All Films

The Little One

2017 • 10 min • Czech Republic

When Rong was a small child she and her parents moved from Vietnam to Prague. Now she is grown up and remembers that time and what it was like to feel like a foreigner.

Vanilla Whip

2017 • 16 min • Poland

Four people with different approaches to BDSM and visions of themselves. In this world anonymity meets self-awareness and safety confronts riding on the edge.

Shaman

2017 • 5 min • Canada

This animated short tells the story of a ferocious polar bear turned to stone by an Inuk shaman. The tale is based on emerging filmmaker Echo Henoche's favourite legend, as told to her by her grandmother in her home community of Nain, Nunatsiavut, on Labrador's North Coast. Hand-drawn and painted by Henoche in a style all her own, Shaman is the first collaboration between the Labrador artist and the NFB.

Sundogs

2017 • 16 min • United States of America

Mother is looking for work in winter when she stops at a diner to eat with her daughter.

Douvan Jou Ka Leve

2017 • 51 min • France, Haiti

Stemming from her personal experience, her close ones’ testimonies and surprising encounters, Gessica Généus, Haitian filmmaker questions the “disease of the soul” devouring her native island.

Rain Town

2017 • 12 min • Mexico

Carmen and her grandparents live in Oaxaca's Mixtec region. When a drought threatens her family's crops, Carmen finds a way to make it rain.

Karl

2017 • 4 min • France

Karl aka Grandsyeuxnoirs86 and Zoé aka Poussine98 have met on weirder.com. Their first date-in-real-life is scheduled at 4pm. Zoé is on time. Karl is late. Zoé does not like latecomers.

Double Pair

2017 • 14 min • Argentina

Two twin sisters are making a birthday cake. Like a two headed creature, they appear to be a projection of one another. In the brief afternoon they spend together, they relive past conflicts and some shared fears that come back to haunt them.

An Ant Work

2017 • 7 min • Belgium, France

We have a cold autumn day, a bear catches a cold while taking a bath in the river. Back to his cave, he sneezes so hard that a huge rock falls in the entrance, trapping him inside. Even with the help of an ant passing by and the badger, wolf, moose, and buffalo can't move the rock. But the ant has a better idea... Based on the children book "An Ant Work" by Zemanel and Vanessa Gautier, published by Flammarion Jeunesse.

Shark

2017 • 13 min • United Kingdom

While working in her mother's aquarium shop, Milli dreams of sharks.

Lo Que No Se Dice Bajo El Sol

2017 • 15 min • Mexico

Ana’s life changes radically; a divorce in her forties. Everyday it will be harder to continue pretending that all is fine in front of her family.

She's Marrying Steve

2017 • 23 min • United States of America

A 20-something woman gets invited to her ex-girlfriend's wedding to a man and decides to go.

Explorers

2017 • 6 min • United Kingdom

Explorers is a idealistic look at the future of space travel, seen from the perspective of those who dare to venture into the unknown.

Look at Me

2017 • 51 min • Norway

Four young dancers compete for a spot at their dream school, Norid Olin Cultural Academy, but only three will be accepted.

Touch of Death: Reflections in a Broken Mirror

2017 • 22 min • Italy

Working with Luigo Fulci and making 'Touch of Death'.

The Touch to Pain

2017 • 6 min • Serbia

Love story about old man struggling with wife's Alzheimer's disease.

Wood Carving

2017 • 52 min • Israel

The graphic artist Sasha Galitsky almost 20 years ago resigned as art director of a well-known Israeli company to open mugs of wood carving in several elderly homes. This film is about the love of life and old age. And how to live loudly on all of their 90 and 100.

Eu Preciso Destas Palavras Escritas

2017 • 19 min • Brazil

Arthur Bispo do Rosario's past is practically unknown. It is only known that he was black, a sailor and a boxer. In 1938 he was admitted to Colônia Juliano Moreira after a mystical delusion.

60 Seconds Of Darkness

2017 • 5 min • Argentina

A mysterious snowfall covers a quiet and destroyed city of Buenos Aires during the 50s. Two men, armed and wearing diving suits to protect them from the snow, observe how the situation leads a distressed man, who wears an insulation suit made up of bags of waste, to despair. Desperation looms over Buenos Aires as an excruciating situation gives birth to madness. The city, and maybe the whole world, were going insane.

Kyonetsu

2017 • 17 min • Japan

The writer and his wife lead unspectacular everyday lives, but sexually they are very close to the limit. What is still fantasy, what is reality? What happens if the limit is exceeded?

Mind Trap

2017 • 12 min • United States of America

A group of kids uncovers the dark secret their grandpa has been keeping from them.

The Sacred Mushroom Edition (For Kenneth Anger, by way of Kuchar)

2017 • 4 min

An ode to the 1978 version of Kenneth Anger's film Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (dubbed The Sacred Mushroom Edition) and it's peculiar use of Electric Light Orchestra's album El Dorado over images of a ritual orgy between gods, The Sacred Mushroom Edition (2016) finds two fallen angels arguing over ELO and their lead singer Jeff Lynne's affiliated supergroup The Traveling Wilburys - and his connection to the dark side.

Changi

2017 • 8 min • Singapore

Through the span of a taxi ride in Singapore, an immigrant mother reconciles with her son on their notion of home.

Bifurcated Passthrough

2017 • 3 min • United States of America

Video and sound by Robert Beatty.