All Films

Gridlock

2016 • 20 min

Gridlock is a thriller set during a traffic jam on a country road. When a little girl goes missing from one of the cars, her father forms a desperate search party to find her, and soon everyone is a suspect.

Used Video Shop's Female Shop Clerk X

2016 • 7 min • Japan

An underage boy tries to rent dirty DVDs and a beleaguered video store clerk tries to stop him.

In One Drag

2016 • 3 min • Germany

It's late in the evening. A man leaves a building, lights a cigarette and smokes it in one drag. He casually flicks the stub away – everything as always. Only this time... all the cigarette butts in the city become alive.

Brian Anderson on Being a Gay Professional Skateboarder

2016 • 27 min • United States of America

The skateboarding community worships Brian Anderson as a god, but for many years kept his sexuality a secret from nearly everyone in his life. Our guy Reda sat down with Brian and some of his closest friends to talk about being gay in the professional skateboarding industry and why he chose now to come out.

A Drop of Blood

2016 • 60 min • United Arab Emirates

A young Emirati lady is in desperate need, and asks her estranged father to help her, which causes ripples in the family, especially with her father's new wife. A spell is cast through a mutual party who goes to a shaman, to harm our heroin. She is under a lot of stress and starts going insane. She feels that she is haunted by demons and starts to see them everywhere. Her family puts her in a hospital to help with her condition, but the demons are getting stronger and more pervasive. The rest of her family starts to feel the demons' presence and decides to try to reverse the spell, which works, but is too late for our heroin, she sees them in her dreams and feels as though they are taking over her body.

The Opening

2016 • 30 min • Poland

A gallery owner is opening an unusual exhibition: An artist who is terminally ill wishes to die in front of an audience.

The Last Ring Home

2016 • 27 min • United States of America

The Last Ring Home is a made-for-TV documentary that recounts the story of how a WWII hero's last wish was lost, found, finally fulfilled and then lost again. The discovery of the story by the hero's grandson is as big as the discovery of the ring.

Mazurkas

2016 • 58 min

An elderly piano teacher who lost his wife 35 years ago has yet to go through the grieving process. Because he has not done this, it comes back to affect him in many ways. He finds himself on a road to self destruction that will lead him to the ultimate cost. His dark regret will bring him to the precipice.

A Night at the Movies

2016 • 16 min

A shy movie fan must overcome his confidence issues when he and his crush, the theater concession stand girl, are pulled into a 1930s adventure film by its fiery heroine.

Bleed the Night

2016 • 14 min

After being kidnapped, Audrey awakens and discovers her terrifying post-apocalyptic reality.

Anthropic Principle

2016 • 5 min

arc of the natural world’s evolution from the primeval environment to the Anthropocene and back again premiered in program Death is Green at the Whitney Museum of American Art part of Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art 1905-2016 organized by Chrissie Iles

Examination

2016 • 15 min • Hungary

A school physician whose son is being bullied at school finds that he must conduct a routine medical examination of one of his son's chief tormentors.

Challenger: A Rush to Launch

2016 • 50 min • United States of America

January 28, 1986, was a day that shook America to its core. WJXT marks the 30th anniversary of the disaster with Challenger: A Rush to Launch. The hour long documentary takes an investigative look into what brought the shuttle down through the voices of those directly affected by the tragedy then and now. This documentary produced by WJXT Films crew, aims to answer questions form 30 years ago that still remain on everyone’s mind.

Mocha Dick: La ballena mapuche

2016 • 23 min • Chile

The sea chronicles speak of Mocha Dick, the Mapuche whale that lived on the coasts of southern Chile and that would have served as a source of inspiration for Herman Melville to write "Moby Dick", the character of his most famous novel

The Day I Lost My Shadow

2016 • 38 min • Singapore

A trilogy set in three iconic locations within Singapore's Little India district: Race Course Road, Campbell Lane and Syed Alwi Road. The notion of re-examining history by truth and myth through visual storytelling serves as the inter-connecting thread between the three short films, and the films offer glimpses of Little India through the 19th and 20th centuries.

The Devil of Christmas

2016 • 30 min • United Kingdom

A director talks about his old horror film. It's Austria, Krampusnacht, December 1977. The Devonshires arrive at the alpine chalet for a holiday. The caretaker, Klaus, tells them about a local legend of Krampus, the Devil of Christmas.

Chain Reaction - 8 Disciplines of Flight

2016 • 7 min • United States of America

The Red Bull Air Force is a team assembled from the most accomplished and experienced aviation experts on the planet. Set against the backdrop of the Fisher Towers in Moab, Utah, the team uses pain-staking coordination to showcase their aerial talents all at once.

Invasores

2016 • 52 min

A poor young woman prepares to enter music college, but has no piano to practice. Her boyfriend decides to help her crashing into houses that have one so she can plays.

Il Lato Oscuro

2016 • 20 min • Italy

El club de la L

2016 • 11 min

A story about the need to climb hills, overcome fears and trust in oneself. What about you? Have you already taken off the L of "learner" in life?

Rufus

2016 • 42 min • United States of America

Manny has moved to a new school, and it's not easy to fit in. After wishing he had more friends, Manny finds a mysterious collar and puts it on Rufus, the family dog. Suddenly, Rufus turns into a boy! Manny's not sure what to do, so he enrolls Rufus in school. When the other students notice Rufus's silly dog antics -- chasing squirrels, eating without utensils, asking for belly rubs, and catching a soccer ball with his mouth -- he immediately becomes the most popular kid around. Manny is jealous of his new best friend but eventually learns that a dog's loyalty to his owner always comes first.

Who Wants to Live Forever? The Wisdom of Aging.

2016 • 48 min • United States of America

Who Wants to Live Forever, the Wisdom of Aging is a one hour documentary film about the myths, facts and contradictions in the never-ending battle for both longevity and healthy aging.

RuUnion with Katya and Detox

2016 • 6 min • United States of America

Katya explores persona, the past self, and the future self in RuUnion.

The One and Only

2016 • 3 min • United Kingdom

Hannah & Olivia, Lily & Alice, and Sophie & Eloise are three pairs of identical twins, and although at first glance the sisters can be hard to tell apart, in fact there is nothing identical about them. The more you get to know them, the more you come to realise how uniquely different they are. In a series of simple documentary portraits we hear them talking about the unique bond they share and how they found their individual taste and style through years.