All Films

Abyss

2014 • 2 min • Argentina

You get to the top ... and then?

La Película

2014 • 27 min • Mexico

Short documentary on the transition to digital cinema, focused on its impact on film preservation and memory. The film guides us through a film laboratory, from the processing of the negative to the copying of the positive film, and complements this journey with interviews to directors of photography, industry professionals and heads of film institutions.

Hot Water

2014 • 4 min • Belgium

A sober and intense picture about researching sexuality.

Like a Fairy Tale

2014 • 51 min • Japan

High school senior Shiho reminisces about her first love.

The Ouija Board Project

2014 • 36 min • United States of America

When a man plans a Ouija themed wedding proposal he doesn't expect dark forces to manifest.

Rebelote

2014 • 14 min • Switzerland

Marcel and Mila have recently split up. As every year, they're going to stay with Marcel's mother for Christmas in the south of France, where somehow they'll have to tell her the news.

Tangled Wire

2014 • 7 min

When two agents are set up against each other, they must decide whether to follow orders as usual or listen to their own voice of reason.

Never Ever

2014 • 29 min • France

An Easter weekend in a country town. On duty at the police precinct, lieutenants Francoise Ruiz and Clementine Arpinon are dealing with day-to-day matters. The ad hoc boredom arouses the tension between these two women that have very little in common. An intervention for disturbances of the peace at night gives them a chance to go beyond confrontation.

Traditional Healing

2014 • 2 min • Canada

A young woman dances in a devastated forest. Then a miracle occurs.

Have a Nice Trip, Dimitri!

2014 • 55 min • France

Wanting

2014 • 12 min • Chile

On a cold winter night, a taxi driver helps a young couple look for a love motel around Santiago Centro. As the search is prolonged into the early morning, the tedium of the situation pushes them to reconsider what they are searching, and what they ultimately want.

Insentient

2014 • 19 min • United States of America

Distraught and unable to move forward in life, a man enlists the help of his brother to take back an item from a woman who once held a special place in his heart.

Remain Unseen

2014 • 30 min

Two young women hide in an abandoned school to escape the consequences of one of their mistakes, only to be found by terror.

Narcisa

2014 • 60 min • Argentina

This documentary is an approach to the experience of seeing and listening to the trajectory of Narcisa Hirsch, a pioneer of Argentine experimental cinema, but who has also been part of the happenings and performances of the 1960s and 1970s.

To Catch A Trader

2014 • 53 min • United States of America

Inside the government’s crackdown on insider trading, drawing on exclusively-obtained video of hedge fund titan Steven A. Cohen, incriminating FBI wiretaps, and interviews with both Wall Street and Justice Department insiders. In November 2013, hedge fund giant SAC Capital agreed to plead guilty to what prosecutors called “insider trading that was substantial, pervasive, and on a scale without precedent in the history of hedge funds.” “To Catch a Trader” goes inside the suspenseful and compelling story of this unprecedented government investigation, as correspondent Martin Smith traces how an insatiable search for trading “edge” ultimately doomed some of the most successful names on Wall Street.

Freeman Velocity

2014 • 16 min

Brothers unsuspectingly connect as they chase down their stolen comic book and confront bullies.

Great Women: Sophia on Loren

2014 • 40 min

Sophia Loren's story told by Loren herself. The greatest Italian movie star of all time describes her life and career through a selection of the materials dating from between the fifties and the present day preserved in the archives of the Istituto Luce Cinecittà and the Rai. An exploration of the myth of a "unique" actor, relying exclusively on precious and sometimes rare archive footage, with a commentary in Loren's own words drawn from over half a century of interviews and firsthand accounts of the most important moments in her private life and her career. A documentary made to celebrate this great actor's eighty years and her immense charm and talent.

Survival Guide

2014 • 15 min

With a child abductor at large in the neighborhood, 11 year old Fleur Flannery must fend for herself when she is left behind after a Girl Guide meeting.

Cut to the Chase

2014 • 7 min • United States of America

A short film in the Inspirational category for the Richmond, VA edition of the 2014 48 Hour Film Project, Cut to the Chase follows two girls going on a date

Boxed in Blue

2014 • 15 min

After finding a forgotten blue box, John must decide whether to stick with his original plans or to chase after the girl who got away.

Ghosts of Amistad - In the Footsteps of Rebels

2014 • 56 min • Sierra Leone, United States of America

Ghosts of Amistad by Tony Buba is based on Marcus Rediker's The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom (Penguin, 2012). It chronicles a journey to Sierra Leone in 2013 to visit the home villages of the rebels who captured the slave schooner Amistad, to interview elders about local memory of the incident, and to search for the long-lost ruins of Lomboko, the slave trading factory where their cruel transatlantic voyage began. The filmmakers rely on the knowledge of villagers, fishermen, and truck drivers to recover a lost history from below in the struggle against slavery, and to explore the African origins of the heroes of the Amistad incident.

Fluke

2014 • 2 min

The story of a guy who could save the universe.

Love Always

2014 • 24 min

In 1942, a young woman fends off the fears and trials of war by reading the letters her lover sends home. When the letters stop coming, she falls into a secretive affair with the village postman, but his motives are not what they seem.

UMA Expeditionary party report

2014 • 60 min • Japan

'UMA' puts the spotlight on Tsuchinoko, Mosshi, and the Abominable Snowman.