All Films

Waiting for the Sun

2016 • 9 min • United States of America

After being discharged from the military, Jeremy Andrews, a US Army Ranger suffering from post-war PTSD returns home for the first time in years. While visiting a therapist for the first time, questions come up about his adjustments to home life, as well as readjusting to civilian life. What he can't seem to admit out loud, continuously plays in his mind.

Adele Shimanoff: U.S. Marine

2016 • 7 min • United States of America

In 1945, Adele Shimanoff joins the U.S. Marine Corps amid a larger plan to bring women into the military in order to “free a marine to fight.” Adele moves away from the traditional Women’s Reserves and into active duty for a year, where she forms lifelong friendships and meets her future husband. He remains in active duty for 28 years after she leaves, giving her a full experience of life with the Marines. More than 70 years later, Adele is forced to confront the idea that she is still needed, even when her friends have passed on before her.

Hidden Daylight

2016 • 18 min • United States of America

We follow a distraught businessman after his wife is abducted by the sadistic Hacksaw Killer. In desperation, the businessman turns to a blind psychic who can see through the killer's eyes.

The Last Padawan: A Short Star Wars Story

2016 • 20 min

A Jedi Padawan is on the run. By his Jedi Master's last request he must find the Order's reserve of the Kyber Crystals. The key component to creating the weapon of a Jedi Knight.

Hit it Hard

2016 • 50 min • United States of America

John Daly didn't fit into the world of golf when he burst onto the scene in 1991, gripping it and ripping it all the way to the top. An immense natural talent, he’s had improbable highs on golf's biggest stages and brutal lows like suspensions, divorces, rehabs and relapses. Through it all, this "rockstar of golf” has remained loved by his loyal fans. HIT IT HARD is a journey into the early years of John’s tumultuous career while also observing him today, two decades after his glory days. The film explores why, despite his myriad mistakes, he’s still so universally loved for being John Daly.

Close Ties

2016 • 18 min • Poland

Forty five years of marriage is an impressive anniversary. Barbara and Zdzisław could be proud of themselves if not for the fact that the husband left the wife for his lover eight years ago. But now they are together again, although Barbara claims that if it were not for his infirm legs, Zdzisław would still be chasing skirts around Kraków. Despite the past resentment, everyday problems with paying bills, an occupied bathroom and rearranging furniture, they have a hard to define bond.

The Sultan and the Saint

2016 • 58 min

Two men of faith, one a traveling Christian preacher, the other the ruler of a Muslim Empire, bucked a century of war, distrust, and insidious propaganda in a search for mutual respect and common ground. It is the story of Francis of Assisi and the Sultan of Egypt, and their meeting on a bloody battlefield during the period of Christian- Muslim conflict known as the Crusades.

The Boondogglers

2016 • 14 min • United States of America

Following the Civil War, three young bounty hunters search for a murderer in the American Northwest.

Hell's Garden

2016 • 2 min • United Kingdom

When Helen spots a mysterious stranger in her garden, her life changes forever.

Teddy Bears Are for Lovers

2016 • 12 min

A 20-something Casanova is haunted by the teddy bears given to his ex-girlfriends.

Welcome Home Allen

2016 • 12 min

A group of soldiers return home to a world that no longer recognises them.

A Film by Vera Vaughn

2016 • 11 min • United States of America

In this ghost story for the digital age, filmmaker Vera Vaughn works late into the night, editing her psychological thriller about a woman jeopardized by a mysterious home intruder. But when she's interrupted by a knock at the door, Vera’s world takes a frightening turn toward the surreal as life threatens to imitate art — or is it the other way around?

Time Machine

2016 • 40 min

Time Machine is a story of a young boy who makes the worlds first time machine, but is unable to hold onto his childhood or protect his family from the ravages of time. The story deals with the themes of nostalgia, first love, and of course, time travel.

Heads Together

2016 • 21 min • Netherlands

Three friends with different cultural origins find an abandoned washing machine while playing. To their shock, they find out that the washing machine has strange powers: their heads are swapped by sticking them in the washing machine. When it turns out their heads can't be swapped back, they must go back home with each other's heads. Because their households have very different habits and traditions, they end up in awkard situations. Through these situations, they learn a lot of new things about each other.

A Town Called Panic: Back to School Panic!

2016 • 27 min • France, Belgium

Indian and Cowboy are about to set off on a magnificent cruise on a luxury liner, but they have made a big mistake. They completely forgot that today is the first day of school! Goodbye tropical islands, our friends are back at their desks in school listening as the teacher drones on and on.

Wild Flight: Conquest of the Skies 3D

2016 • 40 min

The ability to fly is one of the greatest miracles in the natural world. Millions of creatures soar above our heads today, using a fabulous variety of techniques to defy gravity and master their aerial environment. Wild Flight: Conquest of the Skies 3D uses the very latest science and stunning special effects to uncover the 300-million-year story of flight as never before. The most advanced filming technology allows us to show the beauty and excitement of life on the wing, from the fastest predatory falcons to the most acrobatic of insects, night flyers like owls and bats, and the soaring and gliding specialists capable of traveling huge distances. Audiences will truly enter the amazing world of these remarkable animal aviators, and leave the theatre both stunned by the spectacle and thrilled by the story of Wild Flight: Conquest of the Skies.

Paco

2016 • 10 min

Made for the 2016 OzAsia Festival as part of an experimental film screening, PACO is an exploration of Australian slang, Australia’s casual racism and filmmaking itself.

Untouchable

2016 • 9 min

Just an honest conversation.

The Porter Brothers

2016 • 40 min • France, United Kingdom

Sam and Ned Porter are little thugs, riding together and robbing banks. One night, Sam gets captured by mysterious bounty hunters who offer to keep him alive only if he turns his brother in. Redemption will come at a high price.

Hongeo

2016 • 10 min

A new employer of a small company named Jungmin is meeting the executive director of a another company, Mr. Hyun, with her senior worker, Mr. Woo at the ‘Hongeo’ bar.

man of many arms

2016 • 6 min • Japan

Many arms cling to a man. He doesn’t like it but he believes the situation will never change.

Before Mars

2016 • 33 min

This is the backstory of Hana and Joon Seung, characters in the series "MARS" on Nat Geo. The twin sisters are struggling to fit into their new home and find a ham radio, allowing them to develop a friendship with a female astronaut..

Dream

2016 • 7 min • Latvia

A shop by the side of the road. One after another, people enter and exit the small building. The randomness and illogical nature of the action feels unreal. The sense of timelessness and of being in an unnamed place further heightens the dreamlike nature of the scene. The nearly motionless black-and-white camera records a fragment of life in a place torn from the context of the world.

The Lights

2016 • 11 min

When electrician Lloyd receives a call-out in the dead of night, he is drawn into the bizarre and melancholy world of a man haunted by Christmas. As he becomes an unwilling guest in the home of Mr. Elliot, Lloyd is forced to make a decision: should he fix the Christmas lights, or is the darkness in the house best left alone?