All Films

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.

There Is No Such Thing as a Jellyfish

2014 • 19 min • Australia

Hannah walks through the city, observing people and objects, searching for something, looking at delicious pastries. She is on her way to an appointment with a tarot reader and inside and house space unfolds like the walls of a dream, only to reveal a pair of rummaging thieves. Alone, Hannah is entering a mystery and the clues are sparse and uncertain. She floats like a jellyfish, but perhaps there is no such thing.

We Were the Best

2014 • 14 min • Malaysia

Four recently graduated high school best friends embark on a road trip that will forever change their relationship.

Australia, Bird's Haven

2014 • 23 min • Australia

The Emu, Cassowary, Eclectus Parrot and more, over a hundred species are described in their natural environments, with great photography and pleasant narration, no scientific names, no insert names, great to watch en enjoy.

Clouded

2014 • 59 min • Australia

A film which exposes the truth about 9/11, clouds and the music industry, as well as everything else.

Calcio storico

2014 • 10 min • Spain

Four neighborhoods. Four churches. Four colors. Blue. Red. White. Green. A square. A ball. Two goals. Fifty minutes, there are no rules. During the third week of June, every year since 1580, four teams of twenty-seven men fight for victory in the arena of Santa Croce. Florence, June, 2013. Calcio storico fiorentino. The origin of football.

The Jump

2014 • 3 min • New Zealand

With a healthy mix of imagination, balls and roughly remembered Newtonian physics, a kiwi bloke jumped off a bridge in 1980 and started what has become a worldwide phenomenon. 'The Jump' is an original story of bungy jumping and its unsung creator Chris Sigglekow. Unearthed video footage from the 80s uncovers this amazing period of bungy's beginnings.

The Abandoned School

2014 • 5 min

Five schoolkids take on the treacherous task of exploring The Abandoned School.

Fly, Bird

2014 • 22 min • India

The giant wheels of the city grind thousands between them. A young boy from a chicken farm and a housekeeping girl in a luxury hotel - each one must give the other strength to try and escape this fate, as nameless chicken continue to feed the city slaughterhouses.

Sárga csillagos kocsmák

2014 • 8 min

Short documentary about Budapest pubs located in houses that were marked with Jewish yellow stars in 1944.