All Films

Music Row: Nashville's Most Famous Neighborhood

2017 • 51 min

The story of how a group of unremarkable bungalows in Nashville Tennessee became the heart of the country music industry, and led to the city's title as Music City USA. The documentary focuses on the rise of the Grand Ole Opry and the subsequent opening of recording studios in the downtown area while reflecting on what this legendary Nashville street means today in the changing music business.

Stuck

2017 • 16 min • Taiwan

A man in deep depression gives you the chance to hear inside his head, this film will take you to an uncomfortable 'trip' that will open your eyes, mind and heart to the sad reality of millions of people.

Unspeakable

2017 • 47 min • United Kingdom

A single mum receives an anonymous text message, claiming her new boyfriend is having an inappropriate relationship with her 11 year old daughter. Over one weekend the accusation fractures the relationship between the couple.

Deadpool: No Good Deed

2017 • 4 min • United States of America

Deadpool sees an opportunity to save the day, but it doesn't go entirely as planned.

Two Blue Balls

2017 • 24 min • United States of America

Short documentary about the making of Twin Peaks: The Return.

Logic's Everybody Documentary

2017 • 46 min

The 45 minute film follows Logic through the making of the album which has a lot of contributions from guest artists, musicians and instrumentalists. Even his wife Jessica Andrea has guest vocals on several songs and skits. There is one scene where the rapper gets very emotional about the content of the album and how much love he gets from his dedicated fans.

Revive

2017 • 21 min • China

Revive is one of five short films within the Jia Zhangke-produced omnibus film Where Has Time Gone? with contributions from each of the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa). In Jia’s segment, a Chinese couple in the ancient town of Pingyao attempts to breathe new life into their old love as they ponder having a second child. Pingyao, home to the film festival Jia has co-founded, is a highly picturesque UNESCO World Heritage Site, and Jia humorously plays with a very recent dilemma – the second child policy dates from only 2013 – in a setting itself forcibly revived from history.

Sweet Hollow

2017 • 10 min • United States of America

Emily is driving down a deserted road in the middle of the night to visit her sister, but when her car breaks down and a handsome stranger offers to give her a ride, Emily begins to realize there is more to her new friend and Sweet Hollow Road than she ever could have imagined.

Carnivale

2017 • 38 min

At Garuda High, the popular kids always win the elections. This year, two other groups; the religious kids and the underdog kids, decide to join the elections. A student documents this historical occasion. In the end, everything changes.

Ivy

2017 • 15 min • Australia

Rick is a young man living in a nice apartment who seems to be having difficulty going outside ever since his girlfriend mysteriously left. The people around him seem to be trying to push him toward leaving the apartment and moving on with his life, but not everything is as it appears to be.

MappaMundi

2017 • 45 min • Austria, Luxembourg

Through the eyes of cosmic cartographers, MappaMundi takes viewers on an accelerated journey through the 950 million years required for the Earth's development, the 150,000 years of human travel and the 15,000 years of human cartography.

August 28: A Day in the Life of a People

2017 • 22 min • United States of America

Documentary film on events that happened on August 28th in African-American history, shown at the Smithsonian African-American History Museum.

The Babysitter

2017 • 31 min • United States of America

After a breakdown leaves Katie expelled from her dream school, she is left struggling to pick up the pieces - And when an opportunity to babysit for a wealthy family on the outskirts of town presents itself, Katie sees it as the perfect way to prove how much she's moved on from the unfortunate incident. However, things begin to unravel as the night progresses, leaving Katie once again struggling to keep it together as she tries to make sense of the terrors she encounters.

Hong Kong: Retrocession Generation

2017 • 57 min • France, Germany

In 2017, twenty years after the British handed over Hong Kong to China in 1997, young people, more politicized than any previous generation and proud of their land, do not feel Chinese and actively fight against the oligarchs who want to subdue them to China's authoritarian power.

Neverland

2017 • 18 min

Markus is a 15-year-old boy who feels something no one wants to feel. Feelings he knows are wrong, and which he fears can make him into a monster if he loses control.

Le Collectionneur

2017 • 24 min • France

Émilien, a young figurative painter, is welcomed by a very great collector who is getting ready to shift to Hong Kong. In the middle of a jumble of boxes, they discuss painting. The collector reveals his huge and amazing collection of old masters. Rubens, Titian, Velázquez, Vermeer, Rembrandt, they're all there. Émilien ends up understanding that the owner of these many unknown masterpieces doesn't only collect paintings, he also collects artists.

Lil' Tiger

2017 • 17 min • Hong Kong

Based on true events, a Hong Kong teenage girl’s first day out of juvenile detention center takes an unexpected turn.

superboy

2017 • 4 min

A short that explores the cultural and artistic side effects brought about by today's mass production of superhero films.

Son of Jaguar

2017 • 9 min • United States of America, Mexico

In the most important match of his life, the once mighty masked luchador, Son of Jaguar, faces his legacy, his family, and what it means to be a part of something bigger than himself.

Launder Man

2017 • 4 min

In a cold and cramped basement, at the far end of the dark place, a housewife is about to make a grisly discovery.

Classic Albums: Carly Simon - No Secrets

2017 • 60 min • United Kingdom

Carly Simon is one of the most influential singer-songwriters of her generation. The classic album that made her a global star was No Secrets, which included the enigmatic song You're So Vain. The album spent five weeks at number one in the US chart.

Nada

2017 • 25 min • Egypt

A short film about a mute girl who works as a dancer in a band, and faces problems when she meets a blind musician in the same show she is participating in.

Long Shot

2017 • 41 min • United States of America

When Juan Catalan is arrested for a murder he insists he didn't commit, he builds his case for innocence around unexpected raw footage.

Lake of Apples

2017 • 30 min • Macedonia

Filmed over one year, this documentary follows the changing fortunes of beautiful Lake Prespa - one of the oldest freshwater lakes on Earth, providing a habitat for over 2,000 species of plants and animals, many of them unique to this ancient ecosystem. An elderly fisherman rows out across the lake to check on his fishing nets. It's the same trip he's made every morning for most of his life. But other things have changed. The famous pelicans and cormorants are not staying here in the same numbers anymore. And the fisherman's nets now only catch algae. The future for the lake and all the lives that depend on it are highly uncertain.