All Films

1997: The Birth of the Camera Phone

2017 • 4 min • United States of America

On June 11th, 1997, Philippe Kahn created the first camera phone solution to share pictures instantly on public networks. The impetus for this invention was the birth of Kahn's daughter, when he jerry-rigged a mobile phone with a digital camera and sent photos in real time. In 2016 Time Magazine included Kahn's first camera phone photo in their list of the 100 most influential photos of all time.

Drugs, Skate & Violence: Filmmaker Harmony Korine

2017 • 43 min • United States of America

Harmony Korine has spent his life disrupting traditional cinema with his provocative films. What most people don’t know is that first and foremost he's a skater.

Truck

2017 • 14 min • Turkey

Besim, who set out on a long interprovincial journey with the truck escrowed to him, is stuck in the middle of a deserted road in the heart of Anatolia because of an engine breakdown. His efforts to find a mechanic for the truck, fearing that it will catch on fire, becomes more and more complicated.

Weekends

2017 • 16 min • United States of America

Set in 1980s Toronto, a young boy shuffles between the homes of his recently divorced parents.

Lions Unleashed

2017 • 46 min • United States of America

In Rwanda, Africa, a new era is dawning after a brutal civil war ripped through the country, killing close to two million people and wiping out its most iconic wildlife: the regal lion. Now, 25 years later, the big cats are being reintroduced to the region to reclaim their throne. Follow this magnificent seven, a collection of five females and two males, as they travel thousands of miles from South Africa to Akagera National Park and attempt to figure out their new land, form relationships, and restore the pride of a nation.

Der Tunnel

2017 • 10 min • Germany, Switzerland

On his weekly train ride through Switzerland a student notices that the tunnel they are driving through is unusually long. The persistent darkness makes him increasingly apprehensive. His fellow passengers don’t seem concerned. Even the conductor reassures him that everything is fine. But when he heads to the engineer’s cabin with the chief conductor – they find it empty. And after their effort to pull the emergency break fails, they watch the rapidly accelerating train head straight into a dark abyss.

Edelweiss

2017 • 8 min

A nurse struggles with her emotions when she saves the life of a valuable WW2 hostage, only to see him taken away for an inevitably brutal interrogation.

Ridgeland

2017 • 15 min

A teen attempts to escape his dead-end life as his best friend tries to stop him at any cost.

Beast of Man

2017 • 23 min • United States of America

Young men seek salvation while learning to ride bulls at an annual christian camp in western Oklahoma.

The Passengers That Took on The Train Line

2017 • 59 min • United Kingdom

In 2016, with the contract for Southeastern trains due to expire in six months, a group of dissatisfied but determined passengers come together to try to take a railway franchise into their own hands. Jacques Peretti follows the group as they set about executing their revolutionary plan. Is their dream far-fetched, or will the Department for Transport, looking for fresh ideas, see this new passenger-run company as a viable option for the franchise?

Tremor Cordis

2017 • 10 min

This short story of immigration and forbidden love follows Lucy as she discovers her pregnancy and decides to visit her alcoholic mother for advice.

Arkane

2017 • 8 min • United States of America

A couple breaks into an elderly woman’s home to extract some of her blood.

Catsitter

2017 • 7 min

Sometimes when you look for a cat all you find is a grin.

Turn It Around

2017 • 10 min • Netherlands

When the fifteen year old Bram meets Florian at a house party, he immediately falls for him. There's only one problem: nobody knows Bram is gay.

Go Play Outside

2017 • 18 min • Canada

One summer morning, Abel decides to solve his parents' financial problems by taking matters into his own hands. Helped by his best friend Edwin, he roams the neighborhood in search of easy money and soon finds himself unable to resist the call of crime.

Black Mass

2017 • 13 min • United States of America

A social outcast named James stumbles into a very accepting community, the caveat being that the community is a satanic cult.

Ram Dass, Going Home

2017 • 31 min • United States of America

Ram Dass is one of the most important cultural figures from the 1960s and 70s. A pyschedelic pioneer, author of Be Here Now, beloved spiritual teacher, and outspoken advocate for death-and-dying awareness, Ram Dass is now himself approaching the end of life. Since suffering a life-changing stroke twenty years ago, he has been living at his home on Maui and deepening his spiritual practice — which is centered on love and his idea of merging with his surroundings and all living things. Shot in a nuanced cinematic style, the film is an intimate summary of his life learning and awareness, and is ultimately a poetic meditation on life, death, and the soul’s journey home.

A Date in 2025

2017 • 13 min

In the year 2025, a young man's superintelligent AI system tells him that he must go on a date or face certain suicide from loneliness.

Precarious Woman Executive Miss Black General

2017 • 30 min • Japan

Miss Black General is the villainous leader of RX, a secret organization bent on world-domination. Unfortunately, Miss Black General also has a huge crush on Brave Man, a costumed superhero dedicated to foiling RX's evil schemes, and she often mistakes his violent heroics for an overly enthusiastic form of flirtation. So how exactly is she going to to conquer the world when she can't even conquer her own feelings? And how will Brave Man respond to this odd twist?

Anna

2017 • 20 min

A woman's struggle to accept her fate finds hope and solitude with the innocence left in her heart.

The Day My House Fell

2017 • 47 min • Belgium, Netherlands

Three adult brothers, Hein, Pé and Roemer, live with their elderly mother Hillie. This eccentric family lives in an old, crooked house that is on the verge of taking its last breath before toppling over. Every year, it is pulled straight again by its four inhabitants. This procedure has worked for decades, until suddenly Mother takes off to the sunny South. The nestlings are left to deal with each other - and themselves. As the relationship between the brothers gets more distorted, the house starts leaning over faster as well.

Simokita 2014

2017 • 2 min • Japan

Spin-off short story of the "Senritsu Kaiki File Kowasugi!" series, which is set after FILE-06.

Todd Barry: Spicy Honey

2017 • 60 min • United States of America

With bone-dry wit, stand-up comic Todd Barry dissects texting emergencies, Hitler's taste in wine, pricey soap, cheap pizza and much more.

Homing In

2017 • 7 min • United States of America

After a long day at work, Cal drives home to his suburban neighborhood and realizes that he accidentally went inside the wrong house. Inspired by true events of Levittown, NY; American's first suburb.