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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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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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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 / 2019 / 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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The Great Theater
Poland / 2016 / 29 minutes / NR
dir. Sławomir Batyra
The Teatr Wielki (The Grand Theater) in Warsaw is the largest opera theater in the world. But, what happens in the shadows of the Grand Theater? While maestro Mariusz Trelinski sets the stage for Giacomo Puccin...
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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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The Winds That Scatter
US / 2015 / 79 minutes / NR
dir. Christopher Jason Bell
Ahmad is a refugee from Syria, holding wishes of starting his own taxi service. When he loses his menial employment at a gas station, he attempts to navigate through the current American economy with optimism. ...
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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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