All Films

Grey William

2016 • 14 min

Like the famous racehorse her tour bus is named after, Margie faces a decision: sprint for the finish line or end up in the glue factory.

Democracy Road

2016 • 58 min • Norway

After living in exile for 20 years, Aye Chan Naing can finally return to Myanmar's homeland. As chief editor of the radio and television station The Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB), Naing, together with reporter Than Win Htut and their colleagues, fought for democracy and freedom of speech from an office in Oslo. The journalists go home to test the newborn democracy in their home country, and with them in their luggage they have a dream of freedom of the press and the opportunity to continue their work in the country they hold so dearly.

Unknown Number

2016 • 7 min • Canada

A young woman is studying when suddenly she receives anonymous phone calls in the middle of the night.

Solo

2016 • 16 min • Brazil

Silvia is a ballerina completely consumed with dance. She locks herself in her apartment, determined to rehearse until she achieves perfection. Her compulsion makes her enter a state of growing delirium, to the point of not sleeping and hardly eating. Her rehearsals are only interrupted when she notices a dirt stain on the carpet. Silvia tries to clean it in vain. Tormented, she tears off the carpet trying to discover the origin of the stain but the stain relentlessly continues to grow and invades the apartment little by little.

Digital Romance

2016 • 10 min

One cold winter evening the computer game Brutal Bullet becomes infected by a destructive virus; a virus of burning red two's hitting the computer's binary number system of white zero's and one's. "Kane Skullhead" the main character of the game, can suddenly feel a beat inside his chest; a beat of life that activates the antivirus in the computer and starts a chase of life and death, which will eventually reach beyond his own world and have him collide with the world of a beautiful ballerina.

Love After Time

2016 • 16 min • Taiwan

After a nuclear disaster, the world has gone dystopian. Many people have undergone physical mutation, and therefore are cut off government supplies. A female mutant robs the provisions of a military officer with a strong sense of justice. His chase ends in a rundown, gaudy amusement park. Just when the girl is about to be arrested, she discovers a top secret. The division between normal and abnormal should not be a raison d'être.

Ruido – Stories of the Vinyl in Buenos Aires

2016 • 58 min • Argentina

Homemade documentary that illustrates vinyl stories in Buenos Aires, as its name indicates. But not just any stories nor about so-and-so, so-and-so, and so-and-so. Those selected for NOISE… are all mythologized characters; The stories are fantastic, of finds and discoveries.

On Friday Noon

2016 • 13 min • Indonesia

Wina, a prostitute pansy, looking for a mosque to do a friday prayer (islamic praying every friday noon). In her journey, she got lost and got some trouble from strangers that she met.

Nothing Bug

2016 • 8 min

Exes run into each other and, as they walk in the rain, try to catch up and reflect on themselves.

Mauvaises Têtes

2016 • 14 min

Mauvaises Têtes (Bad Heads) is a dark comedy in the spirit of classic MGM and Universal horror from the 1920s/30s. It tells the story of an odd woman, Jenny, who loses her mind in the search for love and decides to create her own lover.

Singer Who Fell

2016 • 24 min • France, Russia

Meet A 105-year-old Olga Markovna Kolyadenko, a former Bolshoi theater opera singer and the only remaining student of director Konstantin Stanislavsky. She still teaches vocals in her Moscow apartment. Konstantin Stanislavsky, who taught Olga Kolyadenko, created the famous acting system that was later adapted in the USA by Lee Strasberg.

School Project

2016 • 20 min

Three students venture into an abandoned school with a dark past in search of the ghosts that presumably haunt it. What they thought to be a hoax turns out to be a much more sinister truth.

The Field

2016 • 25 min • Macedonia

A father who is old and on his death bed calls his elders son, Bardhi. He advises his son that effort and hard work will ensure him a better future for his family. For the old man, land is everything. Just after the father dies, the younger son, Lis, turns up in the village. Lis has lived for eight years in the west European county and has lost contact with his family. The real reason he has returned is to sell off some of the family's land to pay off his debts to some characters from the underworld.

The Disco Shines

2016 • 12 min • Spain, Turkey

Saturday, April. Nice weather. The shadow of the mountain grows as evening falls. Five boys get ready for the night: they have booze, a car and music. No matter if the disco shut down years ago.

Night-Fly

2016 • 27 min • Russia, Kazakhstan, Germany

Zhanel is trapped in a life devoid of purpose. Unable to face the real world, she finds safe harbor in her wild and beautiful dreams. With the help of a psychiatrist she meets in her dreamscape, Zhanel tackles her problems and discovers her deeper self.

Nine Behind

2016 • 12 min • Canada

Calling her grandfather in Budapest to learn about the Hungarian film industry, a woman instead finds the conversation shifting to her family’s history.

Lookouts

2016 • 12 min • United States of America

On their final trial as village Lookouts, a troop of young scouts are ambushed by the very creature they were hunting. After a violent battle the lone survivor, Pehn, escapes into the shadows of the Eyrewood, a mysterious and deadly forest that is home to all manner of wild creatures. The most horrifying of all is the Basilisk, a winged titan with the power to turn its prey into stone. This is the beast the troop of "Lookouts" were seeking, and now it hunts for Pehn. With guidance from the stories foretold by his Mother and words or warning passed down from his mentor, Pehn struggles to find the courage he'll need to confront his fate and defeat the horrifying creature that pursues him.

Eliyahu Rips: The Burning

2016 • 55 min • Latvia

In April 1969 Ilya (Eliyahu) Rips, then a young student of mathematics, tried to burn himself in a public square in Riga, Latvia protesting against the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. He was stopped and eventually sent to a psychiatric hospital for two years. Thanks to international pressure from the mathematical community in 1972 he was allowed to emigrate to Israel. Now he is considered one of the most brilliant mathematicians in the world. At the same time, for most people familiar with his name, Rips is first of all associated with the development of the so called Bible Code – a mathematical program allegedly helping to decipher hidden messages encoded in Torah – the Five Books of Moses. He is attacked by both the scientific and religious community, yet his research continues.

Culiaos

2016 • 16 min • Chile

Bondhu Othoba Bonduker Golpo

2016 • 21 min • Bangladesh

This is a story of two friends meeting after a long time. It begins with a great deal of nostalgia shared between two friends. But as it unfolds, we see how relationships tend to be defined by the politics of the day. We find friendship and enmity intertwined into one complex reality

Take Over Your Trap

2016 • 42 min

Local trap star, Bankroll, discovers the man that put his father in prison is none other than a corrupt pastor who uses his church as a front for his drug operation.

Parallel Novel

2016 • 3 min • South Korea

A writer tries to force his character into suicide, but the character fights back.

Asphalt

2016 • 11 min • South Korea

Aerim comes to her senses on asphalt and finds a man bleeding to death.

A Bitter Taste

2016 • 20 min • Romania

An old man is in need of a surgery. He goes to the hospital pushed by his wife who has arranged everything. What it should be a simple medical intervention turns into a meeting with the destiny. Will the old man understand the meaning of this encounter?