Faith | Tatiana Fedorovskaya, Director | 15 min. | Russia, 2017. An old widower, a former radio operator, perceives the flashing bulb as his late wife’s messages. The love of his life will never die, even when the lights are gone.
La Petite Mort | Elizabeth Jaeleigh Davis, Director | 8 min. | USA, 2017. SEX! DEATH! PIE! A young girl enters a mysterious forest to lose her virginity, only to have a twist of fate wrench her lover away. 'La Petite Mort' (French for 'the orgasm') is a feminist exploitation film couched in a fairytale that explores the fear, grief, and messiness of the first time.
The Full Story | Daisy Jacobs, Director | 8 min. | United Kingdom, 2017. Toby is selling his childhood home. Walking through empty rooms, he is assailed by memories of happiness unravelling, break-down, and the helplessness and rage of being child. Why do close ties break and loved ones leave? Can we ever know the full story? And what do you do when your family's gone?
Child Dream | Christophe Gérard, Director | 11 min. | France, 2016. Floating barges, water that suddenly takes human form and rainfall that leaves puddles deep enough to drown in… Is this merely a child’s dream ?
Mainland | Ian Bibby, Director | 20 min. | USA, 2017. Chris--a spirited but aimless young man in his early 20's--has left the confines of the city to spend the winter alone on a secluded island in Maine. Instead of being productive with his time off the grid, Chris prefers to goof around outdoors and do whatever he pleases--anything that will allow him to sidestep his thoughts of looming adulthood. But as the outside world begins to unravel into a confusing and seemingly dangerous chaos, his haven begins to feel anything but safe. Chris must quickly discover the inner strength to face an outside world growing darker by the day, or risk becoming consumed by the very real threats closing in all around him.
The Night I Dance With Death | Vincent Gibaud, Director | 6 min. | France, 2017. Jack is having a party with some friends. Disused, he decides to take a psychedelic drug.With a lighter mind, he enjoys the moment, his belly rejecting his visceral anguish as theevening progress. Arrives the time when he confronts a too big anxiety of which he cannotget rid of.
The Secret Market | Martina McGlynn, Director | 21 min. | Ireland, 2017. Dr. Amy McCarthy has risen through the medical ranks to become chief surgeon. She has a near perfect life until her past comes back to haunt her.
When Pigs Fly | Andrew Wood, Director | 16 min. | USA, 2017. Sometimes, all you need to comfort a nine-year-old is a cold beer, a couple f-bombs, and a little magic.
Faith | Tatiana Fedorovskaya, Director | 15 min. | Russia, 2017. An old widower, a former radio operator, perceives the flashing bulb as his late wife’s messages. The love of his life will never die, even when the lights are gone.
La Petite Mort | Elizabeth Jaeleigh Davis, Director | 8 min. | USA, 2017. SEX! DEATH! PIE! A young girl enters a mysterious forest to lose her virginity, only to have a twist of fate wrench her lover away. 'La Petite Mort' (French for 'the orgasm') is a feminist exploitation film couched in a fairytale that explores the fear, grief, and messiness of the first time.
The Full Story | Daisy Jacobs, Director | 8 min. | United Kingdom, 2017. Toby is selling his childhood home. Walking through empty rooms, he is assailed by memories of happiness unravelling, break-down, and the helplessness and rage of being child. Why do close ties break and loved ones leave? Can we ever know the full story? And what do you do when your family's gone?
Child Dream | Christophe Gérard, Director | 11 min. | France, 2016. Floating barges, water that suddenly takes human form and rainfall that leaves puddles deep enough to drown in… Is this merely a child’s dream ?
Mainland | Ian Bibby, Director | 20 min. | USA, 2017. Chris--a spirited but aimless young man in his early 20's--has left the confines of the city to spend the winter alone on a secluded island in Maine. Instead of being productive with his time off the grid, Chris prefers to goof around outdoors and do whatever he pleases--anything that will allow him to sidestep his thoughts of looming adulthood. But as the outside world begins to unravel into a confusing and seemingly dangerous chaos, his haven begins to feel anything but safe. Chris must quickly discover the inner strength to face an outside world growing darker by the day, or risk becoming consumed by the very real threats closing in all around him.
The Night I Dance With Death | Vincent Gibaud, Director | 6 min. | France, 2017. Jack is having a party with some friends. Disused, he decides to take a psychedelic drug.With a lighter mind, he enjoys the moment, his belly rejecting his visceral anguish as theevening progress. Arrives the time when he confronts a too big anxiety of which he cannotget rid of.
The Secret Market | Martina McGlynn, Director | 21 min. | Ireland, 2017. Dr. Amy McCarthy has risen through the medical ranks to become chief surgeon. She has a near perfect life until her past comes back to haunt her.
