All Films

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.

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.