All Films

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.

La Forêt Sauvage

2014 • 2 min

In the late afternoon sun the greedy landlord accosts the industrious farmer, demanding he pays the rent.

The Sturgeon Queens

2014 • 53 min

Four generations of a Jewish immigrant family create Russ and Daughters, a Lower East Side lox and herring emporium that survives and thrives. Produced to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the store, this documentary features an extensive interview with two of the original daughters for whom the store was named, now 100 and 92 years old, and interviews with prominent enthusiasts of the store including Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, actress Maggie Gyllenhaal, chef Mario Batali, New Yorker writer Calvin Trillin, and 60 Minutes correspondent Morley Safer. Rather than a conventional narrator, the filmmakers bring together six colorful longtime fans of the store, in their 80s and 90s, who sit around a table of fish reading the script in the style of a passover Seder. - Written by Julie Cohen

Jack Unterweger - The Charming Serial Killer

2014 • 15 min • Austria

"He was attractive, cultivated, very sensitive, very empathetic". Lawyer Astrid Wagner's first impression when meeting the serial killer Jack Unterweger. As a young law student she had close contact with him: "It was a nice feeling to be needed." On June 28, 1994 Unterweger is convicted for the murder of nine prostitutes. Six hours later, he hangs himself in his cell. Twenty years later, Thema unrolls the incredible story of the woman murderer and asks former friends and other companions how Jack Unterweger influenced their lives.

Carrotrope

2014 • 7 min • Portugal

Carrotrope is a new optical toy. It represents the cyclic movements of life. Meanwhile, a man drinks and the time passes at 24 frames per second.

Himmlerin kanteleensoittaja

2014 • 56 min • Finland

"Himmlers Kantele Player" - about Finnish student, who decides to leave University of Sorbonne and walk from Paris to Helsinki in the spring of 1935. On his way, in Germany, he meets Heinrich Himmler, who is attracted by a traditional Finnish instrument, kantele. Himmler employs Yrjö as researcher to the Ahnenerbe institute to find the Aryan roots from the runic singing culture of Finnish Carelia.

Abril

2014 • 10 min • Argentina

Javier, a 19-year-old young man drafted into the war, goes to his ex-girlfriend's house seeking forgiveness before he leaves. At the same time, Javier's mother, Alicia, visits an old friend who is now a colonel to ask her to spare him.

Art

2014 • 19 min • Romania

A 14-year-old girl auditions for a film role as an abused sex worker, and the director tries to convince her mother of the artistic rationale behind the provocative part.

Le quepa sur la vilni !

2014 • 36 min

Today, Andre comes out of his peaceful retirement : on order from the mayor, he has to lead through mounts a troop of sandwich men on bike to attract the spectators to the inauguration of the local cinema. In spite of his determination, the former postman has a great deal of difficulty in taming his young and passionate team-mates.

In the Frozen Tomb of Mongolia

2014 • 53 min • France