When Pigs Fly | Andrew Wood, Director | 16 min. | USA, 2017. Sometimes, all you need to comfort a nine-year-old is a cold beer, a couple f-bombs, and a little magic.
Water Path For A Fish | Maria Carbajosa, Director | 8 min. | Colombia, 2015. It's a starry night when Oscar sees from his window... a little goldfish jumping on a dirty puddle! Two cats are watching from the shadows. Oscar will help the goldfish through a rampant adventure in a nighty Latin American, with the lack os water as a backdrop.
Contact | Katy Want, Director | 8 min. | United Kingdom, 2017. Stranded on a distant planet, a lonely astronaut sends out a signal in search of human contact.
Crimson Man | Mike Pappa, Director | 22 min. | USA, 2017. Set in a war-torn land of man vs. machine, Wei, a young runaway boy in search of his father, must ally with an unstable war-robot named Red or be hunted down by his overseers.
Nimmer | Lieven Vanhove, Director | 16 min. | Belgium, 2016. A man must find the ultimate solution to rescue his wife on the collapsing side of a huge gap.
Orient City: Ronin & The Princess | Ryan Colucci, Director | 19 min. | USA, 2017. When a little girl's family is assassinated in the unforgiving Orient City, the broken down, opium-addicted Ronin charged with protecting her sets out to exact brutal revenge on those responsible.
Bleached | Amod Damle, Director | 6 min. | USA, 2017. Scarlet the paint tube sets off on a path of revenge and leads an army of Reds into battle against their fellow colors. The Reds win the war and celebrate the creation of a monochromatic world only to realize that the war is far from over.
Only Lovers Leave to Die | Vladimir Kanic, Director | 7 min. | Croatia/Canada, A film about a girl whose brain smells like cookies, her imaginary dog and a world made of painted film stock. Love, death and tears included, of course.
A Narrative Film | Michael Edwards, Director | 8 min. | USA. The most narrative narrative never narrated. It has a beginning, a middle, and an end…. It is at once both a three-act assault on the conceit of the traditional narrative, as well as a futile attempt to escape the narrative impulse of cinema.
Meeting Macguffin | Catya Plate, Director | 10 min. | USA. In a post-apocalyptic future where humanity has fallen apart, a group of scientists and an animated sign complete the construction of a new human race and meet a groundhog climatologist who prepares them for their mission to restore balance to the decimated Earth.
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My Best Friend Is Stuck On The Ceiling | Matthew Vesely, Director | 11 min. | Australia, 2015. Connor, secretly in love with his best friend Rach, has gotten her an amazing birthday present - something that’s sure to knock her off her feet.
Vitamins For Life | Grier Dill, Director | 2 min. | USA, 2016.
Adapted from a series micro-fiction tweets by @quietpinetrees, Vitamins For Life shows the benefits, and dangers, of lesser known vitamins.
Real Artists | Cameo Wood, Director | 12 min. | USA, 2017.
In the near future, a young animator is offered what should be her dream job. But when she discovers the truth of the modern 'creative' process, she must make a hard choice about her passion for film.
G.R.E.T.A. | Marissa Messina, Director | 15 min. | USA, 2017.
G.R.E.T.A. is the world’s most advanced android. She lives her life like a normal human, but is forced to question her own humanity when she discovers she will be bought and sold all over the world.
Roach | Jonathan Hashiloni, Director | 14 min. | Israel, 2016. A horror-love story between Penny, her neighbor Izzy, and a troublesome cockroach that takes place in Tel-Aviv as it's under threat of a nuclear war.
Point of View | Lior Rubinstein, Director | 17 min. | Israel, 2017. A surreal story about a distressed young man, observing his own inner world through a hole in his bedroom wall.
Crossing the Threshold | Sergio Hernández, Director | 14 min. | Spain, 2016. One morning, without saying anything, Laura's husband leaves their house and he never comes back. Laura and her daughter are alone now and she goes to the therapist to get over the trauma. From here, Laura will start her travel to recovering.
2AM | Huseyin Hassan, Director | 16 min. | Australia, 2016. A middle aged man Alex awakens in his quarters to find a white rabbit beside his bed who then suddenly hops through a closed door. Scared and fascinated by how the rabbit got into his room, Alex gets up and follows the rabbit. Once he opens the door and steps out into the hallways of the asylum very unusual and supernatural events begin to unfold right before OUR eyes.
Garden Party | Théophile Dufresne, Director | 8 min. | France, 2016. The frogs are having a party.
Bow Shock | Javier Diez, Director | 17 min. | Spain, 2016. A new astronomical survey takes wide angle pictures to make a tri-dimensional cartography of the sky.It will find out position and distances of far objects,galaxies,stars in our galaxy and objects in our solar system like minor planets and asteroids. A young astronomer discovers an object in a series of pictures of the survey that has a curious behaviour that will bring unexpected results when reviewed with her colleagues...
