All Films

The Christmas Ballad

2016 • 9 min • Czech Republic

In a city destroyed by war, a boy collects broken toys to replace his friends and family. One day he finds a Christmas gift and runs away. Based on the last script by Bretislav Pojar.

Huh

2016 • 15 min • Russia

Urban Tale about love and stuff. Story about the impermanence of relationships adult kids. The story Of the eternal search for love and her inability to see. The story is About the inexplicable attraction and understandable breakup.

Anemone and Columbine

2016 • 24 min • France

A young boy and a young girl meet again. In the woods, they love each other one last time.

Babble-On Begins: The Director's Cut

2016 • 10 min • United Kingdom

After being shunned by Hollywood, Kevin Smith and Ralph Garman don masks and take to the streets to exact revenge on the true villains of Tinsel Town. Based on the award winning podcast, Hollywood Babble-On.

Je suis un troc

2016 • 2 min • France

A man in a suit, a woman in a dress, ambient music, ready for a nice evening? Not sure...

Stay Woke: The Black Lives Matter Movement

2016 • 39 min • United States of America

Documentary about the Black Lives Matter movement.

The Complete Walk: Romeo and Juliet

2016 • 3 min

To commemorate the 400th anniversary of the Bard's death, Shakespeare's Globe has assembled an all-star cast to make 37 short films – one for each play – and here's the twist: each lavish 10 minute vignette is made on location in the real setting of each plot. The films have been directed by a selection of young directors and blend existing Shakespeare's Globe footage with new material shot in locations that capture the breadth of the Bard's imagination, including the Pyramids of Dahshur in Egypt, the rocks of Elsinore, Denmark, and the historic Jewish Ghetto of Venice, Italy. “Romeo and Juliet”, which starred Jessie Buckley as Juliet, was filmed at Juliet's Tomb, Verona.

Queen of the Baboons

2016 • 50 min • South Africa

They say that in the wild, nothing dies of old age. Yet one female baboon defies the rule. Queen of Baboons is a deeply intimate portrayal of life in a baboon troop through the eyes of its matriarch Mmasadi. From the moment of her birth, Mmasadi is destined for greatness. Born into the troops highest-ranking family, she will become queen one day.

Lock In

2016 • 12 min

When a menacing stranger traps a landlord and his pregnant daughter in their pub, a psychological game of cat and mouse begins.

Baraka

2016 • 23 min • Spain

In the months before the war in Iraq , Abdel and Umayr , two brothers who are very close, will be forced to separate from each other. Months later , with the war in full swing, they will meet again , but neither of them is the same.

Senses

2016 • 29 min • Sweden

When the conductor suddenly collapses in front of the audience and the orchestra, it’s only the start of a desparate fight for life and loss of senses. When vision goes dim, sound hazy and skin no longer reacts to touch, panic becomes clear far beyond the silver screen.

Round and Round

2016 • 27 min • Russia

Anna is a common office girl in a relationship with her married chief. One day Anna meets another man but what will it take her to escape from the iterative life cycle?

Donbass

2016 • 57 min • Germany, France, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Ukraine

Anne-Laure Bonnel, a young director and mother of a French family, decides to accompany Alexander, a father of Ukrainian family, to the Donbass region of eastern Ukraine in a pro-Russian zone. At the heart of the war, she captures the terrible images of a deadly conflict and an unprecedented humanitarian disaster.

My Life for Ireland

2016 • 14 min • Ireland

Ireland, Easter, 1916. In Dublin, Irish rebel Patrick Pearse leads a revolt to free Ireland from the grips of the British Empire. Owen, a young Irish patriot, wants to join them in their fight for freedom.

Luna 13

2016 • 17 min • Brazil

A few days after his grandfather's death, young Igor decides to make a documentary about the history of his family in an attempt to understand why his grandfather, Guilhermino, was obsessed with strange facts that had happened in his city. Thus, in 1990, in the interior of the state Rio Grande do Sul, Igor and his father Nilson interview relatives, friends and people involved in the case in an attempt to undo the bad name of his grandfather, but what they find out is a part of the story of the state, unraveling mysteries related to extraterrestrials, failed space programs and a muddled mission of the Cold War.

Dear Marianne

2016 • 6 min • United Kingdom

A Cornishman's travels in Ireland, through Wexford, Waterford and Cork in search of the familiar.

The Journey Continues

2016 • 1 min • Japan

Studio Ghibli animated the famous Chōjū-Jinbutsu-Giga Emaki ("Scrolls of Cartoons of Birds, Animals, and People" or "Chōjū Giga" for short) for a third and final Marubeni Power commercial. In the third installment, titled "The Journey Continues," the rabbit runs away from the frog in tears as it begins to rain, only for the frog to return to the rabbit, with a lily pad umbrella in tow.

Dawn Blood

2016 • 14 min • Mexico

Andrea is devastated after learning her sister has leukemia, but a closer look will reveal that there is something hidden in her psyche.

Balance

2016 • 1 min • Japan

Studio Ghibli animated the famous Chōjū-Jinbutsu-Giga Emaki ("Scrolls of Cartoons of Birds, Animals, and People" or "Chōjū Giga" for short) for a second Marubeni Power commercial.

Cloudy All Day

2016 • 9 min • United States of America

A pair of birthday party clowns, stranded out in the countryside, are rescued by a neighborly man and his daughter — and then things take a turn.

Arrival

2016 • 22 min • United States of America

This traditionally animated film tells the journey of how a young boy's personal discovery affects the long-distance relationship he keeps with his mother.

When You Hear the Bells

2016 • 26 min • France, Tunisia

In Afghanistan, "batchas" are young male prostitutes who live under the protection of a master in a house where they are trained to dance dressed as girls for a men's audience. Veteran dancer Saman starts worrying when he sees Bijane, the new recruit, who has been chosen to replace him. Despite his jealousy, he must initiate Bijane into the art of the Batcha dancing.

Darcey Bussell: My Life on the BBC

2016 • 60 min

The former principal ballerina tells her story, with historic performances from the BBC archives and candid interviews from throughout her career. Showing how she grew up in front of the camera and mastered television.

The Mechanic

2016 • 2 min • France

When a young mechanic is given the job of cleaning up the garage, he grabs the Cillit Bang spray and does it “Flashdance” style. A short film directed by Michael Gracey and starring Daniel 'Cloud' Campos.