INSIDE
Tiago Pimentel
A man and a woman share the same space. Between them a sexual contention unravels. An impending scream that cannot be smothered. That who prevails attains lasting freedom.
0:16:22
A Month of Single Frames
Lynne Sachs
In 1998, filmmaker Barbara Hammer had a one-month artist residency in the C Scape Duneshack which is run by the Provincetown Community Compact in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. The shack had no running water or electricity. While there, she shot 16mm film with her Beaulieu camera, recorded sounds with her cassette recorder and kept a journal.
In 2018, Barbara began her own process of dying by revisiting her personal archive. She gave all of her Duneshack images, sounds and writing to filmmaker Lynne Sachs and invited her to make a film with the material.
“While editing the film, the words on the screen came to me in a dream. I was really trying to figure out a way to talk to the experience of solitude that Barbara had had, how to be there with her somehow through the time that we would all share together watching her and the film. My text is a confrontation with a somatic cinema that brings us all together in multiple spaces at once.” — Lynne Sachs
0:14:00
ALI
Rain Kencana
Two brothers embark on a soulful journey through their own world of childhood memories in Anatolia. They dance between this world and the beyond and reveal a dark secret.
0:13:29
Abortion Helpline, This is Lisa
Barbara Attie, Janet Goldwater, Mike Attie
What is the Hyde Amendment and why is its repeal becoming a litmus test for progressive politicians? In this short documentary we see how the Hyde Amendment successfully contrived to prevent those struggling financially from access to abortion. At an abortion fund in Philadelphia, counselors arrive each morning to the nonstop ring of calls from women and teens who seek to end a pregnancy . . . and can’t afford to.
0:13:00
BODYMAN (EXPERIENCE REQUIRED)
Ryan R. Browne, Nick Ciffone
In the near future when gun deaths become an everyday occurance, a displaced roadkill cleanup worker applies for the newly federal-mandated position of ‘bodyman’.
0:09:59
CRUSH
Heather Harris
Greyson is a writer who previously attempted to commit suicide via drowning in a deserted indoor swimming pool. She survived the attempt but has been in recluse ever since and no longer leaves the house. Her only close relationship is with her girlfriend, Grace, who came into her life after the attempt. When Greyson is contacted by the Suicide Survivors Association about writing a speech she is thrilled by the opportunity and tries to get back on her feet. Unfortunately, during this time Greyson begins to experience psychosis and her partner, Grace, becomes more and more sinister and soon Greyson isn't sure of what is real or not anymore. When it is revealed that Grace isn't real, Greyson overdoses and drowns herself in her bathtub and Grace, who represents her inner struggle, triumphs.
0:16:00
DAWN
Valentine Lapière
Kim, 14 years old, is placed in juvenile correction centre for the first time. Deprived of liberty, she suddenly has to conform to strict rules, and she loses all her bearings. She might well try, it seems to her that it will never be enough, no matter how many efforts she makes. So she gets overwhelmed sometimes. To catch her breath back, Kim will have to find a place, to strike a new balance.
0:15:00
Día de la Madre
Ashley Brandon
A band of juveniles embark on a 24-hour spree of breaking into houses and causing a ruckus.
0:05:30
FREEZE
Maya Albanese
When Joy’s fairytale romance crashes and burns on the eve of her 35th birthday, the deafening TICK-TOCK of her biological clock pushes her into a series of romantic misadventures and provokes wild hallucinations. Pressures stack up against her, and everybody seems to have an opinion about what she should do with her dwindling egg count. As a last resort, she ends up at Dream Life Lab & Clinic, where an angry mob battles to get inside to see an eccentric egg freezing doctor who offers peace of mind in exchange for top dollar.
0:14:30
Happy Ending
EunJu Ara Choi
‘Happy Ending’ is a poetic documentary animation based on an anonymous online testimony of a Korean prostitute. She is forced to feel pleasure as her job is believed to have to feel and enjoy it regardless of her will. She is suffered for her stigma. However, she explores her body and desire to abolish society’s prejudices against people with prostitutes.
0:04:45
LOLO
Leandro Goddinho, Paulo Menezes
Lolo is an openly gay 11-year-old boy trying to finally convince Max, his first love, to go public with their relationship at the school party.
