All Films

Remember!

2017 • 27 min • Japan

Suzuki is working at a convenience store late at night. A robber enters the store and recognizes him. It turns out the robber is Suzuki's old classmate Sato. But Suzuki can't remember him.

Sketch

2017 • 13 min

A police sketch artist who believes he has stumbled upon the suspect from one of his drawings becomes convinced he knows how to do the right thing.

The Shift

2017 • 21 min • United States of America

A frustrated, ordinary man receives sympathy--and a job offer--from the Devil himself.

Fry-Up

2017 • 8 min

An intimate portrayal of what could be a family's last day together, set against the urban backdrop of North London.

Gavin Grimm vs.

2017 • 18 min • United States of America

In 2016, transgender teen Gavin Grimm sued his local school board after its members refused to let him use the bathroom of his choice. He was ready to take his case all the way to the Supreme Court—and then the election happened.

8 Bodies

2017 • 14 min • United States of America

A married couple accidentally kills a person.

9 Races

2017 • 11 min • United States of America

An injured jockey must endure nine races on nine horses over the course of one unforgiving night on the track. He will test the limits of his body and find what exists in the grey area between pain and beauty — if it doesn’t destroy him first.

Hinterlant

2017 • 18 min

The sale of an inherited house results in an unspoken tension between Cigdem and Kerim, a couple in their late thirties, to which their daughter does not seem indifferent.

Salvation

2017 • 24 min

Katrín wakes up in the hospital after a serious car accident to find that she has received a life-saving blood transfusion. However, the religious cult she belongs to forbids such things. As Katrín struggles to reconcile this conflict with her church and family, she begins to become obsessed with the stranger whose blood is now flowing through her veins.

Whisper

2017 • 2 min • United States of America

A young woman is haunted by ghost that her Amazon Echo picks up on.

Azure Striker Gunvolt

2017 • 21 min • Japan

In the near future, the existence of "Adepts," people who possess extraordinary abilities known as "Septimal Powers," has caused widespread chaos around the world. In the nation of Japan, order and peace is maintained by a large conglomerate known as the Sumeragi Group. One group known as QUILL (Quorum for Unrestricted Information, Law, and Liberty) pledged to revolt against the Sumeragi Group.

Ultra Fight Orb: I'm Borrowing the Power of Parent and Child!

2017 • 28 min • Japan

A ghost mage that can manipulate the soul of any monster appears, with the intent of ruling the universe. With a new enemy that can manipulate a monster's soul, Ultraman Orb and Ultraman Zero emerge to stand in his way. Orb will fight a ghostly villain with ghost monster army corps through various fusion ups including Lightning Attacker with the power of Ginga and X! Orb will fulfill new fusion ups while the mighty warriors of the lights appear to assist Ultraman Orb. Even with Ultraman Orb's new forms, will he be able to overcome the threat of Reibatos?

Calling

2017 • 16 min

After a violent event comes to an end, a mother struggles to keep on being a caregiver to her handi-capable son.

Amy Schumer: The Leather Special

2017 • 57 min • United States of America

Comic sensation Amy Schumer riffs on sex, dating and the absurdities of fame in a bold and uncensored stand-up set at Denver's Bellco Theater.

Caramel Child

2017 • 20 min • Philippines

8-year-old Kakay aims to win a spot in the Regional Science Quiz Bee, an academic event in which she believes will be her ticket to finally meet her father in Los Angeles, CA.

Jeff Koons

2017 • 9 min • United States of America

Jeff Koons is a MOCA commissioned mini-documentary on the career of artist Jeff Koons, directed by Oscar Boyson.

ViewPoint

2017 • 10 min • United States of America

A man with a gaming addiction confronts those who cut him off, in this short thriller.

Die Lizenz

2017 • 10 min • Germany

After two years of waiting, Adam and Ellas first part of the application for a „licence to procreate“ has been successfully reviewed. To complete the process, the request is followed up with an obligatory and final interview in the intimacy of their home. Their fate is now in the hands of the government clerk Gudrun Paschke.

The Superhost

2017 • 29 min

Preston and his roommate Sage try to figure out rent, rapport and the cold hard reality in downtown New York.

À la recherche de... Pierre Richard

2017 • 54 min • France

Follow in the footsteps of burlesque actor Pierre Richard, a key figure in French cinema in the 1970s and 1980s.

Boys Hitting the Road

2017 • 60 min • Japan

A bar in Shinjuku 2-chome. Toru is the manager of this bar, but one day, the owner, Ishii, suddenly passes away. The bar is to close, and Toru receives a list of regulars from Takano, the accountant, and decides to start a journey to collect retirement benefits. Together with Kenichi, the bar's number one, they borrow Ishii's old car and set off to northern Kanto. First up is Sato, a company president with a foot fetish. Although married, he can't stop playing around with men, and whenever he comes to Tokyo, he requests Kenichi. In order not to let the people around him know, he gives Kenichi more money than the tab. Next is Yamamoto, a city council member in the local assembly. A born sadist, he likes to tie Kenichi himself or have a young bondage artist tie him up, and then watch it happen. Kenichi continues on his journey, but he has another goal: to meet Shouji, a man he used to date...

Ernest & Celestine's Winter

2017 • 48 min • France, Luxembourg

Ernest is a big bear from Charabie. He likes playing music and eating marmalade. He lives with Celestine, a little orphan mouse, and they share his house. Our two friends never get bored! When the first snowflakes start to fall they need to prepare for Ernest’s hibernation: they must take care of Bibi, their wild goose, who will fly away before the big winter, prepare cakes for Ernest and go to the mice’s ball to celebrate the first day of winter.

Little Potato

2017 • 14 min • United States of America

Wes Hurley's autobiographical tale of growing up gay in Soviet Union Russia, only to escape with his mother, a mail order bride, to Seattle to face a whole new oppression in his new Christian fundamentalist American dad.

Medical Drama

2017 • 17 min

A struggling actor abandons all logic when she finds a stranger unconscious in her laundry room.