All Films

El Calipo

2014 • 8 min • Spain

Two friends discuss what it means to be sexy and desirable while eating popsicles on a hot day.

The Arrival

2014 • 45 min • United States of America

What would you do if the town you lived in was being visited by Unidentified Flying Objects? The town of Huron, Michigan is about to find out.

Habana

2014 • 22 min • France, Cuba

Havana is occupied by foreign forces and on the edge of civil war. Lazaro, a kid from the slums, walks us through his streets and reveals the chaos that has taken over the capital.

Mico Leão Voador em Ação no Velho Chico

2014 • 60 min • Brazil

The travel of the ambientalist Ernesto Galiotto throught the São Francisco River in Brazil, with his monomotor plane.

Kekasih

2014 • 9 min

A scientist tries to resurrect his late wife.

I am Bonnie

2014 • 45 min • India

Bonnie is on the run again. He has been on the run from his family and sports fraternity since failing a 'sex test' before the Bangkok Asian Games in 1998. Born intersex, raised by poor, illiterate and confused parents as a girl named 'Bandana', s/he became one of the finest strikers of Indian Woman's football team in her/his short career. A sex reassignment surgery later transformed her/him to a man but left him without a home or a career. He left home, took up idol-making for a living.He met Swati, married soon but moved once again fearing social backlash. His fight to establish his identity, struggle for existence met by a sarcastic society yet to learn to take 'other genders' seriously.

Duck, Death, and the Tulip

2014 • 6 min • United States of America

A story about friendship. A duck who acquaints a character called Death who, as it turns out, has been following her all her life. The two become friends, discussing life, death, and what any afterlife might be like.

(Orpheus) The Poetics of Finitude

2014 • 7 min

(Orpheus) The Poetics of Finitude deconstructs the myth of Orpheus using live action, animation, and text to create a visual poem.

Ex.Amen

2014 • 16 min • Russia

A prosperous Moscow banker came to take his son out of the school and met with himself and the ghosts of his childhood.

Falling Angels

2014 • 28 min • Denmark, Faeroe Islands

The young Julia – the priest's daughter – falls in love with the beautiful Barbara, who just moved to the island. A story about forbidden love and the hard choices it leads to.

Nefertitty in Space

2014 • 31 min

Nefertitty is back! In her most far out adventure ever as she blasts off into space to save the human race from the craziest cracker of them all; The Albino Queen from Aberdeen. Will Nefertitty be able to save the day before she becomes a zombie albino clone?

Lost Cubert

2014 • 5 min • Germany

Cubert's life is determined by work. Endless repetitions of the same tasks, dull routines, a perfect construction of monotony. Suddenly he is wrenched out of his daily grind and is confronted with a seemingly inescapable system. His quest for an exit leads him deep into a labyrinth of monotony - and to the bounds of his sanity.

The Committee

2014 • 15 min • United Kingdom

In “The Committee” 8 to 12 year old children explain how they decided to spend 7000 pounds. They discuss the process of decision making and the values guiding their decisions. The children are 11 regulars at a youth center in Bow, London, and were invited by the artist to spend her Emdash Award budget, normally aimed towards production of art work for Frieze Art Fair. The children were free to spend the money any way they wanted as well as to choose how to make decisions in a group.

The Lost Highway

2014 • 58 min • Canada

Once the main road between Toronto and Ottawa, Highway 7 is a black ribbon of failed businesses and derelict properties. Howard Gibbs's 80-year-old gas station needs new tanks or the inspectors will shut him down. He's desperate to lure his daughter back from the city to help carry on the family legacy. Next door, David and Linda, a couple who moved from the city, are set to open an upscale B&B. But what would lead them to build here, along a derelict stretch of the Trans-Canada Highway?

If the World Ends, Give Me a Call

2014 • 17 min

From Brussels to São Paulo, letters are sent to someone who never answers them and may not even receive them. With the streets collapsing and the police sirens ringing incessantly, a cry for help.

Every Day Love

2014 • 12 min • Belarus

Simple story about two Belarusian young people in love.

Princess

2014 • 8 min • Singapore

A heartwarming tale of Lucas, a Singaporean boy who faces up to his fears in the neighbourhood playground, and reunites his neighbour Angie with her lost doll.

Naranjas

2014 • 14 min

For Rosa, a peasant woman rooted in rural life, learning to drive a car at 55 years old is somewhat complex, but now it is hard to start but where to go.

How I Live, as You Wanted to Know

2014 • 15 min

One year after losing his wife, 82-year-old Norman meets a woman online. To entice her to visit, his grandson helps him shoot a video presenting his home.

Violet in Red Silk

2014 • 23 min • Canada

When Violet inherits a cabin by the lake after the death of her father she heads up to the cottage to take one more look. Unfortunately for Violet someone is waiting for her and this new guest is about to plunge Violet into a terrifying nightmare that goes deeper than she could have ever imagined.

And You Thought You Knew Me

2014 • 52 min

Told through the stories of five People Assigned Gender Female at Birth (PAGFB), set against the backdrop of Delhi; a tapestry of images and metaphors that invites one to re-engage with and rethink the notion of the other, or the ‘sexual deviant’.

Under The Water

2014 • 29 min

Xiao Liou has gone missing in a summer adventure in the woods with friends. Everyone wants to know what has happen to him, but the truth is buried deeply in the chirping of cicadas, in the babbling brooks, and in the children’s guilty minds.

Hallowed Ground

2014 • 16 min • United States of America

What if all your beliefs, Heaven, Hell , God, Life, everything you believed in was called into question? What if you began to doubt your very soul? Hallowed Ground goes where no other film will.

The Man with a Dog

2014 • 27 min • France, Morocco

On the Moroccan coast, a man's yellow labrador is stolen while he swims. Distraught, he goes to extreme lengths to retrieve him, aided and hindered by numerous strangers in the city, all with their own agendas.