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- During World War Two young Penny is evacuated from London to the country with a handful of others. The group find themselves at Papineau house, on the edge of a dense forest, and are told by the house keeper that they will remain there until a family can be found to take them in. Alone and frightened Penny befriends Primrose, and together they slip away into a fantasy game involving fairies and magical protection. One night the girls follow the mysterious gardener, whom they believe to be the fairy king, into the forest and their fairytale turns into a haunting nightmare. Years later Penny revisits the old house, and resolves to confront what she saw, or thought she saw, in the forest.
- "Psycho", a somber and self ambitious girl, suddenly is killed and stuck in limbo called the "nether realm". She is greeted by a fuzzy, Demon puppet names "Bugsby", he decides if she lives or dies, but first he needs to complete his errands. Psycho and Bugsby team up and travel through the nether realm running errands and self reflecting on life and death.
- A portrait of a woman, as she learns to breathe again.
- TV SeriesThree girls are bound by the death of a predator, go on the run and must find their way back to the truth and redemption.
- The volunteer medics continue to treat extraordinary cases of medical need. Featured patients include Maimouna - a 17 year old girl with a facial tumour which the ship operated on 4 years ago, but has now returned. Ignace - a teenage boy with a neurofibroma tumour which covers half his face, and Nanjire and Nadire - twin girls with identical bowed legs. Maimouna's journey to the ship is dramatic as ship doctor Nerida, who operated on Maimouna 4 years ago, travels to Guinea which has only recently been cleared of Ebola to find Maimouna and bring her to the ship for critical surgery. LIghter moments are told in the twin girls Nanjyra and Nadire.
- When a ghost ship sails into Boston Harbor killing anyone who boards her, Samuel, Caitlin, and Granville must solve the mystery as to why it has returned before anyone else dies.
- A nostalgic art house documentary telling the story of the best dancers and choreographers of Cuba's 1950s Tropicana Cabaret dance company. A moment in history that has been neglected by the wider world despite the worldwide success.
- Climate Talks invites children and adults to talk to each other about one of the most pressing issues of our time: climate change. This documentary project features discussions between children and adults about their hopes, fears and failings as they confront a future impacted by climate change.
- Cass' former wrestling rival, Toast, comes to town, insistent on taking Cass to the mat for a rematch. Meanwhile, Cardamon forces PuppyCat into a wedding with his dog, Sticky. Finally, Bee confronts Deckard about his decision to forego cooking school, before TempBot assigns the pair a job managing a kitchen on Baking Planet. (PART TWO).
- Emergency Needs is an experimental work, considering the July 1968 Hough Riots and the Glenville Shootout in Cleveland, Ohio and the response to the crisis, as observed in color footage from a local press conference, by Mayor Carl B. Stokes. Stokes, the first Black mayor of a major American city, maintains calm and measured composure; his demeanor and words help diffuse an already incendiary situation. Actress Esosa Edosomwan, dressed in suit and tie, delivers Stokes' statements. The footage of Stokes and filmed performance of Edosomwan is rendered in split screen and combined with footage/reportage from the streets. The film was a commission of IFFR's Meet the Maestro homage to the films of Gus Van Sant and was a featured work in the 2008 Whitney Biennial in New York City.
- Erie consists of a series of single take vignettes in and around communities near Lake Erie that relate to Black migration in the USA, contemporary conditions, folks concentrating on the task at hand, theater and famous art objects.
- Short9-year-old Faye has a secret; her mum - Breena - is a fairy. After confiding this secret in her best friend, Nerida, she feels betrayed because Nerida's mum doesn't allow the girls to play together anymore. Distraught and alienated, Faye covertly follows her mum to Fairyland, where she discovers Breena's secret; she isn't a fairy, she's a sex worker. From Faye's reaction, we go to her 20 years later, now creating content for only fans while caring for her cancer-stricken mother. The two women are forced to come together and prove that despite their pain and hardships, they've created their own Fairyland where their love conquers all.
- The volunteer medics continue to treat extraordinary cases of medical need. Featured patients include Ramani - a devout Muslim man with a mysterious bone and tissue growth abnormality that deforms his face, Elizabeth - a 20 year old girl with a huge facial tumour her family believe is a voodoo curse, Viviane - a mother of 6 with a tumour of the mandible, and Elie - a young Christian boy with gigantism. This program explores cultural and religious factors that accompany the patient stories.
