All Films

Bye Bye Barcelona

2014 • 55 min • Spain

Bye Bye Barcelona is a documentary about a city and its relation to tourism , on the difficult coexistence between Barcelona the city and Barcelona the tourist destination

To Taste the Ground

2014 • 24 min

'To Taste the Ground' is a lyrical documentary that viscerally moves through the seasonal life cycle of a small organic farm in British Columbia, Canada.

Mademoiselle

2014 • 16 min

“I can’t remember the last time a guy got vulgar with me. When was the last time a guy did that thing… you know, with his lips, like damn girl, you’re hot. Of course I used to hate it. But Lady, c’mon, that’s a whole other ballgame! The little prick called me Lady.”

Hoe Ky Niels werd

2014 • 20 min • Netherlands

Messing with fireworks, ring and run and a lot of football practice. This makes Ky really happy, but she has also been unhappy for years because she has a girl's body. Last summer Ky finally managed to tell her parents she wants to become a boy, and would like to have a different name: Niels. Together with her friend Sterre, who used to be called Tibor and therefore has a boy's body, they tell their new secondary school class that they are transgender children. It is the beginning of a new life as Niels. 'How Ky turned into Niels': the search to find out who you are and the right to be yourself, about boys and girls stuff, hormones and more of those confusing things.

The Sacred Heart Basilica of Montmartre

2014 • 52 min • France

Montmartre has been a site of worship since the beginning of time: the Gallic druids, the Romans with their temples devoted to Mars and Mercury, Christians with the Church of St Peter, the oldest church in Paris. The Sacré Coeur Basilica, consecrated in 1919, is one of the emblematic monuments of Paris.

No Exit

2014 • 11 min • Palestinian Territory

Like many people of his generation, Ali has decided to run away from the hardships of war. Along his way, he meets a strange person in a bus station: an encounter that will change his perspective.

Folaim - Cocktail

2014 • 8 min • Saudi Arabia

A sarcastic mashup of several genres to deliver a simple incident between a group of guys.

Steaming Back To Metroland

2014 • 58 min • United Kingdom

Since 1863, the underground has served London , this started with the opening of the Metropolitan Railway from Paddington to Farrington. 150 years later, Steam returned to help celebrate the opening of this line - the world's first underground railway. Join us as we take a look at these celebrations...

Adventure Time: The Movie - Gritty Reboots

2014 • 4 min

Years later when magic in the Land of Ooo begins to fade, Finn and Jake must embark on one mommy of an adventure to save their world.

Silently Like a Comete

2014 • 8 min • Ukraine

The revolution on Kyiv‘s Maidan as a close-up of the city without any broader perspective. Recycled amateur footage from the internet offers an ironic commentary on the spectacular narratives by which the media described events in Ukraine at the turn of the year. Randomly selected and shown out of context, the various sequences break down the events into individual, slow-motion fragments before reassembling them in an emotional collage of incomprehensible unrest and random moments on the street.

A Voice From Mauthausen

2014 • 21 min • United States of America

One of the first ‘frogmen’ in the Navy Reserve fights to survive missions behind enemy lines and his own capture at the Mauthausen concentration camp.

Bumps: A Mogul Skiing Documentary

2014 • 47 min • Canada, United States of America

Bumps: A Mogul Skiing Documentary - The criminally under-told story of the athletes who dedicate their lives to perfection in a sport where perfection is impossible. "Bumps" reaches deep into the heart of the mogul skiing world. Mogul skiing has become a very popular event at the Olympics, but beyond the fact that competitors ski down some bumps and do a couple jumps, spectators don’t really understand. Bumps, directed by Canadian National Team member and filmmaker Zac Hoffman, fills this gap. The sport has yet to be shown to the public in a way that does it justice. A mogul run is exciting to watch, but once someone knows what goes into being able to make it down that course, it becomes so much more. It’s a display of strength, intensity, finesse, strategy, individuality, and mental fortitude.

light

2014 • 18 min

A man wakes up, cleans up, dresses himself and sets a kettle on. He looks though the window, observes a hunting cat; prepares and proceeds with the breakfast. The light turns on twice: without and with the cut.

