All Films

Arta

2016 • 19 min • Belgium, Latvia

Suffering from insomnia, Arta develops a hobby of collecting pictures of other people sleeping. One night the girl accidentally locks herself out of the house and is forced to spend the night in the streets, dressed in pyjamas.

Do You See What I See?

2016 • 14 min • Canada

During the Christmas season, two sisters throw a house party, unaware that a deadly invader will be crashing the proceedings.

The Call Center

2016 • 3 min • Iraq

An hour away from a war zone, a small Iraqi call center is providing live-saving information to people who have been displaced by violence.

Yellowstone

2016 • 9 min • Finland

A former couple talk with each other for the first time after their separation and one short telephone call embodies their years together.

Flyspy

2016 • 21 min • United Kingdom

FlySpy is a short-thriller about a young, genius deviant called Greg, who has made a wirelessly controlled drone in the form of a fly with a camera in its head. Everything the fly can see Greg can see. He is deeply obsessed with his ex-girlfriend Haley so he spends his time secretly watching her through the eyes of his tiny robotic partner in crime. But when Greg witnesses Haley’s violent new boyfriend, John, abusing her, it very quickly becomes clear that for Greg, simply watching, is not enough.

Cursed Videotape

2016 • 1 min • United States of America

An interpretation of the cursed videotape from Ringu, created as part of a promotion for Shudder's release of Sadako vs. Kayako. Shot on VHS over an old Buns of Steel 3 tape. And yes, after you watch this, you will die in 7 days.

Midlife Crisis

2016 • 20 min

Finding Home

2016 • 13 min • Denmark

The 8 year-old bear Bertram goes on a journey with his best friend Muffin, to find out where he really belongs.

Let Your Heart Be Light

2016 • 10 min • Canada

A young woman spending christmas alone after a breakup is visited by her friend.

20 Seconds of Courage

2016 • 38 min • United Kingdom

Five boys and girls. Five small courage. Five different stories. But all linked together. From acclaimed director/writer Shunsuke Okubo ("Clocks Tell the Time" and "Moments")

Canine

2016 • 45 min • Sweden

Karin and Peter have been married for almost 15 years. From the outside, they seem happy, but behind the closed doors of the house there is a repression. Then the dog Orion steps into their lives ...

Out of the Blue

2016 • 14 min • Denmark

Once again Mads is forced to walk home because his big brother, Anders, is running late. Finally Anders arrives, but during a stop on the drive back home to their father, Mads is confronted with the questionable path that Anders is heading down. When an unforeseen collision with a deer occurs, their relationship is tossed around on the highway.

Overwatch Animated Short "The Last Bastion"

2016 • 7 min • United States of America

"The Last Bastion" follows the forgotten battle automaton, Bastion, as it unexpectedly reactivates after laying dormant in the wilderness for over a decade. Fascinated by its unfamiliar surroundings, the curious omnic begins to investigate, but quickly discovers its core combat programming may have a different directive...

Second Sight

2016 • 10 min • Australia

Each night Megan and Liam dream about each other but then wake up alone. Will they ever find each other in the real world?

Holes in Their Souls

2016 • 14 min

Fact is stranger than fiction in this true urban myth.

Gifted [Thanksgiving Post Mortem]

2016 • 5 min

Thanksgiving post mortem: a cynical take on the future of relationships in the virtual age.

Pasaia Bitartean

2016 • 51 min • Spain

Pasaia is the bay where the main commercial port of Gipuzkoa is placed. The urban and industrial fabric grew and was structured around the productive activity of that harbor, which, ever since the industrial crisis keeps declining. Pasaia Bitartean has its starting point in the architectural project with the same name that Jonander Agirre Mikelez made during the year 2013. The idea of articulating this project as a film came up as a consequence of the search of other methodologies to think the city and its common spaces.

Routine

2016 • 9 min • United States of America

Light years from home, floating aimlessly through space, Flight Engineer Matthew Spencer and his crew battle isolation and despair aboard a failing escape pod. While attempting to regain satellite contact with Earth, Spencer struggles to fight against not only his imminent demise, but the demons inside of him that are beginning to take hold of his sanity.

Kaikki hyvin, Pekka

2016 • 8 min • Finland

Pekka tries to accomplish absolute equality in one day.

If You're Happy

2016 • 30 min • Israel

While being Struggled with low self-confidence, inability and fear to express her feelings toward her first love - Geffen tries to fit in with her classmates.

Mingong

2016 • 52 min

What does it mean to leave? To leave friends, newborn children, the mountains where you grew up? Get on a bus, towards the big city. Living in a room with five others, identical to thousands of other rooms. What does it mean to return? To see a village of aging elders chasing a future that leaves no room. Replace your wooden house with an identical one made of concrete. We started from the end, from the outskirts of Guangzhou, and arrived at the beginning, in the village of Dimen, looking for those who leave their parents and their children there and leave for the city. An economic boom and all that follows in a small part of a gigantic country. Mingong tells a journey through time, from today’s China to the one that is disappearing.

Why It Is So Hard to Live in the Present?

2016 • 4 min • United Kingdom

The period of time we find hardest to inhabit is the present; for a range of powerful reasons we should take on board.

Il traguardo di Patrizia

2016 • 27 min • Italy

Patrizia is born in Sicily from Bengali parents she has an Italian name and feels Italian, despite her amber skin. She has many friends, goes to school and is an athletes promise . Runs fast and jumps obstacles like none, but just when the Federation selects her to participate at the European Championships, the girl discovers that legally she is not Italian and therefore could not compete.

Su

2016 • 12 min • Spain

Su goes back home after many years, to a past she has avoided for far too long.