All Films

The Charanpo Land Adventure

2017 • 25 min • Japan

At the far end of the Southern Seas, where none had dared to go, there exists an island called Charanpo Land. At the center of that island is a giant baobab tree, which produces many eggs each day. Inside the eggs are food, clothing, and other daily necessities. The inhabitants of the island live carefree lives, dependent upon the eggs. But lately, more and more of the eggs have been turning up empty, which makes the inhabitants uneasy. Then one day, with a thunderous crash, and an explosion of rainbow-colored light, the baobab tree produces an egg of curious appearance. The next morning, the village chief Poncho tells the inhabitants that they must find that egg. Now the tiger Kometora and a group of children must find the egg within the forest.

Lady

2017 • 16 min • Chile

1997, Antonieta celebrates her 11th birthday in parallel to the news that moves the world; Lady Di has died. While the family hears the news, Antonieta suffers the sudden loss of her dog Pola. Her search and the attention of a public person put an end to her childhood.

I Didn't Shoot Jesse James

2017 • 16 min

Some of the most well-worn tropes of the American western are upended in this delightfully deadpan tale starring the great Tchéky Karyo as a world-weary and reluctant bank robber who’s torn between loyalties on the eve of his partner’s next big job.

Maggie

2017 • 20 min • United States of America

A step-mother struggles to connect with her new daughter who is full of "eccentricities."

Life After Death: Quantum Realms

2017 • 60 min • United States of America

Tens of thousands of years ago man stood upright; looked around and discovered existence. He was suddenly conscious of himself and the universe. And soon he needed to explain everything he saw and experienced. He embarked on a journey of discovery so profound it gave rise to the religions of the globe and even modern science. What is the meaning of life; is there life after death; and is there a God? These were the most fundamental questions anybody has ever dared to ask. Today, after thousands of years of searching and the development of modern science, we are moving closer to the answers than ever before. What we have discovered is that existence in the macro world matches that of the micro world. As it is above, so it is below and this understanding unlocks the answers we are searching for. Through quantum physics we can now finally look upon the face of God and see the meaning of existence.

Connie

2017 • 9 min

Ambivalent about her pregnancy, Connie attempts to withstand the desert, her husband and herself.

Onora la Madre

2017 • 28 min • Italy

“Onora la Madre” focuses on the role that women played in the 'Ndrangheta, because their presence in Mafia contexts has always been underestimated whereas today has slowly surfaced again. The short explores the manifold and contradictory 'Ndrangheta female universe in Calabria. It explains - starting from reports, documents, traditions, rituals, testimonies, words and judicial documents, the 'Ndrangheta telling the stories and the figures of women that inevitably settle and serve calabrian clans. Everything starts with a quite enlightening syllogism: family is the core element of the 'Ndrangheta, woman is the core element of the family, woman is the core element of the 'Ndrangheta. Analyzing the real universe of the 'Ndrangheta’s mechanisms we realize the real role of women, often extremely important even if destined never to be formally recognized by the organization.

Lost Paradise Lost

2017 • 25 min • Canada

Prisoners of their technology-bound lives, Julie and Victor feel disillusioned with humanity. They stumble upon a mysterious group who, after stripping them bare, welcomes them and gives them ready-made roles to play. Joining the strangers, they head into the forest toward an unknown destination, until they suddenly come under attack. As they face this threat together, Julie and Victor will need to separate truth from fiction. Or simply surrender to the pleasure of artifice...

Notes from Buena Vista

2017 • 10 min • United States of America

A working-class mobile home park in Silicon Valley faces imminent closure. Notes From Buena Vista glimpses into the lives of low-income families in one of the wealthiest places in the world.

Spirit Pandemic Phase 9

2017 • 54 min • Japan

The 9th shocking psychic documentary by the staff of the popular series "Honto ni Atta! Curse Video"!

Bad Bunny

2017 • 35 min • France, Portugal

Wayward boy punishes his mother’s lover. Beauty and horror fondle each other. Young gods callously abjure conventional morality. Death goes whoring in child’s guise.

Mae Martin: Us

2017 • 58 min • United Kingdom

Adorable, charming, Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee Mae Martin comes of age in this internationally lauded hit show about identity, sexuality, biphobia and loneliness. Peering through the lens of her own fluid experience with love and sexuality, in Us, Mae Martin questions whether we actually need to label ourselves at all, and that perhaps those labels smother the nuances of who we are. This hilarious hour charmingly juxtaposes her liberal childhood milieu with her experiences in her contemporary life, telling the story of her plummeting through puberty and dropping out of high school along the way.

New Deep South: House of JXN

2017 • 9 min

Contrary to the stereotype of Mississippi as a state of social conservatism and stagnation, the support, protection and love Rainbow families provide queer youth offers up an alternative view of the New Deep South.

PhoeniXXX

2017 • 50 min • Romania

The story of two women, who had to reinvent and recalibrate themselves for others in order to escape poverty and reach their goals. In the end, both seem to get what they want, but the erotic chat industry took its toll on one of them.

F Is for Friendship

2017 • 8 min • United States of America

Emily decides to air the skeletons in her closet and brave the scrutiny of a catty dinner party to win back her name.

The Music Box

2017 • 14 min • Denmark, Sweden

A family vacation and birthday celebration in Skagen, Denmark, is beset by the unexpected.

Nyforelsket

2017 • 29 min • Denmark

Alice feels stuck in life after breaking up with her ex-boyfriend Julian. In an effort to get better she contacts him and tries to give their relationship another chance. Over the course of a day they try to find back to each other - but slowly Alice becomes unsure if it's really Julian that is missing in her life.

Gleep-Glorp & Lasertag

2017 • 2 min

Gleep-Glorp and Lasertag are a pair of alien siblings with a mystery to solve!

Martin and Katy Ride the Cyclone

2017 • 11 min • United States of America

Martin admits he has some repressed feelings regarding the death of his uncle. Katy takes him to Coney Island.

Boxes

2017 • 13 min

Liam is nineteen, fresh out of high school, and enjoying a life of parties and pills. He lives with his grandmother. He keeps her at an arm’s length, and so, when she has a sudden stroke, he ignores her call, and doesn’t find out until he reads a text message sent from Wellington Hospital. He rushes to the hospital, in the middle of the night, drunk and hopped up on cheap stimulants. He is greeted by a closed door, and a nurse who tells him he has to wait to see his grandma. Thus, Liam spends a night and a morning in the hospital, contemplating his decisions, while befriending a young boy who is waiting for news of his mother. A social-realist drama, Boxes is a story about regret, relationships, and the widespread existence of small tragedies.

Pria

2017 • 22 min • Indonesia, United States of America

Caught between the traditions of his upbringing in rural Indonesia and his idealization of Western freedom, a teenager struggles with the expectations of imminent manhood.

I Love Isabelle Huppert

2017 • 58 min • France

I documentary on French actress Isabelle Huppert. "I love to watch her because I don't know what she's going to do next."

Новенький

2017 • 30 min • Russia

In a large family, after a trip to the store, another child suddenly appears. He speaks an incomprehensible language and does not know where he came from. But in a family where there is love, this is not important. Gradually, from an undesirable burden, he turns into a beloved family member and returns peace and happiness to the main characters, Sena and Lida.

The Daughters of Virtue

2017 • 12 min • United States of America

A lonely housewife fears for her life when a women's prayer group meeting turns into a fanatical intervention to rid her soul of evil.