All Films

A Century of Energy

2015 • 15 min • Portugal

Manoel de Oliveira's final work revisits one of his earliest films and celebrates a century of industrialization in Portugal.

Boiling Point

2015 • 13 min

A man with a pathological fear of women must face his ultimate test.

Clé à molette & Jo

2015 • 26 min • France

Interruption

2015 • 47 min • Denmark

Marie is juggling a demanding job as a doctor in oncology and her hectic family life. When she finds out she's pregnant with her third child, she handles it with her customary efficiency. But the stress is more than she bargained for, driving Marie to decisions she might live to regret.

Sunny Star

2015 • 20 min • France

In a strange villa, six young people are getting tanned. They are bored and get burnt, lying under the summer sun. They are children of the night, children of dreams. Coming from everywhere and nowhere, they are here, united like a tribe.

I can Friday by day!

2015 • 6 min • Japan

A diary. Purikura stickers. Blue-white 3rd Planet Administration Treaty Army. 7:00 am. Triangle situation. Camouflage pattern. The secret toasted bread. 1088th Independent Mobile Platoon. SaHa E233. Type Otsu Foreign Legion. Beast-vehicle. “Hi, guys.” Campfire. Pan-galactic rare crystal Ikemeshium. Tears.

Meat Stew

2015 • 6 min • Spain

Lluís Miñarro directs the beloved Rosa Novell in this orally narrated short film, which was the actress's first work in front of a camera.

Boris in the Forest

2015 • 13 min

A black comedy about a Californian geek in search of his horror hero Boris Karloff. Fresh off the plane from Los Angeles, horror geek Merv Blanco holds forth in reverential ecstasy as he finally finds himself outside 36 Forest Hill Road, London, birthplace of his hero, screen legend Boris Karloff. But what awaits in the run-down kebab shop that occupies what was once the Karloff home, is not what Merv was expecting.

Love H2O

2015 • 60 min • Thailand

What will happen if a love & relationship columnist becomes heartbroken!? Nam, a relationship expert of "H2O" — her own founded magazine, has faced devastating moment in her life as her fiancé broke up with her, out of the blue, to marry someone else. Nam felt like a love hurt victim(instead of an adviser), which is difficult to speak out. While Nam tries to keep her chin up, a cupid sends her three PERFECT guys just in time!: Dog, a TV producer and Nam's best friend, Jo, a warm-hearted consular officer, or Ohm, a handsome flirty tycoon. Who will be the one who finally heals Nam's brokenhearted status while whose hearts have to be next broken...?

A Visit from the Stork

2015 • 30 min • France

One evening, Ana kidnaps a newborn child in a maternity ward. A few days later, her partner Julien returns from the army to meet the baby he believes is his daughter.

Court of Conscience

2015 • 20 min

During life, your conscience may draw on divine knowledge or precepts that help direct you toward right action and warn against wrong action. But in death, your conscience will be that of a record, that will testify for or against you before a divine tribunal as well as your own soul. Even if your conscience is inactive, flawed, 'seared', asleep, during your own life, as could be said in the worst of villains, it will come fully to life with a perfect memory of all one's actions in the after-life. No matter how well regarded you are in life, you will one day have to take responsibility for your own actions, no matter how well you think you've hidden them from Others, God, or Yourself.

Please

2015 • 4 min • Japan

Spin-off short story of the "Senritsu Kaiki File Super Kowa Too!" series, which is set after FILE-02.

Zombie Dollz

2015 • 55 min • United States of America

A group of friends are walled up in they're own house during a zombie apocalypse. Low on weaponry, the team must bond together, and escape the house for any help they can get.

Climate Change: A Horizon Guide

2015 • 60 min • United Kingdom

Dr Helen Czerski delves into the Horizon archive to chart the transformation of a little-known theory into one of the greatest scientific undertakings in history.

Love Me More

2015 • 25 min • Norway

A nine year old boy becomes a dangerous nemesis to his mother's new boyfriend.

Les Bosquets

2015 • 18 min • France

Art and social uproar interweave in this film based on the ballet Les Bosquets of New York City Ballet, inspired by the 2005 French suburb riots. A continuation of JR's Portrait of a Generation, it recalls his experience in the ghetto of Montfermeil using various means of expression and narration: video archives, choreography, and testimony.

Myself: Smoke

2015 • 2 min • Germany

Myself tries to quit smoking.

Savasana

2015 • 10 min • United States of America

A man in the midst of a midlife crisis attempts to sooth his existential concerns by practicing the age old art of yoga.

Wanting

2015 • 6 min • Canada

3 individuals are connected by drugs, addition and control. A crime sets their world in an unspeakable direction.

Botticelli

2015 • 53 min • Germany

Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510) is both a cultural icon and a lasting source of artistic inspiration. His famous female figures, like Venus and Primavera, have become part of our shared visual memory and influence artists worldwide. Berlin director and art historian Grit Lederer explores Botticelli’s life and work, focusing on the Gemäldegalerie’s impressive collection. The film examines how his iconic paintings continue to inspire art and advertising today. Experts reveal what makes his style unique and why his work was forgotten for centuries after his death. Contemporary artists such as French artist Orlan and American Michael Joaquin Grey present works inspired by Botticelli. The documentary traces Botticelli’s enduring impact from Florence through Paris and New York to Berlin.

Prisoner

2015 • 22 min

Trapped behind German lines in the closing months of WWII, an American takes a young German hostage and forces him to lead the way back to safety.

Where Once They Mattered

2015 • 45 min • Canada

Twenty ponies of an endangered breed are facing death from neglect and abandonment. A horse hauling team attempts a cross-continent rescue. It's a huge endeavour. And on the road, anything can happen.

Big Bird

2015 • 10 min • Ireland, Belgium

Big Bird is the story about two underdogs in love finding each other.

Any Virgin Left Alive?

2015 • 9 min • France

According to an English legend, Joan of Arc never died at the stake. Her eyes were seared with hot pokers and she was deflowered by an English stud. She was then sentenced to wander on the battlefields, like a vulture, on the look-out for life and searching for any virgins left alive.