All Films

The Lighthouse

2017 • 7 min • France

In a boat graveyard a conflictive relationship between two neighbors takes place: a lighthouse keeper and a mermaid. The lighthouse keeper guides the boats towards safe waters while the mermaids tries to sink them.

Wolfie the Bunny

2017 • 8 min • United States of America

The Bunny Family has adopted a wolf son, and daughter Dot is the only one who realizes that Wolfie can — and might — eat them all up!

Lacrimosa

2017 • 19 min • Austria

A young woman finds her lost lover in a world of ever-changing surreal landscapes. But love, she discovers, is more complicated than she imagines.

Cpl. Richard Carlson: A Brother's Loss

2017 • 6 min • United States of America

Raymond Carlson remembers his older brother, a medic killed in action in the Vietnam War when Raymond was only seven years old. The impact of that loss lingers today more than fifty years later.

Division Movement to Vungtau

2017 • 4 min

Four pieces of fruit find themselves in a tropical theatre of war.

Into the Deluge

2017 • 9 min • United States of America

In this short documentary from The New York Times, we see the impact of Hurricane Harvey's force as its rains bore down on Texas in 2017. We follow a 911 dispatcher and a pastor's daughter who felt nature at its fiercest - and saw humanity at its best.

Paint the Town Red

2017 • 5 min

After receiving a mysterious pair of tickets in the mail Andie and Josephine arrive at the hottest new club in town, but not everything is as it seems.

Curtis

2017 • 9 min • United States of America

Curtis tells the story of a young man struggling to make amends with the harsh family life he left behind, while ensuring the safety of his younger brother Jordan, still there.

The expulsion of the elephants

2017 • 17 min • Germany

The life of the station attendants Alfons and Bruno is characterized by an everyday routine that they carry out with pedantic thoroughness. Even though no passengers have come for years, they have never failed to sound the hourly warning signals. One day, when a group of traveling musicians show up in front of the ticket counter, Alfons' beloved order is thrown into disarray. Bruno, on the other hand, finds pleasure in the lusty life of the musicians and begins to question the rules of the station.

Him

2017 • 13 min • United States of America

Max, a deaf 12-year-old, becomes infatuated with his big sister's boyfriend during a weekend retreat.

Time to Go

2017 • 15 min • Poland

Marta works at her father’s automobile repair shop. After her boyfriend is arrested, Marta is faced with a difficult choice: to stay loyal to her father, or to do what it takes to get her boyfriend released.

Summer Camp Island

2017 • 10 min • United States of America

Oscar has to accept that his totally normal sleepover with Hedgehog isn't going to be totally normal. Short created as part of Cartoon Network's Shorts Program.

Mukti - Birth of a Nation

2017 • 17 min

This is the story of the 1971 war… the one war in which India decisively won a thumping victory against its arch rival Pakistan… a war in which India destroyed half of Pakistans’s navy, a third of its Air Force and a fourth of its army effectively breaking it to half of its former size and reshaping the global map giving birth to the new nation of Bangladesh… Although every wing of our services played its part and the contribution of every patriot is lauded, when push came to shove, it fell upon the able shoulders of one general, to turn the fate of this war.

Maluma: X (The Film)

2017 • 27 min

Rising star Maluma meets Camila. They fall in love. She catches him cheating and becomes an exotic dancer. Maluma returns and sees Camila at the club. He decides rescue her and as they are making their getaway her now pimp shoots Maluma.

No Country for the Poor

2017 • 52 min • Germany, Hungary

What if democracy fails citizens by not serving them all equally? What if inequality becomes the norm and the most vulnerable citizens are left behind with no money, no home, no rights, and no country of their own? In Hungary, the government has slashed social benefits and criminalized homelessness, but a group of activists, homeless and middle class, is confronting authorities to defend social justice and their right to be citizens. After the tragic death of two of its founding members, the group feels that Hungary is growing more hostile and their struggle is more important than ever. Despite all odds, their own community keeps them going—a mini-society with democracy and solidarity at its heart, an island of hope, belonging and dignity in a society gradually shifting the other way.

Limburgia

2017 • 46 min • Netherlands

When Willie (60) gets his annual chance to become the new 'king of the Schutterij of Limburgia', he goes all in to finally receive the pride and glory attached to the title. But despite meticulous preparations, all goes wrong for Willie on the big day.

Home without Me

2017 • 33 min • South Korea

Spring, 1998. 11-year-old Se-young wants to be a Girl Scout. But she faces unexpected objections due to her sister.

The Last Inscription of Leonid Sejka

2017 • 14 min • Serbia

Short art film without dialogue inspired by life and work of avant-garde Belgrade artist. Mystical quest for integral painting runs across garbage dump of modern culture.

Don't Turn Me Off

2017 • 5 min • Czech Republic

When a woman terrified of a scary film she was watching decides to turn it off, the horror becomes all too real as a dark presence is unleashed in the house.

The Coffee Vendor

2017 • 9 min • Colombia

Julio, a blind coffee vendor, recounts his relationship with Daniel, a 9-year-old boy whom he rescued from a life in the streets and raised as his own. After an unfortunate encounter with a social services worker, Julio will have to fight to protect Daniel and keep their relationship strong.

South Forest

2017 • 7 min • Japan

The story about a Palestinian girl who feeds animals at the zoo.

Lunar

2017 • 7 min

In the year 1957 the cold war expands to space. The Soviet-Union sends Sputnik as the first manmade object into earth-orbit. 3 years later Yuri Gagarin enters space as the first man in space. The so called "Space Race" seems to be decided. But in 1961 President Kennedy promised to send American Astronauts to the Moon. The Apollo Project was born. A space ship had to be built that is strong enough to escape earth's gravitation, land on the moon and bring the crew safely back to earth. Motion Designer Christian worked with his brother and Composer Wolfgang for 18 months on this shortfilm. The foundation were thousands original NASA photographies, taken from the Astronauts during the Apollo Missions, which were released in September 2015. It is an animated collage using different techniques to bring the stills to life.

Echoes of the Passed

2017 • 20 min

A small team prepare to investigate an infamous haunted house.

The Story of a Motorbike

2017 • 6 min • Japan

A motorbike yearns to return to its good old days. One day it takes a courageous leap to its own future.