All Films

A Star Named Sonja

2014 • 55 min • Czech Republic

The rise and fall of the biggest star of travesty show in Prague in the nineties. The film tells the story of a man with shocking sincerity and openness in confession of two different personalities, woman and man living in one body.

Thylacine

2014 • 10 min • United States of America

A young couple nearing their nine months anniversary hit a road block when one decides to have lunch with an admirer. The relationship is tested as they face their insecurities along the way.

60ml: Last Order

2014 • 6 min • India

Malayalam short film that sheds light on alcoholism, and the damage it has on the alcoholic’s life. The 6 minute long short film travel through 15 years of an alcoholic’s life.

Lambing Season

2014 • 15 min

The offbeat tale of Bridget, an American woman who travels to the Irish countryside to track down her long-lost father while posing as a stranger. When things don't go according to her convoluted plan, Bridget and her father are surprised to learn they have more in common than they imagined. On a sheep farm full of secrets, nature has its way of delivering the truth.

Abandoned

2014 • 11 min • Canada

Two sisters living in an abandoned farmhouse wait for their father's return.

Waiting All Night

2014 • 5 min

Incorporating intertext as narration, this piece features a subject whose lover (a spirit/priest) has left them. Rather than accept this loss, the subject makes a square in the grass and summons the priest into their backyard, trapping it. In this work, both the one who has left and the one who has been left serve as self-portrait proxies.

Ogre

2014 • 15 min • France

The beach. Sky blue sea, white sand. Its attendants tanned, blackened, reddened. Amongst this crowd, no one fat. He remains cloistered in his den, sheltered from the sun and the noisy masses of people. Behind his curtains, he contemplates Marie, young and beautiful vacationer... and awaits the night...

Minuit Quarante

2014 • 5 min • Martinique

It's 12.39 a.m, Dan, a man with no history is asleep next to his wife while something in the dark is staring at them...

Pen of Mirrors

2014 • 28 min

The search is on for a mythical pen which grants its holder the ability to write an immortal line forever engraved on the collective memory of mankind.

The Guests

2014 • 20 min

The strange guests who continuously knock our life.

Blå dager og gylne netter

2014 • 39 min • Norway

They live the life many dream about. Three people by the large Porsanger Fjord, in almost unpopulated villages. We follow them through the long dark season when the light is a luxury, to the bright nights under the midnight sun.

Ain't No Cinderellas!

2014 • 52 min

Ain't No Cinderellas! chronicles the struggle of domestic workers to form a union for women. In the film we see them fighting for their rights, trying to get the government to respond to their pleas for coverage by the Union and Collective Bargaining Law.

Disillusion

2014 • 17 min

Two magicians from different generations give up magic after realizing their whole lives have been based on deceiving people. They meet and realize they want to team up together to give people something real. But will the audiences agree or will their new venture go up in smoke?

Quadrumvirate

2014 • 23 min • Iran

The Rainbow Commune disappears sooner than you think, before you can show it to anyone else ...

Chris Berens

2014 • 53 min

Artist Chris Berens finds his inspiration in his own magical inner world. The animals and creatures that play a major role in his imagination also populate the landscapes he creates with his special painting technique. It results in scenes that are both enchanting and ominous.

Selection of Symphony

2014 • 10 min

an old man and a little child in the same room in the afternoon, both sleeping. Old man experiences dreams about the truth of long lived life and when he wakes up he finds the baby still sleeping.

Iman

2014 • 4 min • Indonesia

An Ustad is leading a mass prayer. But something disrupts his concentration. How can he focus back to his prayer?

Hyperion

2014 • 40 min • Greece, Italy

Hyperion "is an experimental film inspired by the novel of the same name by Friedrich Hölderlin. Hyperion's travels become a journey through images that speak to us of Greece, ancient and more recent times. The poet's words, enclosed in the novel and in the letters, in an inseparable cross between art and life, they tell the story of the creation of Hyperion's Greece, an invented yet alive landscape, the chosen place of redemption and love.

Labirinto

2014 • 15 min • Portugal

Director Júlio Bessa, who suffers from "stage fright" will make an introduction to his latest film at Festival de Cinema Luso Brasileiro in Santa Maria da Feira.

Long Sa’an: The Journey Back

2014 • 45 min

A personal journey about Philius the Dayak man from the Omah Long tribe as he makes his way back home to the original forests where he grew up to pay his respects to his mother who died when he was young and visit the burial grounds of his ancestors.

Body Red Light

2014 • 6 min • France

When effort leads to trance.

In Her Footsteps: The Story of Kateri Tekakwitha

2014 • 50 min • Canada, United States of America

Beatified by Blessed John Paul II in 1980, Kateri Tekakwitha was proclaimed the first Native woman saint by Pope Benedict XVI on October 21, 2012. This moving documentary takes us on a journey from Upstate New York State to Montreal and Kahnawake; from Washington State to New Mexico, as we follow St. Kateri's incredible journey of deep faith, heroic sacrifice and love of Christ. Featuring many people who have been touched by her -including the little boy who received the miraculous healing that led to her canonization, this splendid film shows that no one is too simple or too young to follow Christ.

A Silent Waltz

2014 • 12 min

12 year-old Madeline is funny, feisty, cheeky, desperately in love and deaf. She must overcome her insecurities and the isolation of rural Australia in order to ask her neighbour to the annual regional dance. As it draws closer, Madeline is forced to take drastic action, leading to near devastating consequences.

Danila Poperechny: Stand-Up in Petersburg

2014 • 22 min • Russia

This is part of the program that Poperechny presents in St. Petersburg as part of tour with Ruslan Usachev. The video is made up of different pieces and some moments were not included in it (for example, the beginning of the stand-up, its middle and jokes).