War Ball // 1:40min // Animation // 2013 // Iran

Director: Saeed Madadi

A calm violin player, becomes a warrior, just because of a little ball hits him.

The Passer // 11min // Drama // 2016 // Iran

Director: Pouria Pishvaei
Writer: Omid Shams

A squad of soldiers under enemy fire come to a dead end. With no way back, they need to make a tough decision to be released at the edge of death.

The After War // 11:39min // Drama // 2016 // USA

Director: Giorgio Litt
Cast: Nikki Deloach, Jentzen Ramirez, James Devoti

The wife of a mentally-ill veteran and her son scrape by in an abandoned RV park, but they can’t escape her worst fear: the return of her husband.

Her Unlikely Kin // 15min // Drama // 2015 // USA

Director: Kenneth Raimondi

Sarah Rassi is running out of options. She needs a bone marrow transplant and her only match on the registry is troubled war veteran, Peyton Sinclair. Can Peyton overcome his own battles with PTSD to step up and save Sarah’s life?

Kookaburras // 16min // Documentary // 2017 // Australia

Director: David Jenkins

This short follows the commissioning and making of a fused glass window, by Canberra glass artist Ruth Oliphant, to memorialise women who have been widowed by war. Four generations of Australian women speak about their experiences.

It Would Piss Me Off to Die So Young // 16:17min // Animation // 2016 //  Portugal

Writer/Director: Filipe Abranches

Several soldiers, hidden behind masks, march off to war. This impressively animated story takes us on a battlefield journey to inevitable catastrophe. It is the First World War and a Portuguese soldier, wearing a gas mask, hides from the abstract fog. As he inhales mustard gas, symbolic visions appear before him in a claustrophobic series of events.

And We Were Young // 75min // Animation // 2015 // USA

Writer/Director: Andy Smetanka

A stop-motion, silhouette-animation oral history of American soldiers, ‘Doughboys,’ in the last months of the Great War. A brutal, hauntingly beautiful, and thoroughly original vision of America’s war, narrated entirely in the words of the ones who were there.

La Folle Histoire de Max et Léon // 98min // Comedy // 2016  // France & Belgium

Writer/Director: Jonathan Barré
Writers: Grégoire Ludig, David Marsais

Max and Léon’s adventures, two childhood friends idle and party-goer, who are trying to escape the Second World War.

Tango on the Balcony // 19min // Drama // 2016 // US & Cyprus

Writer/Director: Minos Papas

Johnny, an Iraq war veteran who wrestles with post traumatic stress and the transition to civilian life, is tormented by an incessant hyper vigilance and insomnia and the lingering questions of his past actions in combat.

Gloriana // 9min // Drama // 2015 //  US

Director: Stefany Mathias

The US Army’s first female Ranger platoon leader is unfairly tried for a failed combat mission.