All Films

Imagine That

2013 • 14 min • Russia

A boy named Alik does not want to read the Torah. He asks his grandfather why this is necessary, and in response, his grandfather tells him a story...

Caleb's Cash for Gold

2013 • 2 min

How can you pass up a deal like this!?

30 Days in May

2013 • 60 min • United States of America

Chronicles the days between Mayweather's May 5, 2012 victory over Puerto Rican superstar Miguel Cotto and the start of a three-month jail term on June 1, 2012 at the Clark County Detention Center in Las Vegas. The film concludes on Aug. 3, Mayweather's self-described 'best day of my life,' when he was released after serving two months behind bars.

Warwick Davis and the Seven Dwarfs of Auschwitz

2013 • 47 min • United Kingdom

The actor, Warwick Davis, presents the story of the Owicz family and their ordeal during WWII. From a successful musical act to being tortuously experimented on by Dr. Josef Mengele in a concentration camp. This story might have been lost to history if it weren't for the family's diminutive size, which made them both a novelty as well as an inspiration.

To Thy Heart

2013 • 10 min • Poland

He was so charming. Whenever he was smiling, all heads turned to him. He was schizophrenic, she was ready to do anything... Then she stopped pining her hopes on him.

Second Chance

2013 • 53 min • Canada, Ukraine

Second Chance tells a story of Ukrainian orphaned children and the Canadian volunteers who spend their summers working along side them. The film follows first time volunteer and filmmaker, Adriana Luhovy, as she learns about the children and becomes witness to their strengths and resilience. Converging in Yaremche in the Carpathian Mountains of Ukraine, over 500 orphaned children come together from all over the country. At first quiet and fearful, they learn to trust one another and their counsellors. By countering heartbreaking statistics - 60% of orphaned girls are trafficked within the first year of leaving the orphanage; 50% of boys end up in jail; 10% commit suicide - the volunteers are dedicated to making a difference in the lives of orphaned Ukrainian children.

The Strength to Tell

2013 • 50 min • Israel

Follows the experiences of a group of "at risk" Jerusalem teenagers, who as part of the Martef drama therapy program are asked to interview the last surviving witnesses of the 1961 Eichmann trial, and create a play based on their stories.The young actors and the aging survivors at first have little in common and show no desire to communicate, but slowly there develops between them a bond of empathy and understanding.

StrAngel: The Angel of the Odd

2013 • 20 min • Canada, Germany

EDGAR a true bachelor, who devoted himself to the compulsive logic of reason and the categorical imperative, not only denies the existence of coincidences and stroke of fate, he also despises those to which the inexplicable happens. True to his motto: 'Every man forges his own destiny' EDGAR sees bad luck as something of others, if someone experiences is - it is just their own fault. But fate (in the form of truly strange angel) is sending him on an odd path of reformation.

Hanging from a Dream

2013 • 58 min • France, Spain

The history of how the Museum of Spanish Abstract Art of Cuenca was created. In the mid-1950s, the Spanish collector and painter Fernando Zóbel de Ayala (1924-84) becomes fascinated by the young generation of Spanish abstract artists, so he begins to collect their works to show them to the public in Toledo. Until Gustavo Torner, a young forest engineer interested in art, proposes him to visit his city, Cuenca.

La Donna

2013 • 14 min • Argentina

The night. One night. Perhaps any night anywhere. It rains. A woman. No. A man. A man and a woman. No. A man, a woman and someone else. The table. A table. A table immersed in alcohol, singing, playing music. The music. No, jazz. JAZZ! The seduction, the crossing. Acting, pretend. Laught. The kisses. No. Decline. One night, a woman a man and someone else, on a table. No. The Void.

YuMex - Yugoslav Mexico

2013 • 45 min • Slovenia

TV documentary about the Mexican music craze in the communist Yugoslavia.

The Plane That Saved Britain

2013 • 47 min • United Kingdom

Channel 4 Paralympics presenter, former Royal Marines Commando and qualified pilot Arthur Williams presents this love letter to the World War II aeroplane he believes history has unjustly forgotten. While the names Spitfire, Lancaster and Hurricane have passed into legend, the De Havilland Mosquito languishes in relative obscurity. But, for Arthur, the 'Wooden Wonder' is the plane that saved Britain. He meets the men who flew it, tells its extraordinary story and travels to Virginia Beach in the USA to see if he can take to the skies in the world's only remaining airworthy Mosquito.

Royal American

2013 • 8 min

A discarded Royal Typewriter from the 1930s is picked up from a trash heap and taken to a repair shop in the Flatiron Building, in New York City. The subsequent letters written and the responses received, including one from President Clinton, makes this a magical typewriter, one that wistfully questions obsolescence.

Angélique

2013 • 20 min

Angelique arrives in the family house without being expected for the weekend. Her brother is there with his new girl friend. Immediately there is a tension between the two girls.

Emo Kev

2013 • 7 min • United Kingdom

Who was Kevin Smith before he was Kevin Smith? Well, he was THIS guy...no seriously, this is based on a true story.

Refugium

2013 • 5 min • France

A guy reminisce his short love story with a girl named Stella.

The Chaperone

2013 • 12 min • Canada

The Chaperone tells the true, previously untold story of a lone school teacher who fought off an entire motorcycle gang while chaperoning a middle school dance in a church basement in 1970s Montreal, Canada. Told from the first person unscripted perspective of the school teacher and DJ who were there that night, The Chaperone recreates the whole scene using hand drawn animation, miniature sets, puppets, live action Kung Fu and explosions all done in stereoscopic 3D. With over 10,000 hand drawings (many of which were colored in crayon by hand), an original blaxploitation score and featuring a cast of over 200 people, The Chaperone is an unconventional approach to documentary shorts.

Anal Juice

2013 • 3 min • Japan

A dream that occurs after breaking up with a boyfriend.

Striptease

2013 • 17 min • Russia

Two get into the room, it's unclear how, it's unclear where. They could go out, but the doors suddenly close ...

WNUF Christmas Special

2013 • 2 min • United States of America

A Christmas special set a year before WNUF Halloween Special

Året var 1963

2013 • 60 min • Sweden

1963 - the year when the Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space. Sweden suffers from an smallpox epidemic - hundreds of thousands are vaccinated, and several thousand are isolated. Colonel Stig Wennerström is arrested for spying for the Soviets. John F Kennedy is murdered in Dallas, while Martin Luther King has a dream about the future, "Villervalle i Söderhavet" is shown on Swedish TV.

The Celestial Toyroom

2013 • 22 min • United Kingdom

A brief overview of the history of Doctor Who toys and related products, presented by Ayesha Antoine. Such toys include the first Daleks made during the initial run of the program and the massive impact they had along with Dalekmania. Other topics include other figures produced over the years such as with the Dapol toy line as well as a look at the modern action figures produced by toy company Character Options.

Whole Man

2013 • 15 min • Brazil

'Whole Man' follows the journey of Marcelo, a 25 year-old gay guy, through Sao Paulo's nightlife, in an obsessive search to fulfill his desires. Some love affairs after, he can't feel satisfied. Along his night journey, Marcelo realizes he doesn't even know what he is looking for, therefore revealing his loneliness. Before the night gets over, Marcelo invites a close friend to sleep over and feel less alone.

14 Days

2013 • 60 min • United Kingdom

Over fourteen days in March 1988, a sequence of traumatic events shook Northern Ireland to its core and shocked the world. But it was also 14 days that compelled one man, Redemptorist priest Fr Alec Reid, to find a way out of the deadly cycle of violence.