All Films

Mayrah

2016 • 5 min • United States of America

Mayrah is a film made from a time last summer while in Sidney, Brisbane and Melbourne. Australia was such an intense flurry of impressions, movements and environments, that the film took the form of a stone skipping across moments of this time: a series of visual memories, the surface of which both reflected some brief abstract and literal elements of my experience.

Fur Coat

2016 • 16 min • Russia

A man sees all women naked, and only his own wife he sees in a fur coat.

Adventures on the Arctic Ice

2016 • 59 min • France

France is a sailor, Eric is a scientist and it is by combining their passions and talents that they first became a couple and then a family. Today, Léonie, 9 years old, and Aurore, 6 years old, share this very special daily life 60 km north of the polar circle. For the past three years the family has been anchored on an ice floe near an Inuit village of 500 inhabitants. The objective is to share a social life with this amazing people and to allow the girls to go to the Inuit school. We will discover their extraordinary daily life.

Nail

2016 • 32 min • Liechtenstein, Ukraine, Switzerland

Valentina works in Lichtenstein. She lived in Kyiv until the age of 13. In 1996, during a hard transitive economic period in Ukraine, Valentina emigrated to Switzerland with her mother and stepfather. 20 years have passed.

Viva Água

2016 • 9 min • Italy

VIVA ÁGUA is a meditation on the philosophical work entitled ÁGUA VIVA written by Clarice Lispector in 1973. The film reflects on Lispector’s interior experimental monologue on the “instant-now” of time, the discomforts of language which are “beyond thought” and the harmonious dissonant reminders and remainders of that “sometime what is seen is ineffable.”

Online Love

2016 • 5 min • United Kingdom

Finding love can be hard, right? Even when you do find someone, what do you say to them through the social network you'll inevitably be using?

Entre deuils

2016 • 17 min • France

A Ford Mustang. A brother and a sister. Their grandmother. And a funerary urn.

Sacred Water

2016 • 56 min • Belgium

Sacred Water is a film about female ejaculation and the discussions around it.

Not too Bad

2016 • 18 min • Chile

As a Child, César always wanted to die at twenty seven, just as The 27 Club. However, he didn't know he was actually going to.

Memoria

2016 • 39 min • Indonesia, Timor-Leste

A mother tries to leave her memory of being a victim during the war in Timor Leste. A daughter tries to secure herself under a marriage. They are trying to find the real meaning of freedom. Maria is one of the female victims of sexual violence in Timor Leste in their dark years of independence. She sees that such possibility can happen as well to Flora just because of a bride price.

The Courtyard

2016 • 7 min • France

A young bored man relives his past thanks to his new neighbor clumsiness.

With A Kiss

2016 • 46 min • United States of America

Through a son’s eyes, With A Kiss tells the story of a father who had been on the Road to the Final Four his whole life, and last year, at age 73, got the call to announce his first Final Four on television. The documentary chronicles Raftery’s experience at the 2015 Final Four in Indianapolis, his 35-year broadcasting career, and ascent to one of the pinnacles in sports broadcasting as CBS Sports’ lead college basketball analyst. The show presents an intimate look at Raftery’s family life and highlights his early years in which the Kearny, N.J. native was a basketball star earning player of the year honors as a high school senior in 1959.

A Buddy Already Dead

2016 • 16 min • Greece

Apart from one chicken in a freezer, a trumpet teacher, keeps also the corpse of his mother. Is there life after death?

Thing in the Dark

2016 • 9 min

A mysterious creature is wreaking havoc on suburban Pasadena. There have been reports of people going missing, while others reported being followed in the dark. The incidents have entirely taken place between dusk and dawn.

Walter and the Moon

2016 • 3 min

Ever wondered why the werewolf howls at the moon? Walter will show you.

Video 69

2016 • 7 min • United States of America

A video rental story.

Laserpope

2016 • 4 min • Germany

Trailer for a fake movie.

Alter Ego

2016 • 3 min

What would my bra say if it could talk? Director Alexa Karolinski dreams up a humorous vision of the role wearable technology might play in our future lives. What could it mean for our communications and social interactions? A question explored by the short film “Alter Ego“ starring Annabelle Dexter-Jones and Joyce Carpati.

The Law of Sodom

2016 • 22 min

The visualization of the terror one goes through when suffering from schizophrenia.

Spellbound

2016 • 3 min • United States of America

A child girl must save to her older sister from her own negative thoughts.

Feels Good

2016 • 15 min • United States of America

Sometimes the best day of your life is the worst day of your life.

The Orange Story

2016 • 18 min

The Orange Story is a narrative short film that tells the story of an elderly Japanese American man who must sell all his belongings and report to a temporary detention center during WWII from where he will be forcibly removed to an undisclosed location. The film also uses archival radio, film, and photographic sources to complement this narrative, providing a strong historical context for the story.

The Giant Scorpion

2016 • 4 min

A giant scorpion attacks a girl!

Some Stories Around Witches

2016 • 53 min • India

Stories of some people in Odisha, accused, ostracized and tortured for being ‘witches’, pointing to a deeper crisis.