All Films

Uke & Trust Me

2014 • 5 min • United States of America

A couple on their way to a vacation destination is feeling apathetic about their plans (and possibly each other), when they unexpectedly encounter an unusual trio of ukulele players on their way to a wedding gig.

The Deer In Me

2014 • 15 min • Japan

Asuka, a new actress who lives in Tokyo visits Aka island in Okinawa, the southern islands of Japan. Junior high-school student Takeshi, the son of the owner of a guest house, is to show her around with his heart pounding. He can’t imagine himself talking to someone like her who he only sees on a screen. When she walks around, she happens to see a Black sika Deer. Since she heard the legend about Black sika Deer from Takeshi’s father previously, it raises painful memories and accusing voices from her workmate come up to her mind, she gets depressed. Through the day-to-day life on the island with Takeshi, her mood gradually gets changed.

The Way of Tea

2014 • 21 min • France

A small town in northern France, Alex, a young skinhead, enters Malik's grocery store.

Fruit Hospital, Episode 2

2014 • 5 min • United States of America

Doctor Wormhole suspects sinister simian, Harry Mann, of mishandling his favorite fruits. Hysterical Harry is comforted by nice Nurse Corndog, who suggests a more sensitive surgeon may have what it takes to put the curves back in his banana.

The Black Case

2014 • 13 min • Canada

The traumatic events that occur over the period of one night in a Canadian residential school infirmary. In 1930, 8 year old Elizabeth and her infant cousin are taken from their family and quarantined due to a tuberculosis scare.

AJ's Infinite Summer

2014 • 8 min • United States of America

A happy-go-lucky teenager named AJ and his offbeat friends attempt to have the greatest summer ever.

Curse of Medea

2014 • 44 min • Germany

On January 27, 2010, Okpako visited the (East) German author Christa Wolf to discuss a film project based on Wolf's novel Medea: A Modern Retelling. Over tea, with the sound of planes landing at nearby Schönefeld airport, they talk about how she came to tell the story of Medea the immigrant, treated with suspicion in her host country, and are joined by the voices of Medea, Jason, Agameda, Glaucke and the passing of the East German era. This film premiered at the Berlinale in 2014.

I Married My Family's Killer

2014 • 40 min

Childhood sweethearts Beatrice and Purudenci plan to wed until Beatrice becomes hunted by Purudenci's family during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.

You Have to Live Somewhere

2014 • 4 min

A found footage video utilizing Buster Keaton's "One Week" with a song by Don Lennon.

Oasis vs. Blur | Duel at the Peak of Britpop

2014 • 60 min • United Kingdom

During the 90s, Britpop dominated the airwaves and an epic pop rivalry sparked into life when Blur’s single ‘Country House’ went up against Oasis’s ‘Roll With It’ in the charts.

Right There

2014 • 11 min

Right There pays homage to the 1920s silent era. It is about a man's quest to gain the attention of a beautiful woman. Each day he attempts to get her attention, but this proves to be difficult as it seems fate is against him.

The Little Hedgehog

2014 • 5 min • Belgium, France

A little hedgehog finds a magnificent apple in the woods. He rolls it behind a rock where he can enjoy it at his leisure. But there are some uninvited guests at the feast.

Without

2014 • 15 min

Oblivious to their close proximity to one another, two women reflect on a brief connection they shared six months earlier.

King of the Hill: A 70th Anniversary Retrospective of Cincinnati’s King Records

2014 • 10 min • United States of America

James Brown was the jewel in the crown, but the throne of Cincinnati’s King Records always belonged to its irascible founder, Syd Nathan. This is the 70th anniversary of the legendary record label and studio. It closed shop nearly 40 years ago, in a now long-neglected warehouse on the neighborhood border of Evanston and Walnut Hills, but its impact still reverberates across today’s music.

Little Lamb

2014 • 23 min

A young convict woman desperate for freedom rashly chooses a new master, but alone on his isolated farm her hopes for a new life are undermined by the grim truths she discovers.

Flashing

2014 • 6 min • United States of America

A successful photographer chooses work over family and his epiphany of this, once it's too late.

Cut Glass Bowl

2014 • 19 min

Three women, who lived different period of time, all meet the cut glass bowl.

Tokyo Videos of Horror 10

2014 • 58 min • Japan

After Kazuto Kodama's popular horror series "The Real Deal! Cursed Videos" (Honto ni Atta! Noroi no Video) unleashed a new generation in horror, we bring you volume 10 in the ultimate horror video collection!

Cute. Clever. Mischievous. Intelligent. Dangerous: Making Gremlins

2014 • 29 min

This new retrospective features new interviews with director Joe Dante, star Zach Galligan, writer Chris Columbus, executive producers Steven Spielberg and Frank Marshall and producer Michael Finnell.

Arrowhead

2014 • 14 min • United States of America

A couple head up to a cabin to get away from the city, and towards getting inevitably mauled and eaten by a bear.

This Is Cosmos

2014 • 30 min • Germany, Lebanon, Russia, United States of America, Kazakhstan

Based on the ideas of Russian philosopher, Nikolai Fedorov, Anton Vidokle’s film was shot in Siberia, Crimea, and Kazakhstan. Fedorov, like others, believed that death was a mistake, “because the energy of cosmos is indestructible, because true religion is a cult of ancestors, because true social equality is immortality for all.” Fedorov was one of the Cosmo-Immortalists, a surge of thinkers that emerged in Russia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. They linked Western Enlightenment with Russian Orthodoxy and Eastern philosophical traditions, as well as Marxism, to create an idiosyncratically concrete metaphysics. For the Russian cosmists, cosmos did not mean outer space: rather, they wanted to create “cosmos” on earth. “To construct a new reality, free of hunger, disease, violence, death, need, inequality – like communism.”

Assemblée générale

2014 • 18 min • France

The annual general assembly of the co-owners : quarrels about nothing, the collapse of the management agency, that turns becomes absurd.

Moiré

2014 • 15 min • Spain

Each house locked away the secret of a family. For one hour a day Sergio, helped by his grandmother, carry out his desires in a home dominated by his grandfather. A twist will force Elena, his mother, to make a decision that will change their lives.

Sie heißt jetzt Lotte!

2014 • 17 min • Germany

The deep friendship between young theater actresses Maria and her Jewish friend Lea gradually starts to break as Marias husband Hans goes from being a young adventurer to a high ranking SS officer. But on that day of the Jewish deportations in Munich, Maria comes to a momentous decision which proves what friendship really means to her. She takes on Leas child Charlotte to save her from being deported to the concentration camp, thereby risking her own life and ultimately loosing Hans. Marias story shows that in the end friendship can triumph over terror and death. The film is inspired by the childhood of Charlotte Knobloch, Vice President of the World Jewish Congress and supports our project.