All Films

Burning Heart

2016 • 27 min • France

In Burning Heart, adolescence, the passage to adulthood, is depicted as a loss of innocence following a conflict, ordinary as it might be.

Three Sentences About Argentina

2016 • 5 min

Archival footage of Argentinian skiers is transposed into prompts for language exercises.

Once Upon a Line

2016 • 8 min • United States of America

A man leads a monotone, humdrum existence until he meets somebody.

The Man Who Wanted to Change the World

2016 • 58 min • Netherlands

Peter Westerveld, artist and visionary, doesn’t want institutions to resolve the problems linked to earth’s problems. Growing up in Africa, he witnessed the advance of the desert and dedicated himself to finding solutions for the ongoing erosion and desertification of the land. The film follows Peter and the NGO working with him to realise his project; to build contour trenches that capture and store rain water under the surface and replenish the desert land.

Sandra

2016 • 15 min

A group of quirky girls are confined in a pseudo-sorority group where violence and friendship are uncannily intertwined. Sandra and her best friend attempt to escape this twisted world on her birthday.

The Artist’s Awakening

2016 • 10 min

An uninspired artist goes in a quest to recover his inspiration.

Ocean

2016 • 11 min • United States of America, Russia

Hard to Believe

2016 • 56 min • Australia, Canada, China, Israel, United Kingdom, United States of America

A documentary that examines the issue of forced live organ harvesting from Chinese prisoners of conscience, and the response - or lack of it - around the world. It's happened before: governments killing their own citizens for their political or spiritual beliefs. But it’s never happened like this. It’s happened so often that the world doesn’t always pay attention.

Towards the Sun

2016 • 28 min • Taiwan

A man who lost his house in a foreclosure sale is forced to live in his truck. A Vietnamese woman with a flight ticket and few belongings gets on the man’s truck. Sitting on the moving truck with their painful memories, they follow the signs all the way to the North.

Ghosts in Time

2016 • 7 min

Eve risks her life to travel back in time in order to change the events that caused the death of her parents.

Belo Monte: After the Flooding

2016 • 54 min • Brazil

This documentary tells the story and consequences of one of the world's most controversial hydroelectric dams, located on the Xingu River in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon.

Un video de diez años

2016 • 4 min • Argentina

An old video captures a teenager's vacation in the mountains.

Nocturne in Black

2016 • 23 min • Lebanon

In a war-ravaged Syrian neighborhood, a musician struggles to rebuild his piano after it is destroyed by terrorists.

Erich Kästner – Das andere Ich

2016 • 54 min • Germany

With "Emil and the Detectives" Erich Kästner is revolutionizing children's book literature. In the Weimar Republic, he quickly rose as an editor, writer and screenwriter. His books were burned in 1933. Nevertheless, he does not emigrate, published under a pseudonym and abroad. In the post-war period, Kästner was a moral authority. But he can no longer build on his previous success, gets caught up in love affairs and fights his frustration with alcohol. Until his death in 1974, he struggled with the decision not to go into exile. The documentary drama takes a new look at Kästner's picture.

The Challenger Disaster: Lost Tapes

2016 • 48 min

Challenger Disaster: Lost Tapes follows the story of the Space Shuttle Challenger and its crew, specifically Christa McAuliffe, the first civilian to be launched into space. The events of the days leading up to the disaster are detailed in this unique film, which uses no narration and no interviews. Instead the story is told solely with reports of journalists covering the story, extensive recordings from the NASA team, and interviews with McAuliffe and others who were part of this one-of-a-kind mission. Using rarely seen images and audio recordings, this show takes viewers behind the scenes of this compelling and historic story in a way never before seen.

I Had a Dream

2016 • 3 min • United States of America

Hear Loudon Wainwright imagine Donald Trump ‘s terrifying presidency in his latest song, “I Had a Dream.”

Golden Love

2016 • 13 min • Ukraine

Lack of self-confidence is stopping Viktor from entering the local House of Culture, where the speed dates are to be conducted. However, feeling all the severity of loneliness, he decides to make this step. His fear comes true - every date turns trial to him. Every date exсept one.

#IndiaTomorrow: MyDream

2016 • 5 min

A man has an argument with a sex worker in the aftermath of a stock market crash.

NYPD: Biggest Gang In New York?

2016 • 45 min

In the wake of the shooting of five Dallas police officers, BBC Three investigates why tension is rising between America’s police forces and ethnic minorities. Shot on the streets of New York, the film follows ‘Cop Watchers’ – men and women who track the NYPD in a cat-and-mouse game to try and film arrests and possible cases of brutality. NYPD officers also speak out, alleging systemic racism and a policy of targeting ethnic minority communities in order hit their arrest quotas.

Illegal Aliens

2016 • 10 min • United States of America

Due to the recent arrival of undocumented immigrants, the city of Simpletown holds a special session city council meeting to determine if the town should officially ban the newcomers.

Nighthouse

2016 • 13 min

Shot in Havana and processed at Phil Hoffman's Film Farm, Marcel Beltrán Fernández's Casa de la noche explores those same histories from the point of view of an insider, as a lived experience that is evocatively mirrored through ripped and torn celluloid.

Too Pretty to Live

2016 • 60 min • United States of America

On January 31, 2012, engaged couple Billy Payne and Billie Jean Hayworth are found murdered in their Mountain City, Tennessee home. As police investigate, the story takes a shocking turn when the admitted shooter claims the crime was a sanctioned hit ordered by a rogue CIA agent. Authorities dig deeper, but find no record of the agent, and actually discover that the killers have been catfished. Who is behind the fabricated government official? Ripped from the pages of renowned prosecutor Dennis Brooks' new book, TOO PRETTY TO LIVE is a story of betrayal, vengeance, and two overly-protective parents manipulated into committing murder.

Blind Vaysha

2016 • 8 min • Canada

From the moment she was born, Vaysha was a very special girl. With her left eye she can only see into the past, and with her right she can only see the future. The past is familiar and safe, the future is sinister and threatening. The present is a blind spot. In captivating parabolic imagery, the award-winning animation artist Theodore Ushev illustrates the world through Vaysha’s eyes.

Beatrix Potter with Patricia Routledge

2016 • 47 min • United Kingdom

Patricia Routledge, as patron of the Beatrix Potter Society, presents a documentary on the author's life and work.