All Films

We Together

2017 • 7 min • United States of America

"A zombie is awakened." Short film by Henry Kaplan featuring music by Kerron Hurd.

Broke

2017 • 35 min • Norway

A teenager's millionaire father goes bankrupt, and rumors about the girl's family finances make the school day a painful struggle.

Red-Eyed

2017 • 13 min • Canada

When a heist goes sideways, Cole goes back home and prepares to defend himself from the inevitable.

An American Girl Story: Summer Camp, Friends For Life

2017 • 32 min • United States of America

Aspiring filmmaker, Z and Paz, a budding engineer, arrive at S.T.E.A.M. camp excited for tech heaven. When the administrator makes them explore nature and confiscates all tech, they think their summer’s doomed. Things take a mysterious turn when they meet Jordan, an enchanting “counselor” who sends them on an adventure, opening them up to a world of possibilities — like befriending Drew.

Diabetes

2017 • 5 min

A narcissistic fitness fanatic argues with his significant other over breakfast about who is the healthier of the two.

Ryans

2017 • 17 min • United States of America

A trans woman goes on a blind date with a man named Ryan - which is a total dealbreaker.

Me and My Father

2017 • 30 min • Poland

A businessman must balance personal and professional obligations after his father is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.

Wyrdoes

2017 • 15 min • United Kingdom

WYRDOES is a comedy inspired by 'Macbeth', written and directed by Nat Luurtsema and produced by Jennifer Eriksson and Iona Westlake. Three sisters - Elsab, Magrit and Merope - battle through poverty and rumours that they're witches just because they're a little 'wyrd'. Through accidental tragedy, murder and war, the downtrodden Wyrdoes finally fight back

Unforgotten

2017 • 15 min • Canada, Ireland

An elderly man near the end of his life passes lonely days writing letters to an old friend. The arrival of a new occupant in the home opens the doors to his past and changes everything.

Born in the Maelstrom

2017 • 28 min

Rebecca is an eighteen-year-old biracial girl bound in an imaginary world shaped by her black mother’s painful past. She searches for liberation from a world where she does not belong.

It's Getting Weirder! The Making of "House II"

2017 • 58 min • United Kingdom

Retrospective documentary featuring interviews with Ethan Wiley, Sean S. Cunningham, Arye Gross and Jonathan Stark, among others.

Weather Talk

2017 • 17 min

A short film depicting the strained relationship between a son and his father as they drive together across the United States. This coming out story and centers on the new bond formed between these two estranged people.

The Hopeless

2017 • 15 min • Spain

In the Name of Confucius

2017 • 52 min • Canada

One of Canada's top 10 universities and its largest school board found themselves embroiled in a growing global controversy as scholars, parents, and officials question the Confucius Institute program's true purpose.

Bird Dog

2017 • 26 min

An imaginative young girl is confronted by fear and wonder after swallowing the heart of a mourning dove while on a hunting trip with her family.

Ice

2017 • 15 min • Estonia, France, Luxembourg

Harri is a lieutenant colonel in the Estonian army. Divorced, he only sees his 10-year old son during school holidays. Harri decides to make up for lost time by going to an adventurous father-son winter trip to an island. Missing the last ferry, Harri decides to take a local ice road over the frozen sea.

Florida-Montréal

2017 • 17 min • Canada

Mum breaks up with Dad while on vacation in Florida and flies back to Montreal. The kids, Jonathan and Florie, two immature and impressionable twentysomethings, only have a few hours to figure out how they'll welcome her back.

Discreet

2017 • 6 min • France

Two young men from the same neighborhood meet randomly. As they give each other the lowdown of their night out, an unexpected game envelops them.

Brother

2017 • 19 min • Mexico

Two brothers are going through financial difficulties to pay for their mother's medical treatment. One of them also has a significant debt that endangers his life.

Gladys Brown

2017 • 14 min

After being cheated out of her dream job, a long-suffering receptionist plots revenge.

Sneakers

2017 • 4 min • United States of America

A guileless shoe designer is determined to make her sneaker pitch a success despite her nerves and general awkwardness in this comedy short directed by Rachel Wolther written by and starring Amy Zimmer.

SCUM Manifesto

2017 • 27 min • Poland

Jill Godmilow (Far From Poland, Waiting for the Moon) in collaboration with Joanna Krakowska and Magda Mosiewicz pay homage to the original SCUM Manifesto, a French film made in 1976 by Carole Roussopoulos and Delphine Seyrig that was inspired by Valerie Solanas’s infamous text of the same name. Much like Solanas’s radical feminist text, SCUM Manifesto is a form of resistance and a call to action.

Zunda Horizon

2017 • 24 min • Japan

Zunko Tohoku can make any mochi into delicious zunda mochi by shooting it with her Zunda Arrow. Along with Kiritan Tohoku, Itako Tohoku, Usagi Chūgoku, Metan Shikoku, and Sora Kyushu, she enjoys eating zunda mochi while being full of happiness. Chanko Ōedo conversely leads the Natto Factory along with her companions Tsurugi Chubu, Shinobi Kansai, Awamo Okinawa, and Meron Hokkaido. Even though zunda and natto use the same type of bean, the edamame used in zunda and the soy beans used in natto are harvested at different times, with edamame being harvested first. As a result, the members of the Natto Factory are afraid of a decrease in the quantity of soybeans harvested. Chanko sends Awamo Okinawa and Meron Hokkaido to Zunko's house to assassinate her, but a third power makes their appearance.

Waiting for Ishtar

2017 • 47 min • Canada, United States of America

A conversation about guilty pleasures turns into one man's quest to find others on a library waiting list, while simultaneously examining the fate of the famous Hollywood bomb Ishtar (1987).