All Films

The Kidnapping of a Fish

2016 • 25 min • United States of America

A mild mannered guy is kidnapped and is forced to figure out if his girlfriend put him in this situation in this drama/comedy/romance film.

Arpan

2016 • 48 min

Make Time 4 Love

2016 • 55 min

After suffering through an emotional and traumatic heartbreak, a successful and career driven woman decides to never allow love to enter her life again. Just when she has decided to devote her entire existence to her career leaving no room for love, her ex fiancée (the one who broke her heart) comes back into her life the same day she meets someone who shows her that a new love just might be the best love. Will she choose passion, chemistry, and history over the simple chance at a new love? Stay tuned.

Alan Shearer's Euro 96: When Football Came Home

2016 • 60 min • United Kingdom

Alan Shearer looks back at England's Euro '96 campaign and their eventual defeat on penalties to their arch rivals Germany in the semi-final.

Ebony: The Last Years Of The Atlantic Slave Trade

2016 • 60 min • France

First-person accounts of slaves, ship owners, traders and colonists recounting the struggle to end the Atlantic slave trade. Drawing on the logbooks, letters and diaries of the victims and witnesses to one of history’s most brutal eras, depicted through dramatic recreations, bolstered by authentic drawings and period documents, featuring insight from historical experts around the world.

Frankie15

2016 • 18 min

'FRANKIE15' tells the story about meaningful friendship, exploring sexuality and being young in Brussels. Frankie wants to lose her virginity before she turns 16, convinced of feeling more grown-up afterwards.

A Grain of Wheat

2016 • 18 min • Japan

“A Grain of Wheat” is a story of two bakeries in Yokohama. A French baker, Eriko, makes a sudden visit to Honda who is the owner of a historical bakery in Yokohama. They have different attitudes towards the craft of bread making but they start to feel mutual respect as they make bread together.

A Big Lego Christmas

2016 • 47 min • United Kingdom

A look behind the scenes as the world's most profitable toy maker opens its biggest ever Lego store, in London. Designer Justin's first ever kit finally hits the shelves, and Lego pro Duncan prepares to make the largest model ever - a replica of Tower Bridge.

Living With Wolves

2016 • 52 min • France

In the Carpathian Mountains, there are just five shepherd dogs to protect a herd of three hundred sheep from wolves in the region. A lone wolf wanders in search of his prey with assistance from a crow. But the attack has to be timed perfectly or it would result in instant death by the dogs or a shotgun by the shepherd. Explore the conflicted relationship between man and wolves that has subsisted for decades in these regions.

Persistence of Vision

2016 • 11 min • United States of America

This poignant documentary portrait by writer, director, and producer Rodney Evans chronicles the experiences and creative process of photographer John Dugdale as he adapts to his loss of vision due to an HIV-related illness.

Heritage Minutes: Naskumituwin (Treaty)

2016 • 1 min • Canada

The making of Treaty 9 from the perspective of historical witness George Spence, an 18-year-old Cree hunter from Albany, James Bay.

Summer Night

2016 • 30 min • South Korea

Soyoung, a woman in 20s struggling between making a living and getting a real job, begins tutoring a high school senior Minjeong. One day, Minjeong asks Soyoung if they could reschedule a session.

The Neon King

2016 • 14 min

THE NEON KING is an Australian original short film exploring one explosive night between two best mates in 1970’s regional Australia.

Power of Silence

2016 • 54 min

Braco freely shares his gift equally with everyone who visits him. The silent gift he offers is shared without the necessity of words, and he does not promote any teaching or give a philosophy about life. Braco has also never given a media interview. His sole focus is upon people and sharing his gift where he is invited. People are meant to judge his work for themselves. Although scientists and doctors have discussed about his work, the majority of people find the many testimonials and personal stories shared by visitors a compelling way to understand the possibilities offered to those who come to experience this gift for themselves.

I Cannot Tell You How I Feel

2016 • 42 min • United States of America

Su Friedrich has taken up the camera again in her ongoing quest to film the battleground of family life. Her mother Lore--who played the lead in The Ties That Bind (1984), a film about her experiences growing up in Germany during the Second World War--plays the lead again, this time kicking and protesting against being moved at the age of 94 from her home in Chicago to an “independent living” facility in New York. Friedrich and her two siblings fill out the supporting roles, cajoling, comforting, and freaking out.

Timberline

2016 • 9 min • United States of America

In the vast wilderness of Mount Hood, four brothers are hunted by unearthly creatures.

Family Plan

2016 • 27 min • South Korea

Nine years ago, high school girl Jeongmin suggested a bizarre plan to her same-sex lover, Yoonseong, that they have a child who looks like both of them. Jeongmin’s wedding, scheduled in a few days, is just the start of that scheme.

Only Blockbusters Left Alive: Monopolizing Film Distribution in Turkey

2016 • 46 min • Germany, Turkey

Turkish film industry has been experiencing a breakthrough in the last ten years. According to 2015 figures, there is a bold uptrend in terms of viewers and film production. Yet without any regulations at work, this growth only made injustices in distribution bigger. While a single cinema chain controls more then 50% of the market, it also started to control distribution and production. In this monopolized environment, there seems to be no country for independent production. With the guidance of producers, distributors, and economists, the film traces the distortion created by the bad economy that has become an obstacle for freedom of choice.

A Song For Europa

2016 • 2 min • Iceland, United Kingdom

“A Song for Europa’ is one of the key tracks from Jóhann Jóhannsson’s release ‘Orphée’ on Deutsche Grammophon. Typically for Johann, the work is a beautifully atmospheric composition, one that immerses the listener into the strange recordings of the ‘Numbers Stations’: a category of shortwave radio station broadcasts characterized by readings of number lists, letters and coded messages from a forgotten era. It is to these lost, lonely voices that Johan has turned, capturing the enigmatic transmission of encoded information to persons elsewhere, and reflecting them back within a new context. In response, Studio AKA director Gergely Wootsch has created a considered and thoughtful animated film, which crosses literal boundaries and thresholds as it drifts along a desolate cold war landscape, following the haunting voice as it searches for a listener.

De frente

2016 • 1 min • Spain

Mother Knows Best

2016 • 13 min • Sweden

The family's mother has absolutely no problems with her son having just introduced his boyfriend to her. She only wants to give him a little well-meaning advice.

Historical

2016 • 12 min • Japan

A high school girl encounters a rabbit like creature who sends her back in time.

Birds Fly Back to the Nest

2016 • 21 min

The scattered families gather and visit their mother.

Pearl

2016 • 6 min • United States of America

The story of a girl and her dad as they cross the United States in an older model hatchback chasing their dreams.