All Films

You'll Have the Sky: The Life and Work of Anne Morrow Lindbergh

2016 • 27 min • United States of America

A film portrayal of a pioneering aviator and best-selling author whose extraordinary public life had a deep impact on her inner world.

Wie Tiere fühlen

2016 • 52 min • Germany

Do animals have feelings? Empathy even? A documentary with some insights due to advancing technology.

Generation Dry

2016 • 26 min • France

It is a fact that our winters are less and less cold. Therefore it is harder and harder to get the conditions for ice-climbing. Fortunately, man adapts to his environment and makes progress: this is how dry-tooling was born. This movie will make you discover this discipline: its history, its evolution and the current practice. You will also see how much excitement dry tooling can bring. Dry-tooling now allows to free-climb some routes which were impossible to climb without aid in the past.

2 Fists Up

2016 • 58 min

When University of Missouri football players threatened to boycott their game with Brigham Young University last November unless president Tim Wolfe resigned, they made news far beyond the sports pages and Columbia, Missouri. But that was only one chapter in a tale that began long before that - a tale that director Spike Lee unspools in this Lil' Joints documentary for ESPN Films. Yes, the athletes played a significant role in forcing Wolfe's resignation, but it was really the female organizers of the Concerned Student 1950 movement, as well as a man, Jonathan Butler, willing to starve himself, who stood tallest in the confrontation with institutional racism at Mizzou. Indeed, their courage and resolve brings hope to the message chanted at the end of the film: "We gonna be all right."

Lover

2016 • 10 min • United States of America

A voyeuristic woman falls in love at first sight. All dialogue taken from the plays and poems of WIlliam Shakespeare.

The Memory of Fish

2016 • 54 min • United States of America

Dick Goin and his family have been fed by the Elwha River's salmon since migrating to Washington's Olympic Peninsula during the Dust Bowl. Dick has never forgotten his debt to the fish — who have been steadily disappearing. A pulp mill worker and master fisherman turned salmon advocate, Dick uses his memories and persistence to battle for the biggest dam removal project in U.S. history. His goal: bring the salmon home.

Pete Davidson: SMD

2016 • 56 min • United States of America

Filmed in front of a sold-out hometown crowd in New York City, "SMD" is the first Comedy Central stand-up special from Saturday Night Live's Pete Davidson. The special is filled with Davidson's unfiltered, brutally honest anecdotes about smoking a Snoop Dog amount of weed, texting his mom d* pics, and his issue with male porn stars. From his stint in "prehab" to this one time at a Justin Bieber concert, Davidson proves that even at 22, he and his friends have had some high times and heavy experiences.

4:15 P.M. The End of the World

2016 • 15 min • Romania

A courier takes a hitchhiker on the road. When the hitchhiker warns him that the end of the world is around the corner, the courier labels him as crazy, without knowing this accidental encounter will change his life forever.

In The Grass

2016 • 17 min

Detective Wallace, an awkward sleuth suffering a crisis of confidence, finds himself unable to act when the killer he never suspected takes the life of his partner.

Labyrinth

2016 • 15 min • Taiwan, United States of America

In a moment of lost lucidity, an elderly woman with Alzheimer's has the last chance to reconcile with her daughter.

Paradise by the Dashboard Light

2016 • 43 min • United States of America

The influx of the most human-like droids into a pocket in New York City brings out the monster in many of their creators and the poetry and beauty in their often undetected creations.

Symphonic Hip Hop

2016 • 60 min • France

Hip Hop Symphonique is a creation by Mouv', the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and Adami. It is based on a selection of ten emblematic French rap tracks from 1990 to 2015, replayed, rearranged and re-orchestrated for Symphonic Orchestra & a contemporary musical ensemble. Five emblematic groups from the French rap scene take part in this symphonically orchestrated musical show: IAM, MC SOLAAR, ARSENIK, YOUSSOUPHA, BIGFLO & OLI. Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

This House Has People in It

2016 • 12 min • United States of America

AB Surveillance Solutions, a security company seems to be keeping logs and watching a family as they live a seemingly average life. However it seems that there is something darker going on under the facade.

Underwater

2016 • 15 min • United States of America

A susceptible teenager, in trying to escape the tumult of his home, drowns himself in alcohol, drugs, and parties. Based on a true story.

Talk Radio

2016 • 14 min • United States of America

Lou spent so many years listening to talk radio that he was left wondering whether there was actually any reason to live.

The Nest Egg

2016 • 14 min

The Nest Egg: the story of a chicken suit, benevolence and eggs.

Story of...Coffee

2016 • 52 min • United Kingdom

Discovered in Africa in the Middle Ages, coffee spread around the globe, taking on many different forms ranging from murky concoction to artisan brew.

Jeewan Hathi

2016 • 60 min • Pakistan

This riotously funny satire on Pakistan's media industry explores the dark underbelly of a reality show that has the nation enthralled as a channel owner who will do anything for higher ratings.

Mysteries of Ancient China

2016 • 40 min • United States of America

Archeologists discover a pit filled with terracotta warriors buried to protect the grave of the First Emperor of China.

Knit

2016 • 13 min • United States of America

One day, while using a popular broadcasting video app, a teenage girl named Katie discovers the truth about the urban myth known as The Old Knitty. They say that if you stumble upon Knitty's live stream, and she happens to see you watching, she'll call out your name, and mark you. She will then haunt you via any electronic device you happen to own or be on.

La fertilidad de la tierra

2016 • 15 min • Mexico

A documentary about the importance of taking care and respect for the earth, man and all forms of life, as an eternal cooperation, having as its main premise, to heal the earth to heal man. The whole story is narrated through the doctor and farmer Dieter le Noir at his Rancho Valle La Paz.

Ryuichi Sakamoto + Alva Noto: The Glass House

2016 • 26 min • United States of America

Music live performance of Ryuichi Sakamoto and Alva Noto at the Glass House.

Entropic

2016 • 13 min

Universes collide when a scientist seeking to uncover the meaning of life accidentally disrupts the robbery of a small town grocery store from another world.

Eleganssi

2016 • 26 min • Finland

Elegance is a short film about a group of Finnish men, and the style and elegance of hunting partridge and pheasant. The film’s protagonists are all wealthy men, for whom hunting is a treasured hobby, a passion and a way of life. The film unfolds in three acts on a scenic autumnal field. Meet the three businessmen: Nokia’s former CEO, Jorma Ollila, engineering company Kone Oy’s owner, Antti Herlin, and the charming narrator, Publishing Company Otava’s former CEO, Heikki A. Reenpää. His narration leads the viewer through hunting expeditions, creates the mood and introduces the people. Almost equally important are the gentlemens’ dogs: handsome pointers and setters, whose pedigrees, abilities and hunting prowess ultimately determine whether any birds are caught at all.