All Films

Mario, Kike and David

2016 • 20 min • Spain

Mario and Kike hook up on a dating app. What initially was never meant to be more than a sex date will turn into something else, in spite of their different ways of viewing their bisexuality and how they both cope with it in their respective social circles.

Demon in the Freezer

2016 • 18 min

Errol Morris' "Demon in the Freezer" is a short 17-minute documentary about the stockpiles of the smallpox virus that remain stored for research purposes.

Trinkets and Dark Thoughts

2016 • 27 min • France

On a Sunday morning, a group of young revelers enter a large, vacated apartment. Tired drag queens mix with debauched grannies, drunken vagrants and shy virgins over the course of the morning.

A Round Trip to Love 2

2016 • 58 min • China

Five years apart, they reunite as lovers, but when family-demands force Xiao Chen to marry, Lu Feng feels betrayed—and vows revenge.

Snatched

2016 • 23 min • Belgium

Raïssa and Alio have shared the same room in a foster home since their childhood. One evening, as she returns home, Raïssa discovers that Alio has left the place without telling her.

The Expendable People

2016 • 58 min

Using rare archival footage and interviews with the legendary anthropologist, Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf, and adivasi activists from the 80s and 90s, some of whom were killed by Indian security forces for their opposition to "commercial forestry projects", the film explores the continuing struggle of the adivasis. It also focused on a moment of hope when the government brought in the Forest Rights Act (2006) to right "historic wrongs" only to betray that promise, so as to protect predatory developers against these expendable peoples.

Whoever Was Using This Bed

2016 • 21 min • Australia

A married couple is woken in the dead of night by a mysterious phone call. Unable to sleep, they are drawn into an unsettling examination of their fears and desires.

Home Is Where The Sunsets

2016 • 9 min • United States of America

Alison’s life in L.A. turns upside down when her family comes to visit from Hong Kong for the very first time. Stuffed into her cramped apartment, Alison finds beauty and heartache in the smallest of moments.

Lost Face

2016 • 14 min • Australia, Canada

Subienkow is in mortal danger. The fort he and his fellow fur thieves have erected in the snow is in flames - attacked by the very tribe they enslaved to build it - now only he and Big Ivan remain. As Ivan is tortured before him Subienkow must think fast to escape the terrible, protracted death that awaits him. He calls over the chief, Makamuk, and begins to bargain...

Waiting for Iftar

2016 • 9 min • Indonesia

A conversation between husband and wife during Ramadhan while they're waiting for Iftar that includes politicians, money, gemstone, and sex.

Amelia's Closet

2016 • 18 min • United States of America

Amelia's Closet is a coming of age story about an 11-year-old girl from a low income background who lives with her hard working single father. At school, she is heavily bullied and often left feeling powerless. In attempt to reclaim a sense of power, she steals from the kids bullying her and hides the items in her closet. When she is caught, Amelia must learn the true meaning of empowerment.

Our Second First Date

2016 • 12 min • Canada

A woman is magically forced to repeat the same date over and over again until she can make it go perfectly.

Secrecies

2016 • 6 min • Germany

By the time Elifs Husband, Ozan, finds a wet burkini on the balcony he gets suspicious. His wife secretly takes swimming lessons. Ozan decides to take action and awaits Elif the next evening with the firm resolution to put an end to the secrecy. (Quelle: Hamburg Media School)

The C-Section Controversy

2016 • 52 min • Germany

In the course of just two decades, the number of C-section births performed worldwide has nearly doubled. A lifesaving alternative or an unnecessary medical procedure? This science documentary investigates the medical and societal impact of this international trend.

Digits: Guardians of the Web

2016 • 52 min • United States of America

Learn about "white hat" hackers, the U.S. Secret Service's cyber crime division working to protect us from the risks associated with persistent connectivity.

Steal

2016 • 2 min • Netherlands

A young boy plays soccer in a misty field when he suddenly is challenged by an UFO! This short film was part of 'Short Plays', an anthology consisting of 31 short films about the World Championship 2014.

Secrets of the Dead: Graveyard of the Giant Beasts

2016 • 55 min • United States of America

A mining operation in Cerrejon, Northern Colombia revealed a treasure trove of fossils from animals that lived ten million years after the KT extinction that killed the dinosaurs. Surprisingly, enormous reptiles were dominate. Scientists investigate who was the apex predator of the era - Titanoboa, a quarter ton giant snake five times bigger than the largest anaconda, or a similarly giant crocodilian with an incredibly deadly bite force. —David Foss

Dead@17: Rebirth

2016 • 10 min

Based on the comic by Josh Howard, teenager Nara Kilday dies and is resurrected in order to fight the demonic forces that seek to destroy the world.

The Discovery of Alan Hindley

2016 • 7 min

A HAM radio enthusiast discovers a mysterious object in his backyard that might be a window into another world.

Watch How I Forget You

2016 • 15 min • Argentina, Colombia

It's the beginning of spring. Federico travels for 20 days from Bogota, Colombia, to Buenos Aires, Argentine. In Buenos Aires he meets a couple of friends that introduce him to Florencia, a girl that makes him doubt his return.

Viable

2016 • 36 min • Canada

High school senior and promising pianist Violet has her world turned upside down when she is diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis days before her audition with a world-renowned music school.

I Wish For You

2016 • 5 min

A woman is moving house and as she is unpacking boxes she finds a long lost letter from her grandfather. As she reads it, his words evoke strong emotive memories and she is transported back into her childhood by her grandfathers words. As he shares his love and concern for the natural world around us. The journey back in time leaves Mia (the woman) visually and emotionally moved as she remembers and shares her grandfathers love and hope for the world around us. It is a story that transcends time.

Three Women

2016 • 35 min

"Three Women, is an ambitious work designed to be shown on multiple screens in a movie theater. Moving a step forward from the use of multiple screens as an expansion of cinema as exemplified by Abel Gance’s Napoléon (1927), it presents what is literally a conceptual expansion of cinema in the form of a filmic work experienced in a theater in which the 15-channel, surround-sound audio constructed by Araki Masamitsu and Ito’s visuals organically intertwine."

Robin de Puy: Ik ben het allemaal zelf

2016 • 52 min • Netherlands