All Films

Things Are Going Really Well

2015 • 5 min

Costumed in a wig and mustache, Violet visits the man she has been seeing in an attempt to understand his sudden coldness towards her.

What?

2015 • 3 min

A hearing-impaired young woman goes through the struggles of dating.

El Aura Azul

2015 • 9 min • Colombia

After Sasha and her friends have an eerie day at the pool, her night turns horrifying when something supernatural follows her home.

Verso da Fala

2015 • 59 min • Portugal

A documentary that aims at highlighting the daily lives of death people and what a "deaf identity" entails.

The Boat

2015 • 15 min • Japan

Three young men living in the city with a love for killifish head to a mountain in Nara to float a small boat they found down a river. Experience the pleasure of a laid-back drive set to relaxing music expanding into an anthem of life and the cosmos.

Misfit Lil’ Sparrow

2015 • 5 min • Japan

A little sparrow, Chunko, cannot make her head still like other sparrows.She wonders why.

A Letter To The Sky

2015 • 5 min • Iran

A boy named “Mahdi” lost his firefighter father who saved a little girl from a deadly fire. Out of missing his father, Mahdi decides to write him a letter and send it to the sky (heaven) with two helium balloons. A stranger receives the letter accidentally, reads it and decides to reply on behalf of Mahdi’s father to end Mahdi's confusion and grief.

The Day I Grew Up

2015 • 21 min

In this coming-of-age short, undocumented teen Adrian takes matters into his own hands when his predatory uncle resurfaces after a decade of absence. Fearing for the safety of his vulnerable young brother, the two boys head to the city in the dead of night and attempt to make it on their own.

Sanya, Lena Called You

2015 • 39 min • Russia

The story is about a young man who is trying to find himself after breaking up.

Dane

2015 • 5 min • Australia

A former Australian soldier suffers from depression.

Mothers for Justice

2015 • 16 min • United States of America

After her son, Dontre Hamilton, is shot 14 times and killed by a Milwaukee police officer in a popular downtown park, Maria rallies grieving mothers from across the country to join her in a cross-country trip to demand justice on behalf of their sons.

Sleepless Night with Bamboo Wife

2015 • 29 min • South Korea

BAMBOO WIFE-Korean traditional bedding to avoid the heat. One hot summer night, a sinking novelist picks up a dumped bamboo wife. But from this point, his sleepless night lasts forever.

The Ray Cat Solution

2015 • 15 min • United Kingdom

How to create a symbol that travels through time? Nuclear waste lasts for millennia but stone, symbols and language can fade beyond recognition. In 1981 semiologists proposed the idea of a cat genetically engineered to change colour in the presence of radiation. The myth is taking hold, and science may follow..

Sad Spirit

2015 • 12 min • Netherlands

A young boy gets to see his depressed father in a different way when a strange demonic figure appears.

Japan's Wild Year

2015 • 48 min

Documentary exploring the diverse wildlife of Japan, including the snow monkeys of Hokkaido island, as well as bears, giant hornets, serow, cherry salmon and the iconic red-headed crane

Axecutioner

2015 • 13 min

Three guys go to a cabin in the woods to drink beer and watch movies whilst there's a masked killer on the loose.

Genius Loci: Carlo Scarpa and the Olivetti store

2015 • 30 min • Italy

An examination of the Olivetti store in Venice, Piazza San Marco -- a true icon of Italian architecture of the twentieth century restored in the 1950s by Carlo Scarpa.

Circus of Red Poppy

2015 • 5 min • Slovakia

Once upon a starry night, a small boy with the head full of fantasies witnesses dreamlike circus performances. Dazed by endless chain of glittering attractions he realizes that the price for a ticket to the fantastic circus tent is too high and gate between reality and dream is closing.

Cascade (The Deluge)

2015 • 3 min

A short animated film by William Basinski and James Elaine.

The Poem

2015 • 6 min • China

An ancient was looking for the plum blossom in the snow storm during the trip.

Volunteers Unleashed

2015 • 54 min • Canada

Leading this story is 22-year-old Pippa Biddle, who after a series of voluntourism experiences over six years posted a critical blog. It went viral with over 15 million hits, and instantly launched her as the poster child against privileged young white women volunteering overseas. Volunteers Unleashed shows that going overseas with good intentions does not guarantee good will be done. Inspired by his daughter Jennica's life-changing experience as a volunteer in Tanzania in 2012, Vancouver filmmaker Brad Quenville (The Dolphin Dealer, Ice Pilots, Pyros, Highway Thru Hell) went back to Africa with his daughter and DOP Kyle Sandilands to shoot and develop the documentary.

Pedro M, 1981

2015 • 27 min • Switzerland

In Madrid, a woman pursues the traces of a father she never knew.

In the Waves

2015 • 6 min • Taiwan, United States of America

A tie-dye fabric animation that narrates the beginning of life from a microscopic perspective.

300 Nassau

2015 • 7 min • United States of America

An example of a very extended practice in New York City, a city where apparently there is no place anymore for low income and working class people. The detention of Josh and Amron Israel opens a space for hope