Michel Lipkes
EXTRANO PERO VERDADERO
Mexico, 2017, 90′

STRANGE BUT TRUE
A waste truck roams the streets of Mexico. Aboard are four individuals: the ‘Maestro’, the sinister and brutal team leader, an old mute man, and two kids, Jonathan and Yesi, who do everything in their power to conceal their love story from their … Read More

Andrés Goteira
DHOGS
Spain, 2017, 85′

DHOGS
The intimacy of a hotel room. The immensity of a desert. A desolate gas station. In these picturesque settings, hideous crimes occur under the cold stare of unexpected protagonists that show the dark, twisted and perverse sides of human existence. But what if there was only … Read More

Igor Bezinović
KRATKI IZLET
Croatia, 2017, 75′

A BRIEF EXCURSION
Stola has been spending his summer in the sweltering haze of festival parties. But one day, he runs into Roko, an old acquaintance, who is on a mission to discover medieval frescoes at a nearby monastery. Roko convinces Stola and a random group of … Read More

Jun Geng
QING SONG JIA YU KUAI
Hong Kong, 2016; 97′

FREE AND EASY
A crook visits a gloomy, snowbound town in northeast China bringing magic soap used to incapacitate the unaware so that he may rob them of money and property. A man is intent on re-uniting with his mother by meeting people … Read More

Mo Hyun-shin
KUKKWANGGYOHOEH
Korea, 2017, 67′

NATIONAL GLORY CHURCH
Even though his assistant has been sexually abused by dean, the professor Choo tries to ignore the truth. The rumors/news related to sexual abuse spread widely in college. Heading of Ethics Committee convened, a dean commanded Choo for convincing the assistant. To find … Read More

Virgil Widrich
DIE NACHT DER 1000 STUNDEN
Austria, 2016, 92′

THE NIGHT OF 1000 HOURS
As the members of the Ullich family gather at their palace in Vienna, their deceased ancestors suddenly appear and usher in a series of unforeseen events. Not only does the past unexpectedly become the present, criminal machinations are … Read More

Simon Liu
SNEYD GREEN
USA, 2017, 11′ 20“

SNEYD GREEN
It’s any day, any year in the house of Alan and Vera in their Post-Industrial English conurbation formerly known for their world renown pottery industry, yet on this week they are interrupted by their camera toting grandson. This May is one of … Read More

Anna Hints
ICE
Finland, 2017, 15′

ICE
Harri is a lieutenant colonel in the Estonian army embarking on missions to Iraq and Afganistan. He is divorced and only sees his 10-year-old son on holidays from time to time. Struggling with the guilt of not being there for his estranged son, Harri decides to make … Read More

Rawane Nassif
TURTLES ARE ALWAYS HOME
Lebanon, 2017, 10′ 46“

TURTLES ARE ALWAYS HOME
I left Lebanon in 2006. For the past 10 years I lived in 7 countries, 10 cities, and 21 homes. I slept in 21 beds, cooked in 21 kitchens, cleaned 21 bathrooms, wrote on 21 desks and locked … Read More

Yosuke Kawata
PROOF OF MEMORY
Japan, 2017, 10′ 30“

PROOF OF MEMORY
This work is generated on the computer, based on real video images, filmed for one year from when the author graduated from the university and started to live in society.
During the year he starts to work as a member … Read More

Nuntanat Duangtisarn
THE SERPENT’S SONG
Thailand, 2017 24′

THE SERPENT’S SONG
At a secret monastery located in a rural area of Thailand. A music teacher is trying to help a young nun to be able to speak again.

Nuntanat Duangtisarn
Nuntanat Duangtisarn lives and works in Bangkok. He love making … Read More

Abtin Mozafari
GENESIS
Iran, 2016, 10′

GENESIS
And he commanded the man, ‘You may freely eat of every tree oft he garden; but oft he tree oft he knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you of it you shall die.’
Genesis is a fantasy movie about … Read More

Tommaso Cotronei
BLOOD AND THE MOON
Italy, 2017, 75′

BLOOD AND THE MOON
What happens to the mind of a child bride? Disempowered and deprived of health, education, safety. Then someone takes courage and reacts. Soraya escapes her husband to reach a village no one knows. The local young student teacher offers her protection … Read More

Pablo Escoto
RUINAS TU REINO
Mexico, 2016, 64′

RUINS YOUR REALM
A pilgrimage of fishermen ply the Gulf of Mexico under the sky of historic patina.

