Directed by: Vanessa Caswill
United Kingdom, 2014, 15 min

Flea is a tough city cookie who never complains. But her mother’s abusive partner is more than even she can handle. Will drugs help her to escape the violence and terror she faces or will she come up with a better plan? Flea is an uplifting drama that shows us we really can overcome anything if we set our minds to it.

Directed by: Davy Force, Nick DenBoer
Canada, USA, 2015, 5 min

What would Stanley Kubrick’s legendary film The Shining look like if it were re-worked by a bunch of crazy fans? They’d turn the secluded hotel into a fast-food haven, the macabre little Grady sisters would do a spot of break dancing, and Jack Nicholson would morph into a piece of chicken. The menu also includes refills of looney humor and an extra portion of unbridled animation.

Directed by: Zéno Graton
Belgium, France, 2015, 28 min

Relationships between fathers and sons aren’t always idyllic. Jay, 14, knows only too well how difficult it is to win his dad’s approval. He finds himself a girl, but only to placate his ever disgruntled father; perhaps now Jay won’t be a constant source of irritation to him. Except that parents often forget that their children are still just children.…

Directed by: Pavel Soukup
Czech Republic, 2015, 23 min

Karel lives for his job as a ranger. In the deserted parts of the forest he manages, poachers succeed in waking up a creature that might well turn out to be Karel’s rival. In fairy tales it’s known as the Whopper, but an encounter with this creature needn’t necessarily have a fairy-tale ending. Karel tries to track it down, but the Whopper is closer than he thinks. There’s a strange bond between the mysterious being and Karel’s daughter, Anička. There can only be one lord of the forest. Who’s it going to be?

Directed by: Hamy Ramezan, Rungano Nyoni
Denmark, Finland, 2014, 13 min

A foreign woman in a burqa goes with her young son to a Copenhagen police station to file a complaint against her abusive husband, but the translator assigned to her seems unwilling to convey the true meaning of her words. A tense, hard-hitting film about cultural isolation and bureaucratic ignorance.

Directed by: Julien Hallard
France, 2014, 20 min

What happens when you don’t make it in show business? Julien considers himself Jim Morrison’s legitimate double. He earns his living at the Parisian Père-Lachaise cemetery entertaining tourists in front of the rock star’s tomb. When he learns that his idol’s body is to be transferred to California, Julien decides to steal the Lizard King’s remains with the help of his friend Aldo.