All Films

If I Could Tell You

2016 • 36 min • United States of America

After years of financially and emotionally draining fertility treatments, Abby Taylor is so desperate to get pregnant that she secretly turns to the online, underworld of natural insemination in order to create a miracle.

Lincoln Center at the movies presents Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

2016 • 38 min

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater performs Takademe and Ailey's masterpiece Revelations. From 2016.

The Quality of Life

2016 • 34 min • United States of America

After 40 years of living in group homes, Jill Kohfield, an intellectually disabled woman, moves back in with her twin sister and mother.

Patrick Kielty's Mulholland Drive

2016 • 49 min

The story of how an Irishman from Belfast, William Mulholland built the Los Angeles aqueduct to supply the city with water. Mulholland was self taught but managed to finish the aqueduct on time and on budget. However today, as Kielty discovers, water is still a sensitive topic, some people have it, others do not. It is a story of water, power and money.

World War Three: Inside the War Room

2016 • 59 min

Following the crisis in Ukraine and Russia's involvement in Syria, the world is closer to superpower confrontation than at any time since the end of the Cold War. Now, a war room of senior former British military and diplomatic figures comes together to war-game a hypothetical 'hot war' in eastern Europe, including the unthinkable - nuclear confrontation.

Gone

2016 • 5 min • Canada

A family's daily lives are affected by a recent event.

Some Rain Must Fall

2016 • 15 min • Taiwan

Their dull relationship is ended in this humid rainy season. Seven days later, the boy and the girl both come back to the apartment to pack.This day,the space and time within the apartment begins to swirl. They witness the proof of their love and passion, breaking the boy and the girl into pieces.

Retrosex

2016 • 15 min • France

Year 2065. Convinced sex was better in the old days, a group of teenagers set out on the trail of Retrosex.

Gourd and Evil

2016 • 4 min

A grandfather and his grandson prepare for an unwelcome Halloween guest.

Pickle

2016 • 15 min • United States of America

An ode to man's capacity to care for all creatures throughout their sometimes greatly protracted existence, displayed through the homegrown remedies Tom and Debbie Nicholson create for disabled animals.

Toback Vs. Mailer: The Incident

2016 • 6 min • United States of America

Directed by Josh and Benny Safdie, this punchy short features James Toback recounting a bizarre, years-long rivalry sparked by a drunken argument with Norman Mailer over bourbon versus Scotch—an ego duel that escalates from boozy barbs to a tense Jets–Browns stare-down and a few jabs to the gut. A brisk, first-person tale of bravado, celebrity circles, and the fine line between literary legend and street-corner scuffle.

After School

2016 • 10 min • United States of America

Sisters Addie and Xandra come to terms with a dark secret from the past in one explosive afternoon.

July and Half of August

2016 • 12 min

A simple film about the process of moving on but not making any forward progress.

Everyday Performance Artists

2016 • 14 min • United Kingdom

Starring Gemma Chan, James Norton and Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, and narrated by Shia LaBeouf, this is the story of an uncomfortably timed confession, interrupted by a decidedly talkative narrator.

Mountain Man: Adventures of Breckinridge Elkins

2016 • 15 min

A simple farm boy is sent into town for the first time in his life, where his identity is mistaken, causing a world of trouble.

Oh Jerome, No

2016 • 12 min

A guy takes surreal measures to conceal his true emotions.

A Girl Like You

2016 • 15 min • Italy

Aurora and Alba, inseparable friends, are very different from each other. One lives in compliance with the rules imposed by her parents, the other one is independent, free and tries to look mature for her age. One day Alba convinces Aurora to leave for a journey together, towards a secret and mysterious place.

Cover Up

2016 • 4 min • United States of America

A tale of love, death, and makeup.

1 Kilogram

2016 • 29 min • South Korea

Five years after her son's death, Min-young joins a group for women who have lost a child, only to hear someone laughing.

Rainha

2016 • 31 min • Brazil

When Rita fulfills her dream of becoming the carnival queen of a samba school she will have to fight against the dark forces of her internal and external world.

Scratches in the Dark

2016 • 2 min • United Kingdom

In the dark of the night a young woman heads to her bedroom, her only companion is her beloved cat. The night is still, they are alone with only the sounds of claws scratching on wood. But are they ever truly alone as the Scratches in the Dark continue.

Rotasi

2016 • 5 min • Indonesia

A photographer named Danny has numerous problems continuously in his life, and thus can't make him believe with a saying "The Earth Rotates". He feels like he's always been in the same position until had a journey that changes his mind.

The Worlds of Philip K. Dick

2016 • 57 min • France

An immersion into the life and writings of the extraordinary American science fiction writer Philip K. Dick (1928-82), whose outstanding work predicted like no other the dystopian debacle toward which the chaotic world of the 21st century is inevitably heading.

Lost in the Universe

2016 • 15 min • Thailand

A thirteen-year-old boy, receiving a camcorder for his birthday, enters the magical cinematic universe of Pen-ek Ratanaruang.