All Films

Jamie's Sugar Rush

2015 • 47 min • United Kingdom

Jamie Oliver investigates sugar's huge contribution to global health problems like obesity and type 2 diabetes, reveals how much sugar is in healthy-looking food, and explores what can be done to help

L'Américaine

2015 • 3 min • France

To celebrate the opening of her Paris flagship and the launch of the Paris Capsule Collection, Tory Burch has enlisted the help of actress Dianna Agron to direct a short film titled "L'Américaine" starring Margaret Qualley.

Apartment 41

2015 • 7 min • United Kingdom

A women moves to her new apartment and starts to experience paranormal activities but some truth is waiting at the end.

Sp

2015 • 3 min • Argentina, Brazil

The biggest, most populated, and frantic city in South America. While Cariocas are like tropical birds, Paulistas are like frenetic ants. Distances are longer and they're always in a hurry. A busy journey through this beautiful Brazilian beast which cannot help but beating irregularly.

Life's a Beach

2015 • 53 min

A documentary film about Mungo and the way he began living when he was forced ashore after his boat had rudder problems and consequently sank at Folkestone Warren. He built a small cottage from driftwood and salvaged items and through his ingenuity and skill created an alternative lifestyle free from the burden and control of the utility companies and authorities. But this is so much more than a story of someone living an alternative lifestyle; it's a story of family, friendship, love, compassion and struggle. Mungo became a 'Local Hero', an advisor, he brought people together from all walks of life, he became a destination. The authorities didn't have the same view however, and Network Rail started legal proceedings to have him removed.

Untitled (Human Mask)

2015 • 19 min • France

The ‘Human Mask’ film is inspired by a real situation in Japan, in which a monkey – wearing the mask of a young woman – has been trained to work as a waitress. The film opens with footage of the deserted site of Fukushima in 2011, the camera functioning as a drone scaling the wreckage. This is followed by scenes of the monkey alone in her habitat, silhouetted against the empty, dark restaurant. In this dystopian setting, an animal acts out the human condition, trapped, endlessly repeating her unconscious role.

Videoblivion

2015 • 25 min

An interview with cinematographer Mark Irwin regarding 'Videodrome'.

The Last Days of wd~50

2015 • 15 min

On Nov. 30, 2014, many of the food world’s biggest names arrived at 50 Clinton Street in the city’s Lower East Side. They came for the last supper at wd-50. Dufresne’s playful, challenging restaurant closed its doors for good that night. The restaurant was a victim of his own success: by bringing three-star cuisine to a once gritty neighborhood Dufresne helped drive up the area’s prices and welcome in luxury development. His landlord had decided to turn the restaurant into an apartment building. During its last days, wd-50 opened its doors to TIME’s cameras, providing a rare glimpse into its final service and its dismantling.

Bottle Neck

2015 • 3 min

Still life silhouettes collide with abstract shapes and complex, interlocking patterns. Reimagining the commonplace objects of a classical painting genre with experimental animation.

Citadel

2015 • 50 min • United Kingdom

Dubbed ‘The Mountain God’, the Citadel is a stunning 3000m peak in one of the remaining untouched corners of the Great Alaskan Range: The Neacola Mountains. Due to their typically poor conditions and remote location are largely unexplored. Matt Helliker and Jon Bracey are one the UK's most formidable partnerships in alpine climbing with many world class ascents to their names from the UK to the Alps and the greater ranges. Their objective is to make the first ascent of the extraordinary 1200m long north-west ridge.

Milkmaid

2015 • 3 min • Bulgaria

Dappled little crowd I hold in my hand I pull their strings, I hope it doesn’t hurt them... Milkmaid is based on the original lyrics by Dimitar Voev from New Generation. The film is part of the animated poetry project Mark & Verse produced by Compote Collective.

Урожай

2015 • 3 min

Requiem To a Fatal Incident

2015 • 5 min

A car approaches and finds the remnants of an accident with an animal transportation vehicle.

Jumbo Wild

2015 • 60 min

A gripping, hour-long documentary film by Sweetgrass Productions that tells a true story of the decades-long battle over the future of British Columbia’s iconic Jumbo Valley—highlighting the tension between protection of the backcountry experience and ever-increasing development interests in the wilderness. A large-scale proposed ski resort threatens the rich wilderness of British Columbia’s Purcell Range—a revered backcountry ski and snowboarding destination with world-class terrain, sacred ground for local First Nations people, and part of one of North America’s most important grizzly bear corridors. Set against a backdrop of incredible backcountry ski and snowboard footage, Jumbo Wild documents all sides of a divisive issue bringing the passionate local fight to protect the Jumbo Valley to life for the first time.

Doped: The Dirty Side of Sports

2015 • 60 min

Examines the implementation and ineffectiveness of anti-doping policies in sports.

Mortal Kombat Fates Beginning

2015 • 20 min • United States of America

An evil emperor from a realm called Outworld has the realm of Earth as his next target for invasion. If the emperor known as Shao Kahn were to invade Earth, it will cease to exist for his army leaves nothing but destruction in its wake.

Antonie Kamerling: De dood van een vage prins

2015 • 47 min • Netherlands

A documentary about the life and suicide of Antonie Kamerling (1966-2010)

Si Ping Qing Nian 2

2015 • 20 min • United States of America

Lucy has found an objective formula for love, but when New York City puts her theory to the test, she discovers new variables she never saw coming.

Exoplanets: Thousands of New Worlds

2015 • 44 min • France

An outward look into the universe, as scientists challenge traditional planetary thinking, and reveal the existence of unknown worlds: exoplanets.

La teta de Botero

2015 • 19 min

Kike, a young man highly concerned about his health, meets with Sofia, an old friend of his, and through her experience he discovers the possibility of a new contact with his body in order to survive.

Another Telepathic Thing

2015 • 45 min

A live performance film documenting Big Dance Theater's production Another Telepathic Thing, a piece partially inspired by Mark Twain's "The Mysterious Stranger."

Islands of Creation

2015 • 46 min • Solomon Islands, United States of America

In the jungles of the Solomon Islands, a remote archipelago in the South Pacific, a biologist is attempting to do something Charles Darwin and Ernst Mayr never accomplished: catch evolution in the act of creating new species. Albert Uy is on the verge of an amazing discovery in the Solomon Islands, but there's a threat looming on the horizon. The islands' resources are being exploited, putting all local wildlife at risk. It's a race against time to gather the evidence necessary to prove the existence of a new species before it's lost forever.

Erotic Green

2015 • 24 min • United Kingdom

An innocent couple discover a mysterious club named "Erotic Green" in which a horrifying secret is about to be uncovered.

Lighthouse

2015 • 5 min

A study of surfaces figurative and metaphysical, with various levels and planes of a city combined and superimposed to become visual echoes, suggesting an animated city surface of grids, graphs, geometries and lines: layers of subterranean streets and shadows evoking multiple levels of consciousness. Filmed in New York, San Francisco and Hong Kong. An homage to Saul Bass. Music by King Midas Sound / Fennesz.