All Films

Un obus partout

2015 • 9 min • France

Beirut 1982. In order to see his fiancée on the other side of the city, Gabriel has to cross a heavily guarded bridge. He chooses the night of the opening game of the World Cup to try his luck. Will the snipers be watching the game and allow the Gabriel and his friend Mokhtar to cross the bridge in their old Plymouth?

Shift

2015 • 29 min • Germany

SCHICHT (SHIFT) is both a reckoning and a search for traces of the past. Layer by layer the film unfolds the portrait of the filmmaker's family - brought to life by records from private archives - and embarks on a dizzying trip through the shrinking industrial city of Salzgitter, Germany.

Winter, Sea

2015 • 24 min • South Korea

A boy finds an unconscious woman by the sea and brings her home.

A Distant Episode

2015 • 18 min • United Kingdom

“A meditation on the illusion of filmmaking, shot behind the scenes on a film being made on the otherworldly beaches of Sidi Ifni, Morocco. The film depicts strange activities, with no commentary or dialogue; it appears as a fragment of film, dug up in a distant future—a hazy, black-and-white hallucinogenic world.”—Ben Rivers

Over the Rainbow

2015 • 40 min

After her mother passed away, Leny (82) finally had time to follow her dream of cycling around the world. She didn’t get further than New Zealand where she met the love of her life - another woman. Leny came out of the closet aged 68. Since then she has thrown herself into lesbian life, making up for lost time. She is an inspiration to many, but is not getting any younger. She is determined to make the most of her remaining years.

Ki

2015 • 25 min • Netherlands

During a dream, 7 year old Yuki is reunited with her sister Iwa (11), who has recently passed away. Together, they share an exciting adventure and along this journey, Yuki is forced to conquer her anxieties. Ultimately, she has to face her biggest fear: to live her life without her sister.

The Rise of Female Violence

2015 • 60 min • United Kingdom

Violence among girls seems more visible than ever. This year, in Walthamstow, there were shocking scenes as a fight broke out started by young women. In Belfast, a fight between two girls organised on social media became a spectator event for the city’s teenagers. BBC reporter Alys Harte asks, are girls getting angrier - and if so, why? From women who beat their boyfriends, to drunken brawlers, to girl gangs - Alys looks at the rising number of females who are involved in violence, and hears from their victims.

Transition

2015 • 60 min • United Kingdom

Natalie Berry is one of the UK’s leading female sport and competition climbers. Despite having lived in Scotland all her life, home to some of the best traditional and winter climbing in the world, she has yet to venture into the mountains so close to home. ‘Transition’ follows Natalie over the course of a year as she takes her first exploratory steps into a new world, closely following the highs and lows of the pursuit of a life in the mountains.

Entrails and Amour

2015 • 17 min • United States of America

Ana, has been left by everyone she's ever loved. She ultimately does the unthinkable and takes her own life. Suzy, ready to come back into Ana's life, walks into the nightmare of dealing with losing her forever!

Bambi

2015 • 27 min • Finland

Bambi is a tale of losing and finding oneself.

Daniel in the Lions' Den

2015 • 30 min • Brazil

Obstinate Daniel’s grumpiness is evident. He really doesn’t want to accompany his mother to an oncology conference. However, an unexpected meeting makes it an interesting weekend after all. Shot on grainy film stock, with camera work as uncompromising as Daniel is.

Driving Lesson

2015 • 17 min • Portugal

While a teenage boy learns how to drive, a woman walks her elderly dog through the woods. As the evening settles she realizes that it's not too late to take action.

Tropical Hits

2015 • 55 min • Colombia

When "Tropical Hits" premiered on December, 2015, on National Television, it became the highest-rated documentary ever on Colombian television, with over 4 million viewers. "Hits from yesterday, today and always" is probably one of the most popular phrases known by Colombians, and its one of the phrases that follows the release of the popular December album, 14 cañonazos bailables ("14 dance music hits"), a music compilation that for 54 editions has become the thermometer of Colombian popular music. In 1960, "Discos Fuentes", the oldest record label in Colombia, decided to bet on a new way of producing music, releasing the first mixed album that combined the most important songs of the year. That first album marked a new era in the music production industry in Colombia. "It was like bringing home the disco every Christmas". Since then, the "Hits" have been a mandatory purchase every December.

From Andy Pandy To Zebedee: The Golden Age of Children's Television

2015 • 60 min

The history of pre-digital television children's programming.

Nowhere Line: Voices from Manus Island

2015 • 15 min • Australia

An animated short film, narrated by two asylum-seeking men detained in Australia's Manus Island Offshore Processing Centre, recounting the dangerous journeys that brought them to the island and their memories of the riot that erupted in 2014.

Marasmus

2015 • 15 min • Portugal

Fragments of light and shade in the lives of a truck driver spiraling downward, his caring wife and their oblivious daughter.

Nia's Door

2015 • 25 min • Taiwan

Nia from the Philippines works as a family maid in Taiwan. She prefers to stay in her private room, where a door separates her from her employers, but this upsets her employers.This is a story about being away from home.

Exercise

2015 • 30 min

Each day Delia repeats the same actions, going from her apartment to her office and back again, her solitary routines accompanied only by the constant narration of fitness instructor Liada. Liada's coaching steadily grows more intense, leading Delia through a regimen of strange exercises - until a phone call causes an unexpected break in the pattern.

Aubade

2015 • 6 min • Switzerland

A black sun rises above Lake Leman. In a surrealist backlight, several bathers and aquatic birds witness the spectacle of daybreak, hypnotized by the music played by a cellist.

Fine Housekeep

2015 • 57 min • United States of America

A husband and wife daydream on a normal day.

Ruben Leaves

2015 • 5 min • Switzerland

It should have been just another day, but Ruben’s scheduled meeting with Dave is making him nervous. Fearful imaginings haunt his morning. He forgets to lock his door, misses the bus and when he enters the office he sees a deer waiting for him.

Rubén, the Evangelizer

2015 • 12 min

Rubén García is a homosexual and Catholic evangelizer. He shares his testimony in conferences or TV shows. Rubén reveals the transformations that converted him into the person he is today.

Smoke Like Echo

2015 • 10 min

A gun-­for-­hire, simply known as a Gardener hunts down a rogue cyborg with an origin story far too close to home.

OH-Mart

2015 • 31 min • United States of America

A mysterious VHS falls in the hands of a porn store owner and his crew.