All Films

Oil Man

2013 • 4 min

Jim Rodgers is in the world's oldest profession, doing business the 'old school' way. In fact, Jim likes everything old, except his women.

Zakaria

2013 • 28 min • France

Zak is living in a village in Southern France. He has a quiet life, with his wife and his two kids. When he learns about his father's death in Algeria, he decides to go there with his family. Sarah, his daughter, refuses to come with him.

The Broken Woman

2013 • 8 min • Uruguay

A seriously injured woman takes a rusty elevator from the ground floor to the sixth floor in an apartment building. She is bleeding and covered in glass. What has happened to her? Why is she there?

Friend

2013 • 7 min • Canada

A lonely, grief stricken man finds a new lease on life after an unusual 'friend' is mysteriously delivered to his door. A unique relationship forms, until tragedy reveals that this 'friend' was just one of many.

Sexwork, Love & Mr Right

2013 • 54 min

Amsterdam's world-famous red-light district is the fascinating backdrop to the story of plucky prostitute Lina as she searches for Mr Right. Lina thinks she has found true love with American punter Sean, but she may be treading a fine line between fantasy and reality. Could Sean be her Prince Charming or will she end up heartbroken? With hard-won access to this notoriously secretive, hidden world, Sexwork, Love & Mr Right will be a revealing and thought-provoking documentary with multiple supporting narratives from experienced punters to wise madams. As streetwise sexworker Lina navigates the highs and lows of her precarious new relationship, the film asks can sexworkers ever really find true love?

Gita Govinda

2013 • 35 min • India

The 18th century Pahari miniatures illustrating the verses of 'Gita Govinda' by the poet Jayadeva, are also loving and intimate portraits of the verdant landscape of the Kangra Valley. Nature becomes a primary actor and the director focuses on the alchemy of the 'transformation of nature in art.'

The Naughty List

2013 • 46 min • United States of America

After two young elves give Santa and the North Pole food poisoning they must redeem their Naughty List status by finding a way to save Christmas.

The Trial of Barnaby Finch

2013 • 3 min • United States of America

To swat or not to swat? That is the question an errant fly poses to our hapless hero, Barnaby Finch, at the penultimate moment of his job interview. Filmed in split-screen, the potential consequences of Barnaby's weighty decision ripple out in absurdist waves, cascading toward an unexpected climax in this 2.5-minute metaphysical comedy

Stracomb Tope de Fuerte

2013 • 19 min • Spain

An epic story full of special effects and chases.

The Waterwheel

2013 • 6 min • Mexico

In a small town, time stops for a father who has lost his son.

Moses of Prosthesis

2013 • 3 min • Japan

The legless ghost of a girl discovers some disembodied tap shoes, dancing to "Moses Supposes" from Singin' in the Rain, and attempts to join them in their dance.

Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 1: Ghost Pain

2013 • 58 min • Japan

The story is set in 2027, one year after the end of the fourth non-nuclear war. New Port City is still reeling from the war's aftermath when it suffers a bombing caused by a self-propelled mine. Then, a military member implicated in arms-dealing bribes is gunned down. During the investigation, Public Security Section's Daisuke Aramaki encounters Motoko Kusanagi, the cyborg, wizard-level hacker assigned to the military's 501st Secret Unit. Batou, a man with the "eye that does not sleep," suspects that Kusanagi is the one behind the bombing. The Niihama Prefectural Police detective Togusa is pursuing his own dual cases of the shooting death and a prostitute's murder. Motoko herself is being watched by the 501st Secret Unit's head Kurutsu and cyborg agents.

Sleeping with the Fishes

2013 • 10 min • United Kingdom

Sonja lives a lonely life as a fishmonger, more at ease with her fish than her customers, until one day a delivery man turns up who looks like a rainbow trout.

By the Salish Sea

2013 • 12 min • United States of America

In the early 19th century on the Pacific Northwest coast, a young Salish native's vision quest is disturbed by the arrival of a tall ship.

Camino a Europa

2013 • 14 min • Puerto Rico

An interracial couple, Seba and Cecilia, have lived a fully creative life as sculptor and photographer and have enjoyed traveling the world. But now that Cecilia has cancer, she fears she won't be able to enjoy the life she's had and wishes she could travel again. Seba uses his creative skills as artist to magically transport Cecilia on a journey through memories they've shared.

Body. Cake. Lake.

2013 • 3 min • Canada

Walking nude along the dusty railroad tracks of life, a woman loves up her Body once she discovers a sweet decorous Cake in her path. She dances to her own whistled tune, then steps into the nearby Lake, frenzied with cake lust. An innocent film, Body. Cake. Lake. celebrates sensuality as gloriously monstrous.

Parole povere

2013 • 52 min • Italy

“I approached Pierluigi Cappello when he became my bedside table companion. We didn’t know each other, but were already intimate. His poems are full of images, I might even have dreamt some. I didn’t know anything about his personal life, about the motorcycle accident when he was sixteen, and that he spent the rest of his life in a wheelchair. There’s no trace of it in the poems: in his verses Pierluigi runs, and sometimes he flies.”

House of Lies Live

2013 • 30 min • United States of America

Unscripted, Live, and Hilarious. See the 'House of Lies' cast like you've never seen them before as they perform long-form improv live from the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater.

Theatrum Orbis Terrarum

2013 • 28 min • Portugal

In the sixteenth century the Padrão Real hung from the ceiling of the Map Room in the Casa da Índia. It was a secret map, guarded from the eyes of foreign spies, which was changed and reworked with the comings and goings of each expedition. Aided by scientific equipment to measure distance, the navigators dreamed up the representation of the expanses that they had covered. When at sea, they looked up to the heavens and gauged their path by the stars, hands drawing in space fictional lines that carved territories. Upon returning to shore, they took the map that had previously belonged to others as their own, erasing divisive lines and constructing new borders. The map that they followed has been lost over time, and what remains of it is a stolen copy, made from memory by one of the cartographers in order to outwit enemies.

Fiendish Funnies

2013 • 3 min • Taiwan

Scientologists at War

2013 • 60 min • United Kingdom, United States of America

Scientologists at War examines the independent Scientology movement and the high level defectors who have publicly renounced their membership from the Church of Scientology. Marty Rathbun is one of the most senior defectors in Scientology's history. As the former Inspector General of Ethics in the organisation that was created by science fiction writer L Ron Hubbard, Rathbun worked closely with its leader, David Miscavige, and celebrity follower Tom Cruise. The film provides a rare insider view of the Church of Scientology.

Audition

2013 • 14 min • United Kingdom

On a cold British evening, Cherry Smith goes for an audition at first-time director Beaufort Bladamir's house, who's passion for realism pushes the boundaries of cinema, and Cherry herself.

Adam's Pineapple

2013 • 12 min • France

Brooklyn, NY. At the next stop, Adam is sure that the girl of his dreams will get on the bus and sit next to him. But when he opens his eyes, all he finds is a pineapple. This is the beginning of a strange relationship between the two, that nobody seems to understand. Nobody, except maybe Kathleen

Persona

2013 • 6 min • United States of America

Amongst contributions from talents such as Inez & Vinoodh, Hedi Slimane and Eniko, 25 Magazine also commissioned a fashion film by NYC based fimmaker Gordon von Steiner. He explores the issue's theme of 'narcissism' with the help of his star, model Edita Vilkevičiūtė who comfortably plays the part of the female protagonist.