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Its Existence Commenced This Hour
Sweden, Malaysia / 2019 / 60 minutes / NR
dir. Wolfgang Lehmann
The film plays with streams of images that do not undergo any narrative development and is
backed by a minimalistic music with a metallic bell like sound.It is a state of perception that the film wants to trig...
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Of Time And The Sea
Malta, UK / 2018 / 95 minutes / NR
dir. Peter Sant
On a remote island, an elderly man wracked with dementia dreams he was once a king. His two daughters exist alongside him in a strange region that has recently succumbed to a bizarre malady of mysterious origin...
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The Last Land
Paraguay, Chile, Netherlands, Qatar / 2016 / 77 minutes / NR
dir. Pablo Lamar
Stripping narrative down to its bare bones, Pablo Lamar’s debut feature is an elegant entry in the slow cinema canon. After an elderly man helps an ailing woman take her last bite of food, he undertakes prepara...
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Events In A Cloud Chamber
India / 2016 / 20 minutes / NR
dir. Ashim Ahluwalia
In 1969, Akbar Padamsee, one of the pioneers of Modern Indian painting, made a visionary
16mm film called Events In A Cloud Chamber. This was one of the only Indian experimental films ever made. The print is n...
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The Last Mango Before The Monsoon
India / 2015 / 19 minutes / NR
dir. Payal Kapadia
Two technicians set up cameras in a forest to capture animal activity at night. A woman moved away from the forest a long time ago. She yearns for her late husband and the forest.
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And What Is The Summer Saying
India / 2018 / 24 minutes / NR
dir. Payal Kapadia
The camera sways slightly, setting in a majestic black and white on the intimate stories of a small village bordering the jungle. A mystical and poetic cinematic experience, in which one gladly gets lost in.
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Afternoon Clouds
India / 2017 / 13 minutes / NR
dir. Payal Kapadia
Kaki is a 70 year old widow who lives with her Nepali domestic help, Malti in Bombay (India). The film takes place on one afternoon in their house where a flower blossoms in the balcony. Malti meets a boy (a sa...
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Holy Tremor
Brazil / 2017 / 20 minutes / NR
dir. Bárbara Wagner, Benjamin de Burca
The filmmakers established a partnership with a gospel label in the city of Palmares, in Pernambuco, interested in dealing with the social and aesthetic aspects of the Pentecostal Church. The evangelic liturgy ...
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Notes From A Journey
United Kingdom / 2019 / 72 minutes / NR
dir. Daniel & Clara
The eerie atmospheres of the winter landscapes are evoked through fragments of field recordings and footage, hinting at something hidden beyond the surface of the image – an unseen mystery that burrows in the u...
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The Future Is Bright
US / 2017 / 10 minutes / NR
dir. Courtney Faye Powell
In 1979, a local newscaster prepares to cover an anti-KKK protest in Greensboro, NC, and realizes that she may never be ready for the events to come.
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The Exquisite Corpus
Austria / 2015 / 19 minutes / NR
dir. Peter Tscherkassky
Based on various erotic films and advertising rushes, it plays on the “cadavre exquis” technique used by the Surrealists, drawing disparate body parts constellating magical creatures. Myriad fragments are melte...
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Journey To A Land Otherwise Known
Columbia, France / 2011 / 23 minutes / NR
dir. Laura Huertas Millan
The story of A journey into Earth Otherwise Said is inspired from the first accounts of the natural and ethnographic explorations in America by the Conquistadors, the missionaries and scientists. The film is en...
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Hector Malot: The Last Day Of The Year
Greece / 2018 / 23 minutes / NR
dir. Jacqueline Lentzou
New Year’s Eve dawns in a moon-kissed car, and Sofia has a dream that she tells no-one: while walking on a desert, she gets to know that she is sick. She pretends she does not care. Has she lost heart?
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Excursions
US / 2016 / 79 minutes / NR
dir. Daniel Martinico
In the hopes of revitalizing their marriage, a husband and wife retreat to a remote cabin getaway with some longtime friends. Their pleasant interaction quickly assumes a relentless intensity as they push one a...
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Patision avenue
Greece / 2018 / 13 minutes / NR
dir. Thanasis Neofotistos
On her way to audition for a role as Shakespeare's Viola, Yannis's mum discovers that her son has been left home alone. Through a series of phone calls, she fights to balance the most important roles of her lif...
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Gagarin, I Will Miss You
Italy / 2018 / 20 minutes / NR
dir. Domenico De Orsi
A man and a woman live as the survivors after the extinction of the species. Pushed by the desire of elsewhere, the man takes refuge in his imagination. He visits abandoned villages, picks up junk and projects ...
