All Films

The Satanic Thicket - Three

2017 • 22 min • Germany

The first day of the holidays at the campsite. Mimi wants to make friends with the other children, Karl wants to go swimming with the crocodile, Dad’s hungry and Mum left the sandwiches on the kitchen table. All of a sudden, the caretaker’s little rabbit Fernando goes missing. Not until the medieval tourists arrive does a sense of order return. One thing is for sure: the world is in turmoil.

Blind Sex

2017 • 32 min • France

At the end of the summer holiday, Louise, blind since birth, is smothered between her mother and her sister. After getting lost in the forest, a chance encounter on a naturist campsite will upset her habits.

The Fourth Kingdom

2017 • 15 min • Spain

The regular visitors to a recycling center in the Brooklyn borough of New York, run by René, a discreet Mexican who works and sleeps there, and by the Spaniard Ana de Luco, form a community capable of transcending their reality to turn it into a realm of their own, sometimes surreal, outside the great collective swindle of the American dream.

Us Funny

2017 • 16 min • United States of America

Jim and Julia spend their day on a wonderful date in Los Angeles. They are very much in love. Interspersed, are scenes of Jim at Julia's funeral.

Neon Lights

2017 • 15 min

After a seemingly ordinary transaction goes wrong, a young inner-city Latina stripper encounters a violent customer on her way home to her father's birthday.

Echolocations: River

2017 • 2 min • United States of America

Recorded under the Hyperion Bridge and at the surrounding Los Angeles River in LA California, Echolocations: River is second in a series of short films and recordings which document site specific compositions performed by Andrew Bird in exceptional natural and urban environments. A Companion piece to Bird's instrumental album of the same name.

Exposure

2017 • 30 min • France

Camille, an assistant at an art gallery, hosts Masato Kimura, a Japanese video game designer who has come to France to promote his latest creation. Indifferent to his world, Camille finds the man inscrutable until Masato asks to use her face in his next game.

Belial's Dream

2017 • 5 min

In this continuation of the Basket Case saga, Belial has a rather unsavoury dream…

Hickory Dickory Doc

2017 • 15 min • United Kingdom

An interview with actor John Lithgow talking about his experience with Brian De Palma's film Raising Cain

The Man Who Built Cambodia

2017 • 35 min

An architect whose iconic buildings defined a newly independent Cambodia struggles to come to terms with the reckless development that threatens his legacy.

Pocong Hiu Unleashed

2017 • 12 min • Indonesia

Andra, Moniq, and Nadia try to prove the truth of the Pocong Hiu legend through a ritual. The Pocong Hiu get annoyed by their actions and rage. Now the Pocong Hiu is loose and swimming on land to hunt them one by one.

Color of My Father

2017 • 43 min • Brazil

Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my Soul to keep. If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my Soul to take.

Noini

2017 • 13 min

Little Noini lives with her Ma and Grandpa. In her world, they are the two most lonely persons. Despite the gloom, she tries to bring a smile on the faces around her.

Lily

2017 • 11 min • United States of America

Bearing the weight of social obligation, Mel attends her baby shower.

Shop of Eternal Life

2017 • 23 min • China, United States of America

Caught in the middle of China's most chaotic time, a man desperate to save his wife must sacrifice everything he has... And everything he will ever be.

With Him / Best to You / Better Numb

2017 • 9 min • United States of America

A short film featuring tracks from Blood Orange's third album Freetown Sound.

Arkabutla

2017 • 14 min • United States of America

Chauncey Wright, a champion bull rider, has been risking his life on the weekly to give his kids the ultimate gift—a jet ski. But when he takes Annie Sue and Tommie on a weekend lake trip for a joy ride on their new toy, they are all forced to confront a stubborn legacy swimming just beneath the surface.

The Last Laugh

2017 • 20 min

'The Last Laugh' sees three legendary British comedians, Tommy Cooper, Eric Morecambe and Bob Monkhouse sitting in a dressing room discussing the secret of comedy and what it means to be funny. However, not all is as it seems.

Kiri Te Kanawa at the BBC

2017 • 60 min • United Kingdom

New Zealand soprano Dame Kiri Te Kanawa looks back at her life in song through 40 years of performances from the archives, including rugby anthem World in Union on Top of the Pops.

Lizard on the Wall

2017 • 60 min • Singapore

Inspired by the first English-language novel "Inheritance" of acclaimed Singaporean novelist Balli Kaur Jaswal about Singapore's Punjabi-Sikh diaspora, the film surrounds the story of a Punjabi family and the characters' struggles against traditions and belonging. The project involves the local Punjabi community, who has often been left out of the larger Singaporean narrative even when they are such an important part of our cultural landscape.

Slack Jaw

2017 • 4 min

A movement film to the sounds of the awe-inspiring Amelia Meath: vocals; Nick Sanborn: chord organ; and Jenn Wasner: piano

Tiden går för fort när jag har roligt

2017 • 4 min • Sweden

Marianne wants to live a boring life. Because from experience, she knows that time goes way too fast when she is having fun. A short film inspired by the cartoonist Jan Stenmark.

The Man Who Unlocked the Universe

2017 • 60 min

Ulugh Beg was one of the world's greatest astronomical minds, an enlightened leader who turned medieval Samarkand into a great center of science 150 years before Galileo invented the telescope.

My Sister's Dollhouse

2017 • 3 min

A filmmaker tries to discover himself by making a film... he fails.