All Films

Perihal Gendis

2019 • 10 min • Indonesia

Gendis is confused about completing her poem. She was forced to remember the old memories with her family to complete her poem and received an answer to her doubts. An interpretation and free-adaptation of a poetry book written by Sapardi Djoko Damono

Beyond Us - A Last Story After the Collapse

2019 • 4 min • France

"What will we leave behind after the collapse?" We think that if we disappear, the earth will be safe again... It is not true. Embark now for the last story after the collapse. BEYOND US is an autoproducted and independent short film, trying to spread a simple message about our civilisation and what we will leave behind after the collapse.

Bec Hill: I'll Be Bec

2019 • 58 min

Considered to be Bec's magnum opus, I'll Be Bec features meticulous writing revealing a complexly crafted dystopian future as well as a remarkable futuristic outfit and an incredible high production finale. We'd hate to spoil it by saying too much, but this special, filmed at the Edinburgh Fringe, is not one to miss.

A Journey to the Gulag

2019 • 31 min • Czech Republic

Mosquitos, freezing cold, mysterious taiga. Inhospitable places where thousands of prisoners have suffered. To document abandoned Gulags in Siberia, you have to walk miles in their shoes. This film follows the Gulag.cz team and their third expedition to the remains of an abandoned railway and Gulags in Northern Siberia, where data for virtual museum were gathered.

Tiempos De Aguinaldo

2019 • 60 min

This year, Popular dedicates its musical production to the Christmas holiday season that is celebrated in Puerto Rico for a period of almost two months. The production takes the audience through the various celebrations that take place during that time, from the trullas, Noche Buena, Misa de Gallo, despedida de año, to the Candelaria. All these celebrations have taken root in the Island’s popular culture, which allows Puerto Ricans to celebrate everything that period represents with a lot of music.

Alfa Canino

2019 • 19 min • Brazil

Little Mone lives alone, isolated in a housing unit, in a timeless future. His only companion is a video game robotic dog.

Blue Matter

2019 • 14 min • Italy

Mickey is sick with the worst disease. He chooses Flo, an old friend, for a trip in his hippie van to forget about everything just for one night.

Night Ride

2019 • 10 min • Turkey

An unlicensed taxi driver, who struggles with psychological issues, encounters with three different clients during the night. At first, the taxi driver is the main disrupter in the relationship he establishes with his clients, but then he becomes the person that is disturbed.

El Llibre

2019 • 3 min • Spain

A librarian is bored sitting at her desk until one book falls down from the shelves and interrupts her monotonous day.

Moving Road

2019 • 1 min • United States of America

An Eternalism film.

Pappy Sees 3d, Too

2019 • 20 min • United States of America

An Eternalism film.

Archie

2019 • 5 min • United Kingdom

Archie is devastated to learn of the death of his beloved aunt. He makes the long journey to the home she's left him in the Outer Hebrides and a new day brings renewed hope for Archie and his dog.

Holy Cow

2019 • 52 min

A documentary that explores two parallel narratives dominating India today: while a woman is raped every 15 minutes with little to no consequence, fringe groups of Hindu vigilantes are attacking Muslims to protect their “Mother Cow”.

Manifesto de um Cineasta

2019 • 9 min • Brazil

The striking and sinuous shadow that intertwines with the conceptual imaginary moment reproduced on screen, runs over without mercy to everyone who is attached to old concepts and prejudices conceived in the residual decadent imagination of society in a globalized world.

The Lost Astronaut

2019 • 13 min • United States of America

Part of the Almost Famous series. In 1963, Ed Dwight Jr. was poised to be NASA’s first African-American astronaut, until suddenly he wasn’t.

Butterfly’s Utopia

2019 • 30 min • Mexico

Lukas Avendaño is the most important artist of the Muxe community. Poetry, dance and anthropology are the tools they use to enunciate and express themself. Since May 10, 2018, their brother Bruno mysteriously disappeared in Tehuantepec, Oaxaca. In Mexico, Bruno is one of 40 thousand missing persons. For Lukas, the search for Bruno has become their greatest utopia.

The Box

2019 • 11 min • France

There’s nothing unusual about receiving a package in the post. ‘Yes, but...what if...?’ are the wretched type of thoughts that cause Chloé to conjure up farfetched scenarios...If anxiety were an art, then Chloé has certainly mastered it.

Limitless

2019 • 21 min

Poetic portrait with beautiful camerawork of an Indian teenager balancing between two genders who discovers that their options are indeed limitless.

Last September

2019 • 20 min • Turkey

Sarkis decide to return to Beyoğlu, where he was brought up, but was forced to leave because of the unfortunate tragic incidents that took place on the 6-7th September 1955 in Istanbul. Sarkis has lived on his nostalgia ever since he left. But after sixty years neither Istanbul nor Sarkis are as they were. This short film is about the effects of expatriation and immigration reflected within the inner world of a man.

Sins of a Father

2019 • 5 min

Gabriel Meller, Jr. looks over his life and the events which led him to testify against his father.

One to Ten

2019 • 35 min • Taiwan

Four female high school students gathered together because of a wishing legend on the internet. The four people performed a ceremony to realize their wishes. They could not speak and look back. In the process, the four people showed their desires and conflicts with each other. A silent dispute broke out.

Balakrishna

2019 • 15 min • Canada

When an extraordinary new resident – Balakrishna, an Indian elephant – arrived in the town of East River, Nova Scotia, in 1967, no one was more in awe of the creature than young Winton Cook, who became inseparable from his mammoth new friend. Using painterly animation, photographs and home-movie treasures, Balakrishna transmits the wistfulness of childhood memories, while evoking themes of friendship and loss, and issues of immigration and elephant conservation.

Teresa

2019 • 9 min • Italy

A middle aged Italian man is lonely and misses his wife, who has left him. The cure for loneliness is as bizarre as it is practical. The result of the cure is poignant and hardcore.

Minion

2019 • 23 min • Romania

A boy is to become a sheep herder far out in the Rumanian countryside. But when one of the sheep disappear, his whole existence and life is in danger.