All Films

Wake Up

2016 • 11 min • Canada

A debt collector has a nervous breakdown at work on the anniversary of his wife's suicide. He is pulled between reality and a hallucinative journey into his subconscious as he desperately searches for a way out of his misery.

Cykelmyggens far

2016 • 57 min • Denmark

A portrait of Flemming Quist Møller's life, both as the man, the musician and the artist. Throughout the narrative, we encounter his work with film, music, theater, plays, satire drawings, book illustrations, paintings, screenwriting; we experience that he, as a communicator and narrator, is always on the side of the weak, working with the simple, straightforward and human.

Sleep Incidents

2016 • 13 min • Sweden

Hans suffers from insomnia. But there is help available! A self-appointed specialist guides us through this absurd study of sleep.

Explorer

2016 • 12 min • New Zealand

Deep in the suburbs, a troubled and obsessive man waits for signs of alien life from the skies. Instead, he finds new meaning in the empty rooms of his family home—and travels into his own inner space.

Drawcard

2016 • 7 min • Australia

Pregnant Pause

2016 • 14 min

Steph is in a happy, long-term relationship, but now she might be pregnant she has no idea what she wants.

Queen Wasp

2016 • 26 min

'Queen Wasp' is the look into the Killer Jessica Bathory or commonly know as Queen Wasp. Set in futuristic rural area, watch the last moment in Jessica's life as she returns home and takes revenge for her sisters death. Flashbacks are shown to the brutal murders she's being executed for.

Ainda Não Acabámos: Como Se Fosse Uma Carta

2016 • 50 min • Portugal

A walk for half a century, yes, a letter perhaps. Travels in my life, I could call it, which I like Garrett so much. A traveling as he would like, a loose story, memories, projects, meetings. Also because, since 1995, I have done several portraits of artists (Palolo, Bravo, Lapa, Skapinakis, Bartolomeu, Angelo, Sena, Ana Vieira and I prepare Sofia Areal and Fernando Lemos), I started to think that this is my life, these meetings , see, hear, cut, show, tease. I want, with this film continue to show what I see. [Jorge Silva Melo]

A Knock at the Door

2016 • 8 min • United States of America

Moments after a bloodcurdling scream disrupts Nick's normally peaceful neighborhood, a frantic knocking at his door triggers events that unknowingly alter his fate forever.

Get the Life

2016 • 12 min • United States of America

A transgender teenager faces an unwanted pregnancy and risks losing everything he loves in order to live courageously.

Like

2016 • 10 min • United States of America

In our current world, where worth is often gauged by online popularity, an economy has developed for paying for followers and likes. Through access inside the “click-farms” of Bangladesh, Like explores the multi-million dollar industry that grows social media followings for celebrities and brands alike.

Deep It

2016 • 17 min • United Kingdom

Deep It is a powerful drama that explores the real impact of carrying a knife on young people and their communities. The message is loud and clear, there is no such thing as a victimless crime. Everyone gets hurt in the process.

Stake

2016 • 12 min

Stake follows the reunion of Trevor and Vanessa, estranged best friends from high school, ten years after Vanessa ran away to the big city to work for CSIS and left Trevor in their very small hometown.

CHARON Pluto’s lonesomeness

2016 • 4 min • Japan

This is the story of Pluto, a planet that has been removed from the solar system and is wandering alone in the vastness of space, and its satellite, Charon, which hovers around Pluto.

Scrat: Spaced Out

2016 • 15 min • United States of America

In the main events of Ice Age: Collision Course, Scrat is captured by Scratazons who take away his acorn. Now, Scrat must rescue his Acorn and escape before the aliens can catch him.

The Saurus

2016 • 8 min

A man with a robust vocabulary must write a scornful letter to an old friend.

Mabel

2016 • 20 min • Canada

Feisty, fiercely independent and firmly rooted in place, 90 year-old Mabel Robinson broke barriers back in the 40s when she became the first woman in Hubbards, Nova Scotia, to launch her own business—a hairdressing salon where she still provides shampoo-n-sets over 70 years later. Weaving animation and archival imagery with intimate and laugh out loud moments in the salon, the film celebrates the power of friendship, doing what you love and staying active. With no desire to retire anytime soon, Mabel gives voice to a generation who are not front and center of cinema or the pop hairstyles of the day, and subtly shifts the lens on our perception of beauty and the elderly.

Everybody Dies!

2016 • 10 min • United States of America

In this recreated public access television show, Ripa the Grim Reaper teaches black kids about the day they'll die.

Villain Initiation

2016 • 4 min • Canada

Chris tries to coerce his friend Dave into holding up a store, so that they can be on their way to becoming super villains.

Intenselefun

2016 • 19 min

It's summer and all is euphoria. Philippe is deeply in love, but his rationality is blocking him.

Miracle

2016 • 4 min • Japan

Short directed by Shunji Iwai for the song Miracle by illion, Youjirou Noda's solo project, in the album "P.Y.L."

Writer's Block

2016 • 9 min • United States of America

Past her prime and afflicted with a severe case of writer's block, a veteran songwriter finds new inspiration in a bird that takes up residence outside her home.

The List

2016 • 46 min • United States of America

Love is messy and hard but it's real. And a real love is so much better than a dreamed up list.

Pizza Friday!

2016 • 6 min • United States of America

The Turtles sneak into April's school to get some pizza.