All Films

Straight A

2016 • 9 min

Struggling with maintaining his same-sex long-term relationship a secret and keeping up with his image of being the perfect straight A son, Alex must face his father and tell him the truth about his sexuality.

Marietta Brimble

2016 • 8 min

A surreal and haunting reverie of youthful dreams and desire.

The Drum

2016 • 26 min • Singapore

The Drum is a short film that follows the journey of Kang, a recently retired man in his 60s dealing with the sudden onset of a late-life crisis. He realises that he must mend old conflicts and learn to accept his new life or risk losing himself in the emptiness of old age.

Any Road

2016 • 10 min

Audiovisual concert short film by Boris Labbe and Daniele Ghisi "- so long as I get SOMEWHERE," Alice added as an explanation. (Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)

May

2016 • 30 min • Belarus, Germany

Andrey lives in Minsk, Marina lives in Berlin. They used to date. Now, separated by hundreds of kilometers, they spend their days in a state of melancholic uncertainty.

The Grenade Man

2016 • 55 min • Norway

On July 22nd 2011, Norway experienced incomprehensible terror. However, it was not the first time one in our midst used extreme measures to create fear and panic.

The Two Million Dollar Tip

2016 • 52 min

Takes place right after the events of The Million Dollar Tip (2014). Focuses on Will and how he is coping with the death of his best friend Evan, when all of the sudden his life is turned upside down once again by the mysterious Tip Man.

10:17

2016 • 10 min • United States of America

Waiting for a woman an unknown woman to arrive at his hotel, Hector questions himself if he should go through with his current plan.

In the Backyard of Hillary and Donald

2016 • 38 min • Norway

Thomas Seltzer travels back to his American roots to find out who the family will vote for in the 2016 presidential election. We get to see a part of the USA that are not normally exposed in the media, the white working class, and how they view the world.

The Collection: Katarzyna

2016 • 5 min • Poland

Quiet observation of a physically handicapped woman. The initial images, reminiscent of footage shot for patient records, reveal that effortless movement isn’t always a given. Luckily a sun-drenched day makes every walk a little better.

1 of Too Many Part 1

2016 • 22 min • United States of America

Drama short.

The Mist

2016 • 12 min • Singapore

Two women recollect the sounds and images from places in their collective memories in this evocative dance-inspired film.

Disappearance

2016 • 4 min

When 2 FBI agents go missing, one being Amanda's best friend. Even with friends comforting her including Alex trying to become more than a friend, she's lost without him until she discovers the truth has come to her doorstep.

What is abstract expressionism?

2016 • 5 min

Sarah Rosenthal dives into the Abstract Expressionist movement in hopes of answering that question.

Briefcase

2016 • 7 min

After giving birth to a briefcase, a woman kidnaps her neighbor's baby.

The English Lesson

2016 • 20 min

Set ten years in the future, Virgil, an English Language Steward (not teacher) works in a school which achieves 100 hundred per cent success rate. Dressed in a red hooded outfit which suggests his low rank, Virgil has been employed to assist the efficient auto-prof: a computerised English instructor. The machine unleashes utilitarian English classes pitched way below its students' levels in order to guarantee passes and maintain the school's reputation. Virgil becomes taken by a student, Marie, who somehow manages to stir him from the drudgery of his apathetic classroom role. He fails one of the student's test in his class and is ordered by his superiors to amend the score if he wishes to keep his position, taking into account the dwindling jobs market. He is bullied, harassed and intimated into complying with a system that is decayed, corrupted and abusive towards its employees.

Alė Rūta. Ilgesys

2016 • 53 min • Lithuania

A documentary film about the writer Alė Rūta.

The Abandoned Zoo

2016 • 3 min

A child comes face to face with a fear of the dark and the unknown. Shot entirely with 35mm film using a Lomokino (hand crank) motion film camera.

Distance

2016 • 30 min

Three estranged siblings reunite after the death of their father. Amidst secrets and recriminations, is there a hope for reconciliation?

Mana Janji Ayah?

2016 • 8 min • Indonesia

A child sometimes does not appreciate all the hard work their parents do to please their child even in the most difficult conditions.

Feeler

2016 • 7 min • United States of America

16mm film by Paul Clipson, and music by Sarah Davachi. Filmed in New York, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Brisbane, Krakow, Sidney, Portland, Napa, Oakland and San Francisco.

Ungoverned Monopoly

2016 • 6 min • United States of America

Harvey bites off more then he can chew after attending a party with his friend

Blue Line

2016 • 17 min

Two guys go on a journey across Los Angeles to pick their friend up from the suicide ward in Santa Monica.

The Test of Humanity

2016 • 52 min • Ukraine

A documentary about the German Nazi occupation of the Vinnytsia region from 1941 to 1944, because it was in Vinnytsia in 1943 that the Nazis tried to justify the crimes of the Holocaust by accusing so-called Jewish agents of the NKVD of killing repressed Ukrainians during the Vinnytsia tragedy of 1937–1941. The film is based on the revelation of the age-old wisdom and interethnic tolerance of the Ukrainian people during the terrible years of war, in particular how people ended up in Jewish ghettos and concentration camps, and their Ukrainian compatriots, despite the threat of death, saved their lives.