All Films

Midsummer Night

2016 • 29 min • Sweden

Three young girls' during a festive summer night in the northern part of Sweden. The girls are attending a party in a big old house, where both the previous owners oddly enough where one-eyed.

Small Pleasures

2016 • 5 min

Set in the late 1800's in Barkerville, Canada, "Small Pleasures" is about a Chinese woman with bound feet explaining the custom to a white woman and a First Nations woman. The language they speak is Chinook Jargon.

Kindil

2016 • 40 min • Algeria, Kuwait, United States of America

During a beach excursion, Nfissa, a young mother, is violently sexually harassed and drowned by a group of young men after she absent-mindedly swims into their midst. Nobody seems to witness her disappearance. Anxiety and fear grow among her family, especially as, on the same beach, bathers suddenly start dying en masse.

Michael Che Matters

2016 • 60 min • United States of America

"SNL" star Michael Che takes on hot-button topics like inequality, homophobia and gentrification in this stand-up set filmed live in Brooklyn.

Ryann Holmes

2016 • 6 min

A portrait of Ryann Holmes, community organizer and co-founder of bklyn boihood, un/doing and reframing masculinity.

The Wishgranter

2016 • 5 min • United States of America

In a world where wishes are granted by creatures that live under fountains, an apathetic wishgranter is forced to go above ground to grant a wish of love.

Dream Girl

2016 • 22 min • United States of America

Humans use technology to improve their lives, to forge connections, to create time that doesn’t exist, to replace real interactions. When we devise a second version of ourselves on social media, do we lose a piece of our true selves in the process? Do our digital connections threaten our real life relationships? What happens if the filtered characters we’ve imagined take on a life of their own?

Young Hyacinth

2016 • 29 min • United Kingdom

Set in the 1950s, this prequel to Keeping Up Appearances looks at the life, relationships, and aspirations of 18-year-old Hyacinth. Long before she becomes Mrs. Bucket (pronounced Bouquet), young Hyacinth is already dreaming of matching china and a bedroom in pastel shades. If only her family were more like the upper-class Cooper-Smiths in whose home Hyacinth works as a maid.

Dunroamin

2016 • 13 min • United Kingdom

Joanna is selling her country home, Steven is a prospective buyer. What should be a simple viewing becomes something else entirely...

The App

2016 • 16 min • Spain

'THE APP' is an application that gives to its customers the steps to achieve happiness. One day, Benito a fat and not very bright man, wakes up in his luxurious loft with his girlfriend, a beautiful Nordic model. When he consults the application, THE APP tells him that he must jump off the balcony

August 8th

2016 • 13 min • Japan

A short film Sho Miyake made with Shizuka Ishibashi for AND YOUR BIRD CAN SING.

Alb

2016 • 20 min

A woodcutter in an isolated snow village in the heart of the mountains tries to right his wrongs, but sometimes spilled blood can only be cleansed with his own blood.

Herculanum

2016 • 21 min • France

Three "meetings." Two men. A rumbling volcano.

A Good Child's History Anime: The Giant Turnip (Inc.)

2016 • 10 min • Japan

Short animation made to celebrate Studio Khara’s 10th anniversary.

LEGO Jurassic World: The Indominus Escape

2016 • 24 min • United States of America

The scientists of Jurassic World create a captivating and terrifying new creature that loves hot dogs. But what happens when the hot dogs run out?

Elle

2016 • 11 min

Alice is a college freshman aiming for law school. On the day her financial aid is cut, her secret identity is revealed to her classmates.

A Ripple of Nothing Significant

2016 • 34 min • United States of America

An abusive theater director casts his girlfriend in the lead role of his next play.

Familie sein

2016 • 30 min

Beatrice lives with her husband Jonas and their two daughters seemingly idyllic in the countryside. But family life is clouded by their constant self-doubt and the feeling of not being loved. Fearing to lose her family, Beatrice almost destroys her - but is eventually caught by Jonas. A melancholic, sensual narrative about the decay and resurrection of a woman.

The Vote

2016 • 10 min • Canada, Myanmar

Strict military rule and international sanctions kept Myanmar sealed off from the world for decades. The Vote observes residents of the bustling city of Yangon as they navigate their first democratic election in over 50 years.

Lucy in My Eyes

2016 • 12 min

On the eve of her wedding, Lucy has a conversation with her six year old self.

Occasional Showers

2016 • 10 min • Czech Republic

On a tense journey with his wife and daughter, a weary husband struggles to keep his fraying family together. But as the storm clouds gather, he looks to give up the shelter of their car.

Phonograph

2016 • 7 min • Russia

Yuli Ivanovich Blok is a music lover and enthusiast of early sound recording, who in 1889 was the first to bring Edison's phonograph to Russia, came up with the idea to record the great pianist Anton Rubinstein's playing on a phonograph. But the pianist flatly refused to sign up. Then those present, among whom was Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, just started messing around with the device, recording everything that comes to mind. The film is based on a famous case that occurred in January 1890.

The Railroad Lady

2016 • 30 min • Switzerland

Élise Lafontaine has a secret routine. Every morning and evening for many years, she has been waving at the express train that passes her house. One fateful day, she finds a letter from the train conductor in her garden and her lonely life is turned upside down. She engages in a promising correspondence through poetic and thoughtful letters where the two anonymous writers share their worlds with each other. But Elise’s fairytale is cut short when the train line permanently detours for a shorter route to Paris. Not willing to do without her daily delight, Elise prompts a daring escape from her comfort zone and sets out to find the train conductor.

Vardøger

2016 • 15 min

While several murders bloodying the city, a German photographer is persecuted by an unseen presence that follows him relentlessly.