All Films

Sarah Winchester: Ghost Opera

2016 • 23 min • France

An opera ballet that doesn't exist. A ghost-like piece, played in Opera Bastille and danced at Opera Garnier. An almost mystical link between both scenes. A musician is testing sounds in Bastille's pit. The choir are taking their place in the rehearsal studio. Both sides are fine tuning the work in progress of an opera ballet: Sarah Winchester, her grief, her madness, her home and her ghosts.

Darkly

2016 • 8 min • Italy

A forbidden love between Raf and Sulfus, the former an angel and the latter a demon, is destroyed by Reina, an ancient entity trapped in Purgatory who swore revenge on both Heaven and Hell. Now both are reborn as regular humans. But will they reunite or will Reina suceed in crushing the one thing keeping her from taking power?

Made in Hollywood: Hitchcocks Blondinen

2016 • 60 min • Germany

Documentary about Alfred Hitchcocks infatuation with blondes.

The Not So Secret Life of the Manic Depressive: 10 Years On

2016 • 58 min • United Kingdom

Ten years ago, in an award-winning series, Stephen Fry first spoke about living with manic depression and began a national conversation about mental health. A decade later, we return to the subject to understand where he and thousands of others diagnosed with bipolar (as it is now called) are now.

The Singing Bones

2016 • 10 min

Inspired by the fable of Bluebeard, The Singing Bones tells the story of a young woman who attends the party of a famous producer named Derrick Blue. Over the course of one evening, through seduction, confession and battle, both their worlds change forever. Adapted from the story by Francesca Lia Block.

Kacchikenee!

2016 • 24 min • Japan

Aiko lives in a shrine with a sliding door that mysteriously is only half painted and thought during her childhood that she wanted to paint it. But the 17-year old Aiko now has no dreams about the future. Suddenly, a strange man appears before her. Aiko's grandfather and the shrine's chief priest offers the man to stay in the shrine, but Aiko isn't having any of it. But he realizes the kindness of the brusque young man and slowly comes to like him. What is his true identity?

The Dark Side of the Moon

2016 • 44 min • Slovenia

Žan is in the seventh grade and an excellent student. He is dedicated to astronomy most of his time and is much better than his coevals so in the school club he is the one selected to participate in the republic competition. A year ago, Igor, a nine grader was as well at the competition. Although he was successful, the second place he won was not good enough for him, so he gave astronomy up. Now, however, he is witnessing Žan's success and becomes very envious.

Postpartum

2016 • 24 min

A good mother would never hurt her children, at least not intentionally.

Aries Spears: Comedy Blueprint

2016 • 59 min • United States of America

Armed with his ferociously aggressive style of comedy MADTV alum, Aries Spears, takes the stage in Philadelphia for "Comedy Blueprint". No one, not black, not white, not gay, not straight is safe from his jokes and impressions.

The Division: Agent Origins

2016 • 31 min

A devastating pandemic sweeps through New York City on Black Friday, and one by one, basic services fail. Within weeks, society collapses into chaos, and the government activates The Division, a classified unit of self-supporting agents. Leading seemingly ordinary lives among us, Division agents are trained to operate independently of command when all else fails. Four newly activated agents must serve as civilization's last line of defense after a man-made virus devastates New York City.

The Fruity

2016 • 11 min

At The Fruity Friday night Karaoke BBQ, a deal is struck in which Jorge gives Lindsay a night to remember.

Thunder Road

2016 • 13 min • United States of America

Jimmy Arnaud eulogizes his mother.

Hand. Line. Cod.

2016 • 13 min • Canada

In the coldest waters surrounding Newfoundland's rugged Fogo Island, "people of the fish"—traditional fishers—catch cod live by hand, one at a time, by hook and line. After a 20-year moratorium on North Atlantic cod, the stocks are returning. These fishers are leading a revolution in sustainability, taking their premium product directly to the commercial market for the first time. Travel with them from the early morning hours, spend time on the ocean, and witness the intricacies of a 500-year-old tradition that's making a comeback.

Harvey's Dream

2016 • 10 min • United States of America

A typical Saturday morning for an unhappily married couple decades into their lives together becomes anything but typical when the husband's neurological decline and uncertain memory may or may not reveal unthinkable tragedy.

Horn

2016 • 15 min

A young man's surreal encounter with a motorcycle-riding caretaker launches him on a hallucinatory, spiritual coming-of-age journey through the rural American South.

Red Forest

2016 • 10 min • Japan

Amii runs and runs on a bloodstained earth, through dark forests and warm fields. She keeps running in fear.

ABBA in Pictures: The Photographer's Story

2016 • 45 min

Documentary about ABBA and the photographers who worked with them.

Like the Wind

2016 • 43 min • Japan

Sanpei is a boy beekeeper and the sole survivor of an accident that killed his entire family. Sanpei meets Chiyo, a girl who gets stung by a bee, and starts a new life in her village. Eventually, Sanpei cultivates the land that the villagers had abandoned, and then disappears. In the land now filled with flowers, Chiyo waits, believing Sanpei will return.

kiss-o-drome

2016 • 1 min

In 1980 an extraordinary demonstration hit the streets of the Brazilian city of Sorocaba. Under the military dictatorship, a court had outlawed kisses that undermined public morals. The ruling by Judge Manuel Moralles, which punished such kisses with jail terms, described them this way: “some kisses are libidinous and therefore obscene, like a kiss on the neck, on the private parts, etc., and like the cinematographic kiss in which the labial mucosa come together in an unsophismable expansion of sensuality.” The city responded by becoming one huge kissodrome. Never had people kissed so much. Prohibition sparked desire and many were those who out of simple curiosity wanted a taste of the unsophismable kiss.

Korol Lir

2016 • 21 min • Russia

Gloucester's illegitimate son Edmund frames his legitimate son Edgar, who is then declared wanted. To avoid arrest, Edgar pretends to be insane and joins Lear in exile.

Standing at the Scratch Line

2016 • 11 min • United States of America

Recounts the impact of migrants on the African Methodist Episcopal church. Philadelphia’s Mother Bethel AME, the nation’s oldest African-American church, served as a local community partner, as well as Mother Emmanuel Church in Charleston, SC, the site of the 2015 mass shooting.

Sweet Dumplings

2016 • 12 min • Belgium

Yin and Lee are making dumplings in the kitchen of their restaurant. Yin is kneading dough; Lee is cutting meat and vegetables to make the filling. They are preparing the favourite food of their daughter Tim Tim, who passed away three years before. While they are cautiously folding the dumplings, they are thinking of the beautiful and painful moments. In silence... each with their own memories.

Blindsided

2016 • 13 min • United States of America

Blind man and apple pie connoisseur Walter Cookeventures to his neighborhood corner store to buy milk and apples. When mafia thugs try to shake down the storeowner, Walter shows them what a blind martial artist is capable of!

Metal in Your Head

2016 • 20 min • France

A few days in the conflictual relationship between two brothers, Romain, a scrap merchant, and Kylian, who has a passion for lazing about.