All Films

Rocketman

2014 • 12 min • Australia

Nine year old Harry has a plan. A plan to build a rocket and fly his mum to safety just like his hero The Star Ship Captain from his favourite TV show. With only his best friend Jordan by his side, can they blast off before it's too late?

Thousand

2014 • 6 min • Croatia

All is grey. The sun has not been rising for years. There is a legend going around the city: Paint the sun a 1000 times and it will rise again.

Snow Day

2014 • 60 min • United States of America

Snow Day' is a documentary film about life, death, and skiing that follows a group of senior citizens on their weekly ski trip in the Colorado Rockies. Full of life, but frequently facing profound adversity, these men and women share stories of love, loss, and personal growth which play out in high contrast to the freedom and athleticism they exhibit on the mountain. It's a film about challenge and ability, revealing these seniors in all their complexity: pleasure in companionship and physical activity, impatience with one's own limitations and the failings of others, and the struggle to come to terms with the losses that are intrinsic to a long life.

Mystery Man

2014 • 7 min • Japan

Spin-off short story of the "Senritsu Kaiki File Kowasugi!" series, which is set after FILE-04.

Circle Unbroken: A Gullah Journey from Africa to America

2014 • 47 min • United States of America

75% of all enslaved Africans coming to America came in through Beaufort and the sea islands of South Carolina. This beautiful and picturesque tourist destination, by its unique history is the epicenter of the Gullah culture and the foundation of African American history; the result of the mingling of West African slaves with the plantation culture awaiting them in America.

The Man Who Knew a Lot

2014 • 20 min • France

Mr. Beranger works at Paradesign, a furniture department store where the employees live day and night in the decorations. Himself lives in a show cottage in pasteboard and excels in the promotion of his dachshund footrest. His life seems settled well, until the day when he is promoted to the mysterious thirteenth floor of the store.

Hotel 22

2014 • 8 min • United States of America

Each night in Silicon Valley, the Line 22 transforms from a public city bus into an unofficial shelter for the homeless in one of the richest parts of the world.

Running the Gammatar

2014 • 7 min • United States of America

A comedy about a group of self-centered 20-somethings trying to navigate their way through relationships in a city that's under constant attack from a giant, fire-breathing Japanese monster.

Mais Uma História

2014 • 18 min • Brazil

Gabriel, with only 17 years old, lives this particular universe: anxiously awaits an answer. While life stays violent on the outside, days, hours and minutes of the storm seems paused inside the room 516 of a hospital. He's waiting the result of a test that can change his life.

Visionaire 67 Fetish: Sitophilia

2014 • 4 min

Originally produced for the exhibition “Killer Heels: The Art of the High-Heeled Shoe” at the Brooklyn Museum Sep 2014.

We Are Fine

2014 • 6 min • Australia

A boy makes a discovery at the seaside.

Roubado

2014 • 19 min

A teen photographer in the south of France develops a tense relationship with his mother's new boyfriend.

Al Murray's Great British Spy Movies

2014 • 60 min • United Kingdom

Comedian and history buff Al Murray is joined by former director of MI5 Dame Stella Rimington, political comedian Matt Forde and film expert Matthew Sweet for a fresh look at the great British spy movie. This round-table discussion looks at the films themselves - not to mention the spies that star in them - and uses them as a lens on the British people, our fear of the world and our changing views of espionage over the decades.

Priorities

2014 • 9 min • Latvia

After a plane crash, a young man and his dog, who are stranded on an deserted island, must bond together in order to survive the elements.

Imitation Girls

2014 • 3 min • United States of America

A short film by Natasha Kermani

Stone Cars

2014 • 14 min • South Africa, United States of America

A teenage girl growing up in dangerous Khayelitsha township is faced with a difficult decision in the wake of a traumatic event. Olwethu Anita April and Lungisani Dyalvani star in this short film.

Friend

2014 • 13 min • Indonesia

Joko and Widodo are best friends who live in a village. Joko likes to shoot Widodo’s fowl. Every time Widodo knows that his fowls have been killed; he takes revenge by burning Joko’s house. This weird friendship then changes when Widodo must move to the city, living with his son and his family.

Attack of the 50-foot Gummi Bear

2014 • 6 min • United States of America

Flint's mischievous gummy bear grows to 50-feet by using his new food-modifying invention.

The Mechanism of Spring

2014 • 5 min • Japan

Everybody is excited to see the arrival of spring. This film tries to depict the excitement spring brings.

Bare Romance

2014 • 30 min • Belgium

A woman awaits the arrival of a man. They don’t know one another. The only string between them is the engagement to meet and make use of each other. In an empty house in the woods they are faced with their search for love and their ambivalent sexuality. Bare Romance shows the minimal, raw aesthetic of the waywardly loving body.

Without Gloves

2014 • 18 min • France

Dylan is a promising 14-year-old boxer. He is in love with pretty Samia, but she loves him not. Without taking care of the consequences, he will leave his boxing gloves, to be interesting in the eyes of the dealers in his neighbourhood, and thus attract the attention of the girl.

A Future to Hold

2014 • 13 min

A coming of age story about a young girl, Ellie, who has the ability to see the future of her relationship with every boy she touches with her fingertips.

Michelangelo and Lincoln: History Cops

2014 • 1 min • United States of America, Denmark

A trailer for the fictional television series History Cops.

Sissy

2014 • 3 min • Canada

What exactly is a sissy? Sissy explores masculinity, gender identity, misogyny and self-acceptance. A playful exploration of what it means to be a sissy.