All Films

Memoria

2016 • 39 min • Indonesia, Timor-Leste

A mother tries to leave her memory of being a victim during the war in Timor Leste. A daughter tries to secure herself under a marriage. They are trying to find the real meaning of freedom. Maria is one of the female victims of sexual violence in Timor Leste in their dark years of independence. She sees that such possibility can happen as well to Flora just because of a bride price.

The Courtyard

2016 • 7 min • France

A young bored man relives his past thanks to his new neighbor clumsiness.

With A Kiss

2016 • 46 min • United States of America

Through a son’s eyes, With A Kiss tells the story of a father who had been on the Road to the Final Four his whole life, and last year, at age 73, got the call to announce his first Final Four on television. The documentary chronicles Raftery’s experience at the 2015 Final Four in Indianapolis, his 35-year broadcasting career, and ascent to one of the pinnacles in sports broadcasting as CBS Sports’ lead college basketball analyst. The show presents an intimate look at Raftery’s family life and highlights his early years in which the Kearny, N.J. native was a basketball star earning player of the year honors as a high school senior in 1959.

A Buddy Already Dead

2016 • 16 min • Greece

Apart from one chicken in a freezer, a trumpet teacher, keeps also the corpse of his mother. Is there life after death?

Thing in the Dark

2016 • 9 min

A mysterious creature is wreaking havoc on suburban Pasadena. There have been reports of people going missing, while others reported being followed in the dark. The incidents have entirely taken place between dusk and dawn.

Walter and the Moon

2016 • 3 min

Ever wondered why the werewolf howls at the moon? Walter will show you.

Video 69

2016 • 7 min • United States of America

A video rental story.

Laserpope

2016 • 4 min • Germany

Trailer for a fake movie.

Alter Ego

2016 • 3 min

What would my bra say if it could talk? Director Alexa Karolinski dreams up a humorous vision of the role wearable technology might play in our future lives. What could it mean for our communications and social interactions? A question explored by the short film “Alter Ego“ starring Annabelle Dexter-Jones and Joyce Carpati.

The Law of Sodom

2016 • 22 min

The visualization of the terror one goes through when suffering from schizophrenia.

Spellbound

2016 • 3 min • United States of America

A child girl must save to her older sister from her own negative thoughts.

Feels Good

2016 • 15 min • United States of America

Sometimes the best day of your life is the worst day of your life.

The Orange Story

2016 • 18 min

The Orange Story is a narrative short film that tells the story of an elderly Japanese American man who must sell all his belongings and report to a temporary detention center during WWII from where he will be forcibly removed to an undisclosed location. The film also uses archival radio, film, and photographic sources to complement this narrative, providing a strong historical context for the story.

The Giant Scorpion

2016 • 4 min

A giant scorpion attacks a girl!

Some Stories Around Witches

2016 • 53 min • India

Stories of some people in Odisha, accused, ostracized and tortured for being ‘witches’, pointing to a deeper crisis.

Signs of Evil - The Runes of the SS

2016 • 50 min • Germany

The symbol of the SS, Hitler’s Schutzstaffel, stands for terror and the murder of millions. The penniless graphic artist Walter Heck was given the job of designing the jagged, rune-like characters in 1929. The “sig” rune was rooted deep in the ideological cosmos of the Nazis and their supporters. They saw themselves as the descendants of the Teutons and declared the runes to be humanity’s original Germanic script. The symbol was meant to unite Heinrich Himmler’s “Black Order”. But did it escape their notice that it was originally of Semitic origin? In October 1945, the Allies passed a law banning the Nazi Party and all associated organizations, including the SS. The young Federal Republic even forbade all Nazi symbols. This documentary tells the gripping story of the SS symbol, from the Middle Ages to the present day.

Alone

2016 • 8 min

An experimental exploration of who we are when no one is watching: the freedom we experience, and the loneliness-the way we sing, dance, love, cry, and dream when we are alone.

Dream Catcher Inc.

2016 • 10 min

A romantic Sci-Fi drama about Jacob, a young man who lacks romance in his life, who instead seeks it in his dreams through a device which allows him to choose what type of dream he'll have. He is warned about overusing the Dream Catcher device but continues to do so as loneliness pervades his entire life. He dreams of the same woman day after day, but has no idea who she is. Until one day he runs into her. They hit it off and surprisingly they share a lot in common. But things are not exactly as they seem.

Are We Them Yet?

2016 • 4 min • Ireland

A tale of two brothers told from the perspective of a rearview mirror

The Red, White and Blue of My Hair

2016 • 22 min • Cameroon, France

Seyna, a young Cameroonian woman fascinated by French history, dreams of gaining citizenship of the country she so loves as soon as she reaches 18. Will it be just a formality, or a much tougher path?

Krokiga vägen till Lyckliga gatan

2016 • 58 min • Sweden

A film about dreams and opportunities, not about problems.

Wacht nacht

2016 • 6 min • Netherlands

Nothing is what it seems during this brief meeting in an empty night shop. When Claire has to carry out a silly assignment from her sorority, Hafid is standing behind the counter. The serious looking Amsterdam guy seems to give her a taste of her own medicine. The question soon arises who is manipulating who. One thing is certain: after those few minutes when the lives of these completely different people intersect, everything will be forever different.

Las vísceras

2016 • 15 min • France, Spain

A village in southern Spain. On a hot summer afternoon, a woman grabs a rabbit, strokes it, then kills it with her bare hands before skinning it. Her grandchildren witness this rite of death which they will never forget. The streets echo with an ancestral legend which has it that the spirit of a woman with a broken heart prowls at night, so that she will not be forgotten.

The Other Side of Home

2016 • 40 min

In 1915, estimated 1.5 million Armenians were killed by the Ottoman Turks, during the Armenian Genocide. In 2015, a Turkish woman named Maya discovers that her great grandmother was survivor of the Armenian genocide. Maya embodies the conflict as she has two enemies living in her body: one side that suffers and the other side that denies. The documentary follows Maya as she decides to go to Armenia to take part in the 100th commemoration of the genocide and to explore her conflicted identity. This film is a universal story of identity, denial, and how the experience of genocide creates a ripple effect for future generations on both sides.