All Films

Voyager

2017 • 8 min • Norway

A shooting star falls down over the Arctic island of Svalbard and The Global Seed Vault gets an unexpected visitor.

Cold at the Summit

2017 • 22 min

An exclusive look at the good times and challenges of a new up-and-coming actor, about to blow up after landing a big lead in the TV-series Vikings.

Fantasy Sentences

2017 • 17 min • Denmark, Germany

Borrowing its title from an experimental text by Walter Benjamin. Many years ago, the cities by the river were gripped by a contagion. Things started to change and everything slowly became something else. It was not clear if transformation was a symptom of the disease or a way to escape it. The contagion touched everything and everyone: animals and plants, stones and soil, men, women and children, their thoughts, their dreams, their memories. An old woman once told me how all memories turn into trees, I could hardly make out what she was saying. She said she could hear the trees singing: To be a body, to be any body. After the years of contagion ended, the cities appeared untouched. One had to look hard to see the traces of the previous time. If one could listen to the trees, what would they say? A way out, a way out?

Play

2017 • 33 min • Cyprus, Greece

Most adults dream of staying in childhood forever; go through life like a game, free of society's rules and restrictions. Five employees in a metal company put this dream into effect. What they find is: you may escape the rules but you can't escape the consequences or your personal responsibility.

Revenge of the Pizza King

2017 • 8 min

A local pizza parlor owner, the self proclaimed, "Pizza King" seeks vengeance from the grave after his failing 15 minute guarantee drives him into bankruptcy.

Natsu's Treasure

2017 • 15 min • Germany

A little girl wanders through the vast city of Tokyo, on a quest to reclaim a treasure thought lost.

The Sounds From The Drawers

2017 • 8 min • Portugal

Turn, turn, turn. Can there be rhythms without patterns? Can it be said one thing leads to another when the links defy (our) logic?

Aamir

2017 • 17 min • France, United Kingdom, United States of America

13 year old Aamir is stranded alone in the largest unofficial refugee camp in Europe. When he is befriended by Katlyn, a thinly stretched volunteer, she becomes Aamir's last hope for salvation.

Girl Against Gravity

2017 • 22 min • Denmark

Erdenchimeg (11) has her mind set on becoming a famous contortionist – a speciality of Mongolian acrobats. Her team at the circus school is invited to become part of a prestigious show on the parliament square. But suddenly Erdenchimeg seems incapable of managing her exercise. The prospect of becoming the ‘odd one out’ on her team is all the more frightening because her dad is imprisoned, her mother is a former drunk, and Erdenchimeg was only admitted to the circus school as an act of good will. Not just her own dreams, but also the dignity of her family is at stake. But in the end she finds her inner strength and pulls through! Part of the "Kids on the Silk Road" documentary project.

Summer of Dreams

2017 • 47 min • United States of America

Roommates and best friends Carter and Josh are finally able to live out their dream of spending the summer at the Jersey Shore. However, Carter’s troubled past becomes problematic as the summer begins to unfold. Summer of Dreams is a humorous coming-of-age story about friendship, finding happiness and summertime fun.

Plane

2017 • 19 min • France

Absent for several months, William, eldest of the family, decides to return to his father in order to visit Jimmy, his young autistic brother. But this decision could have serious consequences.

Le jour de ton jour

2017 • 22 min • France

Blaise is 10 years old. Blaise is in love. Blaise likes to eat. Blaise is going to die. In any case, that's what he believes.

Pumpkin Movie

2017 • 10 min • Canada

When two long-time friends call each other over Skype to continue their annual Halloween tradition of carving pumpkins together, they swap stories of negative encounters with men, both first- and secondhand, in this frank window into the pervasive nature of gender inequality.

Nature: Yosemite

2017 • 60 min

Yosemite was forged by time and shaped by the power of water. Water made life possible in this "stone wilderness," carved out the iconic Yosemite Valley, and gave birth to the Earth's largest living trees. But with climate change, Yosemite is feeling the heat. Water is scarcer and the threat of wildfire is more common. Join scientists and adventurers as they explore the past, present, and future of the Sierra Nevada's (a mountain range which stretches from California into Nevada through Yosemite) most precious resource, its water. Glide over the Yosemite Valley, climb trees as tall as buildings, and see how critters both great and small - from the bighorn sheep to the American pika - survive through drought, wildfire, and mountains of snow, as we investigate one of America's great wildernesses.

North Korea's Deadly Dictator

2017 • 50 min • United States of America

The assassination of Kim Jong-nam occurred on 13 February 2017 when two women attacked him with VX nerve agent, a lethal chemical weapon, at Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Malaysia. Kim was the eldest son of deceased North Korean leader Kim Jong-il and the half-brother of current North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. North Korean diplomats objected to any form of autopsy being conducted on Kim's body, but the autopsy proceeded as the they did not submit a formal protest. Following Malaysia's refusal to release the body immediately, North Korea's ambassador Kang Chol accused Malaysia of collaborating with the country's enemies over the assassination of Kim Jong-nam.

Kleptomom

2017 • 10 min • Germany

Lucy is tired of being the perfect mother. When a department store security guard searches her stroller, he finds more than he could ever have imagined.

Mary

2017 • 29 min • Croatia

Marinko, an assistant worker in the tow-away service has had visions of Virgin Mary. He does not know what to do with her.

Home Movies

2017 • 2 min

In this home movie collection of gay men, memory serves as an act of hope, power, and above all, resilience.

After the Storm

2017 • 14 min

Inspired by current social events, After the Storm explores the lives of a family – a mother, father and their son – caught in the aftermath of an incident that has changed their dynamic forever, as they attempt to come to terms with the predicament they're in, rebuilding what has been broken.

The Problem with Apu

2017 • 49 min • United States of America

In the history of “The Simpsons,” few characters outside the title family have had as much cultural impact as Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, the Springfield convenience store owner. Comedian Hari Kondabolu is out to show why that might be a problem.

mother! The Downward Spiral

2017 • 30 min • United States of America

A behind-the-scenes account that explores the film's production in detail, including intriguing footage from the lengthy rehearsal process. Appropriately enough, the documentary opens with Aronofsky and others explaining why the film can't be described.

Sirens

2017 • 27 min • Netherlands

Deep down inside, a fifteen-year-old boy feels different from the other boys around him. When he becomes friends with an enchanting girl, he gets more and more tangled up in his confusion.

The Road of Grace

2017 • 6 min • Finland

A broken man falls into the path of revenge. At the moment of redemption he understands something greater.

Caracas Vice Vol. 2

2017 • 13 min • Venezuela

Ryan of the DEA will face again the most dangerous drug lord of Venezuela, this time with new friends, in 1983.