All Films

Swimming

2014 • 23 min • Slovenia

12-yearold Sanela, growing up in a muslim family, loves swimming and wants to attend a swimming competition at her school but her path changes when she gets her first period. The theme of the film is religious and cultural conflict between the West and Islam through the eyes of youth growing up between the values of the western society and the islamic tradition.

Os Sonâmbulos

2014 • 22 min • Portugal

In an automated world, an old factory feeds on its own work force.

Time After Time

2014 • 16 min • Spain

He never forgot about it and went back to look again and again.

Lupino

2014 • 49 min • France

Anthony, Orsu and Pierre-Marie belong to Lupino. They grew up here, in these public housings trapped between the motorway and the hills, far from the seaside, far from the city center, far from anything. When summer comes, they go down the streets. They spend together long restless days on public benches and waste grounds, aching for some shadow, for some company, for an escape.

Harry & Paul's Story of the 2s

2014 • 60 min • United Kingdom

As part of the BBC2 50th anniversary celebrations comedians Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse were commissioned to produce this spoof history of the channel. It parodies the channel, its content and the history documentary.

Man with a Movie Camera

2014 • 14 min • United States of America

A tribute to the original Vertov documentary, this romp through magic realism examines what happens when an artist simply lets the story unfold before the lens.

The Gospel According to St Derek

2014 • 37 min

Using interviews with close family, friends and collaborators, The Gospel According to St. Derek bears witness to Derek Jarman’s unique approach to low-budget film-making (his near-alchemical ability to turn the base components of film-making in to artistic gold, his placing of himself at the heart of all his work and his need to be part of a repertory company-type set-up). The Gospel… also promotes Derek Jarman’s importance as one of Britain's finest film-makers and acts, therefore, as a rally call to all would-be independent film-makers. This is the ’10 commandments of St. Derek ‘(who was indeed canonised by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence) on low-budget film-making.

Não é Sobre Sapatos

2014 • 14 min • Brazil

The film shows the images made by the police during demonstrations of 2013 (Brazil). In times of anonymous faces, what to do with the feet?

In August

2014 • 9 min • Switzerland

Margaux, six years old, awakens early on this August morning. She goes to the window and sees her father putting objects and cardboard boxes into the car.Her mother is still sleeping. This summer morning promises to be a singular one for the little girl, who is about to experience a significant moment in her life.

Trust Me

2014 • 34 min

After her parents tragically died in a car crash, Lily is adopted and raised by Jeff, the driver of the other car. Jeff's young wife did not survive the accident, and unable to bare the pain of his loss, Jeff becomes a religious lunatic who projects his delusions onto Lily and makes her life a living hell. Looking for an escape, Lily becomes a well known burlesque dancer, losing herself nightly in a world of mystery and passion. Her life seems perfect and carefree, but the physical and emotional abuse she suffers makes it nearly impossible for her to have any kind of personal relationships with men. Everything changes when she meets Nate, a fiery young police officer with a troubled childhood that he can't forget. They fall into an affair that spins out of control, as everything they once believed in beings to change... Will they choose faith or fear?

Dimitri in Ubuyu

2014 • 26 min • France

Dimitri, the little bird from northern Europe, has landed on the plain of Ubuyu in Africa. Every day he learns to overcome his fears and discover a world full of surprises. In Ubuyu being different is an asset that he will share with Makeba the giraffe, Oko the zebra and Pili the meerkat.

Pink Floyd: The Endless River

2014 • 39 min • United Kingdom

The Endless River is the fifteenth studio album by British progressive rock band Pink Floyd. The Endless River has as its starting point the music that came from the 1993 Division Bell sessions, when David Gilmour, Rick Wright and Nick Mason played freely together at Britannia Row and Astoria studios. This was the first time they had done so since the ‘Wish You Were Here’ sessions in the seventies. Those sessions resulted in The Division Bell, the band’s last studio album.

