canada

A bewildered condo dweller descends into a nervous spiral after buying a coffee table and becoming convinced it's deliberately ruining his life.

The Man in the Box

2018 • 15 min • Brazil

Locked up for decades in a maximum security prison, an old man tries to revive his glory days as a magician, putting into practice a perfect - but also very dangerous - escape plan.

The Bells

2018 • 7 min • United States of America

Following a death in the family, its members start hearing a mysterious sound.

Hull's Headscarf Heroes

2018 • 60 min

Documentary which marks the 50th anniversary of the triple trawler tragedy during January and February of 1968, in which 58 men died. It was one of Britain's deadliest maritime disasters, which tore through the heart of Hull's Hessle Road fishing community. The film tells the epic story of the Hull fishermen who did the most dangerous job in Britain and their wives whose protest ensured such a disaster never happened again. The women's campaign was one of the biggest and most successful civil action campaigns of the 20th century. Combining rare archive and emotional testimony - including that of Yvonne Blenkinsop, the last surviving leader of the women - those who lived through the tragedy and fought for change tell their incredible stories for the first time.

An Illustrated Story

2018 • 6 min

This short documentary explores how the Ilustrada section of the Folha de S. Paulo newspaper had to fight back against censorship from the military dictatorship in Brazil after Lourenço Diaféria, one of its columnists, published an article criticising the patron of the Brazilian army, Duque de Caxias.

Propaganda: Engineering Consent

2018 • 54 min • France

How can the masses be controlled? Apparently, the American publicist Edward L. Bernays (1891-1995), a pioneer in the field of propaganda and public relations, knew the answer to such a key question. The amazing story of the master of manipulation and the creation of the engineering of consent; a frightening true story about advertising, lies and charlatans.

Micky Flanagan's Christmas

2018 • 44 min • United Kingdom

What's a three-bird roast? And what's the sudden need for a new sofa? Micky explores our craze for Christmas, training as Santa and finding strange traditions along the way.

Oh Boy Charlie

2018 • 7 min

Charlie (a newly formed gangster), patiently waits back of the car for the go ahead for his next job. Where he must break into an abandoned pub/bar to rescue the abducted woman and face the danger which lies ahead.

South Korea: Earth's Hidden Wilderness

2018 • 58 min

Once a mountain kingdom of ancient palaces and emperors, Korea in the 21st century is largely known for its modern cities and decades of conflict. Tensions between North and South may be what defines it to outsiders but beyond the battle scars there is another side to Korea. In the south are large pockets of untouched wilderness where extraordinary animals flourish and Koreans continue to practice age-old traditions in tandem with the seasons and with nature. It is in these connections, rather than in division, that we see the true Korea.

Prototype

2018 • 19 min

A technician conducting empathy tests on androids stumbles across a life-changing secret when an unruly subject complicates her work.