All Films

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'.

Meet Me in Holmsund

2017 • 15 min • Sweden

Sabina has travelled from Romania to Holmsund in northern Sweden to find a job with her brothers. Elin has just finished school and is enjoying the first day of the summer holidays. That evening they meet, and it's a meeting that lasts forever.

Betty Goes a-Posen

2017 • 2 min

Smart and self-confident…the original sass symbol Betty Boop transcends the decades winning over fans worldwide! Now, M∙A∙C and Zac Posen shimmy up to the memorable icon

A Woman's Right to Shoes

2017 • 15 min

When Alice is left by her husband, she devises an unusual way to mend her broken heart. But is she making a fool of herself or striking out for a woman's right to shoes?

The Empty Screen

2017 • 11 min • United States of America

A video essay from Mark Rappaport about movies in movies, and how the screen watches us just as we watch it.

The Postman Dreams 2

2017 • 7 min

The Postman Dreams 2 is part of the Prada Postman's Gifts project for the Holiday Season.

Sesame Street presents: The Time Machine

2017 • 60 min • Germany

Wolle and Horse want to help the girl Emma and her grandpa. Verena Winkel from the youth welfare office wants Emma to live in a children's home instead of with her grandpa. Of course, this must be prevented! Wolle builds a time machine with which Emma, Horse and he undertake three adventurous journeys into the past: to the Vikings, to the early 19th century and to the Lapuna Indians.

When Patsy Cline Was... Crazy

2017 • 54 min

With exclusive access to the Cline estate, the film features rare performances of such Cline classics as "Walkin' After Midnight" "Three Cigarettes in an Ashtray," "Come On In," "I Fall to Pieces," "Crazy," "You Made Me Love You" and more.The documentary also features exclusive archival interviews with Cline's contemporaries and new interviews with a wide range of artists who have been influenced by Cline: LeAnn Rimes, Kacey Musgraves, Rhiannon Giddens, Wanda Jackson, Bill Anderson, Beverly D'Angelo, Callie Khouri, Reba McEntire, Mickey Guyton, Terri Clark and more.