All Films

Éramos Todos Loucos

2014 • 50 min • Brazil

A documentary about the production of Hugo Carvana's successful film "Vai Trabalhar, Vagabundo", from 1973.

Queer Arts Festival: SD Holman Interview

2014 • 10 min • Canada

SD Holman talks with BTGWTV about the Queer Arts Festival 2013 and the societal need for radical representation of queer art. Performances by Cris Derksen and Kinnie Starr are included.

Azerbaijan: Forts of Azerbaijan

2014 • 60 min

A discovery journey to the ancient sites and forts of Iranian Azerbaijan, Zahhak castle near Mianeh and the Babak Khorramdin stronghold in Kalaybar, who fought the Abbasid Caliphate in early centuries of Islam in Iran.

Azerbaijan: The History of Iranian Turks

2014 • 60 min

History of Iranian Azerbaijan from Oghuz Turks to the Qara Qoyunlu rulers who built the Blue Mosque (Pers. Masjed-e kabud); and to Hasan Padeshah Aq Qoyunlu who chose Tabriz as their capital.

Malatedda

2014 • 6 min • Italy

Mental discomfort is a field yet to be discovered. Where is the borderline between peculiarity and mental illness?

#Blackmendream

2014 • 46 min • United States of America

In this short-form documentary, queer artist-filmmaker Shikeith Cathey tackles intersectional identity, asking a group of gay and straight interviewees "When did you become a black man?" Facing away from the camera, and often shirtless, the video's nine subjects are filmed in black and white as they contend with their self-conceptions of masculinity, sexuality, and race.

Golden Age of Hustlers

2014 • 6 min • United States of America

"The Golden Age of Hustlers" captures the 1970's gay hustler scenes of pre-HIV/AIDS era on Polk St in San Francisco from an insider's experience.

Parente Não se Escolhe

2014 • 13 min • Brazil

In order to enjoy the holidays in peace, a boy does everything to hide from his parents that he has repeated the year.

Mutant

2014 • 6 min

When a critically ill person was taken to hospital to be admitted his eyes captured reflection of the city.

Fest of Duty

2014 • 60 min • Iran

For Muslims, puberty begins at the age of nine, and from that moment on girls wear the hijab. What’s been happening in the lives of two Iranian girls since this important event?

Kopernik vs Uczeni

2014 • 5 min • Poland

Nicolaus Copernicus and two scholars, Czesław and Miłosz, stroll through the streets of Frombork, talking and eating gingerbread cookies. When Copernicus presents his theory about the solar system to the others, the scholars agree with him and support his words. However, when Nicolaus plans to publish his theory and share it with the world, Czesław and Miłosz change their minds and try to prove him wrong.

Mental Space

2014 • 7 min • Germany, United Kingdom

A vision in a dream. Follow a stream of consciousness deep into a world transformed by the shaping spirit of the imagination.

Backwards

2014 • 12 min • Argentina

Paula (11 years old) is waiting in a bus station for someone to pick her up. An unknown young man sits next to her. A casual conversation is the beginning of the relationship to be established between them throughout the day.

Là-bas

2014 • 8 min

A mother and her son are losing themselves in lies and sadness. Together, in a mysterious journey 'away', they will have to learn to come to terms with each other's feelings.

Enter the Optigan

2014 • 20 min • United States of America

A segment from the abandoned documentary film "The Collectors." Shot in 1999 and edited in 2013–2014. The short documentary centers on Pea Hicks, a collector of an obscure electronic instrument called the Optigan.

Home Cooked Music

2014 • 9 min • Canada

After a near-death experience, retired machinist Lorne Collie started making whimsical stringed instruments. His DIY inventiveness transformed lawn rakes, stop signs, and bent pitchforks into fully playable banjos, fiddles and violins.

Room

2014 • 5 min • Spain

Essential beauty was not revealed in the decoration, but was inherent to the structure itself, the image of simple & logical construction.

Bro Binny

2014 • 39 min

Life is tough but if you persevere, it can be the greatest of blessings, a blessing worth sharing with others. That is the essence of 'Bro Binny' that features Binny Cameroon. It showcases Binny facing tough life-altering circumstances yet he chooses Good over Evil. With his attitude of unconditional love for others, he causes Triumph Of Greater Good.

April 21

2014 • 4 min • United States of America

Anxious Cubeman gets ready for his first date

Country Gentleman

2014 • 8 min

After alcoholism and prison, the only thing that helps Curtis Reliford sleep at night is helping others.

Saint Laszlo Vs Saint Mary from Egypt

2014 • 3 min • Italy

Apocalyptic battle among ravenous monsters, B-series saints, crooked friends, inept godheads, resuscitated punk rockers

Star Paws: The Rise of Superstar Pets

2014 • 48 min • United Kingdom

Meet the professional pets that star in some of the world's favourite adverts.

Undermining

2014 • 30 min • Sweden

A son loses his father because of alcoholism. The people in a mining town in northernmost Sweden see their community slowly disappear into a hole, little by little. These two situations beyond control create pain and anguish; however, is it possible to compare an act of personal mourning with collective suffering? This is the question that filmmaker and narrator Gustav Hillbom seeks to answer, returning to his native town of Malmberget gathering information about its gradual dismantling.

Encounter

2014 • 22 min

Encounter is the story of a missing cat, an unhappy teenager, a lonely little girl, a single mum and a tramp. The tramp, invited by the little girl, comes into the family home at Christmas time and has an effect on each one of them. He has a surprising gentleness and wisdom that works to soften relationships between mother and daughters. And of course he has his own stories to tell, which unfold as the story develops.