All Films

Alexa

2018 • 9 min

In the not-too-distant future, technology has made it possible to build and sell androids that are compliant with their owners. One of the latest models is showing flaws in its behavior. Its name is Alexa.

Closing Time

2018 • 20 min • United States of America

Jerry Faulk is an aging bartender at a roadhouse dive bar who on a particularly slow night has a chance encounter with a very unusual patron named Michael. As the lonely night rolls on, the two find that while they have more in common than they could have ever expected, nothing about this encounter is exactly as it seems.

Darci Lynne: My Hometown Christmas

2018 • 60 min • United States of America

Darci Lynne Farmer and her puppet friends Petunia, Oscar, Katie and Edna perform with special musical guests, and visit Farmer's hometown.

There's No Escape - The Story of Powderfinger's Internationalist

2018 • 27 min • Australia

On the 20 year anniversary of the release of Powderfinger's seminal hit album, Internationalist, the band reflects on the creation of the record that rocketed them to fame.

Forbidden Relationship: Brother-in-law and Widow

2018 • 26 min • Japan

Ayako, a widow, lives a simple life despite being in debt. One day, her brother-in-law Ryota, who is going to compete in a boxing match, comes to live and train at Ayako's house. Attracted by his determination to pursue his dream, Ayako makes a decision to help Ryota break free from his stoicism on the day before the match.

Before Dark

2018 • 25 min • Netherlands

Olaf, an engineering student, lives with his father Vincent. Once a renowned architect, now suffering from early Alzheimer’s disease. Olaf is struggling, because he wants to keep seeing Vincent as the man who knows everything. In the run-up to the birthday party Olaf organises for his dad, their surroundings grow darker; a concrete wall casts a shadow over their house from the garden and Vincent’s condition is deteriorating. Olaf will have to realise that living together in the present is more valuable than persistently clinging on to what used to be.

Hold Your Breath

2018 • 14 min • United States of America

When four friends jump in a swimming pool, their unspoken expectations start bubbling up to the surface.

Life After

2018 • 16 min • Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia

A young restaurateur, on a way of finding herself through religion, meets an older homosexual man enclosed in his pessimistic world. Through a brief encounter, both of them will wonder if their lives could have been different.

The Golden Tortoise

2018 • 13 min • Belgium, France

A fisherman and his wife live together happily in their humble dwelling. One day, the man finds a tortoise with a golden shell caught in his nets. The tortoise promises the fisherman that all his wishes will come true if he lets her go free. This touching version of a traditional tale illustrates how greed often gets the better of men and women.

Head Above Water

2018 • 54 min • Australia

A mockumentary following the craziest rivalry in surfing history, and the events that follow a shark attack at an annual competition.

She's All Wet

2018 • 6 min • United States of America

A bachelor party comes to a screeching halt when a Chinese water ghost shows up for the festivities-- and may or may not be the stripper.

Power Rangers: Shattered Grid

2018 • 2 min • United States of America

In a dark prelude to the Power Rangers comic book event "Shattered Grid," Lord Drakkon has decided his world is too small for his ambition. He has figured out a way to not only conquer other worlds but defeat the Power Rangers as well.

Para Kay James

2018 • 19 min • Philippines

Cedric goes to the wake of his deceased lover, James. While trying to gather the courage to tell James' mother, Carol, about their relationship, both Cedric and Carol journey through their memories with the departed. The film tackles grief and the many forms it takes.

Abuela's Luck

2018 • 9 min • United States of America

Abuela's Luck is a story about appreciation and a lesson on luck. Some of us may not realize it, but luck can stem from our own past and have a direct affect on our future. We are introduced to Raymond, a 19 year-old Dominican-American who is asked by his Abuela to cash out what she assumes is a winning scratch off. Once at the bodega, we learn that Raymond has other plans in mind. And so does fate.

Ravel: L'Heure espagnole

2018 • 60 min

Spiced with Italian buffa, L’Heure espagnole transports us to Torquemada’s clock shop, the scene of his wife Concepcion’s infidelities.

There's Many Friends Along This Way

2018 • 5 min

Short film by Jon Jost.

Little Adventure in Rome

2018 • 8 min • Italy

Rome, outdoors, at night. A photographer is frantically shooting a fashion feature, with the Colosseum in the backdrop, when the unexpected occurs: the camera jams and the lens has to be changed.

The Super Simple Show - Space & Planets

2018 • 45 min • United States of America

The Super Simple show is a compilation of Super Simple's most popular songs and series that our fans love. This compilation is all about Space and Planets. Includes children's song favorites "Mr. Golden Sun", "Skidamarink" and "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" and featuring Carl's Car Wash, The Bumble Nums, Mr. Monkey, Monkey Mechanic, and More.

The Internet

2018 • 7 min • Netherlands

The year is 1994, Bo infiltrates the Internet to retrieve a private picture of hers.

Time is a Place

2018 • 7 min

In a twisting fantasy, a paramedic is possessed by desire for a man she discovers at the scene of an accident. Two strangers, a woman and a man, are haunted by a recurring dream they seem to share night after night. Their illusory time together in the dream is more freeing than anything in waking life. She has not told him that in reality, she is a paramedic who discovered his unconscious body at the scene of an accident.

Cinematic Notebook: October 2017

2018 • 8 min

An abstract journalistic collage that archives the month of October, 2017.

Fast Horse

2018 • 13 min • Canada

The Blackfoot bareback horse-racing tradition returns in the astonishingly dangerous Indian Relay. Siksika horseman Allison Red Crow struggles with secondhand horses and a new jockey on his way to challenging the best riders in the Blackfoot Confederacy.

Le songe de Lady Hamilton

2018 • 21 min

In 1786, Goethe goes to Italy, to accomplish a childhood fancy. But how can he see the beauty of his Arcadia? There, everything is too ardent for the eyes, starting with Vesuvius which is erupting, and this mysterious Englishwoman famous for her “Attitudes,” a show inspired by antique sculpture.

The White Album

2018 • 30 min • United States of America

If Love Is The Message trained Jafa’s scrutiny on black experience, The White Album shifts his lens to white experience, acknowledging that neither can be understood in isolation from the another. Again, he combines imagery from a wide array of sources, from music videos to confessionals posted to YouTube, to produce a trenchant examination of race relations in the United States.