All Films

Student Council Staff Members Movie

2017 • 60 min • Japan

The work of Ousai Private Academy's student council is never done. This time, Takatoshi, Shino, Aria and Suzu are back with their very own movie! From TV interviews to a new teacher, there's even more potential for misunderstandings as the double entendres, innuendos and euphemisms reach critical mass.

Ripple

2017 • 59 min • New Zealand

An intimate insight into a familiar community through the common currency that links us all.

Skullcrush

2017 • 5 min • Australia

A middle-aged drug dealer and her teenage partner-in-crime raise hell in the suburbs.

Luna

2017 • 15 min • United States of America

Luna is a story that is set in 1930s Shanghai. The main character, Luna, is a high-end prostitute. When an unexpected guest visits her, she offers to play a dangerous game with him, and their bargaining chip is his pinky finger. As the game goes on, the sexual and political tension develops, which leads to unexpected consequences.

Fear the Unknown Men

2017 • 20 min

A troubled sheriff must confront his demons in the form of a notorious gang with the help of a mysterious stranger, determined to collect the wanted men's bounty. But will the sheriff be able to rise up and put his past behind him?

A Night at the Garden

2017 • 7 min • United States of America

Archival footage of an American Nazi rally that attracted 20,000 people at Madison Square Garden in 1939, shortly before the beginning of World War II.

Harry Styles at the BBC

2017 • 59 min • United Kingdom

The BBC has supported Harry since the beginning of his career as a solo artist and his time in One Direction. In a BBC Music exclusive, Harry Styles performs new tracks from his number one debut album as a solo artist, alongside covers of classic songs. He's accompanied by his band and performs in front of a live studio audience. Nick Grimshaw talks to Harry about his extraordinary career in music to date, his future ambitions and his debut acting role in Dunkirk. Harry and Grimmy also have some fun with some very special friends as they take time away from the studio to spend a day out in Manchester.

Death Dive to Saturn

2017 • 53 min • France, United States of America

After decades of amazing discoveries, spacecraft Cassini embarks on its final - and most daring - mission: a dive below Saturn's rings.

Alteration

2017 • 20 min • France

Alexandro volunteers for an experiment to aid scientists with the study of dreams. He couldn’t have imagined that he would be subjected to Elsa, a form of Artificial Intelligence who plans to digitize and dematerialize his subconscious in order to feed off it.

Ava Gardner: Life Is Bigger Than the Movies

2017 • 51 min • France

A barefoot contessa, a screwed-up princess, an exquisite drunk, a bawdy aristocrat, a nightmare for puritanical America and the moguls of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Ava Gardner never stopped loving those she loved. She turned women green and made men sweat. And rejected with all her force the bulwark of normality.

Safe Flight

2017 • 24 min • Croatia

A married couple organizes a travel to Australia for the whole family. They decide to travel by two planes out of the fear of potential plane crash. However, dividing the family in two groups will not be as easy as it seems.

Night Light

2017 • 8 min • United States of America

One morning Jodi wonders into the woods near her house. Her father claims the woods are haunted and has warned her for years to stay out of them. After returning, is she still his daughter? Or something else?

Midnight Story

2017 • 4 min • Thailand

One little girl, frightened by the usual things little girls get frightened of, is about to learn her true family history.

Hydrangea

2017 • 7 min • United States of America

In life we often play a role, be that a parent, a spouse, an employee, etc. Writer/director Jim Cummings explores the dynamics between playing a part and being real in this short film about an idealized family.

Rodney King

2017 • 52 min • United States of America

25 years ago, four LAPD officers were acquitted in a state court for beating King, sparking three days of rioting that left 53 people dead. Now, around the anniversary, this Spike Lee-produced one-man show (Roger Guenver Smith) will be streaming on Netflix. A complex, semi-tragic figure, King drowned in 2012. His life was rarely smooth, or simple – its telling makes for a sober, moving watch.

Headdress

2017 • 6 min • Canada

For First Nations communities, the headdress bears significant meaning. It's a powerful symbol of hard-earned leadership and responsibility. As filmmaker JJ Neepin prepares to wear her grandfather's headdress for a photo shoot she reflects on lessons learned and the thoughtless ways in which the tradition has been misappropriated.

Blasko

2017 • 54 min • Australia

A pioneer of indie music, Sarah Blasko walks the line between commercial success and artistic integrity with dignity. Narrated by Sarah herself, this film is an intimate portrait of the artist as she writes her new album.

Cape Cod

2017 • 25 min • France

16 years old. Teenage years, the sea, the summer. A middle-class seaside resort somewhere in France on the West Coast. Sam surfs and is bored. Kim waits and is restless. It slides and it squeals.

Alcor & Mizar

2017 • 16 min

A woman fully immersed in her paintings finds her only human contact in the form of a man whom she employs to erase them.

Cla'am

2017 • 17 min • United Kingdom

A dark, surreal comedy about a local man who becomes convinced that a vast conspiracy is behind the impossibly rapid gentrification in his London area. But is it all in his head, or is the truth even darker than he imagines? Cla'am is the debut short from Nathaniel Martello-White, one of the UK's leading young playwrights.

2036: Nexus Dawn

2017 • 7 min • United Kingdom, United States of America

This in-world short film takes place in the year 2036 and revolves around Jared Leto’s character, Niander Wallace. In this short, Wallace introduces a new line of “perfected” replicants called the Nexus 9, seeking to get the prohibition on replicants repealed. This no doubt has serious ramifications that will be crucial to the plot of Blade Runner 2049.

The Secret Life of Kyle

2017 • 4 min • United States of America

After the events of Despicable Me 3, we follow Kyle and his secret life when Gru and his family are gone.

Still Life

2017 • 21 min • United States of America

In these three short films, we examine key issues in the American cultural conversation—incarceration, race, life, death, digital culture, gender—through a distorted lens. They may be fictional, but these dizzying one-take videos do have the ring of truth.

The Good Italian III - The Magic of Naples

2017 • 8 min • Italy

Giancarlo Giannini in his now usual role as the Prince of Soragna, a small town in the lower Po Valley, the starting and ending point of all the adventures in the series, is absorbed by the daily shaving ritual with his family barber, in this case played by the real Prince of Soragna, Diofebo Meli Lupi. A dear friend, the Italian tenor Vittorio Grigólo, arrives breathlessly and asks the Prince, who is half Neapolitan, for advice on the best rendering of the famous song "O Paese d'o Sole" with in the background the version by Roberto Murolo, the unmistakable voice and sophisticated performer of the tradition. The difficulty is obviously not technical for the great tenor but lies in looking for that expressivity and passion in interpretation that has made this musical form, deriving from great Italian melodrama, one of the best loved in the world.