All Films

American Pharaoh

2014 • 54 min • United States of America

Follows Bradley - only the third American coach to manage a foreign team - his wife, Lindsay, his staff and his players. In gaining access to the training camps and providing in-depth coverage of the Pharaohs' games in Africa, the filmmakers document the team's personal and professional struggles to keep their eyes on the prize of getting to the World Cup while living in and representing a country in turmoil.

Wadjemup: Black Prison White Playground

2014 • 58 min

Black Prison White Playground. Wadjemup/Rottnest Island. A beautiful place that is culturally and spiritually significant to Aboriginal people. And also a site where gross harm took place and hundreds of Aboriginal men are buried in unmarked graves.

Krähenzeit

2014 • 51 min • Mexico

The film tells the story of Martin S., his return to Dresden, which he left more than 20 years ago. He discovered some film materials of his own that he shot in 1988, and came upon his files held by the State Security where there was information given by a person which contained details that could only be known by his then first love. So begins his search and questioning about his memories and testing believed reality.

And the Wind Falls

2014 • 20 min

The theft of a large sum of money belonging to a guest found dead threatens a motel housekeeper's emerging sense of dignity and any chance she has of reuniting with her daughter.

From the Sky

2014 • 18 min

A peaceful father and troubled son struggle to live a nomadic life in their region of the Middle East. As US Predator drones patrol overhead, the men are forced to make difficult decisions when two militants visit their camp.

Naamkaran

2014 • 17 min • India

Naamkaran is a hindi word and it means The Naming and used in context of naming a child. Naamkaran tells the story of two sisters – one a pickpocket and the other a teacher by profession. Shot in Kolkata in winter, it follows the journey of the two sisters as their worlds collide to make ends meet. The teacher is looking for a good name for her son. She rejects names suggested by her pickpocket sister and ill father. It is interesting to see how she finalizes the name of her kid. Sen Sharma handles the quirky subject with a degree of authority, choosing not to dwell on drama and allowing events to narrate the story.

Tumba sin nombre

2014 • 10 min • Argentina, Paraguay

Ángela Ferrer lost her grandson during the Falklands War. A year has passed since the end of the war, and Ángela has not resigned herself to accepting her grandson's death, much less to not being able to visit his grave and pay him the tribute she considers more than deserved. Today, Ángela searches the cemetery for an abandoned grave that could serve as a space to visit her grandson. Finally, she decides on one that shows signs of neglect. She refurbishes it and leaves behind a small painting she made, in which we see a sailboat sailing across the sea. These visits take place weekly, while Ángela continues her daily routine, until one day they are suddenly interrupted.

Cheetahs of the Deep

2014 • 50 min • South Africa

Short-finned pilot whales are known as the "Cheetahs of the Deep" for their ability to dive at high speed to hundreds of metres in search of prey. This film documents the lives of these highly sociable mammals and reveals a complex social behavior which is unique to this species.

Occam's Razor

2014 • 24 min

"Occam's Razor" is a darkly comedic paranoid thriller that takes you deep inside the troubled mind of a hardcore conspiracy theorist.

Mammoths: Giants of the Ice Age

2014 • 46 min • Germany

Follow one mammoth expert as he traces the legendary giants from Africa to the Yukon.

Vampire

2014 • 13 min • Indonesia

On a Thursday night, Kipli and Kecap are starving. It is already past midnight and no more food stalls are open except Cak Iwan’s deep fried catfish stall located near a very haunted graveyard.

Mysterious

2014 • 13 min

Tahir's life is marked by a daring double life. He is fascinated by the wearing of the niqab, a cloth covering the face worn by some Muslim women, and finally decides to put on the dress. He is surprised by his son but before he can explain the incident, his wife appears and start a fight. But if he had to choose between tolerance and traditions, what would he choose?

Illustration : compostage

2014 • 3 min • France

Making compost means letting soil grow, letting life grow. It is the story of time passing and transforming a dying world into another, new, present, future, and fertile world. The phenomenon of composting, which takes an average of six months, is shown in a short film lasting just two and a half minutes. The "photo film" is composed of 1,500 individual photos, taken every two hours over a period of three months!

Peepers

2014 • 6 min

A couple fears they are being watched and find it impossible to eat soup.

Mitraa

2014 • 35 min • India

The film Based on the short story written by the renowned writer and novelist Vijay Tendulkar, set in the time of the struggle for Independence, is based on the life of a lesbian.

We Need Buoyancy

2014 • 10 min • Lithuania

Performance We Need Buoyancy - (work in progress) is apart of a longer artistic research with Asher Lev based on ecstatic practices. The video shot is taken in Collectif AuQuai in the frame of performance evening Solo Salon 2, 2014 December, Brussels.

Maasai

2014 • 17 min • Greece

A hospital's quiet waiting area becomes the setting for a confrontation between two brothers as they wait for their mother to come out of surgery.

From God's Mouth to Your Ears

2014 • 3 min

A collaboration with Charles Huettner

Meu Pai

2014 • 21 min • Brazil

Álvaro, 12 years old, is the only child of separated parents. He is in a phase of many doubts and concerns. He wants to grow up soon, but did his father take too long to grow up? What did the father do with the girls? It's difficult to ask, Alvaro's father has a strange way of saying things.

La Casita

2014 • 43 min • Argentina

Survivors of the last military dictatorship testify of their stay in “La casita”, one of the last clandestine torture and detention centers in the city of Santa Fe.

Big Bad Art

2014 • 30 min • United Kingdom

More "Animal House" than stuffy art doc, "Big Bad Art" is a hilarious romp through the Brooklyn art scene. Follow Andrew and his not-so-merry band of misfits as they race the clock to pull off one of the rowdiest "house parties" the New York art world has ever seen. Originally screened at film festivals with a runtime of 43 minutes, this new, punchier 30-minute cut is the first time the general public has been able to view the film. It has been several years in the making.

Focus

2014 • 1 min • Canada, Mexico

A 1-minute cart ride through the mental shopping mall of attention deficit disorder. Inspired by found sound of a shopper’s vlog, hand-drawn without a light table, and produced as part of the 10th edition of the NFB’s Hothouse apprenticeship.

Gospel of Anasyrma

2014 • 29 min • Georgia, Switzerland

Gabriel, a young Georgian man, has a love relationship with a transgender woman Amaia, who lives in the Tbilisi suburbs. Embedded in the reality of Georgia, their relationship is threatened. They are given over to the sheer strength of their feelings and are fragile in a violently hostile environment. A narrative of exemplary discreetness.

The Fairy Tale

2014 • 2 min

Impressions of the annual 28th October march in Greece.