All Films

Before you wake up

2017 • 1 min • Japan

One night, university student Souta meets a girl he has never met before. Yuki, who claims to have been saved by Souta in the past, seems to know nothing about outside world, from shopping to holding a fork. There is also something curious about her. She is extremely afraid of getting her skin touched. The curious life of the strange girl changes little by little. There are men who seek to capture Yuki. It is said that Yuki has a power which holds the fate of the world, and they want her to sacrifice herself for the world. What is the power within Yuki? Why does she refuse to be touched? At last, Yuki reveals to Souta her hidden truth.

Solo

2017 • 17 min • Taiwan

A mother of two sons, one with piano talent, and one with illness. The talented son’s piano recital day is a trip and a task for all of them.

The Layover

2017 • 10 min

After being delayed a day, a flight attendant hurries home to commemorate a meaningful anniversary.

Let Them Die Like Lovers

2017 • 16 min

Fantastic Shorts award-winner Jesse Atlas (RECORD/PLAY) returns to the section with an arresting sci-fi character study about a body-hopping assassin.

Busta Keaton in COPS

2017 • 17 min • Uganda

Supa Commandos of Film History with VJ Emmie

Love Stories from Fukuoka 12: Sensei to watashi

2017 • 60 min • Japan

“Love Stories from Fukuoka” is a series of real-life stories submitted by viewers in Fukuoka about their personal experiences with love, loss and longing. All the stories are based in Fukuoka, the capital city of the Fukuoka Prefecture on Kyushu Island. The stories feature many actors, celebrities and athletes who have ties to Fukuoka, including a few members of the popular Japanese girl group AKB48. In "Sensei and I", several years after graduating from high school, Rui meets her teacher from who was known as a "blunt demon" and they fall in love.

Odile of the Valley

2017 • 3 min • France

Short film about female ecstasy.

Love at First Sight

2017 • 4 min • United States of America

During a piano lesson with Johnny, Miss Crawly becomes nostalgic about the dancing and romancing of her youth. Johnny convinces her that it's not too late to find someone and helps her setup a profile on a dating website.

County Lines

2017 • 22 min • United Kingdom

14 year old Tyler is sent from London to a small coastal town to sell Class A drugs. Alone and unprotected, he finds himself trapped in a series of complex and high-risk situations with some of the UK's most dangerous adults. Henry Blake's short film precursor to the feature of the same name.

The Moderators

2017 • 22 min

In an office in India, a cadre of Internet moderators ensures that social media sites are not taken over by bots, scammers, and pornographers. The Moderators shows the humans behind content moderation, taking viewers into the training process that workers go through in order to become social media’s monitors.

Delectable You

2017 • 15 min • France

Oscar Mongoût, a gourmet cannibal, burns with love for a neighbor in his building, the very vegetal Miss Carrot. But this passion seems destined to fail: she is vegetarian, while he has a severe case of vegetable phobia. Things take a drastic turn the evening she invites him to dinner.

Clouds

2017 • 10 min

On the verge of a nervous breakdown, a school teacher finds the wisdom she needs in the most unlikeliest of places.

Queer as Art

2017 • 60 min

Documentary celebrating the LGBTQ contribution to the arts in Britain in the 50 years since decriminalisation. It features interviews with leading figures from right across the arts in Britain, including Stephen Fry, David Hockney, Sir Antony Sher, Alan Cumming, Sandi Toksvig, Jeanette Winterson, Will Young and Alan Hollinghurst, and it explores the distinctive perspectives and voices that LGBT artists have brought to British cultural life.

Alien: Covenant In Utero

2017 • 3 min

ALIEN: COVENANT In Utero is a 360-degree virtual reality journey into a living nightmare that offers a terrifyingly close and personal encounter as an alien neomorph at the time of its birth.

It's Been Like a Year

2017 • 8 min

A sexually stifled young man grows increasingly distracted during a rendezvous with an attractive young woman.

Snow Steam Iron

2017 • 4 min • United States of America

“Snow gently falls on the blood-stained streets of a seedy out-of-time New York City. Steam envelopes the nightmare unfolding within its narrow alleys. Iron is the will of the one who would dare to resist… fight… survive.”

Reflection

2017 • 11 min • United Kingdom

After a drug deal gone bad, two teenagers grappling with mental illness and substance abuse are brought together by the realization that they aren't alone with the issues they face, especially with the biggest struggle of all: growing up.

LEGO Marvel Super Heroes: Guardians of the Galaxy - The Thanos Threat

2017 • 22 min • United States of America

The Guardians are on a mission to deliver the Build Stone to the Avengers before the Ravagers, Thanos and his underlings steal it from them.

Intro

2017 • 2 min

Don Hertzfeldt introduces his new film from the dark underground caverns of a strange planet.

Angelito

2017 • 20 min • Philippines

A short film about Antonio Luna’s aides-de-camp Jose and Manuel Bernal during the aftermath of Luna’s assassination.

Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions

2017 • 55 min • France, Germany

The greatness, fall and renaissance of Hammer, the flagship company of British popular cinema, mainly from 1955 to 1968. Tortured women and sadistic monsters populated oppressive scenarios in provocative productions that shocked censorship and disgusted critics but fascinated the public. Movies in which horror was shown in offensive colors: dreadful stories, told without prejudices, that offered fear, blood, sex and stunning performances.

Lost in Sound

2017 • 8 min • United States of America

A bittersweet short by filmmaker Adam Neustadter and musician James Iha (Smashing Pumpkins). “Lost in Sound” stars Nora Zehetner (Brick) as a woman who hears a movie soundtrack in her head. The swelling score sends her into a world all her own, preventing her from connecting with people in real life.

Barbra Streisand: Becoming an Icon 1942–1984

2017 • 60 min • France

Barbra Streisand grew up in working class Brooklyn, dreaming of escape from her tough childhood. A stellar student, she resisted the pressure to go to college as her sights were firmly set on Broadway. She was determined to become an actress and landed her first role aged 16, but it was two years later, when she started to sing, that her career took off. Subverting stereotypes and breaking glass ceilings, this programme looks at her rise to stardom and the remarkable achievements of her early career.

Toys on Fire

2017 • 1 min • France

Le Havre, France. Pablo, a young drug dealer, has a close relationship with his sister Appoline, with whom he shares a passion for an online game called "Darknoon." When Pablo falls in love with a mysterious man named Nuit, he abandons his sister, who must finish the game alone. At the same time, Pablo and Nuit get into trouble and become the target of a rival gang.