All Films

Olympia

2015 • 45 min

Olympia, a 33-year old woman, is already three months pregnant when she finds out that she has lung cancer. After enough thought, she decides to keep the baby. Four months after giving birth to a healthy baby and while her cancer progresses fast, at the initiative of her doctor, Psyllakis and his colleagues will stay near the new mother and her family for four days, recording everything they can.

No Soldier

2015 • 10 min • Denmark

An untrained soldier is forced to protect his countries borders as his childhood friends try to cross for a better life.

Faith and Doubt

2015 • 13 min • Russia

Vera is a chubby and overly trusting girl in her 30s. She returns from a business trip and dreams of a romantic evening in honor of the anniversary of the relationship. But her husband is not at home, but unfamiliar women's shoes, underwear, and even something worse have appeared! Was a sexy and younger neighbor involved in this? And how unbridled can Vera's fantasy become to justify adultery?

We Were Waves Once

2015 • 16 min

Cocteau spends her days isolated in her flat observing other lives, trying to combat her writer's block. On the day her estranged father dies, she meets young and wild neighbour Alicia, who just might be the inspiration she needs.

Splintertime

2015 • 11 min • Netherlands, France, Belgium

A band of sleepy spirits in an ambulance runs out of road. The third in a series of musical short films featuring Thee Wreckers.

I Decided to Leave

2015 • 4 min • United Kingdom

A man decides to leave. He knows he wants to do something with his life. He just hasn't figured out what yet.

Macedonian

2015 • 60 min • Bosnia and Herzegovina, Netherlands

A tale of victory of humanism over revenge motif. Amir Reko (nicknamed "Macedonian", but actually Bosnian Muslim by ethnicity), the ex-captain of Yugoslav People's Army, saved lives of 44 Serb civilians during the siege of Gorazde in 1992. He went through personal and professional temptation during the war, while plenty of other officers ended up in Hague or other international criminal courts across Europe.

My Name Is Fleming, Ian Fleming

2015 • 51 min • Germany

The man who invented James Bond: The story of Ian Fleming, real-life spy, ladies' man and sportsman, who was there at the birth of MI-5 and the CIA, and gave the world one of its most enduring and iconic heroes: Bond. James Bond.

It's About Time

2015 • 6 min • Latvia

A message brought by the wind urges a lonely man to go out to the city, but there is someone who does not want him to leave the room.

Offside

2015 • 17 min • United Kingdom

Eleven-year-old Kirsty struggles to accept her looming womanhood as she learns that she will soon lose her position on the local boy's football team.

Overrated

2015 • 24 min • Australia

Benin has left Adelaide for a new life in Sydney, but he will soon realize that there is only so much charm to a fresh start. The struggles of adulthood seem to escalate around him - a recent breakup, followed by a series of other failures, has cornered him into a dark state of mind. With some help from his friends, he'll have to strive for the obvious personal development needed in order to keep moving forward.

A Carcass

2015 • 3 min • Belgium

An attempt to illustrate in animation Baudelaire's poem "A Carcass". A mixture of horror and irony, sacred and profane, life and death.

Plaster

2015 • 11 min • Netherlands

Pelle is a shy 12-year-old dreamer. During a family holiday he comes to realize he can’t stay a wallflower forever and is determined to change his ways, although the circumstances are far from ideal.

Awakenings

2015 • 14 min • India

Chased by a malevolent entity, a babysitter's child care session turns into a nightmare as reality becomes more and more twisted.

The Big Burn

2015 • 53 min • United States of America

The dramatic story of an unimaginable wildfire that swept across the Northern Rockies in the summer of 1910.

Tremulous

2015 • 20 min • Mexico

Carlos sweeps and mops the floor of an old-time barbershop. The day before Independence Day, among the customers is Julio. Their eyes meet, and when the barbershop closes Julio comes back for Carlos. They spend the night together, eating, chatting and even dancing, knowing full well that this encounter will be brief and short-lived.

Tiny Tiny Pieces

2015 • 22 min • Sweden

Fia lives with her mentally ill father in a small community where it’s important not to stand out. She does everything to hide what it’s like at home. After a fight with her boyfriend at a party, she runs off, and gets a ride with Elsa, who’s not afraid of standing out at all.

Essence of Pandanus

2015 • 26 min • India

A young man is on a regular monthly visit to his grandmother. Things take an unexpected turn as she starts reminiscing and as the future and the past collide.

Silently Within Your Shadow

2015 • 14 min • United Kingdom

As their relationship grows, Lucette's obsession for ventriloquism and her dummy Hugo starts to strain her relationship with Jace. To Lucette Hugo is more than just a dummy, he's her best friend and represents her ambition as an artist, to her, he's very much real. But to Jace Hugo is just a puppet, or is he?

Punani

2015 • 14 min • Denmark

Masturbating in a bed filled with dolls and teddy bears, teenage girl Agnes is tired of hearing about how accepting God at her confirmation will serve as a rite of passage to adulthood. She seeks out to find her own path to adulthood - and she enlists her older brother's friend to help her.

Too Full To F***

2015 • 4 min

Jane and Celia try to get it on, despite having just gotten their brunch on. Written by Jocelyn Guest Performed by Joanna Bradley and Kelly Hudson Directed by Carly Usdin

An Crann

2015 • 15 min • Ireland

A married couple in Donegal contemplate revenge after a mysterious new neighbour fells their tree.

Girl, Wavering

2015 • 20 min • Japan

A heart that is shaken by empty reality. I draw a figure of a girl who desperately pursues something. School girl Mizuho who continues part-time work of dating site cherry. One day, I receive a message asking a man named Kenzo to help with suicide. What is Mizuho's action taken from there...

The Magic of the Diary of Anne Frank

2015 • 50 min • Netherlands

Dutch presenter Astrid Joosten travels the world to find out why Anne Frank's written words in her diary still inspires hope and regardless of own circumstances, works for unity and peace.