All Films

De Eierlanders

2017 • 28 min

A ruthless portrait of a lost civilization. Phi Nguyen takes us to the dark side of IJburg: the fastest growing new construction area of ​​the Netherlands. For the first time, the original residents of the residential area are interviewed. Their horrendous testimonies prove a pitch-black page from modern Dutch history.

A Branch of a Pine Is Tied Up

2017 • 16 min • Japan

"The Pine's Branches" is the latest work in Murata Tomoyasu’s series “Sei toshi ni matsuwaru kioku no tabi (Journey through memories of life and death),” which he began following the Tohoku earthquake in 2011.

Stalled

2017 • 7 min

A young businesswoman arrives late for a convention at a hotel. She stops in a restroom to relieve herself. Inside, she notices someone wears an interesting pair of shoes in the stall next to her. When that someone reaches under the stall wall, to the business woman’s shock and surprise, she quickly realizes it’s something else. Something that may change her life, for the worse.

Zane Plays: Proboid

2017 • 3 min • United States of America

Zane is a deep space scout exploring the unknown in his two-legged vehicle, the PROBOID. He’s utterly alone except for an emergency chat channel filled with viewers spamming his only lifeline with expired memes, emote spam, and shoutout requests. Will any of his fellow scouts find him?

Gad Gone Wild

2017 • 57 min • France

French comic Gad Elmaleh regales a Montreal crowd with tales of awkward mix-ups and baffling customs he's encountered since moving to the U.S.

Nyi Ma Lay

2017 • 20 min

In a high-rise private estate, a girl sits precariously on a ledge but nobody knows why. Inspired by recent events of foreign domestic helpers in Singapore taking their own lives.

Max von Sydow

2017 • 44 min • United Kingdom

One of the greatest actors of the twentieth century, von Sydow is best known for his long creative partnership with director Ingmar Bergman, whose psychologically probing dramas—including their most famous collaboration, THE SEVENTH SEAL—gave the actor freedom to bare his soul and showcase his unfailingly commanding screen presence. In addition to the string of masterpieces he made with the Swedish auteur, von Sydow embodied a wide range of characters in films by art-house titans such as Jan Troell, Lars von Trier, and Wim Wenders, leaving behind a body of work that spans more than six decades and a dozen different countries. He appeared in more than one hundred and fifty films and television series in multiple languages. Max von Sydow received his French citizenship in 2002 and lived in France for the last two decades of his life.

The Breath

2017 • 5 min • Turkey

In a dystopic future, there is a shortage of oxygen. People are breathing with gas masks. A thief sneaks into an old man’s house. The thief finds a plant in the house he enters. The old man realizes that he can get maskless oxygen at home thanks to this plant and special fan. The film deals with the struggle of two people for the sake of having this plant that supplies oxygen.

Off Season

2017 • 6 min • France

Tired park ranger Jude struggles to find her place in her team. Her determination to prove herself leads her to a place where she'll find herself lonelier than ever.

Out to Lunch

2017 • 8 min

Short by Katia Koziara

Bam

2017 • 6 min

Musicians Jay-Z and Damien Marley discuss their upbringing and how it influences their music.

El Jimador 'ID'

2017 • 1 min

The combination of practical sets and CG backgrounds complemented and accentuated the quirky fluidity of the stop motion characters, and brought to life this unique world where the departed and the living celebrate together in a small cantina somewhere on Dia de los Muertos.

Paving

2017 • 5 min

If you hold the camera horizontally, people's faces and products will be reflected. For reasons of personal information protection and the risk of copyright infringement, there is a historical background in which people have no choice but to point the camera downward when shooting video. So the theme is "floor". I tried to see what kind of work I could create by narrowing down the objects to this extent.

Siblings

2017 • 23 min

Two siblings get together for an evening after not seeing each other for 2 years. Interesting conversations ensue.

Charlottesville: Race and Terror

2017 • 22 min • United States of America

On Saturday 8/12/2017, hundreds of white nationalists, alt-righters, and neo-Nazis traveled to Charlottesville, Virginia to participate in the “Unite the Right” rally. By Saturday evening three people were dead – one protester, and two police officers – and many more injured. “VICE News Tonight” correspondent Elle Reeve went behind the scenes with white nationalist leaders, including Christopher Cantwell, Robert Ray, David Duke, and Matthew Heimbach — as well as counter-protesters. VICE News Tonight also spoke with residents of Charlottesville, members of the Black Lives Matter movement, and the Charlottesville Police. From the neo-Nazi protests at Emancipation Park to Cantwell’s hideaway outside of Virginia, “VICE News Tonight” provides viewers with exclusive, up close and personal access inside the unrest.

