All Films

Tracy Morgan: Staying Alive

2017 • 60 min

In his first special since his serious car accident, Tracy Morgan cracks jokes about life in a coma, his second marriage and his family's dark side.

Trapper Keeper

2017 • 2 min • United States of America

A look at the trials and tribulations of school and childhood.

Batman Is Just Not That Into You

2017 • 2 min • United States of America, Denmark

On the Dr. Quinn Show The Joker is breaking up with his longtime enemy, Batman. An animated short on the home entertainment release of The Lego Batman Movie.

What Did Jack Do?

2017 • 17 min • United States of America

In a locked down train station, a homicide detective conducts an interview with a tormented monkey who is suspected of murder.

Jane Austen: Behind Closed Doors

2017 • 59 min • United Kingdom

Historian Lucy Worsley visits the places and houses in England where Jane Austen spent time and which served as inspiration for the settings of her novels.

Kiyoshi Kurosawa: Broken Circuits

2017 • 44 min • Japan

An interview with director Kiyoshi Kurosawa discussing his work in the horror genre from his V-cinema days to his 2001 released film Pulse

Hooker Assassin

2017 • 13 min

They say a mother will go to hell and back for their child, but Jessi's already there. How much further is she willing to go, to ensure the safety of her daughter?

Evaporated

2017 • 15 min • Mexico

A teenager has a crush on his best friend's mom.

Hombre

2017 • 60 min • Philippines

When straight guys go gay: a film anthology of stories taken from the blog Pinoy M2M Erotica. An anthology of five stories. Each story poses the question: what would a straight guy do in a gay situation?

Estás Vendo Coisas

2017 • 18 min • Brazil

In the social landscape of Brega, music videos are the catalyst of an appetite for success as encouraged by capitalism. 'You are seeing things' looks at this world where self-regulation and image management play a crucial role in the construction of voice, status and identity of a whole new generation of popular artists.

Or Bleu

2017 • 7 min • France

Two coral harvesters brothers are about to finish their working day, when the elder one discovers a mysterious underwater cave.

Father's Day

2017 • 15 min

After the loss of his beloved wife, Larry descends a propos Los Angeles considering one perspective toward in mind: to save his two daughters, Angelita and Betty, from their wretched lives as Struggling Artists.

Dreaming

2017 • 3 min • United States of America

The tangled pathway through one’s sleeping imagination can effortlessly tangle fondest memories and tortured nightmares.

Scary Little Fuckers (A Christmas Movie)

2017 • 23 min • United States of America

It's Christmas eve. An inebriated dad brings home to his adolescent son a gift he hopes will mend their faltering relationship, a Fookah, a devilish and disgusting creature that in turns wrecks havoc on their lives.

Sunken Plum

2017 • 19 min • China, Spain

Working at a nightclub in Chengdu, a transgender Chinese woman receives an unexpected visit from her cousin informing her that the mother she has brushed aside, has died. As the only "son", she feels obligated to return to her birthplace for the sake of her family, even though she'll have to hide her true self from those that once shared her past.

Hero

2017 • 15 min • Australia

In the quiet and picturesque Yarramalong Valley, Officers Henry and Brooks find a young woman wandering by the roadside, distraught from events she has just witnessed. Following a report of a possible crash site, the officers suspect the young woman is a survivor; taking her into their care they proceed to investigate. Within the undulating trees, not everything is as it seems. Who has come to Earth? Do we need a hero to save us all?

Ya Albi

2017 • 18 min

A Syrian refugee adapts to life in an unfamiliar country after her husband's immigration visa is unexpectedly rejected.

I Don't Protest, I Just Dance in My Shadow

2017 • 6 min • United Kingdom

“I don’t want to feel like it’s only me. I know it’s not only me, because there are others out there…” ‘I Don’t Protest, I Just Dance In My Shadow’ is a short visual essay film by artist animator, Jessica Ashman, about navigating the visual art and animation world as a black face in a white space. Using animation and recorded interviews of eight other women of colour artists, ‘I Don’t Protest, I Just Dance In My Shadow’ is an abstract confessional from the director herself: a visualisation of the joy, frustration, wishes and dreams of what it feels like to be a black women and a woman of colour artist, creating and existing.

Los tiempos de Héctor

2017 • 29 min • Mexico

"The Times of Héctor" - Hector is a lonely man who attends suicides in Mexico City. Monica is a young woman who longs for death. Their meeting will unleash unsuspected consequences for both.

I Know You from Somewhere

2017 • 15 min

A young woman incurs the wrath of the internet after inadvertently becoming a viral sensation.

DreamWorks Home: For the Holidays

2017 • 45 min • United States of America

Oh takes it upon himself to introduce Christmas joy to his fellow Boovs. Unfortunately, his well-meaning mission nearly destroys the city.

The Obama Years: The Power of Words

2017 • 51 min • United States of America

Barack Obama launched into our national consciousness at the 2004 Democratic National Convention and ever since, he's delivered messages of patriotism, unity, and hope through the power of words. But of all the speeches he's given, six in particular may define his legacy as, in historian Doris Kearns Goodwin's words, "one of the best writers and orators in the presidency." Interviews with eminent historians and key figures in his writing process give rare insights into these iconic speeches, as well as the Obama presidency and the man himself.

The Eyeless Hunter: A Khanty Story

2017 • 4 min • Estonia

Incensed at his laziness, a shrewd, cunning wife steals the eyes of her husband while he rests instead of hunting.

Searching Nafta

2017 • 22 min • Mozambique, Portugal

Shooting on 16mm film in Mozambique, director Ico Costa explores the textures of human behaviour as he follows young men who wonder what lies beyond their immediate surroundings. In the fragments of conversations captured in the Maputo market, a recording studio and on coconut trees, we find daily routines and tedium lead to chit-chat on desire, money and hope. In the interplay between performance and document, poetry emerges from fleeting everyday moments.