All Films

A/k

2016 • 10 min • France

Kim and Anouk are waiting for a bus that will never come. To pass the time they create a story about Ted the cowboy cop and Joe the psychopathic redneck. Suddenly, Ted’s police car stops in front of the bus stop.

After the Ispeguy Pass

2016 • 24 min • France

Martial lost his father after the Ispeguy Pass. Since that day, he strangely persists in repairing the damaged vehicle. Maybe to keep him close, just a little more before growing up.

Bête Noire

2016 • 20 min • France

Eleven-year-old Ariel and eight-year-old Maxence live in a small, remote farm. After a fit of madness, their mother Marine is obliged to leave the family home. Maxence believes his mother's disappearance was caused by monsters in the forest. Ariel enters the forest with the aim of killing the beast lurking their and bringing back his mother.

When Waters Rise

2016 • 17 min • United States of America

Based on the Parable of the Wise & Foolish Builders, a father and daughter seek refuge and hope in the midst of an unprecedented storm.

And the Whole Sky Fit in the Dead Cow's Eye

2016 • 19 min • Chile, United States of America

Emeteria is visited by a ghost she believes has come to take her to the afterlife. But he has more devastating news.

Casa de mi madre

2016 • 12 min • Cuba

A fire rages in the woods near a village. This fire triggers a memory in a lonely, middle-aged woman, which pushes her to utter aloud the words she's always wanted to say.

Crowley: Every Cowboy Needs His Horse

2016 • 15 min • Germany, United States of America

Crowley is 11 years old and lives together with his father on a ranch in Colorado. At first glance Crowley is a little cowboy, but he is 'not quite there yet' as he says himself. A real cowboy takes on responsibility and is able to stand on his own two feet. Crowley helps out on the ranch wherever he can: he helps branding animals, catching cattle, that got lost in the large canyons and repairing the fences. It's not an easy life. But nonetheless, he wants to take over the ranch when he's all grown up so he can finally say: I am a real cowboy!

An afternoon with Bolaño

2016 • 6 min • Spain

A short film homage to Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño for the Festival d'Art Independent PEPE SALES 2016.

Pussy

2016 • 9 min • Poland

A young woman spends the evening alone at home. She decides to give herself a treat, but not everything works out as smoothly as she imagined.

Change Itself – An Art Apart: Genesis Breyer P-Orridge

2016 • 58 min • Sweden

To sum up the life and work of British artist Genesis Breyer P-Orridge is close to impossible. Not only because of the wide range of artistic disciplines, but also because of the timespan, since the mid 1960s to the present day, that has been saturated by hundreds of records, thousands of concerts, exhibitions, interviews, videos, spoken word performances, collages, sculptures, philosophy, cultural engineering, occultism and radical transgender concepts. A couple of descriptions are still valid after these 50 years of active creativity and provocation. P-Orridge is a romantic existentialist and a cultural engineer. Everything is both work as such and seed for cultural and behavioural change.

Cão de Guarda

2016 • 6 min • Brazil

A short tale about violence, filled with zombies, blood and guts.

Structural Amendment

2016 • 60 min • Peru

Lucio, a piano teacher who cannot tolerate his loneliness, decides to rebuild his life based on the different ties he forges with his own students.

The Deja Vuers

2016 • 8 min • United States of America

A man who experiences deja vu when he spots a woman sitting on a park bench - a woman he remembers from a dream but has never met. When their paths finally cross, a portal opens which takes each of their lives in unexpected directions.

Immortal

2016 • 16 min • India

The story centers on a young man, Appu, born into a mafia family and enamored by the tales of underworld legends. He sets himself the mission of assassinating the ruthless gangster Mrithyumjayam, a man rumored to be “immortal”, having survived bullets, stabbings and decades at the top of the food chain. The question looms: can Appu kill the man who can’t die and thereby make a name for himself?

Please, Tell Me

2016 • 28 min • South Korea

In the year 2006, Yumi develops a crush on a video store clerk, Ji-hwan, who can’t speak. As they get closer to each other, one day, Yumi has to move to a different city. She confesses her true feelings for him but receives no answer from Ji-hwan. Five years later, we meet Yumi, and she´s slowly losing her sight. She decides to embark on the journey to see him before it´s too late.

Horizon: Ice Station Antarctica

2016 • 59 min

BBC weatherman Peter Gibbs makes an emotional return to Antarctica, years after he lived and worked at the British Antarctic Survey's Halley Research Station.

Night Four

2016 • 7 min

In the comedy "Night Four," newly adoptive parents and partners Lauren and Brooke struggle with how to handle their crying infant daughter...and things get out of hand.

The Shy Nudist

2016 • 3 min • United States of America

A short comedy about a nudist living in the East Village who has a enormous crush on his neighbor, Olivia. The catch is - He is shy and cannot work up the courage to ask Olivia on a date. Through capturing the daily routines, such as laundry, grocery shopping, parties and going down his elevator, when he bumps into Olivia, he slowly builds the courage to ask her out. However, things turn sour when he bumps into Olivia and her friend in the elevator one day.

The Body's Witness

2016 • 7 min • United States of America

A young man confronts himself at 80.

Caution

2016 • 4 min • Myanmar

Since the post-election period in 2010, the poor farm-less people from Malatto village group, Maubin district in Ayeyarwaddy region have been struggling hard for their living almost every year. This happens since there has been less and less land in the region where they can earn their living. Their rights to use natural resources in their local area has been limited. So, they face lots of difficulties in meeting their basic needs. When the stakeholders of the water and land areas in that region have got the right to open their hearts, we can hear the “Whisper from Malatto”.

Strangers on the Road

2016 • 19 min • Spain

While carrying a mysterious package, Mikel notices he is being followed by a black car. In an attempt to get away, he ends up at a roadside bar where he meets Sara, a girl who doesn't trust easily.

Madame Tussaud: A Legend in Wax

2016 • 59 min • France

The remarkable true story of the woman behind the worldwide waxworks empire - Madame Tussaud. In an astonishing life that spanned both the French and Industrial revolutions, this single mother and entrepreneur travelled across the Channel to England, where she overcame the odds to establish her remarkable and enduring brand. Determined to leave an account of who she was and the times she lived through, her memoirs, letters and papers offer a unique insight into the creation of the extraordinary empire which bears her name.

Two Guys, one Body, and a Golf Club

2016 • 4 min • Australia

Two hitmen wonder if their task of killing a man is complete or not.

Tesla

2016 • 54 min • United States of America

Meet Nikola Tesla, the genius engineer and tireless inventor whose technology revolutionized the electrical age of the 20th century. Although eclipsed in fame by Edison and Marconi, it was Tesla's vision that paved the way for today's wireless world. His fertile but undisciplined imagination was the source of his genius but also his downfall, as the image of Tesla as a mad scientist came to overshadow his reputation as a brilliant innovator.