All Films

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.

Genbanojō

2017 • 24 min • Japan

In a cone-shaped land named Kikyōgahara in Shin Province, there lives a girl named Hana. She is a gentle girl, who always thinks of her family, in particular her great-grandmother Chiyo, whom she affectionately calls "Granny." One day, a traveling entertainment troupe named the Natsugawa Genzaemon Troupe happens by, and the villagers welcome them warmly. Upon finishing their performance and receiving their acclaim, the troupe's leader spots Hana with some "oyaki," his favorite food, and transforms into a fox in his excitement. It turns out that the leader Genbanojō, and his companions O-Natsu and Shinzaemon, are all foxes who have taken on human forms. Genbanojō hastily negotiates with Hana, telling her that in exchange for keeping their secret, he will grant her one wish. She answers, "I want to let my Granny see the cherry blossoms."

White Noise

2017 • 17 min • France, Lebanon

Beirut, at night. Said begins his first shift as a security guard. His orders are clear: watch a bridge. However, in the heart of “the city that never dies”, the exercise is going to be more complicated than it seems.

Dandelion

2017 • 20 min • United States of America

In a not too distant future, an inmate at a mysterious prison must fight to unlock her mind in order to find the key to her escape.

Fysh

2017 • 13 min

This is the story of an old man and a fish that changed his life.

Mindgame

2017 • 26 min • United States of America

A conman abuses his psychic wife's abilities, blackmailing strangers with their futures, only to realize their own lives are in grave danger.

Cut Here

2017 • 14 min • Macedonia

Cut Here is a story about two contrasting worlds and outlooks on life: the world of shallow consumer-ism and trashy mainstream, and the world of marginalized individualism. Nina puts on her best ‘self ’—expensive clothes, lots of makeup, etc.—and leaves her kitsch luxury home. Anna unchains her old bicycle and leaves her semi-derelict building. Nina almost crashes into Anna as she carelessly exits her garage with her girly car. She yells a couple of insults at Anna, and then both resume their journeys to their respective destinations. Their destinations will tell us a lot about the different directions in which their lives are moving.

Five Minutes

2017 • 10 min • United States of America

A progressive elementary school's "parenting class" takes an unexpected dramatic turn.

The Heights

2017 • 22 min • United States of America

A promising musical duo tries to avoid a meltdown before the biggest show of their career.

VHS Revolution

2017 • 53 min • France

Using testimonies by pioneers and witnesses of the times, delve into the feverish visual culture the media generated – with far-fetched examples of canine television games, seduction manuals, aerobics class while holding a baby, among others.