All Films

2Late

2014 • 17 min

2Late is a New Excting GA Productions film. 2Late is about a young teenage boy 'Sam Hunter' who gets Bullied for being different by School Boys and his own Dad. His best friend Reece tries to look after him and protect him. His mum doesn't know her husband beats him. Sam can't take anymore and makes the most important decision that no one would ever wish to make. This movie tells a moving story based on real life events and asks the questions many of us do not wish to know about.

Life 2,000 Meters Under the Sea

2014 • 55 min • France

Deep down at the bottom of the ocean lies the mysterious world of the abyss. In the midst of boiling, toxic geysers, a rich ecosystem flourishes. This miracle is possible thanks to bacteria, micro-organisms crucial to all living beings. How can bacteria survive in such extreme conditions?

Microbirth

2014 • 60 min

“Microbirth” is a 60 minute documentary looking at the latest scientific research about the microscopic events happening during childbirth. “Microbirth” reveals the latest scientific thinking on how best to “seed” a baby’s microbiome in order to build the strongest possible immune system. This cutting-edge science has the potential to not only improve the health of our children across a lifetime, but also across generations still to come.

Notre amour est assez puissant

2014 • 9 min • France

A video game love story.

Merge Records: 25 Years in 24 Minutes

2014 • 24 min • United States of America

Founded by Superchunk's Mac McCaughan and Laura Ballance in 1989, North Carolina’s Merge Records quickly grew to become one of America’s essential indie labels. From supporting their fertile local indie rock scene to launching international stars, for 25 years Merge has carved out uncompromising success by staying true to its independent roots. Google Play is proud to celebrate 25 years of Merge Records with this exclusive documentary and series of covers of Merge classics by Merge acts including Superchunk, the Mountain Goats, Telekinesis and more.

Goonga Pehelwan

2014 • 46 min

A documentary that follows India's most successful deaf athlete on his unlikely quest to reach the Rio Olympics 2016 and become only the second deaf wrestler in the history of the Olympics to do so. This is Virender Singh's story, a captivating account of an incredible athlete largely unknown and snubbed by the bureaucracy.Now, as Virender gears up for his third Deaflympics appearance in Bulgaria, this film delves into his life from the bylanes of a small village in Haryana to becoming India's most successful deaf athlete ever and aims at fulfilling the long cherished dream of every athlete that is competing at the Olympics.On the way, it looks at all that he has achieved through a glittering decade and a half long career.

Gabriel

2014 • 22 min • Germany, Spain

Gabriel, a 32-year-old Spanish man lives in Germany with his boyfriend Lars, far away from his conservative family. Time and again he remembers his childhood in daydreams.

Give Me Cinema or Give Me Death

2014 • 28 min

a cop investigates a club where drug runaways and boxes of breasts collide.

The Pursuit

2014 • 25 min • United States of America

The Pursuit film takes you into the mind of Aaron Mulkey and his pursuit of mother nature’s greatest watery treasures. Interviews with his friends reveal that true adventure awaits those who choose to pick up the phone when he calls. With over 100 first ascents of frozen waterfalls and nearly 20 first descents of rivers and creeks around the world, Aaron Mulkey has proven he is not afraid to walk a little farther to explore unknown places.

Venciendo el miedo

2014 • 56 min

Du grain à moudre

2014 • 43 min

As an unexpected professional opportunity comes up in Paris, Laurent urgently heads for the family house in Brittany. His sister Marie has something serious to talk about. But when he gets there, nothing happens. Laurent clumsily tries to engage in a dialogue, but who with ?

It Gets Better

2014 • 5 min

"It Gets Better" is a gay love story between Adam, a closeted jock, and Pierre, an openly gay boy, that revolves around peer pressure, bullying and acceptance.

Por que non cantades todas

2014 • 30 min

Ethnographic documentary showing the musical relationship of a group of women and men from Zobra, Serra do Candán, Pontevedra. Music is exposed as memory, experience and coexistence. Music for them becomes a bridge between two realities, the past and the present. This documentary loves us in relation to the music of a group of mulleres from the place of Zobra na serra do Candán, Galicia. To music as memory, experience and life. A comma music put between realities, or past and present.

Where Are You My Love?

2014 • 20 min

Two transgender sex workers, Ece and Ozge, endeavor to survive daily violence to get their female ID cards and avoid military service.

The Glory Hole

2014 • 4 min

The heartwarming love story between Jeff and Cosgrove who met 22 years ago at a San Francisco glory hole.

Living in the Overlap

2014 • 28 min

For over 40 years, Lennie and Pearl have shared a passion for social justice and for each other. Now, the indelible spark of their love inspires many others as they fight for their right to marry in North Carolina.

Postales

2014 • 13 min • Argentina

Short film by María Laura Pintor

Amani & Rae

2014 • 4 min

A summer daydream.

Over Pass

2014 • 2 min • Japan

Short film by UMMMI.

Traveling Shots: NYC

2014 • 16 min

Sampling from 70 years of filmmaking, 'Traveling Shots: NYC' moves through the streets, alleys, bridges and subways of New York City. This urban portrait inter-cuts the past with the present, the real with the imagined on a remixed trip to the iconic movie city.

Nan Lakou Kanaval

2014 • 8 min • Canada

A 16mm visual and auditory exploration of the Haitian carnival. A hallucinatory and unparalleled carnival. Made in collaboration with students from the Cinema Institute in Jacmel, Haiti, and based on a poem by the young Haitian poet Gabriel Wood Jerry.

The Sunboy

2014 • 12 min • France

A young boy, credulous and solitary, sees in his father the representation of a monstrous beast wanting to destroy his imaginary kingdom.

La Liberté Gamin

2014 • 12 min • France

Humanity is dying, consequence of an already distant catastrophe. A man gazes sadly at the setting sun and lets his memories go. Many of those he knew died. Among them is the one he called Kid.

Flocons

2014 • 3 min • Canada

This short animation was created using tests created in the production of A Chairy Tale (1957) by master of animation Norman McLaren. Flocons is set to the music of Tchaikovsky and features none other than Canadian filmmaker Claude Jutra, who plays a character imprisoned in the celluloid on which McLaren paints directly. Flocons aims to celebrate the 100th anniversary, in 2014, of Norman McLaren’s birth.