All Films

Shedding Skin

2017 • 8 min • United Kingdom

A beautiful intimate portrayal of Muslim women in a hammam.

Shakespeare and Company

2017 • 16 min • South Korea

A short film about a man in Paris and a woman in Seoul getting closer by phone.

Where Things, Where People Disappear

2017 • 22 min • Lithuania

Domas is a kleptomaniac. He works in a sport club through an integration program which helps people with mental disorders to return to society. One day he does not manage to resist and steals a bag from a young doctor Simona, who is living through an existential crisis. She asks his help to find her things. Domas feels ashamed, but he cannot confess. He offers her a ride home. Together they go on a journey through the night in Vilnius, their painful experiences reveal as well as a fragile, but at the same time impossible connection between them sets up.

The Soul of Success: The Jack Canfield Story

2017 • 54 min

The Soul of Success: The Jack Canfield Story follows the extraordinary and transformative life and career of Jack Canfield, world renowned entrepreneur, professional speaker, and best-selling author of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series of books. Jack's journey takes him from childhood poverty in West Virginia to Harvard University, from teaching in Chicago's inner city public schools to sharing the stage with Oprah Winfrey and the President of the United States. Throughout, Jack's kindness and compassion drives him to help others live a life of success, gratitude, and joy.

Small Talk

2017 • 11 min

Two exes meet by chance for the first time in years. Between idle chatter and catching up, unspoken thoughts and feelings resurface.

David Hurn: A Life in Pictures

2017 • 40 min • United Kingdom

Documentary celebrating the life and career of world-renowned Magnum photographer David Hurn, possibly Wales's most important living photographer.

Max Gimblett: Original Mind

2017 • 50 min • Australia

Max Gimblett: Original Mind documents the life and process of eccentric, creative genius Max Gimblett. One of New Zealand’s most successful and internationally prominent living painters, Gimblett has been working in America since 1962. The filmmakers spent a week in Gimblett’s Soho loft where he and his devoted studio assistants generously revealed the techniques and philosophy behind his beautiful art.

For Nonna Anna

2017 • 13 min • Canada

In this raw and graceful testimony of intersectional womanhood, a trans girl has to care for her Italian grandmother. She assumes that her Nonna disapproves of her - but instead discovers a tender bond in their shared vulnerability.

The Invited

2017 • 52 min • United States of America

Love isn’t always chosen. Sometimes… you’re invited. He thought he found love—he was really chosen for sacrifice. An ambitious but lonely computer programmer finally meets the girl of his dreams. But when passion turns into obsession, he uncovers the horrifying truth: her love is not her own—it belongs to a cult that has marked him as their next sacrifice. What begins as romance spirals into paranoia, manipulation, and terrifying visions of rituals he cannot escape. The deeper he digs, the more he realizes this isn’t just a relationship—it’s initiation.

Shura Land

2017 • 12 min • Japan

Two college students hunt for money. However, their attacker is a yakuza, and the two are beaten back. One of them runs away and gathers a team of people to strike back. The other is caught and runs away.

The End of Time

2017 • 6 min • Cuba, United States of America

An experimental film about that one hypnotic moment on a regular, unassuming Tuesday when one realizes that time has stopped and the universe has been sucked into a single smile.

Récif

2017 • 10 min • France

Three voices, flanking an infinity of bricks. Their ages are different. They shaped themselves throughout a series of interviews led with the inhabitants. "What do you see when you stand at the window?" They gaze toward color, where the road begins – a place of thirst –, in the desert or in the sea. Three times has the road hit that architectural reef, the paradigm of some modernity – once radiant, soon written off – referred to as a housing block.

Psychic Yuranbon: The Curse of a Woman

2017 • 56 min • Japan

First entry in the "Psychic Yuranbon" film series.

Golden Boys

2017 • 8 min • Canada

A thirty-something failure-to-launch and his two successful buddies break into their old private school to try to recapture their adolescence, but troubling memories make it difficult to reconcile the boys they were with the men they want to be.

Watched

2017 • 20 min

This short 19-minute documentary is an intimate and moving exploration of the profound and far-reaching impact of surveillance on Muslim American individuals and communities. Premiering at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival, WATCHED is told through the personal experience of two women, both coming of age in New York. The film charts the devastating toll of surveillance and reveals the scars it leaves behind.

Retreat

2017 • 6 min

Little girl goes missing and the older brother goes on a search for her, but finds more than he expected.

The Diary of an Aryan Girl

2017 • 22 min

Set in Nazi Germany, The Diary Of An Aryan Girl explores the relationship between a young soldier and his wife throughout the trials and tribulations of World War II. The film was written, produced, edited and directed by Andrew Games (as APG Films)

Eric & Ernie's Home Movies

2017 • 60 min • United Kingdom

Morecambe & Wise are arguably the most popular and loved double acts ever to have been on television, but off it they built up quite an archive too - largely unseen until now - which reveals what Eric and Ernie were really like in the company of family and friends. Both Eric and Ernie were avid home movie makers, chronicling their rise to fame and recording key moments in their private and family lives, at home and abroad. Now for the first time, with access to Morecambe & Wise's entire home movie collection, this documentary shows Eric and Ernie at work and at play, on tour and on holiday, from summer season in Blackpool to trying to make it in the USA, from their pre-television fame days to the height of their career.

A Hand of Bridge

2017 • 9 min

A faithful adaptation of the micro-opera A Hand of Bridge (1958) by Samuel Barber. Two couples reveal their deepest desires, darkest fears, and wildest fantasies during an evening playing bridge.

Tata Milouda

2017 • 32 min

Tata Milouda came to France from Morocco in 1989, forced by her controlling husband. Undocumented, exploited and separated from her six children, she decided to start a new life in France, by taking literacy classes and even drama lessons. Slam poetry then gave her back her freedom. Now, from her balcony in Épinay-sur-Seine, she can see the Eiffel tower.

Protection Plan Full Moon

2017 • 9 min

On a full moon night in a center for werewolves in Switzerland, the language barrier might cause some problems...

With Love From Calais

2017 • 16 min

Based on real life stories, 'With Love from Calais' is about a British woman who goes to volunteer at the camp. After witnessing life there, she is unable to let go of that experience and continue her previous life.

Dear Basketball

2017 • 6 min • United States of America

An animated telling of Kobe Bryant's titular poem, signaling his retirement from the sport that made his name.

Short but sweet

2017 • 2 min • Netherlands

An old wise man ask a young hero to save the princess from the bad guy in an absurd short timeframe. During their travels they meet many cliches we know from the fantasy/adventure moviegenre.