All Films

Dog

2016 • 25 min • Bulgaria

When Boyan goes to Albena's office to receive his fee he meets a strange and detached middle aged woman. As there is a problem with the payment they have to go to the bank together, despite their obvious dislike for one another. On the way though events change - Albena's dog is very sick and she needs to decide whether to put it to sleep or not. Suddenly Boyan becomes the only witness of her struggle. But will he get involved in such a private matter with a stranger? Especially in a time when all he wants is to get his money he urgently needs for something?

A Song For Your Mixtape

2016 • 7 min • United States of America

A short film about a birthday party you weren't invited to.

Still Life

2016 • 17 min • Spain

A man takes care of his sick wife in an isolated country house. The unexpected appearance of a young blind girl will awake in him a deep desire: a desire he thought was asleep forever.

Ink

2016 • 10 min • Canada

A traumatized woman seeks penance and personal transformation through tattooing after surviving a devastating pregnancy. One night, drenched in booze and ink, her deepest fears threaten to consume her.

The People Next Door

2016 • 50 min • United Kingdom

Ordinary young couple Gemma and Richard have just bought their first home and are expecting a baby. It's all very exciting, and the couple settles in nicely to their new pad. Except for the screaming and shouting they hear at all times of the night through their walls from the house next door. Listening more closely, pregnant Gemma is convinced that she's also hearing cries and smacking noises, which she is certain are the sounds of a toddler being abused. She and Richard have seen the child just once, but not since. Feeling morally obliged to act, the couple gather as much information as possible about what's going on next door. And after social services say there's nothing to worry about, Gemma becomes increasingly obsessed and she starts to spy on them in a way that raises questions about who is actually committing the crime — Gemma's neighbours, or Gemma?

Agostu

2016 • 17 min

Pirates: Threatening Global Trade

2016 • 53 min • France, Nigeria, Somalia

The French researcher Bertrand Monnet visits pirates in Nigeria and Somalia to learn how they make money from oil theft and kidnapping.

Refugee

2016 • 23 min • United States of America

Five acclaimed photographers travel the world to provide detailed insight into the difficult conditions faced by refugees who dream of a better life.

Ransom

2016 • 11 min • Canada

Ransom is about a mother; Anne that comes home from work to discover her daughter has been kidnapped. Anne feels officer Jacobs has his own motives so she takes matters into her own hands. What she is about to learn next about her daughters disappearance is more than she had bargained for.

St Elmo

2016 • 18 min • Australia

In the winter following a devastating bushfire, a father and son attempt to navigate their loss.

Midnight Thirst

2016 • 12 min • United States of America

A woman comes home from work with a gift for her husband on their 8th anniversary only to find a note that he left her and she finds her daughter is nearly dead and has been turned into a vampire. Now she must help her daughter survive.

Knockdown

2016 • 42 min • France

A woman's waiting for a man who will never return, another one boxing proudly the vacuum, a singer without orchestra, a conductor lonely. Lonely characters united by a fable, a naked young man lost in the woods, chasing or fleeing something.

But Elsewhere Is Always Better

2016 • 4 min • France, Israel, United States of America

A new short film by Vivian Ostrovsky remembering Chantal Akerman, beginning with their first meeting in the early 1970s. Using her own footage of Chantal Akerman, the filmmaker remembers a few moments that illustrate Chantal's personality. Forty years of friendship condensed into four minutes...

R. F. Lucchetti, a Multiplicidade da Linguagem

2016 • 12 min • Brazil

Everything that is said about Rubens Francisco Lucchetti will still be little. Lucchetti is one of the most forgotten cultural personalities in our history. Newspaper, magazine, comic book, cinema, television, radio and now the internet. The man who wrote over fifteen hundred books. There is not a single medium of communication in which he has not shone. And what happens? Almost nobody knows who he is and what he did or represents for our Culture. This short film captures the mythical writer in flagrante delicto of his intimacy, in his daily life, bringing him closer to his readers. His house is an invitation to the universe of letters and images.

Cured

2016 • 9 min • United States of America

A young woman, possessed by a demonic entity, encounters a doctor with a very unusual method for performing exorcisms.

Rainbow over the Karakum

2016 • 52 min • Ukraine

During World War II the Kyiv Film Studio relocates to Ashgabat, which will provide a safe haven for many Soviet filmmakers. This is where, thousands of miles from the front line, one of the most famous war films in the history of cinema will be made.

Mind the Gap

2016 • 3 min • Russia

Without a doubt, Willem Dafoe really likes his gappy teeth.

The Perfect Family

2016 • 11 min

Edda, a parrot-woman hybrid, and former circus performer, struggles to deal with her daughter's new found embarrassment of her freakish family.

Popcorn

2016 • 5 min • Russia

A visual fantasy, based on Gershon Kingsley's famous melody "Popcorn.

Splatoon – Squid Sisters - Live Concert at Niconico Tokaigi 2016

2016 • 24 min • Japan, United States of America

This footage is from Callie and Marie’s first live performance at Niconico Tokaigi, a gaming event in Japan.

Overwatch Animated Short "Alive"

2016 • 6 min

Widowmaker makes attempts at assassinating the Omnic civil rights leader, Mondatta. While Tracer is in pursuit to stop her.

Penumbria

2016 • 9 min • Portugal

Penumbria was founded two hundred years ago, in a distant istmus - a place of arid soils, angry seas and violent weather. The city was due its name to the almost permanent shadows and cloudiness. One day, its inhabitants decided to leave, offering Penumbria to time. This is the story of an uninhabitable place.

Water Path for a Fish

2016 • 7 min • Colombia, Spain, France

It's a starry night in a poor neighborhood in Latin America. Óscar is sleeping in his room when a sudden wind wakes him up. From his window he sees a little goldfish in a dirty puddle gasping for air. Óscar will try to save the goldfish through a rampant adventure full of mysterious challenges.

I Love Anna

2016 • 11 min • Finland

Santeri (13) looks on as older guys are driving their motor bikes and wants to be part of their world. He combs his hair and goes to meet his friend Anna (13). At Anna's home childhood's anarchy meets puberty.