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Something Out of Nothing

Something Out of Nothing

2014 • 47 min
From traditional voodoo stories, via realistic tales with urban themes, to ground-breaking genre films: Nigerian cinema has a wide range indeed. Join the ride as Nigerian filmmaker Abba Makama sets out to explain the Lagos-based film industry we know as Nollywood – an industry that produces up to 50 films per week, often with a budget of less than 10 000 dollars.
signs

signs

2014 • 18 min
signs is a sobering continuation of Benning’s career-long interest with the written word as image, text as vision: a silent parade of stills showing dozens of cardboard signs asking for money, food, and kindness.
Memories of my People

Memories of my People

2014 • 51 min • France
Follow freestyle skier Marie Martinod as she returns to the sport after giving birth, with the goal of finding victory at the 2014 Winter Olympics.
Wide Boyz II – Slender Gentlemen

Wide Boyz II – Slender Gentlemen

2014 • 50 min • United Kingdom
After their success climbing the world’s hardest offwidth, the Wide Boyz, Pete Whittaker and Tom Randall, embark on their next crack climbing mission. This time their sights are set on the thinner end of the crack climbing spectrum. Their goal is the mighty Cobra Crack in Squamish BC, considered to be the hardest finger crack in the world. First climbed by Canadian ‘rock star’ Sonnie Trotter after battling it out with Didier Berthod, the route hit the media spotlight in the film First Ascent. With no local hard cracks to train on, the Wide Boyz refit their underground training dungeon and commit to a year of torturous finger training. With only a short trip to Canada planned, the Boyz face their biggest challenge yet against the sharp granite bite of the mighty Cobra Crack!
Transgender Parents

Transgender Parents

2014 • 46 min
Transgender Parents takes the conversation about parenting and transsexuality to the next level: Some parents transitioned in the presence of their kids and some who transitioned prior to founding families - being out as trans and as parents, in ways that weren't possible 20 years ago. Transgender Parents centers the importance of access to building and continuing parent-child relationship in the presence of a gender transition. It is a tender look at the art of parenting, testimony to some of the hardest relational work in this life.
The Gayest Video Special of All Time

The Gayest Video Special of All Time

2014 • 60 min
Video Vanguard and "Gay Pimp" Jonny McGovern (of Logo's Big Gay Sketch Show) collects all five viral video singles: Dickmatized, Sexy Nerd, Modified, Man Areas and Texting on the Dancefloor, from Jonny's latest album THE GAYEST OF ALL TIME on this special edition DVD. Hosted by Jonny McGovern and featuring cameos from drag divas Erickatoure Aviance and Linda James and ALL of Jonny's signature gogo boys. PLUS an exclusive behind the scenes documentary on the making of the super sexy Man Areas, directed by Skot Video. We also provide some Extra Faggoty Stuff which contains "The Gayest of All Time" music video featuring fans of the podcast as well as 5 clips of the podcast shot at the Gayboy Mansion in the Hollywood Hills.
The Rise of the Killer Virus

The Rise of the Killer Virus

2014 • 45 min
There may never be a virus as deadly or as misunderstood as AIDS. Responsible for 36 million deaths since its discovery in 1981, it remains shrouded in myths, misconceptions, and mistruths... until now. Scientists deep in the African Congo have discovered forgotten clues that are rewriting the story of the global pandemic and revealing shocking facts about its origins. Now the race is on to see if these new findings are the key to developing a vaccine that could finally win the epic battle against HIV.
Starting Point

Starting Point

2014 • 27 min
Aneta 'rebelled to the max' at the age of nineteen and wound up in prison for murder. Nine years later, her daily routine takes her from behind the walls of the prison to a care home for the elderly.
Chicken

Chicken

2014 • 12 min • Canada
After seven years together, David and Margot fill their days with challenges and play like kids. One day, they lock themselves in their apartment and test their limits.
Martin Clunes & a Lion Called Mugie

