All Films

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).

Kalopsia

2014 • 12 min

A young, long-distance couple explore their thoughts, feelings and aspirations through nostalgic letters.

The Night Is Young

2014 • 18 min • Mexico

A sleepwalker wakes up with a strange feeling (something he did the night before), but doesn't remember. The next night, he stands up again and faces reality, even while he 's unconscious.

10:30

2014 • 20 min • Singapore

How does one choose between being morally right but legally wrong? When Desmond, a police inspector is presented with the pressing problem of saving a little girl from death, he has to make one of the toughest choices in his life. Does he break the law to save her or does he allow her to die as it may be God's will?

Anker

2014 • 17 min • Russia

For the first time in a long time, the family gathers together to congratulate mom on her birthday, but the old conflict between the two brothers leads to irreparable consequences.

Sunn O))) & Ulver - Let There Be Light - A Reflection

2014 • 9 min

A film by Adam B Daniels. A reflection on the sounds of “Let There Be Light” by Sunn O))) & Ulver from their album Terrestrials. The Queen – Anna Zehentbauer The Priestess – Rebecca Horrox Costume – Cesca Dvorak Hair & Make Up – Karolina Kluzniak Produced with Ali Selim Agalar

End of Message

2014 • 1 min • Canada

Voicemails get lost and found in space in this thoughtful commentary on the fractured act of communication and the spaces between people trying to express themselves. Inspired by found sound of missed voicemails, animated in inky black and electric colour, and produced as part of the 10th edition of the NFB’s Hothouse apprenticeship, in collaboration with the Mexican Film Institute.

The Roommate

2014 • 1 min • Canada

Fed up with her roommate’s incessant shopping and hoarding, a girl takes matters into her own hands in this comical take on vlogging and the art of co-habitation. Inspired by found sound of a shopper’s vlog, nourished with Saturday morning cartoons, and produced as part of the 10th edition of the NFB’s Hothouse apprenticeship.

Viagem na Chuva

2014 • 12 min • Brazil

Rain, like the circus, travels a long way to its destination. When the two are gone, the memories remain.

5 Days

2014 • 3 min

Experimental document of five days spent between friends, where substance use and mental illness intermingles with and hinders the desire to hold onto community.