All Films

Guardian

2018 • 15 min • United States of America

Manuel is a gay Latino teen who lacks guidance and support. Even though his mother, Anna deeply cares for him, she is only able to prove and instill her love through video tapes made from afar. Keeping his sexuality and boyfriend a secret from his homophobic father, Manuel must decide the life he wants to live or end.

Do Not

2018 • 9 min

Do not scream...

Jackie

2018 • 4 min • France

Jackie, an old widow tells the story about her routine and loneliness during an interview.

The Place of Oblivion

2018 • 18 min

Aura, Juan, and Evaristo live in San Antonio del Querer, an old town that nobody remembers and nobody comes back to. Aura will try to leave her town and look for a new life elsewhere. She will tries to convince her father and grandfather to leave with her and save them from fading into oblivion.

BluntVision: Part 1

2018 • 33 min

From learning how to create tasty marijuana infused treats, to strand reviews and more, Bluntvision Part 1 brings you the best weed related content.

Fibro and the New Me

2018 • 15 min • United Kingdom

A film about fibromyalgia and what it means to live with an invisible illness and chronic pain.

On the Nature of Daylight

2018 • 7 min • United States of America

A woman receiving a phone call, and what happens after.

Code Ruth

2018 • 4 min • United States of America

A true love story about a Morse code instructor finding her path during WWII, Code Ruth blends stop-motion techniques with archival materials to share a family’s history of connecting through technology.

Disco Dykes

2018 • 11 min

Gert’s a weirdo – she’s an outcast at school, questions her own sexuality and loathes her little sister who bursts with confidence on a bad day. To make things worse, Gert’s mum Sal has decided, since leaving her husband, that she’d like to have a girlfriend. When Tex, Sal’s new girlfriend, rolls into town in her decked out semi-trailer to take the girls on a wild ride, it’s time for the ultimate test – will they survive the dreaded family road-trip? A Generator Emerging Filmmakers Fund Film. Produced with the assistance of Create NSW in association with SBS.

Honey Badger: Grit

2018 • 46 min • United States of America

On the harsh and unforgiving plains of central Namibia, Africa, a young honey badger named Grit has just left home to venture out in the great, wide world, but it won't be easy. Fewer than half of all young honey badgers survive their first few weeks on their own, as they deal with intense heat, starvation, and round-the-clock threats from the many predators of the savannah.

Spring, Orchid

2018 • 20 min • United States of America

Spring, Orchid is a romantic drama about 1st generation Chinese immigrants. Hui Lan, who refuses to accept her husband's dementia and battles to get his love back, comes to navigate their new relationship.

Three Minutes

2018 • 7 min • China

3 Minutes is all you need.

Nocturnes

2018 • 15 min • France

TES is coming out of anorexia. The rise to the surface is difficult, the body is disordered, no longer responds in the same way. Eat again is to accept to lose control. It is both regaining strength and accepting its vulnerability. But the game is worth the candle.

NOVA: Prediction by the Numbers

2018 • 52 min

Predictions underlie nearly every aspect of our lives, from sports, politics, and medical decisions to the morning commute. With the explosion of digital technology, the internet, and 'big data,' the science of forecasting is flourishing. But why do some predictions succeed spectacularly while others fail abysmally? And how can we find meaningful patterns amidst chaos and uncertainty? From the glitz of casinos and TV game shows to the life-and-death stakes of storm forecasts and the flaws of opinion polls that can swing an election, 'Prediction by the Numbers' explores stories of statistics in action. Yet advances in machine learning and big data models that increasingly rule our lives are also posing big, disturbing questions. How much should we trust predictions made by algorithms when we don't understand how they arrive at them? And how far ahead can we really forecast?

The Apocalypse Will Blossom

2018 • 5 min • United States of America

After the 2016 presidential election, a young woman moves across the country to Washington D.C., in the hopes of single-handedly sparking the next American revolution. Consumed by unrelenting bad news, financial strain, and exhausting work hours— she finds herself forced to navigate her way through isolating darkness back into the light.

Cartas de amor para una ícona

2018 • 54 min • Puerto Rico, United States of America

A look at the life and career of Puerto Rican artist Lucecita Benitez through the eyes of some of her biggest fans.

Verdict

2018 • 5 min • Belgium

An American soldier helps his wounded comrade take refuge in a nearby farmhouse, where they encounter an unlikely resident.

Deliria

2018 • 9 min • Sweden

A slow, hot summer afternoon. A father sleeps while his child is drawing with pencils in a cross word puzzle. A wind moves through the grass - something bad is about to happen.

People’s Museum of Avdiivka

2018 • 6 min • Ukraine

The main exposition of the museum in Avdiivka was dedicated to the Caucasus. In 2015, exposition was partly destroyed due to a Russian projectile. But now in Avdiivka there is again a people's museum - a place where the most wonderful ideas come to life.

Sunday

2018 • 24 min • Portugal

On a Sunday an older actress (Isabel Ruth) decides to use her mobile phone to take photos of a sleeping young actor (Joaozinho Costa)

Room Tone

2018 • 6 min • United States of America

When a sound engineer notices a strange background sound in a voice over session, he must investigate the mysterious source.

Blue Heart

2018 • 45 min • United States of America

Blue Heart tells the story of the last wild river system in Europe and the people fighting to protect it.

My Dad Works the Night Shift

2018 • 14 min • Canada

Felix, fourteen, starts a relationship with an older boy, hoping to get caught by his conservative father so he can confront him.

Queerskins: A Love Story

2018 • 10 min • United States of America

A diary found in a box of belongings offers a devoutly Catholic mother living in rural Missouri in the early 1990's a second chance to know Sebastian, the estranged son she has lost to AIDS. In this emotionally charged immersive video experience, visitors intimately witness the tense interactions between the two grieving parents, while taking a magic realist journey down a country road, a memory lane populated with scrapbook artifacts from Sebastian's peripatetic life.