Adults

by Penny Lane

NUTS! is a feature length documentary about Dr. John Romulus Brinkley, an eccentric genius who built an empire in Depression-era America with a goat testicle impotence cure and a million watt radio station. Using animated reenactments, interviews, archival footage, and a hilariously unreliable narrator, NUTS! traces Brinkley’s rise from poverty and obscurity to the heights of celebrity, wealth and influence in Depression-era America. Along the way, he transplants tens of thousands of goat testicles; amasses an enormous fortune; is (sort of) elected Governor of Kansas; builds the world’s most powerful radio station; invents junk mail, the infomercial, the sound-truck and Border Radio; hosts some epic parties; and annoys the heck out of the establishment, until finally his audacious actions force the federal government to create regulations to stop him. How he does it, and what happens when it all comes crashing down, is the story of NUTS!

by Jonathan Seligson

A ball, some brains, and a lot of fluids trigger a black comedy of sickness and mania in this true story as told by Kenneth Seligson.

• Drama
• Documentary
• Tragicomedy
• Experimental

by Guy Charnaux

A three-act epic about a seven-year-old boy who can’t sleep, thinking about his issues. There are sounds coming from his parents’ room, some loud and disturbing noises. What could that be? A story about childhood, sex and insomnia.

• Drama
• Experimental
• Tragedy

by ITO Keigo, Keigo ITO

Surreal, slightly experimental and excellently animated film Nothing You Need to See takes place in a subway train carriage. A young passenger has got problems with his face. It is rotating on his head as a mask and constantly showing its other side. The author suffices with gentle pencil strokes and three colours to create a very original work within three minutes of running time.

• Drama
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Elvira Dulskaia

There is a cold November in a forest. Its residents, strange anthropomorphic creatures, are preparing for winter sleep. Their fragile peace is disturbed by a group of sportsmen, who arrive to the forest for a training. They don’t realize that their dynamic movements could destroy peaceful forest life and leave it forever changed.

by VARGA Tímea Laura, Tímea Laura Varga

Everyone goes home from the playhouse once. A child waits for her mother in vain, so he starts looking for her. Over varied locations we see two fates, two lives, which may never cross each other.

• Drama
• Experimental

by Julian Galesse

wild horse tamer / film made in a long train ride

• Comedy

by Katarzyna Kijek, Przemysław Adamski

Film inspired by the theoretic work of George Berkeley and basics of synesthetic perception. It’s a game of imagination provoked by sound. Individual sounds penetrating into the apartment of the main character, relieved of their visual designates, evoke images distant from its origins.

• Drama
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Ollie Magee

A film behind a horse. Obscuring the narrative. My act of self-destruction.

by Rosto

A one-eyed has-been TV presenter hides away in a hotel room with his dead sidekick to watch reruns from their better days. “Let’s revive some of our moments now” he says to the corpse in his arms. “It’s OK, I’m just glad you are here.”

• Drama
• Music Videos
• Tragedy
• Experimental

by Moïa Jobin-Paré

Combining hands-on techniques with digital and analog technologies, No Objects transfigures forms of expression, turning photographs into etchings and sound into motion. An ode to touch in which every gesture is magnified and the image can be heard, the film offers both a bracing and contemplative meditation on the tactile world.

by Aleksandar Marks, Vladimir Jutriša

An alienated and lonely man goes to take a rest and dreams about the same torment and feeling of inability to bear the burdens of life that torment him even when he is awake. He dreams of his ups and downs, as well as fears which turned into symbols that also came from the rigid everyday reality.

• Drama
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Petre Tomadze

This film explores how neighbours sharing a courtyard are both shaped by, and indifferent to, domestic violence.

• Drama
• Experimental
• Tragicomedy

by Julie Herdichek Baltzer

In 1941, Katja decides to go against the norm by joining the Soviet Air Force's first all-female night bombing squad to protect her country.

• Drama

by Anna Humphries

A zombie movie with more heart than brains.

• Comedy
• Romance
• Tragicomedy
• Experimental

by Joe Hsieh

On a late-night commuter bus, a necklace was stolen. This was followed by a tragic and fatal road accident, and a series of intriguing turn of events which revealed love, hatred, and vengeance. The film climaxes as the bus goes up in flames, burning and glittering against the dark coastal sky.

• Drama
• Tragedy
• Experimental

by Gregor Dashuber

The awkward hero stumbles over a long forgotten piano. Music leads him from his rund down existence out into the city life. There he plays a last funeral march to all the deadbeat figures on the sidewalk.

• Drama
• Tragedy
• Experimental
• Abstract

by Jonas Odell

In Never like the first time! four different people tell us, in their own words, what it was like to lose their virginity. The diverse experiences recounted in the four different animated stories, some tragic and some comic, are told by both the teenagers and the old people that appear in the stories and they all have one thing in common – it is ”never like the first time!” The people behind the voices remain anonymous and they explain sincerely how significant losing their virginity was to them.

• Drama
• Documentary
• Coming-of-Age
• Tragicomedy
• Experimental

by Joseph Wallace

Mark has just lost his job and his day is about to get a whole lot worse. A domestic tragedy exploring the surreal nature of losing someone you love.

• Drama
• Experimental
• Tragicomedy

by Jerrold Chong

Nas·cent : beginning to exist or develop. An unusual pair of twins has to learn to adapt to a strange new relationship, and must make a decision that will change their fates forever.