All Films

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.

Day of the Wolf

2014 • 5 min • United States of America

A bullied teenage outcast becomes convinced that his tormentor has become possessed by a violent unearthly entity.

Rebound

2014 • 7 min • South Korea

A tennis player had to end her career following an accident. At her home, a noise coming from the top apartment reminds her permanently of the accident she suffered. She will have to find a solution so that the noise stops

Top Score

2014 • 23 min • Slovenia

Juš is a parish priest. What is his sin? How big is it?

Cat Wars

2014 • 45 min • United Kingdom

Cats are the most popular companion animals in the western world. In the UK their numbers have swollen to more than 10 million. This is great news for the cat lovers amongst us but for those who see Felis silvestris catus as nothing more than a garden pest, it can feel like an epidemic. Cat Wars meets those on both sides of the feline divide to find out what really gets people so worked up about the humble moggy. This BBC One documentary also meets some of the more fanatical cat owners out there, including Silvana and her 50 cats and Helen, who likes to take her prized pets for a stroll round the block in a baby buggy.

The Weak Beat

2014 • 30 min • France

Heartbroken, Pierre decides to holiday at a seaside hotel. Leaving work and his routine back at home, through his encounters with certain people, he realizes there's a whole new horizon of possibilities open to him. Maybe this is his chance to break out of his melancholy.

Persona4 the Golden Animation: Thank you Mr. Accomplice

2014 • 16 min • Japan

After Yu finds out the past and circumstances of the main culprit, he makes a single decision in order to save him.

Earth 2084

2014 • 14 min • Portugal

In a dystopian future where the world economy is deep in crisis, a man receives a message from aliens through his radio.

Killing My Girl

2014 • 12 min • Greece, United Kingdom

A young South Asian woman lives in London with her husband and in-laws. Being miles away from her own family, in an alien city, she is forced to undergo sex-selective abortion against her will. The film becomes a psychological portrait of hers, while she has to deal with personal fears, long-standing cultural norms as well as other people's desires.

From Hiroshima to Fukushima

2014 • 53 min • France, Japan

The Fukushima nuclear disaster is seen trough the eyes of the charismatic and commited doctor Hida. Essential witness of the Hiroshima atomic bombing, he has been the doctor of irradiated people for more than 60 years. At the age of 96, he keeps fighting for a fairer world, putting trust in the future, using humour and provocation to denounce the official attitude. His association, Hidankyo has been nominaded twice for the Nobel Peace Prize.