All Films

Operation Avalanche

2016 • 5 min

Achieving viral success after being snuck into the Sundance Film Festival, this short film features the powerful story of a young high school boy seeking revenge against the teacher that sexually assaulted him. Inspired by a series of real rapes.

Valencia - Chapter I

2016 • 40 min • Mexico, Spain

One December night, Alice works as a babysitter while the baby's parents go out for the night. As time passes and the night deepens, she begins to receive chilling threats from a man who seems to be watching her from every blind spot in the darkness.

Gilles

2016 • 6 min • France, Netherlands

On a Saturday night in the "City of Love", two sworn enemies are united in their hatred for someone they despise even more than each other: a gay man.

Forest of Echoes

2016 • 30 min • Austria

A teenager, Christina, loses her friends in the forest. Looking for them she finds the bodies of three drowned kids on the shore of a lagoon. On summer holiday, deep in the woods, three kids, cousins, are playing around a lake when they find a drowned young woman drifting in the water. Games, lies and rituals unfolding into a circular time in which death loses its ultimacy. What is real and what is a mirage? Who is dreaming and who is being dreamed?

A Fish Out of Water

2016 • 11 min • Australia

Thanks to his 'friend' Ollie, Zac learns how to fish.

Dinosaurs in the Outback

2016 • 43 min

Dinosaurs in the Outback features the often dramatic evidence which proves that Australia was once a place where dinosaurs roamed in vast numbers.

Is Sumiyati Going to Hell?

2016 • 23 min • Saudi Arabia

A seven-year-old child narrates the struggles of her nanny, Sumyati, who must navigate prejudice and cruel treatment from the family she works for.

Marine Life Interviews

2016 • 2 min • United States of America

Interviews with the animals at the Marine Life Institute about their experiences with Dory.

Leonarda

2016 • 11 min • Italy, United States of America

Based on the True Story of the Female Italian serial killer Leonarda Cianciulli, known as the "Soap-Maker of Correggio". Leonarda killed three women and by boiling their bodies with caustic soda she made soap and cookie.

Stanisław Lem: Autor Solaris

2016 • 53 min • France, Germany, Poland

An account of the life and work of the Polish writer Stanisław Lem (1921-2006), a key figure in science fiction literature involved in mysteries and paradoxes that need to be enlightened.

Singsot

2016 • 14 min • Indonesia

After hearing a mythical story from his grandmother, a boy experiences terrifying events at his grandparents’ house, uncovering a hidden truth that makes him vow never to whistle again.

I Close My Eyes

2016 • 25 min • Russia

“Close your eyes. What can you hear? What are you thinking? What do you feel at this exact moment? Where are you? With whom, and why?” This fantastically shot portrait provides insight into the inner life of a young woman due to undergo an operation in unconventional imagery that is both dreamlike and yet true to life.

Ka-Ching! Pokie Nation

2016 • 52 min • Australia

In this ground-breaking expose, industry insiders go on the record to explain how carefully Pokies are programmed for addiction. They’re joined by world-leading neuroscientists, taking you into the lab to reveal how these machines work on the deepest levels of our brains, leading some researchers to call them “electronic morphine”. And, we reveal how successive Australian governments have become the biggest addicts of all. This documentary puts the pokie machine on trial.

The Spectator

2016 • 19 min • Greece

Thanos has detached himself from every feeling and watches his life as if it was a film.

Rising from Silence

2016 • 28 min • Indonesia

Silenced for more than 50 years, a group of elderly women in Indonesia decided to share the country’s forgotten history to the young generation through singing. The women formed a choir group that sings songs written inside prisons by those who were arrested and sentenced for years without any single trial. The singing and sharing has helped them heal their trauma as well as connecting them with an eager young audience.

Long Live the Emperor

2016 • 26 min • France

Napoleon's troops are gathering close to Waterloo. Time is running out for Bébé, a soldier who is seeking a battalion to join the Great Army. Tomorrow, the troops will launch their attack on the English. Along with his wife Ludo, in the parking lot where they have pitched their tent, they live through the last remaining hours before the fall of the Empire.

America's Hate Preachers

2016 • 40 min • United Kingdom

Director Hannah Livingston spends 6 months tracking two of America's most radical Christian hate groups - a notorious pastor from Arizona and a network of extremist preachers.

Seven Months Later

2016 • 25 min • Romania

One perfect house. One perfect marriage. One perfect Sunday morning.

Girl in Red

2016 • 16 min

A mystery writer struggling with writer's block, a garbage collector who knows too much and an enigmatic 'Girl in Red'. How do their paths cross?

Diane from the Moon

2016 • 11 min • France, United States of America

Shortly after a hurtful breakup, Diane, a transgender pagan priestess, finds refuge in Palm Springs. She is engaged in a battle with her inner demons when an enigmatic sociopath, starts to stalk her.

Beauty Mark

2016 • 12 min • United States of America

A door-to door cosmetics saleswoman in 1986 finds a new customer.

Ad Inferos

2016 • 16 min

Jeremy Swift is a businessman with a deadly secret: he drowns the women who remind him of his mom - his first victim. But his unconventional life has severe consequences, as he unraveled psychologically in the aftermath of his latest kill.

Rachel Feinstein: Only Whores Wear Purple

2016 • 58 min • United States of America

In Rachel Feinstein's first hour-long special, she brings her blunt humor to a variety of topics, including her love of Christian sleepovers and the purposelessness of dick pics. Feinstein embodies a variety of memorable characters like her terrifyingly mature middle school friend, her judgmental grandmother, and porn star Jenna Jameson.

Sizzlin’ Bacon

2016 • 17 min • Belgium

Jurgen Vanderspek (a.k.a. James Vanderbacon) is a senior in high school. He is a loudmouthed macho who loves to tell juicy anecdotes about his sexual escapades, but actually, he is still a virgin. When, one drunken evening, Cissy ends up in his bed, Jurgen gets much more than he bargained for.