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Browse through the detailed list of the screening films of the 2nd Copenhagen Film Festival!
0,03 Seconds
Five swimmers and their coaches are working tirelessly to prepare for the Olympic Games in Rio in 2016. They share the same goal, but their approach and their circumstances couldn't be more different. Their chances of winning lie in knocking a tenth, sometimes even a hundredth of a second off their time. Both success and failure in Rio could spell the end of their swimming career – but that is not important right now. Right now, there is nothing but the battle against themselves to improve. 0,03 second is a visual report of the cocoon that the swimmers and their coaches inhabit leading up to Rio and a search for what is going on in their heads and hearts.
Suzanne Raes
A Christmas Carol
For Nicholas, a respected family man, Christmas Eve suddenly becomes a reckoning. Who will be the hit man responsible for such an inauspicious task? Besides not having any kind of kinship, the killer seems to have fatherly behaviours towards the victim.
Luca Vecchi
Albatross
A young director is documenting the last month of his grandfather’s daily life. The grandmother takes care of the grandfather in a affectionate and humorous way. The film deals with two major subjects: love and death.
Sverre Kvamme
Alone
Alone is about 91 years old actress and writer. Luba Skořepová used to be a member of czech National Theatre for almost 70 years and she still wants to act but she is to old for many people. So she is try to manage her last play from her small apartment by cellphone. The movie is about hope and hopelessness of faded glory. The partner of the film is the foundation of Miss World Tatiana Kucharova who takes care of lonely seniors.
Otakar Faifr
Angels, They Say
This three-minute, stop-motion animation, uses handmade drawings and cut paper to create an enigmatic world, inhabited by the familiar and the extraordinary. Interweaving voices recite excerpts from Rainer Maria Rilke’s First Duino Elegy, a wistful accompaniment to a lyrical meditation on mortality.
Miriam Hitchcock
Antonin?
Nicolas Legendre
Beyond the Yellow Line
Trailer of the movie Beyond the Yellow Line by Andrea Cacciavillani and Tonino di Ciocco
Andrea Cacciavillani, Tonino di Ciocco
Black Heart
This is a decisive moment in the life of a couple who buy a house on the island of Pico. The construction is half-way through when the wife arrives. As the construction continues, so their relationship breaks down.
Rosa Coutinho Cabral
Blessed Days
Adèle, an 85 years old lady, confronts very hardly the loss of her husband, after 63 years of shared life. An unexpected dream, will bring Adele to relive the last moments of their life together, at the museum. She will be able to overcome the pain.
Valentina Casadei
Buoyancy
During a swim test for the danish elite team, 15 year old Sara realizes that she is about to loose everything she has fought for since early childhood. Her future depends on her immediate action. But can she make up for her failure in one last important act?
Simon Valentin
But Wait There’s More
A socially awkward Jehovah's Witness is forced to confront his shortcomings as a salesman when he knocks on the door of a washed-up infomercial spokesman.
Mike Mildon
Callie Earlene
When the daughter of Czech immigrants leaves her all-white county in East Texas, circa 1920's, to take a job a school teacher in a black township, she is completely ignorant of segregation and Jim Crow. Gradually, she must learn to play both sides of the race equation to get what she wants — the best possible outcome for her students.
Champion: The Franz Stampfl Story
Champion is a new feature-length documentary currently in production about the life of world-renowned Athletics Coach and Dunera Boy, Franz Stampfl – who produced over 450 Olympians, Commonwealth Games athletes, World Champions and National Champions from over 17 countries during his 60+ year career, including coaching Roger Bannister to break the Four Minute Mile in 1954. At a time when we all need heroes and to be reminded of the power of one, this documentary tells the tale of one individual's amazing and unexpected life – showing all of us that anyone, anywhere can do anything if we just dare to believe.
