All Films

Ice Bear

2014 • 50 min

Sculptor Mark Coreth captures the essence of the Arctic in the form of a life-sized ice-sculpture of a polar bear for Trafalgar Square. As it melts, it leaves a skeleton, a pool of water and a powerful environmental message.

The Pedophile Hunters

2014 • 59 min

With unprecedented access to one of the most controversial agencies within America's Department of Homeland Security, this film follows US agents in Cambodia as they track down American pedophile sex tourists. Working with local activists and police, the American agents use forensics and surveillance techniques to collect damning evidence of sexual predators preying on young children.

Reminiscências de um Projeto

2014 • 29 min • Brazil

A short documentary on how the films "Libertários" and "Chapeleiros" are connected to the "Projeto Imagens e Histórias da Industrialização no Brasil" created by the Campinas State University.

Seth's Dominion

2014 • 42 min • Canada

A 2014 National Film Board of Canada animated/live action documentary directed by Luc Chamberland about the Canadian cartoonist Seth.

Sacred Stages: A Church, a Theatre, and a Story

2014 • 29 min

A short film that tells the unique and inspiring story of the relationship between the First United Methodist Church at the Chicago Temple-Chicago's oldest Christian congregation-and Silk Road Rising, a theatre company founded in response to 9/11 that showcases playwrights of Asian and Middle Eastern backgrounds. A shared commitment to storytelling, racial and economic justice, and LGBT inclusion characterizes this profound partnership between a religious community and a secular theatre.

Beck: Live at Austin City Limits 2014

2014 • 55 min

Join alt.rock superstar Beck for ACL’s season 40 premiere. The genre-hopping singer/songwriter plays songs from his album Morning Phase and some of his greatest hits.

The Morning After

2014 • 4 min • United States of America

The feeling of detachment in an intimate setting.

On the Yeti Trail

2014 • 51 min • France

For the first time in over a century, Yeti legends and personal accounts have become the subject of scientific studies. Does the Yeti really exist? Fascinating and thorough, our film sets out to meet the teams involved in this strange race across the world, featuring laboratories, hair analysis, footprints and DNA as well as the search for samples in Indonesia and in Canadian nature reserves.

I Killed JFK

2014 • 60 min

A man by the name of James Files confesses to being the man who fired the fatal head shot at president Kennedy

Haram Queen

2014 • 5 min

Brunei’s first LGBT-themed short film about a prostitute queen and the local drag queen scene.

Roll Out

2014 • 10 min • Cuba

It’s special retrospective night in the Cine Caribe with CLAUDIA (50), the film’s actress. AVELINO (55), the projectionist, worked with her twenty years ago. He goes to meet Claudia in hopes to remember old times and as a present, brings with him a fragment of the film. Not remembering Avelino she takes him for an admirer and autographs the celluloid. Avelino’s boss fires him for stealing part of the film and Avelino realizes time has passed and he hasn’t achieved anything. Along with MARCEL (22), his disciple, he films and inserts himself into the movie to relive his past, but the projection ends and Avelino has to face reality.

Brick by Brick: Inside LEGO

2014 • 20 min

Travel to Lego's Denmark headquarters to learn about the toy manufacturer's history and production, as well as the CEO who helped revive the brand.

Fantastic Man

2014 • 31 min

The music of Nigeria’s reclusive synth funk innovator William Onyeabor has reached a new level of exposure via Luaka Bop’s excellent Who Is William Onyeabor? compilation last year, yet many hard facts about Onyeabor’s biography remain elusive. In their new documentary “Fantastic Man,” Noisey speaks with musicians and champions of Onyeabor’s music, including our own Quinton Scott and Duncan Brooker who included the sublime “Better Change Your Mind” on the first Nigeria 70 compilation, about their appreciation for his music, and the search for the facts about his life.

1000 Plateaus

2014 • 3 min • Canada

Made entirely in the front seat of a car with simple art tools direct to film, this handmade short celebrates the joy of Montréal road maps, travel and jazz music.

Karpov Kasparov - Two Kings for a Crown

2014 • 52 min • France

Interwoven portraits of Anatoli Karpov and Garry Kasparov, whose 25-year bitter rivalry accompanied the fall of the USSR. The story of a duel between two chess giants, fighting a personal war in a world gone to ruin. This battle of black and white was more than a face-off over a chessboard. Part psychological drama, part political thriller, the film brings to life their hostilities, nested like Russian dolls. Karpov vs. Kasparov represents the battle between the faltering empire and the young liberals several steps ahead of the game, checkmating the old guard. Or how two stories – the societal one and the personal one – started out separately and ended up superimposed, twining together into one tale.

Pinnipèdes

2014 • 2 min

Two pinnipeds see their rest interrupted.

A Symptom

2014 • 7 min

A mirrored discourse. The object we see is that which craves articulation, but is never said quite right. We are looking at speech from both sides of the mirror, listening...

The Science of D-Day

2014 • 30 min

Seventy years ago one of the greatest amphibious assaults in history was launched from here on the south coast of England. And within a matter of hours, 7000 vessels had landed 156,000 troops on the beaches of Normandy. It was a manoeuvre that changed the course of the war and tested innovations in science and engineering for the first time. On this programme, engineer Rob Bell looks at the nuts and bolts which made such a staggering invasion possible. From giant troop carrying gliders to tanks that could drive on water. How necessity really did become the mother of invention. Like all new inventions - not all of them worked and resulted in devastating consequences. We find out why. This is the science of D-Day.

Man Can

2014 • 6 min • United Kingdom

A classic contemporary feel-good story about a "Man" and his Can. Follow our lovable friend around the Glorious backdrop of the Yorkshire Dales as he spends one final day with his only friend. Built atop a hard-hitting core this memorable little short will leave you asking yourself "free hug anyone".

The Age of Dundjerski

2014 • 59 min • Serbia

Artistic look at the relationship between Serbian poet Laza Kostic and Lenka Dundjerski, the lovely daughter of the richest man in 19th century Vojvodina, who inspired him to write his masterpiece "Santa Maria della salute".

Cream Puff

2014 • 22 min

Bryce Parker is a depressed, closeted homosexual teen. When he meets Nathan, his confidently gay classmate, the universe inadvertently is pushing him to come out.

The Beast Inside

2014 • 4 min • United States of America

Told through the power of spoken word rap and illustrated with hand-drawn animations and a muted warm color palette, a teen in a homeless family describes his challenges and celebrates the triumph of his creative self. This film is part of 'American Refugees: Four animated short films about real families, homelessness & resilience.'

29

2014 • 31 min

In 2013, Selim Yildiz spent 29 days with Kurdish soldiers (PKK) and made his first documentary 29.

Hotel 13 - Rock'n'Roll Highschool

2014 • 50 min

After an exciting summer as a vacation worker in a hotel, life tends to run more normally. Tom continues to tinker with his inventions, Anna is training to be a photographer and Liv is eager but willful to pursue a career as an actress. But one day, a strangely dressed girl named Sandra shows up at Tom's door. It quickly turns out that the girl in the pink petticoat has traveled to the present with the time machine from Hotel 13. However, her appearance changes the past and with it the present and future. Tom, Anna and Liv must travel back in time with Sandra to keep the world from falling apart. Not only is Sandra's future with the movie star David at stake, but also the friendship of Tom, Anna and Liv.