All Films

Tshiuetin

2016 • 11 min • Canada

Take a breathtaking train a ride through Nothern Quebec and Labrador on Canada’s first First Nations-owned railway. Come for the celebration of the power of independence, the crucial importance of aboriginal owned businesses and stay for the beauty of the northern landscape.

Sainsbury's: The Greatest Gift

2016 • 3 min • United Kingdom

Dave, a hard-working and devoted Dad, realises that the greatest gift he can give people this Christmas is his time.

Before I Grow Up

2016 • 25 min

Many banners has been put up all over a town. The banners read, “Asshole living in room 302 in Rainbow villa has carried on with my wife for five years. I will kill him without fail.” A boy asks his first love if she would like to him to remove them. She answers, “Fuck you.”

'63 Boycott

2016 • 30 min • United States of America

On October 22, 1963, more than 250,000 students boycotted the Chicago Public Schools to protest racial segregation. Many marched through the city calling for the resignation of School Superintendent Benjamin Willis, who placed trailers, dubbed ‘Willis Wagons,’ on playgrounds and parking lots of overcrowded black schools rather than let them enroll in nearby white schools. Combining unseen archival 16mm footage of the march shot by Kartemquin founder Gordon Quinn with the participants’ reflections today, ’63 Boycott connects the forgotten story of one of the largest northern civil rights demonstrations to contemporary issues around race, education, school closings, and youth activism.

Age of Reason

2016 • 10 min

It's Annie's 8th birthday and her dad has thrown her a princess themed party. But when Dad's assistant, and Annie's first crush, shows up with his girlfriend, Annie's dreams of happily ever after are shattered.

You Beautiful Crazy Blind Cripple

2016 • 33 min • United States of America

A criminal on the run stumbles across the isolated farmhouse of an eccentric blind widow, and her charm, humor, and vulnerability lead to an unlikely romance.

Rick Stein's Taste of Shanghai

2016 • 59 min • United Kingdom

Shanghai is one of the biggest cities in the world and is rapidly expanding, but has it hung on to its culinary roots? Rick Stein wants to find out.

Fangs & Claws 2

2016 • 16 min • Finland, Portugal

In the line of b-movies from the VHS craze and Italian splatter and trash films, comes the continuation of the story of "Dentes E Garras!". Three months after the events of the first film, an aquatic monster that escaped from the grip of the army is terrorising tourists and swimmers at a summer lake resort. Meanwhile a surviving dinosaur hatchling is about to join in the fun, triggering a catastrophic outcome.

Wolf of Vengeance

2016 • 4 min • Japan

Dr. Meertz

2016 • 5 min

A meeting in a therapist's waiting room goes horribly wrong.

Gabo & Cinema

2016 • 52 min • Mexico

It is said that Nobel Prize winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez never allowed for a film adaptation of his singular masterpiece 'One Hundred Years of Solitude', arguably the most influential novel in any language of the second half of the twentieth century, to be produced. However, the prolific Colombian writer had strong ties to the movies.

#WhereIsBeauty

2016 • 11 min • United States of America

Nina, mid 20’s, is a visual artist whose art depicts the feminine beauty of all women but struggles with self-identity as a multicultural millennial woman. While flipping through social media her frustration leads her to brood over old photos of complex stages in her life. She’s inspired to create a portrait that represents her personal voyage to self confidence and finally see her beautiful self.

The Day Is Ours

2016 • 11 min

Unable to deal with his best friends terminal illness, Julius visits a slaughterhouse looking for answers.

Fauler Zauber

2016 • 13 min • Germany

He Sees You

2016 • 3 min • Canada

A clairvoyant man tracking down a killer, winds up on the receiving end when a demonic entity follows him back during a remote viewing mission.

The Hauntening

2016 • 5 min • United States of America

Kevin is haunted by a ghost of questionable spookiness.

Cunk on Christmas

2016 • 30 min • United Kingdom

Philomena Cunk is on a festive mission to track down the true meaning of Christmas, and find out exactly what it wants. It's an insightful documentary which takes her on a journey from pagan winter festivals and the nativity story, via 'Sir Charles Dickings', all the way up to today's obsession with Santa. Along the way Philomena will be grilling a variety of experts, trying to expose the truth about Christmas, such as why people still put up with 'brussels sprouts'.

Before Love

2016 • 19 min • Russia

Melancholy and tender reflections on solitude and misunderstandings, with a profusion of graphic detail. Human shortcomings tie the dramatic knot of the story. Everybody finds his way to be unhappy. Everybody is looking for love.

The Herd

2016 • 11 min

Dinner turns sour when young Louis discovers the haunting truth behind the family business.

I Was a Winner

2016 • 14 min • Sweden

Two men and one woman addicted to videogames are interviewed to tell their stories. In this documentary, they are animated characters resembling the ones on computer games.

Remain

2016 • 9 min

A naive young girl and her resilient mother must fight to survive in a disaster-ridden world after encountering a desperate traveler.

Kitten Witch

2016 • 9 min • New Zealand

A precocious kitten wants to be a witch's familiar and must pass a test or she will forever be just simple cat, but the witch sees something in the kitten she does not expect.

Extremis

2016 • 24 min • United States of America

A purely observational non-fiction film that takes viewers into the ethically murky world of end-of-life decision making in a public hospital.

Cold Shivers

2016 • 19 min • Norway

Kristoffer brings a girl home for the first time, that which at first seems as a fragile and tender love story makes a tragic shift.