All Films

Kids and Guns

2014 • 46 min • United Kingdom

The controversial right to bear arms is at the heart of American culture. It is so deeply ingrained that parents often pass down their love of guns to their children, and gun companies now market real rifles to kids as young as four - with blue ones for boys and pink for girls. This documentary sheds light on the world of young shooters, illuminating the beliefs, ambitions, and paranoia that motivate adults to put guns in the hands of children. Teaching kids to shoot is seen as a fun family experience and yet over 3000 children are injured or killed every year in accidental shootings. This documentary follows the stories of three American families tackling the difficult issues behind the American relationship with firearms and the compelling stories behind the horrifying statistics.

Riga-2041

2014 • 37 min • Latvia

Three unrelated sci-fi stories that depict people’s search for happiness.

Market Hours

2014 • 15 min • United States of America

Randall spends his days imagining the vibrant inner lives of various vendors at the multicultural urban market where he works; none more so than Angela, an angel with her own pastry shop. But Randall's inattention to his work has lead to a string of thefts and soon threatens to cost him his job. A chance encounter with a beautiful starlet and her lapdog provides Randall not only an opportunity to break the ice with Angela, but a chance to prove his worth to everyone at the market - including himself.

Little Peter's Big Adventure

2014 • 29 min • Germany

Little Peter visits his cousin Paul on Rügen where they go with Paul's best friend Robert to a nudist beach. At first, it looks like a great day out but then Little Peter wakes on the beach and is all alone and naked! What should he do now?

Yoik

2014 • 60 min • Finland, Norway, Sweden

The untold story of one of the oldest music cultures in Europe. The story also sheds light on the dark streak of oppression and denunciation of yoik, contrasting it with the joy, humor and affection about nature, animals and persons expressed through the yoik. This film aims to show how Sámi people found their own musical path.

Los Olvidados

2014 • 14 min • United States of America

Artist Ramiro Gomez advocates for domestic laborers through an art instillation in the Sonoran Desert, in tribute to his immigrant roots.

Wicker Kittens

2014 • 53 min • United States of America

Every January, the country's largest jigsaw puzzle contest is held in St. Paul, Minnesota. Choose your favorite team and watch them try to put the pieces back together.

Calou-se. Saiu. Saltei.

2014 • 6 min • Portugal

When reaching adulthood, a young woman talks about her days within a dysfunctional family; her fears, wishes and frustrations, that lead her on an unwavering quest for a peace that stubbornly doesn’t come.

Strange Thing

2014 • 10 min • United States of America

A newly married couple wake up to find a door has appeared in their living room tempting them to open it and discover the mystery inside.

Wakening

2014 • 9 min • Canada

In the near future, the environment has been destroyed and society suffocates under a brutal military occupation. A lone Cree wanderer Wesakechak searches an urban war zone to find the ancient and dangerous Weetigo to help fight against the occupiers.

FEMEN: Naked War

2014 • 57 min • France

During one year, Joseph Paris filmed from the inside the Femen movement; its acts, its shocks and confrontations, its smokes and noises, but also its circumstances, its doubts, and sometimes its contradictions. One year at the heart of a overexposed activism in mass-media, where its deep reasons remained under silence or sometimes misconceived.

Sleep Cycle

2014 • 3 min • United States of America

Families form patterns. Genes, habits, stories get passed down through the generations, seemingly on repeat.

El viaje de abril

2014 • 10 min • Argentina

Julia is 30 years old and the daughter of a fallen soldier. She never knew her father: she was born when he was due to die in the Falklands. Julia has decided to embark on a journey, on her bicycle, from northern Argentina to the Falkland Islands. Everywhere she looks, she finds traces of her own memory: her father is evoked in the memory of the cause for which he gave his life.

How I Didn't Become a Piano Player

2014 • 18 min

Ted, 9 year old, is the clumsiest boy in the world. Desperately searching for his vocation, he cannot find anything he is good at. The breakthrough arrives the day his father comes home with an old monstrous piano. Ted has the revelation: he will become the next Mozart. Based on the short story 'Every Good Boy' by David Nicholls.

My Mom Is an Airplane!

2014 • 6 min • Russia

A young boy imagines his mother to be an airplane who travels to exotic lands.

Wildwechsel

2014 • 25 min • Germany

Thomas is trapped in a loveless relationship, even though he has already fallen in love again, Anton can't manage to introduce his boyfriend to his parents, who have their own problems, and after a party they all get together.

Turtle

2014 • 26 min • China, Singapore, United States of America

When 9-year old Sam realizes the true nature of his irresponsible father John, he must decide if he is willing to stand up to him and possibly compromise their fragile relationship.

From Harlem with Love

2014 • 12 min • United States of America

Tensions between the USSR and the United States were high in 1959, with the seemingly constant threat of nuclear war. Then some unlikely ambassadors stepped forward to clear all that away: the Harlem Globetrotters. From Harlem With Love is the story of how a group of barnstorming basketball players traveled to the heart of the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War and bridged a cultural gap many thought would stand forever.

Deluge

2014 • 13 min • Australia

The world is flooding. It's been raining for weeks on end and 12 year old Briggs is the last in the line of kids to be sacrificed in a ritualistic drowning.

The Fidel Castro Tapes

2014 • 56 min

In 1959, Fidel Castro rose to power in Cuba. He has been one of the most controversial figures in the world ever since. This is the story of the Cuban dictator's turbulent career, told in part through media reports, rare images and recordings.

Kids On Ice

2014 • 43 min • Australia

Quiet towns across rural Australia are in the grip of an Ice epidemic. Major international drug cartels are working with local outlawed motorcycle gangs to push crystal meth to a captive market of children.

Pinky

2014 • 30 min • Poland

Three small-time thugs from Warsaw's Praga district decide to celebrate a successful car theft in one of the city's Asian bars. They feel like kings of the world, but what they don't know yet is that the bartenders there are not to be messed with...

Turnover

2014 • 13 min • Malaysia

Set in one night in a spooky basketball courtyard. A young man arrived to have a game with his friends when he received a call to tell him the game was cancelled. The young man decided to shoot some hoops on his own since he’s already there. But something else is going to join him and play a very different game.

Spring

2014 • 16 min • Bolivia

Quiet Dayana lives in the Bolivian mountains where she helps her grandmother with the cooking and tends the goats with her friend Walter. In the midst of her meagre existence she suddenly receives the news that she has been chosen to be Queen of the Spring. She is going to wear a magnificent white dress and her hair gets decorated. A flurry of excitement accompanies the outlandish coronation ceremony. Dayana is enthroned on a stage, surrounded by a bevy of similarly clad princesses of the same age. Afterwards, she dances with Walter, her Spring Groom in a suit and tie. The couple do not look particularly happy. Told in a series of long takes, the film provides a close and intense glimpse of another world far away. No explanation is provided and so the proceedings remain a mystery.