All Films

On The Side

2015 • 35 min • Portugal

The portrait of a community as they face their country's economic recession.

Do Goldfish Have a Good Memory?

2015 • 14 min • Thailand

There was a lazy, forgetful girl named Rin. After her boyfriend, Pek, has left her with nothing but the goldfish he bought her, she has been trying to live normally and bring herself back but it seemed like she just could not help it.

Strata of the Image

2015 • 7 min • Spain

The project seeks to reflect about the image, and its contemplative experience from the factors of time, color and movement. We focus our view on the human-landscape relationship, facing it in two temporal dimensions: the geological and human. This definition synthesize well the will of the project: "The landscape are layers of time condensed into an image". We seek to merge different temporal layers into a single image, proposing two exploration lines: emphasize the ephemeral and fleeting passage of man over the territory; and invite to a leisurely contemplation showing the poetry and mystery of the movements of landscape.

Poetry

2015 • 24 min • Belarus

An ex-couple who write poems experience a curious synchronicity online.

So Far

2015 • 14 min • France

In a world turn to ashes by a war without mercy against mankind and machines, a little boy trying somehow to survive. Although the threat of robots is everywhere, he is forced to leave in search of food. Despite his efforts to hide, he ends up getting caught. While all seems lost, the reaction of the robot takes an unexpected turn . In a world turned to ashes by war between human and machines, a boy tries to survive. Even if the robot menace is everywhere, he goes on a quest for food. Despite his effort to stay hidden, he gets caught. While everything seems to be lost, the reaction of the robot is not going to be what he expected...

Michi

2015 • 4 min • Japan, Canada

In this mixed-media animation, Michi journeys into a brightly-coloured world filled with adventure and mysterious creatures and leaves with a renewed self-awareness.

Microondas

2015 • 5 min • Spain

"Microwaves" is Juan Cavestany's new radio drama.

Impression of a War

2015 • 26 min • France, Colombia

For over 70 years Colombia has been subject to an internal armed conflict whose demarcation lines seem to have become blurred over time. An insidious creeping violence has gradually pervaded the whole of society. Impossible as it is to tell this story in one unified narrative, the history behind this violence seems to take form through a multitude of traces.

Animation School Dropout

2015 • 2 min • United States of America

This is animation after all and any kind of motion is possible, but there must be rules. For example, if a character in your story can't fly and then all of a sudden he can fly for no reason. As soon as something looks wrong or out of place, your audience will think about how weird that looked and you've lost them.

Above All Else

2015 • 8 min • United States of America

In 1992, skydiver Dan Brodsky-Chenfeld boarded a plane for a training jump. Six weeks later, he awoke from a coma to discover that a terrible accident had shattered his dream of becoming a World Champion. This is his story.

The Living Need Light, the Dead Need Music

2015 • 22 min • Vietnam

The Living Need Light, The Dead Need Music is a visual and musical journey through the fantastical funeral traditions and rituals of south Vietnam.

Menesetung

2015 • 10 min • Canada

Two siblings on a failed sheep farm in rural Canada decide to escape their trouble home by stealing their father's truck, but they are unprepared for the consequences ahead.

Together Forever

2015 • 12 min • United States of America

Lydia tries to get rid of her dead ex-boyfriend, Jason, who's hanging on to the relationship despite the fact that he's a ghost.

Däwit

2015 • 15 min • Germany

A wolf child, a cat, an angel. Young Daewit suffers violence at the hands of his father. He is eventually rescued and able to flee the place of his abuse. He finds refuge with a family of wolves: a foster child in a modern world. Lost, he embarks on a seemingly endless journey, a journey full of riddles and deprivation. He tries to find himself, his identity – amidst the all-encompassing sorrow.

Try Again

2015 • 9 min • United States of America

TRY AGAIN brings us into the mind of Walt Eichner, a middle-aged failure on the verge of ending it all. However, it turns out Walt isn’t any better at ending his life than he is at living it. Each attempt to formulate his grand demise is stymied by circumstance and bad planning, leading Walt to consider that suicide isn’t the neat solution he thought it would be.

La generación del estanbai

2015 • 20 min • Puerto Rico

Based in Puerto Rico, it explores the challenges that young laborers face as they search for secure and stable jobs. This documentary follows the lives of a diverse group of young college graduates trying to develop their careers in a country with an ongoing financial crisis.

Salmon

2015 • 8 min

Transformed into a salmon, an Indigenous street artist travels through decayed urban landscapes to the forests of long ago, in this sublime mixed animation.

The Cryptozoologist

2015 • 8 min • Spain

Bernard, a veteran cryptozoologist who has spent all his life searching for cryptid creatures, has the chance to hunt one of this greatest challenges, the Mosquifant. After travelling to a distant island in the North Sea, he will live an adventure full of difficulties and surprises.

Uneventful

2015 • 3 min • United Kingdom

Silly, dark and brutal, Uneventful is a super-short comedy about a woman's 'Uneventful' weekend.

+Math

2015 • 13 min • Puerto Rico

A young college student is studying for a math test. He has never liked math and as he tries to study, his frustration grows and grows until it possess him. One night, the student realizes that what began as stifling fear and frustration towards mathematics, has become something beyond his control.

Canada 360

2015 • 60 min • Canada

Canada 360 is an epic adventure – capturing a 5-year circumnavigation of the world’s longest coastline from the air. This never-before- seen view of Canada, narrated by director Andrew Killawee – reveals the secrets of Canada’s 3 coastlines, and its southern border with the USA. From the Rocky Mountains, Badlands, Prairies, Canadian Shield, Arctic tundra, and the rugged Atlantic Coast – Canada 360 brings the Canadian landscape to life. On the ground, the film’s team explores dozens of communities, from Toronto to Tuktoyaktuk – meeting hundreds of ordinary Canadians.

Bootwmn

2015 • 11 min

Deana McGuffin is a third generation New Mexico boot maker, hand-crafting wearable pieces of art. When she is approached by a Canadian artist and a San Franciscan tattooer to create a gay themed cowboy boot, a story unravels of a unique collaboration that takes them to the heart of cowboy country in Northern Texas. BOOTWMN is a heart-warming, intimate and at times funny portrait of the queering of a traditional art form.

O Clique Único de Assis Horta

2015 • 15 min • Brazil

Documentary about the Minas Gerais photographer Assis Horta, who immortalized the architectural heritage and society of Diamantina. The great impulse of his career came in 1943, with the Consolidation of Labor Laws, promulgated by Getúlio Vargas. By making mandatory a professional card with photo, Vargas gave the push that the working class needed to enter Horta's photographic studio. In the years that followed, the photographer portrayed hundreds of people. In 3x4 or full-length, many took their first portrait.

Panic!

2015 • 6 min • Netherlands

'Panic!' is Joost Lieuwma's newest project after his succesfull film 'Leaving Home'. Together with writer and director Daan Velsink he developed this comical short. A woman leaves home for a short holiday, when she has a panic attack imagining all things that can go wrong in her home in her absence. Her biggest fears do not come true, but still .. didn't she forget to ..... ?