All Films

Prince: Purple Reign

2017 • 44 min

In recent times, music lovers have been confounded with the tragic and shocking news that some of their most beloved stars had passed away in controversial circumstances. The music world has again been stunned by the sudden and tragic news that Prince, the legendary musician, died at his home in Minneapolis at the age of just 57, and it was recently confirmed the singer died of an opioid overdose. He was one of the most naturally gifted artists of all time, and also one of the most mysterious. In the Eighties, at a time when other megastars such as Michael Jackson, Bruce Springsteen, and Madonna, were delivering an album every three years or so, Prince remained prolific to an almost inhuman degree. A byproduct of his inexhaustible output was Prince's tendency toward wayward, self-indulgent career moves that sometimes alienated even his most ardent supporters.

My Dear Uncle

2017 • 13 min • Germany, Russia

The author of the film comes to his Russian uncle Sasha in the German province and helps him in the relentless search for the woman with whom he could live.

The Clapper

2017 • 4 min • United States of America

A woman installs clappers in her home when suddenly the clappers have a mind of their own. Is it the echo, or someone else in the apartment?

On One's Own Land

2017 • 7 min • Ukraine

Spring. Shots and explosions can be heard nearby - there is a war. Uliana packed her things to go. All the neighbors have long since left, except for them and Pasha. Gordii cuts trees in his garden. Uliana catches a car that is ready to take them to a safe place, but Gordii, despite the war, refuses to leave his native land.

Flesh and Blood a Go! Go!

2017 • 30 min

A series of graphic murders have been happening on the set of photo shoots.

Face Control

2017 • 13 min • Ukraine

Two friends want to have fun at night in Kyiv. Under the spotlight of nightlife, class inequality and injustice become ruthless towards young boys and their desires.

Buzz One Four

2017 • 60 min

Buzz One Four chronicles the ill-fated flight of a Cold War B-52 Stratofortress loaded with two 3-4-megaton nuclear bombs that crashed 90 miles from Washington DC in 1961. Information suggests that detonation came closer than official reports indicated. The full details of the crash have remained classified and otherwise repressed by the Air Force, but the filmmaker, Portlander Matt McCormick, grew up with this story because the pilot was his grandfather. As McCormick recounts the history of the era, aspects of this crash, and other little-know nuclear-weapons accidents, he leaves us wondering if the U.S. was in greater danger of nuking itself than of being attacked by the Russians.

The Sleepless Girl

2017 • 39 min • France, Japan

Chinese filmmaker François Chang studies in Paris. One day, he saw on YouTube a video of a Japanese girl involved in a paranormal event. He decided to look for her in Japan and to record everything. The film is entirely shot by iPhone and Go-pro.

High Life at Low Temperatures

2017 • 52 min • Austria

The summits and sheer mountain ridges of Austria’s "Little Siberia" funnel the freezing air from snow-covered peaks into a gigantic hollow – a high-level plateau at 1,000 metres from which it cannot escape: Lungau is Austria’s coldest region. Creeks and streams start higher here, and create bogs, moors and countless alpine lakes. Summer is short but lively, as eagles rear their precious young and ermines eat their fill before the sparse winter returns, while black alpine salamanders give birth to live miniature versions of themselves beneath the tree-line.

Silica

2017 • 23 min • United Kingdom, Australia

An unseen location scout explores an opal-mining town in South Australia in this sci-fi-laced essay film, which finds in this semideserted region both the traces of indigenous culture and remnants of cinema history

The Iron Detective: Sentinel

2017 • 14 min • United States of America

When business is slow for private detective Alex Calibourne, aka Iron Joe, he takes on a body guard position for a sultry nightclub singer. The animated first half of a two-part anthology.

Nikki Marianne

2017 • 14 min • France

Pierre is at a high school party with his best friend and secret crush Nikki Marianne, but she is more interested in an older man.

Casual

2017 • 12 min

Maura's been dumped in a voicemail. It was only a casual thing, but she's still stuck with those grim feelings that come with rejection: self loathing, anger, resentment, and an insatiable hunger for chocolate mousse. And bacon. And wine. To get out of this funk, she decides to take control. Her mate thinks she's a dope, but Maura's sure she'll win the guy over.

Curse of the Banshee

2017 • 22 min • Ireland

A vengeful banshee takes vengeance on a small Irish town that lynched her 50 years ago. Her only opposition is a demon hunter and his wild protégé.

Vanilla

2017 • 13 min • Brazil

Look around. Everything you see and touch can taste like vanilla.

June July

2017 • 18 min • France

Eva is hospitalized at her request for depressive syndrome. It is a way, for her who passes into adulthood, to protect herself from an external world which anxiates and frightens her.

Rest Stop

2017 • 14 min • United States of America

At a highway rest stop, a meek professor turned best-selling spy novelist summons the courage of his alter-ego/nom de plume to rescue a women from being beaten to death.

Spectral Ascension

2017 • 5 min • United States of America

Music by Byron Westbrook, 16mm film by Paul Clipson.

The Train, The Forest

2017 • 4 min • Germany

A train ride and a stroll through the forest reveal strange incidents. The journey carries us through fields, along power lines and running people. Line structures on the margin of chaos signal impending disaster.

Phallus malus

2017 • 22 min • France

Tale of a day and summer night. On the eve of the great august holidays in the Basque Country. Gabrielle, a young girl, appears inconsolable from her dad’s death when a phallus hangs between her legs.

Martin Scorsese on Framing

2017 • 5 min • United States of America

Martin Scorsese in 1990 talks to T.J. English

Please Hold

2017 • 18 min • Finland

'Please hold' is a short film about a teenage girl, who is desperately waiting for her mother to come home. But just how much longer can she wait?

Allergic to Flowers

2017 • 13 min

Two slackers, both acquaintances from high school, and both recently dumped by their significant others, are forced to take a job together delivering flowers on Valentine's Day.

Inocentes

2017 • 19 min • Brazil

A voyeuristic journey through the homoerotic work of Alair Gomes.