All Films

The Hope

2014 • 10 min

Afif

2014 • 15 min

Afif is fired from his job and his home at the movie theater. He looks for a place to sleep but little does he know that he will walk the steps of glory.

Los intrusos

2014 • 10 min • Argentina

Pedro is 15 years old and lives in the Piñalito Norte neighborhood, deep in the Misiones jungle. While his rural school teacher assigns him a practical project related to the Malvinas conflict, his father and brothers involve him in a nighttime outing in the woods. They are armed with rifles and shotguns. They are searching for intruders who threaten to occupy their land and exploit it illegally.

Newborns

2014 • 8 min • India

Laxmi Agarwal, a human rights activist and a survivor of acid violence, gazes back at us, as we contemplate together, the meaning of memory and loss. What does it mean to survivors of acid violence? What does it mean to people in their environment? How do the two world-views interact? What do concepts of 'fear', 'power', 'innocence' and 'beauty' mean to us? The Newborns attempts to provide a lens to the survivors of acid violence, to look forward and gaze back. They take us through the ennui of their domestic and public spaces in a nameless dystopian city, its factories, houses and motels, and its promises, never honored.

Le moment et la manière

2014 • 59 min • France

The Runner

2014 • 6 min • Croatia, Slovenia

First breath is a decision. Each subsequent breath is a struggle for a goal still not in sight. A struggle for life. He is a former professional runner. A marathon runner. He reveals his suffering, pain and effort which are crucial elements of each and every race.

Heavy Mental

2014 • 52 min • United States of America

The lack of snow in much of the world, and a lack of snowpack stability in most other places, made this winter exceptionally challenging. Mentally and otherwise. A bit like a riddle, a maze, and a game of chicken rolled into one. With heavy consequences for not playing at the very top of your game. Lucky for you, (and for Absinthe) we were at the right place at the right time. But that would be a long and weird name for a movie, so we decided to call this one HEAVY MENTAL. You will be rocked. Riders include Victor De Le Rue, Austen Sweetin, Bode Merrill, Jason Robinson, Mat Schaer, Wolfgang Nyvelt, Manuel Diaz, Victor Daviet, Johnnie Paxson, Romain De Marchi, Blair Habenicht, Scot Brown, Ozzy Henning, Rusty Ockenden, Nils Arvidsson, Mathieu Crepel, Sylvain Bourbousson, Helen Schettini, and Mike Basich

layover

2014 • 6 min • United States of America

A swan song for the factory age. Every autumn, a South America-bound colony of Vaux’s Swifts numbering in the tens of thousands enjoy a layover in a Portland, Oregon elementary school chimney. Sunset brings a vortex of swirling shapes, whose each tiny piece combines to form a hypnotic, ever-changing pattern; an equinoctial rhythm beats in every swoop of the organic overhead spiral. The defunct industrial chimney is our own demise, and yet the relentless, fluid choreography of the tiny migrants signals a new start, the turning wheel.

Wrapped

2014 • 5 min

The deterioration of one is the foundation of another one's life. The world with it`s never-ending interplay of eating and being eaten, takes on new dimensions when the unexpected forces of nature clash with the existing structures of our civilization. What was meant for eternity, melts away in seconds. The only constant is change.

Guida

2014 • 12 min • Brazil

Guida, a sweet lady who has been working as an archivist at a Courthouse for 30 years, has her routine changed when she sees a newspaper ad about life drawing classes in a cultural center of the city.

Lost Property

2014 • 6 min • United Kingdom

When you lose something dear to your heart, there is only one place it can be found. The Lost Property office.

So Many Forests

2014 • 4 min • France

The short film is based on a poem by Jacques Prévert. The poem speaks of the irony of the fact that the newspaper warns us about deforestation although they are made of paper themselves.

Las leyendas del surfing en Puerto Rico

2014 • 26 min • Puerto Rico

Interviews with the pioneers of surfing in Puerto Rico in the decade of the 60, including legend surfer Jorge Machuca.

Pourquoi les femmes sont-elles plus petites que les hommes ?

2014 • 52 min • France

All over the world, women are shorter than men on average. Even among Northern Europeans, currently the tallest people in the world, men are around 15 centimetres taller than women. However, there are animal species in which the females are taller than the males. Sexual dimorphism - the scientific term - also has some surprises in store: For example, female blue whales are larger than their male counterparts. As blue whales are the largest mammals in the world, this means that the largest animal in the world is female. So why are its human relatives so small? Scientists from France, Great Britain, Italy, Germany and the USA have investigated this highly interesting question. They tell a fascinating evolutionary story in which biology, medicine, paleoanthropology, nutritional science, sociology, obstetrics and gynecology interact and in which the female comes out on top.

Otro camino

2014 • 9 min • Puerto Rico

A man hears a mysterious voice that gives him instructions. He must decide whether to follow or ignore them, but also deal with the consequences.

Cloro

2014 • 18 min • Brazil

Under the blinding sun Clara struggles to see her family and the reality that surrounds her.

The Revolution Hunter

2014 • 11 min • Portugal, United Kingdom

It all started with a picture taken in 1974 in Lisbon, just after the Portuguese Revolution. She, the Revolution Hunter, tries to enter in that picture as if she could enter into a time she didn't belong and finally understand what it means to be part of a revolution or what it means to fight for a country. A film that explores the relationship between two generations, two different times and two different fights. As if we could transform a photograph by drawing on it. As if we could transform the present by drawing over the past.

Music for the Chosen

2014 • 11 min • Argentina

During a rainy night on their apartment, two girls hear the notes of a piano vibrating on the upper floor. One of them goes upstairs to find out where the melody comes from and faces a series of paranormal events.

The Fish and I

2014 • 6 min • Iran

A blind man tries to save the life of his goldfish.

Tigran

2014 • 52 min

This film tells the story of an obsession a young mans obsession with music. World-renowned, maverick pianist Tigran Hamasyan makes unconventional jazz music that fascinates the greatest players and unsettles the purists. The director sweeps us along from the United States to Europe to Armenia and to France looking into the roots of this ever-searching artist. Tigran draws his inspiration as much from rock metal and jazz as from an insatiable thirst for the history and the musical folklore of his country. This intimate journey lets emotions surge from the wrestling game between the man and his music.

A Night before the Wedding

2014 • 18 min • South Korea

A Night before the Wedding, I Pack My Things.

Stevie

2014 • 18 min • United States of America

'Stevie' is a coming-of-age story about a small-town tomboy who experiences romance for the first time when a young man, Justin, and his sister, Angie, move into town. She is pursued by Justin, and, with pressure from her younger, girly-girl sister, agrees to go out with him, but is surprised by the feelings she has for Angie after they all spend a night out together.

Fireworks

2014 • 19 min • Indonesia

It's new year's eve, and a man takes a taxi to go to the birthday party of the girl of her dreams in Jakarta.

Pussy Riot and other sins

2014 • 52 min • Austria, Germany

"Puss Riot and other sins" - The Putin system is taking on more and more features of the Soviet system. The big fear and paranoia returns.