All Films

Parthenon

2017 • 13 min • United States of America

A naked body moves a stranger to empathy. Inspired by The Kuleshov Effect, a dizzying provocation on art and objectification.

The Dolls with Attitude

2017 • 6 min • Japan

Eri as a child hides her pain with a determined smile. This leads to an unprecedented change, turning her into a doll. After landing a singing contract she learns the depth of what she has become.

Blue Orchids

2017 • 48 min • Belgium

In Blue Orchids, Johan Grimonprez creates a double portrait of two experts situated on opposite ends of the same issue—the global arms trade. The stories of Chris Hedges, a former New York Times war correspondent, and Riccardo Privitera, arms and equipment dealer for the now-defunct Talisman Europe Ltd, provide an unusual and disturbing context for shocking revelations about the industry of war. While interviewing Privitera and Hedges for Grimonprez’s recently released feature Shadow World (2016), it became clear that the two men were describing the same anguish and trauma, but from paradoxical perspectives. One has dedicated his life to unmasking lies, while the other has built his life on them. Both their personal and political histories gradually reveal the depths of suffering and duplicity, showing that the arms trade is a symptom of a profound illness: greed.

Tellin' Dad

2017 • 14 min • United Kingdom

Dan comes out to his family, but leaves telling his dad until last. How will he react?

James Joyce's The Sisters

2017 • 18 min

The Sisters is an adaptation of the first short story in James Joyce's collected works, Dubliners. Set in 1915 Ireland, it tells the story of a young boy, who reflects upon his time with friend and mentor, Father Flynn, while coming to terms with the Priest's death. As he listens to the conversations of the adults around him and thinks back on his own time with the Father, the boy begins to come to a new understanding about his friend and possibly about himself, as he is confronted with questions of faith, loss and new beginnings.

Needle Pulling Thread

2017 • 10 min

When the woman he loves dies, Logan tries to take his own life. While drowning, he visits his wife, Sandy, in purgatory and finally comes to terms with her death.

Poetry in war

2017 • 3 min • Brazil

A young man from the periphery recites poetry in the midst of a community shooting, where the police state kills blacks and the poor with war frequency.

7 Truths

2017 • 7 min

In a post apocalyptic world where the Government controls all ways of life, an anarchist Cyborg Rebel fights for her right to feel alive.

coccolith

2017 • 17 min • United Kingdom

A seaside promenade: when Liam follows a ghostly man into a tunnel in the cliffs, he discovers a secret network of underground tunnels, inhabited by an array of lost and mysterious souls.

Birth of a Movement

2017 • 57 min

In 1915, Boston-based African American newspaper editor and activist William M. Trotter waged a battle against D.W. Griffith’s technically groundbreaking but notoriously Ku Klux Klan-friendly The Birth of a Nation, unleashing a fight that still rages today about race relations, media representation, and the power and influence of Hollywood. Birth of a Movement, based on Dick Lehr's book The Birth of a Movement: How Birth of a Nation Ignited the Battle for Civil Rights, captures the backdrop to this prescient clash between human rights, freedom of speech, and a changing media landscape.

Can’t Live Without You

2017 • 17 min • South Korea

"This woman. A strange woman who is walking right in front of you now. This woman is dragging a bag of her body to a stocking with holes. Who is this woman? A woman who is like a boxer who just finished the race, sprays the scent of pars everywhere instead of perfume. An attractive woman who makes everyone look at once when they walk down the street. A charming woman who makes everyone look back once she walks down the street. A woman who is so pretty as to want to crush out of shape with a hammer. A woman who is so cute girl as to dig out her eyes. Who is this woman?"

Voyager

2017 • 8 min • Norway

A shooting star falls down over the Arctic island of Svalbard and The Global Seed Vault gets an unexpected visitor.

Cold at the Summit

2017 • 22 min

An exclusive look at the good times and challenges of a new up-and-coming actor, about to blow up after landing a big lead in the TV-series Vikings.

Fantasy Sentences

2017 • 17 min • Denmark, Germany

Borrowing its title from an experimental text by Walter Benjamin. Many years ago, the cities by the river were gripped by a contagion. Things started to change and everything slowly became something else. It was not clear if transformation was a symptom of the disease or a way to escape it. The contagion touched everything and everyone: animals and plants, stones and soil, men, women and children, their thoughts, their dreams, their memories. An old woman once told me how all memories turn into trees, I could hardly make out what she was saying. She said she could hear the trees singing: To be a body, to be any body. After the years of contagion ended, the cities appeared untouched. One had to look hard to see the traces of the previous time. If one could listen to the trees, what would they say? A way out, a way out?

Play

2017 • 33 min • Cyprus, Greece

Most adults dream of staying in childhood forever; go through life like a game, free of society's rules and restrictions. Five employees in a metal company put this dream into effect. What they find is: you may escape the rules but you can't escape the consequences or your personal responsibility.

Revenge of the Pizza King

2017 • 8 min

A local pizza parlor owner, the self proclaimed, "Pizza King" seeks vengeance from the grave after his failing 15 minute guarantee drives him into bankruptcy.

Natsu's Treasure

2017 • 15 min • Germany

A little girl wanders through the vast city of Tokyo, on a quest to reclaim a treasure thought lost.

The Sounds From The Drawers

2017 • 8 min • Portugal

Turn, turn, turn. Can there be rhythms without patterns? Can it be said one thing leads to another when the links defy (our) logic?

Aamir

2017 • 17 min • France, United Kingdom, United States of America

13 year old Aamir is stranded alone in the largest unofficial refugee camp in Europe. When he is befriended by Katlyn, a thinly stretched volunteer, she becomes Aamir's last hope for salvation.

Girl Against Gravity

2017 • 22 min • Denmark

Erdenchimeg (11) has her mind set on becoming a famous contortionist – a speciality of Mongolian acrobats. Her team at the circus school is invited to become part of a prestigious show on the parliament square. But suddenly Erdenchimeg seems incapable of managing her exercise. The prospect of becoming the ‘odd one out’ on her team is all the more frightening because her dad is imprisoned, her mother is a former drunk, and Erdenchimeg was only admitted to the circus school as an act of good will. Not just her own dreams, but also the dignity of her family is at stake. But in the end she finds her inner strength and pulls through! Part of the "Kids on the Silk Road" documentary project.

Summer of Dreams

2017 • 47 min • United States of America

Roommates and best friends Carter and Josh are finally able to live out their dream of spending the summer at the Jersey Shore. However, Carter’s troubled past becomes problematic as the summer begins to unfold. Summer of Dreams is a humorous coming-of-age story about friendship, finding happiness and summertime fun.

Plane

2017 • 19 min • France

Absent for several months, William, eldest of the family, decides to return to his father in order to visit Jimmy, his young autistic brother. But this decision could have serious consequences.

Le jour de ton jour

2017 • 22 min • France

Blaise is 10 years old. Blaise is in love. Blaise likes to eat. Blaise is going to die. In any case, that's what he believes.

Pumpkin Movie

2017 • 10 min • Canada

When two long-time friends call each other over Skype to continue their annual Halloween tradition of carving pumpkins together, they swap stories of negative encounters with men, both first- and secondhand, in this frank window into the pervasive nature of gender inequality.