All Films

Marasmus

2015 • 15 min • Portugal

Fragments of light and shade in the lives of a truck driver spiraling downward, his caring wife and their oblivious daughter.

Nia's Door

2015 • 25 min • Taiwan

Nia from the Philippines works as a family maid in Taiwan. She prefers to stay in her private room, where a door separates her from her employers, but this upsets her employers.This is a story about being away from home.

Exercise

2015 • 30 min

Each day Delia repeats the same actions, going from her apartment to her office and back again, her solitary routines accompanied only by the constant narration of fitness instructor Liada. Liada's coaching steadily grows more intense, leading Delia through a regimen of strange exercises - until a phone call causes an unexpected break in the pattern.

Aubade

2015 • 6 min • Switzerland

A black sun rises above Lake Leman. In a surrealist backlight, several bathers and aquatic birds witness the spectacle of daybreak, hypnotized by the music played by a cellist.

Fine Housekeep

2015 • 57 min • United States of America

A husband and wife daydream on a normal day.

Ruben Leaves

2015 • 5 min • Switzerland

It should have been just another day, but Ruben’s scheduled meeting with Dave is making him nervous. Fearful imaginings haunt his morning. He forgets to lock his door, misses the bus and when he enters the office he sees a deer waiting for him.

Rubén, the Evangelizer

2015 • 12 min

Rubén García is a homosexual and Catholic evangelizer. He shares his testimony in conferences or TV shows. Rubén reveals the transformations that converted him into the person he is today.

Smoke Like Echo

2015 • 10 min

A gun-­for-­hire, simply known as a Gardener hunts down a rogue cyborg with an origin story far too close to home.

OH-Mart

2015 • 31 min • United States of America

A mysterious VHS falls in the hands of a porn store owner and his crew.

Tamara

2015 • 16 min • United Kingdom, Russia

Siberian bus driver Tamara sets about introducing her teenage son Max to the colleague she has been dating for a while. But when all three meet in a jolly karaoke bar, the rivalry between the two men she loves releases her from clutching at old hopes.

Down from Heaven

2015 • 15 min • Macedonia, Bulgaria

Ana, a 15 year old girl, replaces the SIM card from her phone, with that of her late grandfather. She starts pranking her family by sending them messages, using his number. But the seemingly naive joke turns against Ana.

Fan Fan

2015 • 30 min • Taiwan

The titular anthropology student Fan Fan decides to temporarily take up a job as a sexy karaoke girl at a local gentlemen’s club, after a disappointing realization about her love life. When one of her clients treats her with a kindness and respect rarely seen in the sex industry, the lines between business and pleasure start to get blurry...

El Deseo

2015 • 11 min • Puerto Rico

A young man and his girlfriend take a day off work to seek a mystical place where they hope to get their problems solved.

Benches No. 0458

2015 • 7 min • Russia

Sleight

2015 • 12 min • United Arab Emirates

A late night radio host goes off on a rant about his disdain for magicians. But when a man claiming to be a magician calls on air, things get increasingly sinister.

Lembusura

2015 • 10 min • Indonesia

Lembusura, or the legend of the mountain demon. A rain of ash falls on Java. Kelud, a volcano located to this east of the Indonesian island, is active. As one of the island’s most dangerous mountains, it is known for violent and explosive eruptions. And when it rains ash, it pours. Time and again, everything gets covered in fine grey dust – houses, streets, blossoms and umbrellas. According to legend, the ash rain is caused by an angry demon named Lembusura who wears a magic hood and lives inside the volcano.

Fray

2015 • 19 min • Finland

It ain't easy being a mercenary on a dead world: a ruined world where the sun blocks everything with it's heat. Sarcastic risk-taker Fray finds herself chased by everyone from underworld thugs to Federal Agents as she leads an expedition out into the sun burned areas of the north where they will learn, that some things are better left unlearned.

S.o.s.

2015 • 33 min • South Korea

Yeonhee questions herself while being in a relationship with her boyfriend, Junhee. One day, she tries to meet a lesbian girl, Wonjin.

The Wheel

2015 • 14 min • Egypt

An Egyptian couple employed by a circus is bored. When the couple is introduced to a new show: "The Wheel", hope and excitement for a reignited passion in their lives returns.

Warm Snow

2015 • 5 min • Israel

An animated short about the relationship between a father and his grown up daughter. The daughter is waiting for her dinner and is irritated by her father’s nagging questions and suggestions. Soon we’re transported into the surreal and snowy world swirling in her head.

Respiro

2015 • 7 min • Italy

When a refugee from Syria has to crosso the Italian border, she finds out that only one thing can save her: her breath.

Lenz Elegy

2015 • 23 min • France

A Short film by Christophe Bisson

You Are Boring!

2015 • 14 min • United States of America

YOU ARE BORING! discusses the troublesome nature of “looking” and “being looked at” in larger contexts including labour within the new economy, performer/spectator relations, participatory culture, contemporary art display and queer representational politics.

Down to Earth

2015 • 51 min

Ernesto Gainza stands 4,000 meters above the ground in Dubai, preparing to set a Guinness world record skydiving with the smallest and fastest parachute in history. Experts say he is likely to die, but he jumps. Born in Valencia, Venezuela, Ernesto's father died days before he was born, leaving his mother to care for him and his sister singlehandedly in humble circumstances. After a difficult divorce, Ernesto gave up everything to move to Europe and took a skydiving course. His life changed forever and a career in parachute stunts quickly developed in a dream of setting a world record by April 5, 2014.