All Films

Permanent Resident

2018 • 21 min • Singapore

A middle-aged woman, her son and mother reside in a flat near a quarry bearing the name of Little Guilin, modelled after a famous landmark in China. She pretends that she is a prospective buyer who arranges to view several condominiums, claiming a token or borrowing a moment from each family that resides in them. Glimpsing the man-made quarry through different windows, her obsession culminates when she finally decides to take an excursion of sorts to visit it.

A Son Inherit

2018 • 14 min • United States of America

Cary finds comfort, advice, and conflict through unexpected conversations that may mend more than just his troubled relationship with his boyfriend.

Solar Walk

2018 • 21 min • Denmark, Hungary

This award-winning animated mind-bender is a by turns whimsical, mysterious, and psychotropic vision of deep-space discovery.

This Magnificent Cake!

2018 • 45 min • Belgium, France, Netherlands

In 1885, Africa is a succulent cake destined to be wildly divided and everyone wants a piece. A disturbed European king, a Pygmy working in a luxury hotel, a successful but lonely businessman, an enslaved porter, a young army deserter, a ghostly clarinetist. Some benefit from colonialism and greed. Others suffer racism and violence.

Nothing Bad Will Happen

2018 • 16 min • United States of America

Driving through the desert, a man and woman negotiate the terms of their relationship in this exploration of patriarchal power dynamics.

Evidentiary Bodies

2018 • 10 min • United States of America

We, as human beings on a small globe, united by evolutionary structure and biological DNA have a chance to come together through the experience of empathy and identification with the sensitive body. An unspoken plea for viewers to engage with compassion, to experience vulnerability, to know through evidence this body is their body.

Bug

2018 • 19 min • France

Guillaume, a neurotic, thirty-year-old computer expert, has a fantasy relationship with a famous actress via his computer screen. After discovering that she is no longer single, Guillaume suddenly finds himself gifted with the power to alter reality the way he does with his laptop.

Jean's Minute of Arc

2018 • 26 min

A young woman falls in love with her new moved in neighbor, only to find later that her new love have been comforting her woes during the middle of the night, slowly eliminating them one after another.

The Date

2018 • 5 min • Russia

The main heroine is the cosmonaut's wife. Despite the fact that she is on Earth and her husband is in orbit, the spouses decide to “go” on a date to Georgia. The heroine walks through the old city of Tbilisi and the Kazbegi mountains, dines at a local restaurant and tells her lover about all her impressions by phone. So that her husband can better understand where she is, the girl calls him the latitude and longitude of her location on Earth.

100 Foot Surfing Days

2018 • 31 min

In a realm where the ocean meets the ethereal sky, a mesmerizing symphony of nature unfolds. Behold the epic saga of 100 Foot Surfing Days a surfing documentary that transcends the boundaries of big wave surfing. Nestled along the rugged shores, Mavericks, the mythical surf sanctuary, unveils its colossal waves, each crest a titan of liquid power. All men are made of water. If they leak out, they die. This is a surfing film with some of the biggest waves ever ridden. Also included are interviews with the surfers willing to risk it all for the ride of a lifetime.

Lighting the Spark: Creating the Space Battle

2018 • 14 min

With the release of Star Wars: The Last Jedi on Digital HD, fans are now able to get an inside look at one of the of the epic space battles in the film, as well as a pivotal showdown between mother and son. The featurette called "Lighting the Spark: Creating the Space Battle" goes in depth on every aspect of production for the space showdowns between the Resistance and the First Order. The clips give great insight into writer and director Rian Johnson's vision as well as how Lucasfilm and Industrial Light and Magic made it happen.

Echoes of you

2018 • 18 min • United States of America

An aspiring classical pianist finds his greatest fulfillment in an unlikely place.

Gold

2018 • 15 min • Sweden

Amal lives in a bomb shelter with her sisters in a wartime Syria. Food and water is scarce. One day when Amal is out playing, she finds a piece of gold. Suddenly other people claims the gold belongs to them.

Wishing Well

2018 • 13 min • Germany

Gushing colors. A time disjointed, yet synchronous. A transcendent turn, a quest for agency, a reunion with currents of the forest. The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for - J. Campbell

#TB Het Huis Anubis

2018 • 42 min • Belgium, Netherlands

No less than 12 years ago – time flies – some young actors embarked on a brand new adventure. 'Het Huis Anubis' quickly became popular, and Achmed Akkabi (Appie), Iris Hesseling (Amber), Lucien van Geffen (Fabian), Vreneli van Heibergen (Patricia), Sven de Wijn (Jeroen) and Loek Beernink (Nienke) looked only too happy to look back on this period. In the reunion special '#TB Het Huis Anubis' the actors explain how this series has completely changed their lives.

Shawn Pelofsky: Stretch it Out!

2018 • 60 min • United States of America

Comedienne, Shawn Pelofsky, stirs things up with her tales of growing up Jewish in Oklahoma, traveling to war zones and sailing on gay male cruises.

End Game

2018 • 40 min • United States of America

Filmed and edited in intimate vérité style, this movie follows visionary medical practitioners who are working on the cutting edge of life and death and are dedicated to changing our thinking about both.

Clowns

2018 • 29 min • Netherlands

A dance film that plays out a macabre comedy of murder and desire, asking how far will we go in the name of entertainment.

El Círculo

2018 • 15 min • Spain

David just moved into his new apartment when he receives an unexpected visit from two neighbours. What at first seems like a mere courtesy call soon reveals itself to be something more sinister.

The Gathering

2018 • 14 min

Three individuals co-exist in a house wherein every minute they spent, determines their own destiny. This film is shot on a single-take with a smartphone camera.

Below the Trees

2018 • 17 min • United States of America

A young woman inherits her grandmother's rural estate but soon meets an unsettling neighbor with malevolent intentions.

Nicki Minaj - Road to Success

2018 • 23 min • United States of America

Before the billboard hits, Nicki Minaj was on her grind like many up and coming artists. Hood Affairs was there to get these exclusive moments of the behind the scenes grind to what would become the biggest female artist in hip-hop history.

Mahogany Too

2018 • 3 min • United States of America

Mahogany Too takes the 1975 cult classic Mahogany – a fashion-infused romantic drama – as its base. The film examines and revives Diana Ross's iconic portrayal of Tracy Chambers. Analogue film provides vintage tones, which emphasises the essence of the character, re-creating Tracy’s qualities through fashion, modelling, and styling.

The Original

2018 • 13 min • United Kingdom

Hope in the form of a medical procedure comes at an enormous cost for a woman whose partner is suffering terribly.