All Films

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.

The Amphibian Love

2017 • 12 min • Indonesia

Two young men look for frog to get the magic number.

Pendulum

2017 • 20 min • United Kingdom

Two friends seek spiritual salvation in India, away from their hedonistic and disconnected London lives, in advance of the impending collapse of the Cosmos.

Dog Lover

2017 • 8 min

A man searches for a missing dog at a local grocery store.

El precio de la risa

2017 • 59 min • Spain

The life of Paco Martínez Soria (1902-1982), one of the most famous and beloved Spanish actors, both on stage and screen; a comedian, a theatrical producer, an idol for the masses. A celebration of the uncommon gift of making people laugh.

The Sons

2017 • 15 min • Indonesia

Four elementary school students talk about their daily life on a pedicab. Then, they realize that today is Mother's Day.

The Last Pirates: Britain's Rebel DJs

2017 • 60 min • United Kingdom

Rapper Rodney P. presents the story of Britain's second wave of pirate radio DJs. In the 1980s a new generation of pirate radio stations appeared broadcasting from London tower blocks.

Dragon’s Lair: The Movie - Pitch Presentation

2017 • 7 min • United States of America

Animated short created to pitch a full-length Dragon's Lair film to investors.