- A poetic short documentary film about memory and how we witness, archive, and transmit it.
- They have 48 hours to make Omar reveal his war criminal dad's location. They attend, as 2 couples, a party at a chateau, where Omar has his honeymoon. Meanwhile, the others are busy breaking into their boss' safe.
- A pregnant woman at the point of breaking into the art industry discovers she has Parkinson's Disease and is forced to spend her birthday evaluating the trajectory of the rest of her life and the people in it.
- Henry returns from Rome unsuccessful, and accuses Catherine of adultery with Nostradamus with the goal of executing her. Catherine learns about Isobel's baby but the pagan mark on her foot is gone, making her useless as evidence against Bash. Mary and Bash learn that years ago Catherine had an affair and gave birth to a child before Francis was born. They inform Henry, who realizes that the father is his friend, Richard Delacroix, and has him imprisoned. Henry also rejects Catherine's attempts to out Bash and Diane as pagans, as he already knew about their heritage. Catherine has an encounter with Clarissa and, upon questioning Nostradamus, learns that the girl is a foundling who was disfigured by attempts Nostradamus' father made to remove a birthmark on her face; Clarissa is Catherine's daughter. Catherine attempts a murder-suicide with Mary, but Clarissa saves both of them, and Catherine is taken away to the tower to await her execution.
- Two aliens, Harold and Jeffery, are sent from their home planet of Equinorius to give Earth a chance to adopt their ways of life. If Earth fails to do so it will be destroyed. Under the impression that a large Instagram following signifies influence and power, they choose the Kalabasas family as the ambassadors for Earth. Unfortunately, this Kardashian-esque family hasn't dealt with issues bigger than bad botox. Drama ignites pushing Harold and Jeffery into the petty first world conflicts of the Kalabasases, spiraling their mission into total chaos. The hit reality TV series, Kalabasas Encounters, exposes it all.
- You think your life sucks? For Jack Kopecky, life is a series of disappointments at best. With his reputation torn to shreds thanks to a fraudulent rape charge, a narcissistic ex-wife, and a back-stabbing psychiatrist, downing a cocktail of Percocet and vodka never felt so tempting.
- Maddy Schriefer immerses herself in the culinary delights of Tuscany and recreates those experiences in her hometown of Niagara-on-the-Lake, Canada. Meet the passionate locals behind two distinct foodie cultures on this delicious tour.
- Trailer for the upcoming 40 minute feature "Nowhere Left To Run". "Is it a crime to fight for what is yours? Two girls have been kidnapped by Australias most run-down and derelict of all the drug lords. Will they escape in time or will being six feet under be the least of their concerns...."
- The volunteer medics continue to select and treat extraordinary cases of medical need. Featured patients include Rachidi - a teenage boy with a severe burn left untreated for 14 years, Clement - a local paediatrician who has been unable to work since a failed reconstructive surgery left his mouth disfigured, and Juvincia - a young malnourished girl with severely deformed legs due to rickets.
- Quality Control consists of a series of 16mm single take shots filmed in the summer of 2010,over a two day period, in a dry cleaners facility in Pritchard, Alabama, near Mobile, Quality Control exhibits the acts as well the conditions around labor and showcases, in Everson's words "the fine folks of Alabama producing a superior product." It is similar stylistically, in form and rhythm, to certain scenarios in Everson's award-winning and critically acclaimed previous films, including Erie (IFFR 2010) and in thematic concerns to several other short form works which follow the daily, quotidian tasks of workers in rest and in motion, and is an oblique sequel, ten years hence, to Everson's Creative Capital granted project A Week in the Hole (2001), which focused on an employee's adjustment to materials, time, space and personnel.
- "Rhinoceros" (Rinoceronte) involves the fascinating figure of Alessandro de Medici (played by Justin Randolph Thompson) as he makes a passionate appeal to rally the good people of Florence. Shot in the Villa la Pietra in Florence, in black and white video, and spoken in Italian, the film resembles a televised broadcast in the last days of Muammar Gaddafi. This short film sets the stage for Everson's upcoming feature, "Rhino" that will examine the parallel worlds of politics and performance in sixteenth century Italy and twentieth century Hollywood, through the personages of de Medici and the actress Gail Fisher (Mannix).
