All Films

Lonely Dietmar

2015 • 14 min

This short movie is about a boy who turned 18 and struggles with lack of money and an alcoholic mother.

Delivery

2015 • 6 min • France

A peaceful neighborhood, a peaceful home, a peaceful couple who is about to celebrate the arrival of their new piece collection of African Art.

#73

2015 • 23 min • Iraq

The road is paved by acts of genocide, mass executions, and enslavement. The rise of the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant scatters countless families of the Yezidi minority in Kurdistan. The film is about a young man going back to his besieged village to save his elderly parents who were left behind by the first wave of refugees.

Lilith's Community

2015 • 60 min • Ukraine

According to the medieval religious text Alphabet of ben Sirach, Lilith was the first wife of Adam. Unlike Eve, she refused to obey her husband and considered herself equal to him. Lilith's Community is a virtual utopian sorority created through artistic revision of history on the basis of positive gender discrimination and rejection of the tradition of male domination. Lilith's Community is compiled out of eleven Ukrainian films of 1917-1930 by leaving only the episodes involving women. The editing was done not by creating artificial connections between the episodes, but by superimposing all source films according to the original chronology of episodes in each of them. Even with such hyperdensity, the film sometimes displays a black screen. It indicates that at this particular moment of the running time none of the eleven films featured a woman.

Malvao

2015 • 1 min

A short animated film about the bad guys.

This Place We Call Our Home

2015 • 30 min • Denmark

In this film war is an atmosphere, rather than a series of journalistic facts. Through music we visit all layers of society. In the form of a poem we show how it feels when your country is in an unwinnable conflict. Dusk sets the scene for a war that came unexpectedly. The soldier smokes his last cigarette in the window before taking the elevator to certain death. A mother prays for the sons of Ukraine. A babushka at Maidan sings: “If he meets death – may it be instant”.

Viktoria

2015 • 30 min • Germany

A driven champion of the wheelchair racing is preparing for the next Paralympic games when she discovers she is regaining feelings in her legs.

Interview with a Free Man

2015 • 6 min

In this documentary short, several men go through a job interview eager to get a fresh start in life. With each question that's asked, we glimpse tiny snippets of their lives along with their hopes and fears. Nicolas Lévesque's Interview with a Free Man cleverly toys with viewers through its oblique narration, constantly upending our expectations.

Macra Girl

2015 • 38 min • Ireland

A young man joins Macra Na Feirme following the death of his mother and finds himself entangled in a love triangle.

Dissociative

2015 • 9 min • Brazil

A young woman with a personality disorder is forced to fight for her life when she learns a killer is stalking her inside her apartment.

Poor People

2015 • 24 min • Ukraine

Andriy lives in a God-forsaken village with his paralyzed wife. He takes care of her every day, but at the same time he makes a coffin for her and arranges a wake.

The Front Lines of Kurdistan

2015 • 56 min • Slovenia

The Front Lines of Kurdistan is a TV documentary about the modern history of the Kurds, an oppressed and besieged people attempting to create an independent state on the ruins of Middle East. The Kurds are the largest ethnic group without one; Kurdish-inhabited areas reach into Iran, Turkey, Iraq, and Syria. The documentary takes us to the battle lines between Kurdish forces and the Islamic State in Kirkuk and the Sinjar Mountains (Iraq), and Kobani (Syria). In December 2014 and January 2015, Erik Valenčič made it to the front lines of the fierce offensives and interviewed key figures in the struggle for an independent Kurdistan.

Falling Frames

2015 • 1 min • Netherlands

Falling Frames is the first fragment of a series in which Langkamp explores the framing and visualization of three-dimensional perspective through the two-dimensional medium of video, both technically as well as conceptually. To record the work, a special device was built that's attached to a tall industrial crane, which contains a stack of wooden picture frames that can be released from a height of ten to fifteen meters. The camera is placed right in the center of the action and captures the frames' movement while they fall down. The slow motion recording of 240 still frames per second allows us to experience every millimeter of movement to the very detail. While the frames get smaller and smaller in perspective as they move further away from our view, they are immediately followed by the next frame and the next one, until they've all reached the floor and found a place to rest.

Watergames

2015 • 9 min • Netherlands

A day of relaxing fun for four friends ends up in an argument with each other and ultimately a battle for the pool with four cheeky youngsters.

It is no Dream

2015 • 16 min • Austria

Platform diving is Ari’s great passion.The outdoor swimming pool is his refuge from a bleak day-to-day life and from his jaded mother who spends the majority of her time watching superficial infomercials on TV. When Ari wants to show his worth to a youth gang, he has to face one of his biggest fears: the 10m-tower. Maybe the Olympic champion Dmitri Sautin can help?

The Icelandic Króna

2015 • 55 min

The Icelandic króna is traded on markets against the US dollar, euro and yen even though Icelanders are just a few hundred thousand. It has lived to see deflation, depression and debate. But has it's century-long history come to an end? All you ever wanted to know about the world's smallest currency.

Real Vengeful Ghost Horror Video 14

2015 • 60 min • Japan

Horrifying and terrifying messages from evil spirits posted by the general public! 8 scary videos posted in a row! The fourteenth in the series.

Byzantine Game

2015 • 19 min

A director and a screenwriter are invited by Istanbul Modern to shoot a film for the 100th anniversary of Turkish cinema. Determined to find inspiration from the cult Battal Khan movies, the duo encounters unexpected mishaps.

3 Friends

2015 • 3 min

There were three friends and then there were two.

Kircheninneres

2015 • 9 min • Lithuania

German artist Adolf Menzel's unfinished painting Kircheninneres comes to life in a vision of a post-apocalyptic world where modern society is left in ruins and the only way to survive is to dominate. The plot of the film focuses on two gangs of young men fighting over a church that has been transformed into a shelter. The protagonist, a member of one of the gangs, tries to navigate between the desire to survive and his humanity. He seeks to protect the one he loves, he does not want to betray his friends, and therefore he does not withdraw from the fight. When the gangs clash in a brutal battle, the wounded hero is rescued by his beloved at the risk of his own life. The hero's friends win the battle, but instead of joyful bells, the thunder of fighter jets rings out, blending in with the brushstrokes of the unfinished painting. The lovers fail to protect each other from their inevitable fate.

El Bachi

2015 • 7 min • Argentina

Freedom of Expression

2015 • 23 min

In a world where a totalitarian government has banned color, a dissatisfied Artist struggles to find the missing element that would give life to his work. In the process he discovers that the answer to his problem lies within the repressed memories of his own past.

The Downfall of Mr. Difford

2015 • 60 min • United States of America

In the interrogation room, Mr. Difford taunts the detectives with bizarre tales. As each story gets more strange and grisly, the detectives begin to realize there is something wrong with the suspect.

Hellbound: Adirondack Apocalypse

2015 • 45 min

Detective "Jack" Jackson must contend with Mad Scientists, Deadly Assassins, Vicious Mobsters, Warrior Nuns, Redneck Survivalists and Crazed Bombers all during the Zombie Apocalypse!