Sally McLean
Child of Anatolia
Witness the hope of the eyes of children in the fertile lands of Anatolia… In anatolia life is not easy even for children. These children are trying to keep their imagination in line with the possibilities their families have given them. Life has never been easy for them and their future is indeed uncertain. But regardless of their desire and willingness to hold on to life, you can even notice them by looking at their eyes
China
This photography series is called 'China', it was created during my travels to China. My Dad’s family live and are Malaysian Chinese but several generations before me they are are originally from China. I became interested in Chinese contemporary art and culture and travelled around there for a month and a half. I learnt a lot about Chinese art and cuisine and connected with my family’s roots whilst I was there. I spent time in Beijing, Nanjing and went out into the countryside. I got to experience city life and spent time in an ancient inn in the countryside. This photographic series marks my journey of outsider to insider, I photographed subjects I connected with or things that stood out to me. The series has more photographs in it but I was only able to showcase 6. You can choose as many photographs as you would like from the series.
Choosing at Twenty
Between 1954 and 1962, about a 100 – maybe even as many as 300 – young Frenchmen refused to participate in putting down the Algerian War of Independence. These ' draft dodgers ' believed in non-violence or were against colonialism. Some of them fled to Switzerland where they received help from Swiss citizens, whereas in France they were condemned as traitors. In 1962, a few months after Independence, Villi Hermann, went to a devastated area near the Algerian – Moroccan border, to help reopen a school. He has recently been back to Algeria where he met a few of his former pupils. He has also made contact with some French ex draft dodgers, who live back in France or in Switzerland.
Villi Hermann
Consolation
Patryk spent over 20 years in Germany and has recently come back to Poland – his homeland. He used to dream big, but now he teaches German to pay his bills. Paulina is young and all she wants is to go there – to Germany. When she suddenly enters Patryk's life, he is forced to look back at his past, although he spent years running away from it.
Paweł Podlejski
Cycle
The film Cycle is a short film about the girl Liv. Liv has a best friend, Daniel, but something in their friendship changes as we meet them for the first time and subsequently Liv´s body begins to change as well. She doesn't understand what is happening to her, but it seems as though her mother does. She just doesn't want to say it. As Liv´s relation to Daniel and her mother develops, her condition gets worse and she begins to feel drawn partly to her own body but also to explore the nature outside the house where her parents live.
Cecilie Evert Kjær
Cycologic
When one's traveling the streets of Kampala one does not only face a chaotic and dangerous traffic environment but also struggles to go through endless queues, pollutions, motorcyclists and cars attacking you from every angle which is a energy-consuming dilemma. Politicians seems to have given up but there are a few people who strives to show that there are alternative ways of movements. The urban planner Amanda Ngabirano's biggest dream is to have a cycling lane in her city. An impossible task, according to most people, but not according to Amanda.
Emilia Stålhammar, Veronica Pålsson, Elsa Lövdin
Dangerous Crossings
“Dangerous Crossings” is part of a major campaign to spread awareness about the dangers of crossing to war-stricken Yemen through the Gulf of Aden and Red Sea from Africa, highlighting the horrendous conditions and rising risks in Yemen.
Ecce Homo
Once upon the future, In a history museum, a robot Teacher is doing a lesson about machine evolution to his robot pupils. But one student lose his way starting a desperate run throw room and time. At last the teacher and his pupil will find again in front of the remains of an ancient animal: the man.
Andrea Moneta
Finding Hygge
Standing accused, though perhaps not literally the worst year ever, 2016 sparked a search for something happier in the world, and the Danish concept of hygge (hoo-ga) found its way onto bookshelves, Pinterest boards, and the Oxford Dictionaries shortlist for “Word of the Year” alongside Brexiteer and Alt-right. Consistently ranked among the happiest people on earth, have the Danes possessed the key to happiness all along? And, can we find it for ourselves? Finding Hygge begins with a look at the world’s sudden interest in hygge and attempts to define it. Google searches for Hygge were up 163 percent in the last quarter of 2016, while the number of cozy, #hygge Instagram posts recently surpassed two million. At first glance, hygge seems as simple as enjoying friendly conversation over a cup of cocoa by candlelight, but this depiction pales in comparison to a glimpse at the real lives of people who truly know hygge.
