All Films

Red Rider

2013 • 17 min • United States of America

Set in a post-apocalyptic future, a lone woman plots against a dangerous biker gang. Can her revenge lead to justice?

Death of a Prisoner

2013 • 9 min • United States of America

The filmmaker Laura Poitras follows the tragic return home to Yemen of a Guantánamo Bay prison detainee, Adnan Latif.

Heart of Nowhere

2013 • 27 min

Some time not far from now, it was decided that adolescents were detrimental to a well-functioning society. Upon turning thirteen, teenagers were quarantined onto an island within the city, colloquially known as Teenland. At the age of 18, the inhabitants of Teen-land are forced to join adulthood. The memories of their childhood are erased and they start a new life In this slightly dystopian scape, lives a band, The Nuclear Toads. After being rounded up to be processed for adulthood, they manage to escape and buy themselves one last night of adolescence in which they will perform their final show. This film is the story of that night.

Wax

2013 • 15 min • United States of America

In an attempt to break away from her religious upbringing, a young Jewish woman sets up an Internet date. The cruelty of casual sex triggers a painful obsession that this fragile character must overcome.

Storefront

2013 • 8 min • United States of America

When Lauren gets kicked out of her apartment by her now ex-boyfriend, she rents a vacant storefront to live in and begins selling her things to pay the rent. An interesting customer discovers her secret and they try to figure out, together, what their next steps should be.

Directing Dolly: Gene Kelly Remembered

2013 • 10 min • United States of America

Patricia Ward Kelly remembers Gene Kelly directing "Hello, Dolly!"

Ludmila en Cuba

2013 • 7 min • Argentina

Ludmila Vieytes is in a cockfight in Cuba. With her baby in her arms and in a wheelchair, she comes to a passive acceptance of the torture, of the human and divine violence that shapes her beliefs.

Without Gorky

2013 • 58 min

A personal journey into a family myth. The life of my grandmother, my mother and my aunt continues to be influenced by my grandfather: the Abstract Expressionist painter Arshile Gorky whose suicide in 1948 dictates fraught family dynamics.

Sleeping Hammock

2013 • 6 min

Rede de Dormir starring Gilda Nomacce, Vitor Dutra, and Cida Augusto. A tale about the hammock and its forgotten use as a shroud.

Rúbaí

2013 • 12 min • Ireland

As her classmates prepare for their First Holy Communion, Rubai announces that she is an atheist and refuses to participate.

Getting Stoned with Alex Karpovksy

2013 • 30 min

Caveh gets stoned with Alex Karpovsky.

It Happened in Sköndal

2013 • 12 min • Sweden

One night goes on and the morning goes by. With stylistic melancholy found in Jan Stenmark's popular images we follow a few people in the small residential district in Sköndal.

Blue Season

2013 • 6 min • United Kingdom

A woman wakes up hanging upside down. When she screams for help, a phone rings and a voice helps her escape.

Image Latent

2013 • 52 min

"Image Latent" explores the life of Parviz Kimiavi, a key yet underappreciated figure in Iran’s avant-garde and New Wave cinema. The film offers a glimpse into his world, following his Parisian wanderings and capturing his evolving passion and love for filmmaking.

Blood Is Thicker Than Water: The Making of Halloween H20

2013 • 60 min

Producer Malek Akkad, producer Paul Freeman, writer Robert Zappia, cinematographer Daryn Okada, editor Patrick Lussier, composer John Ottman, stunt coordinator Donna Keegan, make-up artist Brad Hardin and actors Jamie Lee Curtis, Josh Hartnett, Jodi Lyn O'Keefe, Nancy Stephens, Adam Hann-Byrd, Tom Kane and Chris Durand discuss all things H20 in this sprawling HD retrospective.

Flat Chested

2013 • 24 min

Amanda, after testing positive for the BRCA gene mutation, has a specific plan to say goodbye to her breasts the weekend before her preventative double mastectomy, but her sister comes to town with a list of her own ideas for the weekend.

Croft

2013 • 19 min • Canada

A woman will risk everything for the life of a young girl held hostage by a group of Mercenaries that hold her hostage high in the mountains.

Life Is Beautiful

2013 • 10 min • Netherlands

Anton may be done with life, but life ain’t done with Anton. In his convincing decision to change his measly existence he discovers the real greatness of life.

Queens of Jazz: The Joy and Pain of the Jazz Divas

2013 • 59 min • United Kingdom

The documentary tracks the diva's difficult progress as she emerges from the tough, testosterone-fuelled world of the big bands of the 30s and 40s, to fill nightclubs and saloons across the US in the 50s and early 60s as a force in her own right. Looking at the lives and careers of six individual singers (Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee, Sarah Vaughan, Nina Simone and Annie Ross), the film not only talks to those who knew and worked with these queens of jazz, but also to contemporary singers who sit on the shoulders of these trailblazing talents without having to endure the pain and hardship it took for them to make their highly individual voices heard above the prejudice of mid-century America.

The Phone Call

2013 • 20 min • United Kingdom

Heather is a shy lady who works in a helpline call centre. When she receives a phone call from a mystery man, she has no idea that the encounter will change her life forever.

Shazam and the Lost Path

2013 • 57 min • United States of America

When an unlikely group of travelers cross the desert in search of the land of hope and plenty, they take the wrong turn! Who will save them? Will they ever find this land, this land filled with plush carpet everywhere you turn, this land called -- Las Vegas?

No Sign of the Wind

2013 • 14 min • South Africa

A family man, struggling to maintain his status as patriarch, finds himself infected by the insecurities of his wife leading to devastating consequences and tragedy.

Greenboy: Prescription for Death

2013 • 11 min • United States of America

Proof-of-Concept for the original series Electric Television.

Swoopes

2013 • 60 min • United States of America

Sheryl Swoopes famously has been labeled as the female Michael Jordan, but that's only part of the story. On the court, she was nearly as dominant as Jordan, winning a national championship with Texas Tech, three Olympic gold medals, three MVP awards and four consecutive championships with the Houston Comets of the WNBA, the league she helped start. She even had a Nike shoe named after her, the Air Swoopes. Off the court, she has had a life full of transitions. She gave birth to her son, Jordan, during the inaugural season of the WNBA. Later, she divorced her high school sweetheart and became the highest-profile athlete in her sport to acknowledge she was gay. She has struggled with love, money and personal identity, but has never lost her spirit. In this portrait, you will meet someone who is not your everyday superstar, but a woman who has defied a multitude of labels.