Trigger

2014 • 2 min

A black screen with a reticle in its centre, vaguely reminiscent of Ego-Shooter games. Then figures from shooting galleries make fleeting appearances, lasting just fractions of a second, pistol in hand, standing or kneeling. A conglomeration of stereotypes from American gangster movies. The TRIGGER in its double meaning, as a trigger for both weapons and cameras. From 150 so-called “training targets” Björn Kämmerer made a selection for his latest film, filmed these on 35mm and with the aid of overexposure assembled them to a cinematic stroboscope. That makes a bang, even without sound!

Citizen Jane

2014 • 16 min

Canadian Forces Base, 1987 Private Jane Cross is quickly noticed during her training by Master Corporal Maryann Kirk, and for more than her skills on the battlefield. Meanwhile the military police wage a secret war on homosexuals, spying on soldiers suspected of engaging in 'immoral conduct.' If Jane and Maryann are careful, will anyone discover them?

Playmobil: Knights

2014 • 13 min

The dwarves are traveling to the big feast for the tournament performance. But nothing goes as planned: they loose their cave troll, meet a dragon, find magic weapons, and fall in the middle of a fight at the royal castle of the Knight of the Lion...

Mr. Plant

2014 • 46 min

Volcom Stone presents "Mr. Plant", a Veeco Productions film based on the travels of snowboarder and New Hampshire backwoodsman Pat Moore. Mr. Plant follows Pat as he spends a season traveling the world with the Volcom Snow family, friends and icons. Filmed by Seth Huot and Jake Price on location in Jackson Hole, Japan, Quebec, Massachusetts, Chile and Minnesota; the film unfolds across the globe to portray the only destination that really matters: Staying true to snowboarding.

Civic Affair

2014 • 23 min

Jake Kuzyk filmed and edited an independent skate video called Civic Affair, featuring an impressive crew of Canadian skaters. It has been highly anticipated among the annual wave of for-free-online indie skate flicks.

Shaun Micallef's Stairway to Heaven

2014 • 53 min • Australia

In his youth Shaun Micallef almost joined the priesthood. Now he wonders if he may have missed his one shot at the answers to life’s big questions. Heading to India, a country where spirituality and the search for meaning is very much a national past time, he immerses himself in the Hindu world of Gods, Gurus and the Ganges. In a bid to get to the heart of the faith, Shaun pushes well beyond his comfort zone on a physical, mental and spiritual adventure. He journeys to the source of the Ganges high in the Himalayas - all the while offering his own unique observations on his quest to find the meaning of life.

El Flaco

2014 • 6 min

'El Flaco' is a male prostitute that pays for police protection to be able work in downtown streets of Juarez, Mexico.

Making Movie History: Sylvia Hamilton

2014 • 5 min • Canada

Director Sylvia Hamilton reflects on her work with the NFBs Atlantic Studio and the birth of New Initiatives in Film - A Studio D initiative for women of colour and aboriginal women.

Sakura, Sakura

2014 • 3 min

2 minute film about two Japanese ladies.

Think Normal

2014 • 17 min • United States of America

Jason McElwain's 20 points in four minutes inspired sports fans around the world and fine-tuned the conversation surrounding people diagnosed with autism. But it was the perseverance and undeterred support of Jason's mother, Debbie, who coached her son and provided him with the strength and confidence to step onto his high school basketball court and hit six 3-pointers, and one 2-pointer in four minutes of play. Featuring heartfelt interviews from Jason, his mother Debbie and his brother Josh, "Think Normal" is a look at what a mother sacrificed for her sons.

For Michael Brown

2014 • 5 min • United States of America

Out of respect for his parents' request, four and one half minutes of silence for Michael Brown Jr. One minute for each hour his body lay in the streets of Ferguson, MO after he was shot to death by Officer Darren Wilson. Please watch in darkness. Please watch in silence.