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The Hidden Tiger
Brazil / 2014 / 95 minutes / NR
dir. Affonso Uchoa
Juninho, Menor, Neguinho, Adilson and Eldo are young dwellers of Nacional’s neighborhood, Contagem’s suburbs. Divided between work and fun, crime and hope, each one of them will have to find ways to overcome th...
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Heart of Hunger
Netherlands / 2018 / 29 minutes / NR
dir. Bernardo Zanotta
A hungry heart, a celebration of the body, both exposed and concealed at the same time, like baroque paintings: guilty, ashamed or further alienated from our voyeur gaze.
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Tshweesh
Lebanon, Germany, Spain, Qatar / 2017 / 26 minutes / NR
dir. Feyrouz Serhal
Day one of the FIFA World Cup. The residents of Beirut have eagerly anticipated the big event, but for some reason the telecast is interrupted by strange audio waves. The frustration in the air builds up giving...
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On The Ropes
Lebanon / 2016 / 17 minutes / NR
dir. Manon Nammour
In Lebanon, a family’s life is suspended, stuck in limbo, like everything else in this country.
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Happily Ever After
Egypt / 2016 / 71 minutes / NR
dir. Ayman El Amir, Nada Riyadh
The filmmaker falls in love amid the turmoil of recent political events in Egypt. When her boyfriend decides to leave the country because of the deteriorating social and political conditions, she does everythin...
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Lebanon Factory
Lebanon, France / 2017 / 20 minutes / NR
dir. Mounia Akl, Neto Villalobos
When hungover Bassem wakes up by the lake shore among his dead fishes, his sister Youmna, who he hasn’t seen for 12 years, is there, with a coffin.
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24 Memories Per Second
Portugal / 2018 / 20 minutes / NR
dir. Carlos Miranda
Away from the spotlight, one discovers a man-machine relationship that preserves moving images. Artifacts and frames are kept from oblivion and reveal who we were, how we thought and what we felt. A fragile and...
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Double Reflection
Taiwan / 2017 / 40 minutes / NR
dir. Wang Chun Hong
New Year’s Eve. Wang’s been losing touch with reality. But in the momentary burst of fireworks, he glimpses again his own existence.
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Hearths (Foyers)
France / 2018 / 18 minutes / NR
dir. Paul Heintz
A slow movement through a residential neighborhood, with empty streets, plain facades, as though artificial. A man recounts his story about the first time, attraction, desire, dizziness of the ignition, forgetf...
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All The Ships At Sea
US / 2004 / 64 minutes / NR
dir. Dan Sallitt
Evelyn Bell (Strawn Bovee), a Catholic professor of theology, and her younger sister Virginia (Edith Meeks) are reunited after many years when Virginia returns home in a depression after being ejected from a re...
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Polly Perverse Strikes Again!
US / 1986 / 98 minutes / NR
dir. Dan Sallitt
Out of Nick Huxley's past comes Theresa who has decided that she wants Nick back. Nick, a successful photographer with a stable relationship, is determined to banish Theresa and youthful folly from his life. Bu...
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Thirty Souls
Spain / 2018 / 80 minutes / NR
dir. Diana Toucedo
Alba is twelve years old and wants to discover the mysterious, fascinating and unknown reality of death. With her best friend Samuel, she enters abandoned houses, travels through forgotten villages and explores...
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Casus Belli
Greece / 2010 / 11 minutes / NR
dir. Yorgos Zois
All kinds of people are waiting in seven different queues. The first person of each queue becomes the last of the next one, thus creating an enormous human line. But at the end of the line, it all begins backwa...
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Interruption
Greece, France, Croatia / 2015 / 110 minutes / NR
dir. Yorgos Zois
A post modern theater adaptation of a classic Greek tragedy takes place in a central theater of Athens. Like every night, the audience take their seats and the play begins. Suddenly, the lights on stage go out....
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Barrage
Luxembourg, Belgium, France / 2017 / 109 minutes / NR
dir. Laura Schroeder
Outstanding performances by Isabelle Huppert, her real-life daughter Lolita Chammah, and Thémis Pauwels as grandmother, daughter and granddaughter illuminate how loss and abandonment can give way to a tentative...
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Fishing Is Not Done On Tuesdays
Austria, Germany/ 2017 / 15 minutes / NR
dir. Lukas Marxt, Marcel Odenbach
Landscape is a question of distance. Patterns and formations become recognizable from a distance revealing the landscape as a fabrication, a result of natural and historical movements. "Fishing is not done on T...