Rocky Walls
Franconia
FRANCONIA – A cinematic loveletter dedicated to Franconia and to life. Last summer I went on a filmic journey in my homeland. I met new people and old friends, went to places I had never been before and came back with a new way of seeing things.
Jacco Kliesch
Fruition – The Life and Dreams of Nicolas Mueller
Nicolas Mueller is one of the most revered and iconic snowboarders of all time. We live in a world which typically demands us to obey things we might not believe in. Nicolas shows how he tackled these obstacles in order to find his true path, a conscientious path towards self realization. This film offers an opportunity to get to know the king of style like never before. Almost entirely in his own words, Nicolas takes you through the important events in his life which lead him to where he is today. One of Nicolas's central goals is to demonstrate the importance of following ones intuition. To learn how to rely on this relationship with yourself and to enjoy the journey it takes you on.
Martin Luchsinger, Sean Fee
Ghostcode
AUDINT presents Ghostcode, a 3d animated science-fiction film set in 2056 uncovering advancements in sonic warfare, holographic entertainment and its weaponization, the synthesis of corporation and nation state, and the unstable intentions of net-born artificial intelligence. This is an era in which human flesh has been removed from the messy equations of political turbulence, resulting in conflicts conducted by holographic and holosonic forces. Through complex motion graphics, voice narration and intricate sound design, we follow the exploits of IREX2, a rogue artificial intelligence on the run from its undead creators as it competes against Columbian blackhat hacker Sureshot to develop a new breed of AI holographic fighters named “AI-Holos”. With a narrative objective traversing research conducted on the limits of ultrasound such as the Third Ear, Pain ©Amps, Pain Coin, the Rapparitions, Neurode, Ultrasonic Sirens – Ghostcode unravels a near future enmeshed by the trappings of its own desires towards the melding and eventual extinction of all organic beings into its next redesign: synthetic life free of its human ancestors. The needle is in the red and pain is wanted, not blood.
Patrick Defasten
Girlhood
Girlhood wants to break the boundaries of the stereotypical concept of femininity. To that end, the maker returns to her childhood where she starts questioning herself about her short hair, missing bikini top and reckless tree climbing. The result of her personal search is a mosaic portrait of young people who each reflect a facet of herself as a young woman.
Heleen Declercq
Hänsel & Gretel Don´t Let Fear Eat You
The fairytale story by Brothers Grimm interpretated in its own way by a group of refugee children age 3 to 15 from Somalia, Syria, Irac, Afghanistan and Jemen.
Stefanie Bruhn
Harevan
Constrained by her shyness, Clemence is struggling to build relationships with others. To help, she spends time with her Armenian neighbor in whom she will find a confidant.
Marilou Caravecchia-Pelletier
I, Witness
I, WITNESS is portraying how to live and love when life challenges you the most. Haifaa Award is a doctor with a Syrian background living in Denmark. She has been several times in Syria to offer her medical help to the war victims. After being an important voice in the public debate in Denmark she has been denied access into Syria and it is now life risking for her to go back to her birthplace. Witnessing war and being torn apart from her last family roots in Syria is confronting Haifaa with one of our most present questions today – how to live and act when you have witnessed war.
Louise Leth
In Exile: A Family Film
In Exile: A Family Film s about the life stories of the filmmaker ́s grandparents, parents, aunt ,and friends, all of who arrived in Mexico as refugees of the wrongly termed Spanish Civil War. Their stories intertwine with Spain's, and Mexico's.
Juan Francisco Urrusti
Inner Court
Inspired by true events, a judge finds himself trapped in the Brazilian criminal justice system. In this Kafkaesque environment, the splendor and magnificence of the architecture conceals a labyrinth of crime, corruption and bureaucracy.
Ricardo Mehedff
Inner Me
Butembo, North Kivu, D.R. Congo. While following Jemima, a little curious girl who wanders through dusty roads, crowded markets, slaughterhouses, furnaces and bat hunters we get acquainted with three women who describe the harsh realities of being born female and deaf in a society that discriminates against both women and people with disabilities. The stories of Immaculée, Sylvie and Stuka are stories of everyday struggle against marginalization, abuse and oppression, but despite the insurmountable obstacles imposed on them by society, the protagonists show us how their strong and undefeated will allows them to take hold of their fate every single day and reveals the beautiful resilience of the human spirit.
