All Films

Cafe Tangerine

2017 • 9 min • United States of America

Jay Weingarten plays an entertainer with a strong desire to connect with a community.

Ride or Die

2017 • 5 min • United States of America

Through reclaimed, remixed, and reinterpreted footage from the Fast & Furious franchise, this video piece explores the on and off-screen relationship between Vin Diesel and Paul Walker, who passed away in a car accident on November 30, 2013. Across six panels, we follow the two men and their fictional counterparts as they race and rescue one another over and over again on a last ride that, thanks to cinema, can extend into infinity. Vin sings a Rihanna ballad to his now fallen friend, who exists within movies but is no longer with us in reality.

Partners in Healing

2017 • 46 min • United States of America

This is an introduction to integrative medicine for anyone fighting for optimal health.

Mister Popular

2017 • 5 min • United States of America

A well-liked jock discovers the true dangers of his popularity when he encounters an obsessed classmate.

Monument | Monumento

2017 • 12 min

At Friendship Park, a unique meeting place along the US–Mexico border, family members and loved ones from both countries can see and speak to each other through a meshed fence, but they cannot touch.

Emma

2017 • 4 min • United States of America

A woman discovers a playful ghost residing in her new apartment. Soon she realizes that there may be more to this spirit than fun and games.

Choice

2017 • 13 min • United States

An unplanned pregnancy impacts an Irish family, where pro life and pro choice views clash.

Maine Girls

2017 • 28 min • United States of America

With one million immigrants making their home in the U.S. annually, immigrant students are entering American public schools in record numbers. Welcome to South Portland, Maine explores a demographic shift through the lives of young women attending high school in what is considered the whitest state in America - Maine. The film's 14 teen protagonists-from Somalia, the Congo, Vietnam, Jamaica, and southern Maine-are enrolled in a hip hop, health and culture program during the most anti-immigrant period in recent U.S. history. The 2016 presidential race and recent terrorist attacks have fueled an atmosphere of mistrust, fear, and violence against recent immigrants. Viewers will watch as the girls relate to one another's hopes and fears, and manage to build trust as the charged events unfold around them.

The Perfect Day

2017 • 11 min • Spain

With a $10 million business deal set to close and a date with beautiful girl, David figures today will be the best day of his life. Not quite.

Vampire Vixens

2017 • 31 min

Alice is a troubled young woman living in a halfway house. She claims to be haunted by a "vampire" named Sarah who forces her to lure victims into the home in order for her to feed. No one believes Alice's crazy story until one social worker decides to play along...and finds out that Alice's imaginary friend is all too real.

Get Action

2017 • 8 min • United States of America

Christine looms over the buzzer of a Brooklyn apartment building marked Michelle & Jim, unable to press it. She walks away, figuring a quick game of Candy Crush is far more inviting than a visit to a friend whose husband had died.

The Battle of San Romano

2017 • 2 min • Switzerland

Movement within a painting, which begins with the savagery of a battle and comes to a halt in a rendition of a masterpiece of the 15th century – The Battle of San Romano by Paolo Uccello.

Door Light

2017 • 6 min • United States of America

Any Minute Now

2017 • 1 min • United States of America

A person ponders where their life is headed, in their own anxiety-ridden mind.

Sandra Calling

2017 • 13 min • Brazil

A reflection on loss, pain, sex and breathing.

Dos sueños después

2017 • 17 min • Spain

Several dreams, dozens of hotel rooms, an escape. A pine forest. Some women gazing out to sea, seen from behind. Images and sounds create the reverse angle of happiness.

Finland from East to West

2017 • 53 min • Finland, France, Germany

On December 6, 1917, Finland declared its independence from Russia. A detailed chronicle of the major events in the history of this young European nation.

Villa Ventura

2017 • 26 min • Switzerland

At Villa Ventura lives a wealthy but rather unusual family. Hoping to improve the son Mirko's communication skills, a pair of actors, Simon and Lola, are hired. But their drama class is of no interest whatsoever to Mirko. His interests lie elsewhere.

Capacocha

2017 • 16 min • Argentina

Bruno, a Peruvian priest, comes to Buenos Aires after his church is set on fire. He meets up with Juan, an old friend he met in jail many years ago. Bruno is hoping to work in a Peruvian restaurant in order to send money back home, but his friend has other plans for him.

Geisiely with Y

2017 • 15 min • Brazil

Based on the short story of the same name by writer Ezter Liu, the film "Geisiely with Y" tells the story of a woman who was physically and psychologically abused through the eyes of the police officer who assists her. Geisiely, like so many others, is a woman who seeks some dignity in the depths of the facts.

Fedra

2017 • 14 min • Belgium

A young undocumented woman is trying at all costs to contact her father, who’ is held in a closed centre.

Bible of Kong Girls

2017 • 25 min • Hong Kong

Bible of Kong Girls takes a look at three women exploring their lives and dilemmas within the space of a year. Splitting the film segments into the four seasons of the year, we follow Asther, Sai B and C-fu. The three modern, spirited and quirky women are introduced to an article, ‘The 37 Self-help Guidelines from Lee Ka-shing’s Private Secretary’ that serves as a sort of bible for the woman of today. With each passing season the women encounter another challenge life throws at them whilst following the rules of the article, but are these guidelines tearing the friends apart instead of helping them?

Children of the Cosmos

2017 • 7 min • Brazil

A film created for NASA / CineSpace 2017. The Cosmos. Mankind. The meaning of Life.Come play with us.

I'm Still Alive

2017 • 8 min • Australia

This bone-chilling minimalistic animation film (made with black, white and red colors only) is voiced by the director herself, the Australian illustrator Anita Lester, whose grand-aunt had lost her entire family in Nazi camps and has then gone mad. Her confused, distorted, extrapolated memories full of despair and horror, of mysterious interiors and someone’s eyes, became the foundation of this impressive conceptual short film.