All Films

The Wallet

2017 • 9 min • Philippines

A hardworking brother receives an emotionally thoughtful gift for all his sacrifices.

The Accomplice

2017 • 7 min • United States of America

A man discovers his unwitting participation in a bank robbery across a series of increasingly incriminating (and hilarious) answering machine messages.

Ingenue-ish

2017 • 11 min

An LA actress takes viewers through her daily struggle to make it in showbiz without knowing someone, having a famous last name, or sleeping her way to the top.

The Courier

2017 • 60 min • Japan

At the beginning of the 19th century, Japan was under a policy of national isolation. A group of Dutch scholars who wanted to open the country secretly completed a copy of a map of Japan under shogunate control. They sent a young Dutch scholar, Michi-an, as a secret envoy to deliver the copy of the map to the Dutch. Michi-an, hiding himself and making his way through the deserted winter mountains, but the mountain guardians, led by Takayama, had begun hunting in the mountains with a description of Michi-an's appearance arranged by the shogunate.

The Freeze

2017 • 9 min • Canada

Two room mates finally get a new fridge from their landlord but it is old, broke, and haunted.

Unbound

2017 • 11 min

"Unbound" is an allegorical short film set in turn-of-the-century Japan. A young woman, Kitsune, works at a mysterious silk factory in order to save her destitute family. Soon she finds herself entangled in a disturbing metamorphosis as her body transforms into a Silkworm and she becomes the commodity that the factory is selling.

Pretty Is

2017 • 16 min • United States of America

In rural South Carolina, a God-fearing family with a flirtatious sixteen-year-old daughter invites a mysterious man to their home.

Zacisze

2017 • 15 min • Poland

Aska and Mariusz set off to the Zacisze campsite to find lost love. Will they survive?

Sensum

2017 • 15 min • United States of America

A badly injured man gets new hope with and experimental procedure after losing all touch sensation in an accident.

Shamed

2017 • 48 min • United Kingdom

A woman exacts finely choreographed revenge for an improper act from when she was 17. But what happened to her back then? And what will happen to the men she imprisons?

Rikishi

2017 • 20 min

Despite his solid build, Jason is a shy teenager. At the pool, a classmate bullies him, comparing him to a "Sumo". Furious, he seizes the young man and tries to drown him. The assault is violent, Jason faces three days of suspension. At home, he kills time researching on "Rikishis", these Japanese athletes considered godlike. The identification is instantaneous. The journey begins...

Baghead

2017 • 15 min • United Kingdom

Haunted by grief, a man asks questions only the recently deceased can answer. The dead get their say in the hidden chamber of a mysterious pub. You may not like what you hear.

Woman Child

2017 • 16 min

When a teacher at a Christian high school becomes pregnant out of wedlock, she is forced to decide if she should yield to the institution's teachings or fight for her civil liberties.

Rue

2017 • 11 min • Canada

Enraged by an unseemly love affair between best friend and teacher, a student carelessly awakens a wraith that feeds on its victim's most shameful regrets.

Tokyo Project

2017 • 32 min • Japan, United States of America

On a business trip to Tokyo, Sebastian explores the city with a mysterious woman he keeps running into wherever he goes, discovering heartbreakingly that the truth, and the past, are as elusive as love.

Goodnight, Gracie

2017 • 4 min • United States of America

A devout child is awoken by her mother's scream, and after investigating realizes she must fight to escape the same fate.

Bangarang

2017 • 17 min

A coming of age story about a young Filipino boy who becomes a hero, inspired by the movie Hook.

Fee

2017 • 10 min • United Kingdom

Fee is out celebrating with her friends, but a voice from the past keeps plaguing her. Escaping the pub for a breath of fresh air, Fee comes across a church and follows her impulse. As her heels echo in the silence of the cathedral, that voice, the person who has rejected her all her life appears.

Larry

2017 • 5 min • United States of America

Larry lives behind a window. He can see you through the glass. Will you be Larry's friend?

Halfway There

2017 • 36 min • United States of America

Jimmy Bishop runs a sober living facility and is forced to take in his wealthy alcoholic mother as a client.

Caronte

2017 • 16 min • Spain

A self-absorbed teenager somehow contacts another universe after she's injured in a car accident.

Smashed

2017 • 13 min

Dean has a thing for Jess – and it drives him crazy that she's with Christian. Egged on by his friends, he gets everyone into making a hot-tempered and brainless move.

Who's the Beast

2017 • 12 min

Claudia is victim of two snuff filmmakers , she is saved by wolves when they were about to kill her.

Midnight Confession

2017 • 11 min • Canada

West Berlin, 1989. Manny Jumpcannon prowls his dingy apartment, phoning various degenerates from his past. He's hoping for some uncertain vindication but the ensuing conversations only reveal his own sordid history of deceit.