Antonio Spanò
It Is Safe Now
An Afghan asylum seeker seeks refuge in Europe and becomes isolated in an almost man-abandoned camp in the country. He is safe from the war, but what is freedom when living in a cage?
Yama Rauf
Jylda – The Body
Naïve love ends in surreal bloodshed at a 90s bowling alley in Berlin. New narrative music video for JYLDA.
David Vajda
Krasny
Krasny – is a period 'red western' set in the south of post revolutionary Russia. The film tells a story about a noble woman, red commissar and a Cossack whose paths intertwine in a most unexpected way.
Nikolay Sarkisov
La Manzana
Danilo, a ten years old introvert boy is on the verge of moving out of Cuba with his young mother. When he gets a green appel, a somewhat rare fruit type in the country, the boy grabs what might be his last chance to impress his classmates. La Manzana (The Apple), is an intimate look into the world of a teenager and his hopeless attempt to say farewell to everything and everyone he’s ever known. His depart cannot go unnoticed. He wants and will be missed!
Henry Disotuar
La Vita Rosa
Marcs hopeless journey towards true love takes an unexpected turn when he meets his best friends new girlfriend Dianna.
Anton Iversen
Lacrimosa
The young girl Mila wakes up in an unknown world full of mysteries. On her journey through ever changing surreal landscapes she meets her lost lover Theo. Mila has to learn that love also means to let go.
Tanja Mairitsch
Life Without Life
Ardeshir Suffers from lung cancer and has only six months to live. Satyar(Ardeshir's son) is a musician, and collects his father's money from debtors in an unusual way.
Kaveh Moeinfar
Manila High – life in company with death
“Hitler massacred three million Jews. Now there is three million, what is it, three million drug addicts [in the Philippines] there are. I’d be happy to slaughter them.” – President Rodrigo Roa Duterte A year after Rodrigo Duterte was elected President of the Philippines, more than 7000 people have been killed in Tokhang, the so-called ‘War on Drugs’. The victims are the country’s poorest, and nowhere has Tokhang been more devastating than in Manila’s slums where corpses are filling up the public cemeteries. Duterte still has a roaring support within the larger population. The short documentary, Manila High – Life in Company With Death, portrays four gravediggers from Pasay City Cemetery and their work constructing “Duterte Compound”, a new government-funded grave-complex for the victims of Tokhang. The gravediggers, who live on and in the cemetery’s graves, are breathing the same smog of fear creeping throughout the slums: These graves they are building could end up being their own. They’ve all lost close friends in the past year of Duterte’s ‘War on Drugs’… in the slums, everyone is a suspected drug addict. Duterte has created headlines around the world with his long list of insidious public statements. The turbulence generated by the still unresolved conflict of ISIS-rebels in the Southern Philippines causes many to fear Duterte is using Tokhang as a tool to distract public attention in a period of national instability. His latest encouragement to shoot human right’s activists can be regarded as the latest step in his yearlong dictatorial metamorphosis. The international society is still showing little signs of response.
Anders Palm Olesen, Simone Andrea Gottschau
Maria
Maria spends her daytime sewing and cleaning while at night she works as a prostitute in the streets of downtown Porto. José, her lover and most faithful client, is still around but he can no longer give this 60 year old woman what she has always desired the most. In a raw and intimate portrayal, Maria reveals how love and growing old can hit like.
Catarina Neves Ricci
Maynard
He was Obama before Obama, Maynard Holbrook Jackson became first black Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia in 1973 and this film is an exploration into a man who had dreams and ambitions to be a public servant for his people seeing that it was the next logical step in the journey that had been started by Dr. King, and so many others who had blazed the trail during the years of horrific segregation.
