All Films

Locked in a Box: Immigration Detention

2015 • 27 min • United States of America

follows the stories of individuals held in the U.S. Immigration detention system and those who visit them. The film traces the lives of several individuals who fled their homelands in search of safety and freedom only to end up in U.S. prisons under a mandatory bed quota system run by Immigration Customs & Enforcement.

I Am Not a Virgin

2015 • 21 min

A girl who makes love with a boy and has lost her virginity so she has problem for marriage because her suitors know that she isn't a virgin they swear at her and leave her so the girl thinks that has a surgery but she realizes that it is very difficult because she hasn't have enough money for surgery and because of illegal surgery the doctor wants to misuse her finally she realizes the only way to get married to an addict man, she does it then gets divorced (because in IRAN the woman can have right for getting divorced that her husband is being mad or addicted), after that she tells to her suitors, she got married but her husband was an addict so she got divorced.

Glowstick

2015 • 18 min

It talks about two best friends, Pim and Yo, who rent an apartment together. On Yo's birthday, she receives a present that awakens memories she can't seem to let go.

F***in White Boy

2015 • 5 min

A delusional white rapper is determined to make his dream come true- no matter what.

Have you ever killed a bear - or Becoming Jamila

2015 • 25 min • Lebanon

A video that uses the history of a magazine – Cairo’s Al-Hilal ‘50s and ‘60s collection – as the starting point for an inquiry into Jamila Bouhired, the Algerian freedom fighter. An actress designated to play her role is showing the magazine’s covers to the camera. From the different representations of Jamila in cinema to her assimilation and promotion through the magazine, the performance attempts to look at the history of socialist projects in Egypt, anti-colonial wars in Algeria, and the way they have promoted and marginalized feminist projects. The clear gender division used to marginalize women from the public sphere was overcome for a short moment during the Algerian war of independence (Jamila becoming its icon). Different voices and film and print material are used to explore this history. What does it mean to play the role of the freedom fighter? What does it mean to become an icon?

Alexfilm

2015 • 60 min • Mexico

At 7 p.m. he had an appointment...an important appointment.

Me & You

2015 • 7 min • United Kingdom

Look down on the moments that make a love story.

Áile and Grandmother

2015 • 12 min • Norway

Áile is a young girl with a special relationship with nature that only she and her grandmother know. Aileen is taught to use plants as medicine. But one day she finds out a secret that turns her little world upside down.

Should Tomorrow Be

2015 • 24 min

This film is about the filmmaker's father who suffered an accident rendering him paralyzed from the neck down. The film uses original hospital footage to describe the time he chose to disconnect his ventilator and life support and show how his family and friends rallied around him as he made this decision.

Dirty Paws

2015 • 5 min • United States of America

A man handles his boyfriend's monthly change at the full moon with grace and tenderness. And silver chains.

The Race

2015 • 15 min • France

Eternally dissatisfied and doomed to grow, Humanity frantically rushes along at top speed on a mad race. What if this headlong rush was not the fruit of our free will, but the result of mechanical forces ruling the universe?

The Life & Death of an iPhone

2015 • 7 min • United States of America

“The Life and Death of an iPhone” is shot entirely on an iPhone, edited on the iPhone about what it’s like to be an iPhone. Seen entirely from the phone’s point-of-view beginning with its inception through its life… death… and ultimately its reincarnation. This is not a PSA.

Bam

2015 • 6 min • Canada

A modern adaptation of the myth of Hercules, BAM tells the story of a young boxer struggling to negotiate between his shy, bookish nature and a divinely violent temper. Where does this rage come from? Is it psychological or environmental - or is it something altogether more primordial?

Coração Azul

2015 • 25 min • Brazil

Janco and Samuel own a detective agency, in school. While investigating the disappearance of a volleyball, Janco tries to approach Dariana, the girl he is in love with.

Wolkaan

2015 • 30 min

A volcano spews lava that slowly crawls through the streets of Tehran. Thousands of miles away, an Iranian boy and his dad take a road trip through the American Midwest. Two seemingly unrelated journeys are juxtaposed in this rich meditation on diaspora, memory, and loss.

One Last Night

2015 • 22 min • Israel

In this tough and tender punk-rock romance, Noa and Orr have just one more night to spend together in Tel Aviv before Orr leaves for Berlin. But, as is so often the case, the passions and ideals of youth may be imperilled by adulthood's tough emotional truths and knotty ethical dilemmas.

Occidente

2015 • 15 min • Brazil

In a spellbinding, textural blend of 16mm and HD video, Ana Vaz refracts the colonial history of Brazil and Portugal through objects, gestures, and contemporary customs.

Tarântula

2015 • 20 min • Brazil

In a distant mansion lives a religious and apparently incomplete family: a mother and her two daughters. Until the day which a new disturbing member comes to put things in their place.

Patriot

2015 • 15 min • United Kingdom

Against the backdrop of simmering racial tensions within her rural English town, the life of eleven-year-old Hannah changes forever when she meets a boy from a mysterious and forbidden world.

Such a Shame

2015 • 20 min • Greece

In black and white Athens, lazy by conviction Nikos will fall instantly in love with carefree Louisa. Their future is oh, so inviting. Love on the other hand is a tough thing and a devouring force for the innocents.

Soundtrack

2015 • 2 min • United Kingdom

A miserable man's daily routine is interrupted by a little accompaniment. Winner of Kermode & Mayo's Well Done U.

Horror Bizarre: How Will I Die

2015 • 5 min

A couple is enjoying a night in and decide to take a quiz.

Manías

2015 • 12 min • Argentina, Spain

Obsessions is a short film about those little things that we can't stop doing, just like Félix does: he enjoys eating people.

What Jack Built

2015 • 12 min • United States of America

What is that thing Jack is building in his cellar? How could such a device be used? Perhaps it has something to do with that creature out in the woods...