GERMAN: Lolo ist 11 Jahre alt und offen schwul. Er will Max, seine erste große Liebe, davon überzeugen ihre Beziehung bei der anstehenden Schul-Party öffentlich zu machen. Max möchte auch eine Beziehung, aber ist sich nicht sicher ob Lolo der Richtige ist. Lolos beste Freunde Elena und Toby stehen ihm in dieser Situation bei und geben ihm die Unterstützung, die er braucht.
0:13:40
MOTHER AND MILK
Ami Lindholm
Mother and Milk describes the mental process of becoming a parent - imagined as a catastrophe film. When the baby is born the new mother has to give up the life she knew. A flood of breast milk covers everything - her home, work, friends, relationship and a good night’s sleep. Only after realizing she is a part of the eternal chain of generations, Mother is able to accept the situation and start living her new life in the family. The film’s humour is sharp but warm, and the disaster turns into a newly found acceptance of the change. The film talks about the important subject of breastfeeding in a hilarious and heartwarming way. Although babies are cute, the difficult situations, sleep deprivation and and negative feelings might come as a surprise.
0:10:00
Nice Shoes
Jonathan Lawrence
A sci-fi extravaganza that is as pointless as the lyrics. Over 40 classic movie references are featured in this epic music video.
0:03:47
PLAY/GROUND
Hanna Sköld
With a mix of claymation and live action we enter the world of Love, who's 2 years old and struggles to get attention from his father and connect to his Granny. But Loves father has no time, to see him or to listen, since he's totally preoccupied with trying go get grandma out of bed.
0:14:13
Reditus Domum
Andrew Huggins
An intergalactic entity is called home to be with his family.
0:02:49
SOMEBODY AND NOBODY
Joscha Douma
The calm, reserved young cowboy Jonah wants to avenge his murdered brother - to finally step out of his shadow and prove his own manfulness to their father. But the enemy seems to be one size too big...
0:27:45
STILL HERE
Tom Pardoe
Have you ever felt stuck? Depressed? Numb? Emotionally and/or physically void of life? Nothing left but just a shell of a person with nothing left to live for? But then that one spark, that one person, that one word triggers something in you. That it brings you back to reality. That is what STILL HERE is about. Find out why a 75 year old mother is admitting her 45 year old son to an assisted living center. Find out if something triggers him back to reality. A story of Inspiration and hope.
0:12:17
Steve Is Undocumented
Michael Barth, Kauai Moliterno
A white, undocumented bouncer of an LA club with hypocritical views on immigration desires his homeland after becoming the father of twins.
0:10:14
THE ANNUNCIATION
Rosana Cuellar
"The Annunciation" is a 2-minute experimental piece that deals with the classic biblical motif in which the angel Gabriel announces to Mary that she will conceive and be the mother of Jesus.
This is one of the 14 works created in the frame of the Postkartenseminar from Wim Wenders on the Subject of "Glauben" (Faith) in the HFBK Hamburg.
0:02:00
THE DREAM OF B. SOARES
Thibault Chollet
I am like a pendulum that can’t stop waving, always moving, never reaching.
0:06:00
THE WHITE MARBLE
Dominik Seemann
When overpopulation reaches its climax in the future a young family has to face consequences of governmental decisions. Meanwhile individuals all over the world fight the new laws. The people have to face intrigues in highest circles.
0:06:25
The Butterfly Cage
Hélèna Serra, Maxime Sabisik
A little boy is dead. His parents were trying to grieve until they found out about a cloning laboratory that could give them their son back.
0:06:44
The Pickup Game
Matthew O'Connor, Barnaby O'Connor
An incisive exposé of the 'pickup' industry. An industry where self-proclaimed gurus claim to be able to teach a system that guarantees success with women.
1:35:30
They salivate
Ariane Boukerche
"They salivate" is the story of a kiss. A couple kiss each other in their deserted living room. The party begins and one guest drinks the couple's last kiss.
0:19:43
WAY BACK
Per Kasch
It is a coincidental discovery that tears a broke private detective
out of his daily routine and turns his life upside down. He embarks on a search into the
past to change his future.