Sam Pollard
Million Loves in Me
Inspired by a true story and a headline case in Hong Kong, MILLION LOVES IN ME follows the story of a wealthy mother and daughter who suffer from the psychological issues of obsessive- compulsive disorders, and their controversial private lives are exposed to the public through a charge of their animal hoarding behavior by the police. The topic of animal hoarding, to our knowledge, has not been shot into a movie in cinematic history. The story begins when Katy, the 45-year old daughter, is charged with animal cruelty after the police discovers more than a hundred dogs and cats being hoarded at her apartment. Following her trial at the court, the abnormal lives of Katy and her mother are unveiled. Behind their weird appearances, the mother and daughter live an extremely well-off life, with an uncontrollable urge to shop excessively for clothes, handbags and pets. They are despised and disliked by people wherever they go. Their unusual behavior arouses the attention of their neighborhood reporter who starts to investigate into their lives. After he finds out about the animal hoarding situation at their apartment, he discloses the matter to the public for the sake of justice. However, after seeing Katy being caught by the police and devastated by the intense public criticism, he begins to doubt the morality of his own actions… The film examines the common mental disorders that affect people from all ages across the world, while sometimes the sufferers may not even notice about the illnesses. In the story, both Katy and her mother are victims of these obsessive-compulsive disorders. Katy's mother has developed an obsessive compulsive personality disorder (OCPD) after being abandoned by her husband and son. Consequently, she has an obsessive need for control over her daughter's life. On the other hand, Katy has been living in an invisible cage set up by her dominant mother since childhood, without enjoying any normal school or social life. Being physically and emotionally abused by her mother, she has developed symptoms of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) in her early age. At the age of 45, the poor woman only has the intellect of a 15 year-old child, and her gullible character makes her easily fall for men who cheat her out of money. Although her life is miserable under her mother's domination, Katy is indeed unable to live an independent life as a normal person. Likewise, in order to cope with her compulsion to control, her mother is unable to detach herself from her daughter. The two inseparable women seek relief from their respective disorders through excessive shopping, ending up in the hoarding of pets at their home. The pets are almost the only object in which Katy can find her comfort and trust. She treats them as her best friends, but on the contrary everyone blames her for being cruel to them. MILLION LOVES IN ME is a winner and official selection in international film festivals across Asia, Europe, North America and Australia. Winnings include World Newcomer Filmmaker of the Year (for Producers Kenny Chan and John Y), Best Picture, Best Actress (Lo Koon Lan), World Actor of the Year and Best Actor (John Y), Supporting Actress (Ruby Yap), Supporting Actor (Wilson Lee), Ensemble of Cast, Music, and Sound. MILLION LOVES IN ME is directed by Sampson YUEN, whose previous works include a famous TV drama in Hong Kong in which the international renowned Tony Leung and Maggie Cheung’s acting debut and the top-grossing films Bullets Over Petaling Street and Petaling Street Warriors. The film stars LO Koon-Lan, the well-respected award-winning actress from Hong Kong and John Y, who is also the scriptwriter and co-producer of the film. John is formerly a practicing lawyer in Hong Kong and makes his acting debut in this debatable drama about animal hoarding, mental disorder and confinement of life.
Sampson Yuen
Monstrosity
Jason Summers is studying criminology at university, has a loving girlfriend and good life. But his world will be turned upside down by a book that makes him understand that to truly know the mind of a criminal, you have to become one.
James Rowlins
Nerd Cave
An avid computer gamer lives with his mom. One day the power fails, and his world collapses. In a desperate attempt to get the power back, hit mother tries to reconnect with him.
Mads Reuther
Pa’am Hai’ta Yalda
NOA has unconventional relationships with her doctor, with her neighbor and with a young soldier. Sleepless, she wanders around, trying to find her place in the world, willing to do anything to get some warm attention.
Natalie Kaplan
Palladium – Join the Journey
To celebrate the 70th year of the Palladium boot, we created an eye-catching, intriguing animated video for social media that showcases L’Originale Pampa as well as telling the brand story through key milestones in Palladium’s history.
