All Films

Jada

2016 • 16 min • United States of America

Jada is 7 years old. Jada lives alone on Venice Beach. By following her through a day in her life, the story of who she is, why she is there, and who the man is that has come looking for her unfolds.

Sasha

2016 • 32 min • Spain

A young Russian woman living in New York City on an expired visa makes a desperate deal with a strange man in the hope of gaining her freedom.

Two Dollar Bill

2016 • 13 min • United States of America

Two Dollar Bill is shown from the perspective of teenage roommates Greta and Harper. Their friendship is tested when Greta’s friend Frankie appears unexpectedly on Halloween. An examination of modern girl culture, this is a story of young women leaving home a little early.

C.i.t.

2016 • 19 min • United States of America

Sarah and Lizzie live for their summers at Blackhawk Farm. This summer, Lizzie will be a counselor, while Sarah is a C.I.T.; this creates some tension. Everything changes when Sarah is told a secret that will change Lizzie's life forever.

Arterial

2016 • 25 min • Taiwan

At its narrative heart is a ‘neo-noir’ thriller: a genre exploring the darker aspects of the modern world. A young woman on the margins of society is desperate enough to sell her own blood. But when her rare blood type is sought after for a high-level political figure, a game of cat and mouse ensues between her, the buyer, and the black market forces that would happily kill the girl for her valuable lifeblood.

placebo pets

2016 • 2 min • United States of America

For the tenth anniversary of W's November art issue, supermodels Kendall Jenner and Gigi Hadid are inducted into the futuristic world of Lizzie Fitch and Ryan Trecartin. The resulting project, commissioned for W and titled "placebo pets," features the two models as ultra-domesticated, ultra-friendly humanoid creatures and performance artist and frequent Fitch and Trecartin collaborator Jesse Hoffman as their extraterrestrial "owner."

Hiebfest

2016 • 25 min

Talented kendoka Andre is torn between sporting success and the love for his disabled younger brother Freddie. When a new kendo master appears, who shows Andre a new pathway of success by dubious tactics, Freddie also runs into danger.

A Stroll Down Sunflower Lane

2016 • 14 min • Egypt

An old grandfather, a little granddaughter, an old house and some glimpses of memory. She was growing up building hers. He was getting old losing his.

We Love Moses

2016 • 15 min • United Kingdom

When Ella was twelve, she had her first fight. And when she was twelve, she discovered sex. Now eighteen, Ella reflects on how her obsession with her older brother Michael's best friend Moses left her with a secret she still carries.

Jack and Lucas Go To A Wedding

2016 • 23 min • United States of America

Jack and Lucas travel to the Midwest to attend their high school friend's wedding. Confined in a hotel room together, they're consumed by their own insecurities, as Jack tries to write the perfect wedding speech, while Lucas grapples with his romantic devastation. As the wedding approaches, the question arises: can they get to a place where they understand each other?

Facebookistan

2016 • 59 min

"Like" it or not, Facebook wants you to share everything, but how much information are they willing to share with you?

Starting Over

2016 • 8 min • Japan

You always stumble before reach. The glass in your hand gets chipped every time. Then everything should start again from the start. There are, however, things you can discover only through repetition. The answer resides in yourself.

Ambition: Epilogue

2016 • 3 min • Poland

After her long, arduous training, our young Apprentice is now a fully fledged Master of cosmic origins, exploring an alien planet rich with water and life. But something familiar crosses her mind. Memories from her training and Rosetta’s historic journey to catch a comet. She returns to the archives. The epilogue to the award-winning 2014 short film Ambition, released as the Rosetta spaceship is set to complete its historic mission in a controlled descent to the surface of its comet on September 30, 2016.

Run

2016 • 25 min • Norway

Chasing a drug addict has consequences.

Crown Candy

2016 • 10 min

Behind the scenes of a 102 year old candy kitchen in north St. Louis

Shirts to Heaven

2016 • 15 min

Quim is an 'enxaneta', the kid who climbs up a human tower, like his father and grandfather did, but his mother believes that his son is taking too much of a risk. A story set in a small town full of traditions.

Flesh Meat Doll(S)

2016 • 15 min

15 minutes of tasteful necrophilia gore featuring one man and a couple.

Fighting for Death

2016 • 15 min • Macedonia

Two aging inhabitants of a remote village lead a bitter fight over who dies first and gets the only remaining grave in the village.

Save Me from the Sound of the Siren

2016 • 8 min • United States of America

A Neo-Noir Thriller, where two woman come face to face with their fates.

Oceans of the Solar System

2016 • 52 min

A new era in the search for alien life has arrived as numerous bodies of life-sustaining water have been found all over our solar system.

Mr. Cowper

2016 • 32 min

Yin-ae has lost patience with her boyfriend Min-gu now that her period is one week overdue. She is seized with the fear of pregnancy but Min-gu contends that there is no chance at all. When she tells him “There are sperms in that fluid which is emitted before man ejaculates,” he himself searches for that fluid in the web page of Wikipedia.

Ambubagging

2016 • 23 min

Intern KIM Min-ji is ambubagging patient LEE Sook-ja. The 86-year-old Sook-ja's condition is not very well. It looks as if she's ready to depart from the world. Despite constantly paging Sook-ja's grandson and guardian, he has yet to appear. Min-ji is ambubagging Sook-ja when she gets an urgent call from her Mother. Her mother tells her to hurry because Min-ji's sister is having a baby.

Bad Karma Santa

2016 • 12 min • United States of America

Santa Clause is making his rounds on Christmas EVE but Santa's intentions are pretty selfish, and nothing goes as anticipated.

Ballet Shoes

2016 • 10 min • United States of America, China

Two dancers are forced to confront their feelings for each other on the eve of a ballet competition.