Martin Clunes & a Lion Called Mugie

2014 • 46 min
Clunes joins a mission to make wildlife history by returning endangered lions to Kora National Park, the Kenyan nature reserve of “Born Free” fame. The effort begins with Mugie, a lion cub orphaned at just three weeks old, but Clunes soon finds out why for lions there is now no “free” left.
Voltrans

Voltrans

2014 • 60 min • Turkey
The documentary features the journey of the Voltrans initiative, a solidarity platform for trans men in Turkey.
Hello

Hello

2014 • 6 min
Through his computer Hilo finds a lover. Decomposes on the fissures of the machine to go to meet him.
BB Africa

BB Africa

2014 • 57 min
Alén

Alén

2014 • 25 min
Alén wanders around the city while listening to music. Her friend Claudia distributes flyers for the March of the Whores. Alén, Miguel and Irene organize an evening with their band and the party begins: beer, a streaptease and speeches about the emancipation of women and the freedom of bodies are intertwined with the electronic sounds of a generation in transit.
1 Month & 2 Days

1 Month & 2 Days

2014 • 6 min
I've fallen in love again. I dig into my feelings, capturing instants of my fate during 1 month and 2 days.
Slow Fall

Slow Fall

2014 • 17 min
The relationship between two brothers
David LaChapelle: Evening in Space

David LaChapelle: Evening in Space

2014 • 13 min
Starting in seventh grade, artist David La Chapelle was so bullied for being gay that he dropped out of school by ninth grade. He moved to New York City, where being gay was accepted. David La Chapelle is an auteur photographer whose work has exhibited in galleries around the world and graced the pages of Vogue, Vanity Fair and Rolling Stone. In this personal short documentary, we are invited to witness a unique artist at work in his studio, while working with celebrated designer Daphne Guinness.
Sócrates, The Artist

Sócrates, The Artist

2014 • 60 min • Brazil, United States of America
Directed by Martin Ainstein as part of the "Destino Futebol" series, the documentary, produced by ESPN Films, tells the moving story of former player and doctor Sócrates, who passed away on December 4, 2011. The documentary features testimonies from members of the former Corinthians player's family, including his brothers, among them the former player Raí, his mother, and his son Gustavo. Journalists Juca Kfouri, José Trajano, and Xico Sá are also interviewed, as well as musician Toquinho and former Corinthians and Brazilian national team teammates such as Zico and Wladimir. The production showcases Sócrates' time studying medicine in Ribeirão, his journey through the teams Botafogo de Ribeirão Preto, Corinthians, Fiorentina, Flamengo, and, of course, the national team. It's a great story told by people who knew the idol, remembering key moments of Sócrates' career as a doctor, player, musician, and writer.
Bleaching Black Culture

Bleaching Black Culture

2014 • 51 min
From the birth of jazz to the evolution of hip hop; the advents of urban trends to transformative advances in technology, African Americans have played an integral role in molding American culture. Unfortunately, we tend to not be the beneficiaries of our own innovation. Bleaching Black Culture examines the continuum of America's black cultural appropriation and effects on the African American community.
Tangerine

Tangerine

2014 • 2 min • United States of America
Dimitri Basil peeled himself away from a computer screen to make this punchy short about a kidnapping that gets lost in translation.
Anacos da Noruega

Anacos da Noruega

2014 • 20 min • Spain
The penultimate week of each year, the sun exceeds the horizon of Fauske, in the Arctic Circle, for just an hour a day. This film celebrates those brief moments of light.
Mi niña mi vida

Mi niña mi vida

2014 • 20 min
A man and his giant stuffed bear move through the bustling crowds and noisy rides at an amusement park.
Happy Endings

Happy Endings

2014 • 14 min
After falling in love with an erotic masseuse, a lonely parking booth attendant must step out of his comfort zone to liberate her from her oppressive boss.
Federation Tunisienne De Football

Federation Tunisienne De Football

2014 • 4 min
The music film "Federation Tunisienne de Football" (4 min 22 sec) it's the first way chosen by C'mon Tigre to share their Mediterranean tale with all the whole world, along all the longitudes and latitudes. It based on their first single track, introducing the full album's release in October: a story about an eccentric football team, their dances and magical shoes set on a sandy playground surrounded by animals.