All Films

flower

2017 • 4 min • Japan

This film shows various images of flowers growing, blossoming and losing their petals.

The Convention

2017 • 10 min

A short film exploring the annual Esprit gathering, where transgender women in their senior years who have been closeted their whole lives gather for a week of shared experience and understanding in a logging town in Northern Washington.

Repent Now

2017 • 20 min

A short film about a young man - Ben who finds and befriends a mysterious creature which guides his descent into a darker world.

Notre Famille

2017 • 23 min

At 16, Pierre doesn't know who he is and fears he will never become the person he imagined. He escapes into the wilderness to meet Michel, a man who has mysteriously come to train him. In the depths of the forest, cut off from the world, Pierre lets himself be guided by the paternal authority and charisma of his new mentor.

The Dark of Night

2017 • 10 min

The night turns dangerous when a woman seeks refuge from a storm in an isolated diner. Everyone has a secret and nothing is what it seems.

Heart of Fartness: Troma's First VR Experience Starring the Toxic Avenger

2017 • 15 min

The Toxic Avenger has a major midlife crisis and must travel to a mythical land called the "Heart of Fartness," deep in the Panamanian jungle, in order to regain his place as the first Super-Human-Hero from New Jersey.

Trivial Matters

2017 • 32 min

The prospective director ,Do-hwan, is suffering from a past love affair. He goes to a freelance meeting and finds a strange and charming Eun-ha. With her help, he gets to know the problems of past love and also finds a solution about his scenario. Eun-ha and Do-hwan continue to be close to telephone and text messages. He is in favor of her, but he is afraid to get hurt again.

Frederik Remembers

2017 • 11 min

Old and senile, Frederik passes the time in solitude. A box of Nazi paraphernalia found inside his apartment is about to disrupt that.

Teenage Threesome

2017 • 4 min

One boy, one girl and her stepbrother. A date goes wrong.

For Her...

2017 • 20 min • United Kingdom

Jonathan and Elizabeth are deeply in love. But their relationship is tested when Elizabeth becomes afflicted by a devastating illness. Follow Jonathan's emotional journey as he struggles to deal with inevitable tragedy, and discover what lengths he's willing to go to, For Her.

I Come To You

2017 • 10 min • Russia

Annual Charitable Christmas Evening “Action!”

Coke Habit

2017 • 4 min

The Summer after 10th grade Mike spent two solid weeks with horrible horrible migraines, dizziness, blind spots and tunnel vision—he didn’t know what it was… This is the story of his Coke Habit.

Viola, Franca

2017 • 15 min • Italy

Sicily, 1965. Franca is being forced to marry her rapist to avoid becoming a pariah in her traditionalist community but she rebels against the established custom.

All Small Bodies

2017 • 20 min • Germany, United States of America

'All Small Bodies' is a feminist, sci-fi take on the Grimm tale of Hansel and Gretel. It occurs in the distant future among the ruins of a planetary catastrophe, revealing the abuses of history and technology. In the wake of the chaotic aftermath, there are several resilient survivors including two young girls named Z and Bub. The film follows these curious adolescents who have long been lost and alone in the haunted, other-worldly woods, as they awaken their extrasensory abilities and reclaim their autonomy from a menacing dark presence.

Ida Western Exile

2017 • 8 min • United States of America

A would-be exile explores her Georgia O'Keeffe fantasies through customer support calls.

Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas

2017 • 52 min • Canada

An offbeat, irreverent musical documentary that tells the story of a group of Jewish songwriters, including Irving Berlin, Mel Tormé, Jay Livingston, Ray Evans, Gloria Shayne Baker and Johnny Marks, who wrote the soundtrack to Christianity’s most musical holiday. It’s an amazing tale of immigrant outsiders who became irreplaceable players in pop culture’s mainstream – a generation of songwriters who found in Christmas the perfect holiday in which to imagine a better world, and for at least one day a year, make us believe.

The Polish Accountant

2017 • 30 min

Short documentary about the making of Twin Peaks: The Return.

F. Scott Fitzgerald: Seine Sekretärin Frances Kroll Ring erzählt

2017 • 45 min • Germany

Frances Kroll Ring, the personal secretary to F. Scott Fitzgerald for the last 20 months of his life and a longtime source of information for biographers, documentary and filmmakers.

Green River: Part One

2017 • 18 min • United States of America

1984. Small town USA. 30 women are missing. Troubled by a recurring nightmare, Ellen is determined to save the woman she's dreamt about; a woman she's yet to meet.

Battle of the Swamp Dragons

2017 • 50 min • United States of America

South Florida is the only place on Earth that is home to both the American alligator and the American crocodile (and most recently, the Nile crocodile). But who is the baddest Florida predator?

Reenactment

2017 • 8 min

A no-nonsense police report becomes a harrowing, flesh-and-blood encounter with domestic violence and toxic masculinity.

The Hunger

2017 • 21 min • Norway

A sixteen year old boy with an intense desire for recognition seeks out a vicious criminal to prove his boundless grit. An expressive suburban gothic tale which enters the mindset of a teenager and explores the phenomenon of sensation seeking at a young age.

Chimère

2017 • 7 min • France

Somewhere, on a remote island, a Harpy is hatching her egg, but a vicious creature is going to steal it from her. She will have to defend it at any cost.

Wiederkehr

2017 • 60 min • Germany

Documentary by Volker Koepp.