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Pelican Radio

2014 • 14 min

A Jim Drain film

Honto ni Atta! Noroi No Video Vol.57

2014 • 55 min • Japan

57th entry in the popular "Honto ni Atta. Noroi no Video" series.

Anatomie

2014 • 9 min • Canada

A white room. The aging bodies of actors Gilles Pelletier and Françoise Graton testify to a love that has triumphed over time and a captivating lover's dialogue emerges between two octogenarian bodies defying inertia, old age and death. With music by the group Forêt, this sensuous short film depicts the tremblings of desire and the most elemental components of love.

Kubitsuri Yokocho

2014 • 18 min

30 years old junkie, Toshiro is addicted to a synthetic drug called « Limbo », Toshiro must complete a mission for his dealer in a neighborhood of Tokyo. An area under the order of a curfew for several months due to stranges homicides. The police are in search of a serial killer but the local population is convinced that the killer is all but human.

Brasil

2014 • 14 min • Brazil

This is an exiting night in the life of Nelson and Lucas. They are preparing to march to the government hall. Nelson is a elite squad police officer. Lucas, his brother, prepares posters and Molotov cocktail to ignite the crowds.

Persuadido

2014 • 10 min • Puerto Rico

A boy suffers a stroke. The doctor and his mother discuss his current state: if he wakes up, he won't be able to walk again. His mother, however, is still hopeful.

Hymn to Pan

2014 • 17 min

The tearaway love affair of Farren, a reckless young drunk with nothing to lose, and Holliday, a naive young girl too eager to grow up.

40 Minutes

2014 • 12 min • United States of America

Joey's life is turned upside down after his parents discover his secret relationship with another boy and send him to reparative therapy to address the 'unnatural' feelings that threaten their image of a happy life. In a forty-minute hypnotherapy session, Joey's mind is explored by a therapist who is confident that his influence over Joey's thoughts can set him on the right path. At an age with little autonomy or voice in the matters of his own life, Joey struggles to find a way to choose for himself what will lead him to happiness.

The Reindeer People

2014 • 45 min • Russia

The Chukchi reindeer breeders are peculiar people. They are nomads. Reindeers are their welfare, the purport of life. The mother-reindeer is the main divine being; it protects the Chukchi from misfortune and troubles. Nature is not friendly towards people here. Only Chukchi can survive in Tundra. A rush period for the Chukchi reindeer breeders comes in winter, when the temperature rises up to 50 degrees Celsius at night and in the sunlight of the day it doesn't exceed 40 degrees Celsius in tundra: they should separate young deers from the rest of the herd, the weak from the strong. And this, considering that the herds of the Chukchi reindeer breeders number some thousand heads...

Open

2014 • 8 min • United Kingdom

Jess comes into "Gay's The Word" (the first Gay and Lesbian bookshop that opened in London) where she meets Leah for the first time. They coincidentally meet by the same bookcase over three days. What sparks is a romantic awkward chemistry between the two, transpired by Jess' curiosity in Leah and the chance for an artistic and sexual liberation possibly waiting for her at the end.

Presenten från morfar

2014 • 13 min • Sweden

A pleasant game night with three best friends ends with death horror and unimaginable events.

Talitha Koum

2014 • 19 min

“Isn’t the moment of liberation coming soon?” (From Anne Frank’s monologue) She spends most of her time sleeping in her room. One day, upon waking up from a dream about her dead aunt, she finds out about an audition being held for the play Anne Frank. She believes that this is the implication of her aunt message “Talitha Koum (Wake up, girl)” and makes it her mission to play the role of Anne Frank.

Axe in the Face

2014 • 19 min • United States of America

A murder mystery unfolds at a halloween party.

Aliens Night

2014 • 8 min • Italy

The story of a close encounter between a young scientist and some aliens just arrived on the earth.

Third Temple

2014 • 28 min • Israel

In Israel, in the years following the events of the Social Protest of summer 2011 and the events that followed, life has become more and more difficult for the average citizen. Government corruption and the ever rising costs of living have forced people into a quiet protest, left with no choice but to generally accept the status quo. Eventually, something has to give. Israeli Independence Day 2017. Avner Peles wakes up in an unknown place, tied to a chair and his head covered. He has no idea how he got there or why. A stranger walks into the room and takes a seat in front of him. Avner has to find out why he is there and most importantly, how to get his freedom back.

Not a word about your mother

2014 • 15 min • Russia

Anna has a sweetheart and a beloved mother. An insane attachment to the mother, who doesn't want to let her daughter go, prevents her from a relationship whit the man, and gives her no chance to lead an independent life.

The Firm Basics - Abs, Buns & Thighs

2014 • 45 min

Master instructor Stacey Milner-Collins targets your most hard to tone problem areas: abdominals, buns & thighs. Enjoyable simple, low impact aerobic segments alternate with classic muscle toning routines and stretches to increase flexibility.

Personal Case

2014 • 37 min • Russia

Private Kornilov gets an order from his commanding officer to guard a military installation far away from base. They promise that he will be picked up in a week. When Kornilov arrives at the site he discovers that the only place he can sleep is the excavator that he is supposed to guard. A week passes, but nobody comes to pick him up…

Kingdom Comes: Rituals

2014 • 7 min • Germany

This is a large projection of aerial footage that has been shot by pigeons equipped with lightweight digital cameras. With heavy wind and the nervous flapping of wings the viewer gets only a fractured impression, though immediately identifiable, of a political demonstration.

Piano Destruction Concert: Dada con Mama

2014 • 50 min • Mexico

The concept of ritual-theater has been important since the early sixties in its production. It consists of the staging of violence through real acts that appeal to equally real and live emotions with an audience, that is, the action and the reaction that it provokes in the public happen simultaneously. This art of destruction represented by Raphael Montañez Ortiz is the theatricalization of a daily destruction, which we live in day to day.

Minotaur

2014 • 6 min • Canada

In this short animation, the archetypal hero takes a journey through seven stages: birth, childhood, mission, labyrinth, monster, battle and death/rebirth. Through purely abstract, moving images, the corresponding emotional states are conveyed: calm, love, joy, surprise, fear, anger/hate, and death/rebirth leading again to calm. The cycles continue until the stars burn out and there is nothing left. Minotaur was created stereoscopically in IMAX® Sandde (Stereoscopic ANimation Drawing Device) , the world's first freehand stereoscopic 3D animation software.

My Kid And Me

2014 • 20 min

A travel documentary about Casey and his son, Owen.

Normality

2014 • 15 min • Norway

Normality is a human state of good intentions, empathy, caring and wanting to do the best for those we love and the world at large.

Lit

2014 • 13 min • United States of America

Twenty-somethings Eva and Jessie meet at a bar at last call and embark on a late night odyssey around San Francisco. What seems like it may be a one night stand goes in a different direction when Eva reveals it's her last night drinking.