All Films

Dia Branco

2014 • 19 min • Brazil

Giving Me A Chance

2014 • 3 min

A surreal journey into a love relationship, exploring longing, idealization and frustration. All wrapped up into four dimensions.

Slender Man

2014 • 10 min • Germany

There are strange things in the woods... Photographs from the early 1900s were the next confirmed reports, where imagery of Slenderman can be found in classical black and white and sepia imagery. Reports from this time indicate sightings in America, the UK, and Russia, as well as reports of child disappearances. At the shooting we saw and heared strange abnormal things out in the dark woods, half of the team saw something unnatural... We believe in that story about the SLENDER MAN.

Azerbaijan: Urartu and Manna

2014 • 60 min

An exploration on ancient sites of iron age Kingdom of Urartu in Iranian Azerbaijan, the Medes and the Manna civilization near Lake Urmia.

Birch Pollen of the DÖD

2014 • 22 min • Sweden

Imported birches from Chernobyl start spreading a new type of birch pollen that turns people into zombies

Radicalizing Intimacy in Queer Asian Canadian Youth

2014 • 9 min • Canada

How do multiple identities (Canadian, youth, Asian, queer) intersect and shape the way we navigate our world? This short film documentary explores how six queer Asian Canadian youth redefine and radicalize the concept of intimacy. Various types of intimacy that defy heteronormative values suggest that seemingly “concrete” notions of closeness and identity are not so straightforward after all.

Rolf Lassgård – Ett Porträtt

2014 • 60 min • Sweden

Portrait of one of Sweden's most popular actors; Rolf Lassgård. He is known for many of his roles in the Wallander films, The Hunters and My Big Fat Father, among others.

The Deaf Holocaust: Deaf People and Nazi Germany

2014 • 43 min • United Kingdom

As part of the season of programmes commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Holocaust and the liberation of Auschwitz, Clive Mason visits the killing centre of Hadamar to investigate the development and impact of the Nazi policy of enforced sterilisation and the murder of deaf and disabled people, which took place in Germany between 1933 and 1945. Members of the German deaf community, who are still living with the legacy of this brutal Nazi policy, tell their moving stories for the first time on television. From the UK, in English narration & Sign language.

Some Lots

2014 • 23 min

A historical tour of three downtown Winnipeg surface parking lots. Through clever overlapping of archival photos of downtown Winnipeg buildings with surface parking lots, Lorne Bailey offers a deadpan commentary on how we have lost many historic landmarks.

Hot Lasagne

2014 • 21 min • Slovenia

When Boris returns from work earlier than planned, he finds his wife Tanja in bed with his best friend Gregor.

Death & the Maiden

2014 • 30 min • Germany, Israel

Shortly after World War II, over 1,000 paintings were found in a cellar in southern France. The paintings were created by a young Jewish woman named Charlotte Salomon. She painted her turbulent life story in a unique creation called: ‘Life? Or Theater? – A Tri-Colored Operetta.’ Death and the Maiden unravels the story behind her creation.

Line by Line - a film on the composer Ernstalbrecht Stiebler

2014 • 32 min • Germany

A cello piece A punt ride Thoughts about music and composition The eight lines of Ernstalbrecht Stiebler’s cello piece Sequenz 2 alternating with his thoughts about slowness, space, reduction, repetition, resonance, liveliness and emotion A cinematic continuum

Pray

2014 • 15 min

Mind and matter, separated and then joined together by a terrifying religious experience translated into 7 books: A power from beyond the realm of science and consciousness made into tangible objects for mankind. Who will control this gift that can easily be turned into a curse? Is this going to be the end of a long cycle in human experience?

The Day the World Series Stopped

2014 • 43 min • United States of America

An eyewitness account from a baseball fan with a video camera of the 7.0 earthquake that struck Candlestick Park at Game Three of the 1989 World Series. A riveting tale of sport, tragedy, and triumph of the human spirit.

Uzumi - The Power to Open a Wind Cave

2014 • 15 min

A Butoh Performance by Butoh Company Kiraza.

Paper Boats

2014 • 8 min • United States of America

Paper Boats is a poetic and surreal drama about Jayden, a 12 years old boy. that can't enjoy the present moment because he is too afraid of death and time passing by. Eventually, his encounter and friendship with Amaziah, an older man from his neighborhood will open his mind to the beautiful parts of the world and will make him realize that in life not everything is black or white

Jam Man

2014 • 27 min

Troubled by his past, former Paratrooper Chris must deal with the arrival of his estranged daughter. Set on a journey to rediscover their relationship Chris must challenge his own demons to save Kelly from hers.

Tratado sobre la crueldad

2014 • 9 min • Argentina

Based on Sun Tzu's "The Art of War," they play on the dehumanizing theoretical line and childhood memories of a dictator.

Alexander Cockburn: Beat the Devil

2014 • 30 min

In his Lost Coast home, Alexander Cockburn recounts a personal history of Beat the Devil, the John Huston movie. When Lennard first read Beat the Devil – the book – she was amazed to discover James Helvick was the pseudonym for journalist Claud Cockburn, father of her friend Alexander. 2014, Elizabeth Lennard and CounterPunch.

They Live by Night

2014 • 8 min • Croatia

A film about a cockroach who is a bad flier, but would so ambitiously want to do it better. Thanks to an amorous, compassionate firefly, he will manage to eventually fly. He lives off the dark and she lives off the light.

Rudenio meta

2014 • 5 min • Lithuania

Animated short.

El Legado del Padre Grella

2014 • 60 min • Argentina

A historical tour of the life of Club Atlético Patronato de la Juventud Católica, through its protagonists: fans, supporters, players, and managers who make up the essence of a neighborhood club that grew.

Salinas grandes

2014 • 50 min

The Ooli Moves

2014 • 8 min • United States of America

Animation by Adebukola Bodunrin. Music by Nicole Mitchell.