All Films

Facebook: Cracking the Code

2017 • 41 min

"What's on your mind?" It's the friendly Facebook question which lets you share how you're feeling. It's also the question that unlocks the details of your life and helps turn your thoughts into profits.

Blood Sausage

2017 • 23 min • Ukraine

While parents, people of traditional rural values, are cooking blood sausage for the visit of daughter-in-law, Andriy, their son, tries to communicate the fact his fiancee is Jewish.

Ghosts of Yesterday

2017 • 20 min • France, Italy

A shadow in the woods, a sunny summer afternoon. Antoine and Philippe part without saying goodbye. That same day, a blond girl writes their names on a window of her house. Her mission is to heal other people’s wounds, help lost lovers to forget or disappear.

Hairy

2017 • 52 min • Switzerland

Documentary about human hair, including its political significance.

Slaughterbots

2017 • 8 min • United States of America

A UC Berkeley computer science professor helped to create a video that imagined a world where nuclear weapons were replaced by swarms of autonomous tiny drones that could kill half a city and are virtually unstoppable. Stuart Russell, the professor, said these drones are already a reality.

Meeting Mommy

2017 • 12 min • Canada

Zoe can only see her mom once a year on her birthday. On the day that she turns six, Zoe has some hard questions for her father to answer.

The Last Grain

2017 • 13 min • Malta

Mr. Bailey has come to a stage in his life where everyone around him has long left him, including his wife. To help shelter him from the pain of reality, he has his dog whom he has a strong bond with. After yet another traumatic event, Mr. Bailey reaches a turning point where he realises that embracing death might be more realistic than fearing it.

Night Crosser

2017 • 8 min • Canada

A strange Romanian trying to enter Canada is confronted by an overzealous customs officer and his curiously cooperative colleague.

Abe Sada: A Japanese Crime of Passion

2017 • 27 min • France

On May 18, 1936, Abe Sada, a former geisha, kills her lover by "erotic asphyxiation", then slices his sex and inscribes his name in his flesh. In an ultra-controlled and militarized Japan, the press is passionate about this transgressive incident, while the murderer defends herself, presenting her crime as an act of "crazy love". Relayed to the West, this murder conveys the image of a fantasized Japan, where all impulses are given free rein.

Cheers to the Newlyweds!

2017 • 13 min • Mexico

Armed with plenty of defiant optimism, this elderly woman prepares a birthday party, grapples with her husband and even rescues a wedding that is about not to happen.

Carry the Flag

2017 • 28 min • Australia

This is a rich and powerful story of a man whose design created meaning for a people once invisible to mainland Australia, the people of the Torres Strait.

Finding Maawirrangga

2017 • 15 min • Australia

Tom E Lewis knows he must die with all of his Songs. After years of haunting silence, he returns to his Grandmothers’ country to seek the permission of the Jungayi (Lawmen) to learn Thumbul corroboree (Morning Star). With the family’s blessing through ceremony, the spirits, stars and ancestors help Tom prepare to find the mysterious Sandy Island of Maawirrangga by singing.

Argue

2017 • 13 min • Sweden

A study of conflict due to misunderstandings.

Watu Wote: All of Us

2017 • 22 min • Germany, Kenya

For a decade Kenya has been targeted by terrorist attacks of the Al-Shabaab. An atmosphere of anxiety and mistrust between Muslims and Christians is growing. Until in December 2015, Muslim bus passengers showed that solidarity can prevail.

Rules of Art

2017 • 20 min • Macedonia

"Rules of Art" is a thriller as a genre, as well as love melodrama. Main character of the film is Daniel, a private investigator, who has his own agency in the city. During several cases related to infidelity, we discover the detective’s true passion, his lifetime obsession which is not directed on voyeuristic spying of other people’s lives, but towards capturing fragments of human destinies, moments which he freezes with his camera. This short film is a presentation of modern and estranged life, and on the other hand, true ode for the art.

Monday

2017 • 19 min

The 50+ time award-winning short film, MONDAY, follows a day in the life of a young hustler who ‘code-switches’ through disparate cliques while being everyone's one-stop-shop for all things illicit. His reasons for the hustle aren’t apparent, but as he maneuvers through his neighborhood, he’ll confront racism as well as question the morality of his occupation.

Like a bull in a china shop

2017 • 6 min • France

A passionate porcelain salesman finds himself faced with a slight problem that threatens his store.

Birth of a Monster

2017 • 53 min

For the past 12 years, journalist Paul Moreira has travelled extensively in Iraq. In this film, he goes in search of the men he filmed back in 2003 at the very beginning of the American occupation. Through their stories, and by tracing the roots of ISIS to the arrival of Abu Mousab Al-Zarqawi and America's handling of the resistance, he tells the story of how Iraq became such a fractured nation.

Occupation: Native

2017 • 53 min • Australia

The Aboriginal story has been buried deep beneath the 247-year-old accepted Australian narrative. In OCCUPATION: NATIVE, Aboriginal filmmaker Trisha Morton-Thomas, bites back at Australian history.

Woody & Woody

2017 • 13 min • Spain

One night in New York, a young Woody Allen meets an old Woody Allen having a drink in a bar. Briefly amazed by this impossible situation, they immediately begin to talk about love, sex, religion and death.

Mum, I'm Back

2017 • 5 min

A woman returns, after 40 years, to the village where she was born. The cause is the death of her mother.

Tokyo Comet

2017 • 29 min • Japan

It has been announced that a comet will crash in Tokyo in a year's time. Sho’s school is evacuated, but he hitchhikes to go help his big brother, Sora, in Tokyo.

Puppets

2017 • 9 min

A young, desperate ventriloquist arrives to an audition only to be turned away with just a brief glance. Tenaciously, the ventriloquist fights for his opportunity to perform and when he gets it, he is elated. But soon, he discovers a dark secret about the audition..the puppets are actually auditioning him for something far more sinister than a simple stage show.

Lira's Forest

2017 • 9 min • Canada

As the end of her life approaches, an old woman encounters a strange spirit from a nearby forest.