All Films

It's No Game

2017 • 8 min

In this day and age, just how useful are "writers" anyway? The filmmakers behind 'Sunspring' have come back with a new short starring David Hasselhoff, Tom Payne, Tim Guinee, Sarah Hay, and Jake Broder. Once again, they've enlisted the help of "Benjamin," an A.I. programmed by Ross Goodwin to write screenplays.

Joko

2017 • 21 min • Indonesia

Joko Kemala is quit school and works as porter on the shop building to support his daily living cost and his blind father. There he meets Totok Janoko the owner, who is very powerful and exploits him sexually.

The Bomb

2017 • 55 min • United States of America

Filmmakers use archival footage and animation to explore the culture surrounding nuclear weapons, the fascination they inspire and the perverse appeal they still exert.

Horseshoe Theory

2017 • 12 min • United States of America

A weapons deal between a white supremacist and a member of the Islamic State blossoms into more.

Pigtail and Mr. Sleeplessness

2017 • 25 min • Latvia

Pigtail loves the winter holidays, but this year, shortly before Christmas, Brother comes into the world, turning everything upside down. Grandmother arrives from the countryside, because Pigtail’s parents no longer have time to take her skating, but Pigtail and her best friend, Mr. Sleeplessness, don’t like the new order. They come up with a plan – to send Brother and Grandmother to the Moon, in a bid to reclaim parental attention.

Midnight

2017 • 13 min

A 200 year-old vampire who drives for a ridesharing app picks up a passenger who bears an uncanny resemblance to a long lost love.

Cassini's Grand Finale

2017 • 4 min • Sweden

To help visualize the dramatic final chapter in Cassini's remarkable story, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory produced this short film that features beautiful computer-generated animation, thoughtful narration and a rousing score. Producers at JPL worked with filmmaker Erik Wernquist, known for his 2014 short film "Wanderers," to create a stirring finale video befitting one of NASA's most successful missions of exploration.

Guillaume Depardieu, The Story Of An Enfant Terrible

2017 • 52 min • France

Through the testimony of those who met him, the film proposes to discover the complex personality of Guillaume Depardieu. It is also the story of a destiny that was shattered too soon, of a wounded man, revolted, disturbed by his childhood and to whom adulthood brought no appeasement. Finally, a man with a rare talent, being able to express himself with an amazing virtuosity, both as an actor and as a musician.

Salt Water

2017 • 6 min • United Kingdom

Abstracted bodies in blue gently undulate, then weather a storm at sea.

Belmondo ou le goût du risque

2017 • 52 min • France

Born of Sin

2017 • 9 min

A drunk makes the unwise decision to leave his child in the car during an afternoon out.

The Archivist

2017 • 7 min • France

A little girl called Eva and her dad are hunting in a post-apocalyptic world. Eva slips away from her father and ends up stumbling into an underground library, where she makes a curious encounter.

Someone

2017 • 14 min • Germany

At the end of World War II, Red Army soldiers bent on brutal revenge for past atrocities attack a German city. Compassion comes from an unlikely source. Based on a true story.

I Had Bad Milk in Dehradun

2017 • 30 min • United States of America

Short documentary about the making of Twin Peaks: The Return.

An American Girl Story - Ivy & Julie 1976: A Happy Balance

2017 • 43 min

In 1976 San Francisco, 10-year-old Ivy is a girl who must learn the balance between her two cultural identities — being Chinese, but still wishing to be just like her all-American friend, Julie.

Would You Look at Her

2017 • 18 min • Macedonia

A hard-headed tomboy spots the unlikely solution to all her problems in an all-male religious ritual.

Children of Ether

2017 • 15 min • Japan, United States of America

Follow Rhonda, a woman with a dark past and a mysterious power, as she is pursued by an unknown assailant after the death of her father. Aided only by her wits and a pair of orphans, she journeys through a decaying, dystopian metropolis populated by raiders, gangs, and the supernatural. As she struggles to survive in this harsh urban tangle, she meets both friends and enemies, and searches for answers about this power, "The Ether", awakening within her.

How Tommy Lemenchick Became a Grade 7 Legend

2017 • 10 min

Ophelia is a whip-smart 12-year-old girl who must solve a vexing problem: she’s never been kissed. There are several candidates in her class, but none have Tommy Lemenchick’s smile.

The Sun Is God

2017 • 8 min • United Kingdom

1918 - A woman imagines her lover has returned from the horrors of war in France, remembering moments shared together. A tale of love and loss told through classical ballet.

The Gap

2017 • 15 min • Belgium, Netherlands

Man is a cubical shaped figure who rectifies all bumps and humps in order to keep his desolate world flat. His confrontation with a little red ball, that loves to create gigantic holes, messes up his ideal of a perfect straight world.

Words Fly Away

2017 • 5 min

Three young people enter to a bookshop as out of breath. And the bookseller shows the miracle of books.

The Fox

2017 • 9 min • United Kingdom

Despite being hunted by police, a vigilante thief continues to ransack homes across West London.

Leaf Blower Massacre 2

2017 • 60 min

After finding out about the brutal murder of his fiancé, Shavar seeks revenge against a masked killer with a penchant for yard work weaponry. Fall will be the season of fear.

A Holliston Halloween

2017 • 8 min • United States of America

The cast of HOLLISTON finds themselves in a scary situation when a rehearsal goes horribly wrong.