All Films

Big Mike Takes Lunch

2018 • 12 min • United States of America

"Big Mike Takes Lunch" by filmmaker Nicolas Heller, is a documentary that captures a day in the life of Michael Saviello, manager of 40 years for the iconic East Village barber shop, Astor Place Hairstylists. For the past year, Mike has devoted his 45-minute lunch break to something he hasn’t done since Highschool... Painting.

Reine Crocodile

2018 • 30 min • Belgium, France

Rayna is a Bulgarian prostitute, working in Brussels’ red light district. One night, she shares a mystical and sexual moment with an African client, who dies shortly after. That night will haunt her.

A sommelier

2018 • 10 min • Hungary

Abel Nagy works as a sommelier in the restaurant. He recommends and pairs wine with the food ordered. This time guests put him to the test.

The Auctioneers: Profiting from the Holocaust

2018 • 45 min • Germany

From 1938-1939, the systematic anti-Semitism of Adolph Hitler and the Nazis led to violence and despotism towards Jewish citizens, along with the exploitation of Jewish property. Tax inspectors, bailiffs, pawnbrokers, and auctioneers were among the major profiteers of the Holocaust. This documentary goes on a hunt for relics of the past and those who've profited most from the injustices of WWII.

Craig's Pathetic Freakout

2018 • 7 min • United States of America

A boastful man claims that he can partake without letting his paranoia get the better of him.

The Third Roof

2018 • 12 min

The Third Roof is the story of a woman who wants to fly kites all her life but was not allowed. Her journey to freedom is depicted in this film.

Cecilia

2018 • 7 min • United States of America

Set in a medieval village, Cecilia follows the story of a young woman wrongly accused of witchcraft. Cecilia's psychic visions set the tone of the thrilling and bizarre experience of a classic mind expanding and occult thriller.

Animal Condensed>>animal Expanded#2

2018 • 14 min • United Kingdom

The director couldn’t have anticipated the coronavirus epidemic, but here is a near-future world in which a middle-class protagonist lives indoors, congratulating himself on the economic virtues of having ingested ‘animal condensed’ – an unexplained substance that seems to merge human and animal – and its benefits to his comfortably alienated life. “It optimises, it abstracts… it made us safe, here at home, with our accelerated portfolios”, he explains. Upstairs, his daughter virtually reconfigures Peppa Pig. Outside, meanwhile, hiding in the forest, is an unnamed, camouflaged fugitive, who explains her escape from a society that seems to have happily abolished the distinction between organic and technological life. An artist who has become a guerrilla fighter, the woman is busy preparing totem-like countermeasures to disrupt those who have become ‘animal expanded’.

reVirgination

2018 • 8 min

Somewhere in Albania, 2018. A couple decides to get married but clashes with tradition hard to die.

What Makes a Woman

2018 • 48 min • United Kingdom

In What Makes a Woman, Munroe Bergdorf sets out to explore the changing world of gender and identity by way of her very own, very personal journey. Showing her in quiet, intimate, and extremely vulnerable moments. An honest insight into gender identity, Bergdorf prepares for a life-changing facial surgery, helping her finally picture herself as a woman.

The Twelve J's of Christmas

2018 • 56 min

Peel a carrot and pour some milk, because Sammy J is climbing down your televisual chimney with a look back on the year that was.

Rest in Peace

2018 • 25 min • Indonesia

Santoso and Wati are in grief for Agung, their only son, suddenly died. It leads Santoso into unfavorable circumstances while he gets around to preparing for the funeral.

Tk630

2018 • 10 min

Marooned on a forest planet, an Imperial scout trooper hunts a lone Jedi, when he discovers an unexpected ally.

The American War

2018 • 54 min • United States of America

Using obscure archival footage, animated illustrations and interviews, this film tells the story of the Vietnam War from the perspective of five Vietcong veterans: a soldier, an officer, an informant, a guerilla, a My Lai survivor, and the leader of the Long Hair army.

Essere Amato

2018 • 15 min • United States of America

A young and expecting mother suffers a horrific abandonment as she understands the cost of what it means to love and be loved.

Cur:few

2018 • 17 min • United Kingdom

Struggling to connect with his grieving 12-year-old daughter, a father released from prison on an electronic tag fights against time to fulfil her desire to perform in a school play.

Satan's Bite

2018 • 3 min • United Kingdom

Made for straight 8's 2018 competition on one cartridge of super 8mm film with only in-camera edits and no post-production. Premiered on may 14th 2018 at straight 8's Cannes film festival screening.

My Branch So Thin

2018 • 14 min • Russia

A young woman lavishes the last care on her mother's lifeless body. At his side, a woman watch, a babouhcka , as they say among the Russians. The young groped, the day before with a sure hand, wash this body, prepare it. They accompany him, rock him and console him by the last goodbye.

Yeah

2018 • 45 min • Japan

A young woman, Ako, wanders around a sparsely populated housing estate in a rural city, Mito, where she spends her time speaking to objects and plants.

Nikolay's Dream

2018 • 47 min • Belgium, Bulgaria

Today, as a skipper for bulgarian tourists, Nikolay recalls the dream he accomplished in 1985 : going around the world by himself. In crossing the iron curtain, he has shown the way to freedom to an entire generation of young Bulgarians.

The Tasmanian Tiger

2018 • 14 min • France

A Tasmanian tiger wanders around in his zoo enclosure. A glacier is slowly melting. Facing its predicted disappearance, nature exerts its fury, bursts over the frame and resists its extinction by transformation.

AutoMate

2018 • 10 min

In the near future, two young women, Sam & Riley, meet on a dating app that promises to find your perfect match. Confronted by their differences, they challenge each other on what gives their life purpose and their respective futures.

Joshua Tree

2018 • 21 min • United States of America

A documentary captures a mother and daughter taking mushrooms together, providing a rare first hand glimpse into the psychedelic experience.

Down from London

2018 • 9 min • United Kingdom

A couple think moving to the coast will solve everything.