All Films

Baba's Wedding

2016 • 16 min • Mexico

A delightful farce about a young European man's first encounter with his Mexican boyfriend's mother, whose affectionate hold over her son is at once warm, puzzling and problematic. Set in an elegant Mexican hacienda on the occasion of a wedding, the comedy hinges on personal misunderstandings as well as droll cultural differences.

Filipiniana

2016 • 13 min • Philippines

To reimage, rewrite, and reread my country’s bastard history, using dismembered icons and scenographies that both affirm and negate remembered mythology.

Baron Von Laugho's Halloween Spook-A-Thon!

2016 • 60 min

He's lovable. He's zany. He's insane-y. He's Baron Von Laugho, a Halloween loving clown here to bring you three terrifying short tales to celebrate the wonderful night of Samhain in this TV special from 1979. Once thought to be forever lost has been brought back due to an amazing find---a homemade VHS copy from when the special first aired.

Beautiful Injuries

2016 • 8 min • France

Rebecca is a young woman who suffers from morbid visions when she feels sad. When the one she loves enters a relationship with another woman, Rebecca's visions begin to influence reality for the worse and the better.

The Tiger & the Guru

2016 • 14 min

A tiger grows up in a cage and battles for survival once set free. An allegorical tale of Fear and Love.

Valley of a Thousand Hills

2016 • 12 min • South Africa, United Kingdom, United States of America

The halcyon days of skateboarding are alive in rural South Africa. Indigo Skate Camp is home to the village's very first generation of skaters, who are growing up with a different outlook on life from their elders.

Réplique

2016 • 18 min • France, Belgium

Tony is ready to audition for a drama education. Steven, who is going to help him with the rejoinder, doesn't show up.

Knife of the Party

2016 • 8 min • United States of America

Two hapless DJ's are hired for a one-man-dance-party. Things go from awkward to awkwardly terrifying as their host reveals some KILLER dance moves.

Lego Justice League vs The Avengers

2016 • 50 min • United States of America

When a new superhero team known as "The Avengers" begin to steal the Justice League's spotlight, it's time for the JLA to take them down before things get bad.

Misdirection: The Horror Comedy

2016 • 21 min • United States of America

Teenage deadbeat Michael and Scott have decided to pursue their childhood dream of becoming magicians. Bringing along Scott's outspoken girlfriend Amy and an old magic kit, they arrive at an abandoned old Cabin. Accidentally the group summons the spirit of an evil magician to life. The three must work together to stop the evil before it is too late.

Turtles Are Always Home

2016 • 12 min • Qatar, Lebanon

I left Lebanon in 2006. For the past 10 years I lived in 7 countries, 10 cities, and 21 homes. I slept in 21 beds, cooked in 21 kitchens, cleaned 21 bathrooms, stared at 21 windows, wrote on 21 desks, and locked 21 doors behind me. I packed all of my life into two suitcases and a backpack. The rest stayed behind. Somebody somewhere uses my bed, somebody somewhere has my shoes. I was there. But now I am here.

Fight on a Swedish Beach!!

2016 • 13 min • Sweden

A western Swedish beach during high summer. A variety of people come together to socialise and enjoy the heat. A family with children, a watercolour artist, a group of upper middle-aged friends and a bunch of middle school adolescents. The situation that arises will be called Fight on a Swedish Beach on Youtube.

Hotel Sunrise

2016 • 49 min • Slovakia

A documentary about the present and the past of Čierna nad Tisou, a border town in the south-east of Slovakia, once the "Golden Gate of Socialism".

Oscar

2016 • 12 min • Canada

Brilliantly mixing animated sequences and archival footage, Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre paints a touching portrait of virtuoso pianist Oscar Peterson.

Out of My Mind

2016 • 7 min • Japan

In my deep dream there comes the landscape in my shapeless eyes. The peaceful sight gradually distorts. When anxiety and upsurge stands behind us, the nightly liberation begins.

Burning Heart

2016 • 27 min • France

In Burning Heart, adolescence, the passage to adulthood, is depicted as a loss of innocence following a conflict, ordinary as it might be.

Three Sentences About Argentina

2016 • 5 min

Archival footage of Argentinian skiers is transposed into prompts for language exercises.

Once Upon a Line

2016 • 8 min • United States of America

A man leads a monotone, humdrum existence until he meets somebody.

The Man Who Wanted to Change the World

2016 • 58 min • Netherlands

Peter Westerveld, artist and visionary, doesn’t want institutions to resolve the problems linked to earth’s problems. Growing up in Africa, he witnessed the advance of the desert and dedicated himself to finding solutions for the ongoing erosion and desertification of the land. The film follows Peter and the NGO working with him to realise his project; to build contour trenches that capture and store rain water under the surface and replenish the desert land.

Sandra

2016 • 15 min

A group of quirky girls are confined in a pseudo-sorority group where violence and friendship are uncannily intertwined. Sandra and her best friend attempt to escape this twisted world on her birthday.

The Artist’s Awakening

2016 • 10 min

An uninspired artist goes in a quest to recover his inspiration.

Ocean

2016 • 11 min • United States of America, Russia

Hard to Believe

2016 • 56 min • Australia, Canada, China, Israel, United Kingdom, United States of America

A documentary that examines the issue of forced live organ harvesting from Chinese prisoners of conscience, and the response - or lack of it - around the world. It's happened before: governments killing their own citizens for their political or spiritual beliefs. But it’s never happened like this. It’s happened so often that the world doesn’t always pay attention.

Towards the Sun

2016 • 28 min • Taiwan

A man who lost his house in a foreclosure sale is forced to live in his truck. A Vietnamese woman with a flight ticket and few belongings gets on the man’s truck. Sitting on the moving truck with their painful memories, they follow the signs all the way to the North.