Past Film Festivals

An elderly man reconciles with his long lost brother, but the happiness of the family reunion soon turns into a nightmare.

She (name unknown) sinks into an unbearable silence, far away from the external world, locked in her unconquered house-fortress. 

It’s Christmas season in a small town somewhere in the Austrian countryside where, following tradition, the young local men parade in dæmon-like masks and costumes to frighten the children and chase away the winter.

This documentary profiles Jason Rip: a prolific artist, playwright, poet, actor, director, and comedian as he prepares to mount his 80th play.

THEY is an intimate portrait of Hobbit and Jake, who have decided to raise their one-year-old child Anoush gender-open. The family lives on a houseboat in the UK and in order to prevent people from making gender-related assumptions, they keep the biological sex of their baby a secret.

Animation/video poem Transparent Delusion is an attempt to solidify the transient sensation of how the varied locations that appear in our dreams could have connections with each other. 

NEVERMORE is a dramatic thriller short that pays homage to Lewis Carrol’s Alice in Wonderland and Aldous Huxley’s The Doors of Perception by using a combination of CG, 2D, and traditional stop-motion practical effects.

Utilizing archival footage and stop-motion animation, Black Dog is set during the US and USSR space race of the 1960’s amidst a time of heated social and political tension. Two brothers must deal with the sudden loss of their parents.

A process of endless missing.

A child recognizes the erotic relationship between the parents. Curious but overwhelmed, the child takes control.

High school student Sasha from a small town has to pretend to be a stupid scumbag to become a part of local teenage crew. In the meantime he dreams of moving to a big city and learns hard to get an education in university.

When the sun goes down, terrestrial activity slows down and falls asleep. The stars become visible in the true, deep, black sky. The short and lively cycles of terrestrial life give way to cosmic eternities.

Wiki is a autistic, and curious young girl, who has to face really harsh reality of living with an alcoholic mother after her grandmother dies.

An afternoon, two children, two worlds meet.

In the final academic semester of National Institute of Design, the Design Project allows a student to take up a documentary film as the project.

Mario and Ingo know a face of Berlin which is unfamiliar for most people. Instead of iconic night clubs and on-trend vernissages they see the daily waste water produced by the metropolis: They are sewerage workers.

Skin Is, My is an experimental short, providing commentary on the hyper-association my brother and I have experienced throughout our lives as children of mixed race.

An exhausted woman chases a few simple pleasures, none of which are quite so simple to get.

A video using family archives to explore relationships to land, faith, and violence across four generations.

120 YEARS tells the story of Scott Lewis, a citizen of New Haven, Connecticut who was sentenced to life in prison for a crime he never committed.

Paco spends his days on a park bench calling people to sit on his lap.

A cab rolls up to a beach. Its driver and passenger have an argument.

Secretly, Juno dreams of Pan, the god of the forest. On a techno party in a house close to the forest, she meets him – the real Pan, a normal guy, loved by all the girls. But of course he does not even notice her.

A small ceremony of water droplets that raises a lot of questions. Roshnij is a short film about our place in society.

A uniquely animated film about childhood, trauma, and life cycles. My Lithuanian Summer won Best Animated Film at the 2017 Chiyoko Film Festival and competed in the official selection at the 2018 FiSH Film Festival.

Agne Jurkenaite is a student filmmaker at University of the Arts London.

A social outcast makes a home for himself inside of a train car.

Alex Barsky is an animator based in Brooklyn, New York.

Phimabong flickers between daydream to nightmare in its mystifying story of two men who spend the day at a rainforest cabin.

Jakkrapan Sriwichai is a student filmmaker at Chiang Mai University in Thailand.

A nightmare in Niedersachsen begins when Andrei, an Eastern European slaughterhouse guest worker, is denied employee lodging and forced to build a shelter in the nearby forest.

A surreal peek into a Buddhist home shrine.

In this playful rhapsody of sensory cinema, the filmmaker juggles multiple selves.

What goes on at 324 E 13th Street at night? A short verité, shot using an in-camera matting technique on hand-processed 16mm film.

Bread and Bark Chips is a short, non-linear film that explores a teenage girl’s psyche as she deals with an eating disorder and grapples with the idea of home.

Over the course of the rehearsal process for a tragic gay play, two boys in a college theater class do some thinking about the nature of representation.

The corridors of former maternity hospital Barros Luco Trudeau echo with the anguish of the hundreds of women whose children were stolen from them.

The myth of the Black Dog structures the life of these Argentine villagers. Capturing their stories and beliefs, this documentary traces how myths shape our identities and world.

