All Films

Jumper

2014 • 5 min • United Kingdom

Story of a bourgeois European family whose lives are invaded by an enigmatic visitor. Set within a 20th century modern villa in Spain, his presence creates an unnerving effect.

Tonight It's Me

2014 • 14 min • United States of America

A hot young hustler finds himself in uncharted waters when he spends the night with a client who's far from the "johns" he's used to servicing.

Zetsuosore Taikan Kimodameshi

2014 • 14 min • Japan

An experimental horror experience where the viewer is the protagonist. Directed by Kôji Shiraishi through POV, which makes the viewer feel as if he/she is watching the film with their own eyes.

The Baby

2014 • 16 min • Italy, Iran

Narges and her friend have just a few hours to find someone to take care of her baby.

Pine Tree

2014 • 15 min • United States of America

An obsessive carpenter is forced to reevaluate his life and relationship when his latest creation, a beautifully crafted table, begins to speak to him.

Vamped

2014 • 20 min • United States of America

A short film about a vampire bite that changes the lives of a group of small-town nerds forever.

A Last Farewell

2014 • 13 min • Sweden

This short film is both a calm and upsetting portrait of an aging author's sorrow over the death of his long-term partner. Haunted by visions of his late husband, and in conflict with his daughter who is trying to renew the ties between them, he must tackle the impossible task of moving on and finding peace in the wake of a devastating loss.

Fragile

2014 • 8 min • Australia

Through his struggle with gender identity, a young boy stands up for himself and embarks on a difficult journey of self - discovery and contentment

Crying Man

2014 • 16 min

The surreal story of a young woman who, through interacting with a mysterious, crying stranger at the grocery store, comes to realize her own sadness.

Beat Generation

2014 • 55 min • France

Tells the story of the wonderful and long-lasting friendship between Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs that gave birth to the Beat Generation movement.

Sleep Tight My Baby, Cradled in the Sky

2014 • 50 min • Japan

Satomi and Yasunori are filled with happy expectations for their newborn baby Orine while driving home from a maternity hospital. However, a sudden accident strikes and Orine loses her parents. Nineteen years later, Orine is on the run from the police. While she is trying to escape, Orine is contacted by Yuri Aoshima, a member of a shady organization who offers her shelter in an unmanned experimental space station. However, Orine boards the station to find that it is not as unmanned as she thought: her mother, Satomi, is waiting for her there. As Orine and Satomi make up for their lost time together, the mysteries of Satomi's true identity, Yuri's goals, and a man called "SENSEI" who aims to take over the station continue to deepen.

Chaisson: Quest for Oriud

2014 • 34 min • United States of America

Magic is outlawed. The land is dying. Only a fugitive princess may hold the key for restoring life to her world.

Still Game: The Story So Far

2014 • 60 min • United Kingdom

A celebration of the sitcom Still Game, featuring interviews with the cast, celebrities who have appeared on the show and super fans. Including a look at some favourite moments.

#AmeriCAN

2014 • 15 min

At the dinner table sits a white family: the father (a police officer), a mother and their two sons—a teenager and his younger brother. The teenager has an African-American friend, J.B., whom he wants to hang out with, but his father doesn’t want him leaving the house to meet up with J.B.—and especially not at night. “I want to keep you from bad situations,” the father explains to his son—an eerie foretelling, but more important, indicative of the violence that this white man associates with all black boys, even J.B., a black boy he knows personally and considers to be “a good kid.”

Headless

2014 • 25 min

Short film derived from Found (2012) and adapted into a feature film of the same name in 2015.

Cutaway

2014 • 7 min • Canada

Cutaway portrays a phase in the life of a single young man as he works as a labourer, pursues relationships with women, and comes to terms with a life changing event. Told through close details of hands and objects, this film intimately portrays uncertainty and loss.

Boku no oppai ga hatsujô shita riyû

2014 • 60 min • Japan

Paulette's Chair

2014 • 3 min • Japan

Paulette plays in the back yard, in the shade of a tall tree, with her doll, somewhere out in the countryside. Secretly watching other children have fun without her makes her sad. Then suddenly the wooden chair she is sitting on begins to move, and throws her off. She bravely gets on the chair again, which starts to buck like a wild horse, making her very happy. Racing through the countryside, the chair then throws her off, right into the middle of the group of playing children, helping her overcome her shyness.

Alpha Chow

2014 • 6 min • United States of America

Canine guru Kent Ross has developed a dog nutrition system with a bad side effect.

Catherine

2014 • 14 min • United States of America

Catherine returns to work after a hiatus.

Boro in the Box

2014 • 40 min • France

From its epic conception to its film death, the fantasized and fictitious portrait of the film-maker Walerian Borowczyk : Boro-in-the-box discovers a cruel and obscene world, crosses commonplace and colorful adventures, from Poland to Paris, caressing erotic birds and organic cameras in a phantasmagorical alphabet primer.

Midnight Screening with the Vampire

2014 • 60 min • Japan

A man named Saeki who frequents the cinema and meets a beautiful college student known only as the midnight companion. When everybody had left the cinema, the two would stay behind but this suddenly stopped when the midnight companion disappeared. Three years later, he has returned but a darkness inhabits him. Their love is rekindled but…

Rabbit

2014 • 17 min • Australia

Rabbit was shot in two days in a closed down part of Rikers Island. The short was selected this year in the U.S Narrative Short Competition of the Sundance Film Festival where it won the NHK award. She also got into the Sundance Screenwriters Lab, with the first version of her feature screenplay (penned by Brady Corbet & Mona Fastvold) and later into the Directors Lab. She is about to start prepping the film, and the production should start soon. The film is produced by the French production company Légende (La Vie en Rose).

Dustland

2014 • 17 min

Once upon a time, an endless dust storm engulfed the world, stranding an itinerant circus in a time without purpose. One day, a high-wire walker, lured by a tune hidden in the wind, leaves the circus and finds the melody revealed in the shape of a mysterious fiddler waiting at the crossroads. The stranger presents her with an hourglass that can stop the wind, but only until the sand runs out. The wire-walker rejoins the show and, taking control of her fate, decides to walk the wire one last time.