All Films

Arms Trade

2015 • 9 min • United Kingdom

After a night of partying, best friends Troy and Sean wake to find they have swapped an arm.

The Chocolate Diet

2015 • 53 min

Investigates how the multi-billion-dollar weight-loss industry systematically buys scientific research and uses it in its favor.

Prismatic Darling

2015 • 10 min

a clown wanders the streets and meets strange people

Elevator Madness

2015 • 1 min • Australia

What's going on in the elevator.

Head-Hunter

2015 • 2 min • United Kingdom

An axe-wielding killer hunts his victim.

100 Boyfriends Mixtape

2015 • 14 min • United States of America

Dancer, musician, artist, and publisher of the cult queer zine Fag School, Brontez Purnell makes his directorial debut with this semi-autobiographical "video mix tape" by produced Jack Shamama and NakedSword Film Works. Relying on his punk rock aesthetic to give the world a peek into his singularly unique perspective, 100 Boyfriends Mixtape takes the viewer on an unforgettable ride that's as audacious as it is experimental.

Claire's Birthday (or the comfort of being alone)

2015 • 6 min

Early-twentysomething Claire celebrates her birthday… alone at home. As the clock ticks throughout the day, we get a glance into her simple-yet-peculiar life. Without speaking a word, she reveals her yearning for human connection as well as her contentment with peace and quietness. What’s wrong with spending your birthday alone when it’s meant to be your special day anyway?

Swamp Dialogues

2015 • 54 min

The Danube Delta in Romania - the 'Last European Sanctuary’ - is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. While major efforts are made to protect biodiversity, the plight of local communities is largely overlooked. Social scientists claim that the traumatic nature of the swamp bears heavy on the villagers' lives. But is Nature really to blame? Swamp Dialogues is based on an extensive field-research in the Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve. Through a careful ‘argument montage’ built entirely on cinematic language the film represents an anthropological analysis formulated in image and sound.

The Girl Without a Name

2015 • 19 min • Slovenia

Stane, the owner of an inn on the outskirts of the city, also known for his love of helping others, late one night serves a young girl who turns out to have been beaten by her boyfriend, as he has done so many times before, and her sent onto the street.

Little Bottle Cap

2015 • 3 min • Argentina

A man remembers his childhood by finding a little bottle cap.

Summer Day

2015 • 2 min • United Kingdom

What would you do during one of the long summer days, when you are left alone to play in the courtyard? Of course run races with a cat, make toys out of everything you could find and chase pigeons. Only children have days like these.

Flow

2015 • 20 min

Jüri

2015 • 52 min

Portrait documentary about Jüri Sillart - an innovator, an expressionist, a bright filmmaker and a warm-hearted teacher for whom cinema meant not only a professional field but his whole life. Sillart's work was acknowledged in Estonia, in the former Soviet Union and abroad. Jüri was a sharp personality with a curious mind. Life with all its manifestations was a great source of inspiration for him - everyday events, painting, photography, history of various religions, philosophical and esoterical literature, history, astronomy, mathematics - he was interested in all of this. His colleagues, students and close ones share their memories in the documentary. There are excerpts from films that Jüri Sillart has added his creative contribution to.

Snow Queen

2015 • 49 min

Drag was at the forefront of gay and cabaret culture for decades before it became mainstream. This is a celebration of Canada’s drag stars and an homage to the queens who paved the way.

ガール・ハンティング/death Zone

2015 • 60 min • Japan

Ayumi learns that her hometown is about to be dammed and sunk, and returns home with her lover Takeshi. However, they get caught up in a "dark manhunt game" being conducted there by powerful people...

They Came from Venus

2015 • 47 min

As artist Michael Venus prepares for the 20th year of “Wiggle,” his annual DIY wearable art event, we take a look back at Michael and The House of Venus’s groundbreaking work.

Universe

2015 • 11 min • Brazil

"Do you think we will be able to be apart from each other?"

L'Aiguille Verte

2015 • 16 min • France

On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the first ascent of the Aiguille Verte, the Compagnie des Guides de Chamonix is ​​producing a film retracing the major dates of this summit which is so dear to it. 'La Verte' has been the object of desire for many mountaineers for a century and a half. Big names have paraded in search of this 4122 meter summit: Edward Whymper, Michel Croz, Albert Mummery, Armand Charlet, Marco Siffredi... La Verte has had a strong impact on the history of mountaineering, inspiring Gaston Rébuffat who warned the future contenders for this summit: "Before the Verte you are a climber, in the Verte you become a mountaineer".

Nostalgia Eterna

2015 • 40 min

A man leaves his girlfriend for a woman he meets ina a bar. The woman introduces him to the world of regreational drugs.

Le Regard Tairraz

2015 • 26 min • France

For a century and a half, mountain images by their beauty have largely gained from its influence, its frequentation and its development. But they are also a tool in the service of science, fixing the transformation of landscapes, habitats... Over 150 years, the Tairraz dynasty photographed the mountain. Four generations of photographers have magnified the Mont-Blanc massif. From the first photograph taken at the summit of Mont-Blanc in 1861 to the present day, this art is at the origin of many mountaineering vocations and has largely contributed to the tourist development of these formerly ignored valleys. Here is the wonderful story of a dynasty of photographers, the Tairraz, which stretches from 1861 to the dawn of the 2000s.

Vendedor de Tiempo

2015 • 16 min • Argentina

Marcos is bankrupt, his gambling addiction has left him with a huge debt to pay. Mysteriously, he finds a place that claims to trade life time for cash. Marcos does not doubt it for a moment and begins to feed his vice with what seems to be an inexhaustible source of money, but the mere appearance of the place deceives him, prisoner of a new vice.

Temper

2015 • 13 min • Serbia

The film about a man, who is aware of the consequences brought by his gambling addiction, but also about his awareness that he can't change and escape from his nature.

Farrago

2015 • 23 min • Canada

In 1984, Mike Cartmell began Narratives of Egypt, a four-part series that deals with the father in Prologue: Infinite Obscure, the son in In the form of the letter “X”, the lover in Cartouche, and wraps it all up in Farrago, a word meaning: a medley, a heap of fragments. Using a speculative etymology, Cartmell “adopts” the American writer Herman Melville as his father, using selected passages to ruminate on death, language and paternity. Farrago remained incomplete when Mike died, this is my version of the closing chapter, which continues Mike's project of remaking Moby-Dick, and presiding over the unholy marriage of Egypt and Melville.

Signs of a Struggle

2015 • 3 min • Argentina, Switzerland

A hungover day and the twists and turns of a relationship are condensed in a conversation between two lovers, in the mythical Bauhaus building in Monte Veritá. In the background, the Swiss Alps.