Like a dream sequence, some of the actions usually performed in a pool are slightly deviated from reality.
This film involves choreography and performance to depict an imaginary pool sermon where themes of ideology and struggle emerge.

dir. Russell Cohen

When the world’s greatest hero is defeated, his five ex-sidekicks gather together to mourn, air longstanding grievances, and, perhaps, figure out a successor.

“Sonnet 23” is a modern reimagining of Shakespeare’s sonnet: the story of a boy frozen in his indecision about whether or not to confess his feelings to his male best friend, told through an impressionistic style that mirrors both the sentiment and the structure of the original sonnet.

The film is about the disconnect between the elder son and his family. It looks at the other family members and explores their desires from an absentee protagonist’s point of view, like time travel in one’s mind.

We live in the city, fish live in the fish tank, it’s the same.

Frank is not a person but rather an idea of working together to create art and film.

In the beginning of them She created us.

Evelyn Ross grew up in Las Cruces, New Mexico. She is interested in creating work out of tactile media such as sand, ink droplets, and clay. She has a background in dance and subconsciously uses that knowledge to choreograph movement in her work. She is a student at RISD.

A family memory affects three generations of women, who have had to deal with separations in their lives. This film mixes non-fiction and fiction storytelling, through visualizing ancient Chinese poetry and cultural symbols and a voiceover transcending time and space.

Observations through a sketchbook.

In Corsica, a tiny island in the Mediterranean, four friends enjoy the last days of an endless summer. As they tell each other their secrets, Camille, the youngest, tell her friends she is pregnant. She must make a decision, and grow up, at last.

A stoner comedy about a day in the life of Jogi and his friend Davor. They try to return a lost shipment but encounter a grumpy postal worker. Good music, sunshine, and every day struggle ensue.

Evan would enjoy nothing more than to spend his day inside playing with his toys. He’s 7 years old, Chinese, living with his soon-to-be widowed mother. After visiting his father in the hospital, Evan learns he must come to grips with impending death while watching as his mother tries to cope.

Late night at a chawl in central Mumbai, a prostitute finds the courage to leave her sterile and meaningless life. A hostage escapes her kidnappers, a shootout occurs between gangsters, and a paralysed war veteran tries to walk after years of a sedentary life. All of this happens next door to each other in a single uninterrupted shot.

Olivia and Arthur spend their days away from home. The day Olivia discovers a stray cat in the woods is the first step into a journey of loss of innocence.

Baba Usta is a graveyard worker. When his office is threatened, he has to face both the municipality and a mysterious rival with powerful connections.

An exploration of the lives of the aboriginal people of a small fishing community in the remote village of Kampung Kuala Masa, Jahor.

Omar Eldib is originally from Egypt and now studies in Nusajaya, Jahor.

Dispersion captures the process of 35mm film emulsion being dissolved in three dimensional space. It explores the feeling of nature and visual landscapes that are created from unconventional sources.

A patient is attending a session with his hypnotherapist.The purpose is to travel back to childhood through the milestones of the whole past life.We can feel the conflict and the complexity.The theme is waking hypnosis.N*B: All scenes are illustrated in SFX, VFX and surrealistic atmosphere.

you can see wonderful city…with heart and brain!!

Animated documentary short film made by the youth of the Portuguese city of Montemor-o- Novo.

A young Congolese woman shares her story of becoming a victim of child trafficking and being thrown into a whirlwind of drifting between continents.

In a world, in a country, on a map, in a wood, lies a town of shadows at the end of a cracked road. At the end of the lane, at the edge of the town there is a house with a boy named Charlie. This is Charlie.

In a future where contract killings are legal, Leon orders the murder of his wife he can’t stand anymore. On the day, everything seems to go as planned… Until clause 9.7 gets in the way.

Eagle Scout lands in a foreign planet to search for life, but finds something unexpected.

Three ghosts, representing three different generations, keep a portrait of themselves as the unique sign left of their own identity after death. Two of the ghosts have an analog portrait, while the third one has a digital portrait.

“John” is a short narrative film with no script, only a soundtrack. A waitress gets hit on by a customer and then she decides to take his car for a spin when he offers her a ride.

dir. Nick Henriquez

dir. Eric Nelson

A young girl is forced to the limits of her humanity in order to survive the Bosnian War.

While Jonas helps his dad to save his fast food joint from almost going bankrupt because of the ruthless competition of the neighboring fast food joint, he falls in love with the daughter of the feared competitor. A modern times Romeo and Juliet.

1992. Two cousins linger around the woods without motive, stumbling upon what seems like a lost bag. They take interest in retrieving it and set out to find the owner. It doesn’t take very long before they find her, cold and alone.