All Films

Venditori Ambulanti

2015 • 5 min • Italy

Alfio Antico, a Sicilian musician, lives deeply attached to his land, to its traditions and to its painful and cruel rituals. The images of the earth, the wind and of dreams blend with a repetitive and tantric music that echoes the voice of the Sicilian street vendors.

El Darwesh

2015 • 15 min • Egypt

Salah Al Tayeb is a forty-year-old poet and one of the most famous people of his generation. He wakes up in the street, which has become his residence lately, to begin the journey of searching for a pen and paper to write his latest poems.

A Loira do Banheiro

2015 • 21 min

The Blonde in the Bathroom takes place in a dark boarding school, where evil goes beyond what is hidden behind the mirror.

Spooky & Linda

2015 • 15 min • Switzerland

It was meant to be just a light-hearted adventure: After long years behind walls, Spooky and Linda escape from their psychiatric institution to breathe some fresh air in the outside world. Spooky wants to invite Linda for lunch in the restaurant he often went to as a child. But life is definitively more complicated outside the walls. And everything gets even more confusing with Spooky’s friend Carl, who unexpectedly joins the company. A small adventure becomes quite a big challenge. In an unknown world they are confronted to questions they are not used to face. They would need trust in themselves and in their companion. How can they find their way?

Uprising Pact

2015 • 15 min

It is night in the noisy metropolis of São Paulo when two poets meet, come close and fall in love for each other. Uprising Pact is a one night visual poem about freedom and love between two young poets.

Me too

2015 • 13 min • Mexico

Leonel works at convenience store late nights, a time of the day when the harassment imposed by the paramilitary forces in the city becomes evident. The brutality he witnesses often leads Leonel to tag a wall with a message. His message is answered, and realizes he is not alone, there is more people that suffer and fight back the oppression practiced by the Mexican state.

American Genius: Jobs vs Gates

2015 • 43 min

The war between two visionaries with different theories about how approach the coming computer revolution. One thinking that controlling the hardware and the operating system is the way to go. And the other who thinks controlling the operating system is the way to go.

Beyond Words

2015 • 6 min • France

In a public library, a young man falls in love with a young woman. How will they be able to communicate in a such a silent place? What if this situation put them both on an equal footing?

Guide À Tout Prix

2015 • 52 min • France

A shepherd in his childhood, Sunar tended his flock, barefoot, in the pastures of Laprak, a small village at an altitude of 2000 meters in the Himalayas, in the Manaslu region. At twenty years old, he decided to become a porter for trekking agencies and met a couple of French trekkers who became attached to him and brought him to France to help him. Sunar then dreams of becoming a mountain guide. Thanks to his determination and perseverance, supported for years by a chain of solidarity set up to allow him to realize his dream, Sunar won the prestigious high mountain guide medal from ENSA in 2008. He did not stop there, and benefited his country by creating, with his friends, a guide school in Nepal like that of Chamonix. Today, the skills of the Nepalese resulting from this training are recognized internationally. A first!

The Woman Who Hopped From Planet to Planet

2015 • 1 min • Spain

A short story that's part of a magical dream; aimed at preschoolers.

Palabras degolladas. Alfonsina Storni en Coronda

2015 • 30 min • Argentina

"Palabras degolladas. Alfonsina Storni en Coronda" is a documentary unit that tells the story of poet Alfonsina Storni's brief stay in the city of Coronda, Santa Fe, where she studied and earned her teaching degree. The film uses this event as an excuse to recount a before and after: what Alfonsina Storni meant as a woman in the society of the time she lived in Coronda, before establishing herself as a renowned poet, and what happened after her departure. Her figure as a woman and artist. What she represents both for the people of Coronda and for Argentine society in general. It brings into play the legacy of her work, her thinking, her status as a woman, and the fact that she has influenced the inhabitants of this city to this day. It features testimonies from different perspectives: historians, intellectuals, as well as citizens of Coronda.

Like a Parrot

2015 • 2 min • India

Story about the emotional trauma a young butcher suffers during his first murder.

The Heist

2015 • 2 min • United Kingdom

Two museum security guards take special care of a beautiful painting. But an art thief wants to add the painting to his collection.

KHarabat

2015 • 50 min

Directed by Arash Eshaghi, KHarabat is a documentary film with a runtime of 74 minutes. The film was produced in 2015 and has been featured in various international film festivals. Eshaghi, an Iranian filmmaker known for his interest in cultural and social themes, brings his distinct directorial vision to this project.

Capitanelli y la Nueva Generación

2015 • 26 min • Argentina

It tells the life and work of a rebel priest in a town called Felicia, Santa Fe. He manages to build a church and a school in which he buries a letter intended for the generations of the year 2000. His constant conflict with the Santa Fe curia leads to his exile during the military coup.

Happy

2015 • 3 min • Italy

Being different often means feeling alone. But it means being unique, unconventional and rare too. What happens then when two lonely and unusual people meet? Problems become shared and lives connected.

Chão de Vidro

2015 • 7 min

Charles Wharton visits Anthony Reynard, the recently widowed husband of his sister Janine. In his unsettling Victorian mansion, Reynard tells Wharton that Janine died by falling off a ladder while dusting the mansion’s East Room, breaking her neck.

Barrancas

2015 • 13 min • Argentina

In a park, a young man spots his ex-girlfriend in the distance. Although he yearns to get closer, they are both in the company of her: she by a new partner, and he by a friend determined to convince him, with an extravagant theory, that he and his ex are incompatible.

Kaja Gunnufsen - Faen Ta

2015 • 5 min

Norwegian short. Plot TBA

A Ship Sailing Off to the Immeasurable

2015 • 16 min • Macedonia

Although he was only forty-four when he died, Igor Isakovski left behind sixteen published books, ten of which are poetry collections. He was not only a prolific author, a tireless translator from English, Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, he was also the founder of "Blesok" cultural institution and publishing house. Igor was the creator of "Blesok" electronic magazine, one of the oldest electronic magazines on culture in Europe; via it, as a pioneer and visionary, he spread the Macedonian culture in the world, and brought the world culture to Macedonia.

Piano

2015 • 41 min • Poland

At the height of the protests in Kiev's Maidan Square, a piano, about to be used as a barricade, is rescued by a music student. The bashed up piano becomes a symbol of the revolution, reigning over the square, singing along with the protesters and fuelling their fervour.

cinéma concret

2015 • 24 min • Japan

Shadow presences gradually emerge in Japanese filmmaker Makino Takashi’s abstract cinema composed of layers upon layers of natural imagery that awaken the senses.

The Ties That Bind: The Making of The River

2015 • 57 min

Employing an intimate interview style, Grammy- and Emmy®-winning filmmaker Thom Zimny showcases Bruce Springsteen’s first-person take on his writing process. Offering an in-depth discussion on the origins of key tracks from his first double album, The River, Springsteen shares how they were developed, from the notebook page to the studio to, most viscerally, the concert stage. Interspersed throughout the interview are his acoustic versions of several defining tracks from The River, including “Two Hearts,” “The River,” “Independence Day,” “Hungry Heart,” “Point Blank” and “Wreck on the Highway.”

Trusha

2015 • 22 min • Russia

The story of a young lad and his struggle for survival while living in an orphanage being bullied constantly by some of the older boys.