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…