All Films

Gypsie Eyes

2014 • 12 min • Portugal

Rhoma Acans is a journey of self-discovery undertaken by the director in order to understand the true identity weight of her Gypsy heritage, from the history of his own family to the way it moves away or approaches the story of a young gypsy inside the tradition – Her name is Joaquina.

A Documentary Proposal

2014 • 44 min

Films Division, decides to make a documentary film on the renowned filmmaker Mrinal Sen. Officials from the Films Division go to Mrinal Sen’s house in Kolkata to officially propose the making of the documentary film on him.

Coro dos Amantes

2014 • 23 min • Portugal

Chorus is film about death, absence and how close they are to us. Based on a theater play by Tiago Rodrigues.

Faces of Emmanuelle

2014 • 28 min • Canada

An exploration of the VHS medium and the subterranean trash which thrived in it. Using source material from Emmanuelle 6, this DVD-R/VHS further blurs the line between low and high art. Beautiful cinematography coupled with smut. Strategic pauses and tracking errors guides the viewer to discover the true depth and sadness of the seemingly one-dimensional Emmanuelle. Soaring arpeggio synths and pulsating rhythms by Rob Feulner. The utter destruction of arguably the most beautiful film never seen, lost and forgotten on the shelf of your local video store, behind the cowboy doors or dangling beads. Written off as pornography by most, written off as too soft by creeps. This is the plight of Emmanuelle.

Travailen

2014 • 27 min

The Drakensberg Grand Traverse is the mother of all ‘Berg hikes. From Sentinel car park in the north to Bushman’s Nek Border Post in the south it’s roughly 220 kilometres across the main range. A trek that takes a strong hiker anywhere between six to 10 days to complete. Ryan Sandes and Ryno Griesel are planning to run it in less than three days. To rightfully claim the title they have to travel on foot, carrying all their own gear without receiving any form of support along the way. It’s just them against the mountain elements. Against the clock.

Bim Bam Boom, Las Luchas Morenas

2014 • 12 min • United States of America, Denmark, Mexico

Bim Bam Boom Las Luchas Morenas, is about three Mexican sisters, professional wrestlers, whose lives, lived according to their own ideas, are a struggle but also a lot fun.

Zembrocal

2014 • 32 min • France

From America, England, France, Italy and Japan. From each corner of the earth, five climbers – Sam Elias, James Pearson, Caroline Ciavaldini, Jacopo Larcher and Yuji Hirayama – attempt to open a new multi-pitch route on the basalt island of Reunion. Lost in the South Indian Ocean, Reunion is the childhood home of Caroline and, after traveling the world for several years as a professional climber, returning was something she had to do. By working together as climbers and friends, the team is able to open, ground-up, one of the hardest multi-pitch rock climbs in the world.

Movie for Two

2014 • 3 min • Slovenia

We see the film title card on screen and sound is coming from the cinema, but the screen is black. The filmmaker hands a cellphone with video to two sitting in front of the crowd. The image of the film plays on the phone for those who can see it in the crowd as the audio comes through the cinema speakers.

Yearbook

2014 • 5 min • United States of America

A man is hired to compile the definitive history of human existence before the planet is blown up by aliens.

Sean

2014 • 12 min

The story of Arizona teenager Sean - a small-town skate enthusiast with dreams of making it big.

Come Hell or High Water: The Battle for Turkey Creek

2014 • 56 min • United States of America

When the graves of former slaves are bulldozed in Mississippi, a native son returns to protect the community they settled - a place now threatened by urban sprawl, hurricanes and an unprecedented man-made disaster.

Feminists Insha'allah! The Story of Arab Feminism

2014 • 52 min • France

The struggle for Muslim women’s emancipation is often portrayed stereotypically as a showdown between Western and Islamic values, but Arab feminism has existed for more than a century. This groundbreaking documentary recounts Arab feminism’s largely unknown story, from its taboo-shattering birth in Egypt by feminist pioneers up through viral Internet campaigns by today’s tech-savvy young activists during the Arab Spring.

Beauty

2014 • 10 min • Italy

A short story of the most important emotions of life, from birth to death, love and sexuality through pain and fear. It is a tribute to art and his disarming beauty.

Dark Noir

2014 • 4 min • Brazil, United States of America

My name is Vincent Black. I’m a cursed man, I see things other people can’t…Damned from the day is was born, found on the streets with the rats. But I’ve always been one step ahead. I can see the world of ideas and the daemon creatures that live in it.

The Death of a Security Guard

2014 • 25 min • Taiwan

A security guard has died while patrolling a residential community. His family suspect that it might be a suicide driven by a broken heart. As it is reported all over the media, rumors begin to circulate on the Internet. However, will the "truth" ever be found?

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...