All Films

Dave Attell: Road Work

2014 • 42 min • United States of America

2014 standup special originally aired on Comedy Central.

Training session

2014 • 5 min • Canada

Through the specificity of certain gestures and movements, we find five different athletes training. What seemed to be only a simple workout routine becomes a ballet in which all athletes are transformed into notes of a musical score of a symphonic movement where the notes fit together and where the rhythmic repetition punctuate their movements and accord at a dance.

Last Wedding Dress

2014 • 24 min

Short film directed by Shinichiro Ueda

Copacabana, Mon Amour: A Restauração

2014 • 41 min • Brazil

A documentary on the restoration of Rogério Sganzerla's 1970 film "Copacabana, Mon Amour".

Benny Lévy, traces d'un enseignement

2014 • 60 min • France

Impressed by Benny Lévy's teaching, which he had attended for several years at Paris-VII, Jackie Berroyer quickly came to the conclusion that it was necessary to keep a record of it. To do so, he suggested filming one of his seminars. This was no easy task: Benny Lévy was wary of images, preferring words and the patient study of texts, and feared that the intrusion of cameras would profoundly alter the teaching relationship – a discreet, dense and intimate relationship. Berroyer eventually overcame his resistance and asked Pascale Thirode to produce the film. The result is Benny Lévy, traces of a teaching, which presents selected moments from the 1996 course on Plato's Alcibiades, considered an introductory dialogue to his thinking.

Inside the Dark Web

2014 • 50 min • United Kingdom

Twenty-five years after the world wide web was created, it is now caught in the greatest controversy of its existence - surveillance. With many concerned that governments and corporations can monitor our every move, Horizon meets the hackers and scientists whose technology is fighting back. It is a controversial technology, and some law enforcement officers believe it is leading to risk-free crime on the dark web - a place where almost anything can be bought, from guns and drugs to credit card details.

The Stranger

2014 • 18 min • Hong Kong

Relationships with strangers can exist in all forms, including the most intimate ones. The two of them spy on each other in an open manner, slowly, their relationship deepens, while remaining strangers.

Dangaus sodai

2014 • 51 min • Lithuania

The film presents the most famous Lithuanian garden binders and their works.

Christmas Wrapping Paper

2014 • 30 min • Portugal

Dodu, a fearless little cardboard boy, Camilla, an enchanting 8-year-old girl and Santa, a Father Christmas for every day, rescue Camilla’s father from the claws of the Waste Monster. As part of their adventure they recycle the wrapping paper from the Christmas presents and are able to breathe in pure air with all Sky-Forests ad Earth-Forests.

The Copy-Writer

2014 • 10 min • United Kingdom

A writer is haunted by strange monsters and visions, are they real or the beginning of a slow descent into insanity?

Dear Lou Sullivan

2014 • 6 min • United States of America

The story of Lou Sullivan, a transgender man and AIDS activist. Cutting VHS footage of Sullivan's trailblazing appearances on talk shows with contemporary screenshots of Grindr users' bewildered responses to the filmmaker's own trans status, Dear Lou Sullivan is a provocative text exploring trans visibility, then and now. Commissioned by Visual AIDS in 2014 as part of ALTERNATE ENDINGS, a program of seven videos that bring together charged moments and personal memories amidst the public history of HIV/AIDS.

Making Movie History: Evelyn Lambart

2014 • 5 min • Canada

Animation pioneer Evelyn Lambart recalls arriving at the NFB in the 1940s, her celebrated collaborations with Norman McLaren and her approach to her solo work.

Brown Bag

2014 • 19 min

A hapless high school girl who loves a classmate and goes to extremes to receive his love in return.

The Eidolon State

2014 • 20 min • Australia

Josh has been experiencing reoccurring dreams of a tall, faceless being stalking him. As the dreams become more constant, he confides in his friend to help understand why they are happening.

7 Days in Kigali, the week when Rwanda changed

2014 • 59 min • France

What happened in Rwanda in 1994 was not simply the spontaneous eruption of inter-ethnic hatred. It was planned genocide, on an industrial scale. Something that was prepared for at least a year in advance. Lists were made. Weapons were collected. RTLM radio spent months conditioning their audience to believe that one sector of their population represented a threat.

EditDroid: Rise and Fall

2014 • 37 min

Filmmaker George Lucas, spiritual father of the successful Star Wars series decided to invest 40 million dollars to develop a new editing system. From 1983 to 1986 the revolutionary EditDroid system was developed. The EditDroid was the first nonlinear electronic editing system and used several laser disc players loaded with the raw footage of a film. In the spring of 2005 Tom van Klingeren and Bruce Gray (both editors and instructors on filmmaking at the University of Amsterdam) went to Marin county in the United States in search of the lost history of the EditDroid. They visited the editors who had worked on the system in the 1980's and 90's. They made a return journey to the Skywalker Ranch with the now retired coordinator of the EditDroid project. At the ranch they explored the archives of Lucas' production company in search of the last EditDroid.

Growing Up Down's

2014 • 57 min • United Kingdom

The incredible story of a group of young actors with Down's syndrome who set out to create a touring production of Shakespeare's Hamlet.

Within

2014 • 22 min

"Within" is a drama about Jacob, a hopeless Detroit romantic looking for love in the digital era. After miserable dates, he looks for life's meaning through a series of philosophical readings on synchronicity. But Jacob can't seem to get anything right. His life goes on a downward spiral that includes being disconnected from society and even family, being trapped at his dead end job at a coney island, and failing to find the right woman. Eventually Jacob has a brief encounter with a stranger visiting Detroit who can ultimately allow Jacob to discover a renewed purpose to his life.

Caçador

2014 • 8 min • Spain

Roc's father kills himself less than a year after meeting him. Dragging his friend Jordi, they cross the country by car to go to the burial. In an absolute intoxicated state, they sare the path broken by the circumstances that surround the suicide of his father.

Eggnog

2014 • 14 min

Charles Murphy, a jaded detective ready to skip town for Christmas, receives his strangest case yet when a man is tragically drowned by eggnog.

My Depression (The Up and Down and Up of It)

2014 • 30 min • United States of America

Based on Elizabeth Swados’ picture book of the same name, this animated short film charts one woman's struggle with depression.

Me and My Moulton

2014 • 14 min • Norway, Canada

A seven-year-old girl longs for a bicycle so that she can be more like the other kids in her Norwegian town, but her embarrassingly unconventional, modernist architect parents see things differently. Academy Award-winning animator Torill Kove weaves memory and fantasy together in this droll and charming look at the pain of childhood alienation.

Anaconda: Silent Killer

2014 • 52 min • United States of America

Exploring the large and powerful anaconda in remote parts of the Amazon rainforest.

Angry Birds 4D Experience

2014 • 14 min

The Angry Birds attempt to get their precious eggs back from the dastardly King Pig.