All Films

Go Straight Home

2013 • 14 min • Sweden

Reba is 14 and she lives with her family in Dhaka. Often on her way to school she is being followed or harassed by groups of boys who shout after her. It's part of everyday life in Bangladesh for young girls. In Reba's school class four girls have already been forced to marry and only one of the girls married out of love. Reba's family might have to marry her off too if they can't afford her education. Her mother wants her to continues her studies and get the education that wasn't possible for her. Reba wants that too. Reading in the papers about the acid attacks and rapes that are happening to women on the streets scare her, but she won't give up.

This Way Out

2013 • 17 min • United Kingdom

The oddball owner of an assisted suicide center and her hapless assistant have ten days to increase client numbers or face closure by the strict Euthanasia Licensing Board.

En flicka

2013 • 13 min • Greece

Sigma masturbates. I woke up in the room like in a dream. He goes out of his room and finds himself on a snowy mountain.

Alleluia

2013 • 7 min • Spain

Video 'reinterpretation' of Ghédalia Tazartès' cacophonous "Alleluia" by Carlos Casas.

Hotzanak, for Your Own Safety

2013 • 5 min • Spain

I told him I was a filmmaker... and nothing has changed. Amid these landscapes traipses the soul, at times certain, at others uncertain of its own existence, while the body is and is and is and has no place of its own.

Behind the Bush

2013 • 12 min • France

Humiliation and violence punctuate the life of this broken man. The silence's his refuge, the perversion his outlet.

Love Me Louder

2013 • 52 min

Best, the popular boy of high school, likes flirting with various girls, including Ploy, a simple junior with a full head.

Gingers

2013 • 15 min • Spain

Redheads. Fire crotches… This film collects samples of their testimonials and their body hair and skin. About being different genetically, about gay gingers, doubly in a minority, from Ireland to Israel to Brazil. A film made especially for ginger lovers.

A Certain Magical Index: The Miracle of Endymion Special

2013 • 6 min • Japan

Bonus animation featuring Index-tan included with the BD special edition of the Toaru Majutsu no Index: Endymion no Kiseki movie.

A Girl in the Apple Farm

2013 • 42 min

The Mikami family lives within the foot of Mount Iwaki. The Mikami family makes a living by running an apple farm. Eldest daughter Rinko is a middle school student who keeps running away and coming back home with her boyfriend Kenichiro. Rinko’s mother Mayumi has difficulty raising her kids and the apples. One night, before Rinko's birthday, Rinko's father Tamao brings a horse with a ribbon as her birthday present. Tamao actsas he pleases. The mother suffers from his impulsiveness. To borrow money, Rinko comes back home after a long time away from home. There, Rinko sees the horse.

Portrait of an Impatient Filmmaker: Luis Buñuel

2013 • 16 min • France

A documentary about the making of Luis Buñuel's 1977 film THAT OBSCURE OBJECT OF DESIRE, featuring interviews with the assistant director and cinematographer.

Retreat

2013 • 22 min • United Kingdom

A deaf woman finds herself caught between an unforgiving world on the brink of ruin and an isolated commune in the grips of paranoia. The capture of a thief forces her into a life-changing choice.

Roadside Picnic

2013 • 24 min • Japan

"Roadside Picnic" is a piece produced by Hiroyuki Nagashima and Shigeru Matsui, pursuing the possibilities of “a new form of story telling, by the usage of digital sound technology” (financed by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science :JSPS24652030) . At first, this was planned simply as a sound installation, but visuals made by director/film maker Naoki Kato was joined in, eventually bringing to completion as a full film piece.

Scotch Mist in Sussex

2013 • 31 min • United Kingdom

Cast and crew look back at the making of Terror of the Zygons.

Browsers

2013 • 25 min • United States of America

Set in contemporary Manhattan, it follows four young people as they start their first jobs at a news website.

Hatching by Cirque du Soleil

2013 • 46 min

A Documentary on the Creation of OVO, by Cirque du Soleil

The Man Who Was There

2013 • 30 min • Spain

The Spanish journalist Manuel Chaves Nogales (1897-1944) was always there where the news broke out: in the fratricidal Spain of 1936, in Bolshevik Russia, in Fascist Italy, in Nazi Germany, in occupied Paris or in the bombed London of World War II; because his job was to walk, see and tell stories, and thus fight against tyrants, at a time when it was necessary to take sides in order not to be left alone; but he, a man of integrity to the bitter end, never did so.

You Like It, I Love It

2013 • 17 min • Australia

Two brothers kill time in a series of ambiguous vignettes that create a mood both playful and unnerving, taking us through the looking glass of middle-class Australia.

The Last Lioness: Birth of a Pride

2013 • 50 min • South Africa

A haunting call echoes across the Liuwa Plain. There is no answer, there hasn't been for years. She has no pride, no support - she alone must safeguard her own survival. Her name is Lady Liuwa, and she is the Last Lioness. Isolated by a scourge of illegal trophy hunting that wiped out the rest of her species in the region, Lady Liuwa is the only known resident lion surviving on Zambia's Liuwa Plain. For four years, cameraman Herbert Brauer watched her lonely life unfold, until, in her solitude, she reached out to him for companionship. But Herbert knows he is not the companion this lonely lioness needs - she should be amongst her own kind. Now, in May of 2009, plans for a male lion translocation have come through, and there is hope for ending her isolation. For the first time in more than five years, Lady Liuwa will no longer be the Last Lioness This is just a re-titled version of "The Last Lioness"

Der Berührbare - Der Filmregisseur Oskar Röhler

2013 • 52 min • Germany

The "Enfant terrible", the scandalous person, the hope of the German cinema, the new Fassbinder. The director, author and autodidact Oskar Roehler separates the opinions. The actrice Hannelore Elsner even describes him as genius and monster. Roehler got his breakthrough with the film "No place to go", who was celebrated enthusiastically by its audience and critics.

Boudica: A Norfolk Story

2013 • 6 min • United Kingdom

Despite a gap of nearly two thousand years, Boudica remains at the forefront of the public imagination. Her story has been passed down the generations from the original writings of the Romans and she has been continually reinvented to serve as a woman of our age. Set against beautiful watercolours of Norfolk, Emma Calder's film looks at Boudica the woman, what motivated her to keep her freedom and what her story means to us now, that we know so much more about her and her people from recent archaeology. The film shows Boudica and the Iceni tribe and their rebellion against the Romans in first century Britain. The film contrasts the worlds of the indigenous people and their Roman Invaders. In Boudica A Norfolk Story, The film contains all the key ideas about this very interesting period in British history whilst being attractive, playful and engaging for all ages.

Cold Snap

2013 • 11 min • New Zealand

A boy in a forest, trapping animals for a living. The woman next door, planning a fresh start. As a desolate winter sets in, their lives begin to intertwine.

Tanz mit ihr

2013 • 25 min • Germany

A young dance student lives in two worlds, one of which exists merely in her head: a world of sounds with words that cannot be spoken. A world that, as the young woman painfully experiences, cannot be controlled.

Kernel

2013 • 6 min • United Kingdom

When the world has been pushed past breaking point, an aging neurobotanist collects and preserves what little of value remains.