All Films

Crab Bucket

2016 • 9 min • Philippines

Compounded with poverty in a rural area, couple Bebeng and Dandoy are motivated to raise funds to support their nine-year old daughter, Inday, chosen to represent her school for a quiz bee in the city. Danday harvests their cultured crabs earlier than its due just to raise the needed amount.

Wreck Or Get Rekt

2016 • 43 min

Strudel Sisters

2016 • 7 min • Australia, Hungary

Two elderly sisters share the delicate art of making traditional Hungarian strudel and reveal a deeply personal family story about their mother, who taught them everything they know.

Bird of Prey

2016 • 21 min • United States of America

A married woman in her forties navigates a fine line between love and infatuation with her friend's daughter.

Nero

2016 • 17 min • Spain

Alma, a Spanish journalist, is taken to the secret place of a Latin American dictator who has suffered a terrorist attack against his family.

Beyond

2016 • 10 min • United States of America

When a rock fall traps his parents inside a burning car, a 7 year-old boy must find the hero within him in order to save their lives.

Samantha

2016 • 13 min • Brazil

A science fiction fanatic finds something in her yard that will "change" her life forever.

The Curse of the Three Terrors

2016 • 10 min

The first new animation in the classic Masters of the Universe style since 1985, The Curse of the Three Terrors picks up where the classic series left off inviting viewers to an all new Masters of the Universe Adventure. In this animation, Skeletor’s quest to destroy He-Man takes him to the Canyon of Spiders in the Dark Hemisphere, where he will encounter an unlikely enemy. Will Skeletor’s accidental discovery lead to the downfall of Eternia? Only you will be able to find out in this brand new animated show!

Last Act

2016 • 4 min • France

In a theater, a man tries everything to save this magical place from being destroyed and replaced with a shopping mall.

Fragments

2016 • 18 min • Portugal

This is a film about how war settles in the bodies of the people who are forced to experience it directly. And then, thousands of miles away and dozens of years ahead, how, like a virus, it can still infect other human beings.

Martine I-IX

2016 • 45 min • United States of America

Martine Part I-IX (2012–2016), a nine-part video work by the Brooklyn-based performance artist Martine Gutierrez. Using costume, photography and film, Gutierrez produces elaborate narratives scenes that employ pop culture tropes in order to reveal identity—particularly gender identity—as a social construct. In addition to directing, editing, and performing in her video work, often playing multiple roles, Gutierrez scores each film with original music.

We Are Human, After All

2016 • 17 min • Czech Republic

During a very harsh winter, a hare has to deal with the bitter cold, hunger and the threats posed by hunters and other animals. One day he sees the easy, comfortable and safe lives that rabbits lead. He decides to go and stay with them in the hutch.

The Log

2016 • 6 min • Finland

The female director wants full frontal nudity from her male lead, but the actor has a big problem with it.

Broken Heart is not Like a Broken Vase or a Vase

2016 • 11 min • Spain

How will a top cardiologist mend her broken heart in the wake of a failed relationship? She is clear about her symptoms: first, pain in the sternum and then an obsession that hijacks her brain as she goes over and over her most recent dates. Once she has made the diagnosis, will she believe in her speedy recovery? Perhaps the energy efficiency manager who works in her hospital will be able to revive her broken heart.

Castro's Secret Reef

2016 • 50 min • Cuba

Cuba's enforced isolation has resulted in the unlikeliest of marine reserves: a huge, rambling archipelago known as Jardines de la Reina, or "Gardens of the Queen." Stretching around 140 miles along the southern coast of Cuba, it's one of the longest barrier reef systems in the world. Get an up-close look at Fidel Castro's diving playground, a forgotten ocean paradise unseen for half a century, and witness exotic species rarely seen elsewhere in the region. It's the lost jewel of the Caribbean, but how long can this pristine wilderness survive?

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.