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Captive Horizon
Austria, Germany / 2015 / 14 minutes / NR
dir. Lukas Marxt
The film operates on a delicate line between reality and illusion. Director's favorite motifs – barren landscapes, seemingly untouched by humans, but at the same time suggestively apocalyptic, and subtle chang...
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In A Beautiful And Quiet Location
Austria / 2015 / 13 minutes / NR
dir. Lukas Marxt, Jakub Vrba
At first, not much can be heard apart from the chirping of birds and sounds of the wind. The buzzing of airplane motors then mixes in, and sounds that must come from the man behind the camera. This reference to...
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Circular Inscription
Austria, Germany / 2016 / 7 minutes / NR
dir. Lukas Marxt
A mountain range on the horizon separates the cloudy sky from the dusty desert soil of the El Mirage Dry Lake, with the sounds of a distant roar. In the long shot, the gaze shows a detail of the Californian Moj...
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Double Dawn
Austria, Germany / 2014 / 30 minutes / NR
dir. Lukas Marxt
A 30-minute static shot, in which silence spreads: an illuminated factory area on the horizon, otherwise just blackness, stretched flat and wide like a canvas. The cycle of the sun dictates the dramaturgy of th...
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It Seems To Be Loneliness But It Is Not
Austria, Germany / 2013 / 37 minutes / NR
dir. Lukas Marxt
Humans are social beings. But what are they when isolated and lonely? In "It Seems To Be Loneliness But It Is Not" a director puts himself in situation by going to a place where human encounters and exchange ca...
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Shadowland
Austria / 2017 / 47 minutes / NR
dir. Lukas Marxt, Vanja Smiljanic
During a solar eclipse, time becomes compressed. The few moments the moon takes to edge its way between the sun and earth disturb the normal cycle of day and night, under certain circumstances even throwing a p...
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Black Rain White Scars
Austria, Germany / 2014 / 8 minutes / NR
dir. Lukas Marxt
The film depicts a twilight of reality. With the steady shot of a Gotham-like cityscape, a director guides us between vestiges of visionary architecture and narrow planted apartment buildings. As audience is se...
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Nella Fantasia
Austria, Germany / 2012 / 55 minutes / NR
dir. Lukas Marxt
The impenetrability underlines the two-dimensionality of the images that develop from the interplay between a panoramic view and almost claustrophobic constriction. The vanishing point has shifted so far that a...
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Reign Of Silence
Austria, Germany / 2013 / 7 minutes / NR
dir. Lukas Marxt
A static shot shows part of a landscape, a serene body of water in front of a mountain. A motorboat enters the picture from the right, obeying the directions sent by radio and forming a spiral in the water´s su...
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The Death Of The Master
Ecuador, Argentina / 2018 / 62 minutes / NR
dir. José María Avilés
An elderly farmer has become one with the land, the lemon trees and the livestock. But something has changed, nature is disturbed. Water doesn’t run off well, a calf dies for no reason and the wind keeps pickin...
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The Send-off
US / 2016 / 12 minutes / NR
dir. Patrick Bresnan, Ivete Lucas
Students enjoying a block party before their prom hope to transcend their rural town and the industrial landscape.
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The Rabbit Hunt
US, Hungary / 2017 / 12 minutes / NR
dir. Patrick Bresnan, Ivete Lucas
In the Florida everglades, rabbit hunting is considered a rite of passage for young men. The rabbit hunt follows seventeen-year-old Chris and his family as they hunt in the fields of the largest industrial suga...
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Roadside Attraction
US / 2017 / 9 minutes / NR
dir. Patrick Bresnan, Ivete Lucas
Palm Beach International Airport’s newest snowbird has become one of the fastest growing roadside attractions in the United States.
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The Migrating Image
Denmark / 2018 / 28 minutes / NR
dir. Stefan Kruse
By following a fictional group of refugees across Europe, the film questions the overproduction of images surrounding real-life tragedies and deaths. Each segment of the project takes its cue from the destinati...
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Selfportrait
Austria / 1971 / 5 minutes / NR
dir. Maria Lassnig
An artist's head, drawn with felt-tip pen, sings in English with a heart-rending Austrian accent about her life, her dreams, her eternal search for a male partner: "To look for the better half." But whenever on...
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The Ballad Of Maria Lassnig
Austria / 1992 / 8 minutes / NR
dir. Maria Lassnig, Hubert Sielecki
The Austrian artist Maria Lassnig tells us the story of her life in 14 verses, beginning with her birth and ending with her life as it is today. Simultaneusly - in the background - we see the story as animated ...
