All Films

If Everyone Looked the Same

2016 • 3 min

A glimpse into a world where uniformity and conformity rule.

Frida and Diego: The Australian Years

2016 • 6 min

Fleeing New York after an artistic scandal, Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera seek sanctuary with the Australian people... of now.

Amal

2016 • 5 min

A young girl Amal discovers the death of her father in Paris attack, which causes a difficult time for the family, and the mother to take a new step which creates a new hope for both of them.

This Is You and Me

2016 • 15 min

A chance encounter at a bar unravels into a surreal and intense all nighter.

Versailles' Dirty Secrets

2016 • 52 min • France

The chateau of Versailles is believed to have been a dirty palace: a place where everyone tossed the contents of their chamber pots from the windows above… Yet during the chateau’s construction, Louis XIV had given thought to commodities, and several public latrines were built as well as a very modern water system. So where did this bad reputation come from?

Fan Girl

2016 • 16 min • Canada

A group of super fans break into the house of a faded 90s pop star.

Meet Cute

2016 • 25 min • United States of America

They meet. It's Cute. Then it's not.

Party Patrol

2016 • 9 min • United States of America

A shy co-ed has her heart set on throwing a party with her crush in attendance. But first, she and her father must convince her frazzled mother that their hired "security" can handle all the details. They are all in for a surprise as, they could have never expected what happens next...

Moving Mountains

2016 • 46 min • China

Yang Fudong, one of the most influential contemporary artists in China, is known for his epic black-and-white films and photographs, which straddle the worlds of contemporary art installation and cinema. Moving Mountains is a 46-minute, black-and-white film, accompanied by photographs from the film set, drawings and props. The film is inspired by the ancient tale of a man, seeking to move a mountain, and extolls the virtues of perseverance and collective action. The artist makes this story a poetic reflection upon human nature and the shifting values to which it can be subjected.

How Do You Thirst

2016 • 23 min • United States of America

Set amid a growing water crisis, a lonely Japanese woman living abroad takes in a stranger whom she finds passed out in the stairwell of her apartment complex. She patiently waits for the young man to wake, hoping someone can quench her unbearable thirst.

Jack Ensch: Hanoi Hilton POW

2016 • 12 min • United States of America

Jack "Fingers" Ensch served in the Navy for 30 years. Recounting his experience of getting shot down and held as a POW in the infamous Hanoi Hilton, Jack explains how he was able to move forward from the experience and enjoy a full life.

Moroshka

2016 • 8 min • Russia

A mere sight of a gray wolf terrifies the entire village. There’s just one little girl who can empathize with the wolf and even make friends with him.

Bloody Queens: Elizabeth and Mary

2016 • 59 min • United Kingdom

A dramatisation based on the exchange of letters between Mary Queen of Scots and her cousin Elizabeth I, detailing the hatred and obsession in their bitter rivalry. Expert historians examine and interpret the royals' motives for the animosity that lasted more than two decades, and which threatened to tear apart the reigning monarch and her kingdom.

They Say Tomatoes Love Rock Music

2016 • 39 min • Estonia

Aleksander, an old gentleman, maintains a blooming garden surrounding his old house in a sleepy resort town. Karl, his grandson, spends the summer with him and learns about the ways of the nature. Together with autumn rains arrives Aleksander’s daughter Marju, who hopes to inherit the old man’s house, tear it down and put up a guesthouse on the lot instead.

Mimic

2016 • 3 min • United States of America

A child is having trouble sleeping in the new house.

Dinner with Jeffrey

2016 • 13 min

Oliver has just come out of the closet and is struggling with the feeling that he has to change who he is to fit in with other gays, when his gay uncle Jeffrey takes him to dinner and tries to teach him about the 'gay lifestyle'.

Downside Up

2016 • 14 min • Belgium

The world is populated only by people with Down syndrome. One day, a boy is born who is different. He is not ‘normal’, because he looks a little bit different and behaves a little bit unusual.

Litterbugs

2016 • 15 min • United Kingdom

Helped by her self-made flying mechanical creatures, a young inventor and an enigmatic pint-sized superhero defeat the town bullies and find an unexpected friendship.

A Wolf's Mind

2016 • 18 min • Germany, France, Switzerland

It is April 1933 and the Nazis have been in power in Germany for just two months. All liberties have been suppressed. Fritz Lang, who has just directed “The Testament of Dr. Mabuse”, is summoned to the private quarters of Joseph Goebbels. The objective of the meeting: to convince the most prominent man in German cinema to work for the Nazi regime.

The Big Swim

2016 • 25 min

Rachel (Kimberly Leemans) finds out she might have terminal breast cancer and with the help of a handsome dive master, Luca (Falk Hentschel), decides to face her biggest fear... swimming with SHARKS!

Fathers & Son

2016 • 6 min • Canada

Two new dads are putting their newly adopted newborn son to sleep when something unexpected happens...

The New 35

2016 • 10 min

New Yorker Kat is celebrating her 35th birthday by embracing her single and childless life. By the end of the night however, her past has come to collect...and conceive?

Woman in the Book

2016 • 1 min

Two hikers find a book and the pages reveal something horrifying.

A Very British Deterrent

2016 • 60 min • United Kingdom

With Trident renewed for another generation, A Very British Deterrent tells the story of the remarkable events, eye-watering costs, power relationships and secret deals done half a century ago to secure Britain's very first submarine-launched nuclear missiles.