Katie Steed
Paris – Cannes – Orleans
There are three settlements with loud names in the countryside of Russia’s Altay region: the Russian Paris, the German Cannes and the Ukrainian Orleans. Nowadays life in the villages is very different from what it used to be. People had a long way to go from the Soviet communistic heritage to market economy, from a traditional lifestyle to global urbanization. Now the heroes of Paris-Cannes-Orleans are simply striving to find answers to questions like “What is happening to us?” and “What is the right choice for the Russian countryside?”
Dmitrey Sharabarin
Passiveness
19 year-old Changjiang,is the boy of passiveness.He was sent into a Internet Addiction Treatment Center by her mother for dating a girl inside the cyber world.Five months later he was 'cured'.But when he encounters a touchable,genuine love out in the real world,he got held back for his passiveness once again.This night when he was deeply hurt and his mom asleep in bed,the old addiction torments him even harder……
Ao Ma
Pedaló
A young filmmaker travels back home to Basque Country to follow three friends on a surreal nautical voyage. Riding a second-hand paddle boat, they pedal over 150km along the entire Basque coast from Hendaia (French Basque Country) to Bilbao in an attempt to rediscover their country’s shoreline. However, as a paddle boat is not made for the rough Basque sea, things don’t go as planned. The journey becomes a delirium with unforeseen accidents, folkloric parties, hangovers, a shaman, a funeral… Documenting the expedition of these “sailors” on his own, the filmmaker finds himself on a parallel inner journey.
Juan Palacios
Place. Poetry. Periphery
Six poets in the woods. In dialogue with the landscape. Site-specific poetry. Experiments with words, sounds and vision. A short film in six chapters.
Jonas Börjesson
Pool Sweeper
Gustavo, a young pool boy working on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, sees his daily routine interrupted by an offer from Catfish and his gang. In exchange for money, he must give them information on the houses he services, so they can easily burglarize them.
Jorge Colás
Release from Heaven
In a war torn country, a female writer and teacher has to accompany two of her students on a life changing journey.
Ali Noori Oskouei
Renard Rouge
Julie Renard, a young girl with a discrete passion for photography, lives on the Swedish countryside together with her wacky family. Three goofy brothers, a confused father who wishes he was French and a mother who's not often around. It's the summer of 98', and Julie follows her brothers into the woods. After losing them, she stumbles upon a stranger with a gun. Luckily the stranger is the vivid Elsa, roughly her age with a BB-gun. They spend the next 24 hours together, defining the years of their youth and getting to know each other well enough to make decisions that will last forever.
Leonard Rääf
Rendez-vous
In a manor out of time, a man begins to paint a canevas.
Jimmy Boutry, Thibaud Chaufourier
Retribution
He has no memory, no purpose, but when attempts are made on his life; he finds himself following a bloody trail that leads back to his real identity, while on a mission of retribution.
Nick Wall
Revolution
This is a story about the choice between danger and curiosity. A little girl is driving in an empty car. She can't change anything, nothing depends on her, but she can open the door slightly and see what is there, outside the caravan. But if she comes out, she can not return the same. The world outside the small trailer is huge. And she's already grown up. And only when the trailer suddenly breaks away from the ground, she decided to act. She wants to get a real freedom and jumps out of the trailer
Maxim Rozkov
Rusty Boys
Four elderly men (Nuckes, Fons, Lull and Jängi) are fed up with being walked all over and treated like children. Together with their friends, they plan a future without old people’s homes. But that’s easier said than done.
Andy BAUSCH
Saint Hubert
During a large-scale search in East Belgium’s oldest nature park, the authorities clash with a local forester. The confrontation goes from bad to worse as the forester protects this area with heart and soul and takes measures against the intruders.
Jules Comes
Shepherd of Souls
When a fetus is left on the street, the catholic man Tống Phước Phúc recieves a phone call. He drives into the night pick up a little box with the fetus. Tống Phước Phúc has created a cemetery for fetuses in Nha Trang in Vietnam, where thousands of fetuses have been buried – it is his mission to give them peace. Additionally, Phúc encourages women who are pregnant outside a marriage to live with him under the pregnancy instead of having an abortion. Shepherd of Souls portrays a single man’s different ethical actions and view on life, focusing on his perception of souls.
