All Films

Brooks McBeth: This Ain't Shakespeare

2015 • 53 min

Mad TV's Brooks McBeth is articulate, but he definitely isn't Shakespeare. He has a lot of bathroom jokes, but good ones. He's trying to follow his mother's advice. He's got some raunchy stories. Hear it all in this stand-up set.

Otimismo

2015 • 10 min • Brazil

A woman, two men, two children and two dogs holding on to love.

Lila

2015 • 24 min • Poland

Eight-year-old Yoshko is awaiting the arrival of her cousin, Lila, whose parents died in a car accident. The girl is to live with relatives. Joszko is intrigued by the girl, who has stopped speaking in the wake of the shock. Relations between the children quickly become tense, turning into rivalry. Lila, craving maternal care, tries to take Joszek's place in his mother's heart. She even goes so far as to make threats.

The Day the Sky Roared

2015 • 10 min • Indonesia

A single Chinese-Indonesian mother have to save her daughter as the anti-Chinese riot rose near their neighborhood.

Fara Fara

2015 • 13 min • Congo

The film follows the performative duel, or fara fara (meaning face-to-face in Lingala) between two of the DRC’s biggest stars, Koffi Olomide and Werrason. Papa Wemba announces the face-off to an enormous gathering at two adjacent stages where the superstars and their entourages compete in an epic test of musical endurance and style to see who can win by playing the longest.

The Lane

2015 • 19 min • India

Galli (The Lane) is about the people and the Life in the Lane . The Lane in the times of a modern small town India which is restless and wants to break free from its shackles of convention, moral and existential crisis and the rigid socio-cultural structure. The Film tries to explore the incidents happening in Seven days time . It highlights the contrasts, similarities , paradoxes , randomness and abstractness of contemporary human life with the universal themes of Birth, Trust , loneliness , Frustration , Friendship , Happiness and Death. There are Fifteen stories in two forms which try to define LIFE and The Lane connects them.

A Peça

2015 • 17 min

Eduardo is an actor who sees his life interrupted when he wakes up with a perfect hole on his finger. He emberks on a surrealistic journey through the light of Lisbon, looking for his missing piece.

August

2015 • 15 min • France, Italy

Two children in the countryside. Time lazily goes by on a hot month of August as they long for adventure.

Division Avenue

2015 • 13 min • Canada, United States of America

A short film about one of the most prominent yet often ignored landmarks of Los Sures, the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, (the BQE). The film examines the architecture and fabric of the BQE through poetic imagery and experimental ambient sound recordings, inviting the audience to encounter urban landscape in a unique and curious way.

The Wedding Car

2015 • 11 min • United Kingdom

Two friends are heading to Rob's wedding but all is not as it seems, and things come to a head when they arrive at the church.

Zoo

2015 • 21 min • Slovenia

Tilen is a child of divorced parents who lives with his mother and grandmother. In order to reunite his family, he makes up the idea that his father is coming to visit and that he will take them to the zoo. Shocked, the mother prepares for an unexpected visit, but when it turns out that her son was lying, she is forced to reevaluate her relationship with Tilen and reconnect with him sincerely.

Para Minha Mãe

2015 • 22 min • Brazil

A son travels to fulfill his mother's request. A relationship marked by distance, resentment, rust. The sacrifice of a cat becomes the perfect excuse for getting closer. Before the day ends, one must reconcile with the past.

You Can't Beat a Bit of Bully

2015 • 41 min • United Kingdom

Narrated by comedian Paddy McGuinness, here is a documentary celebrating 35 years of Bullseye featuring the hosts Jim Bowen and Tony Green with celebrity guests Linda Lusardi, Nick Hancock, Anne Diamond, David Baddiel, Katy Brand, Gary Wilmot, Frank Bruno, Tessa Sanderson and legendary dart players John Lowe, Eric Bristow and Bobby George.

El Triunfante

2015 • 50 min • Spain

What's the process of retrieving a sunken ship and preparing it for display in a museum? How do archaeologists work underwater? One of the biggest wrecks ever discovered in Spain was the 'Triunfante', sunk during a French siege in 1795. We follow the process from its discovery to its display in a museum and learn what makes this ship so special.

National Passion

2015 • 17 min • Brazil

The young Café finds the phone of Lina, a German student visiting Brazil during the 2014 World Cup, and they decide to meet so he can return it to her. After a small ride, as a thank you note, she invites him to watch the soccer match with her.

El humo denso que nos oprime el pecho

2015 • 25 min • Mexico

A family hides a terrible secret that will lead them to live their nightmares and experience a personal hell.

First Interview

2015 • 13 min • Ukraine

A girl is riding her bike to her first job interview. Suddenly, she has an accident on the road...

The Neighbours

2015 • 39 min

It's summer, a little residential neighborhood is submerged by fear when its inhabitants learn that a burglar escaped from the island facing their homes. What to do ? The streets are wide, the walls are low, the heat is punishing and he could be anywhere.

Nephtali

2015 • 3 min • France

In Nephtali, animator Glen Keane uses both film and drawing in order to depict the journey of a ballerina that is drawn towards a higher power.

One Day in Sarajevo

2015 • 60 min • Bosnia and Herzegovina

Causes and consequences of the assassination that happened in Sarajevo a hundred years ago still continue to reverberate in Europe. On June 28, 1914 Gavrilo Princip assassinated the heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire Franz Ferdinand sparking World War I that marked the start of the 20th century. As Sarajevo commemorated the centennial of the assassination, different people had different interpretations of what happened in the city a century ago and different emotions about it. ONE DAY IN SARAJEVO tells about various perspectives of the anniversary in Sarajevo combining and contrasting footage filmed by citizens of Sarajevo (with small cameras and mobile phones) with scenes from feature films about the assassination by directors from Austria, Bosnia-Herzegovina and the United Kingdom

The Moustache

2015 • 4 min • Finland

This town is too small for the both of them. And for their moustache.

Neither God Nor Santa María

2015 • 12 min • Spain

“Since airplanes did not exist, people moved around using prayers; they went from one land to another and returned early, before dawn. In old audio recordings, the voices of pastors speak of the mythical existence of witches and their travels. In the daily life of a woman, the magic of her tales begins to materialize as night falls. Night is the time when travel is possible.”—Samuel Delgado & Helena Girón

Sry Bsy

2015 • 4 min • Germany

Sry bsy - no time for nothing. This digital 2D animation is about obsessions, compulsions and the pressure of keeping up with the challenges of modern working life. By combining a dark sense of humor with absurd elements, this film is amusing and disturbing at the same time.

Jáaji Approx.

2015 • 8 min • United States of America

Against landscapes that the artist and his father traversed, audio of the father in the Ho-Chunk language is transcribed using the International Phonetic Alphabet, which tapers off, narrowing the distance between recorder and recordings, new and traditional, memory and song.