0:03:18
XY
Anna Karín Lárusdóttir
Lísa is fifteen years old and lives with her mother in the suburbs in Iceland. She is different from girls her age, but she hasn’t reached puberty. She is isolated and has a big secret about herself. Regular uncomfortable doctors visits and struggling with her self image demonstrates her everyday life. She avoids her peers, especially the girls who she feels very disconnected from. One of these girls is her childhood friend Bryndís, which Lísa has pushed away over the years. When Bryndís is being bullied by some boys in their class Lísa decides to reach back out to her, the two reunite, leading her to tell Bryndís about her secret. Bryndís’s curiosity and bluntness leads Lísa to discover more secrets about her body and even darker about her medical history.
0:15:00
THE BIG QUESTIONS IN LIFE
Ingrid Hübscher
A little girl gets bored waiting for her mother at a cafe and finds a boy to play with.
0:06:22
A PICTURE IN THE 21st CENTURY
Stefan Pecher
A painter is standing in front of a blank canvas.
People trapped in a system, blind and tied up with their view on small screens. The actors of the 21st century are screaming.
The screams won't leave the painter alone.
His creativity surrenders.
It suddenly becomes quiet and he starts to paint.
0:04:21
ALTITUDE
Nicole Scherer
For two alpinists the hike up to a mountain cabin turns into a life- threatening battle between reality and illusion.
0:10:00
All That Perishes at the Edge of Land
Hira Nabi
A decomissioned ship berthed at Gadani and the shipbreakers coming from all over Pakistan to break it discover that they might have more in common than otherwise imagined, when they enter into a conversation.
0:30:33
BROOKLYN PARK
Nikola Duravcevic
Alone in New York, Somali rideshare driver Abdi begins his nightshift with the news of a tragedy back home. The faces in the backseat change as he wrestles, unable to connect, with whether the unthinkable can be true—until a vision provides the clarity he seeks. Poetic and lyrical, BROOKLYN PARK is a modern-day immigrant tale that explores alienation, grief, and transcendence.
0:14:49
Coffee Shop Names
Deepak Sethi
Three Indian people imagine their personas as their "coffee shop names," the names they give baristas because their real names are hard to pronounce.
0:08:00
DIE AUTOFICKER - THE CARFUCKERS (dir. Brezing)
Josia Brezing
During a nocturnal car drive in search of sex, the protagonist meets a trans prostitute. But instead of releasing him from his desires, she informs him together with a leather fetish boy about his irresponsibility regarding the climate change.
0:01:12
Eyeless in Parkway
Lou Sumray
A Megabus journey from Bradford to London. Driven by the organic feel of the charcoal and Gerrard Bell-Fife’s original music, the journey twists and snakes through desolate places taking you somewhere you might not expect.
0:03:53
Firehead
Ryoji Yamada
A young boy lives in peace und protected in a cave world. His life changes rapidly when his mom doesn't come home and he is forced to seek after her.
0:07:07
Hayseeds
Tyler Graham Pavey, Martha Magruder
A couple of rural gals decide to run away from their husbands, and set out on the road together. They try to rob the one convenience store in town to finance their escape, but it doesn't go quite as planned.
0:09:33
Lavender
Andrew Ball-Shaw
Emotional drama short film looking at how the lives of mother and daughter are affected by the mother's declining health, as a person living with dementia.
0:23:59
Made in Palestine
Mariam Dwedar
Hirbawi Textiles is the last remaining factory in Palestine that produces the traditional Palestinian scarf known as the Kuffiyeh.
0:08:15
ORACLE
Aaron Poole
ORACLE examines the point in a child’s life when anxiety and fear enter into their operating experience. As home renovations surround them, a boy continues his play and exploration; but the chaos of construction and the preoccupation of his parents is slowly internalized, manifesting in sleep-walking and an abstract fever dream that catapults his consciousness into adult realms of obsession and dread. ORACLE explores the intrusion of adult ideas and obsession into our minds by visually correlating innocence with awe. The film looks at the almost religious role our parents can play in their ministering of a space, and how, in some cases, a new idea may be too big for the family doctrine to contain.
