All Films

A Rose Reborn

2014 • 20 min • Italy

A brilliant young CEO from London contemplates the possibility of selling his invention to a mysterious Chinese billionaire. Before actually meeting his potential investor however our protagonist must face a number of challenges in the form of journeys, riddles and the exchange of clothes.

Spawn: The Recall

2014 • 7 min • United States of America

A former witch loses her son while shopping. Knowing evil forces are still lurking, she frantically searches for him, but comes across a discovery.

Hot Nasty Teen

2014 • 44 min • Sweden

A young teenage girl is being filmed through a simple video camera. She is being told to dance by an older man. Two months later they are traveling together by car through small town Sweden. She wants to go home but he insists that they should go on. After all, they have a few more friends to visit. Hot Nasty Teen depicts a seemingly well-known Sweden. But underneath the ordinary surface it simmers from suppressed desires and oppression. Hot Nasty Teen brings a new and daring perspective to male exercise of power and sexual abuse. The cast consists of some of Sweden's most well-known actors.

We Weren't Given Anything for Free

2014 • 58 min • Germany, Italy

Annita Malavasi was just 22 when the Germans occupied Italy, their former allies, in 1943. As a partisan in the Italian resistance named “Laila”, she moved throughout the Apennines with and between fighting units, delivering information, transporting weapons, and taking part in battles. She spent over a year in the Apennines, fighting against the German occupation. At the same time, she had to assert herself against the men of the mountain villages. By the end of the war, Laila had risen among the ranks to become one of the few female commanders in the Italian resistance. This film chronicles the story of a lifelong struggle for emancipation that began with the battle for Italy’s liberation from fascism. Laila and her two comrades, Gina “Sonia” Moncigoli and Pierina “Iva” Bonilauri talk about their time in the Resistenza and what it meant to them and many other women.

Pussy

2014 • 17 min • Denmark

Oliver feels that his life is at a standstill. A change is needed. To get his life going in a new direction he must do something radical, and the solution might be to break up with his girlfriend Signe. However, that turns out to be harder than he had expected.

Tela Brasil: 10 Anos de Cinema nas Quebradas

2014 • 16 min • Brazil

Idealized by the filmmakers Lais Bodansky and Luiz Bolognesi, the documentary portrays the projects executed by the Buriti Institute and Buriti Films in 10 years of work. Since 2004, projects collect impressive numbers: 116,509 kilometers were driven on roads, which led to 759 outlying neighborhoods, where they were made 7439 film sessions to 1,355,403 brazilians. Eighteen states and the Federal District were visited by Cine Tela Brasil, who put brazilian various ages for the first time in a movie theater.

The More Visible They Make Me, The More Invisible I Become

2014 • 12 min • United Kingdom

Nick Knight's fashion film explores and unpicks society's obsession with images of celebrities and our voyeuristic tendencies when it comes to icons. The film was shot in 1995 during Knight's first ever session working with Moss, who was twenty years old at the time and fast becoming a worldwide star. It features footage from security cameras - a nod to the debate and controversy that surrounded surveillance culture at the time of filming - and presents Moss going about a normal day, from waking up to visiting a Madison Avenue studio, to returning home.

James Joyce's The Sisters

2014 • 8 min

After a priest dies, the young boy he befriended struggles to know how to grieve in a world of suspicion. James Joyce's The Sisters, part of our 52 films in 52 weeks project, completed in 2013. This film was adapted from James Joyce's short story The Sisters, part of his Dubliners collection. All of the 52 films in 52 weeks were produced in Arizona by Running Wild Films and 5J Media. This short features a local cast of actors including Mark DeBoer, Michelle Allen, Ron Foltz, Anne Gentry, Helen Sanger Pierce, Noah Lanouette, and John Miller.

Kudo's Secret

2014 • 5 min • Japan

Spin-off short story of the "Senritsu Kaiki File Kowasugi!" series, which is set after "Kowa Too!" FILE-01.

The Third Eye

2014 • 17 min • France

Vengeance et terre battue

2014 • 21 min • France

Rita Cerveau ("Brain"), the most intelligent woman in the world, is depressive.