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The Wolf’s Lair
Portugal / 2015 / 102 minutes / NR
dir. Catarina Mourão
Every family has its secrets, the family of Portuguese filmmaker Mourão included. As the granddaughter of the well-known writer Tomaz de Figueiredo, she picks apart several of them in an intimate yet universall...
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Both Are Dead
Argentina / 2016 / 108 minutes / NR
dir. Manque La Banca
Bariloche, a patagonian city better known as the Switzerland of Argentina, is devastated by a catastrophe that covers all it’s luxury hotels and immense forests with a thick gray sand. Henry and Piuque, two you...
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The Shadow
Argentina / 2015 / 72 minutes / NR
dir. Javier Olivera
An audiovisual essay about memory, cinema, the father figure and its shadow.
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Coming Attractions
Austria / 2010 / 25 minutes / NR
dir. Peter Tscherkassky
A sly comedy that mines the relationship between early cinema and the avant-garde by way of advertising.
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Instructions For A Light And Sound Machine
Austria / 2005 / 17 minutes / NR
dir. Peter Tscherkassky
By using montage and printer techniques, director processes images from Sergio Leone's "The Good, the Bad & the Ugly." He studies the image and strips it of its original color, form and meaning. As a result...
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Dream Work
Austria / 2001 / 11 minutes / NR
dir. Peter Tscherkassky
A woman goes to bed, falls asleep, and begins to dream. This dream takes her to a landscape of light and shadow, evoked in a form only possible through classic cinematography. An homage to Man Ray, dedicated to...
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Outer Space
Austria / 1999 / 10 minutes / NR
dir. Peter Tscherkassky
A woman, terrorized by an invisible and aggressive force, is also exposed to the audience’s gaze, a prisoner in two senses. Outer Space agitates this construction, which is prototypical for gender hierarchies a...
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Motion Picture
Austria / 1984 / 3 minutes / NR
dir. Peter Tscherkassky
In a darkroom 50 strips of unexposed 16mm film were mounted on the wall, covering a surface measuring 50 x 80 cm. A single frame was projected onto this raw material, derived from the first film by the brothers...
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Manufracture
Austria / 1985 / 3 minutes / NR
dir. Peter Tscherkassky
A tangled network woven with tiny particles of movements broken out of found footage and compiled anew: the elements of the “to the left, to the right, back and forth” grammar of narrative space, discharged fro...
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Parallel Space: Inter-view
Austria / 1992 / 18 minutes / NR
dir. Peter Tscherkassky
Entirely shot with an analog photo camera, it is a film about the longing for intimacy, a film about the distance between the searching gaze and the world.
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Tabula Rasa
Austria / 1987 / 17 minutes / NR
dir. Peter Tscherkassky
Voyeuristic desire as the precondition for all cinema pleasure is at stake here. What Christian Metz (based on the psychoanalytical theory by Jacques Lacan) has established in theory is rendered as film.
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Shot – Countershot
Austria / 1987 / 1 minute / NR
dir. Peter Tscherkassky
Not a stage direction, but rather something very concrete is hidden behind the technical term. Cinema that answers a yearning for intelligent and playful dealings with the genre of the short film.
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The Rivers Of Babylon
China / 2012 / 25 minutes / NR
dir. Yan Zhou
19-year-old Lily returns to her seaside hometown Beihai, a city neighboring Vietnam. The unexpected sudden arrival of a level-eight typhoon named “Mountain Spirit” delays her departure from the village. Lily ru...
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Les Intranquilles
Switzerland / 2017 / 13 minutes / NR
dir. Magdalena Froger
Three young men in military uniform wander around in an almost deserted town. Walking, stopping to contemplate the landscape, they finally decide to go and take what might be a last look at the sea.
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Fat Boy Never Slim
Thailand / 2016 / 14 minutes / NR
dir. Sorayos Prapapan
Two fat schoolboys don’t want to serve in the military when they turn 21. They'd prefer to take the territorial defence course instead. But if they want to get in, they will have to pass a physical test. This p...
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A Souvenir From Switzerland
Thailand / 2015 / 13 minutes / NR
dir. Sorayos Prapapan
A film director Sorayos Prapapan who is invited to a film festival in Switzerland meets a filmmaker friend who had left Afghanistan in order to look for asylum. What starts of as a casual discussion of Prapapan...
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Auntie Maam Has Never Had A Passport
Thailand / 2014 / 14 minutes / NR
dir. Sorayos Prapapan
Early last year, Thailand was torn apart by mass demonstrations that resulted in the umpteenth military takeover. Not the airiest of backgrounds for a playful, political satire. Auntie Naam is a foot masseuse, ...
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Death Of The Sound Man
Thailand / 2017 / 16 minutes / NR
dir. Sorayos Prapapan
Two sound recordists let their imaginations loose to find satisfying sounds for a film project. But will their voices ever be acknowledged?
