All Films

Printemps

2015 • 27 min

Can a young love, settled on important cultural differences, last over time ? This instinctive documentary filmed by the director and his love, carries us through a coarse romanticism, open to all in an absolute beauty.

Love Letter / Prēma Lēkha

2015 • 5 min • United States of America

An abstract film exploring gender and race through the power of erotics and love.

Entre Memorias

2015 • 34 min • Peru, United Kingdom

This film explores the complex legacies of twenty years of violence and war in Peru through practices of remembering. In three audio-visual pieces made in collaboration with relatives of the disappeared, insurgents of the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) and members of the Armed Forces, this documentary aims for creating an on-screen dialogue between memories, which in practice remains elusive

Records Collecting Dust

2015 • 58 min

Written and directed by San Diego based musician and filmmaker Jason Blackmore, Records Collecting Dust documents the vinyl record collections, origins, and holy grails of alternative music icons Jello Biafra, Chuck Dukowski, Keith Morris, John Reis, and over thirty other underground music comrades.

Sober Nights

2015 • 30 min

Adrift in Sunset

2015 • 24 min

Dao has double booked her afternoon. She's ready to meet up with her date but is also supposed to spend time with her mom who has Alzheimer's disease. Would it really be a good idea to combine the two?

The Nameless

2015 • 21 min

The Nameless revolves around the story of a man named Lai Teck, one of the 50 known aliases of the Secretary-General of the Malayan Communist party from 1939 to 1949. Lai Teck's real name and background have never been confirmed, but evidence suggests that he was born in Vietnam to a Chinese mother and served as a spy to both the French and British. Piecing together found footage from several Hong Kong films starring actor Tony Leung Chiu-wai, The Nameless acts as a fragmentary portrait of Lai Teck, the film star's likeness standing in for the ambiguous political figure. Ominous and shadowy, the film features Leung (as Lai) in times of distress and introspection, interspersed with repeated motifs of smoke, water, torture and death.

Ella Maillart: Double Journey

2015 • 40 min

Summer 1939. Ella Maillart and Annemarie Schwarzenbach leave Europe for Asia. Ella hopes to make an ethnographic film and to help Annemarie get off drugs. In Kabul she realizes to have lost all certainties and faces the difficult search for herself. For a year she travels alone in the British Indies, a keen observer of the colonial system, living from moment to moment while war ravages Europe. Letters, diaries, film footage and photographs reveal a portrait of Ella Maillart (1903-1997), one of the greatest travelers and photographers of the last century. Narrated by the voice of a great actress, Irène Jacob.

Vozeria

2015 • 55 min

Testimonials from important people in the social movement bring up reflections on gender, sexuality, and human rights. Always bearing in mind the roles that language plays in the production and maintenance of violence. Bringing together reflections on empowerment, discourse, body, desire, sexism, gender identity, sexual orientation, transfeminism, and homotransphobia, the documentary interviews important personalities when it comes to the LGBT movement and human rights, such as João W. Nery, Amelinha Teles, and Luana Hansen, among others.

Getting Frank Gehry

2015 • 59 min • Australia

Drawing on a life's work defined by controversial and ground-breaking ideas, the world's greatest architect has inaugurated his first Australian building - and debate still rages over whether it is eyesore or icon. Our film follows the drama as Gehry'Äôs vision for this commission is realized.

In Charlie Chaplin's Footsteps

2015 • 48 min

Charlie Chaplin was at one time the most famous person in the world. His creation – the little tramp – was a universal figure adored by millions across the globe. He took crude, knockabout, slapstick comedy and transformed it into an art form with films that have stood the test of time. Terry Jones, comedian, writer and director, best known for being a leading member of Monty Python and long-time fan of silent comedies, offers a personal re-appraisal of the man who changed the face of film comedy.With access to a wealth of home movie material, Terry Jones also looks at the troubled private life of Chaplin: his loves, his politics, and his obsessions. He talks to Chaplin family members and biographers in his quest to get inside the skin of one of the true giants of film and comedy…

St. Vincent: Lollapalooza Brazil 2015

2015 • 58 min

St. Vincent performing at Lollapalooza Brazil on March 28th, 2015.

SEAL Dog

2015 • 51 min • United States of America

On the surface, they appear to be ordinary dogs, but these canines have a secret identity. They are the Pentagon's stealth warriors, with specialties in explosives detection, tracking, laser target acquisition and bite work. Meet the U.S. Navy SEALs' latest recruits, four-footed soldiers called to duty to save soldiers' lives. SEAL Dog is an intimate look at one of these astonishing animals, Chopper, his partner, American war hero Trevor Maroshek, and the unbreakable bond they formed, on and off the battlefield.

Gay Out Soon 4: Rumor

2015 • 45 min

The Dardennes on Leon M's Boat

2015 • 21 min

The Dardenne brothers discuss their early documentary films, their relationship with Armand Gatti (who inspired them to become filmmakers), the impact various political events had on their career and work and the shooting of When Leon M.s Boat Went Down the Meuse for the First Time.

Cruise Control

2015 • 30 min • France

Speed and risk are synonymous with freedom but the fear and conformism of our modern world rein us in more and more each day, our nature impulses shackled by automatism until we find ourselves living our lives on cruise control. This film takes a look at young athletes adept at overriding cruise control to express a completely different philosophy. The Lillois label COSMONOSTRO signs the soundtrack for these 30 minutes of abandon. With this final film our tribe takes a final bow and pays hommage to these past years of complicity and adventure.

gina aka the graduate secretary

2015 • 2 min

Gina aka the graduate secretary.

Sons of Halawa

2015 • 56 min • United States of America

The journey to keep cultural traditions alive by the last resident of a sacred Hawaiian valley.

Frontline Fighting: Battling Isis

2015 • 47 min • United Kingdom

The inside story of three untrained British volunteers with no family connections to the Middle east who heed the call to take up arms with Kurdish fighters to reclaim Rojava from the Islamic State.

Je reviendrai

2015 • 56 min

Testimony of Zysman Wenig, a Polish origin Jew who spent 4 years in captivity in concentration camps of Pithiviers (France), Auschwitz, Mauthausen and Ebensee (Austria).

Nda

2015 • 2 min

A man and a woman sign a document.

Chapter SIX

2015 • 4 min

A short film by Phil Stevens.

Tempests - Essay on a Rehearsal

2015 • 30 min • Germany, Portugal

A documentary essay about a text that penetrates lives and lives that penetrate a text. In September 2015 teatro GRIOT - a theatre company based in Lisbon, whose actors are mostly Afro-descendants - started to rehearse Shakespeare's "The Tempest" with acclaimed director Bruno Bravo in a little coastal village. Starting with the first rehearsals the film explores Shakespeare's text and the actors' biographies, between the play and the landscape and brings up topics such as memories, home, emigration and colonialism. A complex mosaic of multiple voices.

Sex? Yes Please!

2015 • 56 min

Are our sexual morals becoming increasingly prudish? Young people talk openly about their sexlives.