All Films

Cave Crocs of Gabon

2018 • 44 min • South Africa, United States of America

A caving expedition recently discovered a community of dwarf crocodiles living in the Abanda Caves, Gabon. The crocs are living in pitch darkness, hunt bats and some have bright-orange skin. Part of the original team returns to find out more about this bizarre phenomenon. It's mission impossible to access the crocs world and there's no way of knowing what they might find.

Hoài (Ongoing, Memory)

2018 • 11 min

Centering on the story of a queer Vietnamese American woman, this short film explores the collapsing and intersecting realities of heartbreak: from romantic partnerships, families, and nation states.

Chance Is the Best Assistant

2018 • 47 min • United States of America

An interview with Agnes Varda and JR.

Compliance

2018 • 10 min • United States of America

In a severely overpopulated world, a father and son have ten minutes to decide who lives and dies between them.

A night with Juan Diego Botto

2018 • 11 min • Spain

Cristina has been dreaming of sleeping with Juan Diego Botto for twenty years. He's been dreaming of a fairer world his whole life.

Emptying the Tank

2018 • 9 min • Canada

In her striking portrait of Chippewa female mixed martial artist Ashley Nichols, Caroline Monnet eloquently demonstrates and celebrates the athlete's inner strength, fortitude, and dedication to her physical and spiritual health.

Free Rein: The Twelve Neighs of Christmas

2018 • 58 min • United Kingdom

As Bright Fields preps for its Mistletoe Ball, a broken ornament leads Zoe to a family secret, while Gaby finds herself at the mercy of new boss Mia.

A Presepada

2018 • 40 min • Brazil

When a con man on the run gets mistaken for a poor church's visiting priest, he is tapped to lead the parish in a grand caroling for the holiday season.

Morning Dew

2018 • 9 min • France

It grew during a moist summer night. This strange outgrowth in the middle of Nanni’s face. Maybe the answer lies in the park, with sweet flowers surrounding him? Or unless it's under the skirt of Alouette, which shudders with mystery?

Trophy Boy

2018 • 13 min • United States of America

James, a sexy, youthful sought-after instagram star in high-society and self-proclaimed 'Trophy,' is dumped by his wealthy live-in benefactor. Now he must learn that the real world is not the facade he's built for himself on social media.

Tantrica

2018 • 44 min • Australia

Power, invincibility and immortality are just some of the things desired by those who wish to "rule the world". Allowing this to corrupt, is what leads to one taking the path of darkness, from which there is no return... such is the story of TANTRICA

Acid Attack: My Story

2018 • 45 min • United Kingdom

Archive footage and reconstructions are used to examine one of the most shocking and bizarre acid attacks of recent years. In 2012, Naomi Oni was stalked through London by someone disguised in a niqab before being doused in sulphuric acid. Told through interviews with her friends and family, this documentary tells the story of what happened that night, immediately afterwards through to the eventual trial.

Seascape

2018 • 20 min • Belgium

Hélène, a struggling young actress, is trying to learn the text of the 'Lady From the Sea' by heart. At the same time she is emptying her grandmother’s apartment. The apartment, situated near the beach, becomes a place to escape in thoughts and dreams.

선 혹은 원

2018 • 17 min • South Korea

선 혹은 원 is a 2018 Korean short film staring Kwon Hyuk.

The Monster and the Woman

2018 • 30 min • Japan

Short film in which a village is terrorized by a monster. The local police investigation seems to be getting nowhere. This idiosyncratic film examines social conventions, interaction and bureaucracy.

The Narrator

2018 • 10 min

Katelyn discovers she is a character in a film after fighting back against 'The Narrator' that controls her life.

Black's Beach: San Diego CA

2018 • 57 min

The history of San Diego's most important beach, and the many different ways in which people enjoy it today, is told through the voices of nearly two-dozen local residents: surfers and scientists, nudists and hang gliders, hikers and lifeguards, all of whom love Black's for different reasons.

Joyeux Noël

2018 • 11 min • United States of America

During the first holiday season without her beloved father, a young woman attempts to recreate their traditions with his cremated remains.

Prison Architect

2018 • 59 min • Hong Kong

The two protagonists – an architect and a prisoner living in parallel realities in the present time and an ambiguous distanced past, respectively – conjure up imaginations and experiences of imprisonment. In their dialogue across space and time they debate the relations between humans, the world, and freedom. They talk of visible and invisible imprisonment, existentialism as a means of self-redemption, and at the same time question the relationship of humans to the space around them. An attempt at reconciliation with the world and human nature.

Putin: The New Tsar

2018 • 60 min

This documentary will provide the first authoritative account of who Vladimir Putin actually is. What drives him, what does he fear, who does he love and hate?

James Bulger: The New Revelations

2018 • 45 min • United Kingdom

25 years after the verdict in the Jamie Bulger murder trial, we reveal what the jury, public and press never heard, and what his two killers, Thompson and Venables, said during their time in custody from arrest to release.

Nadar, le premier des photographes

2018 • 53 min

A documentary about the French photographer Nadar aka Gaspard-Félix Tournachon

Anaxia

2018 • 6 min • United States of America

In the underworld of Oskexis, the Golden Mystic searches for a rare elixir stolen from her master.

Two Identical Strangers

2018 • 8 min

Inspired by the documentary "Three Identical Strangers," Michele Mordkoff and Allison Kanter discover they are twins and have an emotional reunion on camera.