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Lampedusa
USA, Italy, France / 2015 / 14 minutes / NR
dir. Philip Cartelli and Mariangela Ciccarello
In late 1831, a volcanic island suddenly erupted off the southern coast of Sicily. A number of European powers laid claim to the newfound “land,” but the island receded six months later, leaving only a rocky le...
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The Jungle Knows You Better Than You Do
Belgium, Columbia / 2017 / 20 minutes / NR
dir. Juanita Onzaga
Colombia is a land of ghosts. Two siblings roam these mystical landscapes in search of their dead father's spirit. Their journey takes them from Bogota to the Colombian jungle, through realms of thought and dee...
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Sleeping District
Russia, Denmark / 2014 / 12 minutes / NR
dir. Tinne Zenner
Outside and interior views of residential areas built during the Soviet Era are juxtaposed with disjointed conversations translated from Russian into a broken English. The film explores notions of home shaped b...
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Translations (Nutsigassat)
Greenland, Canada, Denmark / 2018 / 20 minutes / NR
dir. Tinnne Zenner
"Go outside. The lovely mountains two, Sermitsiaq and Kingittorsuaq, look at them.” While the housing blocks carry a past of national diaspora, layers of snow cover a future development in the city of Nuuk, Gre...
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The Missing Sun
US / 2017 / 79 minutes / NR
dir. Brennan Vance
After a solar flare powers down her remote community, Alma discovers her husband Terry comatose. Suspecting he is having an out-of-body affair with an ex-lover, Alma attempts to bring him back to reality with h...
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Here In Lisbon
Portugal, Canada / 2015 / 88 minutes / NR
dir. Denis Côté, Dominga Sotomayor, Gabriel Abrantes, and Marie Losier
Welcome to Lisbon: there are mermaids by the Tagus and birds flying over the old city; there are mad scientists and singing fish; lost tourist guides and lost tourists; fado and sad guitars. What a weird city y...
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Nightfall
Thailand, Singapore / 2016 / 15 minutes / NR
dir. Anocha Suwichakornpong, Tulapop Saenjaroen
A day in the life of a nameless woman as she wanders around Singapore. Part documentary, part video essay, NIGHTFALL is a fictionalised account of the time an author spent during a residency researching Thai po...
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The Last Small Village
China / 2017 / 12 minutes / NR
dir. Pavel Tavares
A day with the Yao people, living their work, rituals and routine in the early Spring. The culture and the contrast between the ancient and the modern in the rice terraces of Longji, China.
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Tropic Pocket
Colombia / 2011 / 12 minutes / NR
dir. Camilo Restrepo
The Choco area in Colombia remains isolated between sea and forest. There, religious missions, military operations and touristic projects amongst others have come and gone, coexisted and ignored each other at t...
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Crossing River
China / 2017 / 19 minutes / NR
dir. Yumeng Han
Over the course of an ordinary day, a young Chinese construction worker deals with isolation and loneliness while searching for something meaningful to hold on to.
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Coup De Grâce
Portugal / 2017 / 25 minutes / NR
dir. Salomé Lamas
Leonor returns from a trip on a day where her dad wasn’t expecting her. In twenty-four hours they will live a crescendoing hallucinated reality, led by Francisco’s unsettling state of apparent normality.
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Cidade Pequena (Small Town)
Portugal / 2016 / 19 minutes / NR
dir. Diogo Costa Amarante
One day, the child Frederico learns from his teacher that bodies are made up of a head, trunk and limbs and that people die when their hearts stop. That night, he can’t sleep. He wakes his mother up several tim...
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Where Do You Stand Now, João Pedro Rodrigues?
Portugal / 2017 / 21 minutes / NR
dir. João Pedro
Following the migration of the Monarch butterfly, fleeing the North American’s cold to spend Winter in the pleasant mountains of Michoacán in Mexico, this is a wandering film through lake Walden’s frozen banks ...
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IEC Long
Portugal / 2014 / 31 minutes / NR
dir. João Pedro Rodrigues, João Rui Guerra da Mata
Macao, Taipa Island, 2014. The word “panchão” was first heard in Macao. From the Chinese “pan-tcheong” or “pau-tcheong”, dictionaries define it as a Macanese regionalism also known as “China cracker” or “Chines...
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Cântico Das Criaturas (Canticle Of All Creatures)
Portugal / 2006 / 24 minutes / NR
dir. Miguel Gomes
Assis 2005: a troubadour walks the streets of St. Francis of Assisi hometown, singing and playing the Song of Brother Sun or Song of the Creatures, written by St. Francis back in the winter of 1224. Woods of Um...
