All Films

Sweet Home Inferno

2017 • 26 min • Japan

One could think that the 18-year-old Nozomi is a normalstudent in a normal family somewhere in Japan. One day, when she suffers from neck pain, her mother hires "expert" help in the form of a sect master friend who immediately realizes that only an evil spirit can be behind it. Driven by parental love, a cruel exorcism ritual begins for Nozomi.

Cease Fire

2017 • 21 min • Colombia, Spain

More than 50 years of armed conflict among the FARC, the ELN, paramilitary groups and the Colombian government have left behind eight million victims. During this time, thousands of minors have been part of the armed groups. They are also consider victims because their childhood is always going to be linked to a weapon; the jungle was their home and the battalion, their family.

The Legend of Scotty Watts

2017 • 11 min • United States of America

A teenager deeply consumed by fantasy struggles to form a meaningful connection — with the lead singer of his favourite band, and a fangirl who is quickly becoming something more. ​Pulsing with an eclectic rock soundtrack from The Midriffs, Super Defense and Loving, Prash Sampathkumaran has crafted a bittersweet ode to high school crushes, 90's nostalgia and the object of many a teenager's affections: the heartthrob with the guitar.

Double King

2017 • 10 min • Australia

A king steals crowns from various other rulers.

The Satanic Thicket - Three

2017 • 22 min • Germany

The first day of the holidays at the campsite. Mimi wants to make friends with the other children, Karl wants to go swimming with the crocodile, Dad’s hungry and Mum left the sandwiches on the kitchen table. All of a sudden, the caretaker’s little rabbit Fernando goes missing. Not until the medieval tourists arrive does a sense of order return. One thing is for sure: the world is in turmoil.

Blind Sex

2017 • 32 min • France

At the end of the summer holiday, Louise, blind since birth, is smothered between her mother and her sister. After getting lost in the forest, a chance encounter on a naturist campsite will upset her habits.

The Fourth Kingdom

2017 • 15 min • Spain

The regular visitors to a recycling center in the Brooklyn borough of New York, run by René, a discreet Mexican who works and sleeps there, and by the Spaniard Ana de Luco, form a community capable of transcending their reality to turn it into a realm of their own, sometimes surreal, outside the great collective swindle of the American dream.

Us Funny

2017 • 16 min • United States of America

Jim and Julia spend their day on a wonderful date in Los Angeles. They are very much in love. Interspersed, are scenes of Jim at Julia's funeral.

Neon Lights

2017 • 15 min

After a seemingly ordinary transaction goes wrong, a young inner-city Latina stripper encounters a violent customer on her way home to her father's birthday.

Echolocations: River

2017 • 2 min • United States of America

Recorded under the Hyperion Bridge and at the surrounding Los Angeles River in LA California, Echolocations: River is second in a series of short films and recordings which document site specific compositions performed by Andrew Bird in exceptional natural and urban environments. A Companion piece to Bird's instrumental album of the same name.

Exposure

2017 • 30 min • France

Camille, an assistant at an art gallery, hosts Masato Kimura, a Japanese video game designer who has come to France to promote his latest creation. Indifferent to his world, Camille finds the man inscrutable until Masato asks to use her face in his next game.

Belial's Dream

2017 • 5 min

In this continuation of the Basket Case saga, Belial has a rather unsavoury dream…

Hickory Dickory Doc

2017 • 15 min • United Kingdom

An interview with actor John Lithgow talking about his experience with Brian De Palma's film Raising Cain

The Man Who Built Cambodia

2017 • 35 min

An architect whose iconic buildings defined a newly independent Cambodia struggles to come to terms with the reckless development that threatens his legacy.

Pocong Hiu Unleashed

2017 • 12 min • Indonesia

Andra, Moniq, and Nadia try to prove the truth of the Pocong Hiu legend through a ritual. The Pocong Hiu get annoyed by their actions and rage. Now the Pocong Hiu is loose and swimming on land to hunt them one by one.

Color of My Father

2017 • 43 min • Brazil

Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my Soul to keep. If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my Soul to take.

Noini

2017 • 13 min

Little Noini lives with her Ma and Grandpa. In her world, they are the two most lonely persons. Despite the gloom, she tries to bring a smile on the faces around her.

Lily

2017 • 11 min • United States of America

Bearing the weight of social obligation, Mel attends her baby shower.

Shop of Eternal Life

2017 • 23 min • China, United States of America

Caught in the middle of China's most chaotic time, a man desperate to save his wife must sacrifice everything he has... And everything he will ever be.

With Him / Best to You / Better Numb

2017 • 9 min • United States of America

A short film featuring tracks from Blood Orange's third album Freetown Sound.

Arkabutla

2017 • 14 min • United States of America

Chauncey Wright, a champion bull rider, has been risking his life on the weekly to give his kids the ultimate gift—a jet ski. But when he takes Annie Sue and Tommie on a weekend lake trip for a joy ride on their new toy, they are all forced to confront a stubborn legacy swimming just beneath the surface.

The Last Laugh

2017 • 20 min

'The Last Laugh' sees three legendary British comedians, Tommy Cooper, Eric Morecambe and Bob Monkhouse sitting in a dressing room discussing the secret of comedy and what it means to be funny. However, not all is as it seems.

Kiri Te Kanawa at the BBC

2017 • 60 min • United Kingdom

New Zealand soprano Dame Kiri Te Kanawa looks back at her life in song through 40 years of performances from the archives, including rugby anthem World in Union on Top of the Pops.

Lizard on the Wall

2017 • 60 min • Singapore

Inspired by the first English-language novel "Inheritance" of acclaimed Singaporean novelist Balli Kaur Jaswal about Singapore's Punjabi-Sikh diaspora, the film surrounds the story of a Punjabi family and the characters' struggles against traditions and belonging. The project involves the local Punjabi community, who has often been left out of the larger Singaporean narrative even when they are such an important part of our cultural landscape.