All Films

Swallow

2013 • 10 min • Australia

What happens when a gay priest dates a werewolf and the homophobic neighbors come knocking?

Dawn

2013 • 8 min

A girl, locked in a room, makes a magical portal to escape reality using her imagination, a stuffed rabbit and a diamond. She travels to a dark forest where she meets a mysterious man with an animal mask. Back to reality, her domineering mother prepares a birthday cake and after a while enters the room. The girl seems indifferent during the visit, but suddenly decides to hug her mother. Soon, the mother is seduced and lured into a dance with her daughter, only to find herself trapped on the other side of the portal, into the dark world her daughter created.

Russia's Open Book: Writing in the Age of Putin

2013 • 55 min

Who is the new Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, or Gogol waiting to be discovered by the English-speaking world? Hosted by actor, author, and activist Stephen Fry, focuses on six authors whose vibrant, idiosyncratic work continues to gain traction with a global audience: Dmitry Bykov, Mariam Petrosyan, Zakhar Prilepin, Anna Starobinets, Vladimir Sorokin, and Lyudmila Ultiskaya. With contributions from their literary critics, publishers, and peers, the film features extensive interviews with each author.

Cool Cat Finds a Gun

2013 • 22 min • United States of America

Cool Cat and his friends find a gun and then Cool Cat shows kids the right thing to do if they find a gun or see someone at school that has one.

Holiday at the Seaside

2013 • 16 min • Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Romania

Amalia, a girl of thirteen, gets her first period one day before leaving for the seaside with her parents.

Modern Warfare: Sunrise

2013 • 7 min

Captain Price and John "Soap" Mactavish are sent on a secret mission in Russia to kill or captures Alexander Petrovic, a mysterious terrorist who's been working Makarov.

The Egg Trick

2013 • 7 min • United Kingdom

Do you know the joke about the broken egg?

Pocket Rocket

2013 • 9 min • Switzerland

The two fishermen never expected such a catch: instead of a trout, the two pull out an alien that had to make an emergency landing with its rocket in their idyllic Alpine lake. To the rescue! However, the interstellar roadside service has several technical pitfalls for the cosmic trio. Nevertheless, the spaceship manages to return to outer space – thanks to earthly ingenuity.

Camino a la meta

2013 • 52 min • Ecuador, Spain

The documentary follows the classification, preparation and participation in the Olympic Games of the athletes Beatriz Pascual, Rolando Saquipay and Claudio Villanueva.

Samurai Headhunters

2013 • 47 min • United Kingdom

A documentary on the dark and brutal side of the Samurai warrior clans featuring the life of peasant Masa who is pressganged into the ruthless world of the Samurai.

THEO Vol. 2: God's Grace

2013 • 29 min • United States of America

The second in a five-part animated DVD series about an English Pastor named "Theo" and his lovable friends, God's Grace teaches children about the most important aspects of Godly living in three parts: "Armor of God," "Redemption," and "New Birth."

409

2013 • 13 min • Macedonia

A middle aged man who seemingly has everything he wants, escapes from his home to a hotel room where through his imaginary lover is trying to find emotional peace.

Bouddhi Bouddha

2013 • 8 min

A girl, just back from a journey to Nepal, invites a friend at home. They talk and after a while decide to make a meditation session. A session which will change their relationship.

Portraits of Moscow Voyages: In Search of Laika

2013 • 4 min • France

Exploring Moscow and paying tribute to Laika, the first dog in space.

Thursday

2013 • 2 min • United States of America

A short film made for “Venezia 70 - Future Reloaded”. Masses moving across the sweltering concrete, to the glass towers and into the subway mouths, eyes glued to the little screens, inhaling the images from halfway around the globe, oblivious to the life at their own feet.

Dans les coulisses: le tournage de 'Trois Places pour le 26'

2013 • 34 min • France

Behind-the scenes documentary on Jacques Demy's 'Trois places pour le 26'

The Swing of Things

2013 • 10 min • United States of America

A wallflower at a 1940's swing dance supper party is determined not to be a wallflower anymore. As a silent-era film set at a swing dance, the film features dancing that hearkens back to classic movie musicals.

Burrow

2013 • 17 min • Australia, China

At a prestigious Beijing university, Weichen prepares for his first sexual encounter under the pressures of inflated expectation and nightmarish anxieties surrounding his mother. Set within the world of the post-'90s generation of Chinese youth, BURROW is a dark coming-of-age story about the paralyzing nature of self-doubt about the primal responses we have to our fear of failure.

The Jacket & The Dress

2013 • 14 min

An ex-couple find themselves back in each other's lives for a short evening.

There's Something in My Room

2013 • 4 min • United States of America

Alice can't really communicate with ghosts. She is just pretending...isn't she? Robyn hopes so.

The Benaki Museum

2013 • 8 min • Greece

A promotional video directed by Athina Rachel Tsangari and narrated by Willem Dafoe about the history and the importance of the Museum Benaki.

Our New Electrical Morals

2013 • 5 min • United States of America

Douglas and Business Cat find a baby that ruins their business.

A Night at the Movies: Cops & Robbers and Crime Writers

2013 • 55 min • United States of America

Writers of crime fiction and nonfiction discuss influential movies about police officers and the criminal element.

Alleycats

2013 • 9 min • United Kingdom

Fast, dangerous and unsettling, ALLEY CATS is a tense urban thriller set against the backdrop of an underground activity, which is at the cutting edge of urban subculture.