Anna Nørskov henriksen, Ingrid Høgh Rasmussen
Shoot Me Nicely
Photographer Sean Wheeler is searching for a lucrative celebrity photo to re-launch his career. After being laid off from his dream job and losing his supermodel girlfriend his life has hit rock bottom. An opportunity presents itself for Sean to prove he has what it takes… but will he succeed?
Elias Plagianos
Short Distance
A short-tempered running coach is granted temporary custody of his athletic younger brother from a juvenile correctional facility.
Giovanni Pierangeli
Skim for England
Frank wants to be a world champion. His chosen discipline? Competitive stone skimming. A tosser for as long as he can remember, Frank believes that with discipline, dedication and purposeful practice, he’s sure for victory. Skim for England blurs the line between factual and fictional filmmaking, following the character of Frank on his quest to win the real World Stone Skimming Championships on Easdale Island, Scotland, where he goes hand to hand with the biggest names in the sport, battling to become the world’s best. Winner of 'Best of the Festival' at Grenada Afterglow FF 2017. Winner of 'Best Comedy' and nominated for 'Best Film' at Portobello Film Festival 2017. It has also just been nominated for Best Comedy at the Annual Copenhagen Film Festival.
Tom Oxenham
Small Steps
After a young woman suffers a miscarriage, she tries to continue her day as if nothing had happened.
Philip Staal
Sola
As the world collapses around them, humanity walks on oblivious, compulsively editing selfies and updating profiles
Jonathan
Solace
A father, mother, and child lead their life in a distant, as if suspended in time, landscape. The prairie breathes its natural rhythm just like the family does. The child, she wanders around the land's confined infinity. What seems like an innocent exploration becomes a confrontational awakening.
Katarzyna Płazińska
Spaghetti Junction
A day in the life of a small, dysfunctional community living under the constant smog and noise of an endless traffic jam. In the high heat, they squabble and bicker like children. It seems that it will always be this way, that is, until a rare spectacle shows them how to rise above their situation.
Noor Tadjer
Stellar
In a numb city, citizens – as square as their surroundings – are on another dull and trivial day, infiltrated by a colorful organism that takes us on an amazing, mind opening journey towards a luminous pulsating core.
Laura Højberg Kunov
Tamara Qaddoumi – Flowers Will Rot
Our approach for this music video was to create a journey through an ever evolving illustrated world that symbolizes the artist's inner world and feelings. A world that is formed by a mix of abstract and literal imagery. The story came together using a bird as the thread that leads and connects the film. The birds travels in and out of the frame, interacts with the backgrounds and in general leads the narrative.
Pablo Lozano
Terry White / Summon Crazy Horse
This is a journey through the night, when you take a bottle of Terry White to party until dawn. A merger of urban atmosphere and our own mad max world.
Manuel Portillo
The Brothers Sinclair*
Two gay brothers inherit their late uncle's gym only to find out that all the members are straight and the mob is their silent partner.
The Desolate One
A mythic and elusive figure is hunted by an enemy deep into the wilderness
Daniel Boocock
The Garden (1910)
The first story, told in the first style of filmmaking: travel back in time with the Rhino Crate's new short, The Garden (1910). This turn-of-the-20th-Century George Méliès pastiche is realized with an unprecedented microbudget mix of sleight-of-hand, miniatures and virtual sets, shot on an iPhone. A vital and spectacular world of myth-making magic, alive with provocative acting, whimsical puppetry, and a classic battle for the soul of Paradise.
Troy Minkowsky
The Geneva Convention
As Hakim is waiting for the bus after class, he is caught in a vendetta between teenagers. He is not exactly keen to get into a fight, but how can he possibly avoid an awaited confrontation?
Benoit Martin
The Man Hidden In The Room
Young actress Elísabet experiences a day of very strange happenings. She gets a role in film she desired, but she's also being drawn into something rather dangerous, what might or might not be connected with a mysterious disappearance of her friend. A film about a thrilling power of desire was made in collaboration with some of the most talented and prominent Icelandic actors and film-makers.
