All Films

Sophie Ellis-Bextor: Live at Kendal Calling

2025 • 60 min

Golden hour in the fields and who better for a soundtrack than the Queen of Disco - Sophie Ellis Bextor in her full performance from Kendal Calling 2025! Directed by John Surdevan.

Getting Stoned with Will Oldham

2025 • 58 min

20 years after Tripping with Caveh, Will Oldham and Caveh Zahedi get stoned together.

The Lost Tower

2025 • 3 min

Flying over uncharted waters, a pilot searches for one of the Lost Towers.

The Book Seller’s Daughter

2025 • 3 min • Afghanistan

In an old library, two people engage in a cryptic conversation. But this is no ordinary discussion about books—they use book titles as coded messages to secretly communicate, ensuring that even a third person or an unaware observer remains oblivious. Each book title they mention holds a deeper meaning, a hidden rule that must be followed. As their conversation unfolds, the tension builds. Will anyone uncover the truth?

Spermicide

2025 • 20 min

Bailey and Amanda, a lesbian couple, are determined to have a baby and have created the perfect list of sperm donors, ranked by their ideal characteristics. However, every potential donor they select meets an untimely and bizarre death—falling tree branches, fatal spin classes, art installations gone wrong, and even skydiving accidents. Their "celebrity stretch goal" also meets a gruesome fate. As the deaths mount, Bailey and Amanda begin to wonder if their bad luck is just a coincidence, a curse, or something more sinister at play.

Thanks To Meet You!

2025 • 13 min • United Kingdom

Five businessmen do a business.

A Moment in the Life of Time

2025 • 44 min • Mexico

After a devastating stroke leaves Renta nearly paralyzed, Valentín becomes her unwavering caretaker. Bound by love and burdened by loss, the couple navigates a fragile existence where every gesture is a struggle, and the future is a haunting unknown. In the shadow of silence and stillness, they search for meaning, resilience, and a reason to hope.

Crab No. 7

2025 • 10 min • United Kingdom

Crab No. 7 follows Jennifer, a controlling mother who interferes in her nine-year-old daughter's audition in order to live out her own dreams.

The Motive

2025 • 13 min

A famed Detective arrives to a remote mansion to find a Murderer standing over the body of someone he just killed, and desperately tries to get him to confess his motive.

Candy, Baby

2025 • 30 min • United States of America

In this queer noir short, a straight-laced detective meets a queer burlesque dancer during a murder investigation and gets caught in a larger web of conspiracy.

Dear God, I want to puke on your sweater

2025 • 15 min

A joy addict is struggling with anxiety while trying to send her imaginary friend home.

to write the ending

2025 • 16 min

When a street poet finds a typewriter that allows him to write the future, he uses it to try and find love.

No One Cares

2025 • 19 min • United States of America

Afflicted by visions and hallucinations from a mysterious entity, Nathan draws himself farther and farther away from those closest to him, and must right his wrongs to restore his relationship with his girlfriend Isabella.

Astro TV

2025 • 29 min • Finland

TV astrologer Sigrid guides people through sleepless nights, but one caller seems worrying. Can Sigrid help them before Jupiter and Pluto align?

From Nightlife To Nightmare

2025 • 43 min • Germany

The Hamas terror attack had dramatic consequences for people in Israel, the Gaza Strip and around the world. Here, we hear individual stories from people living in Tel Aviv. What were their lives like before 7 October 2023? What’s their current perception of the war? What do they see, when they look to the future? In the summer of 2023, Tel Aviv was a lively, liberal and open metropolis, known as the “Mediterranean Capital of Cool”. Then came October 7, and changed everything. Here, people’s lives are forever divided: into ‘before’, and ‘after’. Club owners, culture workers, restaurateurs, LGBTQ activists and architects share very personal insights into a traumatized society. And they’ve not given up hope for better times once the war is over.

TransVengeance

2025 • 5 min • Canada

A trans woman dies on the operating table during facial feminization surgery, but death is no match for a determined transsexual.

Fudge Sundae

2025 • 13 min

Jack has a secret that he must confess to his pregnant wife during her new favourite dessert.

The Non-Actor

2025 • 18 min • United States of America

Elliot is staying with her ex’s new girlfriend while attending a medical trial for her recent, unexplained loss of hearing. As she reconfigures her relationship with her (sonic) environment and herself, an intimate connection sparks between the two women. With captivating performances by Victoria Pedretti and Maya Hawke, this loose adaptation of director Eliza Barry Callahan’s semi-autobiographical novel The Hearing Test captures the uneasy process of letting go and embracing change with sensitive warmth.

El Círculo del Pánico

2025 • Duration unknown • Dominican Republic

From the Mountain We See the Mountain

2025 • 32 min • Belgium

From the Mountain We See the Mountain blends haunting imagery and whispered myth to explore a land marked by ecological trauma and the colonial experience. As animals and humans cautiously re-emerge after a forest fire, rumours swirl: was it an accident, an act of nature, or something more insidious? Through eerie nighttime scenes, surreal lighting and interviews lit by the flicker of imagined flames, the film evokes a sense of environmental dystopia and quiet resistance. Balancing elements of myth, sci-fi and thriller, the film conjures a land reckoning with monsters it did not create.

The Day She Will Be Born

2025 • 20 min

Marta, a woman battling dementia, seeks refuge from the harsh reality of her illness and the confines of a nursing home. As her memories blur, she retreats into the warmth of her happiest moments, where the past offers the only escape from a world that no longer feels like her own.

Las Cosas Que Brillan

2025 • 11 min

When a trans Latinx mermaid defies her mother’s warnings, she is forced to confront the violent legacies of colonialism, environmental destruction and the danger of being desired in the human world. The BlackStar Philadelphia Filmmaker Lab is presented with support from Independence Public Media Foundation, William Penn Foundation, and Wyncote Foundation. This project has been supported by The Philadelphia Independent Media Fund administered by Scribe Video Center with funds provided by the Independence Public Media Foundation and the Wyncote Foundation.

The Wolfman of Ayrshire

2025 • 6 min • United Kingdom

Struggling with his toxic masculinity, an alpha male succumbs to the lunar gods.

Niemandsland

2025 • Duration unknown • Netherlands