All Films

American Male

2016 • 6 min • United States of America

Ever felt pressure to “be a man?” American Male, a short film from MTV’s Look Different Creator Competition, is a gritty look at how gender norms make it hard for us to be who we really are. Head to privilege.lookdifferent.org for more on the issue and how to take action.

Sjöwall & Wahlöö - Berättelsen om ett brott

2016 • 59 min • Sweden

The whole story of how the books about Martin Beck came to be is told here. It's a love story. A young couple wanted to talk about the injustices in society. Thus was born the modern detective story. It has been over 50 years since the first book in the series came out and it would only be in the fall of the age that Sjöwall Wahlöö was celebrated as the creator of the entire modern detective genre.

The Cameraman

2016 • 16 min • Canada

Francis must reconcile his relationship with his abusive father who suffers from Huntington’s Disease. Francis’ younger brother, Ed--the cameraman--records their dysfunctional lives with his Super 8 camera as their relationship with their father worsens.

Who's Afraid of the Octopus Man?

2016 • 9 min

A man and his stuffed octopus confront a tentacle-fingered monster from their past.

Tirati

2016 • 16 min • India

Prerna Talwar is worked to the core and things seem to be headed towards stability for her family until a second child comes along. Years go by and she plays the part of the ideal mother to her two dissatisfied children, never looking back to see what she missed out on. When everything settles down offered a chance to finally live, she realises that the life she once dreamt of is now behind her.

A Father's Day

2016 • 10 min • United Kingdom

Unexpectedly reunited with his daughter amongst the ruins of the world as they knew it, a father is determined to make this day special, even if they are already dead.

UNIT Bryan

2016 • 10 min • Canada

Robin, a bored retail employee, is tasked with training the stores new employee, a worker robot. Reluctant to work alongside this new machine at first, Robin forms an unlikely bond with it, leading her to make some life changing decisions.

Carry Me Home: A Remember America Film

2016 • 20 min

In the cold winter of 1860, a young mother trapped in slavery seizes the opportunity to escape with her family when she encounters HARRIET TUBMAN (Karen Abercrombie, War Room). Harriet leads the young family through a number of trials on the Underground Railroad, causing them all to question whether or not freedom is worth the price they must pay to obtain it.

Nothing Grows Here

2016 • 17 min • Canada

An 11-year-old Rachel has just discovered she no longer has a heartbeat. After seeking help from her unfazed mother, a useless doctor, and an eccentric spiritual healer, Rachel surrenders to the unsolicited aid of her homework partner, Charlie, who is determined to get to the root of her problem.

White Mourning

2016 • 13 min • Portugal

Different attitudes towards love, loss, faith and searching for the sense of life, revealed by familiarity of four characters.

Past Forward

2016 • 13 min

A surreal, futuristic silent dreamscape with multiple actors replaying scenes in shifting combinations.

Troppolitani - Valle Occupato

2016 • 56 min • Italy

Is art useful to man? The actors are suited to society. Passers-by are people who want to dream but have now lost confidence, laziness on the one hand, conditioning and deschooling on the other, require you to lower your sights and everyone is content to pursue modest cheap expectations. Reality and art are not in communication, impoverished by individualism, the actors and artists dance to the rhythm imposed by power, they slaughter each other, they abuse each other without realizing the possibilities of communication that open up by moving outside the choir. Rome is occupied by every step, the foot walking lightly occupies the public land. But this occupation is not news because it is lightning fast. The criteria of employment mark the time.

Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu - Day of the Departed

2016 • 46 min • United States of America

When Cole returns to Yang's haunted temple to seek revenge on a former Airjitzu Master, he accidentally uses a powerful Dark Magic blade that unleashes the spectral forms of Ninjago's greatest villains and traps himself in the temple. The Ninja must return the ghosts to the Departed Realm before it's too late.

The Thing Inside

2016 • 12 min • Puerto Rico

A 1960's inspired, supernatural thriller based on true events.

Take 8

2016 • 19 min • Japan

The actor playing the father doesn’t appear at an independent film shoot of a wedding. Meanwhile, the actress’ father turns up at the hotel.

The Snowy Day

2016 • 38 min • United States of America

Based on the award-winning book by Ezra Jack Keats. Peter goes on a magical, snowy walk to his Nana's house to bring home their Christmas Eve dinner.

Vidiodromo

2016 • 46 min • Argentina

A rich, bored man who hosts a TV channel keeps looking for more extreme content to host on his channel, devouring extreme gore movies, real-life gore, and tobacco movies, until one video devours him.

A Girl's Dream

2016 • 60 min • Japan

7-year-old Sara gets into an accident and falls into critical condition. She wakes up in the hospital the next morning and sees a nurse, Nanami, next to her bed. Sara can not feel pain. Nanami shows Sara around the hospital. At night, Sara knows Nanami is a patient and not a nurse. She also knows that she has been in a coma for the past 10 years since she got into the car accident at the age of 7. Sara is also surprised that she is still in a coma. She is having an out-of-body experience.

The Green Rabbit & The Ice Cream Girl

2016 • 18 min • United States of America

A man is stumbling through the desert, in only underwear, lost and confused. A car pulls alongside, driven by a beautiful young girl who knows his name. His name is Gerry and it's tattooed on his forehead. Her name is Eilis, from a pendant around her neck. With nowhere else to go, he gets into the car and begins a surreal journey to answer the reasons he's there at all.

Matasaburou of the Wind

2016 • 22 min • Japan

A girl moves from the city and goes to school in the country due to some circumstances in her father's job. Her new schoolmates keep her at a distance. There is a boy she'd like to get to know better, but she worries about how he might treat her and doesn't try to get closer. She begins to hate life in the countryside and longs to return to the city, but she ends up meeting a real god of wind.

Satie's "Parade"

2016 • 14 min • Japan

A Parade for three managers and four performers. Sketchy drawings in a neatly arranged palette, involving quotes from the French composer Erik Satie, set to the music of Parade performed by the Dutch Willem Breuker Kollektief.

Prenatal

2016 • 10 min • United States of America

Mysteriously eight months pregnant overnight, Katie believes the Angels responsible, but her sister cuts a deal with a bounty-hunter to sell her as an alien abductee.

Let Me See Love

2016 • 4 min • Thailand

The video promo for Red Cross's organ donation campaign. A 4 minute short film portrays the case when the officer informs about the patient's registration of organ donation and the family members never know about this before. this leads to many cases of unsuccessful organ donation because the members don't give the permission.

Are you Being Served?

2016 • 32 min • United Kingdom

Picking up where Jeremy Lloyd and David Croft's classic comedy left off, it's 1988 and Young Mr Grace is determined to drag Grace Brothers into, well 1988, but he has a problem on his hands. Mr Humphries, Captain Peacock, Mr Rumbold and Mrs Slocombe all seem to be stuck in another era. A new member of staff, Mr Conway, joins the team but will he help shake things up or will he just put a cat amongst the pigeons?