All Films

Our Mobile Lives

2014 • 58 min

Five Salt Lake City residents are followed for a "day in the life" of modern cell phone use. Participants and experts weigh in on the uses, perception, and top issues that presently define "Our Mobile Lives."

A Long Way Home

2014 • 15 min

An everyday teenager feels like he is alone in the world. His own family neglects him nobody likes him, and he has no friends. One day, when a new boy comes to school, he sees his chance at a friendship. He starts to see a glimmer of hope, but future events cause his life to take a turn for the worse.

Cut-Out

2014 • 8 min • United Kingdom

A man is haunted by a psychopathic missing person's leaflet.

Por derecho

2014 • 10 min • Argentina, Ecuador

A modest law firm receives a somewhat ambiguous assignment regarding some properties from a mysterious foreigner, apparently of American origin. One of the partners is struck by the opaque nature of the case and decides to take some time to investigate. He eventually discovers that the foreigner was English and that it is a scheme to seize a house belonging to an Argentine family.

Un juego del silencio

2014 • 10 min • Argentina, Cuba

A group of children, still in their early years, gather together to share a moment of play. They all agree that they are going to play war, more precisely, the Falklands War. They divide into two sides: Argentine and English, paint their flags, choose their weapons, and take up positions. It is only a game, but as time goes by, something of the tragic dimension of the events that marked Argentine history will take root in their consciousness.

What is Stop Motion?

2014 • 1 min • France

Stop motion short film explaining what stop motion is, specially made for an exhibition about STOP MOTION which is presented by Art Brutal at Annecy for the International Animation Film Festival 2014.

Stunde Null: Die Kunstbewegung ZERO

2014 • 53 min • Germany

A documentary about art movement ZERO.

Aquele Abraço

2014 • 14 min • Brazil

They came by bike, on foot, by bus, in trailers... They crossed deserts, crossed the continent, slept on the streets, in hotels and in the favelas. Armed with their cameras, thousands of travelers traveled around Rio de Janeiro without spending much money and experienced the World Cup as a big party. Constructed entirely from images taken by the tourists themselves, the short film shows the Rio de Janeiro they discovered and the adventures of experiencing the other side of the World Cup.

Blood Lake

2014 • 8 min • Canada

Three teenagers decide to hang out on an island. Unbeknownst to them, a killer is running loose, hacking and slashing anyone in sight.

Titans of the Earth

2014 • 15 min

It has never a camera crew managed as close to document the social behavior of excavators in the wild: The Birth of the small crawler excavator is simply sensational and worth seeing. The film by Oliver Seiter captures the aesthetics of animal documentaries a masterly and transports you to a world of art who wanted you so never see.

Whiffed Out

2014 • 12 min • United States of America

An abandoned bicycle in a narrow hallway ruins an anxious New Yorker's summer, while his shifty friend hopes to stave off eviction from a charity foundation's apartment by getting hired as a pizza deliveryman.

100 Apples

2014 • 28 min • Taiwan

A Taiwanese art student seeks to understand his sexuality while coping with the imminent departure of a man who is his both his teacher and close friend.

Legend of the Chained Oak

2014 • 30 min • United Kingdom

When a local writer begins to investigate Oakamoor's mysterious chained Oak, the chance find of a seventeenth-century journal detailing the reasons for the Oaks chaining throws a new and terrifying light on the popular legend. Accounts of human sacrifice, witchcraft, and warnings of a curse placed on the village by a woman named Mabel Othan litter the tattered pages. An enthusiastic and experienced team is hastily formed and begin to investigate the journals outlandish claims. However, as they begin to dig deeper into the myth and folklore that surrounds the Oak, a series of chilling events lead the team to believe that maybe the horrifying claims of witchcraft and human sacrifice made by the journal hold an element of truth after all.

Return at Dawn

2014 • 19 min • Ukraine

This story is about a father and son who have different views on the future and different ideas about life.

Mictlan

2014 • 6 min • France

Topographical video born from the meeting of a tunnel located at Hamburg (Germany) and Mictlan, the Aztec underworld. Circular and underground journey towards the dematerialization.

Mermaid

2014 • 9 min

A success story of a gay entertainer.

Out of Sight II

2014 • 52 min • France

Out of sight will take you on a journey from an unusual perspective, the forest of fontainebleau as you have never seen it. World class climbers like Nalle Hukkataival, Jan Hojer, Jimmy Webb, Guillaume Glairon-Mondet, Ashima Shiraishi and lisa Chulich, take on the hardest blocs in the forest as well as some of the more known problems, The locals Charles, Caroline Sinno make you see thats its not only hard boulders but having fun and climbing easier problems for the pleasure, And Jacky Godoffe, the true bleausard takes you to the areas that are true to his hart. Interviews from each of the climbers are in English

The Summer of Gods

2014 • 21 min • Brazil

A troubled young girl named Lilly unites with her Afro-Brazilian religious ancestry on a summer visit with family to their ancestral village in rural Northeast Brazil. Soon after her arrival, she encounters Orishas (African Gods) who join with her grandmother to help her find peace with a gift that has previously vexed her.

Buddy

2014 • 11 min • Norway

Kent only has his buddy Thomas, but that doesn't mean he is a good friend for that reason. But today something happens that will change their relationship forever.

Try to Die Young

2014 • 20 min • France

It's birthday time. Drifting through the dark night, Vincent and Hervé are looking for something to do. You only turn 25 once.

Dancers

2014 • 10 min • Portugal, United Kingdom

Thirty-five Portuguese dancers undress in front of the camera. They become the object of desire with a sensual provocative performance. Eclectic dance disciplines help this film to explore an exhibitionist view of the male nude. This is a statement about the current financial situation in Portugal and the lack of fundings to support artistic initiatives.

Liberdade Condicional

2014 • 15 min • Portugal

Five low-life people find themselves trapped in a public toilet.

20 Desenhos e um Abraço

2014 • 7 min • Portugal

A fish looses itself from a sandwich and thus starts a graphical journey.

Threatened

2014 • 22 min • Brazil

Deep in Brazil, where law and justice require first and last name, the struggle for a piece of land becomes a matter of life or death. "Threatened" shows peasants in the South and Southeast of Pará, who have to fight for a piece of land for farming and living.