All Films

That Film About Money

2014 • 7 min

What is the real value of a dollar? You think that a dollar bill is money and that banks are where your cash is stored and safeguarded. Well, you’re wrong. Like, really wrong.

The Bear Family Secret

2014 • 20 min • Brazil

1970, Brazil. Georgia, a 8 year-old girl, is intrigued: one day, her play room appears locked. Away from the sight of her parents and her elderly nanny, Georgia gets to open the door and... someone is inside.

Bang Bang

2014 • 6 min • United States of America

Callum

2014 • 14 min • United Kingdom

The first part of the Broken Hearted Youth triptych starring James Tarpey as Callum.

Chomp

2014 • 12 min • United States of America

Millie is determined to prove to the world that she's captured the first real zombie--even if he's not one.

James

2014 • 15 min

Gloucestershire, England, 1796. A poor day labourer is offered work but must first let his son be used in a medical experiment. Based on the story of James Phipps, the eight-year-old boy used by Dr Edward Jenner to test the world's first smallpox vaccine.

The Riddle

2014 • 30 min • India

A garbage collector captures the interest of a noted writer struggling with writer's block. Thereafter, they have a lengthy conversation that unfolds many secrets.

Unicorn

2014 • 31 min • Bolivia

A young German/Bolivian Mennonite risks his life to escape his strict religious community to find love and freedom in the city.

Middle Man

2014 • 5 min • United Kingdom

Davie has just started a new job in a call centre which provides communication services for deaf people. But just as Davie gets caught up in a heated tiff between lovers Nathan and Paul, his new 'stringent' bosses show up for an inspection.

South Arcadia St.

2014 • 9 min

As Jordan and his teacher's escalating struggle in their high school class leads to his arrest, the pressures they each bear are revealed.

Wake Up, Girls! - Seven Idols

2014 • 60 min • Japan

Green Leaves Entertainment is a tiny production company on the verge of going out of business in Sendai, Japan. The agency once managed the careers of magicians, photo idols, fortune-tellers, and other entertainers, but its last remaining client finally quit. Faced with having absolutely no one to represent, agency president Tange thinks up a plan to produce an idol group, forming the seven-girl group known as the "Wake Up, Girls".

Super Tandem

2014 • 40 min • Japan

After quitting his job, Oishi forms a vigilante group with his bad friend Ogita out of his good intentions and urge to do something for others and be recognized by others for the rest of his life. Oishi and his friends mete out radical justice to shoplifters, but what awaits them is revenge from a motorcycle gang.

Amy Winehouse: Soul Siren (Unauthorised Biography)

2014 • 60 min • Australia

Amy Winehouse’s tremendous soulful vocal talent and songwriting ability established her as one of the most innovative artists of our time. She used the sound of her idols, Etta James & Billie Holiday, to reinvent jazz and blues for a new generation in her album Back To Black, which sold millions of copies worldwide and garnered her countless accolades, including 5 Grammy Awards. This is the story of how in just 27 short years, Amy Winehouse managed to influence the music community, fashion world and a legion of fans that understood her best through her musical genius.

A Piece of Dogu

2014 • 25 min • Japan

Nostalgic story that revolves around 'Dogu,' a mysterious clay doll.

Anima

2014 • 6 min • France

A native American is hunting and stalks an animal through a strange and mysterious forest.

L'agonie Pardonné

2014 • 4 min

A short film by Tori Pope.

The Secret World of Foley

2014 • 14 min • United Kingdom

'The Secret World of Foley', takes us on a journey into the little known world of Foley Artists, who bring films to life by adding sound effects in post-production. We follow a multi-award winning two person team of Foley Artists and watch as they work together to bring to life a film about one morning in the life of a fishing village on the English coast. With their perfectly timed and precisely judged sound effects they transform the film as they interpret every sound detail, using props from their vast props store. This film shines a light on a little know film art form and is a testament to magic and wonder of Cinema itself.

Charlatan

2014 • 25 min • Hong Kong

As a con man who actually takes professional pride in his work as a psychic scam artist, Man Chun was just released from prison. Both his uncle and girlfriend try to set his path straight again, but he revels his old days of performing rituals to tell fortunes and 'heal' people. Having a clear conscience and defending his affirmations on being a charlatan, he reconnects with his master and continues with the old trade. While Man Chun is addicted to the psychic world and thriving, the patience of his loved ones is wearing thin. When unexpected circumstances unfold, will Man Chun retain his faith in his vocation?

The Old Man of Belem

2014 • 19 min • Portugal

Don Quixote, Luís de Camões, Camilo Castelo Branco and Teixeira de Pascoaes meet in an eternal garden in the middle of a modern city and talk about life.

Dog Meet Goose

2014 • 21 min • United States of America

A troubled teenager seeks help from his neighbor who has a secret. A thrilling psychological scenario ensues.

Mirror Neurons

2014 • 10 min • United States of America

The story of Danny, a girl with Asperger's Syndrome, and Pete a circus performer. Pete enters Danny's life as a catalyst for transformation. With a Black and white selective vision, Danny fights the over protection of her mother, encouraged by the new feelings that this new character has provoke in her. Using Pete as an excuse Danny screams to her mother: 'Let Me Walk My Life', and by doing so, she manages to shift her own perception just enough, to be able to perceive some color to her life.

Salu and the Cavalo-Marinho

2014 • 14 min • Brazil

The film tells the story of Mestre Salustiano, one of the most famous folk artists in Brazil. Son of the fiddle's player, João Salustiano, Salu dreams from an early age of joining a Cavalo-Marinho group, a traditional folk dance from the region where he lives.

Mouse-X

2014 • 15 min • United Kingdom

Mouse-X is a mystery/sci-fi story about Anderson, a man who wakes in a building with no idea where he is or how he got there, before slowly discovering that in each of the rooms around him are a thousand clones of himself, all of whom woke into the same mysterious scenario. To escape he needs to outwit his 'selves' whilst overcoming the realization that he is not the only Anderson.

Florida Water

2014 • 6 min

Numa Perrier reimagines the story and moments in a distinct photograph of her mother. What results is a complex merging of memory, absence, and imagery set against the backdrop of Port Au Prince, Haiti.