All Films

Frozen in Time

2014 • 45 min • United States of America

Patty and Eric Purtle visit their Grandfather for Christmas. After accidentally breaking a clock in his workshop, they then find themselves repeating Christmas Eve. together they must fix time and make Christmas enjoyable for their family.

Deadly

2014 • 9 min • Ireland

Deadly tells the story of Boney, a working stiff who doesn’t care about his dead-end job. That is until, he has a run-in with a spirited old lady named Bridie. Academy award winner, Brenda Fricker and Love/Hate star Peter Coonan lend their voices to this bittersweet animated short about life, death and dancin'!

Canopy

2014 • 5 min

Ken Jacobs’ most recent stroboscopic work transforms a typical New York street scaffolding scene into a mesmeric, Christo-esque merry-go-round.

Maria

2014 • 17 min • Portugal, United Kingdom

Maria a young girl living in Portugal in the late 60's, is left alone by her husband who is taken to the colonial war in Africa on their wedding day. In an environment of traditions and taboos she tries to deal with her love and loss at the same time she tries to find her own voice.

The Legend of Run Run Shaw

2014 • 43 min • Hong Kong

A tribute to Run Run Shaw by TVB/Pearl.

Vivid

2014 • 22 min • France

Béatrice and Laurent live together. Laurent begins to have unprecedented difficulties, losing his sense of taste,smell and touch, little by little. But more worryingly, this problem only concerns his perception of his partner, and he starts to wonder if the problem is really his.

James Thurber: The Life and Hard Times

2014 • 57 min

The first major documentary film on James Thurber's life and work includes a look at the humorist's accomplishments as a journalist, playwright, cartoonist and social critic.

Nighthawks

2014 • 31 min

The lives of three lonely strangers in the city interconnect: a blind man with an obsession, a boy who sees the world differently, and a girl who is more than meets the eye.

Amanda F***ing Palmer on the Rocks

2014 • 18 min

Follow punk-cabaret icon Amanda Palmer as she hits the stage at Red Rocks Amphitheater. Since her record-breaking $1.2 million crowd-funded Kickstarter campaign, Palmer (formerly of the Dresden Dolls) has carved out a path of fearlessness and independence outside the norms of the music industry.

Operation Marriage

2014 • 10 min

Two young siblings try to get their lesbian moms married before Proposition 8 passes in California.

Edward the Damned

2014 • 16 min

What is it Edward is hiding beneath his wig? To the people around him he seems an average bloke. But tonight his insidious secret will finally see the light of day in a reveal you won't soon forget.

L’Uxoricide

2014 • 4 min • France

Light Veins

2014 • 5 min • Germany

This video segment complements the 2014 English-language edition of History and Obstinacy by Alexander Kluge and Oskar Negt, edited by Devin Fore and translated by Richard Langston (Zone Books).

Mario Wirz

2014 • 15 min • Germany

Rosa von Praunheim shows an intimate portrait of his dying friend Mario Wirz.

First Baptist

2014 • 19 min

A young Southern Baptist choir soloist fights for the right for his place.

Casitas

2014 • 10 min • Spain

Carlos and Marta, both 35 years old, are living the life they have always dreamed of. A house with a yard, a dog, and they are even about to have a child. But there is no such thing as a perfect life.

Hollywood Lucifer

2014 • 3 min • United States of America

Nazi Death Camp: The Great Escape

2014 • 56 min • United Kingdom

The secret Nazi death camp at Sobibor was created solely for the mass extermination of Jews. But on the 14th October 1943, in one of the biggest and most successful prison revolts of WWII, the inmates fought back.

Greece

2014 • 16 min

On a rainy afternoon in a British nursing home, a woman struggles to make a last connection with her seemingly catatonic mother.

Battle Lines

2014 • 28 min

During WW1, Arthur Robertson is forced to come face to face with more struggles than he bargained for. Watching his personal battle unfold proves that sometimes all that matters is knowing you matter.

Dough

2014 • 21 min

When a traumatized runaway finds solace in a secluded farm home, her attempt to liberate the house from a disturbing secret uproots a rage that should have remained hidden.

Studlebrity

2014 • 42 min

Today there seems to be a new Social Celebrity every time we go online. We are inundated with guys famous for... well we don't really know what. But they have over 10,000 followers on Twitter and when they post a carefully posed shirtless shot on Instagram they have an army of followers giving it an enthusiastic thumbs-up.

Monsieur Lapin

2014 • 38 min • France

Thierry is a night watchman in a hotel. Solitary and indecisive, some nights he joined Mr. Zutawski, a painter, and poses for him.

Linclone

2014 • 5 min

They clone Abe Lincoln's DNA and name the clone President for life - except there's one problem: the clone is evil.