All Films

Five Minutes of Friendship

2014 • 10 min • Germany

National People's Army soldier Ralf Schaller is on patrol along the border for the first time with his strict supervisor. When this suddenly leaves the prescribed path he sees himself forced to act.

Proof

2014 • 6 min

All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream.

Immaculate Heart

2014 • 10 min

A practice in self-worship through fervent sighs

Symphony No. 42

2014 • 10 min • Hungary

The film applies an unconventional narrative. It presents a subjective world through 47 scenes. The small events, interlaced by associations, express the irrational coherence of our surroundings. The surreal situations are based on the interactions of humans and nature.

Showfolk

2014 • 23 min • United States of America

A Vaudeville comedian still working at 100, a stunning siren who dated Reagan when he was a Democrat, a kid out of college who sold The Ten Commandments around the world, a Disney legend who met Walt when she was a little girl and spent her life with Mickey Mouse: these showbiz vets share wisdom and inspiration garnered over seven lifetimes in the business. Residing together at the Motion Picture & Television Fund home, these entertainment lifers are "bonded by the show". These, ladies and gentlemen, are Showfolk.

Motu Maeva

2014 • 43 min • France

A portrait of Sonja, adventurer of the twentieth century, living on an island that she built by herself: Motu Maeva.

Der Ritter

2014 • 40 min • Canada

In 2009, four aspiring filmmakers set out into the woods of southwestern Ontario. They never returned. Join director Ronnie, sound guy Devon and actors Alex and Mike as they are tormented by the infamous Slender Man. Special Features: -Trailer -'Behind The Scenes' Featurette

Malacreanza: From the Diary of a Broken Doll

2014 • 58 min • Switzerland, Italy, Germany

When Anna awakes one morning at this place without time nothing was as before. She found herself being controlled by a strange force. Controlling her body, her mind and her soul.

Recuerda esto

2014 • 6 min • Mexico

On the outskirts of Valle del Conejo, Rafael stops the car and reveals he has kidnapped Daniel and has him inside the trunk of his car, both of them will go into the forest to deal with some personal issues.

Fireworks (Archives)

2014 • 7 min • Thailand

This film depicts Bunleua Sulilat’s temple/sculpture garden 'Sala Keoku', located in northern Thailand. Passages of blackness sporadically dissolve under the fitful internal illumination of sparklers, which light up to reveal Sulilat’s unorthodox temple populated with a fantastical concrete menagerie of beasts and figures; the sculptures range from the broad, whale-like contours of a frog’s face, to a cavalcade of dogs on mopeds, to a pair of skeletons partially embracing as if sitting for a double portrait. These images are interspersed with those of an older Thai couple mysteriously wandering around the temple like wraiths, the woman’s plodding progress hampered by the use of crutches.

Smoky Mountain Explorer - Seasons of the Smokies

2014 • 35 min • United States of America

The second film in the Smoky Mountain Explorer Series, produced by the Great Smoky Mountains Association, Seasons of the Smokies showcases four seasons of life in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. View astonishing footage of wildlife, wildflowers and vibrant leaves as the seasons change-all in one of the most biologically diverse places in North America.

Mar de Fogo

2014 • 8 min • Brazil

In 1930, the Brazilian filmmaker and poet Mario Peixoto produced a masterpiece of Brazilian film history, the two hour long silent film Limite, inspired by European expressionist and avant-garde cinema. In 2014, Joel Pizzini paid homage to the film, and in particular its filmmaker, by creating a film montage using images from Limite and additional documentary material of interviews from the 1970s and 1980s. Mario Peixoto never finished another film, even though he continued to work on diverse projects. Mar de Fogo also features a freely imagined new sequence for Peixoto’s next, but never completed film as envisaged by Joel Pizzini. He tries to invoke Peixoto’s vision while making Limite and to visually explore the feeling he had when he had the inspiration for the film.

Black Cloud

2014 • 19 min • Switzerland

The world of the favela Reboleira is coming to an end. A motorway project is threatening this little village in the heart of Lisbon. Alternating documentary segments on the local history with narratives by various inhabitants, the film captures a vulnerable way of life, in danger of imminent disappearance.

Rebecca

2014 • 28 min • Germany

Rebecca has recently split up with Ben. She now lives in the shared flat of her best friend sleeping on the sofa in a walk-through room. Rebecca is restless, walking through the streets of the big city, drifting. Rebecca goes to see her father in a nursing home almost every day. She meets Philipp but she does not really know herself what is going on between the two of them.

Monkey Love Experiments

2014 • 9 min • United Kingdom

A misguided monkey believes he is destined for the moon.

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.