All Films

Moderne Kunst

2017 • 18 min • Slovenia

Bojan and his wife Ida seem to live a harmonious life, yet without any physical contact between them. She is a housewife, and he is a security guard in a museum of contemporary art. One day, a very expensive piece of a phallic shape comes to the museum, and Bojan is assigned to ensure its safety. With its potency and symbolism, the new piece soon begins to disrupt Bojan’s marriage.

The Backseat

2017 • 8 min • United States of America

Two octogenarians become tasked with driving their grown child to work.

Sealed Video 29: Hasumi by the Pond

2017 • 52 min • Japan

29th entry in the 'Sealed Video' franchise from the production team of 'Honto ni Atta. Noroi no Video'. Segment 1: Complaint Handling (クレーム処理) Segment 2: Bamboo Forest (竹やぶ) Segment 3: Lovers Dinner (恋人たちの晩餐) Segment 4: Hasumi [Lotus Beauty] by the Pond (池のほとりの蓮美さん)

Daytime Noon

2017 • 13 min • United States of America

Narcolepsy, siblings, nudity, and senility combine for the best kind of road trip. Or do they?

They Come from the Center of the World

2017 • 17 min • Macedonia

I dream about the beast that lives at the bottom of the lake. Only few people have seen it. The air freezes when it’s is near you because it’s heart is too cold. They say you should not look it in the eyes, because your heart will freeze as well. Only one woman has looked the beast in the eyes, but her heart is sad and frozen long time ago.

Hedgehog's Home

2017 • 10 min • Croatia, Canada

In a lush and lively forest lives a hedgehog. He is at once admired, respected and envied by the other animals. However, Hedgehog’s unwavering devotion to his home annoys and mystifies a quartet of insatiable beasts: a cunning fox, an angry wolf, a gluttonous bear and a muddy boar. Together, the haughty brutes march off towards Hedgehog’s home to see just what is so precious about this “castle, shiny and huge.” What they find amazes them and sparks a tense and prickly standoff.

Madonna

2017 • 15 min • Indonesia

Working offshore in fishing, intensely homesick and depressed, siblings Melati and Ilalang slog through their days, coping as best they can. Melati releases young fish; Ilalang experiments with his sexuality. A brutal assault brings them closer together, leading them into the forbidden.

Arj Barker: Get In My Head

2017 • 58 min • Australia

Filmed live from the beautiful Capitol Theatre in Sydney, let Arj Get in Your Head - What are you waiting for? Hop on in and lets ride. There's plenty of room in here. Join me and together well contemplate everything from the social evolution of humanity, to the intriguing and elusive nature of non-sexually derived boners. Ill even mention fondue at some point, and that's a promise. So take a load off your mind and get into mine already!

Eldest Among the Seven

2017 • 40 min • Philippines

Sampaloc Lake - the most prominent of the seven lakes of San Pablo City has provided shelter, employment and inspiration to its immediate community for countless decades. In return, the natural resource suffered from indiscriminate use of the residents themselves and the consequences of rapid urbanization. Recently, the local government have implemented a clearing of all residential structures within the legal easement of the dying lake to pave the way for a tourism master plan that endeavors to balance revenue and environmental protection. In the eve of the clearing operations, film maker Dennis Empalmado documented the final musings of the residents, advocates, and artists whose lives revolved around the 99 hectare crater lake.

Karpenter

2017 • 60 min

A killer is on the loose in a small town. One girl must face this psychopathic serial killer in order to survive this one night during hallows eve.

Going Places Documentary

2017 • 53 min • United States of America

In this age of technology, music is being pushed to new boundaries and rapidly changing unlike ever before. Going Places takes viewers on a journey to experience music from the minds of the artists who are at the fore front of this evolution. The film examines the current state of contemporary dance and electronic music, the culture and discusses the undiscovered territories of where it's headed.

Sealed Video 28: Ghost App

2017 • 54 min • Japan

28th entry in the 'Sealed Video' franchise from the production team of 'Honto ni Atta. Noroi no Video'.

The Victory of Charity

2017 • 26 min • Austria

A music professor facing redundancy and a serious hoarding habit is pushed to extremes when he discovers his girlfriend has given a treasured 1960s band jacket to charity. He enlists a young ambitious musicologist to accompany him on a mission to retrieve the jacket.

Guess How Much I Love You: The Adventures of Little Nutbrown Hare - Christmas to the Moon and Back

2017 • 27 min • Australia

On a snow-covered Christmas Eve, Little Nutbrown Hare & friends stumble across a little Brown Bear who is lost. Determined to return their friend back to his mother, the friends venture on a journey into the unknown woods.

August in the City

2017 • 16 min • United States of America

The film is set to the theme of love and loss. Two women find themselves completely drawn to each other but one fears the consequences from society in 1978.

Women of the Gulag

2017 • 40 min • Russia, United States of America

Through unique and candid interviews the film tells the compelling and tragic stories of the six women – last survivors of the Gulag, the brutal system of repression and terror that devastated the Soviet population during the regime of Stalin.

Glitch Hotel

2017 • 7 min • Serbia

A new intriguing narration through a mixture of data-mosh and clean cuts by compression and editing. It is an experiment in appropriation that investigates the contingencies of exploiting the formal effects.

No Talent No Future

2017 • 24 min • Taiwan

People with no talent will be killed – this is the rule. 29-year-old A-Teng has to take the Competency Verification when he turns 30. While facing the mounting problems in life, he meets a mysterious woman with a gun.

Sunny Side Up

2017 • 15 min • Canada

After receiving a corneal transplant, a man befriends a witty blue-haired girl at the park.

Three Songs about Liberation

2017 • 9 min • United States of America

Three monologues adapted from the groundbreaking book, Black Women in White America, edited by Gerda Lerner.

A Hotel Called Memory

2017 • 55 min • Nigeria, South Africa

The film, set in Lagos, Cape Town and Zanzibar, tells the story of Lola, who recently separated from her husband in Lagos, seeks solace in Zanzibar, hoping to forget and move on with her life.

Sealed Video 32: Cursed Living Doll/Tall Man

2017 • 58 min • Japan

32nd entry in the 'Sealed Video' franchise from the production team of 'Honto ni Atta. Noroi no Video'.

Mother's Day

2017 • 8 min • United States of America

The impact of mass incarceration is explored through an annual charity trip that takes children to visit their imprisoned mothers.

Leo: A Ghost Story

2017 • 11 min

Leo likes to draw. He makes delicious snacks. But most people can't even see him...because Leo is a ghost. When a new family moves into his home, Leo decides it is time to leave and see the world. That is how he meets Jane. And that is how their adventures begin.