We take a look at the Encounters 2017 programme - which includes a host of new short films from some our favourite Short of the Week featured filmmakers
A 13-year-old boy from Tijuana embarks on his first drug smuggle across the Arizona/Mexico border
Nikola Tesla's best days are behind him. The inventor remains shut up in his room, alone with his thoughts, strange lights, and the pigeon he's in love with.
In a foster home run by kids with no adult supervision, Lucia, a seven-year-old misfit, awaits a pick-up that never comes, discovering the true meaning of home.
From isolated whaling towns to post-apocalyptic worlds, journey through a universe of animated awesomeness in the 2017 grad films from Denmark's The Animation Workshop
The unusual and extraordinary operations of the Cryonics Institute, a facility that stores human beings at below-freezing temperatures in cryopreservation.
A scorned stand-in actor for a hit TV show distorts the script to publicly undress her costar.
When Charlie (Modern Family's Rico Rodriguez) and his family move to a warmer climate for the sake of his father's (Matthew Modine) illness, he finds himself between losing his father - and a conflict with a vicious bully at school.
Two young teens obsess about "The Raftman", a comic superhero who does next to nothing.
