All Films

Portraits de Voyages Yémen : Les Maisons tours

2013 • 4 min • France

Visit to a famous Sana'a tower house with an architect

Nous sommes tous des êtres penchés...

2013 • 28 min • France

Paul tries to prove his worth to his father. However, for that to happen, his father would have to give him at least one chance.

Old Rivalry

2013 • 9 min • United States of America

Excited to celebrate their new engagement, Mark and Alexis invite their fathers over for dinner to meet one another only to quickly discover that their dads, Larry and Phillip, have been bitter rivals since childhood.

By this River

2013 • 14 min • Australia

A young boy builds a raft to reach his mother in the land of the dead, which he believes is at the end of the river that runs alongside their property.

Impromptu

2013 • 10 min • Canada

Director Bruce Alcock takes his inspiration from Chopin’s eponymous composition in this wonderful 3D animation, which pays tribute to the moments of beautiful chaos that can spring suddenly from the mundane.

Night and Day

2013 • 13 min • United States of America

A young woman tries to hold it together during a tense and unpredictable evening with her brother and estranged husband.

Our Sooni

2013 • 8 min

Sooni is an old lady who has not been able to eat a meal properly due to a breakup recently. Such a friend of Sooni, an electric rice cooker, wants to feed Sooni.

Dark Universe

2013 • 24 min • United States of America

Narrated by Neil deGrasse Tyson, Dark Universe brings audiences to the cutting edge of cosmic exploration to reveal the breakthroughs that have led astronomers to confront two great cosmic mysteries: dark matter and dark energy. In stunningly detailed scenes based on authentic scientific data—including a NASA probe’s breathtaking plunge into Jupiter’s atmosphere and novel visualizations of unobservable dark matter—Dark Universe celebrates the pivotal discoveries that have led us to greater knowledge of the universe and to new frontiers for exploration.

Blue Room

2013 • 11 min • United States of America

A seemingly chance encounter at a bar culminates into something far more darker.

Bear Has a Story to Tell

2013 • 9 min • United States of America

In this endearing tale of friendship, animals are helped by Bear to get ready for winter. But will they be awake long enough for him to tell his story?

Battles

2013 • 12 min • United States of America

The tale of a man who has run away from his home life as he suffers from depression. He hides away in a hotel room waiting for someone or something to give him the strength he needs to return to reality.

September

2013 • 22 min • Belgium, France

Judith attempts to work out why her partner appears not to be that interested in her, whilst other men appear to care more.

Chris D'Elia: White Male. Black Comic.

2013 • 60 min • United States of America

Powerhouse stand-up Chris D’Elia takes New Orleans by storm in his very first one-hour stand-up special, “White Male. Black Comic.,” on Comedy Central. British dudes, drunk girls, and bears on romantic dates at Applebee’s. Hey, why is it that we are the only species that makes love, anyway? Chris D’Elia explains the hilarious truth and more in this dynamic new special.

Thiago Pethit: Moon

2013 • 7 min

Video for Thiago Pethit's "Moon."

New Secrets of the Terracotta Warriors

2013 • 55 min • United Kingdom

With exclusive access to research conducted by University College London and the Terracotta Army Museum, this documentary uncovers new secrets of China's fabled warriors. The discovery of China's famous Terracotta Army in 1974 captured the imagination of the world. But that first dig only revealed a fraction of this enormous and extraordinary treasure. Since then, scientists have resumed work on the site, and their research has turned up a series of new discoveries about the warriors and the people who made them over two millennia ago.

Lost Angel

2013 • 17 min • United States of America

When a young Dutch tourist gets stranded at the start of his US vacation, he finds help from an unlikely stranger.

Stories Sarah Tells

2013 • 4 min • Canada

Tribute to director, screenwriter and actress Sarah Polley. A whimsical, playful film tells the story of the kinds of stories Polley tells, using humorous, simple line animation, the film comments on the messiness of life and art.

From The Woods

2013 • 26 min • United States of America

A recently single mother must learn to let go of her fear and obsession about her abusive husband in order to save her son from the hands of a mysterious creature from the woods.

Küpeli

2013 • 12 min

Hidden away in the Suriçi quarter of Diyarbakır, the Küpeli swimming pool has been a place to cool off in the heat of summer for many years. The pool is known as a draw for swimmers in waist-cloths and idiosyncratic divers and the source of many a legend. Its future, however, is uncertain given plans to demolish the site as part of an urban regeneration project.

Minerita

2013 • 27 min • Bolivia, Spain

Minerita is the story of three women, Lucia (40), Ivonne (16) and Abigail (17), working as guards inside the potosi mine in Bolivia and struggling to survive in a hell unsuitable for life when they have to defend themselves from men converted into vermin. Their only weapons, courage... and dynamite.

Hanging By a Thread

2013 • 10 min • United States of America

It's the future, and humanity is but a memory, existing only in scattered pieces. That is until a pillow's needlepoint rendering of three individuals, collectively known as the Clothespin Freaks, finds the spark of life and surfaces to fulfill their destinies. Once aware of their purpose, the group begins assembling the remains of humanity they see all around them.

Invincible

2013 • 32 min • Burkina Faso, France

Burkina Faso in 1987 is a country in the throes of revolution. Manu, an eight-year-old who loves comics, tags along with Albert, his big brother. When Albert decides to undergo a magic ritual to become invincible, Manu realises there are real powers to rival those of his comic-book superheroes.

Munya in Me

2013 • 20 min • Netherlands

"Munya in Me" is a stop-motion animation about heavy ten-year-old Munya trying to avoid her bullies on her daily trip to the Turkish supermarket, mostly without success. Until one day she realizes that she shouldn't hide. She should show herself.

Comet: A Great British Air Disaster

2013 • 47 min • United Kingdom

The De Havilland Comet was the world's first passenger jet airliner. But less than two years into service, two aircraft blew up in mid-air, killing all aboard. PM Winston Churchill ordered an assemblage of experts to discover what went wrong - in the process, inventing many of the air crash investigation techniques still used today.