UpsideDown

2014 • 10 min • Norway

A car ends up in the forest after running into a deer on the road and suddenly everything is turned upside down.

Divine Discontent: Charles Proteus Steinmetz

2014 • 56 min

Documentary about the life and contributions of Charles "Proteus" Steinmetz, the "Wizard of Schenectady"

Merkin Penal

2014 • 24 min

Gary is falsely accused of beating his insane ex-girlfriend Charlotte, and he is sentenced to 30 days in Merkin Penal, a privately run prison. Once behind bars he runs into his old friend Smitty, who's in the 2nd year of his 9 month stay, due to a run in with the TSA. Smitty is "insane Charlotte's" older brother. Smitty and Gary met while Gary and Charlotte were an item. They are forever bonded together by their shared celebration of hatred for Charlotte. After a First Class, welcoming tour of the prison via Smitty, and a run-in with Emmett O'Donald, from upper Prison Management, Gary realizes his original sentence of 30 days was all Bulls@!t. He may never get out.

The Grandpa's Song

2014 • 18 min • Mexico

An old peasant faces the dispossession of his land, inheriting the final lesson of life to his only granddaughter.

Stealing Socialism

2014 • 55 min • Estonia

A jolly documentary that tells a story of Soviet time life style when stealing from the state was an act of honour for common people. Stealing from corrupted state helped to get by and held moral high. The common man felt that the state was stealing from him all the time – so one had to get something back from the real robber – the state. When all bits and pieces of rubble were stolen from the state – the Soviet Union colossus fell apart.

Scary True Stories: Night 28

2014 • 58 min • Japan

31th installment in Broadway's "Honto ni Atta Kowai Hanashi" series.

The Jungle

2014 • 16 min • Lithuania

Thirty-year old guy is assaulted on the street. Randomly, in the middle of a day. The emotional damage hurts him more than the punches taken. This is a new experience for him. The guy tries to sort things out between justice, revenge and a bit of shame. Meanwhile, on the opposite side of the story there are guys that did the beating. They practice first-punch knockouts. And they helpfully carry their mothers’ food bags in the evening.

Tied Up

2014 • 19 min • France

Call girl services turn out to be a fatal point for the male client.

The Bloody Truth

2014 • 52 min • Germany, France

This film tells the story of the unknown pre-history of the AIDS virus, long before people started to die in the US and Europe. Following a team of scientists we uncover a forgotten medical archive in the Democratic Republic of Congo, that tells of an epidemic a full two decades before anyone knew about the novel killer. From high-tech labs in the US to African medics who have their boots on the ground, we trace HIV back to its origin in the jungles of Cameroon. In the decades around the turn of the 20th century, colonialism fundamentally changed the lives of millions of people in central Africa; it created an environment that allowed HIV to leave its original host, the chimpanzee, and start to spread in humans.

Then I See Tanja

2014 • 34 min • Croatia

Željko (16) and his younger brother have been living on their own since their mother ended up in hospital. Željko has set his mind on two things: he has to finally take the initiative to meet Tanja and earn some money to buy his Mum a wig. A real one, made from human hair. If he achieves these two goals, the things might turn for the better.

Vida

2014 • 14 min • Colombia, Ecuador

Acclaimed Iranian film director Abbas Kiarostami, delivers a film workshop in Bogotá, the filmmakers conclude by proposing a short film in 10 days. Diego, one of the directors of the workshop, as scouting, meets a young shy librarian named Vida , who dreams of being an actress.

A Crazy Country Christmas

2014 • 26 min • United States of America

A young man with schizophrenia living with his parents out in the countryside of Texas is a cold, emotionless murderer. He will kill any and all who cross his path or trespass. One day, the young man sinks to a new low as he goes too far, killing one of his best friends. The film follows him as he delves deeper into the rabbit hole that is his own mind, trying to figure himself out, struggling with his morally upright conscience who attempts to bring the young man's actions to a stop.