All Films

Roberto Saviano: Writing Under Police Protection

2016 • 45 min • Italy

An upbeat and humorous account of the hard life under police protection led by Italian writer Roberto Saviano since the publication in 2006 of Gomorrah, his controversial book about the Camorra, the ruthless organization that has dominated the criminal underground in Naples for centuries.

W.S. Merwin: To Plant a Tree

2016 • 52 min • United States of America

A documentary on the life and work of Poet Laureate, two-time Pulitzer winner, and environmental activist W.S. Merwin.

Super Oldboy

2016 • 13 min • Brazil

Bil is an elderly man who works as an office boy for a firm in São Paulo, as he does not pay for a bus ticket and takes a preferential line at the bank. One day he gets involved in an unusual bank robbery.

now and then

2016 • 15 min • Japan

Currentzis – The Classical Rebel

2016 • 52 min • Germany

For many, the Russian city of Perm might seem like the end of the world, isolated in the foothills of the Ural mountains. But it is in this rapidly developing industrial city – which is establishing itself as one of Russia’s modern cultural centers – that the Greek conductor Teodor Currentzis has been quietly revolutionizing classical music with his ensemble musicAeterna. The film follows the recording sessions of Mozart’s Don Giovanni, documenting the artists’ habits and painting a portrait of this exuberant conductor.

The Canary Islands

2016 • 50 min • Austria

There are few places on earth that have such a diverse variety of terrain and range of climates concentrated in a relatively small area - temperate coastline, scorching arid deserts and tundra, tropical rainforests and frozen snowcapped mountains. And there are few places that are as heavily exploited by humans, yet remain a wilderness.

Uncle Gareth

2016 • 14 min

After his mother's death, Gareth is caught between his fear of being alone and his fear of dealing with the world outside. The natural solution, hanging out with preserved bodies from his family's funeral home, works perfectly--until he suddenly has to take care of his niece while hiding the bodies from a neighborhood watchman.

Secret Goldfish

2016 • 2 min • Taiwan

Shot on 16mm, as part of the commercial shorts collection for the 53th Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival.

WhiteWoods

2016 • 10 min • Canada

It was a simple pitstop in the woods, but a young woman finds herself with a terrible feeling.

Nước (Water/Homeland)

2016 • 6 min

About the relationship between a queer Vietnamese-American teen and their Vietnamese refugee mother.

The Red Room

2016 • 20 min • Macedonia

A story about Nikola, a retired math teacher, who leads a quiet and private life, until he begins to feel a need to escape the loneliness that slowly is killing him, day by day. He decides it’s time for change and becomes the star of a very popular TV-show called “Love for all”. The concept of the show is to help old, lonely people to find life partners.

One Hell of a Plan

2016 • 6 min • Belgium, France

Two burglars release dozens of cats into a neighbourhood and start the dogs barking. They use the din to their advantage and dig up a bag of loot. However, the situation snowballs and turns into the worst night the burglars ever spent.

Digs for Pennies

2016 • 16 min • Ireland

It's post famine and bare-knuckle boxer Dan Power is trying to earn enough money to escape to an easier life in America, but he's starting to suspect that his manager Matty Gandon is ripping him off.

The Museum Project

2016 • 45 min • Australia

A group of students decide to base their media assignment on a local railway museum myth. However, when they trespass the premises after hours, they soon learn that some myths are more than stories.

Turbulence

2016 • 12 min • Canada

As the plane slowly makes its descent, a young couple is faced with their differences through sudden pockets of turbulence.

The Thing About Us

2016 • 12 min • United States of America

How do you remain friends with someone you used to love? Maybe a desert road trip together is not the best place to start.

Face Swap: The Movie

2016 • 1 min • United States of America

You'll never want to face swap again.

Stop. Steady. Sayaw.

2016 • 4 min • Philippines

An unlikely friendship forms between two people who get stuck in traffic.

Gemini

2016 • 30 min

An emotionally torn bank manager is fretting over his extra marital relations with a colleague when he is pulled into the center of a violent and twisted heist.

Maman

2016 • 13 min • France

A walk through the park between a mum and her grown up daughter. A brief exchange that highlights their complex relationship and everything that unites them but also pulls them apart.

Here Lies Joe

2016 • 23 min • United States of America

The story of two lost souls who find one another in the most unlikely place. This chance meeting holds the opportunity to see life from a different perspective and the promise of change.

Dagor Dagorath

2016 • 10 min

The Dagor Dagorath or the Final Battle is the end-times event described in the works of J. R. R. Tolkien, in which the forces of evil will wage a final battle against the forces of good, bringing an end to the world as we know it, so that a new one may be born. This short animated film was based on the prophecy made by the Ainu Mandos, one of the Valar, and imagines how the Dark Lord Melkor will return and how he will bring the ultimate darkness to Eä.

Constructor

2016 • 20 min

This film deals with Victors's relationship with Eve. Relationship based on manipulation and attempts to interfere in a woman's personality. Eve is unable to feel emotions. The questions is, will she understand true feelings, and will Victor be happy with her?

Psychogenic Fugue

2016 • 20 min • United States of America

Captures John Malkovich impersonating seven of David Lynch’s most popular characters, from Frank Booth of Blue Velvet to Special Agent Dale Cooper of Twin Peaks to even the Lady in the Radiator of Eraserhead.