All Films

Towards Tenderness

2016 • 39 min • France

An intimate exploration of the masculine territory of the high-rise projects at the edges of Paris. By following a group of young men, we wander through a world where female bodies are nothing more than ghostly and virtual silhouettes. The characters lead us inside everyday places where we hunt down the staging of their virility. Off-screen, narrated personal tales openly reveal the unexpected side to the characters' histories and personalities.

Our Bodies Our Business

2016 • 24 min • Canada

A documentary collage of sex worker activist interventions created from footage captured by HIV/AIDS activist at the Fifth International AIDS Conference in Montreal in 1989.

Visiting

2016 • 11 min • Germany

On her trip back from a working holiday abroad, Emma couchsurfs at Leon's place. They get along great but something is off about Leon's behavior and then there is this strange photo wall that perks Emma's interest ...

Tropique

2016 • 18 min • France

Cyril is in love with Cécile, his best friend’s sister. One afternoon, as they are hanging out by the pool, he takes the plunge.

A Wig and a Prayer: The Peaches Christ Story

2016 • 19 min • United States of America

A Wig and a Prayer chronicles the story of Peaches Christ, the legendary San Francisco drag queen, from her early beginnings in raucous variety shows to the lauded success of her Midnight Mass pre-movie experience.

13 novembre, la vie d'après

2016 • 59 min • France

The Merrybell Motel

2016 • 5 min

Three young men pursue different activities in a triptych film.

Making 'Traps'

2016 • 27 min • Australia

This "Making of" documentary is an exemplary sample of the genre, observing the ideas and experiences involved in making the feature film, TRAPS, directed by Pauline Chan.

Jeff Ross Roasts Cops

2016 • 50 min • United States of America

Roastmaster General Jeff Ross talks to Black Lives Matter activists, goes on an eye-opening police ride-along, and roasts members of the Boston Police Department.

Graffiti

2016 • 30 min • Spain, Ukraine

Edgar and his dog roam the ruins of a large city. Arriving home one day, he sees that someone sprayed the name ‘Anna’ on the wall. The question who Anna is starts to dominate Edgar’s entire existence.

Lambing Season

2016 • 18 min

A young man uncovers a disturbing truth about himself.

Killing Klaus Kinski

2016 • 20 min • Colombia

The hostility of the Amazon and its natural forces reach extremes during the shooting of a film. The overpowering jungle and harsh weather lead the film crew to plot the assassination of the main actor. As in cinema that scrutinizes itself, we revisit in a vertiginous sequence shot a myth of the history of film when in the toughest part of filming FITZCARRALDO, Werner Herzog phantasized about killing actor Klaus Kinski.

Wednesday Prayer Group

2016 • 26 min

Hera is a middle-aged woman who visits and sells cosmetics. Hera, who has escaped from the crisis through a chance to meet Sojung, suggests a part-time job at Wednesday Prayer Group to Sojung who gave a favor to her.

Overwatch Animated Short "Infiltration"

2016 • 6 min

When a Talon operation doesn't go exactly as planned, Sombra steps out of the shadows and takes control.

Le cri de la marmotte

2016 • 16 min

Léo and Madeleine abandon the house they built following a conflict with a groundhog.

New Cops

2016 • 52 min • United States of America

An ordinary man (played by Tim Morton) lives a dull life till his friend Chet (played by Jimmy Kustes) comes over to stay for a few days. His friend ropes him to various schemes and generally makes a bunch of faux pas. His girlfriend (played by Johanna Sims) mostly runs around without alerting him of her whereabouts. He escapes his dull day-to-day existence by watching the TV show New Cops and dreaming various scenarios involving him being the President of the United States and Chet serving as his adviser. Chet recommends they hire detective Flaherty (played by David Maloney) to investigate a book heist at the local library.

Who Flew First: Challenging the Wright Brothers

2016 • 53 min • Austria

Officially, the Wright Brothers flew first in 1903. But the Australian aviation expert John Brown argues that German born Gustave Whitehead flew in Connecticut in 1901. To display the Wright flyer, the Smithsonian Museum agreed that it will never claim that anyone flew before the Wrights. History may not be as certain as we thought.

Return From the Dead

2016 • 50 min • United Kingdom

In this revelatory documentary, world-leading neurologist and doctor, Steven Laureys, conducts an immersive investigation into the phenomena of Return from the Dead, staging a ground-breaking experiment to show that a scientific explanation could replace a supernatural one.

À Vancouver

2016 • 35 min • Canada

À Vancouver is an experimental video essay featuring interviews with my father about our familial and individual sexual histories. Blending documentary and fiction, the video examines and expands upon parallel events in our lives, wherein we each traveled across Canada to Vancouver, and had formative (homo)sexual experiences at separate moments in time: my father as an 18-year-old traveling in the mid-60s and myself as a young teen and then adult in the mid-90s and 2000s. À Vancouver stages these narratives in the genre of the father-son road trip exploring themes of queer temporality, memory, and linguistic, cultural, and sexual inheritance.

The Bachelor's Skull

2016 • 4 min

If only she could keep her memories...

Gridlock

2016 • 20 min

Gridlock is a thriller set during a traffic jam on a country road. When a little girl goes missing from one of the cars, her father forms a desperate search party to find her, and soon everyone is a suspect.

Used Video Shop's Female Shop Clerk X

2016 • 7 min • Japan

An underage boy tries to rent dirty DVDs and a beleaguered video store clerk tries to stop him.

In One Drag

2016 • 3 min • Germany

It's late in the evening. A man leaves a building, lights a cigarette and smokes it in one drag. He casually flicks the stub away – everything as always. Only this time... all the cigarette butts in the city become alive.

Brian Anderson on Being a Gay Professional Skateboarder

2016 • 27 min • United States of America

The skateboarding community worships Brian Anderson as a god, but for many years kept his sexuality a secret from nearly everyone in his life. Our guy Reda sat down with Brian and some of his closest friends to talk about being gay in the professional skateboarding industry and why he chose now to come out.