Petr Makaj
The River
After the loss of his landmarks, after the end of his beliefs in all the 'isms' to which he adhered, anarchism, socialism, communism …, a man discovers salvation through love, and above all, the greatest of all, love of nature.
Fouad Elkoury
The Sleeping Beauty
A music video short film featuring dancers from the London Contemporary Dance School, choreographed by Dane Hurst and set to the piano music of Fabio D'Andrea. A young father, still dealing with grief from the loss of his wife and coping with single parenthood, looks after his young daughter who dreams of becoming a dancer from the ballet The Sleeping Beauty.
Fabio D'Andrea, Rikki AD Chandler
The Spy by the Sea
The Spy by the Sea is a short romantic comedy drama set in 1913 Denmark. Christopher Brythelwaite is an Englishman's Englishman who has just finished his education at Cambridge University and decides it would be 'awfully vogueish' to become a spy, but is quickly seduced by the German, Eva Hauser. Their relationship is tinged by romance, humour and a peculiarly English set of sensibilities, but when Eva leaves him without a trace, he is left to consider his maturity.
Nicholas Hulbert
The Swing
Maja, a young Polish girl living in England, learns the price of being different when she is subject to increasing xenophobia.
David Witchell
The Way Home
Michele is a sardinian kid, fatherless, exuberant and rebel. One morning he skips school and reaches a coastal town, apparently deserted. He wanders through the streets of the city, has an accident, gets scared and goes back home. He asks his mother for help, but she ignores him. He runs away, and roams lonely and abandoned, as a stray dog, through ruins and wild paths, pushing himself further and further away from the sea. Exhausted, he descends a gorge carved in red rock, at the end of which he commits a violence that will change him forever.
Federico Olivetti
The World of Which We Dream Doesn’t Exist
A Mongolian shaman is visited by an ancient spirit with a message to a grand journey.
Ayoub Qanir
Think Of Something Blue
Think of something blue is based on a Dutch Poem by Martijn den Ouden. It portrays a man, dealing with loneliness and mourning, comforted by memories of his loved one.
de mars
To Be A Tree
Xin
Torments Of Love
A film from Guadeloupe based on hidden love and untold feelings between two sisters in their thirties and their father
Caroline Jules
Uncle Silas
During her brother's visit to meet her newborn, Maureen witnesses firsthand the tailspin of self destruction he is on. This may be her last chance to save him.
Sayra Player, Rebecca Brillhart
Uppsala International Short Film Festival 2017 Trailer
Official trailer for Uppsala International Short Film Festival 2017. Music made from nails and rubber bands.
Viktor Hertz
We Don’t Bury Animals
Enzo is 19 years old and lives in disinherited districts of a small town in East of France. There, the countryside is neither peaceful nor verdant : it is in a violent and gathered universe that Enzo and his best friend Hugo look to kill time during summer holidays. Bored by his peers’ immobilism, he feels in his burgeoning love with Elisa a way out to a more promising future.
Thibaut Charlut
What’s Out There?
A Public Service Announcement video about the NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.
Kirill Yusim
When I Stutter
The primary goal of “When I Stutter” is to help bring greater understanding and empathy to a group of people that contend with an often misunderstood communication disorder. Over the course of 4.5 years, 19 people shared stories about how stuttering has impacted their lives. These stories run the gamut of human emotions… Some stories are dark, some are funny and others are triumphant! Interspersed throughout the documentary, are “educational vignettes” that help elucidate some of the mysteries and questions that surround stuttering. In addition to interviews and vignettes, a young man is followed on his journey through stuttering therapy. The relationship that he forms with the speech pathologist and the progress that he makes is truly heartwarming. “When I Stutter” is a documentary that reveals the humanity that can be found when we explore an often mysterious malady.
John Gomez
Wild Beasts
In the middle of the winter in Northern-Norway and surrounded by a wild group of kids, a young boy’s impulses are affected by his attraction to his best friend.
Sverre Kvamme