All Films

Scary Little Fuckers (A Christmas Movie)

2017 • 23 min • United States of America

It's Christmas eve. An inebriated dad brings home to his adolescent son a gift he hopes will mend their faltering relationship, a Fookah, a devilish and disgusting creature that in turns wrecks havoc on their lives.

Sunken Plum

2017 • 19 min • China, Spain

Working at a nightclub in Chengdu, a transgender Chinese woman receives an unexpected visit from her cousin informing her that the mother she has brushed aside, has died. As the only "son", she feels obligated to return to her birthplace for the sake of her family, even though she'll have to hide her true self from those that once shared her past.

Hero

2017 • 15 min • Australia

In the quiet and picturesque Yarramalong Valley, Officers Henry and Brooks find a young woman wandering by the roadside, distraught from events she has just witnessed. Following a report of a possible crash site, the officers suspect the young woman is a survivor; taking her into their care they proceed to investigate. Within the undulating trees, not everything is as it seems. Who has come to Earth? Do we need a hero to save us all?

Ya Albi

2017 • 18 min

A Syrian refugee adapts to life in an unfamiliar country after her husband's immigration visa is unexpectedly rejected.

I Don't Protest, I Just Dance in My Shadow

2017 • 6 min • United Kingdom

“I don’t want to feel like it’s only me. I know it’s not only me, because there are others out there…” ‘I Don’t Protest, I Just Dance In My Shadow’ is a short visual essay film by artist animator, Jessica Ashman, about navigating the visual art and animation world as a black face in a white space. Using animation and recorded interviews of eight other women of colour artists, ‘I Don’t Protest, I Just Dance In My Shadow’ is an abstract confessional from the director herself: a visualisation of the joy, frustration, wishes and dreams of what it feels like to be a black women and a woman of colour artist, creating and existing.

Los tiempos de Héctor

2017 • 29 min • Mexico

"The Times of Héctor" - Hector is a lonely man who attends suicides in Mexico City. Monica is a young woman who longs for death. Their meeting will unleash unsuspected consequences for both.

I Know You from Somewhere

2017 • 15 min

A young woman incurs the wrath of the internet after inadvertently becoming a viral sensation.

DreamWorks Home: For the Holidays

2017 • 45 min • United States of America

Oh takes it upon himself to introduce Christmas joy to his fellow Boovs. Unfortunately, his well-meaning mission nearly destroys the city.

The Obama Years: The Power of Words

2017 • 51 min • United States of America

Barack Obama launched into our national consciousness at the 2004 Democratic National Convention and ever since, he's delivered messages of patriotism, unity, and hope through the power of words. But of all the speeches he's given, six in particular may define his legacy as, in historian Doris Kearns Goodwin's words, "one of the best writers and orators in the presidency." Interviews with eminent historians and key figures in his writing process give rare insights into these iconic speeches, as well as the Obama presidency and the man himself.

The Eyeless Hunter: A Khanty Story

2017 • 4 min • Estonia

Incensed at his laziness, a shrewd, cunning wife steals the eyes of her husband while he rests instead of hunting.

Searching Nafta

2017 • 22 min • Mozambique, Portugal

Shooting on 16mm film in Mozambique, director Ico Costa explores the textures of human behaviour as he follows young men who wonder what lies beyond their immediate surroundings. In the fragments of conversations captured in the Maputo market, a recording studio and on coconut trees, we find daily routines and tedium lead to chit-chat on desire, money and hope. In the interplay between performance and document, poetry emerges from fleeting everyday moments.

Garbage

2017 • 10 min • United States of America

Jean and Jacob decide it's time to make some changes, but Jean and Jacob need to get trashed first.

Marie Louise Ekmans Utflykter

2017 • 58 min • Sweden

She is one of the most significant artists of our time - and perhaps also one of the most active. Marie-Louise Ekman has been active in painting since the late 1960s. She has worked with film and stage design, has been director of the Royal Dramatic Theatre and rector of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts. Anneli Kustfält has followed the artist closely for two years, as she returns to the studio and life as a freelance artist after her years at the Royal Dramatic Theatre. The documentary is a deep dive into an artistry characterized by courage, independence and a reluctance to please. But also a journey back to Marie-Louise's upbringing, the alcoholic father and the anxious mother.

Mwah

2017 • 7 min

A teenage girl on her way home encounters a man who wants her attention.

My Last Summer

2017 • 15 min • Canada

During a heat wave in Montreal, Tom, 11, meets Édith, who’s the same age. He soon discovers that Édith has a terrible secret.

I Hate Jane Austen

2017 • 46 min • United Kingdom

While it may be universally acknowledged that she’s one of the great English writers, Giles Coren breaks down his many reasons for hating Jane Austen.

Muff Dive

2017 • 10 min • United States of America

A fledgling band struggles to grow past the popularity of their one hit song 'Muff Dive'.

All the Letters that I Never Sent

2017 • 47 min • Chile

A film about the ghosts of those letters that never reached their destination.A neighborhood detained in time that nevertheless will change irremediably and that keeps the memory of thousands of secret stories, hidden in its streets, houses and corners. Mothers who seek reconciliation with their daughters, confessions of unrequited love, loneliness and many searches for an answer that will never come.

Hands

2017 • 5 min • Ireland

A woman reaches through a transom window over a locked door, straining into the darkness for the light switch beyond.

Hairat

2017 • 7 min • Ethiopia, Mexico, United States of America

For over 35 years Yussuf Mume Saleh journeys at night to the outskirts of the walled city of Harar to bond with his beloved hyenas.

Making a Macaron

2017 • 13 min • United States of America

Join Mines N Crafts trio Stef Woodburn, Gina DeVivo, and Amy Dallen as they head to Honey and Butter in Irvine, California to investigate the secrets of les macarons.

We Need to Talk

2017 • 8 min • Germany

Very often in life, no words are needed to express human feelings. Many issues appear to stand between the two protagonists in „We Need to Talk“, while still uniting them in the end. Within a few minutes, the short film will create different illusions of what they need to talk about for every spectator.

Beatopia

2017 • 48 min • Japan

Yu and Umi, a third-year high school student living in a rural town, become friends because they have the same hobby. Meanwhile, Rin (Sara Ogawa), a university student in Tokyo who visited the town where they live to shoot a documentary, meets Yu and the sea.

Every Wall is a Door

2017 • 58 min • France, Bulgaria

Drawing on VHS tapes of a programme hosted by her mother on Bulgaria’s national television, the filmmaker gives a pop-style and in-depth chronicle of the gentle – even “over-gentle” – 1989 revolution.