All Films

The Spirit of the Painting

2017 • 48 min • Spain

Documentary made for the exhibition that the Chinese artist Cai Guo-Quiang made in the Prado Museum. The film reveals all the secrets of the work of Cai Guo-Qiang, one of the great international contemporary artists, famous for his original explosion technique in his drawings thanks to the properties of gunpowder.

Des!re

2017 • 9 min

An experimental film exploring the desire for transmasc, transmen, butch, stud, Agressives, masculine of center (MOC) people assigned female at birth. Stunning black-and-white images drift across the screen while transmen, femme women, and butch, and MOC people speak about the complexity of their desire.

Shitters

2017 • 7 min • Finland

A short film about a guy who has no idea that his own excrement could turn into a malevolent creature and destroy his apartment.

Christine & Marley

2017 • 6 min

A short film by Tori Pope.

The Universe And Me

2017 • 3 min • France

Life through the eyes of Daniel Tammet

Jugaad

2017 • 52 min • Canada, India

Following the stories of five diverse individuals, this documentary offers a glimpse into the indomitable tenacity of several Mumbai residents

Where the sky sets the clock

2017 • 15 min • Brazil

After his mother’s passing, Tomas’ life turned black and white. Days change when he meets Gabriel, a photographer with a red jacket who helps him see other colors.

The Pursuit of a Happy Human Life

2017 • 11 min • Singapore

Steph Chan is leaving Singapore for good. Yokes struggles to say goodbye. The two girls spend their last moments together before they begin their separate journeys on the pursuit of a happy human life.

Evol

2017 • 20 min • Brazil

Julia lives with her religious mother, Marta. She finds herself into a moral dilemma when she discovers she's attracted to Barbara, her church's new member.

The Lord Inquisitor: Prologue

2017 • 9 min

Warhammer 40,000 influenced short film.

Irma

2017 • 5 min • Uruguay

In a city besieged by the wind and the cold, Irma, an old dressmaker living in a flat where the heating is broken, will take the initiative to do something for all her neighbours.

Closure

2017 • 12 min • United Kingdom

Seb thought life couldn't get much worse after his best friend Harry committed suicide. But when his school brings in a robotic replica of his dead friend to say goodbye to the students, he realises the robot is telling lies about Harry's past. Seb must decide whether to face his emotions and confront the robot about its lies, or have his memories of Harry tainted forever.

Telos

2017 • 3 min • United States of America

A boy discovers that all of his wishes can come true through the power of a mysterious object. Things go awry when he gets too greedy, and Telos is revealed.

Prescribing Hope: A Homeless in Hawaii Special Report

2017 • 25 min

Hawaii News Now reporter Allyson Blair followed the state's only psychiatric street medicine team for six months as they offered homeless people with mental illness a medication that would give them the chance to change their lives.

good dog

2017 • 2 min • United States of America

pretty thing I used to know, and how I miss you. a study of the end of the grieving process, when raw emotions mix with, and give way to, benign nostalgia.

Delivery Man

2017 • 8 min • Argentina

Someone very important needs half a dozen pizzas by 9:00 p.m. Only one can fulfill that difficult task: The Delivery Man.

I like ducks

2017 • 7 min • Japan

In the afternoon on a sunny day, a middle-aged man goes for a walk to meet his favorite ducks...

Uncanny Valley

2017 • 4 min

After the mysterious disappearance of his mother, Elliot struggles to find a new family dynamic, while dealing with his grandpa's crazy antics and theories.

One Last Taste

2017 • 5 min

Yuan needs to sell her grandma's house to pay her bills but suddenly finds something in her grandma's kitchen.

Infected

2017 • 8 min

A lethal virus is spreading fast. Only one man stands in it's way

The Spiral Cake

2017 • 7 min • United States of America

One young woman's quest to determine the superiority of one spiral cake over another leads her to the limits of scientific inquiry.

Arachnophobia

2017 • 9 min

After Ella watches a nature documentary about black widow spiders, she makes a connection between the cannibalistic spider species that eats the male after mating and the mysterious new woman in the house, whom her father has invited to a date that evening.

The Runner

2017 • 30 min • United Kingdom

The Runner, is an emotive and inspiring short film by British Asian actress/ writer/director Sunnie Sidhu. The story is centered on Aylam, a Syrian refugee boy who has just arrived alone in London, he has a chance encounter with Nikki, an athlete training for the Olympics living in Hackney. She helps him by encouraging him to train at the track. He is a gifted runner, but faces many political and personal circumstances challenges.

Utsura Utsura

2017 • 36 min • Japan

This video (movie) could only be expressed by a 22-year-old woman. There is no dramatic story, there is no change of origin, but the complex depiction of the heart that woman feels is plainly drawn through the daily life