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31 Means Trouble (31)
Portugal / 2001 / 27 minutes / NR
dir. Miguel Gomes
“This is the way you hold the racket to play a forehand. Just move your arm back, the left shoulder facing the ball, step forward with your left foot, hitting the ball.”
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Christmas Inventory (Inventário De Natal)
Portugal / 2000 / 23 minutes / NR
dir. Miguel Gomes
25th December in the middle eighties. The Family get together in the grandparents’house. When I was twelve I dreamt that I was putting in motion the static pictures of the crèche. With this film I tried to do t...
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Wild Haggis (Gambozinos)
Portugal / 2013 / 20 minutes / NR
dir. João Nicolau
A ten year-old boy faces up to the struggles of life in a summer camp. It’s not easy to be ignored by the girl of his heart or seeing his dormitory vandalised by adolescent thugs. Fortunately, in the forest, th...
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Rapace (Bird Of Prey)
Portugal / 2006 / 25 minutes / NR
dir. João Nicolau
After finishing his MA in Anthropology, Hugo spends his days giving his brain a rest from the endless reading of texts by unknown authors. His only company is Luisa, the cleaning lady, with whom he plays cat an...
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Song Of Love And Health (Canção De Amor E Saúde)
Portugal / 2009 / 30 minutes / NR
dir. Miguel Gomes
João is the only employee that we can see in Morais Key Cutting shop. He is also the son of the owner and he doesn’t hesitate about leaving the shop and following his heart’s whispers to spend coin after coin i...
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It Would Piss Me Off To Die So Young…(Chatear-me-ia Morrer Tão Joveeeeem)
Portugal / 2016 / 17 minutes / NR
dir. Filipe Abranches
Oh, little soldier, jaunting happily towards the war, you pay no heed to the red petal you carry, marking the ones who'll fall. Such petal is the sign of the mustard yellow death that will smother you in the pe...
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The Mother And The Sea (A Mãe E O Mar)
Portugal / 2013 / 92 minutes / NR
dir. Gonçalo Tocha
In the quest for a real and lost myth in the beach of Vila Chã (Portugal), we look for the sea women, the so-called fisherwomen, in one of the few places in the world with female skippers. But where are they no...
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Altas Cidades De Ossadas (High Cities Of Bone)
Portugal / 2017 / 19 minutes / NR
dir. João Salaviza
Karlon, born in Pedreira dos Húngaros (a slum in the outskirts of Lisbon) and a pioneer of Cape Verdean creole rap, runs away from the housing project to which he had been relocated. Nights of vigil are spent u...
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The Community (A Comunidade)
Portugal / 2012 / 23 minutes / NR
dir. Salomé Lamas
A Comunidade (The Community) is a short documentary focused on CCL the oldest camping park in Portugal.
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Drop By Drop (água Mole)
Portugal / 2017 / 9 minutes / NR
dir. Alexandra Ramires, Laura Gonçalves
The last habitants of a village refuse to let themselves sink into oblivion. In a world where the idea of progress appears to be above all, this home floats.
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Thursday Night
Portugal / 2017 / 7 minutes / NR
dir. Gonçalo Almeida
An elusive stranger pays Bimbo a visit in the middle of the night to deliver a vital message.
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O Corpo De Afonso (The King’s Body)
Portugal / 2013 / 32 minutes / NR
dir. João Pedro Rodrigues
How would it look like, the body of Dom Afonso Henriques, first king of Portugal, tutelary figure, subject to successive mythifications throughout Portuguese history?
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Notes From Unknown Maladies
Philippines / 2018 / 62 minutes / NR
dir. Liryc Paolo Dela Cruz
A 94-year-old Concepcion has been suffering from nervous breakdown for the past 50 years. She chooses to live alone and is haunted by random memories of the past: a memory of a nation and other life’s mysteries...
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Long Distance
Israel / 2015 / 15 minutes / NR
dir. Yotam Ben-David
A long walk through paths and roads, through the relationships and distances between people.
Two distant lovers, two homes falling apart and one forgotten birthday.
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Remains (Hisha’arut)
Israel / 2013 / 32 minutes / MA
dir. Yotam Ben-David
Itamar and Thomas share a bed, walls, an apartment and electricity bills. Thomas commands, manages, and criticizes; Itamar is silent and listens. Between the apartment walls, frustration and loneliness unfold.
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Fantasy Sentences (Phantasiesätze)
Germany, Denmark / 2017 / 17 minutes / NR
dir. Dane Komljen
Many years ago, the cities by the river were gripped by a contagion. Things started to change and everything slowly became something else. It was not clear if transformation was a symptom of the disease or a wa...
