All Films

Stranger

2017 • 7 min

When a sickly-thin man with a thick wrap of bandages over his face arrives home, Alex is terrified and can identify him only as a stranger. His father, Bradley, is ashamed of his injuries; remembering what a 'hero' he used to be to his son. He tries to reconnect with Alex but cannot get close without scaring him. It is only after Alex grows suspicious of the masked Stranger’s somewhat familiar behaviour and eventually catches a glimpse of his eyes through a gap in the bandages that he can recognise his father immediately; the wounds disappear and it becomes clear that there is a bond that runs far deeper than that which lies on the surface.

Sightless

2017 • 12 min • United States of America

Recently blind Ellen receives a new caretaker.

The Last Buffalo

2017 • 51 min • United States of America

For thousands of years, the Great Plains were home to countless numbers of American bison, but in the late 1800s, the number of bison dropped from nearly 30 million to just a few hundred in less than 100 years. What happened to place this national icon on the brink of extinction? Join us as we detail the events that led to this mass extermination. Then follow the story of William Temple Hornaday, a chief taxidermist at the Smithsonian Institution who headed west to hunt bison for the museum, but ended up saving the species instead.

A Gentle Noise Between the Lines

2017 • 30 min • Germany

George is in his 40s, a family man, on the fast track in his job - until one day a stranger claims ownership of 2m² of his house, enters the home, sets up his bed in the living room and stays. While the stranger is expanding his space in the house bit by bit, a gloomy feeling is taking hold of George.

Pop

2017 • 2 min

A short experimental split-screen film.

Sunday Worship

2017 • 17 min

Jim is a lonely septuagenarian who has been to too many funerals and said goodbye to too many friends. Struggling and aimless, he begins to conceal his ailing well-being from his doting wife, finding solace watching a local grassroots football team. Jim’s levels of fandom start to border on obsession as his wife begins to question his strange behaviour...

A Chance to Live

2017 • 16 min • United States of America

Following a botched robbery, an inexperienced criminal and his dead accomplice must decide the fate of a remaining hostage before a sinister third party arrives at the safe house and kills them.

Forever & Always

2017 • 7 min • United States of America

A couples journey through sickness and health.

The Great Escape

2017 • 53 min • France

On March 24, 1944, in the heart of Nazi Germany, 76 British, Canadian, Norwegian and French pilots who were held in Stalag Luft III, a prison camp of the Luftwaffe, escaped. Unique testimony from the last survivors, recreations and today’s digital images sheds new light on the audacious escape.

Blood Highway

2017 • 14 min • United States of America

Two bikers go out in a blaze of glory to rescue hostages from a serial killer and his undead clientele. (ALTER)

Motern Media Christmas Special

2017 • 48 min

The Christmas special you've been looking for is here! MattFarley teams with Pete Peterson to host this variety show spectacular, which features comedy by Jay Mayo, special appearances by Slingshot Cops actors, theatrical interpretations by the ShockMarathons Repertory Players, music from Jon Cross, & cameos by Freaky Farley & The Riverbeast. Will JandekClaus or Sleison join the Christmas fun?

Marco's Oriental Noodles

2017 • 4 min • Canada

A futuristic noodle shop in small-town Saskatchewan has become the world’s first purveyor of the latest in culinary fashion: psychedelic polydimensional comfort food. In this lovingly bizarre short, director and animator Howie Shia examines the small, largely unnoticeable ways in which colonization seeps into our lives, and asks, what is the responsibility of those who dine at a colonial supper table? Dig in.

Kapture: Fluke

2017 • 5 min • Canada

Welcome to Kapture Technologies, where Gary and Jeff test the latest new gadgets.

Rekindled

2017 • 13 min

After a string of failed relationships, Kate gets the chance to rekindle romance with the love of her life — her high-school boyfriend.

Una investigación interrumpida de R

2017 • 15 min

An Interrupted Investigation of R is an epistemological sci-fi detective film project. In this loose adaptation of Stanislaw Lem's The Investigation, R, a young amateur detective, investigates a puzzling and eerie case of missing—and apparently resurrected—bodies. To unravel the mystery, R consults scientific, philosophical, and theological experts, who provide him with a range of theories and clues.

A Conversation Between Parents

2017 • 19 min • United States of America

A year after Thadd and Shannon gave birth to their son, A Conversation Between Parents highlights a climactic conversation in their lives -- as both young parents grasp at the last threads of their ideal family. On an afternoon off of work, the couple sits on their couch, while their son sleeps in his crib, and the family grapples with their limited options one last time. Dietrich’s camera ties the couple’s painful conversation together with flashbacks of both parents’ precious memories of their first year with Jasper, attempting to find a way to articulate their struggles in the last conversation they have together as a couple.

Last Summer

2017 • 18 min • Russia

Pavlik is six years old. He spends a happy and carefree summer at the dacha with his parents, but he gradually begins to notice strangeness in the behavior of adults.

No Reservations

2017 • 11 min • Canada

"No Reservations" is social commentary inspired by true-life events, giving a hypothetical look at what life would be like if the roles in Standing Rock were reversed. Protests erupt as an upper-middle class Caucasian neighborhood attempts to thwart the construction of a pipeline from an Indigenous Corporation.

The Dundee Project

2017 • 19 min

Cult filmmaker Mark Borchardt (as seen in AMERICAN MOVIE) takes a trip to the UFO DAYS festival in Dundee, Wisconsin. Eccentric personalities abound as Mark poetically ruminates on why the compulsion to seek out little green men seems to converge in his home state.

Unrest

2017 • 47 min • France

Unrest is the third movement of a triptych by Philippe Grandrieux whose common thread is anxiety. A body as a return from the depths of time, an archaic body that we do not know and which nevertheless continues to project in us its shadow, its anxiety.

The Devil Dogs

2017 • 52 min • France

Belleau Wood, France, June 1918. After three weeks of battle, the US Marines stopped the German advance a few miles from Paris. They earned the name of "Devil Dogs" and made victory possible for the Allies. Gilles Lagin has given himself a mission: to preserve the memory of the American soldiers who fought in Belleau Wood. For 40 years, he has led families into the footsteps of their ancestors, the 1918 Devil Dogs.

Beyond A Year in Space

2017 • 54 min

Twin astronauts Scott and Mark Kelly were separated for almost a year, undergoing intensive measurements when one was in space and one was on Earth. But that was only the beginning of their scientific odyssey. "Beyond A Year in Space," PBS and Time's follow-up documentary to last year's — which followed Scott Kelly from launch to landing — chronicles Kelly's return to life on Earth and the extensive medical testing the duo undergo to determine exactly what changes have occurred as a result of his record-breaking stay on the International Space Station. The documentary also follows two new astronauts, Jessica Meir and Victor Glover, training to go even further.

10 K

2017 • 19 min

A man and a woman meet on a wooded path, making polite conversation and slowly opening up to each other. Was this an accident or something planned?

We Summoned a Demon

2017 • 6 min • United States of America

They just wanted to be cool. Instead, they got a demon.