Revelation - The City of Haze | Qichae Mao, Director | 14 min. | China, 2017. After witnessing his mother’s death in a riot, Mai breaks down and can no longer remember his name. One day, a girl named Yi, a scavenger, finds Mai in a garbage can and brings him back to the City of Haze. From then on, they lived together and depend on each other for survival.
Alone | Joe Guarneri, Director | 11 min. | USA, 2017.
Working on a forgotten house, Jimmy Potenza can't escape the strange events that begin to occur.
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Water Path For A Fish | Maria Carbajosa, Director | 8 min. | Colombia, 2015.
It's a starry night when Oscar sees from his window... a little goldfish jumping on a dirty puddle! Two cats are watching from the shadows. Oscar will help the goldfish through a rampant adventure in a nighty Latin American, with the lack of water as a backdrop.
Contact | Katy Want, Director | 8 min. | United Kingdom, 2017.
Stranded on a distant planet, a lonely astronaut sends out a signal in search of human contact.
Rouff | Isaac Switzer, Director | 7 min. | Germany, 2017.
Stan, a cartoonist, is having a creative crisis. In the past, he had success with his comic series about "Rouff“, an adventurous dog. But now he has a problem: a sequel is needed. Crumpled balls of paper pile up in his trashcan. On one of these paper balls, the half drawn dog Rouff comes to life. Bewildered, he examines his surroundings. But as he tries to move, he notices something: He's missing a leg.
The Shadow | Isaac Switzer, Director | 3 min. | USA, 2017.
A darkness looms.
Only Lovers Leave To Die | Vladimir Kanic, Director | 7 min. | Croatia, Canada, 2016.
A film about a girl whose brain smells like cookies, her imaginary dog and a world made of painted film stock. Love, death and tears included, of course.
Poles Apart | Paloma Baeza, Director | 12 min. | United Kingdom, 2017.
Poles Apart tells the story of an unlikely meeting between Nanuk, a tough female polar bear, and Aklak, an enthusiastic male grizzly bear, brought together by their changing habitats. The lack of food in a melting Arctic has left the solitary Nanuk desperately hungry. When the hopeful and eager Aklak crashes into Nanuk's world, she has to decide if the naïve grizzly bear is her food or her friend.
The Head Vanishes | Franck Dion, Director | 9 min. | Canada, France, 2016.
Jacqueline has lost her mind a bit, but whatever, for her trip to the seaside, she has decided to take the train by herself, like a big girl!
A Narrative Film | Michael Edwards, Director | 8 min. | USA, 2016.
The most narrative narrative never narrated. It has a beginning, a middle, and an end…. It is at once both a three-act assault on the conceit of the traditional narrative, as well as a futile attempt to escape the narrative impulse of cinema.
The Full Story | Daisy Jacobs, Director | 8 min. | United Kingdom, 2017.
Toby is selling his childhood home. Walking through empty rooms, he is assailed by memories of happiness unravelling, break-down, and the helplessness and rage of being child. Why do close ties break and loved ones leave? Can we ever know the full story? And what do you do when your family's gone?
Child Dream | Christophe Gérard, Director | 11 min. | France, 2016.
Floating barges, water that suddenly takes human form and rainfall that leaves puddles deep enough to drown in... Is this merely a child's dream?
Fox and the Whale | Robin Joseph | 12 min. | Canda, 2016.
The tale of a curious fox who goes in search of an elusive whale. A journey of pursuit, longing and discovery.
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Faith | Tatiana Fedorovskaya, Director | 15 min. | Russia, 2017. An old widower, a former radio operator, perceives the flashing bulb as his late wife’s messages. The love of his life will never die, even when the lights are gone.
When Pigs Fly | Andrew Wood, Director | 16 min. | USA, 2017. Sometimes, all you need to comfort a nine-year-old is a cold beer, a couple f-bombs, and a little magic.
La Petite Mort | Elizabeth Jaeleigh Davis, Director | 8 min. | USA, 2017. SEX! DEATH! PIE! A young girl enters a mysterious forest to lose her virginity, only to have a twist of fate wrench her lover away. 'La Petite Mort' (French for 'the orgasm') is a feminist exploitation film couched in a fairytale that explores the fear, grief, and messiness of the first time.
The Full Story | Daisy Jacobs, Director | 8 min. | United Kingdom, 2017. Toby is selling his childhood home. Walking through empty rooms, he is assailed by memories of happiness unravelling, break-down, and the helplessness and rage of being child. Why do close ties break and loved ones leave? Can we ever know the full story? And what do you do when your family's gone?
Child Dream | Christophe Gérard, Director | 11 min. | France, 2016. Floating barges, water that suddenly takes human form and rainfall that leaves puddles deep enough to drown in… Is this merely a child’s dream ?
