All Films

Remember the Name: Saba

2016 • 25 min • United States of America

Remember The Name: Saba chronicles the path of an up-and-coming Chicago-based rapper, Saba, as he prepares to take two monumental steps forward in his career — finishing his first full-length album, and performing at one of America’s most iconic music festivals: Lollapalooza.

Small Steps

2016 • 15 min

After a young woman suffers a miscarriage, she tries to continue her day as if nothing had happened.

Piece of Cake

2016 • 16 min • United States of America

Sarcastic & complicated Jessie and her free-spirited girlfriend Alex couldn't be any more different from each other, but cupid's arrow is blind, and it was love at first sight. After a year of dating paradise, things go awry when Jessie's parents, who are unaware that Alex is a girl, arrive to town for their anniversary. At a crossroads, she must decide between revealing her sexuality to her parents, or losing the love of her life.

Lucky Penny

2016 • 7 min

A lonely barista searches for her lucky penny.

Happily Ever After

2016 • 19 min

A short comedy about a prince and his beloved stable boy who are left not knowing what to do when the fairytale book ends. They summon the book's narrator to guide them through this confusing new world of love...and sex.

Fliegen

2016 • 20 min

It's Nadia's 15th birthday. Instead of celebrating with her friends she takes care of her drug addict mother. To earn their living Nadia is working in a chinese restaurant. Due to the clash of hope, fights and reconciliation the life with her drug addict mother becomes an intoxication for Nadia herself. Trapped between responsibility and the thoughts to escape Nadia's loving care is put to the test.

Ouch

2016 • 14 min • India

A married man and a married woman meet in a hotel room.

Jedi's Code

2016 • 8 min • United Kingdom

When the smuggler, Kai Arclighter, crash lands on the remote world of Adara Prime, he's forced to confront his Jedi past. The nefarious Imperial Agent, Pi-Thea-Tezu, has Kai in her sights. Can Kai reconnect with the Force to vanquish his foe? Or will he become another fallen Jedi for the glory of the Emperor?

Concerned Student 1950

2016 • 32 min • United States of America

A series of racist acts prompts three Mizzou students to pick up cameras and take us inside the student movement that brought down their college president. From the hunger strike, to victory, to the fear of violent reprisals, we live with the students who started a campus revolt.

Sarah Winchester: Ghost Opera

2016 • 23 min • France

An opera ballet that doesn't exist. A ghost-like piece, played in Opera Bastille and danced at Opera Garnier. An almost mystical link between both scenes. A musician is testing sounds in Bastille's pit. The choir are taking their place in the rehearsal studio. Both sides are fine tuning the work in progress of an opera ballet: Sarah Winchester, her grief, her madness, her home and her ghosts.

Darkly

2016 • 8 min • Italy

A forbidden love between Raf and Sulfus, the former an angel and the latter a demon, is destroyed by Reina, an ancient entity trapped in Purgatory who swore revenge on both Heaven and Hell. Now both are reborn as regular humans. But will they reunite or will Reina suceed in crushing the one thing keeping her from taking power?

Made in Hollywood: Hitchcocks Blondinen

2016 • 60 min • Germany

Documentary about Alfred Hitchcocks infatuation with blondes.

The Not So Secret Life of the Manic Depressive: 10 Years On

2016 • 58 min • United Kingdom

Ten years ago, in an award-winning series, Stephen Fry first spoke about living with manic depression and began a national conversation about mental health. A decade later, we return to the subject to understand where he and thousands of others diagnosed with bipolar (as it is now called) are now.

The Singing Bones

2016 • 10 min

Inspired by the fable of Bluebeard, The Singing Bones tells the story of a young woman who attends the party of a famous producer named Derrick Blue. Over the course of one evening, through seduction, confession and battle, both their worlds change forever. Adapted from the story by Francesca Lia Block.

Kacchikenee!

2016 • 24 min • Japan

Aiko lives in a shrine with a sliding door that mysteriously is only half painted and thought during her childhood that she wanted to paint it. But the 17-year old Aiko now has no dreams about the future. Suddenly, a strange man appears before her. Aiko's grandfather and the shrine's chief priest offers the man to stay in the shrine, but Aiko isn't having any of it. But he realizes the kindness of the brusque young man and slowly comes to like him. What is his true identity?

The Dark Side of the Moon

2016 • 44 min • Slovenia

Žan is in the seventh grade and an excellent student. He is dedicated to astronomy most of his time and is much better than his coevals so in the school club he is the one selected to participate in the republic competition. A year ago, Igor, a nine grader was as well at the competition. Although he was successful, the second place he won was not good enough for him, so he gave astronomy up. Now, however, he is witnessing Žan's success and becomes very envious.

Postpartum

2016 • 24 min

A good mother would never hurt her children, at least not intentionally.

Aries Spears: Comedy Blueprint

2016 • 59 min • United States of America

Armed with his ferociously aggressive style of comedy MADTV alum, Aries Spears, takes the stage in Philadelphia for "Comedy Blueprint". No one, not black, not white, not gay, not straight is safe from his jokes and impressions.

The Division: Agent Origins

2016 • 31 min

A devastating pandemic sweeps through New York City on Black Friday, and one by one, basic services fail. Within weeks, society collapses into chaos, and the government activates The Division, a classified unit of self-supporting agents. Leading seemingly ordinary lives among us, Division agents are trained to operate independently of command when all else fails. Four newly activated agents must serve as civilization's last line of defense after a man-made virus devastates New York City.

The Fruity

2016 • 11 min

At The Fruity Friday night Karaoke BBQ, a deal is struck in which Jorge gives Lindsay a night to remember.

Thunder Road

2016 • 13 min • United States of America

Jimmy Arnaud eulogizes his mother.

Hand. Line. Cod.

2016 • 13 min • Canada

In the coldest waters surrounding Newfoundland's rugged Fogo Island, "people of the fish"—traditional fishers—catch cod live by hand, one at a time, by hook and line. After a 20-year moratorium on North Atlantic cod, the stocks are returning. These fishers are leading a revolution in sustainability, taking their premium product directly to the commercial market for the first time. Travel with them from the early morning hours, spend time on the ocean, and witness the intricacies of a 500-year-old tradition that's making a comeback.

Harvey's Dream

2016 • 10 min • United States of America

A typical Saturday morning for an unhappily married couple decades into their lives together becomes anything but typical when the husband's neurological decline and uncertain memory may or may not reveal unthinkable tragedy.

Horn

2016 • 15 min

A young man's surreal encounter with a motorcycle-riding caretaker launches him on a hallucinatory, spiritual coming-of-age journey through the rural American South.