Spies of Mississippi

2014 • 60 min • United States of America

Spies of Mississippi tells the story of a secret spy agency formed by the state of Mississippi to preserve segregation and maintain white supremacy. The anti-civil rights organization was hidden in plain sight in an unassuming office in the Mississippi State Capitol. Funded with taxpayer dollars and granted extraordinary latitude to carry out its mission, the Commission evolved from a propaganda machine into a full blown spy operation. How do we know this is true? The Commission itself tells us in more than 146,000 pages of files preserved by the State. This wealth of first person primary historical material guides us through one of the most fascinating and yet little known stories of America's quest for Civil Rights.

Thinking Money: The Psychology Behind Our Best and Worst Financial Decisions

2014 • 57 min

Thinking Money is an hour-long exploration on public television of what behavioral economics has to tell us about how and why we spend, save (or don't) and think about money. It presents some of the country's most innovative thinkers who mix economics with psychology. Their experiments and insights into our financial behavior enlighten and often amuse as we learn to recognize how both our brains and the marketplace can trick us into spending money we shouldn't. The program explores a whole raft of techniques, apps, websites and ways of thinking that help us to save for the types of things that make our lives more secure: emergency funds, our kids' education, and ultimately our comfortable retirements. A mix of fascinating theory and practical takeaways, Thinking Money is designed to decrease the stress and increase the bandwidth in not just our finance, but our whole lives.

Illuminate

2014 • 11 min • United States of America

A young boy's mother struggles with depression, and he tries to break her out of it.

Back Alley

2014 • 29 min

Suzanne has been a prostitute for 15 years. She has her turf, her regular johns, her freedom. One day, young African prostitutes settle nearby. Suzanne is threatened.

Japanese Doctor Who

2014 • 3 min • United Kingdom, Japan

A zero-budget, heartfelt parody of Doctor Who and the Tokusatsu genre. We are dropped into a fictional segment of a Doctor Who but from a parallel universe—one where the series originated in Japan. Drawing inspiration from classics like Monkey!, Super Sentai, Kamen Rider X, and, of course, Toei’s Spider-Man, it reimagines the beloved sci-fi adventure with a distinct Tokusatsu flair.

Ketamine

2014 • 50 min • Netherlands

Two brothers linger in the little village where they have just buried their mother. In an old trailer, Vincent (20) goes along with his brother Sjoerd (26) on a path of drug abuse and nihilistic behavior. How strong can the love between two brothers, for their deceased mother, an old dog and for life itself be?

Adam Basharan

2014 • 19 min • Turkey

After their forced migration in 1993, a boy has to make some decisions due to changing living conditions.

¿Nos conocemos?

2014 • 9 min • Puerto Rico

A woman in line in the bank, looks at the neck of the man in front of her and starts to remember from where she knows him.

Lucha Libre

2014 • 12 min • Belgium

Jean and Aurelia, as many other couples, often trample across the swamps of love quarrels, where they encounter bad faith, unending argumentation, overreaction, stubborn silences, crying, shouting, etc. Jean and Aurelia are also the scientists of their own fights. They sort them in different categories, analyze them, make graphics and put them away in archive boxes

Two Museums

2014 • 17 min • Israel, United States of America

The film juxtaposes/compares two museums: The Museum of Art, Ein Harod, Israel, which Samuel Bickels (1909-1975) built there in 1948, and The Menil Collection in Houston, Texas, built by Renzo Piano (b. 1937) 1986 . The method of natural lighting in Bickels‘s construction was the direct model for Piano, who adopted for his construction at the request of its patroness Dominique de Menil.

The Bijou: A One Way Crossing

2014 • 24 min • United States of America

After losing his fiance in a fire, Tyler is given a short window of time by an archeologist to travel back to the moment the fire occurred, but on the condition of saving the archeologist's daughter who died at the same incident.

Russian Kiss

2014 • 5 min

Norwegian singer Annie and Norwegian visual artist Bjarne Melgaard’s “Russian Kiss” is their protest song and short film, directed by Richard Kern, aimed at Russian President Vladimir Putin’s regime and its anti-gay laws.

Hear the Cyclone

2014 • 18 min • Brazil

Among grand mal seizures and geomagnetic storms in São Paulo, André looks for his mother and his lost affections.