The Penguin Counters

2014, USA, Directors/Producers: Peter Getzels and Harriet Gordon; 67 min. Armed with low tech gear and high-minded notions that penguin populations hold the key to human survival,

The Present

2015, Germany and USA, Director: Jacob Frey, Producer: Anna Matacz; 4 min. Most of the time, Jake is so engrossed in his video games that he pays little attention to the world outs

The Telegram Man

2011, Australia, Director and Producer: James Francis Khehtie; 14 min. Adapted from a short story by John Boyne, the award-winning author of “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas,” T

The Visit

2014, Israel, Director: Inbar Horesh, Producer: Maya Zaydman; 26 min. Hagar makes a reluctant visit to a nursing home in Jerusalem to visit her father. Unable to face him, Hagar fl

The Whole Gritty City

2013, USA, Directors: Richard Barber and Andre Lambertson, Producer: Richard Barber; 89 min. Members of three school marching bands grow up in New Orleans, America’s most musical

The Light Thief

The Light Thief 2015, Bahrain and Spain, Director and Producer: Eva Daoud; 19 min. What happens when the essence of Love is snatched from somebody and locked away in a vessel with

Symphony no. 42

2014, Hungary, Director: Réka Bucsi, Producer: József Fülöp; 10 min. Symphony no. 42 offers a biting satire of humanity’s dependence on and exploitation of animals. In this t

Dji. Death Sails

2014, Moldova, Director/Producer: Dmitri Voloshin; 5 min. A shipwrecked pirate receives an unwelcome visit from the Grim Reaper and uses his wits to cheat death. Then the Grim Reap

Material of the Future

2015, USA, Director: Vern Moen, Producers: David Price and Jonathon Wang; 40 min. The same miracle material that has enabled us to land on the moon, rebuild a human heart, and curb

Romeo is Bleeding

2015, USA, Director: Director: Jason Zeldes, Producer: Michael Klein; 93 min. Donte Clark’s poetic voice was honed on the violent street corners of Richmond, CA. Rather than succ