All Films

Die Brunnenfrau

2014 • 16 min • Germany, Spain

Strong-willed development aid worker Karla Friemann comes to Afghanistan in order to build a water supply well. The villagers treat her with reserve and the well is being sabotaged by strangers repeatedly. When Karla finds out who really is in charge of the attacks she must realize that her western notion of what is good for people is being evaluated totally different in another culture. A story about willing yet failing to help.

A Little Dream

2014 • 5 min • Denmark

Line is a 8 year-old girl who's biggest wish is to get a cat.

Plumb

2014 • 3 min

A continuous vertical freehand digression.

Woman and a Half

2014 • 24 min

After many years, two Tunisian women meet again, and one starts working for the other, looking after her child. What will they do when their refreshed alliance gets challenged ?

Proximity III

2014 • 11 min

Long moments of brushed skin melting within each other

Stained Glass

2014 • 10 min

Dear Projectionist, after these opening credits, please remove the lens from the projector for the duration of the film. Thank you in advance. (Peter Miller)

The Beast

2014 • 12 min • United States of America

The Beast is a short horror film about a father's internal struggle with his boy's affliction. Can he bring himself to do what is necessary in order to free him?

Monitor II

2014 • 5 min

We broadcast our image in cells and pixels across distances, viewed by lenses, pushed through codecs and compression algorithms, adapting new ways to circumvent the physical and connect.

Pieter Derks: Van Nature

2014 • 60 min • Netherlands

Registration of the fourth theatre program by the Dutch comedian Pieter Derks.

Soif

2014 • 9 min • Canada

A woman plays out her existence on the screen of her life. Alcohol is the essence of her being. She imbibes her youth and becomes completely absorbed by the desire to satisfy her thirst. Moving from parties to binge drinking, pleasure to distress, joy to delirium, she lets herself be lulled by the undulating waves of bottles. She floats in the intoxicating liquid, sees her childhood re-emerge, and feels as if she is a tiny fish lost in an ocean of madness. Her craving for alcohol engenders a burning passion. Drinking becomes a fatal embrace... On the verge of drowning in the torrent of this insane obsession, will she find the strength to rise to the surface?

That Terrible Jazz

2014 • 17 min

Private investigator Sam Sellers reluctantly takes on a favor to find a jazz band's missing saxophone player, before they are to perform at a local nightclub.

Pride and Perseverance: The Story of the Negro Leagues

2014 • 50 min

The history of the Negro Leagues is often a forgotten part of baseball history. Despite its popularity and wealth of talent, the era was not well documented. Pride and Perseverance sheds light on this period and shows how it laid the groundwork for today's African-American players in Major League Baseball. With rarely seen footage from the 1920s through 1950s, these extraordinary stories illustrate the birth of the Negro Leagues and depict both the struggles endured and milestones achieved by its players. The film also highlights Negro League innovations that helped shape modern day baseball, such as the Leagues' usage of portable light towers to enable games to be played after dusk for the first time ever

Forgot

2014 • 2 min • United Kingdom

A SHORT FILM ABOUT MEMORY, EMIGRATION, LONGING, JESUS KITSCH, COCKTAIL SAUSAGES AND CHILDREN’S TELEVISION

The Red Star Cinema

2014 • 11 min • Croatia

Among the ruins of the cinema of my childhood, I found the remains of a film tape with pieces of films produced by the former state. Decay gave the tape a new quality and created a new aesthetic. The tape has found its way to its audience again. But nothing is the same.

Drift and Bough

2014 • 7 min

Lynne Sachs spends a winter morning in Central Park shooting film in the snow. Holding her Super 8mm camera, she takes note of graphic explosions of dark and light and an occasional skyscraper. The stark black lines of the trees against the whiteness create the sensation of a painter's chiaroscuro. Woven into this cinematic landscape, we hear sound artist Stephen Vitiello's delicate yet soaring musical track which seems to wind its way across the frozen ground, up the tree trunks to the sky. — “I spent a morning this winter in Central Park shooting film in the snow. The stark black lines of the trees against the whiteness creates the sensation of a painter’s chiaroscuro, or a monochromatic ‘tableau-vivant.’ When I am holding my super 8mm camera, I am able to see these graphic explosions of dark and light” (Lynne Sachs).

Subtotal

2014 • 19 min • Sweden, Norway

What is the true cost of a bargain? Subtotal is a story of an nontraditional encounter between a Swedish salesman and a Norwegian couple on their monthly bargain hunting at the border between Norway and Sweden.

Three Times Moving: A Time to Lie

2014 • 9 min • United Kingdom

In the second in a trilogy of short films that follow Time Stops Moving and Time Always Moving, and continue where Three Times Moving: The Kiss Through Time left off- Anna confronts Julie on her contradictory lies and love for Adam. Starring Jane Hogan as “Julie”, Lee Neville as “Adam” and Danielle Little as “Anna”.

Ghosts in the Factory

2014 • 8 min • France

"You sweep, you throw bins, you wipe the tables and slowly, your spirit floats..." What does the young sweeper think? About does he dream about?

Nameless

2014 • 10 min • France

Two soldiers. One french, one german. Just for a moment, they encounter one another right in the middle of the hell of 1918.

Straight Guys

2014 • 35 min • Canada

“Straight-Guy Porn” is a wildly popular subgenre of online amateur pornography that features supposedly heterosexual men having sex with other men for a gay male audience. Why do some gay men prefer to watch sex between two heterosexual men? Where does this desire come from? Is it innate or is it learned? And why would men who identify as straight choose to perform in gay porn? Straight Guys follows filmmaker Daniel Laurin on his journey to answer these questions and reconcile his own relationship to this type of pornography. Daniel speaks to porn historians, porn theorists, porn producers and the performers themselves.

Night Winter People

2014 • 20 min • Russia

Passengers of a fixed-route taxi are in the power of one person, who intends to solve their problems with their help.

Five Minutes

2014 • 11 min

When John and his daughter Mia are attacked by zombies, they manage to escape to their apartment at the last second. But John was injured in the fight against one of the undead. Unsure whether he has been infected, there is only one test he can take: he must remember, because the first symptom is memory loss within five minutes. While the zombie horde tries to break into the apartment, John and Mia are faced with a terrible decision.

The Children

2014 • 32 min • France

A mother and her two children live in a house where a monster is locked up in the attic. They decide to flee and they take refuge in the woods. In the underbrush, they notice a light in the distance.

Zepo

2014 • 3 min • Spain

Time ago, a winter morning, a little girl went out looking for firewood, she went away from home and came across a blood trail... she followed it.