All Films

This Summer

2015 • 25 min

A boy breaks up with his girlfriend and remains alone. Later, he finds a wounded cat in front of the house and decides to take care of him. Can a cat become your life partner?

From Sea to See

2015 • 8 min • United States of America

Manifest Destiny claimed that all this land, known to the original peoples as Turtle Island, was free for the taking. European settler expansion to the west was inevitable. Outer space became the final frontier after recent conquests. Now even our space fantasies are dwindling. I set out to edit these small rolls of film together as a farewell to Ektachrome, a farewell to the last of Kodak’s color reversal films. It became a meditation on the legacy of Manifest Destiny and the greed of taking what cannot belong to anyone.

Close Before Midnight

2015 • 4 min • United States of America

Rule #1: Never stay past midnight.

Mom

2015 • 12 min

A film about women, starting from a small baby and continue to grow up to be a mother.

Toast

2015 • 9 min

While drunk one night, a curious college student makes advances toward his gay friend. The next day, both boys struggle to deal with the unintended consequences of the incident.

The Pop Ups: Great Pretenders Club

2015 • 30 min • United States of America

A collaboration between Brooklyn musicians Jason Rabinowitz and Jacob Stein, The Pop Ups have been setting the standard for children's music since 2010. The two-time GRAMMY Award nominees for Best Children's Album go on an adventure to become part of the Great Pretenders Club in this unique and imaginative rock and roll puppet musical featuring live action and animation.

Elephant in the Room

2015 • 7 min

Iman Sadiq, a recently elected governor, works late at night on his acceptance speech with his speech writer, Allen Downing, and learns the consequences of letting one's guard down.

Honto ni Atta: Toko Yami Eizo 13

2015 • 52 min • Japan

Thirteenth entry in the "Honto ni Atta: Toko Yami Eizo" series.

Stories from the Savannah: A Journey to Tanzania

2015 • 41 min

Moti Kirschenbaum in a new film journey in Africa, his favorite continent. This time he travels in the Serengeti in Tanzania and meets deadly hippos, beautiful birds and two mothers, a cheetah and a tigress, who will do anything to provide food for their hungry cubs.

Life After Guantanamo: Exiled In Kazakhstan

2015 • 31 min • Kazakhstan, United States of America

"What happens after detainees are released from the Guantanamo Bay detention facility? The answer to that question has, for the most part, been shrouded in secrecy."

少年异能事件？！

2015 • 7 min • China

The original team of the juvenile class fought for their lives to star in the talented young man who mutated in seconds. The special commissioner codenamed No. 403 risked his life to reveal a piece of "history" that has been hidden for a long time!

Of God and Dogs

2015 • 13 min

A young Free Syrian Army fighter confesses. He says he killed a man he questioned extensively, and knew to be innocent. He narrates how he had to shoot a short range bullet, before going to bury him in tears. Then he promises to avenge the God who led him to commit the murder. And he asks the director to stop filming.

3 Doors of Horrors 2015

2015 • 45 min • Malaysia

3 horror shorts from Malaysia. 1, 2, 3 - Mako started a popular children game conjuring up a spirit and now seeks help from Hui Ting, the writer who wrote the ritual which was suppose to be an urban legend. Stay With Me - Ann a struggling painter, finally being invited to had an exhibition to London. But the secret to her successful paintings come with a price, she's being help by Molly, a child ghost who had been trapped in the apartment Ann is living. Phyu Phyu - The security guard Azman is back helping the spirit of a lost migrant child, Phyu Phyu to reunite with the mother.

Penguin Baywatch Antarctica

2015 • 52 min • United States of America

A year of penguin behavior in the icy waters and volcanic islands of the Antarctic Ocean. Includes Chinstrap, Macaroni, Adele, Gentoo, King and Emperor penguins.

Alzheimer's: A Love Story

2015 • 17 min

Partners for 40 years, Michael and Gregory approach the end of their journey together with incredible love and courage.

The knot of meridian

2015 • 12 min

One day, one moment, there the forest has its own time. The place without meridian. The empty place. The place without human. The place has been thought as "forest" in our memory. This suspense film of forest was shot in the small forest which gets even smaller and forgotten in urban life in Japan. The graphical details, the dark, humid shadows of forest and the digital sound are overlapped.

Incredible! The Story of Dr. Pol

2015 • 44 min • United States of America

He’s our favorite veterinarian, and now we reveal what makes him so incredible. In this special program, Dr. Jan Pol shares his most intimate and life-changing moments – from his childhood in the Netherlands when the world was at war, to his move to the American midwest, and a love story fit for the movies – this is the story of his incredible life. (Disney+)

The Reasons in the World

2015 • 37 min • Mexico

I can’t tell my name. I am 3 months pregnant. They pay us to take care of people with my boyfriend. We want to leave. Have enough money but they brought another guest. He’s 8 years old. We’ve never taken care of any kid before. He’s getting sick and my boyfriend doesn’t want to do anything.

Cyborg Romulus GG

2015 • 1 min • Russia

Cyborg goes at the railroad and kill everybody.

DuckManBoy

2015 • 4 min

Who is DuckManBoy? One’s a duck-headed, man-bodied, suit-wearing, long-suffering business type; the other’s a boy-headed, duck-bodied free spirit whose fondness for meat-based shakes sets the bickering duo on a collision course with a madman who’d like to add them to his latest recipe.

The Smiths

2015 • 2 min

Footage from a party. The Smiths' song "Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now" is sung by the partygoers.

Slow Down

2015 • 4 min

A short story about a young woman who has some big decisions to make as she comes to terms with her sexuality.

Gda-Gda

2015 • 8 min

Before We Were Kings

2015 • 60 min

A look at the parallels between DJing and Music Therapy.