All Films

Chuen Lau

2014 • 30 min • Hong Kong

"The more difficulties you suffer, the more you need to change and overcome." A shadow of his former self, Siu-ho is a tattooist who works for the triad and put tattoos on betrayers as punishment. His best friend Tyson, a fighter past his prime of life, also succumbs to reality and works on a job which he detests. As both of them experience a desperate period in their lives, they try to remind themselves the pursuit of life through the pain of tattooing and fighting. Fame and glory are not their goals, but feeling alive is. With too many forces in the city threatening to dash their dreams, will they succeed in forging ahead?

Chris Porter: Ugly and Angry

2014 • 60 min

In this stand-up special filmed in Kansas City, comedian Chris Porter, an ex-finalist on "Last Comic Standing," delivers his takes on drugs, growing old, women's fashion and his love for Taco Bell.

The Red Balloon

2014 • 20 min • France

Paris, France, 1963. A couple have an argument in a bar. A young man sitting nearby takes the opportunity to talk to the girl and tells her what their life together could be if she accepts to run away with him, now.

14 Steps

2014 • 38 min • Russia

Anna is studying in Moscow for a few years now. She lives in a dorm. Since a long time she hasn't visited her home town, where her family lives. She learned to live in a big city. She has a boyfriend and they are planning to move in together in his Moscow apartment. It seems that she has erased the past from her life. One day a man comes into her life and disrupts all her plans. A man she remembers too well.

The World Is Burning

2014 • 15 min • Canada

A young man returns to a traditional life in rural Newfoundland after tragedy strikes.

Why Sharks Attack

2014 • 54 min

In recent years, an unusual spate of deadly shark attacks has gripped Australia, resulting in five deaths in 10 months. At the same time, great white sharks have begun appearing in growing numbers off the beaches of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, not far from the waters where Steven Spielberg filmed Jaws. What's behind the mysterious arrival of this apex predator in an area where it's rarely been seen for hundreds of years? Are deadly encounters with tourists inevitable? To separate fact from fear, NOVA teams with leading shark experts in Australia and the United States to uncover the science behind the great white's hunting instincts. With shark populations plummeting, scientists race to unlock the secrets of these powerful creatures of the deep in their quest to save people -- and sharks.

Panhandle Jim

2014 • 10 min

An experimental short film about a man on a self destructive journey.

Janus

2014 • 15 min • South Korea

On a snow-covered road, a couple hits a kid with the car they were in. After a fight, a woman locks herself in the car and calls the police, while a man threatens her to come out and help him hide the body. However, after the man blows their secret, the woman starts experiencing inner conflict.

LEGO Hero Factory: Invasion From Below

2014 • 23 min • United States of America

The heroes of the Hero Factory must defend Antropolis City against mean intruders!

Die drei Federn

2014 • 58 min • Germany

On the advice of his chief counsel Julius, old Lord Gundolf offers the throne to whichever of his sons brings him the finest carpet. He blows three feathers into the air for the boys to follow. The eldest brothers Gerhard and Gebhard are sure they'll win the contest. One goes east and the other goes west. Both make fun of the youngest, Gustav, whom they call "Simpleton", because his feather flies into a forest.

00:08

2014 • 5 min • Japan

This piece takes 8 seconds, and creates intervals between the frames, and then makes them bigger. It's about expansion and enlargement, not the passage of time. 8 seconds becomes that much more luxuriant.

Nerds

2014 • 15 min • Spain

An in-and-out-of-love tale between a Disney geek and a Street Fighter nerd.

Old Man Death

2014 • 27 min

A young boy lives in a town where Death himself, an old man who rides a black bicycle, travels around collecting people's souls. The boy must wrestle with his own anxieties about death as the old man's presence becomes more than he can bear.

Biester

2014 • 22 min • Germany

Thirteen-year-old Lia is newly in love with fourteen-year-old Adam and everything is actually just perfect. When Adam's parents give her tickets to the opera, Lia is faced with a problem: she has to bring her parents with her, but they are real monsters... And so is Lia...

Barber Shop City

2014 • 60 min

A documentary revealing an observation on three barbershops throughout the course of one summer's day in the city of London - Hackney, Herne Hill, and Catford.

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.