Pablo Escoto
Hailing from Mexico City, Pablo Escoto currently lives in Buenos Aires. His previous work, CARTAS A BARCELONA (2014) screened at international festivals such as Transcinema Festival Internacional de … Read More

Guido Hendrikx
STRANGER IN PARADISE
Netherlands, 2017, 72′

STRANGER IN PARADISE
In a classroom newly arrived refugees learn a lesson about multifaceted Europe. Operating at the intersection of fiction and documentary, Stranger in Paradise reflects on the power relations between Europeans and refugees in a candid fashion.

Guido Hendrikx
Born in 1987, studied Liberal Arts … Read More

Zaynê Akyol
GULISTAN, LAND OF ROSES
Canada / Germany, 2016, 84′

GULISTAN, LAND OF ROSES
In the mountains and deserts of Kurdistan, female PKK guerillas are fighting ISIS (the Islamic State). In this startling and intimate and immersive documentary, these revolutionary women invite us into their daily lives, speak frankly about their ideals and … Read More

Rahul Jain
MACHINES
India / Germany / Finland, 2016, 71′

MACHINES
Moving through the corridors and bowels of an enormous and disorienting structure, the camera takes the viewer on a descent down to a dehumanized place of physical labor and intense hardship; a gigantic textile factory in Gujarat, India. In his mind-provoking yet … Read More

Derick Cabrido
PURGATORYO
Philippines, 2016, 85’

PURGATORYO
“Purgatoryo” tells the story of Ilyong, a recently-dead man killed by the police, after he was caught stealing. This is the beginning of his story – his death. Soon after, he is brought into a sleazy funeral home, run by Violet, a greedy homosexual who has … Read More

Haritz Zubillaga
EL ATAUD DE CRISTAL
Spain, 2016, 73′

THE GLASS COFFIN
Dressed for the occasion in an elegant evening outfit, Amanda steps into the huge luxury limousine which is parked outside her … Read More

Nagayama Tadashi
TOHATSU NO TABI
Japan, 2016, 81′

JOURNEY OF THE TORTOISE
Since Jiro lost his wife, his heart is set on his pet turtle. Jiro’s son Noboru hates his father, school, and everything. One day in summer, Jiro’s missing brother Shintaro suddenly visited them with his fiancée. Shintaro forced Jiro … Read More

Tom Lass
BLIND & HASSLICH
Germany, 2017, 100′

UGLY & BLIND
Ferdi is ugly. And he desperately wants a girlfriend but he can’t because: ugly. One day, however, he meets Jona and Jona is blind. For the first time in his life, there is hope. What Ferdi doesn’t know is that Jona isn’t really … Read More

Goran Škofić
NA PLAŽI
Croatia, 2016, 24′ 24“

ON THE BEACH
A single frame. A sea, a sky, and a beach. And many people who are headed somewhere. Some are looking for something, some are waiting for something. Some are quiet, some are talking. Some are by themselves, some are in the company of … Read More

Igor Dropuljić
BEHEMOT
Croatia, 2017, 17′ 50“

BEHEMOT
Behemot is the biggest of all evils. His gluttony spares no one.
Stanko, without hesitation, decides to take matters into his own hands and proceeds to seek justice. He will take radical action in order to fight for his existance and for the existance of those … Read More

Tonči Bakotin
M.OCEAN
Croatia, 2016, 8′ 30“

M.OCEAN
Exploring ocean surfaces manipulated by wind, sky reflections and weather conditions. Sound is programmed using edited video RGB VGA information translated into audio signal which in turn controls synthesizers as modifier control carriers.

Tonči Bakotin
Born in 1973 in Split, Croatia. Studied sound design at the … Read More

Mate Ugrin
U MEĐUVREMENU … Read More

Viktor Zahtila
AFTER PARTY
Croatia, 2017, 21′ 35“

AFTER PARTY
A documentary film that follows the last days in a love relationship of two men who decided to film their separation and work through issues left unresolved.

