All Films

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.

Dear Mr Shakespeare: Shakespeare Lives

2016 • 5 min • United Kingdom

An evocative and imaginative exploration of the racial tensions in Othello and how the themes in Shakespeare's play still resonate today.

Light Up the Night

2016 • 16 min • United States of America

Light Up the Night is an analog science-fiction short film set in an Orwellian, futuristic 1980s. The story tells the tensions flaring between rebellious citizens and robotic law enforcement. We are introduced to two dissidents as they take aim at the city's looming, panoptic control tower, while local band The Protomen take the stage amidst the action, inciting unrest as they narrate the struggle.

Mr Gaspacho

2016 • 15 min • France

The end of the school year is approaching and Méline, an introverted teenager, has only one week left to get close to the boy she loves. Assisted by her loyal advisor Mr Gaspacho, and her best friend, Méline will attempt what would normally be impossible for her.

La ballerine

2016 • 11 min • France

She works in the ticket booth at a theater, but she dreams of dancing on stage.

The Best Last Best Plane Ride Ever

2016 • 9 min • United States of America

On October 15, 1986, the New York Mets came back from a three-run deficit in the ninth and beat the Houston Astros in 16 innings to win the pennant. This film recreates the Mets' infamous postgame celebration, from champagne in the jacuzzi to the destruction of a perfectly good Ozark Airlines DC-10. Starring the voices of Lenny Dykstra, Dwight Gooden, Kevin Mitchell, and Darryl Strawberry.

Oljeunge

2016 • 16 min

Short film directed by Arild Østin Ommundsen

Receptivity

2016 • 18 min • United States of America

Receptivity follows the life of self-absorbed, pinched-off Julian as he rethinks old patterns of thought and begins to live the life he really wants.

The Defiler

2016 • 24 min • Finland

The Defiler is a fuck-yeah-tale of passion, mayhem, love and revenge, ode to 80’s action, italian ripp offs and b-sleaze set in the cinematic splatter-punk universe.

Wild Skin

2016 • 19 min

A woman finds a baby python in her apartment and has a strange connection with it. Together, both snake and woman begin a transformation into something new.