All Films

Völkische Siedler - Schattenwelten auf dem Land

2017 • 44 min • Germany

Structurally weak and sparsely populated regions of Germany, especially in the north, such as Mecklenburg Switzerland, attract a very special form of ideologically extreme right-wing colonists. Nationalist settlers. The documentary goes on exploration, analyzes their historical roots and describes their influence in today's burgeoning right-wing scene.

The Nights Of A Lonely Messenger

2017 • 20 min • Bulgaria

Somewhere in the Valley of Falling Clouds a lonely messenger is getting more and more into the stories he reads from long-lost yellowed letters. His friend tries to snatch him out of it, but who knows whether he will succeed or not.

Fame

2017 • 60 min • France, Italy

A small town in southern Italy is invested by one who will become one of the most important festival of Street Art of the world. Creating a myth through a course of improvisation, chaos and devotion.

Matria

2017 • 21 min • Spain

Ramona lives with a husband with whom she barely communicates and works in a canning factory with an abusive supervisor.

Love the Sinner

2017 • 15 min • United States of America

A short documentary exploring the connection between Christianity and homophobia in the wake of the shooting at Pulse nightclub in Orlando.

Heurt d'été

2017 • 9 min • France

Jeanne left Luc, at least for three weeks. But Jeanne is still very much here: in the coffee foam, on the opposite pavement or in a matchbox. Slumped at the bar, Luc is moping around. He is waiting to see her again or to forget her. A pile of scratch cards, a call made by no one and a strange psychic are so many reminders for his chagrin. Only three weeks left, minus one day… Well, not even one day, minus a few hours…

The Impasse

2017 • 13 min • Russia

The relationship between Sasha and Vadim has reached a crisis and it seems that the spouses are connected only by discontent, embitterment and irritation. The never- ending quarrels are not even soothed by great trouble: from the summer house their son Grisha, who has overheard how grandmother and grandfather discussed the future divorce of the parents, has run away. The search for the boy leads the protagonists into the forest.

Pizzly Bear

2017 • 4 min • United States of America

Pizzly Bear, a cross between a Polar Bear and a Grizzly Bear, is an environmental fairy tale about a little bear's confusion around its identity.

Three Room

2017 • 21 min • South Korea

A family that lives apart goes looking for a house to live with.

Alt brenner

2017 • 18 min • Norway

12-year-old Anna has volunteered to clear garbage along a beach in Northern Norway. There, she falls in love with the group leader Aaron, who awakens something intense in Anna that she has never felt before.

Dark Night

2017 • 10 min • Russia

An epidemic of an unknown virus spreading people into zombies is spreading at a furious pace in Moscow. The city begins to panic, declared martial law. At this time, a seasoned taxi driver, carrying a pregnant woman from the Moscow region, turns out to be the only savior for herself and several random travelers, including a cowardly policeman and a drunken businessman.

Ghost

2017 • 3 min • Canada

How to say good-bye to friends? How to keep from becoming a ghost in the old streets of the Czech Republic, at once too strange and familiar? Let’s step inside the old scenes of love (which are also the prelude to love’s betrayal) before animal rescue can offer consolations. Shot on the closing night of the Jihlava Festival in 2016, in the Dukla Theatre, on the festival’s twentieth anniversary, where the namesake of its experimental offerings was being offered another airing, and the three of us were gathered there to bear witness, each hello already a prelude to departure.

Junichiro Hayashi: Creepy Images

2017 • 25 min • Japan

An interview with cinematographer Junichiro Hayashi speaking about his work with director Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Ghost in the Shell: Hard-Wired Humanity - Making Ghost in the Shell

2017 • 30 min • United States of America

An in depth look behind the scenes at the making of the live action Ghost In The Shell. Director Rupert Sanders, along with the cast and crew, take you from adapting the script and casting, production design and filming.

Disaster Film

2017 • 19 min

A trans woman, Anjélica, waits in her apartment while Lúcia changes the lock on her front door. While the lock is being changed, the two women converse and we learn more about their situation.

Mumbai Varanasi Express

2017 • 32 min • India

At the peak of his career, billionaire Krishnakant Jhunjhunwala realizes the futility of his success at the cost of his health. Leaving his empire behind, he seeks solace in Varanasi, embarking on a spiritual journey that transcends life and death, searching for true meaning beyond material existence.

Meatballs

2017 • 15 min • Greece

Panagiotis, a young introvert architect, is in the perfect relationship. Lena, his partner, embodies everything he desires, just like he discusses with a particularly attentive man, in an office. But all the characteristics that once seemed heavenly to Panagiotis, now have become a living hell.

Tout le monde a raison

2017 • 23 min

A woman argues that she possesses a sixth sense about the lies of men. Her boyfriend is convinced that she's only known bad liars and sets out to prove her wrong.

Lions in Waiting

2017 • 17 min • Canada

The new member of a high school hockey team struggles to make sense of who he is.

Mephobia

2017 • 24 min • Sweden

A group of girls aged 6–8 wander around in the neighborhood throwing trash around. The group of older girls is just as frustrated, but their restlessness expresses itself in other ways and limits are constantly tested.

The Other Place

2017 • 18 min • United States of America

A criminal with short-term memory loss sets out to expose the family member who betrayed him.

An Invitation

2017 • 11 min • India

Two philosophers discuss their ideas. The next day one of them is getting married and invites the others.

Kinetik

2017 • 24 min • Indonesia

"These fucking condescending hipsters.... I swear to God....." -ComeOutAndPlay_

Eclipse Over America

2017 • 53 min • United States of America

On August 21, 2017, millions of Americans will witness the first total solar eclipse to cross the continental United States in 99 years. While hordes of citizens prepare to flock to the eclipse’s path of totality, scientists, too, are staking out spots for a very different reason: to investigate the secrets of the sun’s elusive atmosphere.