All Films

Wellington Jr.

2015 • 9 min • France

For his tenth birthday, a child has to cross the family rite by hunting his first animal. While a friendly competition settles down between several families, the relation with his father hardens.

Keep a Fight

2015 • 20 min • Ukraine

A loser laboratory assistant stumbles upon a skinhead bully. Frightened to death, he tries to buy off the assaulter who, however, does not want money.

Notes from Liberia

2015 • 25 min • Liberia, United States of America

This film traces the journey of the late Japanese cinematographer Ryo Murakami to the Firestone Tire and Rubber Plantation in Liberia. Under the cover of night, he trespasses onto the plantation grounds and enters a scarcely seen world, where coercive living conditions and labor practices have changed alarmingly little since the plantation opened in 1926. Journalistic access to the plantation is tightly controlled and monitored by the company, and Ryo’s footage is a rare independent vision of the lives of plantation workers.

Little Houses

2015 • 51 min • Slovenia

The directors give voice to the locals to depict the life in a small village in the Štajerska region as experienced by them in the summer of 2014.

Forgot To Answer

2015 • 11 min

Short by Daisuke Yokota.

The Gaze

2015 • 8 min • South Korea

Who is watching you? While studying in an empty classroom after-hours, a group of high girls feel themselves being followed by a sinister force.

Long Waves

2015 • 21 min • Ukraine

The love story in the big city, where a man can in an instant to miss with his dream and he has to spend a long way to find and return this dream in his life.

Shot in the Name of Art

2015 • 5 min • United States of America

This short documentary celebrates the late conceptual artist Chris Burden’s landmark work “Shoot,” in which a friend shot him in the arm. [Overview Courtesy of The New York Times]

Lupang Hinarang

2015 • 5 min • Philippines

The fall of one nation.

TikTok

2015 • 19 min • Uganda

Disorganized Sam wakes up almost late on the first day of his new job and must fulfill his new job guidelines in the shortest time possible.

Honey at the Top

2015 • 55 min • Kenya, United Kingdom

Honey at the Top is a film about the Sengwer forest people of the Cherangani Hills, Kenya, being evicted from their ancestral land in the name of conservation. The film centres around father of two Elias as he works with his community to try and hold onto their culture and resist the evictions. It is an intimate portrait of this community at a crossroads, facing international pressure from organisations like the World Bank, a corrupt Kenya Forest Service who are burning their houses and attempts to turn the forest into a commodity through carbon offsetting schemes.

Temporal Properties of the World: Passage

2015 • 22 min • United States of America

A short film that explores human experiences of time. A middle-aged woman slips through the present and the past as she searches to locate her memories, her experiences in the present, and her visions of herself in the future.

Everybody Wants It All

2015 • 3 min • United States of America

If you want it all, you cannot be distracted by the illusion you’ve created. Only when the mind is silent you can see clear enough to enjoy your life and forget about your desires. Your desires are irrelevant.

Seeker Wing

2015 • 10 min • Canada

One person makes the long and difficult journey towards finding their own beauty. In trying to mimic the beauty of others around them, they repeatedly fail at their attempts to be something they're not. Only when they muster the courage to look inward, do they find what they were looking for all along.

Conversation

2015 • 5 min • Croatia

After a day spent outside the apartment, the young woman is relieved to return to it. However, there are many things to be done here as well, prepare a meal, do laundry, entertain herself with television and the Internet. What is conceptually self-care and rest, is in facet a series of jobs that involve the use of machines. The small intimate space is gradually filled with the noise of these machines. The situation is absurd and exhausting.

Nyumbang

2015 • 20 min • Indonesia

Pak Bejo and Sutini are a poor family in a small village on a mountainside. The harvest of their rice fields fail and Sutini who sell fried snacks in the market also was not doing well with the selling. In the most difficult days of their life. There were many events was held in a village and due to the culture rules, everyone has to attend and donate money. The frustrated Mr. Bejo made a plan to be donated by villagers when he found himself in a terrible economy moment.

Tunnan

2015 • 29 min • Faeroe Islands

In a small Faroese village, four men find a sealed liquor barrel washed ashore at low tide. They hustle the heavy barrel into a basement, away from the prying eyes. Soon, however, the sneaking suspicion arises that instead of liquor, the mysterious barrel might in fact contain something else. Tensions run high as the host, Símun, eventually has to handle both the negotiations down in the basement, as well as his distrustful wife upstairs.

Space Warrior

2015 • 30 min • Turkey

(Self)exhibitions

2015 • 15 min

A found footage documentary film made with home movies that approaches to new forms of self-representation and exhibition of our intimacy on the internet and social networks. Made with home-movies where private experiences or intimate situations, turned public and ex-posed on the web, give rise to new self-narratives. Through tutorials or confessional videos, this work illustrates the dynamics of repetitions and iterations that determine the way we show ourselves on the Internet. The films are particularly centered in the forms of construction and exhibition of genre identities.

Tormenta

2015 • 17 min • Argentina

Soldaten

2015 • 9 min

Soldaten is a short about crossed destinies and misunderstandings at the very end of World War II. Three men will meet and miss each other in a fateful final day.

Big Ron and The Boys From New York

2015 • 8 min • United States of America

Chris gets in over his head at a party.

The Moon Book

2015 • 19 min

Did you know the moon is a satellite? In fact, the moon is the Earth's only natural satellite. In beautiful spacious visuals, children will learn about lunar phases, eclipses, lunar exploration and the moon's effect on the earth.

Who Will Pay the Bill?

2015 • 4 min • Germany

Three experts provide deep insights into a highly explosive topic. However, it is doubtful whether expert number four will be invited again.