All Films

Out of Norway

2014 • 43 min • Norway

In 'Out of Norway' Emanuel (from Imagining Emanuel 2011) is refused to travel from Norway back to Liberia. So now he must flee again - in the other direction! Follow his video diary, and you will see that it is not as simple as it seems.

The Burden of Being

2014 • 12 min

In the year 2061, where only one utilitarian race -- known as 'The Nation' -- is recognized, a Native American man is imprisoned for speaking his ancient tribal language.

The Hour

2014 • 24 min • Russia

The movie tells about the young woman in modern Moscow which is compelled to survive in the conditions of the rigid competition not only at work, but also in private life. The heroine doesn't manage to hear the desires in continuous vanity and diligence to keep in the megalopolis. Hurrying on protection of the project on which its future career depends, it nearly doesn't force down the small child who oddly has appeared on the carriageway. In attempt to find his parents, the heroine encounters a number of mystical coincidence, which lead to irreparable consequences. She gets up before a choice to live further or to lose everything and to remain the human.

Sugarcane, Coati and Monowheel

2014 • 26 min • Latvia

Nearly everybody has been to the circus to laugh about clowns, be afraid of the lions and to eat sugar cane. However, can anyone imagine that circus artists reside right there in the circus building - above the arena in the second floor hotel rooms - where they also prepare meals, do their laundry and try out their magic tricks? For over 125 years, despite the discomfort of non-renovated premises and ubiquitous animal odor, local and foreign circus artists follow their routine to create the circus miracle. Sugarcane, Coati and Monowheel is a film about those who dwell in Riga Circus and about what happens outside the arena before and after meeting audience under the circus dome.

Ram and Goat 2

2014 • 15 min • Kazakhstan

Horned Friends Set Out to Rescue Their Missing Owner. A comedic animated short about bravery and ingenuity.

Unspoken

2014 • 18 min • Norway

A mute girl and her boyfriend arrive at their idyllic summer place. Then a terrible incident occurs. Could those unspoken words change everything between them?

Red Christmas

2014 • 60 min • United States of America

I'm Tara, I like killing people! I've been doing it a long time now and realized there might be some folks that want to see what it's like. So I made this movie to show you all of the steps of how to brutally murder a person while never forgetting what the holidays are all about! This year, I'm dreaming of a Red Christmas!

Mother Earth

2014 • 30 min • Poland

Maciek is no longer a boy, but has not yet become a man. He wants to satisfy the ambitions of his father, and - as everyone in the family - be a butcher. But he is too sensitive to make an animal suffer. The boy directs all his warm feelings towards an old, neglected orchard - the only memory of his mother - and discovers his supernatural abilities.

O Poeta Americano

2014 • 10 min • Brazil

The boy runs after the ball. The worker builds concrete dreams between buildings and soccer balls in a lowland field in Recife. The poet receives a word ball, gives a literal stroke and makes an imaginary goal in this film about football, passion and poetry. João Cabral's America goes beyond the four lines of the field or paper, it transcends time and the field; update the memory to the fact that the love of football will not be volatile or ephemeral, neither in defeat nor in victory.

Frank Hvam - Inappropriate

2014 • 58 min

"I have always been inappropriate - more or less voluntarily - now I am again." It's Frank Hvam, as himself - a composite comedian, combining the lavkomiske with the gifted - an unpredictable mix of genitals and policy, seasoned with a highly developed sense of their own idiocy. "It's not because I like to provoke, but I am convinced that in the end it probably is very healthy to say things out loud. I get it every to trap better. " A classic stand-up show about what we all think, but few of us want to say out loud.

Swallowed By The Sea: Ancient Egypt's Greatest Lost City

2014 • 59 min

We all know about Alexandria, one of the greatest cities of the classical world, with its great Library and fabled Lighthouse. But Heracleion? A great port and religious centre at the mouth of the Nile, it was mentioned by the likes of Herodotus, but at some point it vanished, and its location became unknown.

