All Films

Twinsburg

2016 • 16 min

In a Midwestern town founded by identical brothers, thousands convene for the world's largest gathering of twins. Jerry, sentimental about his fading twin identity, reunites with his reluctant brother Paul for a weekend of revelry and re-connection. At turns playful and painful, their childhood tradition strains to find a place in their newly changing lives.

Dreaming of Baltimore

2016 • 25 min • France

Freedom means only one thing: riding your dirt bike in the street, front wheel aimed at the sky.

Nazi-Karrieren in der DDR?

2016 • 45 min • Germany

It was a foundational myth of the GDR that it was anti-fascist and free of Nazis. But was that really the case? The film takes a critical look on the actual way the brown heritage was dealt with in the GDR.

Sweeper's Pride

2016 • 8 min • Germany

Night after night Bodo sweeps the empty city streets. Dirty work that no one notices. Attracted by electronic basses and gleaming lights he comes across a vernissage. A strange world in which he makes a familiar discovery and decides not to be invisible anymore.

Fantasy

2016 • 9 min • Finland

In 1989 a country boy doesn't want to eat potatoes at home. He wants to introduce something more exotic to his parents. One day he takes his savings and his moped to a pizzeria in town.

Brother for a Day

2016 • 11 min • Macedonia

Brother for a Day is a film about our city, our streets and our neighborhoods—a story that could happen anywhere. It tells the story of a thoroughly modern family of three members. In their struggle for money, the parents fail to devote much time or attention to their five-year-old daughter, Anja. They do not have the time or patience to explain things to her and they give her what she wants just to ‘buy some peace’. “Brother for a Day” at first glance appears to be a story of different nationalities; in fact, it refers to the divide between the child’s world and the world of adults.

A Funny Thing Happened on New Years

2016 • 7 min • United States of America

Things get a little funny with Jake.

Old Wounds

2016 • 14 min

Tragicomedy about sixty year old housewife Joanna who shows her true colors for the first time in her life when she is confronted by her daughter Isabel with her shortcomings as a person and a mother.

Vergot

2016 • 60 min

Two brothers, an exuberant father and an invisible mother. A family of farmers from an Alpine valley where life is rude, as well as manners. The younger son, Gim, is discovering his homosexuality, but the world around him, especially his father, just can't accept that. So the elder son Alex is stuck in the middle, on one hand encouraging Gim to overcome all his fears, on the other trying to continue the tradition of the fathers. In such an exasperated context is hard to recognize the love hidden behind. Will they be able to keep on living together?

Daughter

2016 • 28 min • Australia

Daughter explores the way women are viewed in society by following three female characters on a Friday night out in St Kilda, who's lives become entwined and affected by an act of violence this fateful night. The award winning short film and an awareness project was inspired by the tragic murder cases of Jill Meagher in Brunswick and St Kilda's own Tracy Connelly, whose occupation as a sex worker was highlighted in the media, leading to her murder and personal story being sadly overshadowed. The main themes explored in the film are violence against women and victim blaming, shown through the eyes of three female leads, lead by Katherine Langford (13 Reasons Why) as Scarlett, Aisha Tara (Heartbreak High) as Jemma and Carolyn Rey as Alethea.

Cruel Intentions

2016 • 45 min

Fifteen years after the death of her brother, villainous Kathryn Merteuil seeks to manipulate her nephew, Bash, and gain control of the family business Valmont International. (A sequel to the 1999 movie, this was the pilot for a NBC series that did not get produced.)

Growth

2016 • 10 min • Netherlands

The rise and downfall of a family over the course of 20 years, in one living room, in a single shot.

Mr. Neighbor's House

2016 • 21 min • United States of America

Mr. Neighbor leads viewers through his whimsical world of puppets, songs, educational discoveries, and deep-seated emotional issues as he prepares for his 31st Annual 5th Birthday party. The innocence of children's television programming blurs with one man's troubled psyche in this comedic half hour take on a live action kid's show, that is too disturbing for kids.

Cronos

2016 • 10 min • United States of America, Taiwan

In vacation with his girlfriend and his son, a father has to face an uncontrolled jealousy for the young boy.

The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About Camping!

2016 • 60 min • Canada, United States of America

It's the first day of Summer Vacation and The Cat in the Hat whisks Nick, Sally and Fish off on the greatest great outdoor camping adventure ever!

Zoom Zoom

2016 • 7 min

Nay Boam and Mr Sammy boy make the dumbest and the worst skit ever.

Kaputt

2016 • 7 min • Germany

An animated documentary short about the central prison for women in the former GDR, based on interviews with former prisoners.

Once Upon a Sesame Street Christmas

2016 • 51 min • United States of America

This holiday special goes back in time to show how Elmo's ancestors--not to mention those of Grover, Big Bird, Bert, Ernie, Oscar the Grouch and Cookie Monster--helped transform "the most unfriendly street in town" into the bright, kind, music-filled place it is today.

Obesity: The Post Mortem

2016 • 55 min • United Kingdom

Documentary revealing just how dangerous too much fat is to our most vital internal organs. The programme follows a specialist pathology team as they conduct a post-mortem on the body of a 17-stone woman whose body was donated to medical science. Their findings, as they dissect the body and its organs, are startling, exposing the devastating impact of obesity with stunning visuals and fascinating medical facts. Morbid obesity reduces life expectancy by an average of nine years and is blamed for over 30,000 deaths in the UK every year. With 65 per cent of people already overweight or obese, this extraordinary film is a powerful contribution to the debate about fat, food, lifestyle and how the health service will cope with the growing obesity crisis.

Wild Window: Bejeweled Fishes

2016 • 55 min • United States of America

Bejeweled Fishes captures the spectacular beauty of the myriad fishes inhabiting coral reefs of the Tropical and Eastern Pacific. This Wild Window was captured in the Maldives Islands, Fiji, the Philippines, Mexico, California, and Indonesia.

Darkwave: Edge of the Storm

2016 • 24 min

69sec

2016 • 2 min • Belgium

This is a story of love seen from a square, in which a couple gets united, separated and rearranged again. A special kind of puzzle.

The Raiven Destiny

2016 • 12 min • United States of America

Planet Kathigana and it’s inhabitants, the Kathigas, have been ravaged by war at the hands of the evil Anadaîn. The Anadaîn are treacherous beings with overwhelming powers hell-bent on eradicating everything in their path. Kedjorian, a revered Kathiga hero has been assigned to protect a sacred emissary, a messenger who possesses the map to the Raiven, the legendary weapon that could end the war. Kedjorian’s ship is shot down and forces him to crash land in the outskirts of Kathigana, a region overrun with Anadaîn forces. Despite being gravely injured, Kedjorian must fight with everything he’s got to protect the emissary and the map from a very powerful Andaîn grunt. Kedjorian confronts the troubling notion that he must give everything, including his own life, to protect a weapon that may or may not exist…

Santaland

2016 • 16 min • United States of America

High schoolers Riley and Tyler park in the woods for a secret hookup only to discover they are being hunted by a killer who resides in Santaland, the amusement park down the road.