New York City, 1978: When Lupe, a Puerto Rican-American teen, meets fellow runaway Debbie, the Bowery’s punk scene and the…
Battlescar
Director:
Nico Casavecchia and Martin Allais
Country:
USA, France
Runtime:
7 minutes
Official Selections 2018
I’m Fine
Director:
Darius Safani
Country:
USA
Runtime:
1 minute 8 seconds
Using Augmented Reality, this piece sheds a light on the inner thoughts of those suffering with anxiety.
A Curious Mind
Director:
David Brady
Country:
Canada
Runtime:
7 minutes 20 seconds
Dominic Monaghan takes 360-degree viewers beyond the bounds of earth to explain the breakdown of the atmospheres that surround the…
Deerbrook
Director:
Grayson Moore
Country:
Canada
Runtime:
14 minutes 56 seconds
Two strangers show up at a family’s cottage claiming to have spent their childhood summers there, but their behaviour seems…
Mel’s Wake
Director:
Luisa Valencia
Country:
Canada
Runtime:
15 minutes
Mel’s Wake is a captivating, character-driven VR experience of self-discovery. In this interactive, 15-minute, cinematic VR users will experience multi-branched…
Acrobatic Conundrum
Director:
Gary Yost
Country:
USA
Runtime:
6 minutes
From director Gary Yost – dancing in the air…capturing the ineffable joy of flying in stereoscopic 360° at the San…
Help Me
Director:
Tae-kyung Yoo
Country:
South Korea
Runtime:
10 minutes
Why didn’t you open the door back then? In this cel-shaded visual novella for VR, you are asked, why didn’t…
Contravision
Director:
Josh Gonsalves
Country:
Canada
Runtime:
15 to 20 minutes
In 2025 technology is almost too friendly; augmented reality is embedded in everyday life. Experience the future of technology through…
From the Earth
Director:
Hyung-yun CHANG
Country:
South Korea
Runtime:
10 minutes
A journey to Space to find the heartwarming love between a father and a daughter. In this strange but heartwarming…
Ferris’s Room
Director:
Ryan Mains
Country:
Canada
Runtime:
15 to 20 minutes
Step inside the mind of one of the coolest teenagers ever with Ferris’s Room. Like most teenagers, Ferris Bueller’s bedroom…
Fly Beyond Les Logis
Director:
Efraim Wizen, Ram Baruch
Country:
Israel
Runtime:
3 minutes
Reminiscent of Umbrellas of Cherbourg, this musical art experience mixes live action and animation, following a playful group of dancers…
Portal: An Extreme VR Experience
Director:
Adrián Ruíz del Cerro
Country:
Spain
Runtime:
5 minutes
In this atmospheric take on a seance with a powerful psychic – the viewer is unexpectedly taken on a fearful…
The Hidden
Director:
Annie Lukowski, BJ Schwartz
Country:
USA
Runtime:
14 minutes 38 seconds
Step into the shoes of an undocumented immigrant as you watch your daughter being grilled by two ICE officers while…
Going Home
Director:
David Beier
Country:
USA
Runtime:
8 minutes
Going Home is a surreal glimpse into the mind of an elderly man suffering a massive heart attack. As doctors…
as it is: A Grand Canyon Documentary
Director:
Thomas Hayden
Country:
USA
Runtime:
17 minutes
Drop into the heart of the Grand Canyon, held sacred and protected for millennia, to meet the people fighting a…
Humanity
Director:
Daniel Everitt-Lock
Country:
Canada
Runtime:
4 minutes
Based on true events, we see the British and German troops take to no man’s land in a historical recreation…
Where Thoughts Go
Director:
Lucas Rizzotto
Country:
USA
Runtime:
24 minutes
Where Thoughts Go is an intimate, interactive Virtual Reality narrative and magical world full of non-fictional, user generated stories. A…
Lionhearted
Director:
Ricarda Saleh
Country:
Germany, Greece
Runtime:
12 minutes
Rida is 8-years-old. The extroverted girl fled with her family from Pakistan to Europe. Now she lives in Hotel City…
Window to Our World
Director:
Ben Perry
Country:
Spain
Runtime:
18 minutes
5 days, 3 different locations and more than 20 professionals, 14 actors and 50 extras, moved to build this exceptional…
Unframed – The Intimacies
Director:
Martin Charriere
Country:
Switzerland
Runtime:
5 minutes 32 seconds
In this moving and whimsical black and white illustrated animation, we hear from the spurned mistress of Swiss painter and…
The Invisible Hours
Director:
Ral Rubio
Country:
Spain
Runtime:
15 to 25 minutes
The Invisible Hours is a complex murder mystery in which players freely explore an intricate web of interwoven stories within…
Made This Way: Redefining Masculinity
Director:
Irem Harnak, Elli Raynai
Country:
Canada, United States
Runtime:
18 minutes
Comprised of photographs and Virtual Reality volumetric testimonials, Made This Way: Redefining Masculinity is an interactive mixed-media documentary that explores…
This interactive installation focuses on each learner of the VARK model (Visual, Audio, Reading, Kinesthetic), and allows users to learn…
Museum of Symmetry
Director:
Paloma Dawkins
Country:
Canada
Runtime:
20 minutes
Using hand-drawn illustrated animations, the National Film Board of Canada’s “Museum of Symmetry” invites you to an “other-dimensional” VR adventure…
Thalu: Dreamtime is Now
Director:
Tyson Mowarin
Country:
Australia
Runtime:
18 minutes
An indigenous mine site worker is transported to the spirit world, where he meets the spirits and custodians of the…
Caliban Below
Director:
Michael Conelly
Country:
USA
Runtime:
15 minutes
A short interactive story for room-scale VR: Become Caliban, the scion of a broken lineage struggling to understand your dark…
At Sea
Director:
Luke Snedecor
Country:
USA
Runtime:
10 minutes
Help a stranded survivor find something to eat among the dangers of the ocean. Created at Chapman University’s Institute for…
William
Director:
Sonia B. Boileau
Country:
Canada
Runtime:
6 minutes
William is a short dramatic virtual reality film that will immerse users in the shoes of William, a Canadian Aboriginal…
Wahi
Director:
Almotaz Aljefri
Country:
Saudi Arabia, USA
Runtime:
11 minutes 20 seconds
A closer look at the grand mosque of Mecca from a new and unique perspective in order to deliver the…
Second Date
Director:
Jennifer Lyon Bell
Country:
Netherlands, USA
Runtime:
17 minutes
Second Date is a lighthearted, unscripted Virtual Reality 3D 360° portrait of two young people fumbling towards ecstasy. Second Date…
Pierre et Colombine
Director:
Marie Ellen Brokensha
Country:
Australia
Runtime:
8 minutes
The mundane moments shared by young lovers in the metropolis of the mid 21st Century. A young bohemian couple in…
Filamu
Director:
Maud Clavier
Country:
France
Runtime:
15 minutes
Two black Americans are asked to share their views on Africa by seeing 360° images filmed in Tanzania, as they…
700 Sharks
Director:
Manuel Lefevre
Country:
France
Runtime:
11 minutes
Follow Laurent Ballesta, famous underwater specialist and marine biologist in the tiny Fakarava atoll, lost in the middle of the…
The Great C
Director:
Steve Miller
Country:
Canada
Runtime:
30 minute limit
Based on the sci-fi short story by Philip K. Dick, The Great C is a cinematic narrative featuring a thrilling…