All Films

Contretemps

2016 • 14 min

Laura is in mourning for 1 year. She dropped all her ambitions to become a musician. No one supports her except her best friend, Mathilde, who supports her anyway. One day, by chance, she meets Amelie. Their deep friendship will help Laura find hope.

Block

2016 • 20 min • Bulgaria

Lilly steals the keys of her new teacher and in an act of revenge trashes his home. She is surprised by his blind and ill-tempered mother and Lilly lies that she is in fact his fiancée. This makes the mother very happy and eventually, Lilly finds herself bound to visit her regularly.

Between the Sea and the Bark

2016 • 15 min • Canada

Gaspésie, early 1990s. Claire’s Parents, Jenny and Walter, are in obvious despair. Months after their breakup, her mom’s trying to pull away from her ex, but he refuses to let go. As Claire is spending the week end with him, Walter goes out to the village’s motel bar. When she sees that it’s getting late and that her father is still not home, Claire then decides to fallow a rabbit trail in search for him.

Drain The Ocean: WWII

2016 • 45 min • United Kingdom

What lies beneath the ocean? World War Two left a great number of ships and submarines hidden beneath the waves. Now, as the oceans drain, each vessel reveals its secrets through new data-based 3D reconstructions. From the Arizona in Pearl Harbour’s shallows, whose destruction brought America into the war, to Nazi super ship the Bismarck and its mysterious end three miles down. From the flaming merchant ships secretly torpedoed by U-boats off tourist beaches of the USA, to the covert inventions of the Allies' costly D-Day beachhead, and lastly to the troopship Leopoldville sunk with the needless deaths of 400 soldiers. Drain The Ocean exposes the truth.

Pinky

2016 • 10 min • United States of America

Pinky is the latest film from Refinery29’s award-winning Shatterbox Anthology, a short film series dedicated to spotlighting the voices of female filmmakers. Written and directed by Roja Gashtili and Julia Lerman, the coming of age short inspired by true events highlights the power dynamics at play between girls on the verge of womanhood, and the pivotal experiences that define them.

Dylan's Room

2016 • 20 min

A mother finds a way back to her lost son.

En La Boca

2016 • 25 min • Argentina, Switzerland

In Buenos Aires, the Molina family lives and works in the shadows of the legendary Boca Juniors stadium. Selling fake tickets to the soccer games, they constantly get in conflict with the corrupt police. As her family sinks deeper into this underworld, the mother tries in vain to keep them all from falling apart.

Sisu

2016 • 23 min • France

House of Prey

2016 • 3 min • United States of America

A woman who is stranded in the middle of nowhere and has no choice but to seek help from a old mansion that holds a dark secret.

Tetched

2016 • 20 min • United States of America

A young couple desperately tries to stay together. Until someone burns their recliner chair.

Pendrive

2016 • 11 min • Italy

B is an orphan girl who grew up with a boss of the underworld, P. His pen drive, containing files on his dirty deal, was stolen. It is her duty to retrieve it at any cost.

Snack And Drink

2016 • 4 min • United States of America

In this short film, filmmakers Bob Sabiston and Tommy Pallotta accompany Ryan, a six-foot-tall, 13-year-old autistic boy, to a local convenience store to purchase a "snack and drink".

Nonna

2016 • 10 min • Canada

A surprising visit at granny's...

Advent

2016 • 20 min • China, Spain

Suso, a young unemployed man, spies a young woman who throws herself off a cliff, before he could do anything about it. Suso will seek answers that awaken memories of the past and even make him rethink his true identity.

Últimos días del artista

2016 • 7 min • Argentina

A guitarist suffers from a strange case of absolute pitch. To escape from the world and its sounds, he secludes himself in his house, but this solution will not be definitive.

The Human Face of Big Data

2016 • 56 min

With the rapid emergence of digital devices, an unstoppable, invisible force is changing human lives in ways from the microscopic to the gargantuan: Big Data, a word that was barely used a few years ago but now governs the day for many of us from the moment we awaken to the extinguishing of the final late-evening light bulb. This massive gathering and analyzing of data in real time is allowing us to not only address some of humanity biggest challenges but is also helping create a new kind of planetary nervous system. Yet as Edward Snowden and the release of the Prism documents have shown, the accessibility of all these data comes at a steep price. The Human Face of Big Data captures the promise and peril of this extraordinary knowledge revolution.

Anne Darling

2016 • 16 min • Canada

Tonight, a lonely writer, a mother and a dreamer will try to escape sadness by partying, romancing and having sex with strangers.

The Day Before the End

2016 • 17 min • Philippines

In the year 2050, the Philippines braces for the coming of the fiercest storm ever to hit the country. And as the wind and waters start to rage, poets are being murdered.

Helga Is in Lund

2016 • 20 min

A woman, her doctor, a piano student, a man, his wife and a cat. What connects these people? What separates them? Who is Helga? Where is Lund?

Spid

2016 • 17 min • Romania

Two quarreling youngsters get into one cab at night without knowing that the driver is madly desperate to re-conquer his ex-girlfriend and willing to do anything to have her back; including a car crash.

De La Soul Is Not Dead: The Documentary

2016 • 30 min

De La Soul Is Not Dead is an ode to the act’s iconic 1991 studio album De La Soul Is Dead. The film documents the Long Island group’s rise to prominence and subsequent rise through the ranks of rap. Centered on De La Soul’s first four projects, De La Soul Is Not Dead is a study of the critically-acclaimed group’s most productive, significant period of creation.

Marcianos de marte

2016 • 15 min • Spain

David is a boy who sends signals into space and has contact with an extraterrestrial. Twenty years later, his rocket is finally ready to see him again.

The Cop Cam

2016 • 3 min • United States of America

A police officer enters an abandoned house. His body cam records everything.

If You Can't See My Mirrors, I Can't See You

2016 • 12 min • United States of America

"...flattened images are dictated by actions happening outside of the frame. Choreography of bouncy balls and water fountains are involved." (Rick Bahto)