Each night in Silicon Valley, the Line 22 transforms from a public city bus into an unofficial shelter for the homeless…
In this collage-experimental short film, filmmaker Lutz Dammbeck pays homage to the postulates that Sergei Eisenstein a…
Jammings recorded on home videos, old photographs and music with the texture of vinyl records. Yes, this is the exquisi…
Snippets of cell phone videos, scattered sounds, pixelated images. These are the loose pieces that remind us of Nico, t…
The inhabitants of Europe's only desert star in an out-of-the-ordinary Western. Here the only weapon against the enemy …
The Greek island of Lesvos is today a bridge to the European dream for thousands of Asian and African migrants. Through…
A city is wrapped by fireworks at night. A cell phone goes out into the streets and films the face of a street boy. It …
A father has only a year to live and leave a legacy to his newborn son. Mixing animation with home video footage, this …
An American writer travels to Russia and discovers the lingering effects of Holodomor and The Great Famine - the Soviet…
Silent, incisive, radioactive. This short film, screened at Rotterdam and Locarno, follows the daily life of Sergey and…
In just four minutes, three faces discuss past lives, an unfortunate accident and what the future holds. A cigarette is…
Shot in stark black and white, this short film is a look at the creative process of the famous French painter Abdelkade…
In a public park, an army of crows emerges from the mist. A camera films them. A gun is fired. Is this short film a kin…
This short film is a simple and poetic look at the work of a patient and talented blacksmith from Houston, USA.
Little by little, two characters take shape on the screen through objects, sounds and flavors. Who are they? What unite…
This short film/video installation uses anecdotes that gamers share on internet forums to reflect on the feedback betwe…
Through still pictures and textual resources, a short story unfolds: the encounter between a western explorer and a Nig…
In this documentary short we accompany the musicians of the Unterbiberger Hofmusik, a band that mixes traditional Bavar…
In an indigenous territory in the north of the Amazon, a filmmaker and Abraim, a local villager, will have a short and …
Shot in different countries, between antipodes like South Africa and Colombia, this short documentary is a visual essay…
A Russian folk tale about a woman saint gives way to a performance exercise by a group of young women inside a house fu…
Through various pieces of contemporary dance, this short film illustrates the historical evolution of the treatment of …
A young woman goes out into the street in the middle of the night. We hear her voiceover and we feel very close to her.…
In only 11 minutes, this short film documents how, on the eve of Fidel Castro's death, reporters and passers-by take ad…
Amid the idyllic landscape of the Caribbean island of Montserrat, Redz works every day on his small plot to earn a livi…
This short film takes us to post-apocalyptic New York built on a famous video game. Together with a group of snipers, w…
This short film uses the perspective of three military drone pilots to see life differently. Pixelated, distant, dehuma…
This experimental short film reflects on the points of view that exist on reality through a kind of "guided tour" by a …
A lover of the past. A road trip through the southwestern United States. An experimental short documentary that tries t…
Interspersing footages of the present and the past of Finland, this experimental short film uses various editing techni…
Award-winning filmmaker Irene Gutierrez intersects a personal journey back to her native Spanish town, on the border wi…
Stefan Theiler has an interesting theory. He believes that any individual or sociological problem of the human being ca…
Through the small details in the memories of a Syrian refugee in Berlin, this short film makes the exercise of illustra…
Saul's dad took him to work with him on a hot Summer day in 1950. What could go wrong? More than 60 years later, in thi…
This short film is a sensory journey through a moment in the life of Pablo Carranza, a young skater from San Francisco …
This observational documentary makes visible the faces behind the famous manhole covers on the streets of New York, whi…
What could a former prisoner of the Stasi tell us about the state of civil rights in modern democracies? He gives his t…
In search of a lost lover, a woman retraces the steps of her latest love affair in the streets of Salamanca ... through…
This experimental short film is an observational study of the Alps and how the human trail permeates their geography.
When thousands of people protest on the streets, television shows something very different. This animated short film is…
A glimpse into the soul of Teresa Smith, an African-American mother who through her profound singing finds a way to dem…
Jaki is 27 years old and has to deal with... well, everything that entails. A hybrid short film about a state of mind i…
Filmmakers Filipa Reis and João Miller Guerra resort to their common imaginary, vibrant scraps of images and sounds tha…
A girl draws a sketch of her schoolyard and explains how this space is divided between boys and girls at recess every d…
For the protagonists of this film, life on land is on hold. On board a cruise ship, normality has other rules. This sho…
In this Berlinale award-winning short film, a film crew shoots the tests that scientists are doing on laboratory mice. …
Danka makes a living cleaning the fifteen rooms of a hospice in Berlin. This film makes a portrait of her, a woman who …
The arrival of a magic car creates a change in a small town in Iran where children often drop out of school due to the …
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