Viktor Zahtila
Born in Pula, Croatia and lives and works in Zagreb. For many years he was a LGBT … Read More

Sara Kern
SRETNO, ORLO!
Croatia, 2016,14′

GOOD LUCK ORLO!
A baby has died. Orlo, 7, watches his parents being consumed with grief. He wants his family to be normal again. When an opportunity arises, Orlo takes things into his own hands. But it is more complicated than he had imagined

Sara Kern
Born in 1989 … Read More

Sylvain L’Esperance
COMBAT AU BOUT DE LA NUIT
Canada, 2016, 285′, 1 / 2 / 3”

FIGHTING THROUGH THE NIGHT
Approaching a two-year period, FIGHTING THROUGH THE NIGHT is a long journey into the heart of what has shattered Greece, a country dragged down into turmoil by the … Read More

Shu Lea Cheang
FLUIDØ
Germany, 2017, 91′

FLUIDØ
FLUIDØ is set in the post-AIDS future of 2060, where the government is the first to declare the era AIDS FREE. The mutated AIDS viruses give birth to humans that have genetically evolved in a very unique way. These so called ZERO GENs are gender fluid … Read More

Ben Russell
GOOD LUCK
France, Germany, 2017, 143′

GOOD LUCK
Shot on Super16mm, GOOD LUCK is a portrait of two mining communities operating on opposite sides of a hostile world: the state employees of a 400m-deep underground Serbian copper mine and the Maroon laborers of an illegal gold mining operation in the jungle tropics … Read More

REMEMBERING TOM GOTOVAC
Željko Radivoj
USPUTNE PRIČE – BOŽJI PRST
Croatia, 2000-2017, 8′

SIDE STORIES – THE FINGER OF GOD
Archive digital footage allows us to witness friendly and confidential conversations between Gotovac and Faktor that took place over beer. They talk about Martinac and Karabatic, Marx and Engels, beards and personal health issues. … Read More

Fernando Birri
EL FAUSTIO CRIOLLO
Argentina, 2011, 87′

EL FAUSTIO CRIOLLO
In Argentina, mid-XIX century, the gauchos Anastasio el Pollo and his friend Don Laguna find themselves sitting on top of the knotty roots of a lone ombú, the largest tree in the world. Along with gin and yerba mate, Anastasio shares with Don … Read More

Werner Nekes
DER TAG DES MALERS
Germany, 1998, 84′

THE DAY OF THE PAINTER
The painter gazes at his female model, or how voyeurism is transformed into culture. An erotic adventure film where the theme is the viewer himself.
The Day of the Painter shows what “La Belle Noiseuse” does not want to … Read More

Namak Khoshnaw
IRANIAN WOMEN FIGHTING ISIS
Irak, UK, 2017, 3′

Iranian Kurdish women on the frontline with ISIS in Kirkuk northern Iraq.

Namak Khoshnaw
Kurdish filmmaker from Iraq obtained his MA degree at the University of West London in film and Art, he left Iraq for UK in 2002 where now holds British citizenship. He … Read More

Olivier Beguin
HURRICANE GANGSTER
Switzerland, 2017, 6′ 30”

Prohibition times. Joe « Hurricane » Kelly and his team are planning their next robbery. It was supposed to be so easy.
An 360, old-school, black and white, heist-gone-wrong gangster story.

Olivier Beguin
Studied at the London Film School
2017 HURRICANE GANGSTER (short)
2013 CHIMERES
2011 EMPLOYE DU MOIS … Read More

Cecilia Sweet – Col
ANNICA
USA, 2017, 6’07”

An award-winning visual music piece in virtual reality using motion capture of dancers

Cecilia Sweet – Col
An animator from San Francisco, holding a B.A. in Animation and Digital Arts at the University of Southern California. She is a bilingual Mexican and Irish American, and has a … Read More

Fusun Uzun
VERY FRUSTRATING MEXICAN REMOVAL
Canada, 2017, 6′ 53”

An immersive, verbatim 360° documentary about Canadian immigration detention system. The artwork employs the practice of Verbatim Theatre and techniques and technologies of 360° Cinema to present the events surrounding the death in 2013 of migrant Lucia Vega Jimenez while in detention … Read More

Romain Vakilitabar
MY BEAUTIFUL HOME
USA, 2017, 6’50”

MY BEAUTIFUL HOME
A short virtual reality experience which takes place in Kibera, Africa’s biggest slum on the outskirts of Nairobi. Through an empathy based approach, it seeks to change the way in which we perceive poverty in Africa.

Romain Vakilitabar
After a bad accident where he was … Read More

Harry Triendl
ZYKLUS III – ESCHATON
Austria, 2016, perfomance

Eschaton tells the story of a new world dawning. Two live musicians offer an astonishing, innovatory stage performance. They are supported by a further group of 19 virtuoso musicians and 7 performance artists – acting as the virtual orchestra. This experience allows visitors to … Read More