All Films

Résistance

2013 • 9 min

A story of a dream that turned into a nightmare, the description of a democratic effervescence that has turned to theocratic regression.

Black Asylum

2013 • 5 min • United States of America

Black Asylum was originally planned as a feature, which has yet to happen. Instead, this 5-minute trailer was shot in order to try to tempt investors. It was screened at several film festivals including the Santa Monica International Film Festival.

Moonshine

2013 • 11 min • Poland

A little guy named Szczepan slowly sinks into the realms of madness because of the tragic love that he feels towards Helena, a cold-blooded temptress who rejects him without batting an eye.

The Last Voyage of the Duchess

2013 • 58 min • Finland

The "Herzogin Cecilie" flew before the wind; she was considered the fastest windjammer of her day. Launched by Rickmers boatyard in 1902, the four-masted training barquentine carried saltpeter from Chile and wheat from Australia to Europe. She won the "great grain race" between Down Under and Europe a total of eight times for her Finnish owner Gustaf Erikson. In 1936, she completed the voyage between Wallaroo in South Australia and the English port of Falmouth in just 86 days. But she was never to make it back to her home port. Leaving Falmouth in rough seas and a dense fog, she ran into cliffs and started taking on water. The barque's last trip was also the honeymoon of captain Sven Erikson and his new bride, journalist and writer Pamela Bourne. Under the watchful eye of the international press, they undertook incredible efforts to save the ship.

A Lunch Break Romance

2013 • 3 min • United Kingdom

A young man and woman share their lunch break in silence. They then find a common case of over thinking the situation.

The Holiday Gift

2013 • 11 min

Umut who is 7 year old boy, take holiday gifts from his family. Every gift is a part of his dreams.

The Animated Tales of GWAR

2013 • 9 min • United States of America

Lead singer Oderus Urungus loses his murderous-mojo prompting the rest of the band to embark on an Antarctic quest for the cure.

The Son of 666

2013 • 3 min • United States of America

The son of the Devil has a dispute with his father over what instrument is appropriate to play.

Perhe

2013 • 4 min • Finland

If you're not like everyone else, you have to dive deeper to find friends.

The Riddler: Riddle Me This

2013 • 1 min • United States of America

The Riddler matches wits with Batman, but the encounters never go well.

Balkan Spirit

2013 • 60 min • Germany

Filmmaker Hermann Vaske explores the creative Balkan world in the hopes of understanding the meaning of "Balkan spirit".

Audition Material

2013 • 15 min • Macedonia

A landlady asks her tenant – a trumpeter who has an audition that day – seemingly innocent favor: to drop off her female friend and her little daughter in the city. The tenant is unwillingly involved in a series of dramatic events which fuel his creativity during the audition later that day.

House of Wax: Unlike Anything You've Seen Before!

2013 • 48 min • United States of America

Documentary on the making and impact of "House of Wax".

All Catacombs Are Gray

2013 • 20 min • Croatia

A collage animated adaptation of Sheridan Le Fanu’s cult novel about vampire Carmilla, which not only inspired Bram Stocker to write Dracula, but also became a template for an entire subgenre of exploitation cinema of the 1970s, among which Jesus Franco’s Vampyros Lesbos stands out.

L'Assenza

2013 • 20 min • United Kingdom

A man becomes obsessed by the sight of his own double in an Italian film from the early 1960s.

The Rope Maiden

2013 • 17 min • United Kingdom

A man holds a woman in his dungeon, ties her up and suspends her from the ceiling. He then goes through the do's and don'ts of making a snuff film.

Ascension

2013 • 7 min • France

In beginning of the 20th century, two climbers carry a statue of the Virgin to the top of a mountain.

La rifa

2013 • 17 min • Argentina

Nicolás and Agustina find money in a plaza; While they plan how to spend it, they come across the possibility that the money comes from fraudulent businesses. Between the innocence, the tenderness and the mischief of the adventure, the story summons the spectator to remember his own childhood.

Idem Paris

2013 • 8 min • France, United States of America

A nearly wordless portrait of the renowned fine art printing studio in Paris, capturing the intricate process of lithography.

To Hell, with Love

2013 • 10 min • Canada

Dr. Desai is desperate to prove the existence of an afterlife. Unfortunately for one feisty prostitute, Cheri, his obsession will become her nightmare in a battle for survival.

Into the Silent Sea

2013 • 25 min

Alexander, a lone cosmonaut, is adrift in orbit around Earth. He has lost communications and life-support systems are dwindling fast. At the same time in Italy, a radio engineer is working the night shift. He discovers a voice amidst the empty static. It is Alexander's emergency transmission, carried across space from his dying capsule. Over one night these two men are bonded, but their new found friendship, might not last the night.

Women Only

2013 • 5 min

Karl Lagerfeld has chosen the obscurity of a Parisian cinema as the backdrop for the Fall-Winter 2013/14 pre-collection.

The World's Most Beautiful Eggs: The Genius of Carl Faberge

2013 • 60 min • United Kingdom

Stephen Smith explores the extraordinary life and work of the virtuoso jeweller Carl Faberge. He talks to HRH Prince Michael of Kent about Faberge items in the Royal Collection and to Russian billionaire Viktor Vekselberg, who spent $100 million acquiring nine exquisite Faberge eggs. The bejewelled trinkets Faberge made for the last tsars of Russia in the twilight of their rule have become some of the most sought-after treasures in the world, sometimes worth millions. Smith follows in Faberge's footsteps, from the legendary Green Vaults in Dresden to the palaces of the tsars and the corridors of the Kremlin museum, as he discovers how this fin de siecle genius transformed his father's modest business into the world's most famous supplier of luxury items.

Social Butterfly

2013 • 14 min • France

A 30-year-old American woman enters a teenage party in the South of France. Some of the guests wonder who she is and what she is doing there.