All Films

Cuba Libre

2017 • 7 min • Cuba

A young business man journeys to Havana Cuba for work, only to find a beautiful distraction.

Sugar

2017 • 10 min • United States of America

Through the eyes of our protagonist Ellis, who suffers in silence in a world which pounces on any form of perceived weakness, we consider the harmful effect of needing to conceal the truth from the people around you.

Andrey Zvyagintsev. The Director

2017 • 59 min • Russia

Portrait of director Andrey Zvyagintsev against the background of the filming of his film "Loveless".

Cosmopolite

2017 • 4 min • Japan

A subtle and softened x-ray tinted journey through an opaque, undescribed stratosphere.

Ping Pang

2017 • 16 min • Japan

Everyday a woman feverishly practices ping pong by herself. She play ping pong to distract herself from the reality of her life which includes the occasional sexual harrasment at work. A chance encounter one night slowly begins to change her world.

Hugues

2017 • 48 min • France

Hugues is forty years old. He's an actor but he doesn't want to perform. He's taken refuge with Serge, his partner, in the house where he grew up. However, Micheline, a director, insists that he tread the boards once again. Serge gives him an ultimatum: it's him or the play. Hugues chooses the play. When rehearsals start, Hugues, alone in the house, discovers naked people frolicking in the field adjoining the garden.

Guiltless

2017 • 20 min • Mexico

Twenty-one-year-old Juan gets some terrible news from his doctor: he has aggressive lung cancer. His whole life turns upside down as the disease evolves.

The Summoner

2017 • 20 min • United Kingdom

In a world where spirits of the dead are the most pervasive and dangerous threat we face, humankind must call upon the skills of an enigmatic ghost-hunter who gets more than he bargained for facing the most deadly threat of his career.

Trip

2017 • 23 min • Croatia

"Trip" is the autobiographical soundscape and visual world of Jhené Aiko's healing journey that follows the loss of her brother, Miyagi Chilombo, to cancer in 2012, and her futile quest to replace that love with romantic relationships and vices that failed to fill the void.

Picture Wheel

2017 • 13 min • Australia, United States of America

In an alternate reality where memories are literally worn about one's head, a jilted lover wrestles with the image of his ex.

Hunting ISIS

2017 • 24 min

FRONTLINE follows an elite special operations unit at the center of the fight against ISIS in Iraq. Also in this two-part hour: “Battle for Iraq,” a report by Ghaith Abdul-Ahad on the battle against ISIS for control of the city of Mosul.

Myself When I Am Real

2017 • 14 min • United States of America

A man and a woman see a therapist together in a last ditch effort to save their marriage. Their story has wider implications.

Ancien and the Magic Tablet: Another Story

2017 • 25 min • Japan

This is the story that always appears in the dreams of Kokone, who eventually becomes a high school student. What is the secret hidden in the fairy tale that Kokoneheard as a young boy? And then, what is this secret entrusted to his father Momotaro's mind? This movie depicts the adventures of the main character, high school student Morikawa Kokone, who appears in the dreams of another main character, Yasue, another nap princess.

Lincoln in the Bardo

2017 • 10 min • United States of America

In 1862, Abraham Lincoln's youngest son is laid to rest. That night, Lincoln visits his son's crypt, a chorus of ghosts narrating their brief reunion. Based on the bestselling novel by acclaimed author George Saunders.

Red Ash: Gearworld

2017 • 22 min • Japan

In a futuristic world, the "Nanorace," people whose genes contain nanomachines that grant them special abilities, are controlled and suffer prejudice from the "Purerace" of normal human beings. Beck, a legendary hunter with the power of "Red Ash," aims to undergo the surgical procedure to become Purerace. Alongside the large yet timid mechanic Tyger, they use their parallel machine to fly to the old world, doing dangerous jobs. One day, they suddenly run into Call, a girl pursued by the duo of Safari and Stripe. Call, Beck, and Tyger together travel to the clockwork world. But Safari, Stripe, and their leader Deny, stubbornly pursue Call, and are finally in a position to make their attack on Beck and his friends.

Blue, Blue

2017 • 7 min • United States of America

"Blue, Blue" is a dance trip through anger, featuring Sunita Mani, with music from COLLEGE.

Adult

2017 • 12 min • Australia

Having enabled a loss that now torments her, a woman enters an adult store in search of redemption. Adapted from a short story by Christos Tsiolkas.

Pregnant

2017 • 9 min

A pregnant man communicates psychically with his unborn fetus

Jezebel

2017 • 11 min

A beautiful woman lures men to her apartment, believing she is a prostitute. Will one realize his mistake before it is too late?

Schoolyard Blues

2017 • 17 min

It's John's first day at school, and his big brother Mika shows up to follow him to assembly. Mika sees it as his mission to teach John the hard facts of the world, starting with the merciless demands of the schoolyard.

Café Limbo

2017 • 15 min • Sweden

A young waitress in a desolate café surrounded by an overpowering snowstorm challenges an evil presence when she's forced to save the life of a female guest in labour.

The Tooth

2017 • 3 min • Canada, France

Every child knows full well that losing a tooth is only the prologue to a magical experience—namely, a night-time visit from the tooth fairy and the gift she leaves behind. So why, in this case, is the tooth fairy a no-show? These are the sorts of questions a father needs to be able to answer for his son… In this brilliantly simple animated short, Quebec cartoonist Guy Delisle brings to the screen the titular parent of his popular series, Le guide du mauvais père (A User’s Guide to Neglectful Parenting), published by Delcourt. Inspired by a common childhood experience, Delisle uses his trademark wry humour to reflect on the vagaries of parenting. A slice of everyday life, courtesy of the Comic Strip Chronicles.

Chose mentale

2017 • 21 min • France

The meeting of Ema, an isolated electrosensitive girl and her burglers ...

World of Tomorrow Episode Two: The Burden of Other People's Thoughts

2017 • 23 min • United States of America

Emily Prime is swept into the brain of an incomplete backup clone of her future self.