All Films

Viable

2016 • 36 min • Canada

High school senior and promising pianist Violet has her world turned upside down when she is diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis days before her audition with a world-renowned music school.

I Wish For You

2016 • 5 min

A woman is moving house and as she is unpacking boxes she finds a long lost letter from her grandfather. As she reads it, his words evoke strong emotive memories and she is transported back into her childhood by her grandfathers words. As he shares his love and concern for the natural world around us. The journey back in time leaves Mia (the woman) visually and emotionally moved as she remembers and shares her grandfathers love and hope for the world around us. It is a story that transcends time.

Three Women

2016 • 35 min

"Three Women, is an ambitious work designed to be shown on multiple screens in a movie theater. Moving a step forward from the use of multiple screens as an expansion of cinema as exemplified by Abel Gance’s Napoléon (1927), it presents what is literally a conceptual expansion of cinema in the form of a filmic work experienced in a theater in which the 15-channel, surround-sound audio constructed by Araki Masamitsu and Ito’s visuals organically intertwine."

Robin de Puy: Ik ben het allemaal zelf

2016 • 52 min • Netherlands

Cas

2016 • 50 min • Netherlands

Pepijn and George’s steady, seven-year relationship is shaken up after they allow a young student named Cas to sleep on their couch until he finds a place of his own. Gradually, both men fall head over heels for Cas’ laconic charm and it forces them to reconsider their many long-term plans. Is Cas’ presence endangering their relationship or is he actually a blessing in disguise?

Koko: The Gorilla Who Talks to People

2016 • 58 min • United Kingdom

Documentary telling the extraordinary story of Koko, the only 'talking' gorilla in the world, and her lifelong relationship with Penny Patterson. Project Koko started as a PhD project to teach sign language to a baby gorilla, but as Koko began to communicate with Penny, an intense bond formed between them. Penny has now been with Koko for over 40 years and claims Koko can reveal fresh insights into the workings of an animal's mind. Koko's unique life with Penny has been filmed every step of the way. Over 2,000 hours of footage chart the most dramatic moments - Penny's battle to keep Koko from being taken back to the zoo in which she was born, Penny's clash with academic critics who doubted her claims and the image of Koko mourning the death of her kitten.

Sealed Video 24 - Sequel: Hitori Kakurenbo

2016 • 58 min • Japan

24th entry in the 'Sealed Video' franchise from the production team of 'Honto ni Atta. Noroi no Video'.

Blackbird

2016 • 14 min • United Kingdom

Two souls cross paths in an isolated wilderness. Rider, who is suffering from amnesia following a motorcycle crash. And Rose, on the run. They both take shelter in an abandoned cottage, where they start to piece things back together.

Rwd/Fwd

2016 • 13 min

We all make mistakes. But what if you could go back to make things better? When love is involved an argument between two old friends can escalate quickly, with painful consequences.

Mr. Sugar Daddy

2016 • 14 min • Sweden

Mr. Sugar Daddy depicts the story of a man looking for a fresh start. Hans falls for young Andrej and is thrown into a game that does not allow any winner.

The Midnight Barbers // Hey Master

2016 • 2 min

A short skit produced by Rose Glass

I'm a Porn Star: Gay 4 Pay

2016 • 53 min • Canada

Welcome to the curious, surprising and always outspoken world of straight men who go Gay4Pay. Curiously, there is a disproportionate percentage of men working in gay porn who identify as straight. Why would a straight man do gay porn? What motivates him to try this or make a career of it? Why is there such keen interest and debate into the sexuality and personal lives of these men? And what does it say about us, the viewer that so much of gay porn is dominated by images of straight men?

Tango

2016 • 25 min • Latvia

Helen suspects that her beloved son has a girlfriend what he is trying to hide. She is terrified of the possibility that her son could leave her for his girlfriend. Dainis invites her to a party in the hope that they both will be able to become friends, but due to missunderstanding a disaster strikes.

The End of the World

2016 • 17 min • Colombia, Germany

Two lovers are forced to split up after they scam the wrong people.

The Ghost

2016 • 17 min • South Korea

Mi-young, a mortuary cosmetologist, makes money by pulling gold teeth from dead bodies. Then one day an unidentified body was taken to the morgue.

Two Four Legs

2016 • 11 min • Russia

Summer Film

2016 • 19 min • Israel

Ashdod. Summer. Very hot weather. The sea is polluted. One afternoon. Mother. Son. This film is a documentation of a city, of a neighborhood, of a summer- but more than all, of a dismantled internal world of a child. sad and frustrated child.

Buzz

2016 • 15 min

A codependent woman's life is disrupted when her servile best friend wants to move out of their isolated mountain home to be with a man. She hatches an unusual plan to ensure she will never be alone.

Magdalena, Through Her Eyes

2016 • 58 min

A woman caught in the shameful act of adultery; a social outcast ignored because of her loose lifestyle; a recluse shunned in society for 12 years because of a despicable illness; a widow mourning the loss of her only son. An ugly thread of shame, sorrow and hopelessness painfully weaves its way through each of these women's lives. Mary Magdalene passionately retells the details of Jesus' life - from birth, to death, and eventually to resurrection - and how His life continues on in the lives of those who follow Him....

My Last Days: Meet Claire, Finding Beauty in the Sadness

2016 • 31 min

Claire Wineland was born with Cystic Fibrosis. Doctors say she has only a short time left to live, but she never lets that stop her from making the most of every day. Her dream? To be a motivational speaker. Hear her story and watch her get an amazing surprise..

A Drownful Brilliance of Wings

2016 • 8 min • Canada

Based on the poem 'Arriving' by Gillian Sze, the film delves into her family’s history and studies the relationship between her father, grandfather and herself. Through the examining of an inherited stamp collection, the cultivating of plants and the preparing of wonton soup, the piece investigates the mechanics of capture and the interwoven resonances between film and poetry.

We Made It

2016 • 36 min • South Korea

Art college students, Nuri and Hoon have illegal plan instead of preparing graduation piece. But they need one more member for it.

Malesh

2016 • 20 min • Montenegro, Serbia

A story of a vanishing world made of four women that are torn between an undeniable desire for family extension, and the freedom they are familiar with only in their imagination.

Les Princes de la ville

2016 • 21 min • France

At the bottom. That's where Yaya and Zakri feel they are living in the projects of Paris. One day, they discover a bag full of money hidden in a parking garage. The two friends finally see an opportunity for them to change things and decide to throw the biggest party their hood has ever known. But their new found luck won't last very long...