All Films

Inside the Fifty Shades: Real Women Confess

2013 • 60 min • United States of America

A cinematic exploration of the dominance and submission lifestyle as revealed in the best-selling book trilogy Fifty Shades of Grey. In this film, real women and men reveal their experiences, wants and desires as participants in the world of dominance and submission.

Gypsy

2013 • 18 min • Portugal

Sebastian is a wealthy young man. He finds out he has a flat tire and ends up accepting help from a Gypsy passer by. In return Sebastian will have to give him a ride home - but they won't reach their expected destination.

Free Pie

2013 • 11 min • United States of America

A traumatic comedy about life, death, pie and death.

Damn Son Where'd You Find This?

2013 • 4 min • United States of America

Who is the voice behind drops like "Damn son where'd you find this?" A reporter goes on the case to find the answer and finds someone he never expected.

Breath

2013 • 8 min • Italy

A tormented love story set in an unknown time. Every choice the characters make has an influence on the others with a sort of "butterfly effect".

Mickey Mouse Clubhouse - Mickey Saves Santa

2013 • 24 min

Bridges

2013 • 16 min • Canada

An aging couple hire a young actor to temporarily take the place of their deceased daughter.

The Joy of ABBA

2013 • 60 min • United Kingdom

Combining European musical influences, perfect production and lyrics of love and loss, ABBA made us fall in love with the sound of Swedish melancholy. This documentary explores the music of ABBA and chronicles how they conquered both Sweden and Britain in the face of constant criticism.

That Boy Emil

2013 • 60 min • Sweden, Germany

‘E-e-emil!’ shouts father across the small farm in Katthult, the boy is up to his old tricks and will have to be banished to the woodshed. Except that Emil doesn’t see this as punishment – on the contrary: he locks the door from inside so that he can continue undisturbed to carve another of his wooden figures, of which he has a whole collection. His little sister Ida also wants to sit inside the shed, but she’s too well-behaved. This new adaptation of Astrid Lindgren’s beloved tales from her book ‘Emil of Lönneberga’ portrays the sunny side of life in the country at the beginning of the twentieth century.

Invictus: Caesar's Mail

2013 • 17 min • Spain

Plop Special: The Wishing Stone

2013 • 36 min • Belgium

Hermanas

2013 • 14 min • Mexico

Two sisters have been evicted from their home. Older sister Lupe takes responsibility for the move while younger sister Luz is under the spell of her boyfriend.

Noon

2013 • 12 min • United States of America

NOON is a scene from a completed feature screenplay. The short sets up the world’s unique premise and introduces our protagonist, Gray, a coyote numbed to the cruelty of the world and his part in it. We watch Gray struggle to salvage what humanity still exists within him when profit is pitted against morality.

Judge Minty

2013 • 27 min • United Kingdom

Judge Minty is a not for profit fan film based on the world of the comic book character 'Judge Dredd'. It is an original work, following the tale of a secondary figure from the stories. Judge William Minty has spent his entire adult life policing the violent streets of Mega-City One and now he's slowing down. When a lapse of judgement almost ends his life, he knows that it's time to quit. He can choose to teach in the Academy, or he can leave the city and walk alone out into the anarchy of the Cursed Earth, taking law to the lawless.

In the Encirclement

2013 • 18 min • Russia

Short film created from footage that has not been incorporated in the final cut of the film "The White Tiger" In June 1944 the Soviet arm encircled 53 army corps of General Gollwitzer in the Vitebsk area. The Germans fiercely defended themselves, and the Soviet army tightened the rina...

TiPi

2013 • 12 min

13 year-old Toby discovers his true place, or lack there of, in his group of friends after a trip into the woods.

The Goblin Market

2013 • 13 min • Canada

A young woman's journey to the under belly, to confront those who claimed her sister's innocence, risks her own seduction.

The Big Leap

2013 • 13 min • Poland, Sweden

The financial crisis has brought three people to the edge or, to be more precise, to the roof of a sky scraper. Sarah, John and Ben reached a dead end. Everything divides them, even their faith, but they have only one thing in common – all of them have decided to commit suicide. Different questions arise in their conversation, which only strengthens their belief that the answers will be found only in the Big Leap. The Big Leap is a metaphoric story on ultimate questions made with gusto and a touch of humour.

Kimchi Fried Dumplings

2013 • 14 min • Canada

Carls the eldest of three brothers and is expected to be a role model for the family. He wants to show his family that he made the right choice to move away. However, youngest brother Adam's unexpected hostility reveals the problems with Carls choices.

Blue Planet Brothers

2013 • 60 min

In modern Tokyo, three unlikely characters find themselves together on a bench: a samurai from the feudal era, an alien from the planet Cygnus, and an anthropomorphic goblin. The three, between chatter and smoked cigarettes, will intertwine their stories in various environments of the Japanese capital

Remnants of a Life

2013 • 30 min • Sweden

A gripping portrait of two sisters from the Congo who find themselves in Sweden without residence permits. We follow the joys and sadness of their everyday lives, lived under the constant threat of extradition back to a certain death.

At Sea

2013 • 30 min • United Kingdom

No Mar is a film about Cecília, the only teacher on a small fishing island. One fateful morning Cecília's daughter Maria asks her best friend Lúcia to cover for her as she goes to the beach to watch her father's boat come in. She never returns. Cecília struggles to deal with the guilt of her daughters death and attempts to embrace the impoverished Lúcia. Lúcia's own struggle with her friends death and eventual confession, forces Cecília to reconcile with her own grief and loss.

My Dear Americans

2013 • 7 min • United States of America

A short narrative funded by Film Independent, My Dear Americans is about a Sikh woman’s defiant spirit. A recent immigrant to the U.S, Tejpreet is reluctant to embrace her new American identity. In contrast, her husband celebrates everything that mildly reeks of America. On America’s most patriotic holiday, the fourth of July, they have a threatening racist encounter that crushes the Sikh man’s enthusiastic spirit. Witnessing her husband’s devastation, Tejpreet makes a choice against hate and turns the situation around, if only momentarily.

The Library

2013 • 31 min • Thailand

Jim falls in love with Ann who works at a library at first sight. The only obstacle for his love is the library's rule - "Keep Quiet." So he writes down his feeling for her in the books he borrows. Unfortunately, Ann never realizes what he does until one day she accidentally sees his messages but Jim doesn't show up at the library anymore with unknown reasons. How will this love end - in laughter or tears?