Mainland | Ian Bibby, Director | 20 min. | USA, 2017. Chris--a spirited but aimless young man in his early 20's--has left the confines of the city to spend the winter alone on a secluded island in Maine. Instead of being productive with his time off the grid, Chris prefers to goof around outdoors and do whatever he pleases--anything that will allow him to sidestep his thoughts of looming adulthood. But as the outside world begins to unravel into a confusing and seemingly dangerous chaos, his haven begins to feel anything but safe. Chris must quickly discover the inner strength to face an outside world growing darker by the day, or risk becoming consumed by the very real threats closing in all around him.
The Night I Dance With Death | Vincent Gibaud, Director | 6 min. | France, 2017. Jack is having a party with some friends. Disused, he decides to take a psychedelic drug.With a lighter mind, he enjoys the moment, his belly rejecting his visceral anguish as theevening progress. Arrives the time when he confronts a too big anxiety of which he cannotget rid of.
The Secret Market | Martina McGlynn, Director | 21 min. | Ireland, 2017. Dr. Amy McCarthy has risen through the medical ranks to become chief surgeon. She has a near perfect life until her past comes back to haunt her.
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Awards Presentation and Reception
The Shadow | Isaac Switzer, Director | 3 min. | USA, 2017.
A Darkness looms.
Sol | Carlos G. Gananian, Director | 14 min. | Brazil, 2017.
The devil speaks, Sol listens.
Red Ruby | Jose Holder, Director | 21 min. | Canada, 2016. Ruby Grimm awakes to the dark reality that nightmares walk among us. Armed with her brother's research and weaponry, she sets out to systematically destroy them before her mind spirals into madness.
Alfred J. Hemlock | Edward Lyons, Director | 14 min. | Australia, 2017. When Emily’s boyfriend abandons her in the night, her only way home is through an alleyway where she is terrorised by the mysterious entity Alfred J Hemlock. After reaching the depths of her despair she finds the strength that she never suspected she had.
The Ogre | Laurene Braibant, Director | 10 min. | France, 2017. Full of complexes because of his size, a giant holds on eating terrified at the idea of revealing his ogresque self and so compromising his place in the society. During a business banquet, his true nature will be put to the test.
The Sound of Fear | Colin Campbell, Director | 8 min. | USA, 2016. A young Deaf woman, IVY, inadvertently witnesses a group of meth addicts kill a sheriff in a remote resort town. On the run, Ivy races through the empty streets looking for help. She finds a vacationing family and tries to get them to call the police, but they can’t understand her. The addicts burst in and kill the mom and dad. Ivy and the thirteen year-old daughter, Molly, flee.
Runaway | Harrison Heller, Tommy Kraft, Directors | 20 min. | USA, 2017. RUNAWAY is a sci-fi western short film set in the not-too-distant future where an android fights for her life as she races to get to the Free States.
Meeting Macguffin | Catya Plate, Director | 10 min. | USA. In a post-apocalyptic future where humanity has fallen apart, a group of scientists and an animated sign complete the construction of a new human race and meet a groundhog climatologist who prepares them for their mission to restore balance to the decimated Earth.
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The Shadow | Isaac Switzer, Director | 3 min. | USA, 2017. A darkness looms.
Ovum | Luciano Blotta, Director | 17 min. | Argentina, 2017. When a reclusive fisherman finds a giant egg on his desolate beach and decides to take it home, his life takes a big turn, for better or worse.
La Petite Mort | Elizabeth Jaeleigh Davis, Director | 8 min. | USA, 2017. SEX! DEATH! PIE! A young girl enters a mysterious forest to lose her virginity, only to have a twist of fatewrench her lover away. 'La Petite Mort' (French for 'the orgasm') is a feministexploitation filmcouched in a fairytale that explores the fear, grief, and messiness of the first time.
Bell à Croquer | Axel Courtière, Director | 15 min. | France, 2017. Oscar Mongoût, a gourmet cannibal, burns with love for the neighbor in his building, the very vegetal Miss Carrot. This passion seems destined to fail: she is a vegetarian, while he suffers from a total phobia about vegetables. Things take a drastic turn the evening she invites him to dinner
Black Dog | Joshua Tuthill, Director | 15 min. | USA, 2017. Utilizing archival footage and stop motion animation, and set during the space race of the 1960's, two brothers must deal with the sudden loss of their parents. As one falls Into the darkness of a troubled marriage, the other must find an escape from the evil that is devouring his family.
Robb’s Problem | Dianna Ippolito, Director | 20 min. | USA, 2017. A lonely factory worker finds himself in the middle of a strange romance.
When Demons Die | Daniel Rübesam, Director | 19 min. | Germany, 2016. After the mysterious disappearance of his father Aaron, 8-year old Joshua decides to leave his home for the very first time even though dark creatures are lurking outside.
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