Numinous

2017 • 50 min

Awed and Attracted. He is one of the most aggressive and talented freeskiers of our age. Born and raised in the BC backcountry, with a bloodline alive with adventure and a style carved from the landscape itself, Kye Petersen is about to blow the doors off of big mountain skiing. Fearful yet Fascinated. Numinous explores the relationships and connections with the natural world that are necessary to safely dance with mountain faces covered in snow. Tuning out and tuning in. Shot exclusively in British Columbia, Numinous follows Kye and a cadre of fellow snow-sliders into the heart of the some of the most aesthetic and demanding landscapes around. Overwhelmed but Ultimately Inspired.

Journey to the Pale Red Dot

2017 • 42 min

The search for planets beyond our solar system has brought an historic discovery: a planet slightly larger than Earth orbiting a star called Proxima Centauri. At just over 40 trillion kilometers from the Sun, Proxima Centauri is our closest stellar neighbor. Does its planet have a climate, or even life?

Ldae

2017 • 30 min

Documentation vs. imagination. Under the title LDAE (German acronym for “let the others decide”) Christoph Schwarz develops a participative format for an art program. The filming of his new film should be broadcast online and a web community should direct and decide on the plot, locations, and final edited version. Schwarz hopes to reach artistic heights – but comes to a crash landing.

When Things Occur

2017 • 28 min • Palestinian Territory, United Kingdom

Based on Skype conversations with Gaza-based photographers, fixers, and drivers who were behind specific images that were transmitted from screen to screen in the summer of 2014. The film probes the face of mourning and grief – its digital embodiment, transmission, and representation. It asks how the gaze gets channeled within the digital realm, and how empathy travels. Equally, how the documentary signifier – and its abstraction – operate when viewing suffering. What exactly is viewing suffering ‘at a distance’ – and how many meters or kilometers is that? What is the behavior and political economy of the image of war? Who is the ‘local’ in the representation of war? What is the daily routine of those who represent war?

Syria: Israel's invisible Hand

2017 • 42 min

A horrible six year conflict befell Syria with a multitude of factions fighting for territories backed by a score of foreign players. The script for war as with Iraq in 2003 originated with Zionist partisans with Israeli interests in mind. From Oded Yinon to the Israeli "Clean Break" papers, the Zionist regime made it very clear what their intentions were in Iraq and Syria. American mass media had a uniform message that "Assad must go" for years until the Trump administration took power. In Iraq, after the US made it clear that they did not back Kurdish secession and would not give them air support, the Iraqi forces chased out the Peshmerga in a mere 36hrs. The world must know that the US was dragged into these conflicts via Israeli pressure and deceptions.

Alien: Covenant - Master Class: Ridley Scott

2017 • 56 min

An in-depth look at the making of Alien: Covenant and broken into four parts that can be watched separately (i.e Story, Characters, Setting and Creatures). This piece features a host of cast and crew interviews interspersed with tons of BTS footage, viewers can learn a great deal on the director's creative style and approach to the plot, the characters, the visual effects and the shooting location.

Dreaming Murakami

2017 • 58 min • Denmark, Japan

When Mette Holm begins to translate Haruki Murakami's debut novel Kaze no uta o kike, Hear the Wind Sing, a two-meter-tall frog shows up at an underground station in Tokyo. The Frog follows her, determined to engage the translator in its fight against the gigantic Worm, which is slowly waking from a deep sleep, ready to destroy the world with hatred. As Mette struggles to find the perfect sentences capable of communicating what Murakami's solitary, daydreaming characters are trying to tell us, the boundary between reality and imagination begins to blur.

Trollhunters: Happy Birthday to You!

2017 • 1 min • United States of America

What's better than a birthday? How about a chorus of trolls and humans wishing you the happiest, most epic celebration in history!

Boom Boom

2017 • 17 min • Sweden

1944. Norway is under Nazi occupation. Two sámi help the Norwegian resistance on a sabotage mission, but the bridge they’re about to blow up is guarded by a man in Nazi uniform. A fellow sámi in Nazi uniform.