All Films

Manang Klara

2017 • 25 min

When a foreign god conquers the islands that are yet to be called the Philippines, the shaman Manang Klara fights with her sweat and blood to defend her culture and identity from the inevitable Spanish conquest.

365x: 22

2017 • 6 min

thank you for everything this year. thank you for the love, thank you for the support. thank you for being accepting of the time it took to get here. here is not forever. bigger and brighter. or smaller and brighter. whatever you want. whatever i feel like.

The Cleaners

2017 • 10 min

When Ms Hu arrived her home. She realized something was wrong. The dead body of someone laying down in her living room. She called for help but hesitated to call the police - She needed some very special help. She called " The Cleaners".

3 Beds

2017 • 7 min

Three post-sex conversations.

Scarecrow

2017 • 46 min

New York homicide detective James D'Angelo discovers the connection between murders which seem ordinary and unrelated. Motive of those incidents are related with hate, race, sexual orientation, xenophobia and extremism. They all happened in haunted places at different periods of time. Investigation drags him into darkest corners of human nature. Haunted places -just like scarecrows- hide a bigger truth, beyond police work. The detective find himself as 'a crow' and figures out haunted places, hate, extreme thoughts and phobias are as scarecrows. Fear motivates people's acts, we're like crows. But who put these 'scarecrows / scare-humans' to our lives?

The Couple that Met on 9/11

2017 • 2 min

Mike and Donna tell the story of the fateful day their love began.

Cuando se fueron los olivos

2017 • 40 min • France

Three little ladies have lived for more than eighty years in the heart of a patio. In this modest theatre, daily rituals go hand in hand with the lapping of the fountain and nothing escapes María, the turtle. This place frozen in time is disturbed by the metamorphoses of the outside world...

Furocious

2017 • 14 min • United States of America

A food delivery man delivers to a very...different customer.

Kiondoro Mikosi

2017 • 55 min

A hilarious hullabaloo of misfortunes and outrageous occurrences as Kiondoro (Felix Warutere - Kalasha award-winning actor) endeavors to attend a life-changing job interview. An interview that might just not go as expected. A family comedy film.

The Door to Another World

2017 • 50 min • Japan

A program that introduces horror videos such as psychic posted videos, UFO/UMA posted videos, psychic site inspections, and ghost stories.

Children’s Game #19: Haram Football

2017 • 9 min • Iraq

In August 2017, during the final phase of the Fatah (Conquest) Operation, the Iraqi Army pushed Islamic State combatants back from the east bank of the Tigris River in Mosul. With the support of Baghdad’s Ruya Foundation, Francis Alÿs had been working with the inhabitants of the border region between Iraq and Syria, embedded with the armed forces fighting the Islamist militias. On the west bank of the Tigris, which had just been liberated from Daesh control, Alÿs documented a peculiar street game that he had heard of on a previous trip: a soccer game played without a ball, but with great skill, imagination and resistance by a group of young people, in defiance of the barbarous impositions of the Islamic State, an expression of passion and creativity that these young people were more than willing to reenact in front of the camera.

Mysterious Collector - Utsuro Shikataro

2017 • 60 min • Japan

From authors, talents, actresses, occult researchers to full-time ghost storytellers! A full-fledged ghost story series featuring the full range of ghost story kitan hunters who are active in various fields! Scary stories told in a strange way of speaking, many mysterious stories... The guide will be Shinmirou Ryugyoku, a master of classic rakugo ghost stories who has won the National Entertainment Hall Hanagata Engei Grand Prize and is also known as the "Ryugyoku the Killer"!

No Monsters

2017 • 4 min • United Kingdom

Welcome back to Autodale, children. Today’s programming is nearly done, which means it is time for bed. But sadly, not all dreams are sweet, some are scary and full of monsters. If any night terrors haunt your sleep, children; always remember that you’re safe in Autodale. There are no monsters here. This film is a sequel to animated short “Being Pretty”.

Efecto túnel

2017 • 1 min

Two women travel to the sea with the ashes of a loved one. Perhaps they should have clung to silence, especially when entering that tunnel.

Soul of The Cat

2017 • 44 min • Botswana, United States of America

Most people in the world who know a domestic cat understand the wild look in their pet's eye. This film looks at those thinly veiled behaviors between domestic cats and their wild cousins and ancestors, specifically to draw those parallels and to explain to 'owners' what they are seeing when they watch their cat. There are scenes of cats leaping, landing, running up trees like leopards and all the behaviors we are used to seeing in domestic cats, but drawn exactly from their wild equivalent

Jovian Project

2017 • 6 min • Canada

Pushing the boundaries of paranormal science, a top secret project captures and dissects inter-dimensional creatures. But their curiosity soon turns to terror when they try to trap a mysterious being with power beyond their understanding.

Angel of Despair

2017 • 6 min • United States of America

Angel delivers a letter to a US citizen, claiming it's from his father, the King of the East.

Before Known As

2017 • 15 min

The story centers on two protagonists at very different points in their lives. The first is Caleb, a young man who has just escaped a botched crime that left his brother dead and has been forced to go into hiding. The other is Robert, an older man returning to his old him in search of a chance to heal old wounds.

There Is No Door

2017 • 23 min

From childhood to adulthood, Sam contends with the suicidal curse that has plagued her family for generations.

For a Moment

2017 • 1 min • Indonesia

a man realized being followed by an unknown thing after completing his college payment because he started to entering his 5th semester.

Pandemic

2017 • 9 min • Poland

A computer animation in which the camera circles around an architectural structure, only to penetrate its center a moment later. The interior turns out to be an orderly tangle of a huge number of connections. Somewhere here, new energy is born. Electronic, pulsating music sets inanimate matter in motion, and it begins to live a life of its own. The camera closely follows its movements, taking the viewer on a hypnotic journey full of surprises.

Apollo 11 ½

2017 • 5 min • Germany

On July 21, 1969 some strange phenomena occurred in parts of the USA and made many Americans go crazy. This documentary tries to find what really happened.

Plant Dreaming Deep

2017 • 7 min

In poetic images, Plant Dreaming Deep exposes the exhausting transitional phases of loneliness, insecurity and isolation. By means of analogue video synthesis, fine-pored textures and washed out veils of colour were created, which find a suitable complement in the pulsating soundscape of Emilie Payeur. Like misunderstood or unprocessed experiences, the traces of old video recordings flash through this retro-futuristic collage and the main protagonist, the flora structured by human hands, appears simultaneously connected with freedom and suffocation.

Two Friends: Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass

2017 • 7 min • United States of America

Two friends, Susan B. Anthoy and Frederick Douglass, get together for tea and conversation. They recount their similar stories fighting to win rights for women and African Americans.