All Films

Sugar Pine Falls

2017 • 18 min

SUGAR PINE FALLS is about growing up fast. Monty and his little sister are being driven halfway across the country by their mum (Hannah), in another attempted escape of Monty’s alcoholic father. Monty is 16 and can’t yet shake the responsibility of looking after his emotionally erratic mum. When they arrive at the Sugar Pine Caravan Park, Monty forms an unexpected friendship with James; an intriguing and artistic older boy. James has a heaviness weighing on him and takes to the Monty’s awkwardly insightful presence as a much needed distraction. But, SUGAR PINE is a dark place where everyone has something to hide and happiness is fleeting. A body lays limp beneath a waterfall and as the film unravels the awful truth will be revealed.

Vrouw slaat man

2017 • 53 min • Netherlands

This documentary follows two male victims of domestic violence for a year.

João's House

2017 • 3 min • United States of America

João’s House is a renovation project for a small house located in the old part of the city of Porto, close to the Douro River. It is a traditional 19th century ground floor building with wells made with stone, and a wooden roof structure covered with tiles.

Pauahi's Legacy

2017 • 16 min • United States of America

A short film about the love story between Charles Reed Bishop and Princess Pauahi (founders of Kamehameha Schools). This is based on a true story with some liberties taken by Elena.

Gabriel & Ashley

2017 • 5 min

Two boys, Gabriel and Ashley, are eager to finally meet in person and express their love after chatting on the internet for a few months.

The Fisherman

2017 • 15 min

A humble Cuban fisherman is having a harsh winter on the open sea. For the sake of his family and against all odds, he needs to capture a fish tonight.

Conversion Therapy

2017 • 8 min

A short documentary on the history and controversial practice of conversion therapy.

Christmas Handbells

2017 • 49 min

From a cozy fireplace, colorful lights, and festive Christmas trees, enjoy the beautiful scenery accompanied by your favorite Christmas songs.

Japa n°3

2017 • 51 min

108 repetitions at the pond.

Positive YouTubers

2017 • 15 min

An experimental documentary made with footage material recorded from the computer desktop screen, about four Brazilians who have created Youtube Channels to talk openly about their HIV status. They explain how this platform disseminates information, counter prejudice, and offers positive images of those living with HIV. A fresh an inventive look at activism in the Web 2.0 era.

Mimosen im Wind

2017 • 1 min • Germany

Super 8 (Color) film by Helga Fanderl

Grand Canyon 4K

2017 • 52 min

The Grand Canyon is a surreal place. With the Grand Canyon National Park film in 4K resolution, you will experience it in unprecedented sharpness and quality. Witness the extremes of this landscape, whose geological layers reveal the history of the past 2 billion years. Experience the unique landscape of the Grand Canyon and explore the "Valley of the Sun" with all its colors and shapes.

A boy named Noel

2017 • 6 min

At Christmas eve, Noel is anything but happy. He needs to hide a secret from his familiy.

Éléments 1

2017 • 2 min • France

A stop-motion journey through a tropical forest, over rocky trails in search of an illusory connection to a manicured version of nature. At the foot of the Arenal Volcano, in a massive Costa Rican nature reserve, we are confronted with a wave of eco-tourism. The camera tries to escape, but a feeling of simulacrum lingers.

Slaughterhouse. What the meat industry hides.

2017 • 39 min • Mexico, Spain

With images obtained during an investigation carried out in fifty eight slaughterhouses in Mexico between 2015 and 2017, «Slaughterhouse» is a documentary that takes us into the hermetic world of the meat industry. The footage shows the systematic exploitation and violence suffered by animals in slaughterhouses and that is deliberately kept hidden by the meat industry. In order to carry out this documentary, the director, who for years has been carrying out a project against animal exploitation named as «Tras los Muros», has had to use false identities that have allowed him to access all these places.

The Murder of Becky Watts - The Police Tapes

2017 • 46 min • United Kingdom

When 16-year-old Becky Watts went missing in 2015, it sparked a major police investigation and dominated headlines nationwide. Everyone was desperate to find the missing teenager. But only two people knew where she was – Becky’s stepbrother Nathan, and his girlfriend Shauna. Featuring incredible video footage and testimony from the police and Becky’s family, the documentary lifts the lid on the tactics that drove every step of this complex and tragic investigation and the 'cat and mouse' between the police and the suspects that played out in the interview room, and that caught the killers who thought they could get away with murder.

Groove Cruise

2017 • 52 min

Join Taryn and David, a couple who knows how to work hard and play hard, aboard Carnival's gargantuan ocean liner, Inspiration, for the grooviest cruise to ever set sail on the high seas.

Sex Abuse in the Church: Code of Silence

2017 • 54 min • France

Secret internal documents reveal how Catholic Church officials protect priests accused of pedophilia and sexual abuse by moving them from country to country, sometimes as far away as Africa. Even Pope Francis is implicated. When he was bishop of Buenos Aires, he tried to influence the Argentinean justice system in order to protect a convicted priest. From Cameroon to Argentina, America to France and Italy, this investigation traces the transfers of pedophile priests.

Charlus Rex

2017 • 24 min

The story of Charlus Rex, a poet and iconoclast who wanders the streets of Cali while a group of intelectuals consider him their King. Filmed for a TV Series.

My First Hook Up

2017 • 22 min

A heartbroken girl tries to get over her ex-boyfriend with the help of her friends by having her first hookup experience, only it's harder to find someone than she imagined.

Ecosystem 25 ~ BlacK 2

2017 • 10 min • Japan

Repeat Viewing (After Hours)

2017 • 5 min

Daniel Cockburn discusses that may or may not have seen the film After Hours before

Airstrikes on the al-Jinah mosque

2017 • 7 min

On the evening of 16 March 2017, a US drone strike targeted Sayidina Omar Ibn al-Khattab Mosque in al-Jinah, in Aleppo province, Syria. According to witnesses, the strike took place when close to three hundred people were in the building. Most were gathering for the night prayer, while others remained in the smaller ‘winter prayer hall’ where a religious seminar had just finished. The Syrian Civil Defense, also known as the White Helmets, claimed to have recovered the bodies of thirty-eight civilians, including five children. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported forty-two dead. -FA

Panama's Animal Highway

2017 • 60 min

Scientists use state-of-the-art technology to battle the conservation dangers threatening the millions of animals that migrate through Panama.