0:09:17
PROOF=
Nora Jaenicke
Iman is on a student visa and just returned from a trip to see her family. After being together for 4 years her and her boyfriend Evan get engaged and are planning to get married. However, during an interview with an immigration officer, Iman's world is about to collapse. The immigration officer is suspecting her of immigration fraud. He is asking her to present "material proof" that she is entering the marriage with a US citizen "in good faith". Some of the proof that she is being asked to provide would reveal details that not even her family knows. And what Iman considers the most important proof would make her family either kill her or have her killed.
0:10:00
SAFIYYAH
Mattis Ohana Goksøyr
Danish Amir connects with a local girl, Sarah, on a dance floor in central Oslo. He ends up going home with her, but, halfway into bed, he discovers that she is Jewish. Shocked, he reveals his Palestinian background and makes his exit from the now tense situation. Once outside, he sees that his phone is dead, and, alone in an unfamiliar city, he is forced to knock on Sarah’s door. He asks to borrow her charger and she hesitantly lets him back in. The film is a meeting between Danish-Palestinian Amir and Norwegian-Jewish Sarah.
0:09:06
SOPHIE
Anna Cangellaris
Sophie longs to be reborn while seeking to know her double. A party in the hills of Los Angeles offers a corporeal shift to her existence.
0:04:42
SYNCHRONICITY
Michelle Brand
People come, people go - Yet everyone is moving in the same direction. We all are sharing something that we are unaware of, creating one big picture we are unable to see.
The film explores the idea of how everyone is connected in a way we may not realise. By sharing time, space and movement, we overlap and create a bigger picture.
0:03:47
Symmetry
Michele Di Rienzo
Speaking with a doctor, Ludovico relives the key moments of his life in an attempt to separate reality from the projections of his mind.
0:14:50
THE COCAINE FAMINE
Sam McMullen
The Cocaine Famine is an Irish black comedy about cocaine and the futility of nationalism. Set in an isolated shed in rural Ireland, three characters play out an absurd scene in real time. The result is a short film full of playful humour and hard-hitting historical facts.
0:13:06
THE HOOD
Patricia Vidal Delgado
Under the pretext of preparing for a role, an actor walks the streets of the neighbourhood of Compton, in Los Angeles, looking for information and inspiration. The actor ends up getting involved in a series of events, which the film stages as if it were a documentary, in a device that sometimes reveals that the camera observes small details that the protagonist does not see, thus making our point of view the true point of view, in an intelligent and subversive exploration of the rules of a genre.
0:10:00
TX - REVERSE
Martin Reinhart, Virgil Widrich
What is behind the cinema screen? It is not surprising that cinema-in-the-cinema scenes are often used in horror films. For they irritate and unsettle by reminding us – the immobile viewers hidden in the cosy darkness – of our own questionable position. What if the forces of unlimited imagination penetrate through the canvas into our reality? What if the auditorium dissolves and with it the familiar laws of cinema itself? In a way never before seen, "tx-reverse" shows this collision of reality and cinema and draws its viewers into a vortex in which the familiar order of space and time seems to be suspended.
0:05:06
The Circle
Lanre Malaolu
The Circle is a bold and lyrical portrayal of two brothers from inner city London, and the challenges they face daily, interpreted through dance.
0:15:25
The Quiet
Radheya Jegatheva
When an astronaut ponders on the quietude of space, he comes upon a startling self-realisation.
The truth is written in the stars, but what will he uncover?
0:10:00
UNIVERSE
Carolin Biedermann
The universe is the totality of space, time, and all matter and energy in it. We are all in it. It's all about love without any boarders! Body and mind merge into each other and lose themselves in space and time!
Origin does not matter. It's about life and love in the here and now.- to be.
0:03:21
WILD WILL
Alan King
When the neighbourhood dogcatcher William Page is found wandering the streets disorientated, he is brought back to the local police station for assistance. However the situation soon disintegrates into hell on earth.
