All Films

Schizophrenia: The Voices in My Head

2017 • 51 min

A documentary tracking the daily lives, struggles and triumphs of some young Irish people living with schizophrenia. They speak openly about what it's like to live with such a severe mental health disorder and struggle with delusional thoughts and the internal voices that are so associated with schizophrenia.

L'Homme bleu

2017 • 19 min • France

Prey to his demons and alone in a hostile world, the Man in Blue has only one idea in mind: to find plastic materials, the essential ingredient to concocting a strange elixir.

Almost Home

2017 • 27 min • Hong Kong

The film is a resonant portrayal of the younger generation in the post-Umbrella Movement era. Two years ago, Ah-man (Ng Wing-sze), an independent yet stubborn university student, left home after a furious argument with her mum when the Umbrella Movement broke out. Now, she undertakes a new kind of lifestyle – a life of a vegetarian and an organic farmer. However, she never stops thinking of the taste from home. With the film's fragmentary narrative style, Ah-man’s story also reflects the ambivalent decisions between family and society of her friends.

Cinema Againts Power

2017 • 55 min

There was an undeclared war for nearly half a century in Bulgaria between the then government and the majority of democratic-minded filmmakers during the Communist regime. Paradoxically, most of the banned or censored out movies were made by members of the Communist Party, believers in their party's ideas and justice. The Communist Party aesthetics against the freedom to tell truth.

Basilisk

2017 • 11 min

Patrick leads a normal life until a meeting with a mysterious stranger changes everything. Can Patrick keep his grip on reality?

The Incursion

2017 • 24 min • United States of America

Socially marginalized and ostracized, a group of residents from the community of Tivoli Gardens in West Kingston, Jamaica seeks recognition for the injustice they endured during the 2010 government raid that left over 150 people dead.

Codes Abided

2017 • 8 min

A group of outlaws are being tailed by crooked cops. A man in each group wants to turn cheek, but sometimes the law of the crew overrules internal desire.

The Lappnor Project

2017 • 33 min

In the Finnish forests was an unclimbed route called the Lappnor project. It was considered to be the hardest climbing route in the world and perhaps impossible for a human. Nalle Hukkataival, a strong Finnish climber took up the challenge. It required almost four years of total commitment and his efforts were followed by hundreds of thousands of climbers around the world. When Nalle finally succeeded, it blew away the whole climbing world like nothing before. The first 9A boulder was climbed! The documentary follows Nalle's journey from the very beginning, all the way to the first ascent almost half a decade later. It captures the incredible dedication that was needed to deal with all the variables and to take that last step to open the next level of climbing.

Don't Panic

2017 • 32 min • United States of America

In their last days together, a group of friends find themselves confused with transitioning from the halls and classes of high school into the ambiguous world.

Rose Gold

2017 • 8 min

Brightly hued and sonically dense, Sara Cwynar's Rose Gold is a richly layered reflection on the relationship between colour, technology, material objects, and desire elicited from the talismanic powers of the Apple Rose Gold iPhone.

Niebla

2017 • 15 min • Argentina

Fog has a curious effect on cinema. On the one hand, it precludes the production of those images that seem artificial, on account of their sharpness. On the other, the mist gives each frame a mysteriously narrative quality. The joy of watching the sea and the beach under a blanket of mist allows eluding the world of the quotidian, to suspect the beauty of the uncertain and unstable

Neville Shah : What Are You Laughing At?

2017 • 50 min • India

What are you laughing at isn't just the name of the show. It's a question Neville has been trying to answer for a long time. Because what he finds annoying everyone else finds funny.

Spiritus Lepus

2017 • 20 min • Sweden

Hidden amongst the mythical undergrowth in a grimy operation room, six Rabbit Humanoid Surgeons haphazardly fight to save the life of a damaged soul.

Yours Faithfully, Edna Welthorpe (Mrs)

2017 • 5 min • United Kingdom

Chris Shepherd directs a short animation in tribute to Joe Orton (Entertaining Mr Sloane, Loot) to mark the 50th anniversary of his death. Joe Orton would write letters of complaint using the pseudonym of Edna Welthorpe. Using this persona, Orton would wind up companies, vicars and even ridicule his own plays. In this short we see what mayhem ensues when Edna writes to Smedley Jams and Littlewood home catalogue service.

DAM! The Story of Kit the Beaver

2017 • 12 min • Canada

DAM! The Story of Kit the Beaver is an animated film that’s not about your average beaver. It’s the tale of Kit, a very independent (and easily distracted) young beaver who loves to explore the sounds of the forest she lives in. Animated short with original orchestral score performed by The Toronto Symphony Orchestra.

Under My Spell

2017 • 7 min

See what happens when you try to turn your golden charm to greenbacks.

Rouff

2017 • 7 min • Germany

Three-legged dog sketch Rouff is sad and lonely. To escape his loneliness, he folds a new friend, Pete, from the paper he is drawn on. Rouff and Pete's quest for the fourth leg is an adventurous story, not only for children.

Perfect Town

2017 • 4 min • Switzerland

Everybody aspires to be a citizen of Perfect Town – but display a deficiency or a flaw and you will be stripped of your superior status and forced to the rear of the interminable line of those clamouring to get in.

Medulla Oblongata

2017 • 8 min

Maldivian student Abraham Naim is better known as his alter ego: the powerful and sassy drag queen Medulla Oblongata, a notable figure in the Auckland LGBTQ scene. Medulla Oblongata explores where Abe is now and the life he left behind.

Brooklyn Breeze

2017 • 4 min • Russia

A musical stroll in old Brooklyn, both in its mythical sites and in less touristy places. Based on a composition written by a New York musician and conductor, Michael Arenella and his Orchestra.

Beles

2017 • 7 min • Eritrea, United States of America

An East African kid (Aginy Teklu) and his friends wakes up every morning to collect a valuable fruit called Beles from the deep mountains of his village.

Planet Hades

2017 • 6 min • United States of America

A treasure hunter heads for an alien planet and finds something unexpected.

What I Would’ve Told My Daughter If I Knew What to Say Back Then

2017 • 13 min • Philippines

The filmmaker talking to over 13 years of home videos in an imagined conversation with her daughter's younger years. The filmmaker's failed coming out when her child was only 3 years old inspired the initial concept for this experimental documentary.

Emoticon Man

2017 • 20 min

In a world where everybody wears emoticon masks, Nick meets Sophie, a woman that dares to express her feelings through her own face. The life of Nick will drastically change by having feelings that emoticons cannot describe.