In the Mood for Shorts

An annual bus service that takes children to visit their mothers in prison explores the impact of mass incarceration on a generation of youth.

This portrait of Dawson City, Canada is an audiovisual collage on the search for the sun and gold, history, and the everyday realities of its inhabitants...

Archival footage of a friend’s week-end on the beach encounter the sound of distant memories : the rock band, the pre-sixties flowerpower movement, a feeling of carefreeness and freedom…

An observational look at the interaction between two elderly women: 100-year-old Ema and her six years younger sister Zosia...

A cinematographic approach to the aesthetic and conceptual inspirations of the Chilean painter, Guillermo Lorca. He also shared with us his artistic vision while painting a new piece, starting from scratch until the last color.

The viewer is an observer of one night at one street. The distant eye is getting closer and makes the images sharper but the interpretation stays inside the observer's head.

A 1967 short film by Jørgen Leth lasting 12 minutes. It depicts a man and a woman, both labelled 'the perfect human' in a detached manner, "functioning" in a white boundless room, as though they were subjects in a zoo...

Maria disappeared in a road of the Northwest of Argentina in 2011, Laura was kidnaped in the midst of a fierce dictatorship in 1978, and Ema was appropriated by Indians in 1875, in the middle of La Pampa...

Public information film on the biggest port in the world, in which familiar Ivens themes return, for example in the fiction segment De Vliegende Hollander (The Flying Dutchman), returning centuries later to the modern Rotterdam, which has industriously rebuilt following the disastrous bombardments of the war...

A documentary about Lazara Crystal's flowers shop daily routine in downtown São Paulo.

When considering Martin Heidegger’s reflection on the harmony of elements that create a home, the filmmaker explores the concept of living as a set of certainties and habits when he deconstructs a typical middle class family living room with an explosion...

Found Super 8mm home movies of wildlife from 1960s apartheid era South Africa and colonial Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) comprise the visual elements of African Film School. In order to disrupt the viewer, American filmmaker Roger Horn juxtaposes these found images with audio he recorded while attending a wildlife film-training program in Cape Town in 2007.

The Tower was an iconic place in the Ksuisi village. This is where the kids would go when they skipped school, men gathered to have a drink, couples hid to kiss. After the Russo-Georgian war of 2008 the village was occupied by Russia, but the tower remained on the Georgian side. The locals were forced to leave and settle down in a special settlement for displaced people.

Documenting a phone call to the "Norwegian directorate of immigration", this film is about a group of asylum seekers that have been six years in Norway without basic human rights.

Viva Paradis captures a moment in a land, Tunisia, in the midst of transformation. From an abandoned luxury hotel and the ruins of Carthage to the traces of the recent revolution...

Sarah is invited to show her film in Israel as part of a film festival bus trip. She is hoping for political discussions and friendships except the conversation stops each time she brings up the occupation of Palestine...

762 flat doors and 762 stories. We are opening only a few of them.

A documentary on the every day life of Grant Sabin, young talent of the American Blues.

Women are lucky, they get to have the only organ in the human body dedicated exclusively for pleasure: the clitoris! In this humorous and instructive animated documentary, find out its unrecognised anatomy and its unknown herstory...

This unique experimental film poetically depicts the struggle of a daughter and her father's descent into depression combines live action, documentary and animation.

A woman is locked in her home with an egg, which she is both attracted to and scared of. She eats the egg, she repents. She kills it. She lets the egg die of hunger. EGG is a poetic short film based on a small yet significant moment in the director’s own life. It portraits a moment of shame, defeat and yet of victory.

The flavour of banana is an artificial one and is based on a fruit that no longer exists. Gross Michel was, until 1960, America’s most popular strand of bananas. Its obituary is bleak, gooey, and speaks about the past, present and future global food politics.

In a hospital room, the Daughter recalls a childhood moment when as a little girl she tried to share her experience with an injured bird with her Father...

A pregnant soon-to-be mother is forced to choose whether her beloved child should try to live or not with a cardiac malformation. Feelings of anger, powerlessness and immense grief overwhelm her.

A 16-year-old in a secure facility awaits sentencing, to be determined once the gravity of the offence reveals itself. Animated and anonymous, the subject invites the viewer into his dilemma.