0:12:57
YEAR
Małgorzata Bosek-Serafinska
Film is dedicated to the memory of Marek Serafinski, an animation filmmaker and producer, privately the director's husband. It is a graphic and sound diary created from everyday life paper waste: labels, tickets etc. and cigarette packages of one chain smoker, accumulated by one collector within six years. It shows the degree of addiction, determination and a kind of addiction of the collector as well as a passage of time in that strange symbiosis of their shared life.
0:11:40
THE WANDERER
Julie Annlie
Marie spends her day drying sheets. Suddenly, she’s in the middle of the great unknown alongside a young man, to confront her greatest fear: herself.
0:25:00
ACTING
Christine Jezior
Perfect pictures are given to us every day: The optimal body, the optimal nutrition, the optimal life – everything within reach. All we have to do is make an effort and show some discipline – so the message.
Self-tuning is necessary to belong to.
And caution: don't show any weakness.
0:06:00
AMALGAMA
Alejandra Wills
Alcira is a peasant woman, whose features bear her pain and sorrow. She lives alone in a peasant house. Henry, shy and demure, comes over to help with trying tasks. Their relationship is strained. Alcira becomes annoyed whenever Henry is near. Henry, for his part, is uncomfortable but tries to come nearer to her. Alcira gradually makes an effort to be kinder. She shares moments with Henry, where she excruciatingly mentions her dead son. Her talks distress Henry. For Alcira, these are moments of liberation: she releases shards of great affliction. Little by little, the tension relaxes. Henry feels increasingly comfortable. Alcira even considers Henry akin to her deceased son: the son slain by Henry in the armed conflict. Commitment and time to know him results in Alcira forgiving him.
0:12:53
BLACK TITLE HERE
Sev DeMy
{BLACK title here} introduces James on his day off from work. Unfortunately, James' being off from work is not the only things that is off. His current girlfriend, Shalom, and the girl he moved to LA with, Nastali, are both in need of him as he tries to find his way before he loses it all.
0:28:00
Blocks
Bridget Moloney
An existential comedy about the mother of two young children who begins to spontaneously vomit toy blocks.
0:11:05
Cynthia
Jack Hickey
A dinner party with old friends takes a shocking turn as wounds are exposed, revelations are made, and the past resurfaces. Over one tense evening, Cynthia learns that some things can never be unsaid. An emotionally bold and uplifting story about truth, love and finding the strength to move on.
0:17:00
Dinosaurs : The True Story
Paul-Louis AEBERHARDT
Let us tell you the true story of Dinosaurs.
The one that as been hidden from us since time immemorial.
Imagine a world where dinosaurs have survived, where they
have evolved, even to the point of being ready to face their
biggest enemy: the asteroid.
0:04:22
FLOWERS
Ismene Daskarolis
A man directs, a woman follows.
When Gal opens the door to the outside, she's immediately captivated by it. She is looking for her favourite thing in the world. But outside is not for her.
0:04:25
GIRLS GROW UP DRAWING HORSES
Joanie Wind
Society’s capitalist and consumerist views of women amount to little more than their views of horses. Their value is found not in their humanity, but in their appearance and their labor, and how each may be exploited. In Girls Grow Up Drawing Horses, these relationships and parallels occur to the narrator as she considers her grandma’s life as well as her own. Layers of animated colors, textures, and found footage explore these observations, the idea of healing family trauma, and the metaphorical significance of horses and women’s gender roles.
0:07:23
LIVING ROOM
Jessica Barclay Lawton
Masayuki lives with his elderly mother and spends his nights wanders the streets, drinking and gambling. He amasses enough gambled winnings to finance her foreseeable future, before his final departure. When the time comes, Masayuki confronts oblivion with the help of a mysterious stranger.
0:16:24
MAMA
Simon Maria Kubiena
A father and his daughter drive to his mother's house on the countryside to bring private items to the hospital after her stroke. The father gets confronted with the fear of losing his mother. The daughter watches this realization through children's eyes.
0:05:00
Mirror Effect
Oliver Smith
Mirror Effect is an abstract experimental film. It was made in 2018 using a section of circuit bent video. Central to the film is a figure like (head and shoulders) shape that undergoes many transformations. Electronic sounds accompany these changes. Mirror Effect is a non-narrative visual/sound exploration of light and form in the presence of time. Influences include Oskar Fischinger, Jordan Belson, Hy Hirsh and other Visual Music filmmakers.
