All Films

Departures

2016 • 4 min

Strangers on a plane. Lucid observation in hand-drawn animation, in an autonomous, contrasty style.

Snitch

2016 • 36 min • Sweden

Simon returns to the suburb where he grew up in after his graduation, to work as an teacher in his old school. He becomes aware of an event that involves some of his students in his class. This puts him in a difficult situation.

Just Add Water: The Story of the Amazing Live Sea-Monkeys

2016 • 17 min • United States of America

The Story of the Amazing Live Sea-Monkeys is the colourful and surprising true story of a man named Harold von Braunhut; a man who could look at the humblest of creatures – the brine shrimp – and imagine an empire built upon it. Breezy, colourful short about a half-century of marketing directly to children, the force of nostalgia in pop culture, and an unlikely meeting of flimflam and hard science.

The Death of Language

2016 • 6 min • United States of America

Love comes rolling back into Joo-Won's life. But is it really love?

Wandering Soul

2016 • 13 min • Australia

A Viet Cong soldier stationed in the claustrophobic tunnels of Cu Chi during the Vietnam War finds himself haunted by the ghost of a fallen comrade after the burial ceremony is compromised.

Between Myself

2016 • 7 min

Creator's inner self starts to evolve.

Blocheads

2016 • 59 min • United Kingdom

Never before have there been so many indoor walls; so many climbers obsessed with training; so many beasts of superhuman strength. That talent is not going to waste. We follow the fearsomely strong Blocheads as they quest for new lines and push the limits of human ability. It’s a story of adventure, rocky passions and mutant fingers. It’s the story of a search for bouldering gold.

Sliders of Ghost Town: Origins

2016 • 55 min

In 1973 the Halloween industry would be changed forever When Knott's Berry Farm in Buena Park, CA, hosted their very first Halloween Haunt event. Many years later, employees of the park known as "Street Monsters" developed a new scare tactic that involved sliding great distances across concrete asphalt in order to surprise and scare the guests of the event. In this film you will hear the stories of the Street Monsters who invented or who refined this skill into what it is today and also see what it takes to be a Street Monster at this event.

Life in Polar Bear Town with Gordon Buchanan

2016 • 59 min

Wildlife cameraman Gordon Buchanan travels to the town of Churchill on the shores of Canada's Hudson Bay, where packs of polar bears gather each Autumn to prepare for their winter hunt.

Laces

2016 • 7 min • Ukraine

The film through allegory tells a story of the relationship between two ends of one shoelace while they still are not aware of being one thing.

RoacH

2016 • 13 min • Israel

A horror-love story that takes place in Tel Aviv under threat of a nuclear war, between Penny; a lonely young girl who spends her time glued to the screen and the disturbing news, eating or sleeping, and Izzy; her mysterious and shy neighbor who peeps at her through the window.

The Scar

2016 • 19 min • Ukraine

A ruthless story of a loner.

A Way to Forgiveness

2016 • 45 min

To heal from her divorce, a woman walks a 500-miles on the Camino de Santiago. Along the way, she discusses forgiveness with fellow pilgrims. This vulnerable and emotional documentary takes a raw, honest look at the struggle to forgive.

America's First Forest: Carl Schenck and the Asheville Experiment

2016 • 56 min • United States of America

When millionaire George Vanderbilt decided to build his dream house in Asheville, he hired landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted to design the grounds and gardens of the sprawling estate. German forester Carl Schenck was hired to manage the forest and demonstrate sustainability. Explore the story of Schenck’s work at the Biltmore Estate and its impact on the American conservation movement.

Shadowlands

2016 • 15 min • Sweden

Shadowlands is an animated short film about darkness that won't let go. About the constant fear that something terrible might happen. It describes a journey into the inner world and psyche of a young person in distress, a world far from "normal".

Ho Chi Minh Kim Chi

2016 • 6 min • Vietnam, United States of America

The sights and sounds of a kimchi factory in Vietnam.

The Films of Bruno Mattei

2016 • 9 min • Mexico

A look into the films and career of cult film director Bruno Mattei.

Behind Closed Doors

2016 • 58 min

Victims of domestic violence bravely face the camera as they describe the horrors they've endured at the hands of those they love.

Missing Key

2016 • 7 min • France

Before his first public performance, the young pianist Louis Brafort, accidentally falls in his piano and finds himself confronting his stage fright.

Your Father's Eyes

2016 • 24 min

Jamila is a victime of a porn revenge. An act that generated abrupt change of the girl's life, who under social convention, suffers popular anger and finds herself forced to flee away to finally face the unprecedented violence of her family, that is running close to the honor crime.

See You Some Bloody Day

2016 • 16 min • Finland

A movie about a movie that was never made.

Welcome to Pa Pae

2016 • 25 min

'Welcome to Pa Pae' is a short ethnographic documentary focusing on the life-world of a Karen hill tribe community in Northern Thailand. Uniting both participatory and observational documentary modes, the film offers an intimate view into the daily lives of one of Thailand's most remote populations.

Hüvelbaki

2016 • 14 min • Turkey

Three brothers take their father’s body from the 7th floor to the ground floor with the help of a funeral director.

Indefinite Pitch

2016 • 23 min • United States of America

A procession of black-and-silvery-white stills of New England’s Androscoggin River unspools alongside an anxious monologue on movies, memory, and minor history.