All Films

Road to Home

2016 • 10 min • Russia

Action of the movie "Road to home" happens in the small village of Abkhazia, in which the local administration has decided to pave an asphalt road. On the way of construction there is a natural barrier - a free which, according to stories of old residents, has been here since the foundation of the village. Under a dense shadow of the tree, the inhabitants found salvation from the hot Abhazian sun, on the branches clawing more than one generation of boys and girls. It keeps the memory about love, about war and peace, about life and death. According to the legend, if to cut down this tree, the sun will become so bright that will burn everything - people, country, history.

A Luchagore Easter

2016 • 2 min • Canada, Mexico

There’s a Sunday in Spring full of wonder and magic, But we tell a story that can seem quite tragic. The children all search for the Easter Bunny’s eggs, But they would be sickened, if they knew how they were made." Luchagore and CryptTV have teamed up to bring you an Easter special!

Mikhail Tal. From a Far

2016 • 60 min • Latvia

Mikhail Tal. From a Far is a documentary exploring the unpredictable and tragic life of the genius world chess champion Mikhail Tal, Riga's native son. Mikhail Tal becomes the youngest world chess champion at 23. The same year, he was diagnosed with incurable kidney disease and given only one year to live. Through sheer will and reckless abandon he managed to live another 40 years, filling them with a string of remarkable chess successes, unexplainable failures, amorous conquests and a life-threatening game of cat and mouse with the KGB.

Judgement Tavern

2016 • 11 min • New Zealand

Judgment Tavern tells the story of Lucia, a young girl carrying her father's living head as they search for his fleeing body. On a cold dark night, they take shelter in a small village tavern - where a mysterious stranger with unfinished business is waiting.

The Last Portrait

2016 • 15 min • Brazil

Pedro is gone and Amanda must deal with his absence.

Ice Dogs: The Only Companions Worth Having

2016 • 49 min • South Africa

The Arctic is accessible to man only because of ice dogs. As hunters, haulers, and guardians, they have been our vital link to nature for thousands of years. Dogs led the Sarqaq people out of Siberia and, a millennium later, led explorers to the North Pole. As the light returns to Greenland, we arrive in Scoresbysund with a troop of the only companions worth having in this harsh environment.

Converts

2016 • 35 min • Latvia

Maija is a young and ambitious journalist who wants to do something that no other journalist has dared. In order to conduct a groundbreaking research on Daesh, she pretends to be an Islamic convert and tries to join them.

A Stone Appears

2016 • 15 min

A man and a woman live in an infinite routine loop, until a Stone appears.

Cosmic Bowling

2016 • 17 min • United States of America

After their plans are unexpectedly canceled, three teenage girls spend one Friday night trolling their local suburbs, desperately searching for the cute new boy from school.

Late Bloomer

2016 • 17 min

Late Bloomer is the pastoral romance of an eternal recurrence. Director's talent to plea for love without any dialogue would touch the hearts of audiences. The old man's day out which at first seemed like the ordinary visit of his family's graves turns out to be the poem about the everlasting love. Actor Yoo Soon-cheol wrote this poem with his old and stoop-shouldered body.

The Confession

2016 • 25 min • Taiwan

Two best friends discover a deeper meaning of life as they grow closer.

Woman with an Editing Bench

2016 • 15 min • Australia

Inspired by the woman who edited "Man with a Movie Camera" (1929), "Woman with an Editing Bench" reveals the personal impact of Stalin’s censorship of cinema on a woman navigating politics, bureaucracy and the impetuous outbursts of collaborators to create something beautiful despite the odds.

House Girl

2016 • 16 min • Ghana

Jennifer is a British-Ghanaian girl who visits Ghana for the first time and experiences her Aunty Barbara treating the domestic worker Efua very harshly.

That Road

2016 • 16 min • Brazil

Omar gives up going to a job interview in Manaus and decides to embark on a road trip with strangers. On a day when all sounds tedious and pragmatic, it seems to be the road the only way to Omar to seek courage and answers to one life in the city that does not satisfy him anymore.

Totems

2016 • 8 min • Belgium, France

An excellent example of how sometimes dialogue is not necessary, Totems is a visual display of our inner animal disposition. A lumberjack is working in a forest when a tree falls down and his leg gets stuck. As he is trapped in a beautiful but cruel environment, the despair awakens his primal instincts.

Once Upon a Ladder

2016 • 47 min

Incredibly enough, one day before the start of his pension and just hours before his 65th birthday, window cleaner Alfred suddenly finds himself stricken by vertigo. A 64-year and 364-day journey through glass and lather reveals why he is afraid to either go up or go down the ladder. And whilst he finds himself to be an accidental Cupid by hitting anyone but himself with his arrows, it’s not until that particular day, 44 years after meeting Dirkje for the first time, that he realizes he has to point the arrow at himself.

The Baby Shower

2016 • 16 min • United Kingdom, France

May and Christian are having a baby shower, whether they want to or not.

First Night

2016 • 17 min • Germany, Romania

Alex's birthday is approaching, and his father Calin has prepared a very special surprise: the first night with a girl. The cast includes young actors Alfredo Minea and Cristiana Luca, along with reknown actors Mimi Brănescu and Elvira Deatcu.

Lost Soul

2016 • 11 min • Australia

A story about a poor soul that couldn't get a real film made and so settled for a measly 1 minute short. She sucked up to her well-heeled mates to supply champagne locations on a light beer budget. Then expected glamorous young things to act as "extras", when we all know the family deserve a whole television series devoted to their fabulousness. Real Housewives of Toorak would break the internet.

Wild: la película

2016 • 12 min • Andorra, Spain

#Rucker50

2016 • 56 min

The celebratory explosion of basketball history makers, legend shakers and lawbreakers; juxtaposed against important events in Civil & Human Rights. The 50 years of The Rucker's ripples reverberate throughout Basketball, Hip-Hop, Harlem, and life.

Christmas Goat

2016 • 40 min

A Christmas story. The goat is the solution to the problems of a family in Recife, Brazil.

An Evening

2016 • 10 min • Denmark

Having slept together for the first time, two teenage boys must make sense of their evolving relationship.

Dudes

2016 • 11 min • United States of America

When a jock comes out as gay to his closest friends, each of the bros has a different reaction to the big news. Will their friendship win over discrimination?