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Traces Of Garden
Sweden / 2016 / 71 minutes / NR
dir. Wolfgang Lehmann
This work focuses on time of seeing and the colors, shapes and the transitions of images.
The power of the moving image is that it speaks to us directly without the mediation of words.
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The Solitude
Venezuela, Italy, Canada / 2017 / 89 minutes / NR
dir. Jorge Thielen Armand
Capturing the life of real people amidst the Venezuelan crisis, La Soledad is the story of José, a young father who discovers that the dilapidated mansion he occupies will soon be demolished. Desperate to save ...
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World Wide Woven Bodies
Norway / 2016 / 16 minutes / MA
dir. Truls Krane Meby
At the end of the 90s the internet comes to the north of Norway and coincides with the blossoming sexuality of young Mads (12). The introduction of porn into his life complicates his relationship to his parents...
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Dragonflies With Birds And Snake
Sweden, Germany / 2007-2012 / 60 minutes / NR
dir. Wolfgang Lehmann
An imaginative world of insects consisting of images, combined with birds, as well as toads and snakes. The theme is the eternal cycle of life, birth, sex and death. The structure of the film images is continua...
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Route To Cape Town
Germany / 2005 / 5.4 minutes / NR
dir. Wolfgang Lehmann
A short poem in black and white, in tones and shades, something secretive, something dark and sad lies within. It is filmed from inside a moving vehicle but in the very movement itself lies the
stationary, the...
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Birds By The Sea
Sweden, Germany / 2008 / 2 minutes / NR
dir. Wolfgang Lehmann
Inspired by 13th Century Roman Liturgy for Easter and St. Augustin’s (Philosopher and Church teacher who lived during the transition from the Antique to the Middle Ages) words about the art of the Sequence, whi...
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Batrachian’s Ballad
Portugal / 2016 / 30 minutes / NR
dir. Leonor Teles
Simultaneously strange and familiar, distant and near, disquieting and seductive, outsider and cosmopolitan, gypsies are shrouded in an aura of ambiguity. They cannot be said to be invisible, as they hardly go ...
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Driving Lesson
Portugal / 2015 / 17 minutes / NR
dir. Marco Leão, André Santos
While a teenage boy learns how to drive, a woman walks her elderly dog through the woods. As the evening settles she realizes that it's not too late to take action.
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Sleep Has Her House
UK / 2017 / 90 minutes / NR
dir. Scott Barley
The shadows of screams climb beyond the hills. It has happened before. But this will be the last time. The last few sense it, withdrawing deep into the forest. They cry out into the black, as the shadows pass a...
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Of A Few Days
US / 2016 / 14 minutes / NR
dir. Timothy Fryett
Inside a family-owned funeral home on the south side of Chicago, a series of patient, carefully observed vignettes reveal a workplace that lives at the highly-charged intersection of banal routine and existenti...
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Red Right Return
US / 2014 / 78 minutes / NR
dir. George Manatos
Two estranged brothers travel to their family vacation home for a weekend alone. At pivotal junctures in their lives, they hope to recapture a once cherished bond.
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Lukas By The Sea (Lukas Aan Zee)
Netherlands / 2016 / 26 minutes / NR
dir. Jordi Wijnalda
During a seemingly endless night, a young man attempts to find a real connection with whomever he encounters.
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Experimental Films of Eric Leiser Pt. 2
US / 2001-2015 / 30 minutes / NR
dir. Eric Leiser
Eric Leiser is an award-winning artist, filmmaker, animator, puppeteer, writer and
holographer working in New York and born in California.
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Experimental Films of Eric Leiser Pt. 1
US / 2001-2015 / 30 minutes / NR
dir. Eric Leiser
Eric Leiser is an award-winning artist, filmmaker, animator, puppeteer, writer and
holographer working in New York and born in California.
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Sweet Home (Doce Lar)
Portugal / 2014 / 15 minutes / NR
dir. Nuno Baltazar
In an abandoned prison complex, without any basic conditions, a man survives. When his security and tranquility are threatened, he resorts to violence to defend his home. Unfortunately confined to a small room ...
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Flowers And Bottoms
Greece / 2016 / 5 minutes / MA
dir. Christos Masslas
An unidentified man sits in a dark room and watches an obscure film titled “Flowers and Bottoms”; a surrealist story about longing and loss, in the age of cyber roulette.
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Junilyn Has
Philippines / 2015 / 15 minutes / NR
dir. Carlo Francisco Manatad
A dancer in a nightclub, Junilyn has to learn new moves to attract more customers during the Pope’s visit to the Philippines. But while she rehearses, she is also preparing her bold move to free herself.