Mirror Effect contains stroboscopic imagery.
0:03:10
On In 15
Joseph Archer, Jack Archer
A knockout show ... with a knocked out frontman
A band are about to perform at the biggest gig of their lives, except a monumental problem hits them 15 minutes before they go on stage, can they fix it time?
The comedy short film, set in the 1990s 'Cool Britannia' era, is filmed in one 15-minute continuous shot.
0:14:59
QUOTES FOR LIFE
Monty Scholz
Moritz tells us why his last relationship ended and how it did.
0:08:16
SDtoHDuprezMaxV2_009.mp4 (dir. A. Spence)
Anna Spence
Booted from the limelight, Max Headroom now roves the video signal on the search for meaning. Once summoned to the screen, he talks to the audience in hopes of remembering his past life. As we watch Max, (and as he continues to watch us), he begins to understand what it will take to escape from his purgatory.
0:04:16
SPOON
Victor Velasco
In the city, a business man walks to work on a Monday morning when he's interrupted by a junkie-like kid who asks him: Do you want some soup?
0:04:35
Short Calf Muscle
Victoria Warmerdam
Short Calf Muscle is an absurdist black comedy about Anders. And Anders is different. But he doesn’t know that. Yes, he’s also gay, but that’s not the point here. There is also this thing that others see but he doesn’t.
0:13:00
TEA TIME
Tara Price
Short film. Written and Directed by Tara Price. Produced by Tara Price, Katie Barrie, and Billy Hanson.
While having a tea party, a little girl loses her temper and things get bloody. Featuring pro-wrestler Rob Van Dam (WWE Champion, ECW World Heavyweight Champion.)
© 2020 Dirigo Entertainment
0:06:00
THE DISHWASHER
Nick Hartanto, Sam Roden
A chef at a fine dining restaurant in New York City asks a Mexican dishwasher to find good tortillas.
0:12:34
THE MAN WITH THE HAMMER
Mario Zozin
Every endurance athlete fears him. With runners, he usually waits until somewhere between kilometer 30 and 35. Then he strikes. Again and again. Legs turn to lead, cramps and stitches set in followed by the feeling of total exhaustion. This is the so- called “The Man with the Hammer”.
0:08:57
That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore
Hannah Currie
Can Lindsay's love for her husband Paul sustain her through the trauma of his brain injury, which leaves him in a perpetual loop of memory loss and joke telling?
0:12:12
The Great Toilet Paper Scare
Brian Gersten
The untold story of a notorious incident involving Johnny Carson, a lot of toilet paper, and millions of fearful Americans. In 1973, as a dire oil crisis plagued the country, Carson made a joke on "The Tonight Show" about a possible paper shortage. This off-hand remark quickly created an actual paper shortage when viewers went and bought up as much toilet paper as they could get their hands on. Compiled entirely of archival footage, and animated sequences based on contemporaneous news reports, the film explores the power and impact of misinformation in the media.
0:11:15
The World's Greatest Counterfeiter
Nathan Truesdell
Meet Frank, the world’s greatest counterfeiter.
The World's Greatest Counterfeiter is part of The Art of Making Money, a three-part series looking at alternative currencies, both legal and illicit.
0:10:39
W
Stelios Koupetoris
A teacher is set to do his daily routine classroom at the school he works, during one of the most difficult days to teach.
0:06:00
Wallpaper
Sitanshu Datta
This is the music video of Carla Stark's song Wallpaper.
0:02:48
Year of the robot
Yves Gellie
At the intersection of art and science, L’année du robot (Year of the robot) depicts the human being and the robot as its artificial counterpart. As a series of archival documents detailing the first contacts and dialogue between a robot gifted with an artificially created autonomy and human beings, it studies cognitive dissonance, a minute, mysterious relational space sitting between the two actors.
It involves elderly people sometimes afflicted with Alzheimer's or dementia, or young adults with autism or neurological problems.
Once past the surprise phase and aware of the artificial nature of the robot's functioning, the residents try, despite everything, to forge bonds with it.
0:31:00