All Films

Zhila

2014 • 20 min • Iran

Zhila takes Zeinab and Zahra to a wise woman because of their congenital disorder.

Sex: M

2014 • 23 min

When Lucas was seen as a girl named Laura, he always wanted to be a boy. Now he is one. This candid documentary follows Lucas Waldron, a 21 year-old man transitioning from female to male, as he negotiates what it means to be transgender after years of struggling to identify himself. Told through personal interviews, old photos, and footage, SEX: M seeks to explain what the T in LGBT really means.

Bekendor

2014 • 30 min • Ukraine

The film features the special world of the Bekendor fishing village of Bessarabian wine lands, Odesa region, Ukraine, with its daily joys and concerns, calm life and courageous characters, real human virtues and daily struggle with the sea.

Devilry 8: Tiburon!

2014 • 14 min • Ukraine

Massacre on the beach. To stop the monster, Hand and Captain go on a sea hunt.

Confession

2014 • 22 min • Ukraine

Volodymyr Kalnenko is a freelance artist-painter who was recognized in St. Petersburg, had a wide circle of communication, money, and a workshop. After returning to Ukraine, everything changed dramatically. The artist faces great challenges. After all, every creator is thin-skinned before the gray everyday life. The hero involuntarily confesses, having come to the conclusion that while God allows painting, it is necessary.

Panorama

2014 • 7 min

Panorama is the first chapter of a trilogy about the city. A review of a polis extended over an infinite space without uninhabited places or borders to take refuge. A landscape without readmission for the excluded, like imaginary worlds in search of balance.

The Hill

2014 • 23 min • Czech Republic, Romania

The short documentary gives a glimpse into the life of one of the last very isolated and archaic settlements in the Romanian mountains. It is a portrait of a place where life has a different meaning and time has another pace. In a world that is more and more driven by fast gains by any means, the Hill and its people appear to be one of the last enclaves hidden from time, where man has still a deep connection to nature, his land and animals. Life is simple and rough, the land is imposing its own rules, but people preserve a sense of freedom and serenity almost forgotten by the modern man.

The Voice

2014 • 16 min • Ukraine

To rejoice or to suffer, to live or to die, to go mad or to be happy? And what will the Voice tell you?

Teacher of German

2014 • 28 min • Ukraine

The film is a memoir of a boy who was 10 years old during the Nazi occupation. The war stole his childhood from him forever, but he left one brief meeting as a memory. A meeting with a German soldier, a teacher, a worthy son of his people, whose noble deed became a great victory in his personal war against fascism.

Tenderness

2014 • 19 min • Ukraine

A look at young lovers and their delicate relationship. And about making a hard choice between the life of your lover of the life of an elderly neighbour.

Shattered Memories

2014 • 10 min • United States of America

What happens when you are possessed? What happens in your mind?

Barquito

2014 • 12 min • Argentina

The coastal geography is crossed by a number of streams, tributaries, streams and basins. Some furrow, imperceptible, the cities and towns. Silently, these springs meander below the cities and since unthinkable times have been living witnesses of history, a transport of feelings and desires and an essential source of inspiration for many artists.

Regulado

2014 • 23 min • Guinea-Bissau

Filipa César, in her films and installations, explores the post-colonial constellations that were spawned by the recent history of Portugal. Since 2011, her research is focused on the film production in Guinea-Bissau, the beginnings of which were closely linked to the struggle for liberation. In February 2014, in Birbam, about three hours north of the capital Bissau, for the period of three weeks she has been documenting, together with the filmmaker Suleimane Biai, the construction of a house that will serve the surrounding villages as a meeting space. Alongside his work as a filmmaker, Suleimane Biai is the régulo in this region and hence has assumed the duties of the head and conciliator of the community.

Stomach Virus

2014 • 2 min • United States of America

Sylvio is just an ordinary gorilla trying to live a simple life. When a nasty virus starts living in Sylvio's belly he uses a radical new medical treatment to try and get better.

La caja de arriba del ropero

2014 • 60 min • Argentina

A Swiss merchant arrives in Argentina in 1896. On the ship they tell him about a treasure map. He stays to live in Mendoza, because he falls in love with its light. He becomes the town's photographer and records the birth of the town.

Born Blind

2014 • 4 min

The extraordinary journey of Robin, a born blind young man whose many passions will encourage him to achieve the impossible.

Los homes del monte

2014 • 44 min

The history of the Asturian mining county from the mouths of its protagonists. We are after the victory of the national side in the Civil War, the families decimated with the dead in common graves. The "fugaos" and the guerrilla struggle that they maintained under the slogan of the PC. The “normalized” return to the mines with surveillance by the Civil Guard, the first strikes, timid and disorganized, spontaneous; the organization then, unionized and clandestine; the “resistance boxes”, the constant pulse against Francoism…

Fetch

2014 • 2 min • France

Walking through the alpine woods, a young girl in a striking red hood sees a big, bad-looking wolf. Luckily the wolf just wants a nap--until, snap, the girl steps on a twig.

El último abrazo

2014 • 29 min

A true story: some years ago, I paid one euro for a handbag in an informal auction in Valencia. When I came home, I found inside the handbag lots of papers. Amongst them, two letters dated 1946, unsent. Their author announced his imminent suicide, due to the negative effects of war, prison and the lost of his family. El ultimo abrazo (The last embrace) is a short documentary film about our research, from the moment we found the letters until we find out who had written these letters, what had driven him to take his own life and why were both letters together and unsent.

Woche 37

2014 • 10 min • Germany

Rumor Rides Again

2014 • 20 min

This film premiered at the 3 Rivers Film Festival on November 13, 2014 at the Regent Square Theater.

Say it in Bashkir

2014 • 60 min • Russia

The Last 100

2014 • 36 min • Croatia

The manager and employees of the long-standing rock nightclub Palach are followed in the last moments of the club's existence.

Happy Birthday

2014 • 8 min • Slovenia

Borut is a big fan of surprise parties, but his girlfriend and friends are slowly getting tired of his excitement. Until Borut's birthday finally arrives...