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Sabbatical
US / 2014 / 72 minutes / NR
dir. Brandon Colvin
Sabbatical follows Ben as he returns home to care for his ill mother and work on a new book. While home, Ben's relationships with family and friends -- his mother, his brother, his lover, his high school pal ar...
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Wake Me When I Leave
US / 2015 / 64 minutes / NR
dir. Tyler Rubenfeld
A restless young woman waits out the night in a twilight state, where dreams, memories, revisited and reenacted events intermingle. She tries her best to parse truth from embellishment, reflecting on her relati...
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Her Wilderness
US / 2014 / 65 minutes / NR
dir. Frank Mosley
A portrait of four women wondering just how much power they wield in choosing their next stage in life. Both a feature installation film and an online interactive experience, it is an investigation into respons...
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A Matter Of Will (Biserna Obala)
Montenegro / 2015 / 24 minutes / NR
dir. Dusan Kasalica
Far from the city, in a seaside resort, we follow a group of chubby kids in a weight-loss camp as their authoritarian instructor tries to teach them an ideology grounded in “Men’s Health” literature.
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The Ebb Of Forgetting
Philippines / 2015 / 14 minutes / NR
dir. Liryc Dela Cruz
Dreams and memories of two sisters collide as one grieves the death of her sibling and the other tries to let go of her memories. Officially selected at short film competition, Pardi di domani at Locarno Film F...
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Nine Behind
Canada / 2016 / 12 minutes / NR
dir. Sophy Romvari
Calling her grandfather in Budapest to learn about the Hungarian film industry, a woman instead finds the conversation shifting to her family’s history.
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Explosions In The Heart
Norway / 2016 / 17 minutes / NR
dir. Yenni Lee
Elide's agonizing longing of her twin sister Elise gets challenged in different (re)constructed dimensions to feel her sister's presence.
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Lancaster, CA
US / 2015 / 12 minutes / NR
dir. Mike Ott
A short film about love, lust, and heartbreak in the California desert. Officially selected at Afi Fest, Viennale.
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The Big Dam (Le Barrage)
Switzerland-USA / 2015 / 14 minutes / NR
dir. Samuel Grandchamp
A boy of ten sets off on a weekend trip with his father to explore the largest dam in Europe. This is the beginning of a long promised trip, but over the course of the journey the cracks in their relationship, ...
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New Life (Nueva Vida)
Argentina-Bolivia / 2015 / 16 minutes / NR
dir. Kiro Russo
Mysteries, anxieties and dreams of a new life.
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Cave Of Sighs
Canada / 2016 / 11 minutes / NR
dir. Nathan Douglas
A casual encounter is waylaid by unusual circumstances - a nostalgic collection of Byzantine icons. As two irreligious souls navigate the space between the door and the bedroom, a desire for flesh betrays a lon...
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The Girl Who Danced With The Devil
Brazil / 2016 / 14 minutes / NR
dir. João Paulo Miranda Maria
A girl living in a conservative and religious society finds paradise on earth in an unlikely place - at the local disco. Winner of a Special Jury Mention at Cannes 2016.
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Call Center
Canada / 2014 / 4 minutes / NR
dir. Brian M. Cassidy
Filmed in a telemarketing agency, Call Center takes a behind-the-scenes look at the making of a low-budget infomercial. By intercutting customer testimonials with scenes of questionable working conditions, this...
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Experimental Films of Eric Leiser Pt. 3
US / 2001-2015 / 30 minutes / NR
dir. Eric Leiser
Eric Leiser is an award-winning artist, filmmaker, animator, puppeteer, writer and
holographer working in New York and born in California.
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The Patron Saints
US / 2011 / 68 minutes / NR
dir. Brian M. Cassidy, Melanie Shatzky
Bold and unremitting in its depiction of the elderly, The Patron Saints eschews our hyper-individualistic culture obsessed with youth. Taking a head-on approach, husband-and-wife duo Brian M. Cassidy and Melani...
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God Provides
Canada, Usa / 2007 / 9 minutes / NR
dir. Brian M. Cassidy, Melanie Shatzky
Shot in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and bound by elements of fiction, this unexpected documentary short is a glimpse into faith-based sentiment and inexplicable loss. While a man searches for h...
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The Delaware Project
Canada / 2007 / 14 minutes / NR
dir. Brian M. Cassidy, Melanie Shatzky
The Delaware Project centers around a young woman's fledgling sense of connection in a landscape that is undergoing rapid development. A precarious highway carries her to a series of doctors' appointments, wher...
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