All Films

Harvey’s Dream

2015 • 11 min • United States of America

Adapted from the Stephen King short story, Harvey's Dream involves a father's nightmare bleeding through the real world.

Huemul

2015 • 5 min • Chile, United Kingdom

A mysterious Huemul (south andean deer) appears to a father who is searching for his lost baby daughter after a destructive earthquake.

The Taste of Fences

2015 • 15 min • Indonesia

A family-the mother, the son (Bagus) and the daughter (Ayu)-lives in a house located in coast area. The mother rent her son to guests who long for pleasure during their journey. He is usually blindfolded when serving his guests. One day, Ayu finds a headless woman statue and bring it home. She tells her bother that there is a guest waiting for his service. Blindfolded, at first Bagus is surprised by the woman statue. Yet, instead of being scared of it, he finds a liberty.

The Messenger

2015 • 7 min • Mexico

A man wakes up to a message telling him to go to the beach to meet an unknown person.

Toaster

2015 • 17 min

Young and without any experience, a guy gets struck earlier in life by hard times. On his way to maturity he's supposed to make a difficult choice. Who's going to win: the toaster or the bicycle?

Forgiveness

2015 • 4 min • United States of America

Two sisters argue and one runs away from home. When she crashes her car into a tree, she ends up recovering with a cast on her leg. She and her sister then reconcile through the process of forgiveness.

Singing Saved my Life

2015 • 57 min • Norway, Russia

When film director Morten Conradi´s father met Igor Trapitsin, a Russian prisoner of war, for the first time in Brønnøysund in Norway 1945, it was the beginning of a friendship that lasted until Morten’s father died in 1977. Morten always wanted to find Igor and find out how he survived the barbaric conditions in the camps during the Second World War. So in 2009 Morten went to Moscow to meet him. The answer Igor gave was unexpected, he simply said: "Singing saved my life".

Waves '98

2015 • 15 min • Lebanon, Qatar

Disillusioned with his life in the suburbs of segregated Beirut, Omar's unusual discovery lures him into the depth of the city. Immersed into a world that is so close yet so isolated from his reality, he finds himself struggling to keep his attachments, his sense of home.

Tales from the Tour Bus: Rock 'n' Roll on the Road

2015 • 60 min • United Kingdom

Rock legend and tour bus aficionado Rick Wakeman takes us on a time-travelling trip through the decades in this first-hand account of rockers on the road from the late 1950s to the 80s and beyond. It's a secret history of transport cafes, transit vans, B&Bs, sleepless roadies and of loved ones left at home or, on one occasion, by the roadside. Also audiences both good and bad, and the gigs themselves - from the early variety package to the head clubs, the stadiums, and the pubs.

Last Day of School

2015 • 7 min • Malaysia

Siew Fang, a girl with big dreams but with even bigger responsibilities towards her family. She is faced with the ultimate test when she has to choose between her studies and her family.

The Violin

2015 • 17 min • Singapore

Circa late 1930s, Boat Quay, Singapore. A young boy receives an old violin as a gift out of kindness from a foreign trader. From then on, it becomes a treasured possession as he teaches himself to play the instrument over several years, until it was lost during the Japanese Occupation of Singapore. After the war, the violin was found by a man working for the British Military Administration and given to his young daughter. The girl learns to play it and becomes a renowned violinist over the decades. She eventually passes the instrument on to her grandson, an accomplished violinist himself, who restores it and performs in a concert by the Singapore River, where the violin started its unexpected journey nearly 80 years ago.

Trials, Exorcisms

2015 • 25 min • Portugal

In Alhambra, between the mountains and the river, a train runs through the village. Oscar, forty-eight years, has worked for the last twenty-fifth years in the same factory, and finds himself awaiting for the resolution of the court on the application of the insolvency of the factory where he worked. With the suspended production and the unpaid wages, Oscar and his colleagues continue to appear daily to work hoping that they can keep their jobs.

Night Without Distance

2015 • 23 min • Spain, Portugal

An instant in the memory of landscape: the smuggling that for centuries crossed the line between Portugal and Galicia. The Gerês Mountains knows no borders, and rocks cross from one country to another with insolence. Smugglers also disobey this separation. The rocks, the river, the trees: silent witnesses that help them to hide. They just have to wait for the night to cross the distance that separates them.

This Was Intense

2015 • 55 min • Netherlands

Celebrity DJ and producer Armin van Buuren mounts an ambitious spectacle of a tour, bringing it to half a million people around the globe.

Bounce Back

2015 • 6 min • Mexico

A homeless drunk man and his loyal dog live under a bridge. One day, a big storm comes and changes their destiny. Animated over the pages of 40 old books, Bounce Back is an experimental animation project based on the poem by Hélène Matte.

The Ambiguity of David Thomas Broughton

2015 • 59 min • United Kingdom

'The Ambiguity of David Thomas Broughton' is a musical documentary following the creative process of one of the UK’s most enigmatic musicians and performers. As a musical act, David Thomas Broughton is almost unclassifiable. His live shows are a exhilarating mix of musical experimentation and performance art, underlined with a raw unpredictability. His recorded material is dark but beautiful, marrying traditional folk with a surrealist edge. Off-stage, he’s an introvert with a passion for bird watching. Who is the real David Thomas Broughton? Through a series of interviews with friends, family and collaborators, filmmaker Greg Butler attempts to unravel this ambiguity. His journey takes him to David’s home town of Otley, where we track David’s creative process as he records new material to be played at the End of the Road Festival.

Black Skies

2015 • 6 min • Puerto Rico

Larry is an insecure man who finds the reason for his liberation after Ángel disappears in an inexplicable event. When Ángel reappears, he draws him into the mystery from where he returned.

Nightlight

2015 • 13 min • Switzerland

Young brothers Konrad and Baschi get into a fight that spirals out of control and leads to dire consequences. While the world outside their home crumbles, Konrad has just one chance to right his wrong.

The Heavy Load

2015 • 22 min • Germany

The 11 year old Jimmy Spencer is not interested in the kids of his neighborhood. Instead he is playing with his imaginary siblings in his room - day in and day out, giving them own names and voices. Only when he joins a theatre group, he starts to enjoy the interactions between him and other children. For the first thine his parents experience him as a happy child. When Jimmys’s mother, JIL, falls sick, his world is falling apart. Desperately he is looking for something that will help his mother. He finally has the idea to be part of a major motion picture as he believes that his mother will do everything it takes to get well and see him in his movie. With much enthusiasm he is following his plan, but his dream seems to fall thru as he is faced with new obstacles at every turn of his journey, until he meets a very special person.

Stage

2015 • 7 min

A budding student stage manager takes on the intimidating task of pulling together a chaotic show just minutes before curtains open.

Old Wives

2015 • 25 min • Russia

Cheerful old women with sad eyes tell about a difficult life - about children, illnesses, grooms and favorite songs. The film, built on extremely large plans, draws portraits of four songwriters from a remote Komi-Perm village.

Andryukha

2015 • 38 min • Russia

Portrait of a young man with a difficult fate. Despite the inherent mental illness, the film's hero earns money for his drinking mother and sister.

Man Real

2015 • 11 min

A recently released prisoner initiates his childhood friend with a back yard tattoo, but as the afternoon unfolds, his wild tendencies begin to unravel.

Living with Everyone

2015 • 52 min • United States of America

A young man struggles with boredom and his personality living in age dominated by social media.