Hipopotamy

2014 • 12 min • Poland

A few naked women and children are bathing in a river. They are being secretly observed by a group of men who, at one point, decide to approach them in a violent manner, as if inspired by the behaviour of hippopotamuses.

Liquid

2014 • 13 min • Japan

A woman brings her terminally ill lover to a mysterious place that she has heard can cure any illness, provided the client is a male.

Windowpane

2014 • 3 min • United Kingdom

A woman watches on from her bedroom window as a man drops his daughter off at his one-time marital home. As his daughter shuts the door, the man begins to contemplate his past behaviour and everything that he has subsequently lost.

The Lost Portrait of Bonnie Prince Charlie: A Culture Show Special

2014 • 60 min • United Kingdom

In 2009, art detective Dr Bendor Grosvenor caused a national scandal by proving that the Scottish National Portrait Gallery's iconic portrait of Bonnie Prince Charlie, the rebel Stuart who almost seized power in 1745, was not in fact him. Keen to make amends, and suspecting that a long-lost portrait of the prince by one of Scotland's greatest artists, Allan Ramsay, might still survive, Bendor decides to retrace Charles's journey in the hope of unravelling one of the greatest mysteries in British art.

Tabloid Workers

2014 • 56 min • Czech Republic

This documentary study of the mechanisms that turn the gears of the tabloids is conducted by the unique figure Pavel Novotný. This editor-in-chief of one of the most widely read Czech media outlets of the time, providing news from the world of show business and human misfortune, gets straight to the point. Readership is a fetish, an absolute alibi for all invasions of privacy and every transgression of good ethics. Seen up close, the whole cluster of disreputable reports looks like a staged tableau. Before the eager eyes of an anxious public, celebrities willingly or unwillingly perform acts that the scrutiny of the all-powerful tabloid workers attributes racy significance to.

Neal Brennan: Women and Black Dudes

2014 • 60 min • United States of America

"Women and Black Dudes" is the first Comedy Central one-hour stand-up special from comedian Neal Brennan. He delivers bold material that dives deep into issues of race and gender. Brennan brings real talk about women, black dudes, and more.

Memories of a World War II Hero: Captain Brown's Story

2014 • 52 min • United States of America

Tells the story of probably the world's greatest pilot through an extensive and in-depth interview: Capt Eric "Winkle" Brown CBE, DSC, AFC. From his flight with WW1 German fighter ace Ernst Udet in 1936 through to commanding a squadron of Buccaneers at the height of the Cold War, we hear how "Winkle" Brown experienced the rise and fall of Nazism; how he flew the most dangerous, uncontrollable aircraft, how he cheated death countless times.

In the clouds

2014 • 21 min

An argentine woman and an American man have a cultural disagreement about intimacy and how romance is conceived.

The Great Invention

2014 • 21 min • Spain

Paris, 2027. A public television network celebrates the tenth anniversary of the breakup of the European Union by broadcasting a documentary about what triggered the demise of the EU...

Paris Story

2014 • 50 min • France

Who has not dreamed of embracing the city of Paris from the sky? Fly and explore the exceptional places that have shaped and are shaping the history of Paris: Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame de Paris, the Louvre, the Bastille, Invalides, the Opera ... Far from the clichés of postcards out of marked routes by travel guides, this new film invites viewers to an exceptional private tour of the city of Paris. Travel through the centuries and be witnesses of the birth of the City Lights. This new production reveals one of the most influential capitals in the world as you've never seen.

Farmer

2014 • 17 min • Serbia

Stevan, a son of a local criminal, lives a peaceful life running a homestead. When his father is killed by the members of his gang, Stevan seeks revenge.

R.p.g.

2014 • 13 min

Six friends meet up for their monthly Dungeons & Dragons game. Someone dies, someone falls in love, the others keep playing....

Holes in the Mountain

2014 • 5 min

Through video, photography, poetry, and music, the film creates an associative narrative structure that seeks to explore rural American landscapes, spiritual poverty, and the experience of traveling by freight. Shot during a freight-hopping trip with Kai and his brother Anders from Oakland to Portland, summer 2014.