All Films

Rihanna: No Regrets

2013 • 60 min • United Kingdom

Rihanna is one of the most diverse superstars in modern music. Her catchy melodies and vibrant charisma has allured fans all around the world. This documentary tells the story of the multi-award winning artist's triumphant journey from poverty and obscurity to becoming a worldwide pop sensation. To date she has sold over 100 million records worldwide, making her one of the best selling music artists of all time. We take an in-depth look into her off stage life and learn about her love hate relationship with R&B singer Chris Brown and how they plan to move on from the abusive past and on to a positive future.

My Frame

2013 • 8 min • Japan

Suffering from her delusion, K tries to depict her disorder in her paintings. In her dream, she finds a frame, which makes her believe that drawing is her destiny.

Steve Rannazzisi: Manchild

2013 • 60 min • United States of America

You might know Steve Rannazzisi as “Kevin” on “The League,” but he’s also one of the funniest stand-up comedians working today and he’s coming to a city near you. Get your tickets now. Debuting on Comedy Central November 16th 2013.

The Voyage

2013 • 29 min • Sweden

The year is 1941 in Sweden and Astrid seeks independence by trying to become a train conductor. On the train she meets an older passenger Dora, which she feels attracted to. Astrid also faces a more dark and hostile world on board as she discovers that the staff has put in system to reject unwanted passengers such as Romans and Jews.

Play and Save

2013 • 14 min • Macedonia

Gligor, a young misfit from a countryside becomes marked by his instinctive need to deal with irregularities which a time-storm imposes. He is recalling the dramatic scenes of the past - from rattle games, from delicate moments with Marija, from the foreign mockery and from the pointless heroism - he finally comes across an absurd ring like a new purified and transformed man devoted to his native hearth and God's salvation.

The Busy Young Psychic

2013 • 29 min • Taiwan

Xie Junya is a teenage girl who possesses the innate ability to see the dead, a problem that has troubled her for a long time. She sought help at a temple, but the problem was not solved. Instead, many devotees gather to ask her questions about their deceased loved ones and even winning lottery numbers. Her work as a psychic leaves her with no time to practice baseball. What she really cares about is whether a guy in her school’s baseball team likes her. The boy she has a crush on invites Junya to his birthday party. However, there is a long line of people waiting at the temple for her advice. How will she choose between love and her sacred mission?

Kk

2013 • 30 min • Sweden

A film about young love and the first confusing steps towards a sexual identity.

Otis Redding: Soul Ambassador

2013 • 60 min

Profile of the soul singer, documenting his childhood and career, including unseen home movies that reveal how his 1967 tour of Britain dramatically changed his life and music. Plus, footage of rare performances and intimate interviews with Redding's widow, daughter and previous band members Steve Cropper and Booker T.

45 Degrees

2013 • 15 min

Athens, August 2012. 45 degrees. The fridge is empty. The situation is very tense. A father changes under the burden of the economic crisis. It's getting dark and its still boiling hot. A capital at the border of exploding.

Paranormal Roommates

2013 • 8 min

When government office clerk Harvey Underwood is called in to work he must leave his roommates Nessie and Bigfoot alone in his apartment, allowing the cryptozoologic duo to get into mischief while he is gone.

I’m Nothing

2013 • 4 min • Japan

I get up in the morning, prepare myself, wait for a bus, then the train, go to school, and return home. Days go by even while I wonder about, cry, or sleep.

Wolfsong

2013 • 4 min • United States of America

A mother wolf breaks into a hunter's den and takes back her cub, only to find it a motionless trophy. She sings a lullaby hoping that the cub would finally sleep. Little does she know that a young hunter stalks them back from the den.

Defocusin

2013 • 18 min • Russia

A former research assistant Pasha is trying to invent defocusin at home. The substance that will render public persons' image to be out of focus in unwanted pictures. For about half a year Pasha has been testing the substance prototypes on his wife...

The Return of Brent

2013 • 11 min • United Kingdom

In this mockumentary short, we revisit David Brent ten years after the events of “The Office” and find him helping young rapper Dom Johnson record his demo. But can Brent resist a chance to steal the limelight?

Great Daena: Pain and Cruelty

2013 • 7 min

"Pain and Cruelt" :In a world of violence and cruelty, only those with the power to dominate can survive. In act one, three murderous bandits make a discovery that they will regret for the rest of their short lives.

Tomorrow All the Things

2013 • 18 min • Argentina

Julia and Diego spend a weekend taking care of Diego’s nephew, in a house far from the city. Everything goes on normally until Julia’s visit to the hospital changes completely their relation.

Tomou Café e Esperou

2013 • 13 min

Carlos goes to the kitchen and makes some coffee. The time that sets apart yesterday from now.

O Sembene!

2013 • 56 min

Meeting of two greats, Cissé's tribute to the dean of African cinema is without discours, without pathos. It is the one returned by his mini camera, which attends the funeral ceremonies that marked the departure of Ousmane Sembene in Dakar, and finds the relatives of Sembene in the house he had built in Yoff, directly on rocks beaten by the ocean. These simple and close images, with a distance from the ceremonial that Sembene would have appreciated, those briefly borrowed from his films and archives, weave a film full of friendship and fraternity.

Auschwitz on My Mind

2013 • 16 min • United Kingdom, Israel, Poland

The Journey of Roy, a 17-year-old Israeli teenager, trying to win the affection of a girl from his class while they both travel in Poland with their school between Holocaust memorials and death camps.

The Lady Bruins Christmas Slumber Party

2013 • 23 min • United States of America

Every year for Christmas, a group of young ladies get together for their annual White Elephant Gift Exchange. But this year all the ladies get the same gift - terror.

Kidnap Party

2013 • 14 min

Michael resents the attention his rescued kidnapping victim of a sister, Traci, is receiving at his birthday party, so he concocts a mischievous plan to reclaim due fame.

Jackie Without Jack

2013 • 52 min

“Never, ever, publish them!” What was it Jackie Kennedy wanted to keep secret? Acclaimed director Patrick Jeudy has access to a series of conversations recorded a few months after her husband’s assassination in Dallas on November 22, 1963. The Lady in Pink was continually driven by a dual purpose: that of molding her own image, whilst managing that of the president. She cannot change the past, so she may as well rewrite it and start to build the legend of JFK.

Pincée d'amour

2013 • 4 min • France

This short tells the story of one crab who became a jilted lover. Even among crustaceans, love stories can end badly.

The Dancing Snake

2013 • 7 min

A short film based on Charles Baudelaire's poem "Le serpent qui danse" ("The Dancing Snake"), from his book Les Fleurs du mal.