Rains

Venus of Willendorf

Young and ambitious Kamila lives in a world where overweight defines the ideal of beauty and determines social status. The more you weigh, the more you are respected. When Kamila’s thinness is exposed, she is fired from work and dumped by her boyfriend. She abandons the disguise that made her look fat, decides to face up to reality and gain weight.

Butterfly Bhutan

When religious tradition becomes a threat to Bhutan's Nature, one man braves society and sets out on a mission to change the minds and hearts of the locals.

Night on Earth

A quintet of cabbies in five cities and their remarkable fares on the same eventful night.

A Cauda do Dinossauro

Nobody dares to break the rules, for fear of the persecution of the Christian Command, until a woman, born in this era of repression of pleasure, meets the last man who lived the period when hedonism was still could be a style of viable life.

Second to None

Frederick Butterfield has always been runner up to his twin brother Herman. When Herman, the older by a mere minute, becomes the world's oldest man, Frederick finally sees an opportunity to be first place.

On Top of the Earth

Sophie is both attracted to boys and girls. She is torn between Nicolas and Mathilde.

Green Light

A male escort has an odd encounter with a mysterious John that he picks up.

The Unhelpful Brother

A young girl asks her brother to help her with her homework.

Delilah, Before

A young Singaporean woman, haunted by a dark past and teenage pregnancy, has to regain her mother's trust in her rehabilitation as she reassumes custody of her young child.

Big Fish & Chinese Flowering Crabapple

In 2004, Liang Xuan produced a flash short film which was the prototype of the animated film Da Yu Hai Tang, which won the DIGIID Award of Intel 2004 China Digital Festival.

Take Your Kids to Work Day

The hatchlings from the Angry Birds movies go to work with dad.

New faces

Nocturna

A middle aged woman is desperately wondering in the streets looking for her daughter. A man finds her before she does.

Blue days

Juana lives blue days. Never before in her life had she felt like this, so cold, so empty, so blue. She misses Fede and she just tries to understand the change, the break, the loneliness of a broken heart...

III

By a hot summer day on the lakeshore, three siblings face death for the first time through their contact with nature.

Raids

Based on the treatment of Pacific Island families during the New Zealand Dawn Raids of the 1970’s, this short is an intimate look into a police raid, as told through the eyes of a young girl Losa and her father Lupematasila.

The Bite

A story of a polyamorous, non-binary relationship struggling to survive an epidemic of genetically modified killer mosquitos.

I Promise to Never Forget

Lucas needs to get back to New York City with his sister Charlotte. They have vividly memories about their good times together, but he needs to be honest with himself and acknowledge the outcomes of his actions.

Maysa

Maysa unfolds over a single afternoon as a young woman and her stoic middle eastern mother navigate the quiet tension of a long-held silence. As memories of migration and girlhood surface in fractured flashbacks, their unspoken history begins to unravel. A tender, restrained portrait of love, resilience, and the things women carry - even when they no longer have to.

Necropolis