All Films

The Passenger

2015 • 20 min • France

Driving through the desert en route to San Francisco, Sebastian has a chance encounter with Helena, a mysterious and attractive hitchhiker. Together they embark on a journey to the unknown, testing the boundaries of reality along the way.

Boys

2015 • 19 min • Sweden

Markus is in an institution for young sex offenders. He is a shy boy whose face tells wordless stories. There is no physical proximity at the institution, so the inmates wrestle. It is a place where skinlessness quivers in the air. Markus's only friend in the institution is the wayward, violent Tobias. Markus's trial approaches, and then Tobias will find out why Markus has been locked up.

Oscar Wilde's the Nightingale and the Rose

2015 • 13 min • Australia

A nightingale bird discovers a true lover when she witnesses a young university student talk with great passion about his beloved. The Nightingale goes on a quest to find the red rose the Student needs win his lovers heart, but this comes at a chilling price. Based on the classic fairytale by Oscar Wilde.

Stalin's Daughter

2015 • 53 min • Germany

A shock wave started as Stalin's daughter Svetlana Iosifovna Alliluyeva fled to the West. During her childhood, she remained at the center of power and was her father's favorite child. However, her life was overshadowed by death and violence. Her mother and brother died, family members were murdered, and her partner was exiled by Stalin. The Iron Curtain was an obstacle in her family dream. This documentary shows for the first time interviews with friends and relatives, exclusive photos and documentation, as well as the last and never broadcast interview with Alliloejeva.

The Toll

2015 • 8 min

A toll booth attendant's life is thrown into turmoil when a car crashes into his toll plaza.

Richard III: The Princes in the Tower

2015 • 47 min • United Kingdom

It's one of the darkest murder mysteries in British history: did Richard III really kill his nephews in order to make himself king? Is he the greatest villain in English history, or the victim of centuries of grotesquely unfair Tudor propaganda? On the eve of Richard's reburial at Leicester Cathedral, this drama documentary assembles a stellar cast of experts, including David Starkey and Philippa Gregory, to examine all the available evidence. As it plays out the possibilities and tests the competing theories, it endeavors to get to the bottom, once and for all, of what really happened to the princes in the Tower. Is this a tale of naked ambition, cold pragmatism and bloody murder?

Modern Love: A Kiss, Deferred

2015 • 4 min • United Kingdom, United States of America

Nikolina Kulidžan was twelve years old when she fell in love for the first time. Not long after, the Bosnian War changed her life forever.

Lancaster, CA

2015 • 12 min • United States of America

A conversation about love and life in the California desert. Another collaboration between Ott and one-of-a-kind actor Cory Zacharia (Littlerock), the two forge a slice of character and an idiosyncratic portrait of loneliness.

Ma / Ddy

2015 • 12 min • United States of America

A genderqueer widow carries a child using their late wife's embryo, creating a family that will forever link them to the love of their life.

Some Thing

2015 • 7 min • Germany

Oil, gold and fire are the treasures inside the proud giant mountains. For the little mountain it's impossible to keep up with that. He's just in possession of this tiny, strange and useless SOME THING.

Jungle Chronicle

2015 • 22 min • France

They call him The Cat. Of humble origins, he earns a living in the world of the night dealing cocaine. To obtain the drug he hypnotizes women and offers rich men the chance to possess them in exchange for a few grammes. But tonight his path will cross that of Diane, a real predator.

Hypersoleils

2015 • 9 min

Musician Jean-Benoît Dunckel, one half of the band AIR, and filmmaker Jacques Perconte, who works with Jeff Mills, an artist known for his colors and landscapes, who sculpts with his digital palette. Together, they created especially for the opening of the festival, a dialogue between improvisation and high-speed chase. Normandy's wooded countryside, magnified for the occasion, turns into a thousand suns rise and dazzle us.

The Lotus Gun

2015 • 25 min • United States of America

The year is 2077. Society has collapsed. There are no cities, no guns. Just wanderers trying to survive. Nora and Daphine live an idyllic life alone and in love, far away from the drug-fueled, misogynistic communes that have trapped so many others. But when a male stranger arrives, their utopian existence takes a dark turn. Directed by Amanda Milius.

Chattanooga Strong

2015 • 10 min • United States of America

Following the July 2015 shooting in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Peyton Manning sets up a fund to benefit the families of the service members and police officers who were killed.

Murderess

2015 • 60 min • France

In the second part of the trilogy on anxiety (in continuation of White Epilepsy), the only light source that reflects on the screen is the naked human body. Its surface, full of bones and muscles, flexes and vibrates in a frantic rhythm. The livelier the reflection, the deeper a viewer feels his/her mortality, as he recognizes between the convulsions the forces he/she cannot control.

A Light in the Distance

2015 • 53 min • Japan

Mado wakes up in the morning finding all the people disappeared. Hearing a strong typhoon might strike, everyone has escaped the disaster. She checks her school, but no one is there. She meets her classmate, Fujii, unexpectedly. Fujii asks Mado to find a shelter together. He doesn't want to leave her alone. Both start looking around to see if anyone's left behind: An empty theatre, a movie is still running on the screen. A young girl stands by a desolated pool. A strip show theater with a retired stripper. An old man brushes his shoe in a bowling center continuously. Both guys search everywhere. And finally in the heavy rain, they find shelter in a factory. This is a factory where Mado's father had died in.

IEC Long

2015 • 32 min • Macao, Portugal

The word panchão was first heard in Macao. From the Chinese pan-tcheong or pau-tcheong, dictionaries define it as a Macanese regionalism also known as China cracker. Who inhabits the ancient IEC Long firecracker factory?

12 Weeks

2015 • 13 min • Canada

In a public mall bathroom, Lilly, François, and their 6-year-old daughter bid farefell to an unborn family member.

Treatment

2015 • 10 min • Canada

Andy, a young, well-mannered, introverted bank teller must do the unthinkable to save his mom from her terminal illness. But at what cost?

Born in Battle

2015 • 20 min

Oneka, a former 12-year-old child soldier escapes into his own fantasy, a world far away from his nightmarish present. The life he seeks fades the tighter he grips. He must choose his path, no matter how painful and difficult, between life and death and family.

Danza Macabra

2015 • 14 min

A pianist performing a classical piece of Liszt music, surrounded by various mysterious women

Rouge

2015 • 58 min • France

A companion to the director's Le Dos Rouge/Portrait of the Artist. A famous filmmaker works on his next film, which will focus on monstrosity. He is obsessed by the idea of finding a painting that will be central to the film and will crystallize all the power and beauty of monsters.

Fate/kaleid liner Prisma☆Illya 2wei!: Magical Girl in Hot Springs Inn

2015 • 26 min

An OVA released between Fate/Kaleid Liner Prisma Illya 2Wei! and Fate/Kaleid Liner Prisma Illya 2Wei Herz!

The Numberlys

2015 • 11 min • United States of America

In the midst of their concrete and metal city, five best friends discover something they've never seen before - a tiny sprout. Our heroes decide to protect this delicate, unique, colorful little thing - which isn't easy. They don't even know what it is! Run ragged, yet undeterred, these inventive friends keep the sprout safe and discover what it needs to live and thrive. In helping the sprout become a beautiful tree, they bring about a fun change and make a lasting, joyful impact in their world.