All Films

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.

Naked

2013 • 11 min • Spain

A message from Javier's boyfriend changes his family situation and causes them to reconsider their relationships.

Maliw

2013 • 30 min • Philippines

A young woman revisiting memories of a lost love days before Martial Law is proclaimed -- an old, jaded mechanic -- a young man on his way to the countryside encountering a host of militia men and their tortured captive -- these are stories of forgotten hopes, of wearied struggles, of memories lost. Can they still be ever found?

Misterio

2013 • 11 min • Spain

They say that if you put your ear to the back of his neck, you can hear the Virgin talk.

Downtown Dream

2013 • 45 min • United States of America

Once one of the country's largest steel manufacturing centers, Lewistown, PA, lost its manufacturing base and industrial might a generation ago and became a "ghost town." This film follows five dynamic men and women living in Lewistown who refuse to be counted out and instead struggle to reinvent their lives and their dreams in America's chilly economic climate.

26

2013 • 13 min • France

As the song says: "I'm 26 years old but only 4 useful. I don't understand anything". 8 people read aloud private texts (sms, letters, emails) written or received by Daphné Hérétakis in the months leading up to her 26th birthday. The film proposes to take these texts out of the realm of intimacy and put them back into the public space and the collective nature of the film. The result is a romantic and absurd cadavre exquis, which addresses slightly depressed sensibilities.

Once Upon a Time...

2013 • 18 min • France

In 1913, designer Coco Chanel opens her first boutique in the French city of Deauville.

J. Kramer

2013 • 3 min • Spain

J. Kramer is a publicist who wants to win Marisa, a girl he met in a club. She thinks that publicists are stupid, will J. Kramer manage to change this girl's mind?

Soulmate

2013 • 6 min • United States of America

Two couples who accidentally run into each others soulmates in New York City.

Listening is an Act of Love

2013 • 22 min • United States of America

The first-ever animated feature from StoryCorps, Listening Is an Act of Love, presents six stories from 10 years of StoryCorps, where everyday people sit down together to ask life’s important questions and share stories from their lives. Framing these intimate conversations is an interview between StoryCorps founder Dave Isay and his nine-year-old nephew, Benji.