All Films

Happy

2015 • 3 min • Italy

Being different often means feeling alone. But it means being unique, unconventional and rare too. What happens then when two lonely and unusual people meet? Problems become shared and lives connected.

Chão de Vidro

2015 • 7 min

Charles Wharton visits Anthony Reynard, the recently widowed husband of his sister Janine. In his unsettling Victorian mansion, Reynard tells Wharton that Janine died by falling off a ladder while dusting the mansion’s East Room, breaking her neck.

Barrancas

2015 • 13 min • Argentina

In a park, a young man spots his ex-girlfriend in the distance. Although he yearns to get closer, they are both in the company of her: she by a new partner, and he by a friend determined to convince him, with an extravagant theory, that he and his ex are incompatible.

Kaja Gunnufsen - Faen Ta

2015 • 5 min

Norwegian short. Plot TBA

A Ship Sailing Off to the Immeasurable

2015 • 16 min • Macedonia

Although he was only forty-four when he died, Igor Isakovski left behind sixteen published books, ten of which are poetry collections. He was not only a prolific author, a tireless translator from English, Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, he was also the founder of "Blesok" cultural institution and publishing house. Igor was the creator of "Blesok" electronic magazine, one of the oldest electronic magazines on culture in Europe; via it, as a pioneer and visionary, he spread the Macedonian culture in the world, and brought the world culture to Macedonia.

Piano

2015 • 41 min • Poland

At the height of the protests in Kiev's Maidan Square, a piano, about to be used as a barricade, is rescued by a music student. The bashed up piano becomes a symbol of the revolution, reigning over the square, singing along with the protesters and fuelling their fervour.

cinéma concret

2015 • 24 min • Japan

Shadow presences gradually emerge in Japanese filmmaker Makino Takashi’s abstract cinema composed of layers upon layers of natural imagery that awaken the senses.

The Ties That Bind: The Making of The River

2015 • 57 min

Employing an intimate interview style, Grammy- and Emmy®-winning filmmaker Thom Zimny showcases Bruce Springsteen’s first-person take on his writing process. Offering an in-depth discussion on the origins of key tracks from his first double album, The River, Springsteen shares how they were developed, from the notebook page to the studio to, most viscerally, the concert stage. Interspersed throughout the interview are his acoustic versions of several defining tracks from The River, including “Two Hearts,” “The River,” “Independence Day,” “Hungry Heart,” “Point Blank” and “Wreck on the Highway.”

Trusha

2015 • 22 min • Russia

The story of a young lad and his struggle for survival while living in an orphanage being bullied constantly by some of the older boys.

Message of Greetings: Prix suisse / My Thanks / Dead or Alive

2015 • 5 min • Switzerland

Jean-Luc Godard's acceptance video for the 2015 'Prix d’honneur'.

8 Bullets

2015 • 13 min • France

My name is Gabriel and I live in Taipei. I have lost my wife during an assault. A red-haired man came to me, he smelt of fried fish. He had a gun and he shot my family. Since, I feel empty as if I had a hole in the head.

Une jolie vallée

2015 • 52 min

A village in the Tarn region in summer. They work in offices or factories, are doctors, teachers, or retired people. They come together to tell a story, and to sing it. Songs seep into everyday life, becoming a part of the landscape.

Brave in the Attempt

2015 • 24 min • United States of America

The Special Olympics Athlete Oath is “Let me win. But if I cannot win, let me brave in the attempt.” It has come to embody the movement started by the late Eunice Kennedy Shriver in 1962 with a summer camp in her Maryland backyard. Her daughter Maria Shriver shines a light on the creation of the organization now made up of more than 4.5 million athletes all over the world.

Game of Life

2015 • 13 min • France

Mathias and Alex have a meeting at dawn in a car park in the countryside.These two men know each other well but everything seems to separate them. Nevertheless, a secret unites them. This year again, nothing can divert them from what they have come to carry out. What will be revealed to us of their mysterious and unpredictable enterprise?

Slimy Piece of Worm-Ridden Filth

2015 • 20 min • United Kingdom

Documentary about the puppeteering in Jabba the Hutt for Return of the Jedi.

The Bionic Girl

2015 • 14 min • France

A scientist has created her own android clone to replace her in the outside world so that it can face it for her.

The Visitor

2015 • 15 min • Israel

Exploring the timeless landscape of the Judean desert like a lost space-traveller, a woman examines plants and animals. Synthetic sounds defy all logic.

Let's Dance: Bowie Down Under

2015 • 11 min

The remarkable, forgotten story behind David Bowie’s biggest-ever hit record – and how an unlikely journey, deep into the Australian outback, led to its unprecedented success.

Unfamiliar

2015 • 30 min • South Korea

When Ji-sun picks up a mobile phone, soon the chaos will begin.

Where do they all go?

2015 • 13 min • Sweden

94-year old Esther, a pensioner with bad sight, is in search of her artist daugther’s public decoration. Endless phone conversations takes her through municipal bureaucracy and lost culture secretaries. Will she ever get an answer to the eternal question: Where does the art really go?

Two Ways Down

2015 • 3 min • United States of America

Fall into the underworld, walk, slither, wriggle, fly, burn, and return to dirt.

Cursed

2015 • 2 min • Brazil

Short animation about a 3D model fighting with the mouse cursor.

Hey Deer!

2015 • 6 min • Hungary

Short about an adorable, cocoa-drinking deer who is eager to tidy and shoveling in front of his house every day. However, there is a suspicious earthquake all night which causes the mess day by day and make unbearable our fella's life.

La fièvre

2015 • 40 min • France, Morocco

On a feverish night, a child senses a ghost, a woman who has come from the sea, coming home after a long political exile. A silent tale, a bodyless voice and visions mingle in the dark of the night and the fever. The child of the present and the political refugee coming home are now one, traveling together to a strange building, appearing to be her lost memories. Forgotten political fights appear and disappear with the fever's hallucinations. Then, new fights, the Arab spring of Morocco, flood the past.