All Films

The 12 Labours of Gryff

2016 • 12 min • United Kingdom

Teenager Gryff summons the strength of his childhood hero, Hercules, as he battles through the daily chores and cares for his terminally ill mother.

Accomplices

2016 • 32 min • Belgium

Philippe works as a Judge at the criminal court. He has a complicated relationship with his son Hugues. One night Hugues commits a deadly hit and run while driving home drunk. To protect his only son, Philippe chooses to cover up the evidences.

The Picture from Darkness

2016 • 30 min • Japan

Takashi Makino's collaboration with Derek Jarman regular Simon Fisher Turner. Taking its starting point as Jarman's blindness after the completion of BLUE.

The Option

2016 • 9 min • United States of America

A film about a young couple who are informed of a life-threatening complication to their pregnancy and must decide what’s right for them and their future.

The Vampire Within

2016 • 31 min

Alice is a troubled young woman living in a halfway house. She claims to be haunted by a 'vampire' named Sarah who forces her to lure victims into the home in order for her to feed. No one believes Alice's twisted story until one social worker decides to play along...and finds out that Alice's imaginary friend is all too real.

Coyote and the Wasichu

2016 • 8 min • Hungary

The wasichu scammed all the Indians on the Great Plains. But one day he met Coyote, the master of swindle.

Please Love Me Forever

2016 • 27 min • France

In a surreal world, Lili, a 14-year-old albino, lives alone with her mother CLAUDIE (50) who over-protects her from the outside world. Obsessed with her own appearance; Claudie regularly replaces aging parts of her face, alone in her operating lab while Lili dreams of Lyesse, her 16 year-old handsome neighbor. Scared by so much love, Lyesse rejects Lili. Devastated, she decides to take his heart out to understand why he doesn't love her...

The Happiness of Larry

2016 • 20 min

When another child goes missing in the Harrogate area, suspicion from the locals falls on a some what different man called 'Larry' but can you always judge a book by its cover.

Men of Sparta

2016 • 56 min

Exploration of the 1965-66 MSU football national championship teams and how they helped integrate college football.

Wanda Sykes: What Happened… Ms. Sykes?

2016 • 59 min • United States of America

Filmed at the Ace Theatre in downtown Los Angeles, Emmy award winning comedian Wanda Sykes ponders her life, the world, and what went wrong.

Nowadays you have to invent your own work

2016 • 15 min • Italy

GIOVANNI is a man who is completely devoted to his job. Following his past as an artist, trying not to sink financially, he decides to take over the family tradition and become a carpenter even though he is aware that that's not the road he wants to walk. UMBERTO is an unscrupulous business man who, for his own financial wellbeing, extorts money from desperate people. While Giovanni is creating a work commissioned by two unusual brothers, Umberto meets ADELE in a hotel room to obtain his 'compensation'. Their lives that run parallel will never meet, but they will always be united by being the two sides of the same medal.

Hair and Brimstone

2016 • 18 min

The dark and twisted adventures of Hades, Aubrey and Robin in their hair salon, Hair and Brimstone.

De-mente

2016 • 12 min • Spain

Klaus has something crucial to tell his old friend Genio: he's had premonitory visions since childhood, and that same night, has seen him being savagely murdered. But the alleged victim seems skeptic.

The Alfred Alfer Movie

2016 • 32 min

Emily Youcis' self-declared "magnum opus", a grotesque, vulgar, experimental animation depicting the mentally disturbed dog Alfred Alfer, who is left to find emotional intimacy in maggot-filled corpses and far-right political forums after being abandoned by his special friend.

Bloodlust: Tournament of Death

2016 • 42 min • United States of America

Damian Abraham goes to Delaware to get an inside look at one of the most violent forms of professional wrestling in the world. Deathmatch is an ultra-violent style of wrestling that includes makeshift weapons, light bulb tubes, and barbed wire to ensure a maximum amount of bloodletting.

Here Boy

2016 • 14 min • United Kingdom

In Claudia, Simon has met the perfect girl, but it becomes apparent that the relationship can only continue if he lets her treat him like a dog. Simon tries to solve the problem, but it backfires in a way he never could have imagined.

Five Boys and a Wheel

2016 • 19 min • Jordan, Palestinian Territory

A young father has to help his son out of a petty conflict with the neighbors. As the parents of each respective family are summoned to discuss the issue at hand, the discussions begin to quickly spin out of control, putting the values of the father to test. Set in Aqaba, Jordan, this short film is an Arabic-language adaptation of Raymond Carver's 'Bicycles, Muscles, Cigarettes.'

Bird Songs from Amazonia

2016 • 25 min • United Kingdom, Venezuela

A biologist from London goes to Amazonia to study the local flora. There she meets three other scientists from different nationalities and backgrounds. They advise her not to go near the Autana, a mountain regarded sacred by the local tribes, without a guide. She will do exactly the contrary.

South Korea: Success at all Costs

2016 • 58 min • South Korea

With their long working hours, cultural obsession with productivity, and high-stakes schooling system, South Koreans live life in the fast lane. Everyone has the same aim: to be successful and to beat the competition. Thanks in part to this hard...

Napoleon in Exile

2016 • 16 min • United States of America

'Napoleon In Exile' is the story of a mother attempting to help her autistic son transition into the real world.

The Last Walk: Northwest Territories

2016 • 15 min • Canada

The film follows two sisters for whom past events have torn their close relationship apart. Many years after being separated through tragic events, they journey to find answers as a mysterious being influences their path.

Timecode

2016 • 15 min • Spain

Timecode is a 2016 Spanish live-action short film directed by Juanjo Giménez. Luna and Diego are the parking lot security guards. Diego does the night shift, and Luna works by day. One day, Luna's boss asks her to investigate a broken tail light. It won the Short Film Palme d'Or award at 69th annual Cannes Film Festival in 2016. It is also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film at the 89th Academy Awards in 2017.

Incoming Call

2016 • 11 min

Nervous Kerri is delighted when she starts being Skyped by her future self with life advice, but a little knowledge is a dangerous thing...

The David Ortiz Era

2016 • 50 min • United States of America

A narrative, documentary-style feature film that tells the story of how Ortiz went from signing with Boston as an unheralded free agent to winning three World Series titles with the Red Sox. Ortiz and many of his teammates, including Pedro Martinez, Kevin Millar, Jason Varitek and Tim Wakefield, discuss this incredible era of Sox history in which the mindset of Red Sox Nation was transformed.