All Films

How Star Wars Was Saved in the Edit

2017 • 18 min • United States of America

Joey Scoma demonstrates how Star Wars (1977), a potential disaster in its rough cut, was saved in the editing.

Life Lasts Three Days

2017 • 29 min • Serbia

Bogdan and Svetlana come from two different layers of a rotten social system. By chance, they run into each other in her wealthy villa. They are both unhappy with their lives, and they start a complex relationship that is from the start condemned to exist only inside the vacuum the villa provides.

Dead Cool

2017 • 20 min

A dinner party with a difference: meet loner Maurice as he struggles to entertain his new friends in this thriller & black comedy.

Fallen For You

2017 • 15 min • United States of America

Ashley Bailey hits rock bottom when her memoir is stolen, forcing her to lose her job. With no hope and a bottle of vodka taped to her hand, her guardian angel Todd steps in-- literally. Except nobody tells Ashley you're not supposed to hook up with your guardian angel. Todd loses his wings and gets marooned on Earth, where together he and Ashley will discover the secret underbelly of fallen angels and hidden demons.

Leroy

2017 • 21 min • United Kingdom

On a deprived council estate in North London, Leroy, a socially awkward misfit, finally realizes his passion for dancing after finding a mixtape in his dead grandfather's belongings.

Les Fabuleux Pouvoirs de l'hypnose

2017 • 52 min • France

More and more doctors and surgeons are using hypnosis as a supplement to anesthesia during surgery. Hypnosis is also gaining increasing recognition among conventional physicians, especially for anesthesia and pain treatment. Can it also help with psychological stress disorders such as trauma, phobias, addiction, depression or burnout?

Post millennial

2017 • 4 min

The Veiled

2017 • 13 min • Australia

As a daughter grinds away as caretaker for her father she discovers some memories are best left hidden under the veil of dementia.

Leave of Absence

2017 • 18 min • Israel

After his daughters accidentally bleach his hair, before another stressful family dinner, Meir decides to escape. The middle-aged, suburban history teacher unexpectedly finds what he needed when a chance encounter with his former students plunges him into a night of pure rebellious energy.

Nausicaa: The Other Odyssey

2017 • 20 min • Italy

Nausicaa, a young princess eager to explore the world, meets Ulysses and is fascinated by his stories. After seducing her, the man abandons her. Nausicaa decides to go and look for him retracing the steps of his journey and begins to find out the truth, often petty, hidden in his incredible stories. Her voyage will then become a growth path through which she will become a woman.

14,74 oder Das Streben nach Mittelmäßigkeit

2017 • 16 min • Germany

Being normal just for once. That is the biggest wish of Damian, who has a heart disease. Because he turned 14.74 today, he wants his first proper kiss, as it is then that the average boy gets his first French kiss. Most preferably from the beautiful neighbour's daughter Rosalie.

The Dreams of Bethany Mellmoth

2017 • 16 min • United Kingdom

Based on William Boyd's short story collection, The Dreams of Bethany Mellmoth follows 22-year-old Bethany as she flits from one possible career to another looking for answers to life's most important questions.

Echt Herman Koch

2017 • 52 min

A portrait about the Dutch writer Herman Koch. Koch started his career with the popular TV-show 'Jiskefet' and went on to become the best selling and most translated writer from the Netherlands

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs: Swallow-een Falls Spooktacular!

2017 • 22 min

There is some monstrous Halloween fun brewing in Swallow Falls! Flint accidentally creates his own Frankenstein- like monster. The Monster quickly becomes attached to Flint, and Flint has to learn to live with his new "son". Things get even more frightful when Mayor Shelbourne buys up ALL the town's candy at Halloween, and promises to give it to any kid who can make it through his super-scary haunted house. Is Candy-obsessed Sam up to the challenge?

Quiet

2017 • 8 min • Lithuania

A point of view on clergy sexual abuse.

Frenchman's Flat

2017 • 14 min

In 1953 at the height of the Cold War "Frenchman's Flat" focuses on the atomic weapons testing that was conducted on U.S soil in Nevada.

X-Manas

2017 • 18 min • Brazil

In the underworld of sexual dissidents, gangsters, transvestites, ballet shoes and all marginalized bodies come up with a plan to destroy the cisheteronorma.

Penny and Paul

2017 • 13 min • United States of America

Penny may have found her soulmate in Paul in Las Vegas. But on their drive back to her home in Houston, Texas, they begin to realize maybe they don't know as much about each other as they thought.

Julie Taymor: Shakespeares Kino

2017 • 54 min • Germany

A documentary about stage and film director Julie Taymor

Hold On

2017 • 9 min • United States of America

Family bonds are tested when a young man is left to care for his grandmother one morning.

Zembla - The Dubious Friends of Donald Trump Part 1: The Russians

2017 • 46 min • Netherlands, Russia, United States of America

For months, the FBI have been investigating Russian interference in the American presidential elections. ZEMBLA is investigating another explosive dossier concerning Trump’s involvement with the Russians: Trump’s business and personal ties to oligarchs from the former Soviet Union. Powerful billionaires suspected of money laundering and fraud, and of having contacts in Moscow and with the mafia. What do these relationships say about Trump and why does he deny them? How compromising are these dubious business relationships for the 45th president of the United States? And are there connections with the Netherlands? ZEMBLA meets with one of Trump’s controversial cronies and speaks with a former CIA agent, fraud investigators, attorneys, and an American senator among others.

Sophie's Turn

2017 • 8 min • Australia

Before she can join the cool girls, sweet little Sophie must sacrifice a piece of herself to a mysterious demonic force in the woods.

Gennady Shpalikov. Life Of A Charming Man

2017 • 56 min • Russia

Gennady Shpalikov. He was 25 when he offered George Danelia a script for the future film “I walk through Moscow”. At this time, Shpalikov was already finishing the script for Ilyich's Outpost for Marlen Khutsiyev! Both of these films will be called the manifesto of the generation of the sixties, the symbols of the era called "thaw". All his life he had dreamed of “The Quay” ... This script was his favorite work. But “Berth” was never staged "..." "There is no choice in the USSR. Or you drink, or you freak out, or you are not printed. The fourth is not given.

Betty: They Say I’m Different

2017 • 54 min • Netherlands

An aspiring songwriter from a small steel town, Betty Mabry Davis arrived on the scene to break boundaries for women with her daring personality, iconic fashion style and outrageous funk. She befriended Jimi Hendrix and Sly Stone, wrote songs for the Chambers Brothers and The Commodores and married Miles Davis, turning him from jazz to funk and then went on to ignite stages in the 70s with her sassy sexed up mix of hard rock and bluesy funk, inspiring artists from Prince to Erykah Badu to Karen 0 and Peaches. Then she vanished…