All Films

United States of Secrets (Part Two): Privacy Lost

2014 • 54 min

An investigation into the hidden relationship between Silicon Valley and the National Security Agency.

Blaze of Glory: Mel Brooks' Wild, Wild West

2014 • 29 min • United States of America

A documentary about Mel Brooks' legendary 1974 comedy «Blazing Saddles».

Dilip's Castle

2014 • 19 min

Dilip's Castle is the story of Sidney. He runs away from home after he finds out that his wife had an affair. Already on a destructive path, with a rapacious thirst for alcohol, he treads through the night and he discovers that what lurks in the dark is far worse than infidelity.

From Dreams - Making "The Last of Us: Left Behind"

2014 • 10 min • United States of America

Go behind-the-scenes to explore the themes of love and loss and how The Last of Us: Left Behind single player story chapter was created.

Star

2014 • 19 min • Malaysia

Tender exploration of a disconnected relationship between a beautiful stage performer from China, who is trying to preserve her dignity, and a Malay motorcycle gangster, who clings on to their love hopelessly.

3Doc: Lorde

2014 • 46 min

A conversation with Lorde in an interview prior to her concert in TivoliVredenburg on 26 May 2014.

Between Times

2014 • 14 min • United States of America

From the wall of a small town bakery, a cuckoo clock recounts a day where bread was sliced one second thick, lovers fell in sync and time rarely flowed at an even rate.

Traces of the future

2014 • 3 min • Canada, Switzerland

Part of a series of short commissioned works by Visions du Réel to celebrate the festival's twentieth anniversary that explore views of the future.

One Rogue Reporter

2014 • 55 min

Rich Peppiatt delivers a satirical dissection of the newspaper trade by turning the tables on unscrupulous editors. Through a series of mischievous stunts and interviews with heavyweights of journalism, comedy & politics, Peppiatt hilariously exposes the hypocrisy at the heart of modern journalism.

Making Your Mark: The Snowboard Life of Mark McMorris

2014 • 44 min

So how did a five-year-old kid from the flattest prairie region in Canada with the closest resort 8-hours away land the first ever backside triple cork 1440, win three X Games gold medals and just about every major snowboard competition by age 19? Director David Tindale reaches deep into the archives to bring you a story about an unlikely journey that begins in Regina, Saskatchewan with shotgun-blasting coach Russ Davies and brother Craig McMorris, and follows the good times and beautiful places Mark rides all over the world as he prepares for the biggest stage of all -- the Sochi 2014 Olympics. Making Your Mark: The Snowboard Life of Mark McMorris brings you a blueprint for making it big in snowboarding and in life with guest appearances and insights from Ryan Sheckler, Danny Davis, Jake Burton, Don and Cindy McMorris, Sal Masekela, Torstein Horgmo, and legend, Terje Haakonsen.

Élégies

2014 • 6 min

Hundreds of small luminous screens float above a human sea : a concert audience takes pictures with their cell phones of a scene outside the frame. Like the subtitles of an absent song, or the inner voice of an invisible narrator, verses from R.M. Rilke’s "Duino Elegies" punctuate this enormous collective wave of energy redolent of a digital ceremony.

Camouflage

2014 • 8 min

During a military exercise in the woods two soldiers cover each others faces in camouflage paint. In a delicate situation, in which every trembling of the finger is perceivable, Max does everything to get his friend to confess.

Blood, Sweat & Puke: The Making of Science Team

2014 • 29 min

Documentary detailing the making of Drew Bolduc's independent sci-fi movie Science Team.

My Friend Hugo

2014 • 52 min • Venezuela

Oliver Stone presents a tribute to a friend one year after his death, the friend in question was the Venezuelan leader, Hugo Chávez. The documentary covers the time Stone and Chávez spent while making "South of the Border", when they developed a close relationship; and the testimonies from South America leaders and people close to Chávez to talk about their views on the man and the politician and share some personal stories they had with him.

El don de los espejos

2014 • 10 min • Mexico

A stubborn fish collector faces his own boundaries in this maritime story.

Fight!

2014 • 1 min • Belgium

Two friends fighting dirty

What If

2014 • 13 min • Sweden

The animated film is a series of tales about animal life, friendship and being close. A declaration of love; the relationship between young and old, and about the desire to go on wonderful, fantastic adventures. It is produced for the youngest audience and their parents. Based from Lena Sjöbergs highly acclaimed book with the same name.

Gaybasher

2014 • 5 min

In the dark of night and winter's harsh realm, a young man emerges from a violent encounter in the back alleys of the gay ghetto to become an avenging angel.

Entity

2014 • 15 min

Minutes after the technical failure of her spacecraft, an astronaut finds herself ejected from her cockpit and into space. She tries in vain to contact to the base to obtain help. Her oxygen level diminishes slowly but surely. Little by little, fear grabs hold of her. She faints... After floating adrift for several hours through the immensity of space, she awakens to find herself facing a strange and mysterious entity, taking the shape of an immense colored cloud.

A Person Is More Important Than Anything Else

2014 • 29 min

"A person is more important than anything else…," is driven by the cadence and intonation of James Baldwin’s voice, for Baldwin was also an orator whose delivery was almost as forceful as his ideas. Artist Hank Willis Thomas weaves various audio, images, and video together including news clips, speeches, and interviews, in a fluid-moving, digital stream of consciousness that connects Baldwin’s 20th century discourse with the concerns and urgencies of the 21st, highlighting issues of race, gender, class and sexuality. Commissioned in 2014 by NY Live Arts for the Year of James Baldwin, this multi-channel installation brings history to the fore, inspiring us to re-imagine our relationship to the contemporary moment.

O Brasil de Darcy Ribeiro

2014 • 52 min • Brazil

Documentary on the view, testimonies and times of Darcy Ribeiro, since military dictatorship.

Eden

2014 • 15 min • United States of America

In Eden, a society where homosexuality is seen as not only a sin but also a disease, a longstanding government agency detains and imprisons homosexuals in an institution where they are experimented on, to cure them of their homosexuality.

Doubles

2014 • 20 min

When two universes collide and create exact duplicates of both people and inanimate objects on a single version of Earth, a hopeless romantic finds himself able to win the heart of his dream girl's double.

The Loud House

2014 • 3 min • United States of America

Lincoln Loud goes through various obstacles caused by his 10 sisters in order to get to the bathroom.