All Films

Hotel Fortuna

2013 • 8 min • United States of America

A fatigued hitman checks into a very unusual hotel.

Casey Conklin: Ranger Battalion

2013 • 7 min • United States of America

Casey Conklin joined the 3rd Ranger Battalion as a medic, because he always believed they were the toughest group around. After his experience in the Battle of Mosul in Iraq and receiving his Ranger tab, he doesn't question how tough he is. After returning home, he finds that he still must challenge himself to stay healthy and redefine toughness at home.

Das Foto-Shoot

2013 • 4 min • France

A photographer tries to get a very specific emotion out of his model inspired by The Holy Mary, John Lennon and German sausages.

Tradition

2013 • 6 min

A stressed-out family of three is trying to get time to make a perfect Christmas preparation.

Memorize

2013 • 7 min • Sweden

In 2027, everyone is implanted with a chip which records everything they see. It is the end of judicial doubt, but not of crime.

Little Doll

2013 • 4 min • France

A little girl lives in a strange room and spends her days playing with her dolls.

Frankenstein's Master

2013 • 6 min • United States of America

Driven to the wilderness to bury the key to a horrible secret, a harried scientist is confronted by his own gruesome creation. Based on excerpts from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, this atmospheric and moody short film is a haunting look at what rules us.

Chocolate Milk

2013 • 23 min

Chocolate Milk is the story of two slow-witted brothers, Kyle and Phillip, who are forced to fend their way through life after a low-flying Cessna killed their mother. Kyle is an eternal optimist and Phillip is depressed, lazy and lives in the past. This film follows Kyle and his determination to get Phillip off the couch and out into the world by going on a job interview, which goes terribly wrong.

The Real Lion Queen

2013 • 50 min

The circle of life is broken in Zambia's Liuwa Plains National Park. Settlers, poachers, and professional hunters have almost wiped out the lion population, leaving just one lioness in the vast wilderness - but not for long. This is the story of "Lady Liuwa," a lion queen without a kingdom, and Herbert Brauer, a wildlife cinematographer on a six-year journey to find her a mate in hopes of forming a new pride. It's a mission full of setbacks and disappointments, chaos and danger, and the magic of unexpected relationships

Fumando Espero

2013 • 6 min • Spain

She only smokes and waits for the man she loves. Sometimes we fall for the wrong person even if we are aware of it. But blind love, insane love can fight against all and 100 hours waiting with 100 cigarettes is the least a woman can do when she is madly in love.

Kalki

2013 • 2 min • India

In a world crippled by oil wars, economy & chaos the tenth incarnation of God rises.

Niagara

2013 • 14 min • United States of America, Chile

Estranged siblings Genevieve and Stephen are caught in their father's cabin during a thunderstorm, emptying it from what it used to be. The electricity fails and they slowly find the calm that they were looking for.

Right Places: Where I Was Meant to Be at That Time

2013 • 6 min • Japan

The narrator, an unnamed adolescent boy living in the present time in an unspecified part of Japan, begins to notice that he can see strange creatures that no one else seems to be able to see. As time passes, he ruminates over his relationship with these creatures, why he is able to see them, and what it says about the person he is. One day, however, he notices that one of these creatures seems to be behaving differently than before...

French Fries

2013 • 2 min • Netherlands

It is Halloween and three kids go out for 'tricks or treats'. It is a windy night and the only welcoming friendly person in the small town is unfortunately treated to a rather frightning and truly horrific sight.

Before the Gate of Ictihad

2013 • 16 min

Four Muslim friends meet in the forest to pray together and to talk in peace. The harmony gets broken by the coming out of Seydi and the circle gets in an endless spiral of contention; about Islam, sin and belief, forgiveness and punishment. Because Seydi wants the just punishment for his sin, so he is sinless before Allah.

L'Aurore boréale

2013 • 12 min • France

Necronomica

2013 • 17 min

After the departure of friend and drummer Mortimus, Black Metal bandmates Borknarg and Absu begin to lose hope that NECRONOMICA will ever achieve its place as the most evil band in the world. Borknarg hatches a plan to take their band to the next level, but he fears it might cost him his friendship with Absu. And friendship is a powerful thing: it is the foundation of any truly evil band.

Super Social Movie

2013 • 16 min • France

Norman gets hypnotized while watching a magician on TV.

Caligula with Mary Beard

2013 • 60 min • United Kingdom

What is true and what is false in the hideous stories spread about the controversial figure of the Roman emperor Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (12-41), nicknamed Caligula? Professor Mary Beard explains what is accurate and what is mythical in the historical accounts that portray him as an unbalanced despot. Was he a sadistic tyrant, as Roman historians have told, or perhaps the truth about him was manipulated because of political interests?

Last of You

2013 • 28 min

In a devastated world, Yonatan, the developer of a device which allows the re-experience of recorded memories, becomes obsessive about the last recollections of his late wife. When it's time to move to a safer place and leave the memories behind, he holds on to the remnants of the past and refuses to face reality.

The Duell

2013 • 5 min • Ireland

The Duel is a short film inspired by Terry Pratchett’s Discworld. The film was created and directed by Giant Animation Studios as part of the Animation Hub, a work experience programme set up for students to work on live projects.

Amateur

2013 • 10 min • United States of America

A basketball recruiter employs under-the-table methods to convince a high-school star to transfer schools.

Push Up

2013 • 6 min • Spain

Beauty and if you can own it or if it belongs to mankind.

Twin Sisters

2013 • 58 min • Norway

In 2003, the infant Chinese twin sisters Mia and Alexandra were found in a cardboard box. They ended up in an orphanage and were put up for adoption, at which time the authorities apparently decided that it was a good idea to separate them, and to keep silent about the fact that they were twins. Twin Sisters tells their story from the perspective of both sets of adoptive parents: one from Sacramento, California, the other from a tiny village in picturesque Norway. Through a series of coincidences that they later attribute to fate, the parents meet each other during the adoption procedure in China and launch an investigation that reveals the little girls are sisters.