All Films

Horse's Stone

2017 • 20 min • Mexico

Matilde, a dying little girl, will search for the stone that allow her not only to fulfill her dream of becoming a horse, but also, perhaps, even cheat death.

A Word to the Wise

2017 • 27 min • Portugal, Solomon Islands, Spain

The Solomon Islands — a constellation of 900 islands scattered in the South Pacific far from any major continent — remain one of the least disturbed places on Earth. There, you’ll find tangled jungles, crystaline waters and small communities of people who retain a deep and intrinsic connection with the ocean, land and history of their home. The story of the islands is told in this short film by Douglas Lui Fu’oa, a husband, father and amateur anthropologist who believes in living in harmony with nature, respecting the environment and understanding your roots

在中间 in Between 在中間

2017 • 5 min

We live in an increasingly virtual world without leaving the physical places our bodies inhabit. We are alone but at the same time we keep constantly contact with the world. The city feeds this dual mobility - physical and virtual - through a variety of situations, routines and rhythms in our everyday life. Spaces deeply encoded and propitious to individualism and indifference, transform us in spectators of places where no one is truly part of. This film is about this state of loneliness, about ambiguity and disorientation, darkness and silence. A space between confusion, chaos and liberation.

Cabin Pressure

2017 • 4 min

A safety and regulations obsessive is forced to revaluate things when a routine flight runs into difficulties.

Cincinnati Music Hall: The Next Movement

2017 • 56 min • United States of America

For 16 months the doors of Music Hall are closed as an historic renovation process ensues. CET is documenting this complex undertaking with compelling interviews and stunning visuals that provide the audience a seat at the table where decisions are made and progress is monitored. It all leads to the much-anticipated grand re-opening of Music Hall on October 6.

Treaty of Rome

2017 • 53 min • France

From Jean Monnet's idea of a transnational European army to the abolition of customs borders, seven years behind the scenes towards the Treaty of Rome. A docu-fiction "embedded" in the great and small histories of Europe.

Paul Gauguin, je suis un sauvage

2017 • 52 min • France

Perception

2017 • 16 min

A new hallucinogenic drug that allows you to relive your memories takes an emotional and psychological toll on Charlie and his sister Josi.

One Night Only

2017 • 10 min • Australia

In this defiantly affirming queer tale, a gorgeously decked-out Australian calls out his date for chastising his "femme" qualities.

Hope

2017 • 30 min • Norway

By transmitting signals from a radio tower, two survivors of the apocalypse desperately cling to the hope that they are not alone.

Ladushki

2017 • 14 min • Russia

Six funny stories based on folk poems, nursery rhymes: “Ladushki”, “Vodichka”, “Pies”, “By the bumps”, “Magpie-raven” and “Gray top”.

Undercovered

2017 • 53 min • Bosnia and Herzegovina

Following the 2001 terrorist attacks on New York City, one item of clothing has gained a scandalous global reputation: the headscarf. All over the world, a major debate is going on about whether Muslim women should be allowed to wear the headscarf in public.

Abjective

2017 • 3 min • United Kingdom

"On the edge of non-existence and hallucination, of a reality that, if I acknowledge it, annihilates me. There, abject and abjection are my safeguards." Julia Kristeva.

The Unseen Words

2017 • 27 min • Indonesia

The lack of show does not dampen the spirit of Distra Budaya members to keep practicing kethoprak, until one day they have an idea to make a performance to upload on Youtube, to be seen by them who can ‘see’ and can be known by the public. One spirit: to entertain the people.

Black Mamba

2017 • 20 min • Tunisia

On the surface Sarra leads an average life, the one her mother has planned out for her: the young Tunisian is taking sewing classes and preparing for marriage to a young man. But deep inside she is concocting a plan to escape this life – as BLACK MAMBA

Dom Fradique

2017 • 40 min • Portugal

A path for tourists on their way to the Castle of São Jorge, the Pátio Dom Fradique was once a popular courtyard where around sixty families used to live.Today, ruins of their houses are the unique remains.There, the erased memories of the old city history and the frenzy of the new Lisbon give way to a contemporary urban tale.

Nobody Here

2017 • 20 min • Serbia

Sara, a 17-year-old girl, is obsessed with her ex-boyfriend Sergej. In absence of a paternal figure, she finds comfort in her bodyguard Dusan.

Disforia

2017 • 8 min

A young, gender-queer person returns home to find his family has left, and the house has been sold. Perhaps they would still be there if he had come home as the Jane they all know.

It's a Phase

2017 • 19 min

A teenage girl tries to change her sexual orientation when her mother doesn't accept her.

AIDS: Doctors and Nurses Tell Their Stories

2017 • 26 min • United Kingdom

For the first time, doctors and nurses who cared for Britain's first AIDS patients in the 1980s tell of the extraordinary situation they found themselves in and the rules they had to break to help patients forgotten by the state.

The Yoga Bridge

2017 • 6 min

Two friends - one white, one First Nations - fight over Vancouver's failed attempt to close a major bridge for citizens to do yoga on National Aboriginal Day.

Cat Box

2017 • 10 min

Award winning short about a cat sitter's curiosity leads to a series of keys that unlock a mystery.

The Insect Woman

2017 • 19 min • South Korea

A high school student thinks disgust is the real feelings she can feel. Before the election of the school president, she is looking for her classmate who has been abused by her and quit middle school.

Where to?

2017 • 52 min • Croatia

Ljiljana is a young woman who drives a taxi in Zagreb, capital of Croatia. Apart from the initial surprise when they meet a female taxi driver, most passengers find her likable and they open up to her. Driving with Ljiljana through the city and listening to conversations she's having with a wide range of travelers, we discover the condition in which transition countries find themselves in when they're facing backsides of capitalism which leads to rising economic emigration but also her personal story that will make us ask ourselves where we are going.