All Films

Poor Magic

2017 • 7 min

"Poor Magic effects a beautiful yet terrifying rendition of contemporary consciousness, gesturing towards civilisation's listless drift beyond the corporeal, and technology's infinite desire to penetrate and artificially replicate human essence. Computer-generated crowd simulations run berserk in dreamlike repetition, while a 3D endoscopic journey takes us through the body's most intimate passages."

Luther and His Legacy

2017 • 55 min • Netherlands

A personal essay on the legacy of Martin Luther on the basis of 16th-Century drawings and paintings where the director draws parallels with today's communication explosion/distribution of "news" and the necessity to be digitally literate.

La peur du vide

2017 • 15 min • France

Simone is an isolated old lady, whose daily life is punctuated by a strange pile of rubbish, so imposing in her small apartment that it prevents her from living normally. One day, Simone dares to touch it.

The Seduction Trap

2017 • 57 min

Jin-soo and Soo-jin visit the mountains on their day off. However, Jin-soo falls for the cabin owner Yoo-ra. While his girlfriend takes a shower, he approaches Yoo-ra. He witnesses her dancing sexily and seducing them and he falls even more deeply into her. After going home with Soo-jin, Jin-soo returns to the cabin and spends a night with Yoo-ra. The next morning, Jin-soo is about to say bye to Yoo-ra and leave when something unexpected happens to him.

Snow Bears

2017 • 58 min • United Kingdom

The enchanting true-to-life tale of polar bear cubs and their mother on a 400-mile journey from their birth den in Svalbard to the pack ice surrounding the North Pole.

Porsche: Decades of Disruption

2017 • 28 min • United States of America

Since World War II, Porsche has manufactured cars that have disrupted the automobile industry, like the 911.

Jivari

2017 • 23 min • India

Jivari, in Indian Classical Music, refers to the overtone-rich sound characteristic of classical Indian string instruments such as Tanpura, Sitar, Surbahar, Rudra Veena and Saraswati Veena. Jivari can refer to the acoustic phenomenon itself and to the meticulously carved bone, ivory or wooden bridges that supports the strings on the sounding-board that produce this particular effect. The film attempts to trace the bridge between the craftsman and the musician by exploring the intimate bond Zakir Bhai and music shop hse with classical music, and how this bond has evolved over the years, interspersed with letters

Spring Like Lovers

2017 • 31 min • Japan

Kazu becomes distrustful of his current partner Shin and goes to see his ex-boyfriend Takashi. But he finds out that Takashi has gotten married to a woman and feels that he is left with nowhere to go.

I Will Love You, May I?

2017 • 55 min • Russia

An Algorithm

2017 • 40 min • South Korea

When putting on a play on a lesbian’s suicide attempt, Yun-jeong, an open lesbian in school who plays a leading role in the theater production accuses Ji-won of writing the play without having a better understanding of homosexuality. As such accusation hurts her feelings, Ji-won intentionally approaches Yun-jeong’s ex-girlfriend, Min-a and revises her play script that gradually begins to resemble the story of a real-life ex-lesbian couple, Yun-jeong and Min-a. At the same time, Ji-won gets carried away by her growing feelings for Min-a.

Time Travel

2017 • 10 min • United States of America

The film, an animation, unfolds in three acts: Act I, "Cyrano", wherein Cyrano makes all manner of boasts and compares his lady-love to the marvels of the universe; Act II, " Prometheus", in which pagan forces are compared with the supposed genteel nature of the 19th century; Act III, "Time Travel", wherein there is a hop-scotch of Time Travel! In which the viewer moves among various 'times', partially drawn entirely from imagination, partially from allusion to specific visual historic and pre-historic periods. It is not a straight-line progression, rather a flipping back and forth through glimpses of various ages, carried along by the surreal antics of its objects and characters.

The DANY Video

2017 • 29 min

Hardbody Entertainment Presents A Dany Publication of an Emilio Cuilan film

Gas Can

2017 • 15 min • Canada

A Cree family in 1970s Saskatchewan must ask an old farmer for help when their car runs out of gas while moving to the city.

Roar: The Most Dangerous Movie Ever Made

2017 • 42 min

Actress Tippi Hedren and her family set out to make a unique film by spending ten years living with and filming 150 untrained lions, tigers and assorted wild animals. Despite good intentions, over 70 cast and crew were injured making the film.

Burning Action Super Heroine Chronicles 28 - Melty Saver

2017 • 60 min • Japan

The 28th film in the Burning Action Super Heroine Chronicles tokusatsu series

Followed Back

2017 • 9 min • United States of America

Thriller short film about an astronaut battling PTSD.

Onward Lossless Follows

2017 • 17 min

A password-protected love affair, a little vapor on Venus, and a horse with no name ride out in search of a better world. Against the mounting darkness, a willing abduction offers a stab at tomorrow.

Breathing House

2017 • 12 min • Japan

Last gasps of the Seiza-sha house in Kyoto devoted to Torajiro Okada’s still-sitting meditation method from the late-Meiji era’s intercultural ferment. -JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film

Half Eaten Cow

2017 • 18 min

Within the framework of the project "Strengthening Local Capacity to Protect Children's Rights" funded by the European Union, six films were created, which tell us about the difficulties that children face in the difficult path of getting an education.

Innards

2017 • 11 min

A former child actor reconnects with his twin brother to discuss a role they once shared--as the lead in a schlocky, shot-on-video cannibal film, "Innards."

Machine Gun Baby

2017 • 29 min

A baby escapes his own abortion and seeks to find revenge. With a machine gun.

Ultraman Zero VR

2017 • 6 min • Japan

Ultraman Zero fights Eleking in this short film made for the VR theaters.

Rodríguez y el cambio climático

2017 • 22 min • Uruguay

Based on the life of a character called “Rodríguez”, who could be any person who watches the film in front of the screen, the audiovisual short “Rodríguez and climate change” seeks to demystify knowledge about climate change in society.

Maria Sharapova: The Point

2017 • 55 min • Russia

Yes, Maria Sharapova is one of the greatest to ever play the game of tennis. Yes, she is beautiful, poised and articulate. Yes, her marketability among female athletes is unrivaled. Yes, she was embroiled in a controversy that resulted in suspension. Yet, despite all of this, the real Maria Sharapova is widely unknown. Told in her own words, with a raw intimacy never before revealed, the_point. spans the most pivotal year in Maria Sharapova’s life.