All Films

I'm Going to Mum's

2013 • 13 min • New Zealand

When the divorced parents of 8-year-old Jacob insist on dressing him in ridiculous clothes to spite each other, he resorts to desperate fashion measures to assert his identity.

Lydia Hoffman Lydia Hoffman

2013 • 15 min • United States of America

A young woman invites a vagabond to stay the night at her house but her feelings of insecurity threaten to overshadow the visit.

1,5tb

2013 • 14 min • Indonesia

a short film by Jason Iskandar

The Lottery of Life

2013 • 34 min • Canada

David Cole is a twenty-something man trying to make ends meet. His wannabe actor roommate Steve isn't making things any easier for him. But when a nasty string of bad luck turns his life upside down, only then can he realize that he may not be as unlucky as he thinks.

Attack of the Zeppelins

2013 • 60 min

Engineer Dr Hugh Hunt revisits the little-known story of the First World War's Blitz, when the Zeppelin waged an 18-month terror campaign on the people of London.

Death for a Unicorn

2013 • 15 min • Switzerland

Little Billy’s life is tormented by his scheming aunt who drags him daily to the cemetery and forces him to clean his uncle’s headstone. There Billy meets Myrtle, a little girl ghost stuck between the worlds of the living and the dead. Freeing Myrtle means losing the only friend Billy has ever had.

The Last Time

2013 • 4 min

Vincent Cafarelli and Candy Kugel worked together for 38 years making animated films -- both commercial and personal. Unexpectedly Vincent, after a full day at work, went home, went to bed and never woke up.

Square One

2013 • 15 min • Romania

In the Danube Delta, people are guided by archaic beliefs not understood by others. Not even the Earth is in harmony with their antiquated habits, and digging up the dead after ten years to wash their bones can Skiddle into an unpleasant event. But members of a family in Saint George decide to ignore the priest's requirement to stop digging for bodies, believing that they are doing the right thing according to Customs and customs.

This Is Reality

2013 • 16 min

November 2011. Greece collapses financially. Prime Minister Papandreu announces a Referendum initiative on his austerity plan. In the meantime, the life of Stavros, a mobbed up Greek immigrant in New York, is about to change forever.

Sticks & Stones

2013 • 18 min

This is a true story about a fourteen year-old girl named Emma. Just like any other girl, Emma has a crush; only this crush is on a girl named Alice. Although Emma is a great kid, no matter how hard she tries, she is socially rejected and bullied by her peers. Never the less, her attempts to fit in are relentless.

Wild Horses

2013 • 17 min • United States of America

Wild Horses tells the story of Mills, an established LA photographer, who returns to her native Nevada following an urgent call from her grandmother informing her that a band of wild horses close to their hearts, faces government roundup. In this story, that spans just one day, cruelty, courage, love and memory collide as two generations of women bear witness to the brutality common to wild horse roundups in the American West. Mills is exposed to a complex issue and follows her heart, choosing to ignore the consequences.

Rote Flecken

2013 • 15 min • Austria

Tommi wants to practice shooting. But his younger brother Simon is also fascinated with their father's gun and insists on coming with him into the woods. Soon, their naive play-fights take a serious turn.

Simin, Resident of a Wandering Island

2013 • 58 min

Simin Daneshvar was an Iranian pioneering novelist who lived nearly for a century and under 3 different political regimes. She and her husband, (Jalal Al Ahamd) have been regarded as "Iranian Simone de Beauvoir, and Jean-Paul Sartre". But they had a very different fate. Simin's life is a mirror of what has happened to Iranian women throughout a century, from unveiling the hijab and playing important roles in society to imposing hijab and staying at home in the Islamic regime. This film looks at her life through the history of women's movement in Iran.

Helpless

2013 • 7 min • United States of America

Led by Dylan Arnold (Oppenheimer, Halloween, Halloween Kills, Netflix's You), premiering at Cannes Court Métrage and landing its creators on Variety Magazine's "Students to Watch" list, Helpless comments on the high stakes of violence in America.

Mondo Banana

2013 • 59 min • Canada, Finland, Thailand, United States of America

Deep in the forests of Sumatra, a Finnish sea captain seeks an elusive banana. In a Kolkata kitchen, Bengali chefs prepare scrumptious banana stalk curries. As the sun blazes in Kuala Lumpur, a Chinese exorcist calls forth an evil banana spirit… Embarking on an international journey through the vibrant world of human-banana relationships, MONDO BANANA explores the personal, cultural, and environmental importance of one of the world’s favorite fruits. A delicious blend of video art and ethnographic film, MONDO BANANA turns educational filmmaking upside down with a wild medley of shadow puppetry, culinary demonstrations, exorcisms, scientific research, performance art, anthropology, underground film, and dragon-dancing that peels away the secrets of human-banana relations and celebrates the age-old connection between people and plants.

Justin Bieber: The Key

2013 • 4 min • United States of America

Short film in honor of Justin Bieber's new perfume "The Key".

Grandfather

2013 • 10 min • Russia

Family dinner on the eve of the weekend. Grandfather was waiting for them, because tomorrow he will be taken to visit his wife Tatka. Plans change in connection with the more important affairs of the son. Well ... Next time

Rescue in the Philippines: Refuge from the Holocaust

2013 • 56 min • United States of America

The moral courage of an influential few in the Philippines saved the lives of 1,300 Jewish men, women, and children in Nazi Europe in the days leading to World War II.

Balls

2013 • 11 min • Netherlands

22-year old Teun has to move back home. His house-mates have organized a farewell dinner for him. What starts as a social gathering, emotions are running high soon.

Noah

2013 • 18 min • Canada

In a story that plays out entirely on a teenager's computer screen, Noah follows its eponymous protagonist as his relationship takes a rapid turn for the worse in this fascinating study of behavior (and romance) in the digital age.

#nightslikethese

2013 • 14 min • United States of America

When a night's escapade takes a disturbing turn for two teen girls, we learn just how disconnected and desensitized social media has made them.

The President vs. the Pirates

2013 • 49 min • Australia

The make or break story of a Somali-Australian refugee who went back to where he came from to do battle with ruthless pirates and Islamic militants - and transform his broken homeland into a modern African State.

M is for Messiah

2013 • 3 min • Canada

A woman must face a strange cult and their nefarious Messiah if she is going to avoid being their human sacrifice.

Fuck Freud

2013 • 22 min

A young man splits with his much-older boyfriend...leaving him for an older woman.