All Films

Aamir Khan: The Snake Charmer

2017 • 48 min

The snake charmer follows Aamir Khan on a journey through India's TV and Bollywood film industry, as he attempts to change the way Indians perceive and treat women. From the set of Satyamev Jayate, the film follows Khan backstage to his new Bollywood blockbuster Dangal. Khan's quest ultimately opens a window into a country in crisis and into the changes it is undergoing.

Petra: Lost City of the Desert

2017 • 50 min • United Kingdom

The ancient city of Petra, a city carved from desert rock, has baffled experts for decades. Now, new technologies resurrect the city and reveal why the spectacular civilization was suddenly abandoned.

Seeds of Success - Alvin Queen

2017 • 33 min • Switzerland

Alvin Queen is one of the best jazz drummers of all time. A child prodigy, he played with the greatest masters (Oscar Peterson, Dizzy Gillespie, Dexter Gordon, Pharaoh Sanders... ) He is also a very nice person who has a lot of wisdom to transmit. He shows it beautifully in this first episode of "Seeds of Success".

Man Among Cheetahs

2017 • 44 min

A wildlife filmmaker tries to keep up with a Cheetah mom determined to keep her cubs alive.

Alien

2017 • 15 min • Mexico

Do we perceive things as they truly are? Can the assumption that we do leads to dangerous positions, as racism or xenophobia? This documentary reflects on issues like migration, border walls, and the restriction of human mobility from the perspective of people whose field of study could hardly be more detached from these issues: astronomers.

Reception

2017 • 22 min

Two strangers, trying to avoid the crowd at a wedding reception, end up making an unexpected connection.

A Blessing from the Sea

2017 • 15 min • Canada

When a boat-full of money is discovered by two Irish Moss harvesters, their decision to keep it leads them down a dark and violent path.

Laws of the Game

2017 • 18 min

A Surinamese female referee is fighting for her place in the world of men's football.

Just Be Gemma

2017 • 60 min • Canada

Raw, revealing and honest, Just Be Gemma explores the subject of gender transformation by telling the personal story of St. John’s, Newfoundland activist Gemma Hickey. Gemma is best known for co-leading the movement that legalized same-sex marriage in Canada and they're the founder of Pathways, an organization that offers support to survivors of clergy sexual abuse. Just Be Gemma is an all-access documentary revealing Gemma's physical changes and internal struggles.

I Love Eva Marsh

2017 • 24 min • France

Summer 1996. A small town nestled in the shadow of a gigantic factory. Ben, a shy eleven year old boy, lives there alone with his mom when she leaves him to strike. The coming of the troubling Eva in his bunch disturbs him a little bit more, especially when she mentions the legend of a mysterious creature hidden under a nearby lake's pontoon. As a game, Eva challenges Ben: walk through the "pontoon of the death", and come back. But Ben fails miserably. At night, the Creature appears to him.

Kobzar 2015

2017 • 7 min • Ukraine

In the adaptation of a poem by Taras Shevchenko in the last third of XVIII a small fraction of 300 Cossacks who were enslaving their own people for Turkey and were executed by other Zaporizhian Sich Cossacks are reanimated as living dead at one cold night.

Evströnger

2017 • 4 min • Spain

Marta and David are a politically committed couple that tries to do things right and, like everyone else, be consistent with their values. Marta’s parents have given them a practical piece of furniture from a well-known Scandinavian brand that they must mount themselves. However the “Evströnger” assembly manual will order them to do something else. Will they follow the instructions to the letter? Or, on the contrary, will they escape from the diabolical capitalist loop that grips us all?

Germany's Wild Amazon

2017 • 52 min • Germany

As one of Germany’s beauties, the river was the gem of German landscape. But with industrialization it became the country’s hardest working river and like everything that has been overworked, it lost it magnificence and charm. Due to tender love and care, the river is now a reigning example of one of the most successful and outstanding renaturation projects in the country.

Program

2017 • 9 min

A young woman goes back to fix a broken relationship with an old boyfriend.

Lagoon: Rock and Rollercoasters

2017 • 40 min • United States of America

A fun, nostalgic look at the rich history of Lagoon Amusement Park, which has enchanted visitors for generations with its rides, rock concerts, and family fun for more than a century.

3 Crimes: Babi Berbau Melon Di Musim Sejuk

2017 • 20 min • Malaysia

Four robbers plan their next heist in their hideout in a small town. They discusses their plan during a steamboat dinner, unknown to them one of them is working for the cops.

Guardians of the New World

2017 • 55 min

Guardians of the New World introduces us to the world of hacker culture. Emerging from the 70’s counterculture around conceptions of personal freedom, decentralisation of power and sharing, hacking really came to prominence with the emergence of the Internet as a ubiquitous public forum from the late 90’s onwards.

Jungle

2017 • 50 min • Netherlands

Stranded in the infamous "Jungle" refugee encampment in Calais, France, a young aspiring Syrian actor bonds with a cynical countryman as they attempt to make the perilous crossing to England.

Wildebeest

2017 • 20 min • Belgium

Going on a safari is a dream for many. For middle-aged couple Linda and Troyer, it turns into a horribly real adventure when they get left behind in the wilderness.

Where is Eva Hipsey?

2017 • 8 min

Where is Eva Hipsey? is an experimental animated film that blends documentary, fiction and poetry. It is based on a short story written by Justin Spooner. The film seeks to convey the power of sound to store and evoke memory. It both recounts and reimagines aspects of his grandmother’s life. The film is told from the vantage point of her granddaughter, voiced by Olwen Fouéré. Where is Eva Hipsey? mixes fact and fiction to search for a truth or representation of Eva’s reality, past and present. It combines experimental animation techniques with archival material taken from both Spooner and Mc Hardy’s grandmothers’ collections; family photographs, vérité camerawork, sketchbooks and field recordings, to suggest a journey. Driven by curiosity and a desire to listen deeply, Eva explores and attempts to capture the world around her, stepping further and further from the familiar.

The Routine

2017 • 5 min

This animation is about a young man trapped in a daily routine where every single day is so very similar to the previous one. There are no happiness, satisfaction and love for a long time in his life because of such a routine days, weeks, months and even years.

Hannibal

2017 • 60 min • Russia

A film about the Yakut rock musician Gavril Kolesov - Hannibal.

Nadia

2017 • 17 min

Nadia is a troubled teen girl kicked out of home by her surpassed mother and has nobody to turn to, until her High School's Principal Mr. Green discovers her sleeping rough on a bench and takes her under his wing.

Gente del Sur

2017 • 20 min • Argentina

Bruno is a young magician. He travels without warning to visit his sister Delfina, who, along with her partner Leonardo, is renovating an old hotel to get it up and running. The place is in chaos due to the terrible flood that affected the entire city. Living in the hotel are Rita, the former owner of the business; Quique, his brother; Catalina, their niece; and Pablo, the maintenance manager. Bruno's plans are subject to possible changes when he meets Lorena, Leonardo's sister.