All Films

Braguino

2017 • 49 min • Finland, France

In the middle of the Siberian taiga, 450 miles from the nearest village, live two families : the Braguines and the Kilines. Not a single road leads there. A long trip on the Ienissei River, first by boat, then by helicopter, is the only way to reach Braguino. Self-sufficient, both families live there according to their own rules and principles. In the middle of the village: a barrier. The two families refuse to speak. In the river sits an island, where another community is being built : that of the children. Free, unpredictable, wild. Stemming from the fear of the other, that of wild beasts, and the joy procured by the immensity of the forest, unravels a cruel tale in which tensions and fear give shape to the geography of an ancestral conflict.

Knife Skills

2017 • 40 min • United States of America

Edwin’s Restaurant is determined to become one of America’s top French restaurants, with a staff unlike any other in the country. Brandon Edwin Chrostowski prepares to open his Cleveland, Ohio fine dining establishment with a staff composed nearly entirely of recently released prisoners in search of an opportunity to get their lives back on track. They sign up for a classical French food boot camp to learn the ins and outs of fine wine, sauces, and more.

Soul Candy

2017 • 10 min

With a modern-day Cyrano de Bergerac twist, a young couple bond over author David Foster Wallace in a used bookstore.

Cliché

2017 • 8 min • Canada

While on the way to a party, three teenagers find themselves at an abandoned house where a killer is lurking.

Andy

2017 • 16 min • United States of America

After being accused of sexually assaulting a girl at a party, Andy uses a public twitter confessional to rewrite his story.

Born Again

2017 • 7 min • United States of America

When a group of bumbling Satanists has their summoning ceremony go terribly right, they're left to face the decidedly holy shit consequences.

Fanatyk

2017 • 33 min • Poland

As a son deals with his own struggles, he must calm his father's obsession with fishing before his outlandish behavior ruins the entire family.

The Malediction

2017 • 27 min • Indonesia

Halim considers himself a pious Islamic man. He wishes to marry a young woman in her village as a second wife to save her from miserable life. His wife doesn't agree. Halim contemplates on his own decision while a weird fantasy world starts to suck him in.

Chasing Unicorns

2017 • 4 min • United States of America

Blacked out from a brutal fall while skating, Jo dreams up a world of color, where she meets a unicorn who helps her believe in magic again.

Uproar

2017 • 14 min • Italy

In a picturesque hamlet overlooking the sea near Rome, two young men divide their time between petty thefts and football matches. Their crimes have the lightheartedness and exuberance of childhood games, until an unexpected proposal marks a change in their lives, and that of the history of Italy, with the death of Pier Paolo Pasolini.

L'échappée (Escape)

2017 • 21 min

Hocine Filali is a forty-something year old taxi driver in the port city of Algiers. His day-to-day routine has him snaking through thick morning traffic, bustling boulevards, and the occasional military checkpoint. In the distance, the sound of the call to prayer mixes with the crash of ocean waves as they bring word of what life might be like elsewhere, across the ocean, in Italy.

Bring Me the Head of Antonio Mayans

2017 • 19 min • Brazil

Veteran Spanish actor Antonio Mayans is kidnapped by a director with whom he made a terrible film in the past, and whose career was destroyed by the failure of it. He seeks revenge and wants Mayans to act on his new project: a snuff movie.

Margherita

2017 • 20 min • Italy

Sister Margherita is a young Benedictine nun living in the 19th century in an Italian monastery. She had the opportunity to see and touch Jesus Christ and she is in love with him, but for some reason he decided to disappear living her in a mood of anguish and despair. This love for God and the desperate attempt to have him back leads her to a self-destructing behavior: she lays in dirty places surrounded by rats, she whips her back and scream and so on. Her friend, sister Chiara, suggests her to stop behaving like that, to calm down and try to look for God in the harmony of Nature. Sister Margherita accepts her advice and she spent some time in the woods: after a nap she starts hearing scary voices, then she reach a lake and she understand that God himself is calling her.

Control

2017 • 16 min • United States of America

In this shockingly dark but utterly poignant comedy from Alison Becker and Kimmy Gatewood, a depressed woman contemplates ending her life, if she could just get everything in order first.

This Brings Me Here

2017 • 5 min • Thailand

Behind the scenes of print ad shoot for Central Embassy, featuring Kiko Mizuhara. This short is a hybrid documentary, with a fictional character telling the story of that day.

Withheld

2017 • 15 min • United Kingdom

Stephanie, a phone sex worker, is threatened by an unknown caller who knows way too much about her.

Marguerite

2017 • 19 min • Canada

An aging woman and her nurse develop a friendship that inspires her to unearth unacknowledged longing, and thus help her make peace with her past.

Trina cria

2017 • 19 min

An ordinary morning for the Guarneri, a modest family of Sicilian origin. At breakfast, a bell rings. The police are here. And everything changes.

Russia 1917: Countdown to Revolution

2017 • 60 min • United Kingdom

Russia, 1917. After the abdication of Czar Nicholas II Romanov, the struggle for power confronts allies, enemies, factions and ideas; a ruthless battle between democracy and authoritarianism that will end with the takeover of the government by Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks.

The Plague

2017 • 21 min • United States of America

In a surreal and dystopian world, teenage siblings Julie and Julian take refuge in a secluded forest cabin to avoid becoming infected by a mysterious and deadly plague. When a stranger comes in need of help their lives are changed forever.

Arr. for a Scene

2017 • 5 min • Finland

Arr. for a Scene is a documentary of two foley artists while they are producing sounds for one of the most famous scenes in the history of film: the shower scene from Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, 1960.

Quinn Thomas

2017 • 15 min • South Korea, United Kingdom

QT aka Quinn Thomas is an international pop star and CEO of "Super Natural" energy drink ‘Drink QT’. We Join QT as she journeys to South Korea to explore new ways in which we communicate through tastes and flavours using her research to inform a multi-sensory debut performance in Seoul.

May Day

2017 • 22 min • Belgium

In Thierry's living room, several people have gathered. None of them know each other but they are all there to try and fulfil the same dream. They want to find a job... and quickly. But we're in Brussels, so nothing goes quite as planned.

Home Deadly Home: The Making of "House IV"

2017 • 30 min • United Kingdom

Retrospective documentary featuring interviews with director Lewis Abernathy, producer Sean S. Cunningham, stars Terri Treas and William Katt, actor/stunt coordinator Kane Hodder and composer Harry Manfredini.