Wittgenstein's Poker(NaN)

David Thompson: The Great Mapmaker(en)

This short film recreates the story of David Thompson – a man who, over the course of his lifetime, mapped a-million-and-a-half square miles of uncharted territory. His achievement remains unsurpassed.

Stems(en)

A rapturous, BAFTA Scotland-winning eulogy to the short life span of stop motion animation puppets.

Weasel(en)

Weasel, villain of fables, known for sucking out eggs and leaving shells intact. Weasel, a film concerned with man, boy, and rope.

This Dark Thought(en)

While babysitting her newborn sister, a young astronomer struggles with a dark thought after encountering something eerie in the night sky.

Father by Law(en)

A father attempts to reconnect with his daughter on her wedding day.

Elective Affinities(it)

Adaptation of Goethe's novel.

Viral(en)

A middle class mother suffers an opioid overdose while out with her child, and is faced with the reality of having it caught on video and becoming an online sensation.

The Shadow of Cairo(en)

After her mother's death, Maya, an ordinary Egyptian girl, sets out to become a Superhero vigilante.

Brave New America(en)

In this dystopian vision of the America of 2018 where the Internet is co-opted, the media and education is compromised, a frazzled student sends the wrong message.

Little Dark Poet(en)

A poet, inverting the cliche of the starved artist in the garret, and immediately begins to compose. He has nobly romantic intentions, and begins composing a love poem, which is visualized in the style of silent cinema. Unfortunately, the poet’s darker urges keep intruding. A short film directed by Mike Booth and produced by the Bolebrothers in Bristol UK. Explores the idea of colourisation.

Klyftan(sv)

A story about 10-year-old Ruth and her life in Jakobstad in the years 1917-1918, during the Finnish Civil War. Based on a novel by Anna Bondestam.

Home(en)

Lewis starts to recognise himself in other people. Having reflected on his past, he attempts to affect his future.

Packaged(en)

After being caught stealing from the till at a nightclub, Jack agrees to deliver a package to the club's gangland owner.

Stuart(en)

An episodic short that details the heartbreak of nine individuals

Switzerland(en)

Patricia Highsmith’s late life solitude in the Swiss Alps is interrupted by Edward, a young literary agent sent by the writer’s relentless publishing company to convince her to pen one last novel in her wildly popular Ripley series. Highsmith uses her famously macabre imagination to scare Edward away, but before they know it, a collaboration ensues, leaving the world they’ve constructed indistinguishable from their own.

SLEIGH!(en)

Jacob tries to keep a tradition alive by throwing a Christmas party for his distant friends. The night takes a deadly turn when they brush off an antique Christmas board game. It proceeds to show him his friends aren't who they seem.

Tichý Američan v Praze(cs)

Honour Thy Mother(en)

Liz is homeless, living life adrift. In a moment of despair and loneliness, she returns home after many years to her God-fearing mother and discovers time has changed more than she ever could have imagined.

Изгой(ru)

Fear and Trembling(fr)

Amélie, a young Belgian woman, having spent her childhood in Japan, decides to return to live there and tries to integrate in the Japanese society. She is determined to be a "real Japanese" before her year contract runs out, though it precisely this determination that is incompatable with Japanese humility. Though she is hired for a choice position as a translator at an import/export firm, her inability to understand Japanese cultural norms results in increasingly humiliating demotions. Though Amelie secretly adulates her, her immediate supervisor takes sadistic pleasure in belittling her all along. She finally manages to break Amelie's will by making her the bathroom attendant, and is delighted when Amelie tells her the she will not renew her contract. Amelie realizes that she is finally a real Japanese when she enters the company president's office "with fear and trembling," which could only be possible because her determination was broken by Miss Fubuki's systematic torture.