All Films

Alice Otherlands: Leviathan

2015 • 10 min

Alice visits the mind of Jules Verne and guides him through the visuals of his novels, as they discuss the nature of humanity and their fears.

Blindspot

2015 • 25 min • Hong Kong

A story of father and son, and a stray dog. Baseball kid Lam doesn’t get along with his father after his mom’s passing. He meets a stray dog named Tomato one day when he is practicing on the street. He takes the dog home and it soon becomes the connection between him and his estranged father. A traffic accident, however, takes Lam’s life. His father immerses himself into mourning for the loss of all beloved ones. With the help of the staff in heaven, Lam finally realizes how much his father loves him, and is given a final chance to show his love.

September Love

2015 • 4 min

The nerdy robot Kar goes on a date with the lovely insectoid Chaya. Kar is put to the test when ultra disco dancer Boogie tries to win over Chaya's affection with his hypnotizing dance moves.

Third Person

2015 • 54 min

Suzan, an Arab-Israeli woman, must reshape her identity when she discovers at 35 that she was born intersexual.

2.57k

2015 • 13 min • Canada

Far away, inexplicable forces shape matter into form. And so life begins: people arise from dust and are drawn to each other by the magical frequency of 2,750 Hz. Captivating, beautiful and stirring, the short film 2.57k allows us to see and hear the extraordinary.

Selfie

2015 • 7 min

A woman is haunted by a strange figure in her Selfie photos.

Natalan

2015 • 28 min • Indonesia

Not having returned to Jogja for four years, Resnu promised that he would celebrate this year's Christmas Eve mass together with his mother. Anxiety and longing for the mother invades Restu's mind during the journey with his wife from Jakarta.

Fever Dream

2015 • 13 min • Denmark

Feeling Blue

2015 • 6 min • Brazil

'Feeling Blue' is a visual representation of a morning soaked by depression. It is also the struggle and the poetic beauty of life shown through a dark point of view.

The Letters of Mikael Muhammad

2015 • 20 min

Mikael has been sending letters to Zoya. Zoya has been sending him books. Today is the first time they meet.

Beata

2015 • 3 min

An abstract interpretation of the character of Beata in the play “Rosmersholm” written by Henrik Ibsen.

A Bite To Eat

2015 • 17 min

Claud the vampire has not been on a date in over 40 years. When he meets Shelley, nerves could get the better of him, but with Edgar the waiter's encouragement this could be love at first bite

Field Niggas

2015 • 60 min • United States of America

Set entirely at night, Field Niggas takes us to the corner of 125th Street and Lexington Avenue in Harlem and introduces us to its faces. The non-synch audio track consists of conversations with and among those faces: dreams, regrets, arguments, affection, observations, opinions.

Venefica

2015 • 8 min • United States of America

Penelope is a modern-day witch - a 'Venefica,' to be exact. Today, she must undergo the mystical - and potentially deadly - rite of passage that determines whether her magic is to be used for good or for evil.

One Who Has Two Souls

2015 • 17 min • France

He was called "He Who Has Two Souls". He was beautiful as a woman. And handsome as a man. He hesitated.

A Loud Silence

2015 • 5 min • Indonesia

Often enough we find ourselves stuck with that empty spot in our soul, the spot we long to fill with the presence of others, and some noise, even. But as we struggle to get ourselves out in the midst of crowd, we then realise that more does not always mean merrier; sometimes it only escalates the loneliness, and all the noise around us cannot beat the loud sound of silence inside our head.

Moby Dick: Heart Of A Whale

2015 • 46 min

Herman Melville's epic ocean adventure "Moby Dick" is an American masterpiece. But was this stirring tale of violence and revenge simply an allegory, or were there real giants of the deep deliberately attacking whaling ships? With the help of centuries old witness accounts and modern day science, we explain how the legend of the great white whale came to be. Then we determine if the multiple sperm whale assaults on ships in the 19th century were indeed premeditated and coordinated.

GaraSh

2015 • 60 min • Belarus

Young Belarusian lad does not want to come back to Belarus after his educational visa is over. However, the circumstances forced him to do that. He reveals his native country once again. American dream turns into Belarusian one.

Haldernablou - Triptyque

2015 • 31 min • France

Ablou is a young man prisoner of a dream and a park. He meets strange characters who try to lock him up a little more in this long sleep.

Sämsta bandet ever?

2015 • 58 min • Sweden

In the 1980s there was a punk band in Stockholm who put out one single, got torn apart by local music critics and went away. 35 years later they are contacted by a music label from New York interested in their music.

Intellectual Scum

2015 • 15 min • Kenya

On board a commercial airplane, Ruwe, an African intellectual, sits next to a white man named Walter. In their conversation, which is utterly brutal, honest and to some racist, Walter blames the 'Intellectuals' as to why Africa is in such a deplorable state.

The Exquisite Corpus

2015 • 19 min • Austria

The Exquisite Corpus is based on various erotic films and advertising rushes. Myriad fragments are melted into a single sensuous, humorous, gruesome, and ecstatic dream.

Tashi's Turbine

2015 • 56 min

Tashi Bista dreams to install a makeshift wind turbine in Namdok, a remote village nestled high amongst the Himalayas of Nepal. Namdok, battered by wind and cold has been in darkness for centuries. Wearing Ray Bans to shield his eyes from the dust and just a leather jacket to insulate him from the bitter cold he surveys the village. He grew up in this region without electrical power. He is determined to bring lights to Namdok in an effort to prove himself to the skeptical village community. Tashi's Turbine is a character driven film that shows the impact of one man's dream for light, in a village waiting for development.

Small World

2015 • 53 min • United States of America

Go out into the world, they say… see it for yourself! But in an age where any destination is in the palm of your hand- just a click away, what is left to truly explore? Level 1 examines the universal dialect of moving down snow on two feet through a lens of fresh perspective- documenting the outer niches of a sport pushed under the rug by the modern day ski zeitgeist. From the secret valleys of Switzerland, the ancient cities of Estonia, to the rowdy rope-tows of Minnesota- follow us around the globe as we capture skiing in its purest form. It’s a Small World, after all.