All Films

Masterchef

2014 • 8 min • India

MASTERCHEF is the story of Akhil, an 11 year old boot polish boy who pliea the street corners, walkways and railway platforms on Mumbai, polishing shoes for a living. One day at a new working spot he befriends two other boot polish boys who tell him about a regular client - a celebrity - TV's favorite Masterchef. And Akhil goes on an internal journey to through his past, his aspirations, and his self doubt. Until he finally finds a place within himself where he can keep his dreams alive. - Written by Ritesh Batra

Épica

2014 • 10 min • Argentina

During the Falklands War, a young second lieutenant is forced to confront the dilemmas of obedience, honor, and endurance. Amid violence, fear, and uncertainty, the inner surge for dignity and survival prevails.

Sweet Home

2014 • 15 min • Portugal

In an abandoned prison complex, without any basic conditions, a man survives like a wild animal. When his security and tranquility are threatened, he resorts to violence to defend his home. Later, confined to a small room without access to the outside world, he longs to return to his cell where he feels safe and free.

Chase Me Through

2014 • 20 min

Two lovers blur the lines between memory and dream, attempting the perfect love story from fragments of their youth, sustained trauma and everlasting saudade.

How Murray Saved Christmas

2014 • 42 min • United States of America

One-hour animated special surrounding a surly deli owner Murray Weiner, who is forced to step into Santa's shoes for one Christmas and bumbles his way into doing a great job.

Excursion

2014 • 19 min • Romania

Following a TV News which announce the landing of aliens in Romania, Eugen (9) steals a camera from the shop where his father works as a guard and starts filming his everyday life and then disappears. When he is found, the little boy's footage is misinterpreted by the media.

School Girl's Gestation

2014 • 60 min

Yukie is a female high school student who lives in a small fishing village. The village itself is going through a slump. Yukie and her classmates decide to get pregnant around the same time to pull the village out of its slump.

Restrung

2014 • 56 min

He had always considered making guitars a passion, not an occupation, but in 2007, Randall Wyn Fullmer, an ordinary guy with a cat, turned his lifelong hobby into a full-out obsession. To launch on this adventure, he did what anyone else would do - he quit his high paying job at Disney, leaving behind a successful 20 year career. It seemed to make so much sense at the time! With Disney in the rear-view, Randall launched his self-proclaimed 'Mad Plan' and began crafting small-batch bass guitars full time. From a beginner's electrifying success to near break-down, this is a beautiful, honest and inspirational portrait of a passionate craftsperson who walked headlong into a foolhardy dream. This is a true tale of a life unwound and restrung.

Heritage Minutes: Sir George-Étienne Cartier

2014 • 1 min • Canada

Québec's Father of Confederation negotiates entry into Union of his home province, as well as Manitoba and British Columbia.

Cubalibre

2014 • 18 min • Spain

An homage from Serra to one of his idols, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, shot in a nightclub full of characters that resemble the ones of Fassbinder films. The title comes from the favourite drink of “Beware of the Holy Whore” characters.

Listen

2014 • 13 min • Denmark, Finland, Sweden

A foreign woman in a burqa brings her young son to a Copenhagen police station to file a complaint against her abusive husband, but the translator assigned to her seems unwilling to convey the true meaning of her words. A tense, diamond-hard film about cultural isolation and bureaucratic ignorance.

The Nurse

2014 • 32 min • Sweden

The Nurse is a story about the need for closeness, warmth and security. It's a story about being lost and about adult bullying. But above all it is a love story.

Off the Record

2014 • 22 min • United States of America

A 1/2 hour comedic pilot about the trials and tribulations of a newspaper journalist who is forced to join forces with a Salty Police Detective.

Troya

2014 • 13 min • Spain

When two anti-riot cops prevent Jaime is from fulfilling his mission, he decides to apply the law of common sense.

Ladylike

2014 • 9 min • United States of America

Ladylike is a modern day noir that follows Vaughan and Harlan, two vintage vixens who have a penchant for retro… and retribution. Not only are they bosom buddies, Vaughan and Harlan’s disturbing pastime makes them a gruesome twosome.

Check Please

2014 • 8 min

After a relaxing evening out to dinner, two prideful men battle over who gets to pay the check.

Stay

2014 • 7 min • Denmark

Two women meet out in a sandy deserted area to the tunes of the band Azurit. They slowly seek each other's closeness and intimacy, while the band, in white robes and with lampshades on their heads, play on air instruments at the water's edge.

Kepler X-47

2014 • 13 min • United States of America

A woman struggles to adjust to her new life in a human zoo exhibit on an alien planet.

Little Brother

2014 • 14 min

Antoine, 14-year old troublesome teenager, spends the day with his tutor, Julian. For one last time before the latter's departure to Russia, the two "brothers" mess around in the city streets.

A Prayer

2014 • 7 min • Canada

In a little house all for herself, an elderly woman moves through her day. While she tends to every chore on the docket, we learn some things about her. She has a green thumb, she speaks Polish while on the phone, she likes to nap. A prayer sounds. They are words from her mother-in-law, Polish poet Zofia Bohdanowiczowa, who was also displaced from her native Poland. Three generations meet, one by writing, one by living, and the third by the very making of this film, a composition of her ancestors through sound and image.

Sarima

2014 • 22 min • Cuba

East of the largest island of the Antilles, Cuba, in the city of Gibara Raúl, an actor who has been invited to the film festival sees a beautiful young woman who comes out of the sea with a yellow dress and seaweed on her head in one morning. This happens while walking in a wind farm on his trip to the city.

Miscalculation

2014 • 18 min • Ireland

Nuala Ni Bhraonáin, electronics whiz, is a stylish woman about town in Dublin of 1981. She's invented the 'Reilly 9000', the world's first calculator with a square root function. Donnchadh is her flatmate and an egomaniacal Gaeilgóir poet with an unfortunate penchant for plagiarism -- and Rita, one of Nuala's workmates, makes the mistake of getting between Donnchadh and the top prize in Slógadh.

Pink Cardigan

2014 • 32 min • Estonia

Henrik is a successful actor and comedian who's always trying to prove he's not a homophobe. In his private life, he is lonely and insecure, struggling with adulthood. One day, after dislocating his shoulder, he joins a yoga class and makes his first gay friend ever.

Closer

2014 • 37 min • Sweden

On her mission to battle loneliness and bring people closer to each other, 21-year old student Lisa starts a spooning-business through her blog.