All Films

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.

Roberto Saviano: Writing Under Police Protection

2016 • 45 min • Italy

An upbeat and humorous account of the hard life under police protection led by Italian writer Roberto Saviano since the publication in 2006 of Gomorrah, his controversial book about the Camorra, the ruthless organization that has dominated the criminal underground in Naples for centuries.

W.S. Merwin: To Plant a Tree

2016 • 52 min • United States of America

A documentary on the life and work of Poet Laureate, two-time Pulitzer winner, and environmental activist W.S. Merwin.

Super Oldboy

2016 • 13 min • Brazil

Bil is an elderly man who works as an office boy for a firm in São Paulo, as he does not pay for a bus ticket and takes a preferential line at the bank. One day he gets involved in an unusual bank robbery.

now and then

2016 • 15 min • Japan

Currentzis – The Classical Rebel

2016 • 52 min • Germany

For many, the Russian city of Perm might seem like the end of the world, isolated in the foothills of the Ural mountains. But it is in this rapidly developing industrial city – which is establishing itself as one of Russia’s modern cultural centers – that the Greek conductor Teodor Currentzis has been quietly revolutionizing classical music with his ensemble musicAeterna. The film follows the recording sessions of Mozart’s Don Giovanni, documenting the artists’ habits and painting a portrait of this exuberant conductor.

The Canary Islands

2016 • 50 min • Austria

There are few places on earth that have such a diverse variety of terrain and range of climates concentrated in a relatively small area - temperate coastline, scorching arid deserts and tundra, tropical rainforests and frozen snowcapped mountains. And there are few places that are as heavily exploited by humans, yet remain a wilderness.

Uncle Gareth

2016 • 14 min

After his mother's death, Gareth is caught between his fear of being alone and his fear of dealing with the world outside. The natural solution, hanging out with preserved bodies from his family's funeral home, works perfectly--until he suddenly has to take care of his niece while hiding the bodies from a neighborhood watchman.

Secret Goldfish

2016 • 2 min • Taiwan

Shot on 16mm, as part of the commercial shorts collection for the 53th Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival.

WhiteWoods

2016 • 10 min • Canada

It was a simple pitstop in the woods, but a young woman finds herself with a terrible feeling.