All Films

The Good Life

2015 • 29 min • Netherlands

A multi-narrative drama set in a typical southern Dutch village that prepares for the holidays. It turns out the compulsory conviviality can’t drown out the everyday problems of some of the inhabitants: troubles at the town council, the silent struggle of a lonely grandmother, and a bullied teenager.

Smut Hounds

2015 • 9 min • Australia

It’s a story that made headlines: “Festival Film Banned!” In the late 1960s, the majority of films screened in Australia were censored in some way or another. DELETE the lovemaking. CUT the ‘Open Mouth Kissing’. REMOVE the fondling of the breast sequence. Deemed too ‘inappropriate’ and ‘morally corrupting’ for Australian eyes, these scenes were hacked from feature films and locked away in government archives. When young Sydney Film Festival director David Stratton attempted to program a Swedish film that the censors believed contained ACTUAL sex, a scandal erupted. In a mash-up of never-before-seen banned clippings, SMUT HOUNDS tells the story of how seventy-seven seconds of celluloid scandalised a government and transformed Australian cinema.

It Is Good To Wander The World

2015 • 19 min • Russia

Having learned of a friend's death, Petya goes to the morgue, the cemetery and the wake

Southland Soldiers

2015 • 55 min

A group of guerrillas retreated from Burma to Taiwan during the Chinese Civil War in 1961. They settled down and lived in virtual seclusion in four villages in the south of Taiwan. Now, fifty years later, excavators are digging uncanny holes on their land for the sake of economic development. To them, the days of forest battles have long gone, but another silent inner war has just begun.

New Blood

2015 • 6 min

A doctor wakes up years into the future to discover the life around her, and her mental state, have changed drastically.

Número e Série

2015 • 15 min • Brazil

In a school on the outskirts of São Paulo, four students try to unravel a mystery that circles the walls and hides between padlocks and gates. Querô, Baleia, Diadorim, and Pedro Bala face the rules and risk an adventure.

Thafma: Miracle

2015 • 22 min

The urban space as a place to live.-The urban space as a place to observe.The city of Athens as a protagonist, a man walking alone through a city with no life,with no time. An objective observation of the city through an odd promenade.

The Dream

2015 • 6 min • Mexico

A young poet is driven mad by his internal demons.

Dear Rezo

2015 • 28 min • Russia

How to get rid of loneliness, bring back the unfaithful husband and make a man fall in love with you – women line up to Rezo with problems like these. This Georgian in Moscow who can solve problems in any family…except his own.

Family Offline

2015 • 20 min • Russia

An innocuous trip out into nature could end in tragedy. While the parents argue about approaches to raising children, their child is left unattended and gets into unexpected and even dangerous situations.

Great White Lies

2015 • 50 min

Focusing on the Western Australian Government's decision in January 2014 to hunt and kill the protected great white shark, filmmaker Skyler Thomas visits Australia, South Africa, and New Zealand to learn more about the shark culling practices in each of those locations. Interviewing scientists, politicians, surfers, and activists, Great White Lies thoroughly examines the history of shark culling.

Tokyo Cosmo

2015 • 4 min • Japan

A young girl dreams in the midst of her routine life.

Like Life Without Love

2015 • 22 min • Russia

Ann, an actress, comes to an audition for a role in a movie directed by the man she thinks she's in love with. Overwhelmed with emotions, she fails the audition, but manages to convince the director to go out for a walk, which then transforms his day into a pleasant evening spent in her company. The desire for love shared by the two single souls jump starts the clockworks of a miracle, which for some reason fails to develop. A classical tale of how everything that transpires with a girl happens mostly inside her head.

Mama Agatha

2015 • 16 min

Mama Agatha is a 59-year-old Ghanaian woman who runs a bicycle training program for migrant and refugee women in the south of Amsterdam. A ‘community mother’ with a larger-than-life personality, she teaches a group of women from Pakistan, Morocco, Somalia, China and elsewhere the most basic Dutch skill: cycling.

Wiener Blut

2015 • 8 min • Croatia

The film follows Mrs. Sarika's departure to a Jewish retirement home. What was supposed to be a peaceful end to life, turns into the horror of the Holocaust, and she herself becomes a victim.

Veiled

2015 • 12 min • United Kingdom

'Veiled lies between the realm of awake and asleep; a place of isolation, where spectres wander, leaving echoes as they pass.' Consisting of found 16mm film forcibly decayed by hand. Veiled is the result of a collaboration between filmmaker Ciaran McWilliams and musician Achromaticist. Created as a final project while studying at Plymouth College of Art.

Mizbrük

2015 • 16 min • Canada

A clever boy designs a creative ploy to protect his little sister from repeated monster attacks.

Origin of the Dreams

2015 • 20 min • Japan

We Will Stay in Touch about It

2015 • 8 min • Germany

A man drives through a deserted landscape. Suddenly his car hits a person, seriously hurting or even killing him. The driver searches for the body, cannot find it - and must accept, that there is no one. Instead, he does find blood on the broken windshield. What happens when realizing that we kill - without being confronted with the dead?

Story In The Stars

2015 • 42 min • United States of America

See the Constellations like never before... See them as God sees them! For centuries the Creator's message in the constellations has been lost. Now, Story in the Stars uncovers the truth that is displayed in our skies each night. Join Joe Amaral as he explores the historical, biblical and scientific background of the constellations, how they got there, and what their true purpose is. Story in the Stars takes you on a journey accross the universe to discover and retell the greatest Story ever told. From Virgo to Leo, the message of salvation is revealed!

Beyond the Heights

2015 • 47 min • Pakistan

A documentary about a young Pakistani Mountaineer Samina Baig,who became first Pakistani woman to summit Mount Everest at the age of 22.

a conversation...

2015 • 2 min

a reflection on the self, mental health, creativity, and the night

Lili

2015 • 12 min

China girls (or Lili's) serve as models in a technical exercise preceding the actual filming, namely the calibrating of the colors of the camera and printing process based on caucasian skin.

e-Virus

2015 • 57 min • United States of America

While helping the CIA to develop a deadly computer virus, a computer engineer finds himself as the target of an assassination.