All Films

World In A City

2016 • 13 min • Canada

World in a City is a portrait of Toronto and the steps Torontonians are taking to create a society that welcomes and encourages new immigrants to flourish

Britain's Pompeii: A Village Lost in Time

2016 • 59 min • France, United Kingdom

Professor Alice Roberts joins the team excavating a 3,000-year-old Bronze Age village in the Cambridgeshire Fens that's been called the 'British Pompeii' due to the remarkable levels of preservation.

The Lévi-Strauss Century

2016 • 52 min • France

Documentary about one of the greatest French thinkers of the twentieth century, Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908-2009).

Botticelli's Venus: The Making of an Icon

2016 • 60 min • United States of America

Sam Roddick explores the enduring appeal of Botticelli's masterpiece The Birth of Venus, one of the most celebrated paintings in western art. A joyous celebration of female sexuality, its journey to worldwide fame was far from straightforward and it lay in obscurity for centuries. Artist and entrepreneur Sam explains why Botticelli's nude was so revolutionary, and explores its impact on contemporary culture with artists such as Terry Gilliam, who memorably reinvented Venus for his Monty Python's Flying Circus animations.

La Tortue

2016 • 22 min • France

Since the death of his parents, 10-year-old Leo has been on his own. His brother Bastien is unable to face his responsibilities. Their lives intersect without ever ending up, until the meeting with Julie will change everything.

Snuffbox

2016 • 28 min

Ah, Sweden. Prosperity. Tolerance and equality. ABBA, social democracy and clean fresh air and... snus - the superstrong smokeless tobacco that is forbidden all over Europe. A harmless alternative to smoking according to some. Others might disagree... Things seem to be looking up for small time thief Karsten Lammstrom. His prison time is coming to an end. On the outside waits Annika, his wife to be, and a livelihood: a sightseeing-boat in the Swedish archipelago. What Karsten doesn't need is a Balkan warlord arriving to the prison; notorious Serbian torturer, Zlatko Pavic. When Zlatko takes an interest in Karstens habit to use snus, things take an unexpected turn of events. Karsten ends up facing a grueling moral dilemma.

The Devil's Lettuce

2016 • 12 min • United States of America

Faced with crippling addiction to a strange, mind-altering drug, young Jeffrey Hawthorne finds himself in danger when he inadvertently becomes involved with a drug cartel that is ran by a sinister, rabbit worshiping cult.

X-Ray Audio: The Documentary

2016 • 14 min • United Kingdom

Cold War Leningrad: In a culture where the recording industry was ruthlessly controlled by the state, music lovers discovered an extraordinary alternative means of reproduction: they repurposed used x-ray film as the base for records of forbidden songs. Giving blood every week to earn enough money to buy a recording lathe, one bootlegger Rudy Fuchs cuts banned music onto such discarded x-rays to be sold on street corners by shady dealers. It was ultimate act of punk resistance, a two-fingered salute to the repressive regime that gave a generation of young Soviets access to forbidden Western and Russian music, an act for which Rudy and his fellow bootleggers would pay a heavy price.

Pending

2016 • 10 min • Canada, United States of America

A collage more than a diary using images as artifacts that reflect processes. Sounds often come from other rooms, altered by their distance and the spaces that they have come through, just as the images themselves reflect the history of their own alterations. It is also a humorous exploration of the ideas of vignetting as it frames, highlights, distances and alters space.

Wei

2016 • 22 min • Indonesia

Mei, a Chinese-indonesian woman who is a converted Muslim tries to reconcile with her father, a Bak Kut Teh (pork rib soup) hereditary restaurant owner by giving him a chicken dish (opor ayam) made by herself on Eid Mubarak.

Satan's Blood: recuerdos de «Escalofrío»

2016 • 50 min • Spain

The story of the shooting of Satan's Blood (Escalofrío), a film directed by Carlos Puerto in 1978.

Ghost Town

2016 • 12 min • Croatia

While the battle rages around an emptied city, one citizen battles loneliness through a variety of daily rituals.

Get the Hell Out

2016 • 26 min

A dark comedy following a group of cunning men who travel around the country performing exorcisms for money on behalf of any religion.

The Long Walk

2016 • 6 min • United Kingdom

In a not-too-distant dystopian future, the biggest entertainment event of the year in America is The Long Walk. A striking, bloody animated short that adapts Stephen King's novel, and draws on some of the story’s ending.

Black Sea

2016 • 21 min

A revolutionary group of 5 is forced to leave the country after a riot. They manage to arrange a fisher boat with which they plan to flee to Bulgaria from Turkey via the Black Sea. This difficult and dangerous journey results in the questioning of themselves and the persistence of their organisation.

Kireto: The Boy Who Left

2016 • 54 min

Kireto: The Boy Who Left

Resolut

2016 • 11 min • Germany

It's Rieke's first day in a women's prison. When she discovers that her cellmate was abused, she decides to get help. What she doesn't know: she called the wrong guard.

Last Chance

2016 • 3 min

What if you are a boxer, but you can't fight back?

Tomb Raider: The Trilogy

2016 • 8 min

Produced in 1998 by Silver Films for the Tomb Raider III launch party, The Trilogy was never screened outside the event at the Natural History Museum in London that evening. Thanks to Producer Janey de Nordwall, who recently found the original digibeta tape, we’re able to share the short online in its original quality for the first time. de Nordwall went on to win a BAFTA for her production work, and now runs the British Arrow Awards. Tomb Raider: The Trilogy captured the spirit of the Tomb Raider phenomenon and impact of Lara Croft in the late 90s, wrapped up in a detective-noir setting.

Just Like Grown Ups

2016 • 15 min • Russia

How often do we live through two, three, or even more versions of ourselves during one lifetime? How often do we change, irreversibly, under the influence of other people, often close relatives? The timid Polya (24) works as an accountant and studies economics. She is in love with Kirill (25), who is her polar opposite. Kirill is a young cameraman: ambitious and talented. Kirill and Polya love each other and try to live together, but each of them has their own philosophy, their own value system and their own convictions. Even when they part, Kirill and Polya continue to carry on an inner dialogue with each other. Everyone tries to prove to the other that they can achieve everything on the other’s wish list. Twenty years later they meet, and now the heroes must find out the most important thing: whether one of them has found happiness in those years.

Uncharted Amazon

2016 • 56 min • United States of America

Deep in the jungles of Peru, a silky anteater is fighting to stay awake and a mother humming bird is struggling to raise her chick. Through millions of years of evolution they have developed bizarre relationships and unexpected strategies to overcome them changing conditions, but for all their ingenuity, they were never prepared for the arrival of a new species on the scene.

I Want Pluto to Be a Planet Again

2016 • 12 min • France

A transhumanist romance in the near future. A young boy of modest origins, Marcus, an H- , falls madly in love with an H+.

Beer

2016 • 3 min

BEER is a free interpretation of the poetry “Beer” from Charles Bukowski. The composition is a manifesto of the author’s way of life, this is why we decided to go inside the author’s mind, and it is not a safe journey. A brain solo without filter, a tale of ordinary madness, showing how much loneliness and decadence can be hidden inside a genius mind.

Sui Side Inn

2016 • 16 min • United States of America

Mr.Sui has a hotel where people committed suicide, allowing people to choose the best way to die. He felt it were helping others since he did not want them to suffer. One day, a young girl comes to the hotel...