All Films

Mahjong

2013 • 35 min • Portugal

Varziela, Vila do Conde, the biggest Chinatown in Portugal. A man wearing a hat and a missing woman. A high-heeled shoe, a blond wig and a Chinese dress. The confrontation between the East Wind and the Red Dragon; the cardinal points switched as in an ultimate Mahjong game.

Contamination

2013 • 20 min • United States of America

A woman imprisoned in her own home is wrestling with severe Obsessive Compulsive Disorder brought on by paralyzing germaphobia.

Germs

2013 • 3 min • United Kingdom

In Germs, female stereotypes, pseudoscience and promised happiness clash with violent consequences.

Rabbit Bones

2013 • 14 min

Johnny "The White Rabbit" Bones wants a $10,000 grand prize and has a 300lb opponent: what's the worst thing that could happen?

Fumer tue

2013 • 22 min • France

Mechanical Marvels: Clockwork Dreams

2013 • 60 min • United Kingdom

Documentary presented by Professor Simon Schaffer which charts the amazing and untold story of automata - extraordinary clockwork machines designed hundreds of years ago to mimic and recreate life. The film brings the past to life in vivid detail as we see how and why these masterpieces were built. Travelling around Europe, Simon uncovers the history of these machines and shows us some of the most spectacular examples, from an entire working automaton city to a small boy who can be programmed to write and even a device that can play chess. All the machines Simon visits show a level of technical sophistication and ambition that still amazes today.

Wild Side of Cats

2013 • 48 min • United Kingdom

Cat experts explain the behaviors of domestic cats and how their sometimes undesirable actions are really innate instincts, revealing how closely they are still connected to their wild ancestors.

Wings

2013 • 8 min • Spain

Perfection needs preparation. Expectation requires time. Tonight, every little detail has to be - perfect.

Audition Piece

2013 • 18 min

Marina is preparing an audition in a drastic moment of her life when she has to reconsider her vocation and sexual orientation. But the audition piece (separata), a crappy commercial script, will help to find herself.

Bruno S. With Devotion

2013 • 11 min

In his cramped living quarters, Bruno S. unearths his trusty accordion and glockenspiel, singing ballads of little horses and wingless angels.

The New Found

2013 • 12 min • Indonesia

A man with a childhood heartbreak needs to learn to unleash himself free of his past, for a woman who loves him. Through the small events during a man’s journey of life, through colors, textures, and shapes -- will he realize that their hearts are meant to be united?

Juniper Crescent

2013 • 27 min • United Kingdom, Lithuania

Can you get to know someone through a closed door?

Boles

2013 • 13 min • Germany, Slovenia

A stop-motion animation about an author suffering writer's block. When his neighbour asks him to write a letter for her fiancé, he discovers something unusual.

Out of the Blue

2013 • 12 min • United States of America

“Out of the Blue” is about a determined woman fighting her way through a series of unique physical challenges to stop a mad man. Her skills are put to the test when discovering a loved one in danger. The female character’s mission takes a surprising turn that leaves us wondering if it was all just a game.

Last Christmas

2013 • 14 min

Christmas Eve in Berlin Two people in a taxi. A mysterious woman, a grumpy driver. An encounter. In the end, an end but also a beginning.

Heal, Goose

2013 • 13 min • Germany, United Kingdom

A portrait of Berlin youth, sexuality, and identity.

Dead Man's Hand

2013 • 18 min • United States of America

George Gregson's world is turned upside down when he meets a man in a 1940's gentleman's club who refuses to shake hands. Based on Stephen King's short story 'The Man who Would Not Shake Hands'.

Run.

2013 • 10 min

A mysterious boy bursts into an internet café, claiming he is being chased by a murderous foe. The owner does not share his urgency, nor does he seem overly keen on helping the boy, in fact his only advice is to sit at a computer, to 'take machine number 5'. With no alternative, the boy is forced to take a seat and hope that whatever he is running from won't find him in this place with no other exit than the door he came through. But as his fear and paranoia begin to take hold and alter the environment around him, the boy must decide who to trust before it's too late.

2 Girls 1 Cake

2013 • 13 min • Denmark

Two girls reunite after a traumatic near-death experience, which occurs in 10 central minutes of 24-year-old Julie's life. She stands face to face with unbearable injustice.

Amazing Ocean 3D

2013 • 50 min • United States of America

Be amazed by little schools of fish that swim right into your living room. See squid and the elusive octopus up close, along with the magnificent manta ray, and experience dolphins and turtles as well. Shot in stereoscopic 3D, Amazing Ocean 3D is a breathtakingly beautiful 50-minute experience for your whole family.

Blue & Malone, Imaginary Detectives

2013 • 20 min • Spain

Gobinchu, Marc's imaginary friend, has disappeared. Berta, his younger sister, hires detectives Blue & Malone, a giant cat and a plasticine dog, to investigate what happened. Together, they tour the house living many adventures and knowing and facing numerous fantastic creatures.

Windy Day

2013 • 4 min • United States of America

A story about a mouse and his hat.

You're Dead to Me

2013 • 12 min

Andrea, a grieving Chicana mother, confronts an uninvited family member before her Día de los Muertos celebration. By night's end, death offers her a choice that she couldn't make in life.

Dirty Bill of Health

2013 • 13 min

What if a simple visit to the doctor became the ultimate showdown? DIRTY BILL OF HEALTH is an intriguing thriller with a hint of dark humor that follows a seemingly easy going WILLIAM, to his first check up. When the straight laced DR. SELAURS drops a series of odd questions and the ultimate test, the audience may ask who's really testing who. Nothing is what it seems with a Doctor versus Patient moment that flips the oath 'Do No Harm' upside down.