All Films

Blondie's: A Winnipeg Legacy

2017 • 8 min • Canada

Sandy Doyle is an outspoken no nonsense business woman. She became a worldwide celebrity with the creation of her diner Blondies Burgers.

Life According to Moskri

2017 • 27 min • Serbia

The late controversial hip-hopper, the founder of Prti Bee Gee rap group, Davor Bobic Moskri, suddenly returns to the world of the living. He's allowed to return as a 10 year old child, with a goal to win a ticket to paradise, by showing his followers from underground where the motto Hit the pot, win a jackpot leads.

Gremlins: Recall

2017 • 11 min • United States of America

A company by the name of Wing has created Mogwais that can be adopted as family pets with no ill consequences -- or so they thought. Tiny terror is unleashed at a local diner when a teenage girl interferes with a Wing driver's live cargo.

4:44

2017 • 8 min • United States of America

Centers on two performances; in the first, dancers Storyboard P and Okwui Okpokwasili twist and twine their bodies in a moving two-part dance of desire, pain, and regret. In the second, present-day hip-hop royalty Beyoncé and Jay-Z serenade each other as part of a live performance. The work accompanies Jay-Z's track of the same name, widely viewed as an apology to his wife, Beyoncé for his infidelity and emotional failures as a husband. A collaboration between Arthur Jafa, Malik Sayeed, and Baltimore-based Elissa Blount Moorhead, the video uses cinematography, choreography, and found footage to explore complex and constricted notions of masculinity in an insightful and moving tapestry of Black love and life.

Roy Wood Jr.: Father Figure

2017 • 60 min • United States of America

Roy Wood Jr. tackles freeway protests, examines the origin of the blues, and explains why the Confederate flag is sometimes helpful.

O Mar de Helena

2017 • 20 min • Brazil

Here's the Plan

2017 • 19 min • Chile

The film follows the life of a married cat and dog couple who start off with a dream to open a bakery, only for their lives to drift apart due to a variety of circumstances.

Night Child

2017 • 30 min • Sweden

Nattbarn is based on a graphic novel by Hanna Gustafsson, and is about 14-year-old Iggy, who lives a parallel life to escape everyday life. A story about identity, sexuality, borderland and friendship.

The Day

2017 • 13 min

Paola Clemente was a 49-year-old farm labourer who worked to death under the sun in the fields of Southern Italy. Her story is told through the declarations taken from the fact-finding acts on illegal recruiters of farm labourers exploiting her and by women travelling on the coach with her.

The Wedneral

2017 • 18 min • Sweden

A week before a wedding the grooms father suddenly dies. The family can't afford booth a funeral and a wedding so they decide to do the only logical thing; mix the two ceremonies.

Cigarbox Blues

2017 • 23 min

Derek loves the blues, even outside his on stage perfomances. When the singer wakes up in a mental institution after a suicide attempt, he meets Adam, his devoted fan and a true pain in the ass. A story about two guitars, three chords and the beginning of a friendship.

Supercharged Otters

2017 • 59 min

Otters are playful, adaptable and champion swimmers - they've captivated cameraman Charlie Hamilton James for the last 25 years. He's filmed them more than anyone else and now, through the eyes of three orphaned river otters, a set of groundbreaking experiments and some incredible wild encounters, Charlie wants to reveal their survival secrets and exactly why he believes they're so special.

While I Was Gone

2017 • 16 min

Suspicious his brother is stealing from him, Lucas goes on a search through town to confront the problem.

The Park

2017 • 58 min

The Park is an uninterrupted 58-minute capture of the action on an unfenced basketball court adjacent to the Walt Whitman housing projects in Fort Greene Brooklyn, New York. With no physical barrier between athletes and spectators, and no evident delineation between the beginning or end of a game, players join and depart apparently at random, while park visitors wander past, and sometimes through, the activity on court. The Park reveals the game zone as a fundamental space of public social life, providing an anthropological cross-section of social codes. The film is accompanied by an improvised soundtrack by musician Jason Moran, whose live-recorded performance spontaneously translates the visual rhythms of The Park’s unscripted choreography.

Security Deposit

2017 • 15 min • United States of America

After a recent breakup, two twentysomething exes are forced to put fresh wounds aside and band together in order to get back their security deposit from their cold-blooded landlord.

Boyplay

2017 • 13 min • Spain

A group of children, fed up with continual harassment from fellow students, decide to challenge them to a life or death match during lunch break. Years later, an elderly man recalls how the outcome of that battle, went on determine the course of his life.

Burning

2017 • 18 min

The one that burns is the choral story of Algerians today who struggle in the image of this frozen fish which passes from hand to hand, from the Kabyle mountains to the coast, to end up coming back to life and Submarine in the deep sea of ​​possibilities.

The Swan

2017 • 10 min • Slovakia

A story about a young photographer who takes photos of animals at some time in the future. Whilst using an old camera, she catches them in their natural environment and shows their beauty. But… can you imagine what beauty we can expect at the end of evolution?

Bette Davis: Larger Than Life

2017 • 52 min • Germany

Bette Davis is the most disturbing film diva Hollywood has ever seen. Her life and her roles reflect the fractures in the American image of women. She was dominant, intelligent, sometimes heartless and yet above all she wanted to be loved. This did not work out in her private life. She was too strong for the men. But the public always loved her!

Real Gods Require Blood

2017 • 20 min • United Kingdom

Manchester, 1990. On a troubled estate, Alice is roped into babysitting for her neighbour, whose children claim to feed a nightly visitor from Hell. Between gangland tensions, local superstition and drug withdrawal, Alice must decide whether to abandon her new wards or stay the night.

Meri Beti Sunny Leone Banna Chaahti Hai

2017 • 12 min • India

A conversation between a daughter and her parents that follows after she expresses her desire to pursue a career in pornography.

The Kids Menu

2017 • 11 min • United States of America

'THE KIDS MENU' - Movie . . . puts extra cheese and a comedic twist on the hyper-gentrification process occurring in Brooklyn, New York.

Fernand Pouillon, Une architecture habitée

2017 • 52 min • France

In this documentary, Marie-Claire Rubinstein reveals to us, through the testimonies of the inhabitants who live there, the architectural achievements of the French urban planner Fernand Pouillon in Algiers. In particular the vast complexes of hundreds of social housing units, including the most famous Diar E Saâd (1953), Diar El Mahçoul (1954) and Climat de France (1957). The historical context, during the war of independence is related by the historian Benjamin Stora and Nadir Boumaza. This documentary also evokes the personality of Fernand Pouillon in a post-colonial context.

Freezer

2017 • 17 min

Tassos, a man just over 50 years old, with a career in the marketing and commercial direction of large corporations, has been unemployed for three years now. Too old for a new beginning, but also too young to resign. His relationships with his close people are being tested, and his psychological state is marginal. His goal is one: to get out of the 'freezer'.