All Films

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.

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.