All Films

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 ..... ?

The Wall

2015 • 8 min • Belgium

Shanghai. A multitude of towers of concrete buildings without personality. Inside, close studios where live anonymous, folded on themselves, until CHUNG, single, decided to hang a picture on the wall.

Zerogon

2015 • 5 min • United States of America

A lonely creature, on a lonely planet, abducted into the false allure of a computer generated world.

All That Is Solid Melts Into Data

2015 • 53 min

Traces the historical evolution of these structures that make-up “the cloud”, the physical repositories for the exponentially growing amount of human activity and communication taking form as digital data.

Drowned City

2015 • 52 min

Drowned City is a documentary film about the people who devote themselves to pirate radio in London. The film takes a journey with today's youth who spend their days and nights transmitting from tower blocks and warehouses; with nostalgic, experienced ex-pirates who have lost their battles with Ofcom and paid the price; and with mainstream stars who owe their fame and fortune today to their early start in pirate radio. Through unprecedented access to the secret lives of pirates, we are offered the opportunity to ask why these individuals take such enormous risks for illegal broadcasting. The stories told by key characters provide insight into the poignant affect pirate radio has had on their lives.

Voor Film

2015 • 12 min • Netherlands

From the perspectives of a dozen diverse viewers, this short explores the peculiar ritual of watching film. How is the medium experienced by people with sensory impairments, strong religious beliefs, or lovesickness? A story about moving images and their audience.

What Do You Find When You Look Through Forgotten Doors

2015 • 5 min

A break-in.

The Revolution Isn't a Gala Ball

2015 • 27 min • France

Lola is hitch-hiking on a highway rest area when she meets Karim. He agrees to drive her all the way to Paris. Lola wants to become a film actress. Karim wants to change the course of History. The revolution will happen with or without them.

Brotherhood: An Egotistic Journey of a Blind Mind

2015 • 25 min • Canada

Brotherhood An Egotistic Journey of a Blind Mind is about "Two friends drawn apart by the most common human emotion...Love" Two best friends, Marcus and Vincent are your ideal hoodlums. On a daily routine they drink alcohol, play basketball and idolize women. Stuck in a rut the two are introduced to a young go-getter named Ariana. Through getting to know her a wedge is thrown into Marcus and Vincent's relationship and it might never be repaired. Ego gets in the way and it blinds them.

Rampa

2015 • 16 min • Portugal

Rampa tells the story of Matilde, a middle-class prep-school girl in Lisbon, who finds herself at a social crossroads when her parents divorce and she’s forced to move to a low-income neighbourhood across town. It is just after Summer holiday when Matilde, young and insecure, returns to school – but after the Summer troublesome events, everything feels different.