All Films

Red Forest

2016 • 10 min • Japan

Amii runs and runs on a bloodstained earth, through dark forests and warm fields. She keeps running in fear.

ABBA in Pictures: The Photographer's Story

2016 • 45 min

Documentary about ABBA and the photographers who worked with them.

Like the Wind

2016 • 43 min • Japan

Sanpei is a boy beekeeper and the sole survivor of an accident that killed his entire family. Sanpei meets Chiyo, a girl who gets stung by a bee, and starts a new life in her village. Eventually, Sanpei cultivates the land that the villagers had abandoned, and then disappears. In the land now filled with flowers, Chiyo waits, believing Sanpei will return.

kiss-o-drome

2016 • 1 min

In 1980 an extraordinary demonstration hit the streets of the Brazilian city of Sorocaba. Under the military dictatorship, a court had outlawed kisses that undermined public morals. The ruling by Judge Manuel Moralles, which punished such kisses with jail terms, described them this way: “some kisses are libidinous and therefore obscene, like a kiss on the neck, on the private parts, etc., and like the cinematographic kiss in which the labial mucosa come together in an unsophismable expansion of sensuality.” The city responded by becoming one huge kissodrome. Never had people kissed so much. Prohibition sparked desire and many were those who out of simple curiosity wanted a taste of the unsophismable kiss.

Korol Lir

2016 • 21 min • Russia

Gloucester's illegitimate son Edmund frames his legitimate son Edgar, who is then declared wanted. To avoid arrest, Edgar pretends to be insane and joins Lear in exile.

Standing at the Scratch Line

2016 • 11 min • United States of America

Recounts the impact of migrants on the African Methodist Episcopal church. Philadelphia’s Mother Bethel AME, the nation’s oldest African-American church, served as a local community partner, as well as Mother Emmanuel Church in Charleston, SC, the site of the 2015 mass shooting.

Sweet Dumplings

2016 • 12 min • Belgium

Yin and Lee are making dumplings in the kitchen of their restaurant. Yin is kneading dough; Lee is cutting meat and vegetables to make the filling. They are preparing the favourite food of their daughter Tim Tim, who passed away three years before. While they are cautiously folding the dumplings, they are thinking of the beautiful and painful moments. In silence... each with their own memories.

Blindsided

2016 • 13 min • United States of America

Blind man and apple pie connoisseur Walter Cookeventures to his neighborhood corner store to buy milk and apples. When mafia thugs try to shake down the storeowner, Walter shows them what a blind martial artist is capable of!

Metal in Your Head

2016 • 20 min • France

A few days in the conflictual relationship between two brothers, Romain, a scrap merchant, and Kylian, who has a passion for lazing about.

Breathe

2016 • 16 min • France

Respire [Breathe] is a short film directed by Jérôme Roumagne. The film follows Antoine, a young man who suffers from cystic fibrosis, and Juliette a cantankerous old lady.

Letter to the Free

2016 • 19 min • United States of America

Inspired by some of the greatest musical recordings and performances 'behind bars', Young imagines a time and place where jails and prisons are no longer filled with bodies but are ruins of a time of isolation, pain and absence. A film about our collective redemption. About second chances, forgiving mistakes, rehabilitation, love and exoneration.

He Who Dances on Wood

2016 • 6 min • United States of America

One man's search for joy has culminated in a constant experience of rhythm in the world around him.

Wifey Redux

2016 • 22 min • Ireland

All is well in the Prendergast household. Or, at least, that is what Jonathan Prendergast would have you believe. But his relationships with his wife and teenage daughter, and his own sanity, are put to the test when he becomes maniacally obsessed with driving off his daughter's handsome new boyfriend.

Mare

2016 • 5 min

Sean, an anxious and isolated man, goes about his mundane daily routine with a pleasant twist: an unexpected trip to sunny Brighton Beach. His desire to enjoy the gentle breeze, lapping waves, and sunny skies is put to the test as the beach itself seems to turn against him.

Running Condition

2016 • 16 min

When a mysterious recluse experiences first love, his carefully constructed world quickly begins to destabilize.

Good Girls

2016 • 17 min • Spain

Two sisters navigating the no man's land between childhood and adulthood have to deal with the consequences of their actions after one of the horses of their farm loses one eye.

How to Win the US Presidency

2016 • 50 min

This whimsical look at rough-and-tumble American politics examines the influence of money, religion and even ancient Rome on presidential campaigns.

Shahrzad

2016 • 4 min • Iran

in mention of documentary of Shahrzad , she having no choice because " BozorgAgha - Divan Salar " Order her to marry with Ghobad , and she don't like him ( Ghobad ) because she still thinking about her former lover " Farhad " .

Nuraghes

2016 • 23 min

Ramona & The Chair

2016 • 11 min • United Kingdom

Ramona takes all her therapist's advice as the word of God. But instead of enlightenment, she finds herself in a trinity of confusion with an empty chair.

The Rain Collector

2016 • 12 min • United Kingdom, United States of America

A film about the women who confounded ideas of what was appropriate or expected, and got involved in science in Victorian England. This is the story of Vanessa Kentworth and the rain.

Scenes from a Sketchbook

2016 • 21 min • India

The film is based on and inspired from the tinted brush drawings, sketches and some finished yet minimalistic works of the 18th century master miniature painter Nainsukh. Even in some of his finished paintings, the artist did not hide his corrections and afore-thoughts, which he allowed to show through a mostly untouched stark page. This film attempts the same.

Choked

2016 • 9 min • Russia

The young man experiences a breakup with his beloved girl and remembers the main fear in his life inspired by the first teacher. A distant school and recent events sweep through his head at the moment when he thinks he is about to die.

The Corpse Series

2016 • 29 min • United Kingdom

Dan and James have a dark secret which they must keep buried, one they can't let anyone, including Dan's girlfriend, Annie, ever find out. However, when the innocently idiotic James brings home a prostitute, shit starts to go down and the body count starts to go up.