All Films

Varya

2014 • 48 min • Russia, Ukraine

Russia and Ukraine: the beginning of the war

The Farm

2014 • 60 min • Russia

Seven years ago Svetlana bought a large farm with land and cattle, sold all her business in the city and left alone for 200 km from Moscow. To do a new thing.

La Galère

2014 • 5 min • France

Melanie's been having a tough day today. It's a nasty day. Piotr been having tough days for several months. It's a nasty year. Later that evening both cross paths at a bus stop.

Psychiatry with Sarah and Ryan

2014 • 10 min

Sarah disguises herself as Ryan's psychiatrist to haunt his dreams while also presenting a helpful educational guide to therapy.

Edward

2014 • 9 min • South Korea, United States of America

"Edward" is a narrative stop-motion animation. This story revolves around Edward's identification. He has lived alone in sewerage for a long time and collected objects that fall from a manhole. One day, a blind boy falls down the manhole and the situation drives Edward to a panic.

Riot on an Empty Street

2014 • 6 min

On a lonely night, a young woman struggles with bereavement.

Monday, Tuesday... Gorshkov

2014 • 14 min • Russia

Tragicomedy about an unhappy marriage proposal.

The Death of Childhood

2014 • 25 min • Russia

More than 70 years ago, childhood ended abruptly for Olya, Tolya, Zhenya and Vova, just as it did for five million Soviet children. They were imprisoned in Nazi concentration camps, but survived to tell their tragic stories. Despite their memories of the horrors of camp life, of hunger, torment and death, throughout their lives these people have carried a bright faith that things will turn out for the best...

me va a encantar el siglo XXI

2014 • 17 min • Spain

Based on the poem "I Will Love the 21st Century" by Mark Strand

Chapuling Times

2014 • 53 min • Turkey

On Stopping the Rain

2014 • 14 min • Indonesia

A little girl living in a slum area is restless as the never-ending rain is stopping her burning desire to wear her brand new shoes. She will call upon the old traditional way to stop the unstoppable rain.

Viagem

2014 • 15 min • Portugal

Alex, in his neighbourhood, learned to grow up by his own will. His father drives a cab, but today he is sick and is not going to work. Alex leaves home with his father's car and drives to his school, looking for his friend Rafa. Today is a different day.

Até que a Última Luz Se Apague

2014 • 15 min • Brazil

I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night

2014 • 36 min

Deus ex Machina in collaboration with Raen are super stoked to present the latest occular extraviganza, ‘I HAD TOO MUCH TO DREAM LAST NIGHT’. To give you the good oil, the movie follows the simplistic travels of two surfers, meeting friends along the way, on an open ended journey across an archipelago littered with islands and breaks. Connected by ribbons of tarmac and separated by deep ocean valleys these islands have been here for millennia and will continue to do so for millennia to come. An veritable eden for waves of every nature, from long reeling glassy points breaks to sketchy urchin infested waves in the middle of nowhere.

La tía Helga

2014 • 16 min • Peru

An old song resonates in the mind of Helmut, a song that returns to open the door to the old ghosts of his childhood and confronts him with the most dominant presence of his life, Aunt Helga.

Le jour après ma mère

2014 • 15 min

Short film by SCRIBE (writer of The Smell of Us) and his twin brother, with Lukas Ionesco on the first role.

Twelfth Man

2014 • 5 min • United Kingdom

Twelfth Man belongs to Short Plays, a Daniel Gruener project commemorating the 2014 World Cup.

We Hit The Road

2014 • 56 min • Turkey

Laborers of the film industry have decided to march against the new censorship act in 1977. 60 years of silence in cinema was going to be interrupted for good. From actor/actresses to set workers, 400 women and men have started a 5-day-long walk to Ankara. A walk that was conceived with supportive but surprised looks of the public. The documentary tries to picture this forgotten but historical event in the light of the 100th year of cinema.

American Loneliness

2014 • 54 min

American Loneliness tells the story of filmmaker Mathieu Le Lay's solitary journey into one of the most attractive areas on the planet : the American West. His journey consisted of a six week adventure backpacking through Colorado, Wyoming, Montana and Washington. From snowstorms in Yellowstone to the Wild Pacific coast, this is the story of his quest for freedom and the great outdoors.

Fu377

2014 • 4 min • United Kingdom

Basic dignity of queer people in India is under attack, yet again. The scorching IPC Section 377 is re-unleashed to police to criminalise “gay sex” in India. While the law and the Supreme Court dated themselves back a few hundred years, an adorable Indian mother has her knowledge of “gay sex” in mint condition, wheeling out a tidbit or two for her heartbroken queer daughter in an effort to cheer her up. The pair are shocked into action by the Supreme Court's latest rejection.

Fahr mit uns zu Linda

2014 • 12 min • Germany

Oi, Meu Amor

2014 • 4 min

Men are from Mars. Women are from Brazil.

I Shall Return as a Flaming Rose

2014 • 39 min • Latvia

Lonely, 45 year-old worker Kasandra has just received a lethal diagnosis from her doctor. She goes to her high school reunion, confused, and is faced with phantasmagorical events that completely shatter her daily routine. Kasandra flees from the city. In the forest, she is engulfed by a river and brought to a secluded sea shore. Alone and over time Kasandra experiences an unusual healing and rebirth.

Brother-in-law

2014 • 22 min

Setif, in present-day, Ali, a young man from the lower class leads a dull, narrow and isolated life. One evening, he is forced to give his sister-in-law a ride home, yet Habiba's ways are in total contradiction with his own values.