All Films

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?

Quantum Code

2016 • 60 min • Latvia

Vyacheslavs Kashcheyevs is a man who feels the world with each single one of his atoms and breaks the stereotype about physics as a dry and impersonal field of science. In parallel to splitting electrons in the laboratory, he seeks a connection to the Almighty, and is a dreamer, an exceptional scientist, family man and educator, socially active and civically minded. What allows him, unlike most of us, to be so harmonious and seemingly omniscient? Together with quantum physicist, theological authority and Latvian patriot Vyacheslav Kashcheyev, the film searches for the code to modern-day life.

Coffee and Cake

2016 • 7 min

Having lost her parents, Milou is in mourning. Little sympathy is shown by her long lost siblings, who seek to claim their inheritance.

Mad God: Part 2

2016 • 15 min • United States of America

Part 2 of Animation Legend Phil Tippett's apocalyptic stop-motion descent into the bowels of the unconscious

Moscow Mother Montreal

2016 • 27 min • Russia

The story of the young engineer Anton, constantly running around in search of work and the opportunity to prove himself. His life becomes like a carousel of monotonous fruitless attempts, but one day fate throws him an excellent proposal - a serious company, a big project, a life abroad. This proposal puts the hero in front of the choice between the future and the one most desired for him, the last, but the most expensive, that remains in his present life.

A Time to Kill, A Time to Die

2016 • 25 min • Brazil

In the countryside in Brazil, a group of boys hangs out around a gas station with its manager, Élcio. The men drink beer, do lots of macho stuff, play soccer. In the midst of this, there is an exchange of looks that demonstrates repressed desires, the need to sublimate oneself to be in tune with the rest of the world.

A Year in Space

2016 • 56 min • United States of America

Follow astronaut Scott Kelly's 12-month mission on the International Space Station, from launch to landing, as NASA charts the effects of long-duration spaceflight by comparing him to his identical twin on Earth, astronaut Mark Kelly.

Choose Me

2016 • 10 min • Spain

A young couple flees from the chaos and the monotony of the big city to spend a few days together in a country house. What appears to be an idyllic getaway ends when he honestly tells her how he feels.

Strangers in the Night

2016 • 12 min

El and Jali, a twenty-something couple from Sydney’s Inner West, arrive at a house party. As El wanders through the house, she experiences a myriad of gender performances, and finds kinship in another girl, Fleur. The night changes route completely when they are confronted by a violent figure.

Ambassadors of the Sky

2016 • 45 min • Canada

Canada is leading the way when it comes to dark sky preservation and the fight against light pollution. See how dark sky preserves in Wood Buffalo, Jasper and Elk Island National Parks educate the public about the importance of protecting the night sky for the health of humans and wildlife. Then visit star parties in British Columbia and Alberta where amateur astronomers and astrophotographers watch and celebrate the night sky.