- The volunteer medics continue to treat extraordinary cases of medical need. Deputy Chief Medical Officer Michelle White travels to Lakossa to help train Beninese medics. Australian volunteer Nick Veltjens mentors local physiotherapist Melchior in the Ponseti method of treating club feet. Featured patients include Houefassi - a woman with a large and complex neck tumour that tests surgeon Mark Shrime to his limits, Baby Joanes - a clubfoot patient treated by the Ponseti team, and Baby Riana - a girl with a rare disease called arthrogryposis that can only be partially treated on the ship.
- Telethon is about two talented acts waiting to perform in Sammy Davis Jr.'s ill-fated 1973 telethon for highway safety. Actress Esosa Edosomwan portrays singer/dancer/performer Lola Falana as she prepares for her appearance and takes her bow. Repetition, practice, routines, timing, patience, applause and keeping the balls in the air. Both backstage and on stage, where "the minutes seem like hours".
- With their married life not unfolding the way either of them had hoped, William and Virginia Heath are at odds once again about having a child. Virginia strongly values her independence, but her husband idealizes the "white picket fence" dream. When Virginia finally agrees to the compromise of adoption, William is on cloud nine. Virginia tries her best to connect with her new son, but is unable to forge the type of bond that his father has with him. When their child is stolen away from them in a freak accident, the only thing that can bring Virginia back to a life worth living is that which was lost.
- The Golden Age of Fiah is an experimental feature film that interweaves various fragmentary narratives concerning Cleveland, Ohio. Though a series of motifs, an African American woman geologist is the catalyst that narrates Cleveland's prehistoric, past and present landscape. The title refers to Cleveland shale from the Devonian period (417 to 354 B.C.) a time that saw the arrival of many types of new fish. The irony lies in the story's subtle plot regarding murder/suicides in Cleveland, illustrated with archival footage of crime scenes.
- The Island of Saint Matthews is a 16mm feature film about the loss of family history in the form of heirlooms and photographs. Years ago filmmaker Kevin Jerome Everson asked his aunt about old family photographs. Her reply-that "we lost them in the flood" was the catalyst for this film, a poem and paean to the citizens of Westport, a community just west of Columbus, Mississippi, and the direct and oblique remnants of the 1973 flood of the Tombigbee River. Scenarios depicted include a water skier on the Tombigbee; a river baptism; a meeting with an insurance agent about flood coverage; the control room of the lock and dam; the parking lot of a church; the ringing of the St. Matthews bell.
- The volunteer medics continue to treat extraordinary cases of medical need. The screening team travels upcountry to remote areas of Benin to find patients who need help. Featured patients include Faith - a young girl from Kandi with severe bilateral bowed legs, Jonas from Ghana who had surgery on the ship 10 years earlier but his facial tumour has grown back, and Thierry - a mechanic from Parakou whose life-saving surgery turns out to be just the beginning of a dramatic journey of healing.
- This satirical, melodrama musical changes the narrative of that fateful night, and looks at the complex relationship of the Titanic and the Iceberg falling in love. Strap in for a fast-paced, ragtime, and operatic one-act.
- A silent man enters a house and is confronted by memories from the past... Through a series of dance routines we watch the couples relationship at different moments. As the man is drawn through the house he draws closer to the present and the couple's final confrontation. Together is a film about the things we leave behind...
- From Stag Beetle to Swastika narrates in a richly detailed, associative montage the boundless possibilities of manipulating images and using images to seduce.
- Cass' former wrestling rival, Toast, comes to town, insistent on taking Cass to the mat for a rematch. Meanwhile, Cardamon forces PuppyCat into a wedding with his dog, Sticky. Finally, Bee confronts Deckard about his decision to forego cooking school, before TempBot assigns the pair a job managing a kitchen on Baking Planet. (PART THREE).
- When younger sister Annie suddenly goes missing, Rosalyn Overby is consumed with trying to find her. What she doesn't know is that the secret Annie carries is far more dangerous than the man who convinces her to run away with him.