All Films

The Illinois Parables

2016 • 60 min • United States of America

From dreamy aerial opening shots, we are sent on an expedition through the storied land of our fifth most populous state, Illinois, often called a miniature version of America. Deborah Stratman’s experimental documentary explores how physical landscapes and human politics can each re-interpret historical events. Eleven parables relay histories of settlement, removal, technological breakthrough, violence, messianism, and resistance. Who gets to write history—physical monuments, official news accounts, or personal spoken-word memories?

The Samaritans

2016 • 3 min

Two men at a rural bus stop argue about what they think they see across the street, in the dark.

Grace for President

2016 • 12 min

When Grace's teacher reveals that the United States has never had a female president, Grace decides to be the first. And she immediately starts off her political career as a candidate in the school's mock election!

Putting the Dog to Sleep

2016 • 12 min • United States of America

A bereaved man copes with a burdensome past and realizes he is inextricably linked to it.

Goodbye Darling

2016 • 11 min • Ireland

Goodbye Darling is one day in the enduring love story of Irish Volunteer Michael Joseph O’Rahilly and his wife Nancy. It is day five of the 1916 Rising, and as the fighting intensifies, a concerned Nancy seeks comfort and diversion by playing the piano, unaware that her husband is leaving the beleaguered G.P.O. to lead the charge that will ultimately claim his life.

Emotional Motor Unit

2016 • 22 min • United Kingdom

The story of a lonely writer who learns what it is to be human by interacting with a machine known as the Emotional Motor Unit.

Fan-O-Rama

2016 • 32 min

Your favorite delivery boy, cyclops, and robot are back in this live action adaptation of Futurama. It follows Fry, Leela, and Bender as one of the crew finds that they are soon to die, so they must save them before time runs out.

Jogi and a Box

2016 • 18 min • Slovenia

While returning a lost package, Jogi and Davor are faced with bureaucracy at the post office, so they decide to deliver the package themselves. On the way to the right address, they encounter some problems, but with some luck they solve them. Heavy music, two models and one box.

Against the Tide

2016 • 15 min

The millennial generation was dealt a hard hand in early adulthood. Adjusting previous expectations with realities. When Zoey Radkey and Nate Homve have a chance meeting, their clashing ideas of hope may change how they live forever.

The Graveyard Shift

2016 • 2 min • United States of America

A young first time Graveyard Shift worker learns what this truly means, while discovering the best weapon to fight off the crazed night zombies.

A Funeral for Lightning

2016 • 25 min • Canada, United States of America

Seven months pregnant and stuck in a sleepy corner of Tennessee, a young woman begins to see through the promises made by her charismatic husband.

Life In The Snow

2016 • 58 min

In a seasonal special, Gordon Buchanan meets the animals who live in nature's winter wonderlands. He reveals their survival secrets, from the polar bear mother who gives her cubs the best possible start in life to the owl that finds food hidden beneath a blanket of snow, plus the plucky penguins that huddle together to keep warm. Gordon also unwraps the lives of our favourite Christmas characters - those wonderful reindeer and our very own robin redbreast!

Lulin

2016 • 24 min • Sweden

‘Lulin’ is a joint creation of electronic duo Gidge, film production company Lampray and arts platform Norr – all friends from school in Umeå, Sweden. Usually, a film comes with a soundtrack and an album comes with music videos, but Gidge and Lampray wanted to make something different: a project where film and music are separated, yet strongly connected.

AirBNB Dream or Nightmare

2016 • 47 min

Airbnb has become a useful tool for millions, but some are not so enamoured with it. This documentary not only hears from those who have had nightmare experiences but also looks at the site's wider impact on rental markets and communities.

Underneath the Makeup, There's Me

2016 • 9 min • Canada

This story follows the life of Amber a transgender teen that is trying to become her true self while dealing with the pressure of society.

Anna Piaggi: Fashion Visionary

2016 • 52 min • Germany, Italy, Switzerland

The world of fashion, between the end of the Sixties and the beginning of the Noughties, had a key character that embodied its spirit and told the tale: journalist Anna Piaggi, living witness of that contamination between art, society and culture that changed fashion and sanctioned its success on a global scale. The daughter of a manager for La Rinascente (Milan's iconic high-end shopping mall whose foundation goes back to 1865), Karl Lagerfeld's muse, "a poet with her clothes" in the words of Bill Cunningham, her life is retraced through interviews with designers (Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, Stephen Jones, Manolo Blahnik, and more) together with archival images from four decades of fashion history.

Ready to Burst

2016 • 11 min

Kate and Dylyn have been dying to have a baby. When they finally find success, what follows is Kate's struggle with the early stages of an unusual pregnancy as it takes a horrific turn.

Dolphinman Battles the Sex Lobsters

2016 • 15 min

Sgt. Kabukiman NYPD contracts a deadly new STD, The Sex Lobsters, and unknowingly spreads it around town while visiting Tromaville's best orgy spots. Only Dolphinman can find the cure and save the day!

Europe‘s Largest Desert

2016 • 49 min • Spain

Near the cold Pyrenees of Iberia, surrounded by ancient and dark green forests, lies a strange land where the rain is scarce and the wind is always blowing. The soil is poor, there are no trees and the landscape resembles the moon. Is this what the future of desertification will look like? Incredible creatures with surprising behavior live in this strange landscape. The documentary explores a place with very dry skin but a wet hidden heart where even waterfowl or amphibians can live. Living in such conditions is not easy and only the toughest animals will survive.

CBeebies Presents: The Nutcracker

2016 • 44 min • United Kingdom

Two children have a magical Christmas Eve adventure as they travel to the Land of Sweets and witness their toys coming to life! Staged at The Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, with a cast packed full of CBeebies stars, this production is a festive treat for the whole family.

Scratch

2016 • 15 min • United States of America

When a repressed 1950s housewife is left alone by her philandering husband, she makes a horrifying discovery about the noises in the house that are coming from the walls.

Diasporadical Trilogia

2016 • 16 min • United States of America

Diasporadical Trilogìa follows the story of a woman who mysteriously lived on three different continents at the same time. Through a magical realism lens, she shares her memories of growing up as a little girl in Brooklyn, a young lady in Accra and a middle aged woman in Bahia, while struggling with love, immigration and gentrification.

The Past Inside The Present

2016 • 12 min • United States of America

An allegorical tale of a couple who attempt to renew their dying relationship by plugging directly into recordings of their memories.

My B.F.F.

2016 • 60 min • United States of America

Inspired by true events and shot on location in New Orleans, LA. GEMMA BROWN and MARNI WILKINS and their families have been best friends since they were babies. At five, when Marni lost her mother, she was left with an unfulfilled soul. It was a devastating loss, but thankfully her best friend, Gemma and her family were always by her side