All Films

Marco's Oriental Noodles

2017 • 4 min • Canada

A futuristic noodle shop in small-town Saskatchewan has become the world’s first purveyor of the latest in culinary fashion: psychedelic polydimensional comfort food. In this lovingly bizarre short, director and animator Howie Shia examines the small, largely unnoticeable ways in which colonization seeps into our lives, and asks, what is the responsibility of those who dine at a colonial supper table? Dig in.

Kapture: Fluke

2017 • 5 min • Canada

Welcome to Kapture Technologies, where Gary and Jeff test the latest new gadgets.

Rekindled

2017 • 13 min

After a string of failed relationships, Kate gets the chance to rekindle romance with the love of her life — her high-school boyfriend.

Una investigación interrumpida de R

2017 • 15 min

An Interrupted Investigation of R is an epistemological sci-fi detective film project. In this loose adaptation of Stanislaw Lem's The Investigation, R, a young amateur detective, investigates a puzzling and eerie case of missing—and apparently resurrected—bodies. To unravel the mystery, R consults scientific, philosophical, and theological experts, who provide him with a range of theories and clues.

A Conversation Between Parents

2017 • 19 min • United States of America

A year after Thadd and Shannon gave birth to their son, A Conversation Between Parents highlights a climactic conversation in their lives -- as both young parents grasp at the last threads of their ideal family. On an afternoon off of work, the couple sits on their couch, while their son sleeps in his crib, and the family grapples with their limited options one last time. Dietrich’s camera ties the couple’s painful conversation together with flashbacks of both parents’ precious memories of their first year with Jasper, attempting to find a way to articulate their struggles in the last conversation they have together as a couple.

Last Summer

2017 • 18 min • Russia

Pavlik is six years old. He spends a happy and carefree summer at the dacha with his parents, but he gradually begins to notice strangeness in the behavior of adults.

No Reservations

2017 • 11 min • Canada

"No Reservations" is social commentary inspired by true-life events, giving a hypothetical look at what life would be like if the roles in Standing Rock were reversed. Protests erupt as an upper-middle class Caucasian neighborhood attempts to thwart the construction of a pipeline from an Indigenous Corporation.

The Dundee Project

2017 • 19 min

Cult filmmaker Mark Borchardt (as seen in AMERICAN MOVIE) takes a trip to the UFO DAYS festival in Dundee, Wisconsin. Eccentric personalities abound as Mark poetically ruminates on why the compulsion to seek out little green men seems to converge in his home state.

Unrest

2017 • 47 min • France

Unrest is the third movement of a triptych by Philippe Grandrieux whose common thread is anxiety. A body as a return from the depths of time, an archaic body that we do not know and which nevertheless continues to project in us its shadow, its anxiety.

The Devil Dogs

2017 • 52 min • France

Belleau Wood, France, June 1918. After three weeks of battle, the US Marines stopped the German advance a few miles from Paris. They earned the name of "Devil Dogs" and made victory possible for the Allies. Gilles Lagin has given himself a mission: to preserve the memory of the American soldiers who fought in Belleau Wood. For 40 years, he has led families into the footsteps of their ancestors, the 1918 Devil Dogs.

Beyond A Year in Space

2017 • 54 min

Twin astronauts Scott and Mark Kelly were separated for almost a year, undergoing intensive measurements when one was in space and one was on Earth. But that was only the beginning of their scientific odyssey. "Beyond A Year in Space," PBS and Time's follow-up documentary to last year's — which followed Scott Kelly from launch to landing — chronicles Kelly's return to life on Earth and the extensive medical testing the duo undergo to determine exactly what changes have occurred as a result of his record-breaking stay on the International Space Station. The documentary also follows two new astronauts, Jessica Meir and Victor Glover, training to go even further.

10 K

2017 • 19 min

A man and a woman meet on a wooded path, making polite conversation and slowly opening up to each other. Was this an accident or something planned?

We Summoned a Demon

2017 • 6 min • United States of America

They just wanted to be cool. Instead, they got a demon.

Carol Support Group

2017 • 8 min • United States of America

A support group for people addicted to the movie Carol descends into mayhem as superfan Blanche embodies Carol Aird, luring her fellow addicts and therapist to temptation.

48

2017 • 19 min • Macedonia

A young priest, who has devoted his life to the church and has sworn an oath of celibacy, is tempted to break his vows as the world is about to end. His temptation is modest, as he only wants to have a little taste of an everyday life, of the everyday people in an everyday society, before the world ends.

Foreign Lovers

2017 • 19 min • United States of America

A lonely New Yorker serendipitously meets a mysterious foreigner and sparks ignite. A meditation on life and love in the digital age.

A Thousand Days of Solitude

2017 • 15 min

A THOUSAND DAYS OF SOLITUDE is a tense dramatic story about a prison correctional guard who witnesses a suicide in solitary confinement and experiences moral strife when the warden bullies him to confine yet another prisoner to ‘the hole’ – left with a decision, obey the warden’s protocol or fight it.

My Pretty Pony

2017 • 13 min • Poland

An elderly man, nearing death, gives his young grandson an unusual gift and tells him about the transient nature of time.

Panique tous courts

2017 • 45 min • Belgium

Cowboy and Indian are leaving on a luxury cruise, but they've got caught up. They have totally forgotten that today is back to school day! Goodbye tropical islands, our friends desperately find themselves on the school benches being put through the monotony of class. To liven the start of the school year up and to welcome the new geography teacher, the head teacher organises a big contest. The laureates will get to spend a day on the Moon together with M. Youri. Cowboy and Indian are of course ready to do everything to win.

Mortal

2017 • 17 min

MORTAL is a film that tackles the issue of the immense pressure that's placed on young people during the exam season. The film follows Jonathan, a student preparing for his final A Level exams which will decide whether he can pursue his dream of going to university or fail and have to try and pursue a career in writing without a degree. As the weight of this pressure becomes unbearable he turns to drinking to cope although this cause major issues when he meets up with his friends for a few casual drinks.

Self-Honest Me

2017 • 5 min • Japan

One day the protagonist watches a movie with friends. She finds the film to be boring and reveals her discontent, but somehow nobody agrees with her.

Men

2017 • 18 min • United States of America

Men will be men.

Cecile on the Phone

2017 • 11 min • United States of America

Cecile wants answers, but, actually, she doesn't. After her ex-boyfriend's return to New York triggers overwhelming feelings of doubt and confusion, she embarks on a series of telephone conversations, all of which ultimately only distract her from the one conversation she really needs to have.

The Diary

2017 • 34 min • Ukraine

Denys is 14. He is loser in studies, but expert in DOTA. 'The school diary is your face', - teachers say to him. Every single pupil in post-Soviet states is familiar with this phrase. It means that the notebook with marks - is the projection of your personality. Denys thinks opposite. He records himself everyday and reflects on the things that really worry him. We are behind the scenes of the teenager`s life. The way of growing up - how it looks like?