All Films

Sermon of the Serpent

2014 • 16 min • United States of America

In southern West Virginia, Pastor Mack Wolford leads one of the few remaining snake handling churches in the United States. His family is deeply tied to the faith. Mack was a child when he lost his father to a rattlesnake bite during a church service. This 15 minute documentary takes an atmospheric storytelling approach to illustrate the faith, beauty and sacrifice of Pastor Wolford's beliefs. The preacher is fully aware of the dangers of handling venomous snakes. He and his family are willing to stake their lives on their faith.

Behinderte Ausländer

2014 • 45 min • Germany

Emre and Laura are working on a project. They actually only know each other from the bus stop. Emre is a young wheelchair user of Turkish descent. Exactly what Laura was looking for. She wants to write her master's thesis in sociology about him. Emre, on the other hand, wants, above all, to meet the pretty student again. So he agrees. From then on, the two meet regularly. The university project is sometimes difficult to distinguish from flirtation, and Laura's "scientific" questions contribute to this: "Have you ever been in a relationship?" - "I'm a virgin. But I can do it, right?"

Happy Bogeys

2014 • 18 min • Japan

Mysterious lifeforms “Happy Bogeys” appear and change shape and form. Do their mysterious words and actions mean anything? This little gem makes you feel happy.

遠くの水

2014 • 23 min • Japan

Yukiko comes to Tokyo from Ehime and continues to live in a place where she knows nobody. One day, she happens to meet a young man who comes and goes from her workplace.

No Strike Without Old Man

2014 • 24 min • Serbia

Documentary film about Dedice (Granddads), the worst music group of all time!

Lost

2014 • 14 min • Belgium

Two sisters try to survive the war by isolating themselves inside the house after their parents have disappeared. Through strange messages and clues, they try to figure out where their parents have gone.

Not Getting Stoned with Andrew Bujalski

2014 • 20 min

Caveh gets stoned. Andrew doesn't.

A House In Fog

2014 • 22 min • Iran

Mokhtar Namdar’s documentary ‘A House in Fog’ recounts the story of Soraya, who lives a life of solitude in a mansion in a hilly landscape. The house is the only reason she tolerates all the hardships of living alone in the wilderness.

Constable: A Country Rebel

2014 • 58 min • United Kingdom

The Haywain by John Constable is such a comfortingly familiar image of rural Britain that it is difficult to believe it was ever regarded as a revolutionary painting, but in this film, made in conjunction with a landmark exhibition at the V&A, Alastair Sooke discovers that Constable was painting in a way that was completely new and groundbreaking at the time. Through experimentation and innovation, he managed to make a sublime art from humble things and, though he struggled in his own country during his lifetime, his genius was surprisingly widely admired in France.

Nikola Tesla's Secret Laboratory

2014 • 11 min • Croatia

A scientist Nikola Tesla is working in his underground secret laboratory. He is trying to build a robot but after some time abandons the project and the lab. At one point, the robot unexpectedly wakes up. He is an inventor himself, he tidies up the lab and starts working but soon he feels bored and lonely and proceeds to change that.

Doug Benson: Doug Dynasty

2014 • 60 min • United States of America

Doug Benson brings his weed laced comedy to Seattle's Neptune Theater for his first ever hour long comedy special.

The Old Tree

2014 • 11 min • Iran

An old man is living with his young son in a modest wooden house on dry and barren agricultural land. His son wants to sell the land and the house, but the old man refuses to leave his interests behind. This unresolvable conflict cannot be spoken of and inevitably leads to a resolution perpetrated by subterfuge.

Starship Exeter: The Tressaurian Intersection

2014 • 60 min

The captain and crew of the Federation Starship USS Exeter are confronted with an incursion into Federation Space by Tressaurians. Can the crew of the Exeter stop them?

Phil Wang: Anti-Hero

2014 • 56 min • United Kingdom

Phil Wang promises us intellectually justified dick jokes – and delivers.

Autana: The Sacred Mountain

2014 • 24 min • Australia

We leave civilization behind and enter a world of ancient indigenous cultures, rainforests, and roaring rivers. We are navig the Orinoco upstream to discover the wonders of the Amazon forest, to find a magical Tepui, Autana, the sacred tree of all fruits.

Torment

2014 • 6 min • Australia

Torment follows a boy (Kadin Gervalla) is haunted by a mysterious figure (Chloe Dowling) and investigates the clues she leaves him to find out why.

Light & Sound

2014 • 24 min

Soli is a well known musician and singer who was forced to leave Iran after the revolution in 1979 when pop music got banned by the regime. Soli went through many difficulties in exile, driving a cab for many years in Toronto, yet continuing his work as a musician, finding a new style of mystical and traditional music. The docudrama is a poetic, musical film about exile, mysticism and traditional music.

The Food Fascist

2014 • 30 min • Hong Kong

Legendary chef Mo Yik-Tin is notorious for turning animals into spectacular dishes – tastes always rule over lives under the butcher's knife. Equally thoughtful and fascist, Mo is a fascinating mentor in the eyes of his apprentice. In subtle tension with the TV programme's host, Mo is poised to present his greatest culinary dishes which set off an intense debate with the programme host. A reflection on the general public's food-obsessed culture and celebrity worship, this feature also highlights human's decadence and corrupt excess through the aesthetics of food.

The Children of Scaramouche

2014 • 57 min • France

Dive into a danced dream in this film by François Roussillon! Inspired by José Martinez’s three-act ballet Les enfants de Scaramouche (a choreography on music by Darius Milhaud that premiered in 2010), this 2014 filmed adaptation highlights the incredible talents of the young students of the Paris National Opera’s Dance School. Roussillon reframes Martinez’s work within a larger story of a boy named Enzo who dreams of becoming an Étoile dancer. He and his young friends at the Nanterre School take over the stage of the Palais Garnier, dancing the story of Scaramouche with a carefree excitement that captures the heart and delights the eyes!

Aftershock

2014 • 15 min • Philippines

Tom's life is crumbling after his lover broke up with him, after losing his job he attempted to kill himself several times but is always foiled by a series of natural and supernatural forces. He eventually realized that there is more to life than love.

Sam and Gus

2014 • 8 min • United States of America

The lives of two boys. Life is innocent when you're young, then age begins to complicate everything.

The Bigger Picture

2014 • 8 min • United Kingdom

'You want to put her in a home; you tell her; tell her now!' hisses one brother to the other. But Mother won't go, and their own lives quickly unravel as she clings to life. Director Daisy Jacobs uses two-metre-high painted characters in full-size sets to tell the stark and darkly humorous tale of caring for an elderly relative. The Bigger Picture is quite simply the most innovative animated short you will see this year.

Cursed Mask

2014 • 60 min • Japan

A horror documentary that approaches the mystery of the most evil cursed mask that brings misfortune to those involved, introduced on TV. The magazine reporter who was interviewed was seriously injured, and the people involved suffered misfortune one after another, and now the full picture of the cursed mask sealed in the temple in Kyoto is revealed.

Papa Machete

2014 • 11 min • United States of America, Haiti

Papa Machete is an intimate account of 'Professor' Alfred Avril, one of the world's only known masters of the esoteric martial art of Haitian machete fencing, known in Creole as 'Tire Machet'. The film documents a proud, but aging man's devotion to his heritage and his desire to continue tradition.