All Films

Little Favour

2014 • 1 min • United States of America

This is a multiple animation which uses pixilation, pencil, pastel, stop-motion, paper cutout to express a simple but warm story.

Secret State of North Korea

2014 • 53 min • United States of America, United Kingdom

FRONTLINE shines a light on the hidden world of the North Korean people, revealing how ordinary citizens are resisting one of the world’s most oppressive regimes. Kim Jong-un rules one of the world’s most isolated countries with an iron fist. Like his father and grandfather, he is trying to maintain tight control over what the world sees of North Korea—and what North Koreans see of the world.

Hepburn

2014 • 6 min

A divorced father takes his young son to work. Based on the short story "Hammerlock" by Scott Wolven.

Nude and Crude

2014 • 4 min • Italy

This short film is a playful stream of crude human emotions. Fantastical hallucinatory moments of passion, cruelty, loneliness, disconnection and love unfold humorously in a simple and innocent form but with deep, sometimes dark meanings. Hypnotic music accompanies a dance of lines that reinvents itself with each new squiggle of the artist's pencil.

Artifice

2014 • 5 min • Turkey

Alex wakes up to a weird call from her friend. The friend asks her how she's handling the breakup she told her about yesterday. The weird thing is - Alex didn't break up with him. As she tries to go about her day, her world is turned upside down. What is real and what's just in her head?

Bergmans Grandchild

2014 • 13 min • Sweden

Set in beautiful Faro, a young woman named Ida, feels lonely and loses all hope, believing death is looking for her. She soon comes up with a creative way of trying to cheat death itself.

Jacky

2014 • 37 min • Hong Kong

Jacky, a Vietnam-born Chinese man, lives under the flyovers in Sham Shui Po. Despite living on the streets, he still has the aura of an ex-triad leader. However, he has lost his will to live after being tormented by a chronic illness. (華語紀錄片節 Chinese Documentary Festival 2014, 采風 Visible Record) Dir. 徐智彥 / Chui Chi Yin 香港 Hong Kong / 2014 / 37 min

Estância do Cabrito

2014 • 41 min • Brazil

A group of students wins a school prize, a weekend at a small farm.

Now That's What I Call Pop!

2014 • 1 min • Turkey

One's Britney, bitch. One's a California gurl. One's basically the only girl in the world. All three of them are pop stars. What happens when they get trapped in an 8 bit game?

Inside the Wolf's Belly: Adventures of Little Red Cap

2014 • 9 min • Ukraine

The story of a young talented artist who gave up everything to care for her disabled grandmother. The life of two women - the endless repetition of itself. An invitation to an Art Biennale - a chance that comes once in life - makes the girl do what she avoids at all costs - a hard choice.

Vashava

2014 • 29 min • Slovenia

VASHAVA is EN-KNAP film production team's way of saying goodbye to the Slovenian mining town of Trbovlje and, in terms of content, ends a 15-year-long reflection on the industrial era that left its mark on the valley. The international dance company EnKnapGroup enters the mining facilities for the last time before they disappear from the collective consciousness forever.

In the Room

2014 • 7 min • Japan

A warm and bright place hiding uncleanliness and fear. The slightest disorder of daily life brings the room down into deep darkness. Shot on 8mm film.

Los Dulces Agrios

2014 • 19 min

Matilde, the nervous and silent maid of an opulent family, lost the key of the door and now is locked down with her boss and his repellent daughter.

Rena Asih

2014 • 24 min • Indonesia

A football fan boy named Damar who also has achievements in his school. Although he is a smart and cheerful child, in fact his life is not as good as his achievements. With a simple house and meager food, Damar's family has difficulties in the economy. His mother has a lot of debt because the money she has is not enough to pay for school or pay for electricity, even Damar's mother gets a warning letter from Damar's school to pay off Damar's school fees so that Damar can take the UN.

Scenes From A Memory

2014 • 13 min

A Kevin Shoop short movie based on the musical album, "Metropolis pt. 2, Scenes From A Memory" by Dream Theater.

Maidan Massacre

2014 • 57 min

Maidan Massacre is an investigative documentary into the shootings which occurred on February 20th, 2014, when nearly 50 people were gunned down on the streets of Kyiv's Independence square. The massacre was the result of a massive three month long protest against the former Government of Viktor Yanukovich and his decision to reject a trade deal with the EU. Although no thorough investigation had been conducted, the blame was immediately placed on the officers who served under Yanukovich. This program investigates the scene of the crime, interviewing those who were there when the shootings occurred, and seeks to answer the questions as to who really was shooting that day on Kyiv's Independence square - a place known to the people of Ukraine, as Maidan.—John Beck Hofmann

The Thorn On His Side

2014 • 19 min • Brazil

Behind the hatred there lies A murderous desire for love

Other Country

2014 • 29 min • Russia

Fabrice is a journalist from the Congo who fled to Russia to save his life from political repression. In Russia, he is fighting for survival and the right to receive political asylum, which the Russian authorities deny him.

Bread. Gene

2014 • 39 min • Russia

Each grain crop - wheat, rye, rice and corn - has been "creating" a special type of person for centuries. For example, rye formed the Slavic culture, wheat influenced the inhabitants of almost all of Central Europe and a significant part of Asia, corn formed the inhabitants from Mexico to Nicaragua, and rice - representatives of Japan, India and China. Today, genetic engineers are trying to create the bread of the future. It is likely that after some time we will have three-dimensional food printers in our kitchens that will be able to "print" buns, loaves or confectionery. However, scientists are convinced that only part of the components for the "printer" will be chemical, and the rest of the components will continue to be grown on earth. At the same time, some researchers believe that genetic engineering may turn out to be a "Pandora's box", while others are sure that they can no longer do without it.

4

2014 • 6 min

In the confines of his disheveled bedsit, an agoraphobic young man is challenged to a game of connect 4. However it soon becomes apparent that this is no ordinary version of the parlor game that we are watching. What was designed for recreation has now become an obsessive addiction. Losing for him is no longer an option, but are the odds stacked against him, and the stake too high? A suspense drama........." Every move counts, but for some people things don't always fall into place".

Stay Behind: NATO's Shadow Warriors

2014 • 44 min • Germany

For the first time, a member of the secret BND partisan force "Stay behind" reports on his mission during the Cold War. "Dieter Gerlach," as he was code-named, was supposed to set up resistance groups in the enemy's rear in the event of a Soviet occupation of the Federal Republic. The BND partisans practiced explosive attacks until the 1970s, and later radio and smuggling operations in occupied territory. When it became known in 1990 that the Italian partner organization of "Stay behind" was involved in terrorist attacks, the German government initially denied the existence of the partisan network.

World of the Taiikukan

2014 • 19 min

Ayame Otsuka, who lives in Shimomura, Kanagawa, surrounded by beautiful trees, attends Kitaashigara High School in the mountains on a daily bus, and will soon be graduating. Ayame, who has stepped into the gymnasium where the graduation ceremony is being held, sees a different landscape that iss different from the usual gymnasium. A short spin-off of "Itsukano, Genkantachi to"

70 år bak kamera

2014 • 45 min • Norway

Reflections on a life in film

Cumbia de Piedra

2014 • 5 min

Taking magic-realism as its core, the music video flows between the way of living of the first inhabitants of these South-American lands, ending with celebration in a climax of trumpet playing elephants and fireworks.