All Films

Paolo Ventura - Vanishing Man

2015 • 47 min • Italy, Netherlands

Italian photographer Paolo Ventura creates stories by giving life to the simplest of materials which he has gathered. He gave up a successful career as a fashion photographer because he just had to photograph the images that haunted him. Images that the artist had imagined as a child when his grandmother told him about her adventures during the war. In his studio, in a barn on top of a secluded mountain, he creates a timeless melancholic world that resonates the isolation in which he grew up. Ventura conquered the international art scene with his photography series War Souvenir and Winter Stories. His work is included in collections by renowned museums in Italy, France and the US.

Independent

2015 • 60 min • Russia

2011-2012. Swamp area. Protesting moods. The 22-year-old Dasha goes to the polls - to the municipal deputies of the Brateevo district of Moscow. She is not a member of any party, and her electoral fund is 15,000 rubles, given by her mother. This is how Dasha begins his political career. Two years passed. Career is shaping up. What can not you tell about personal life: it seems that the family and political success for the girl are incompatible things ...

Jaadayum Mudiyum

2015 • 22 min • India

A social satire that revolves around the life of a young unemployed graduate named Subhash. The short film focuses on the influence of social media,fashion and modern day friendships on the lives of youth.

End of Puberty

2015 • 13 min

Two teenage non-identical twin sisters meet a boy on a beautiful summer day at the lake.

Salomé

2015 • 23 min • France

The film painting is a simultaneous whole to be retro-lit, its material is taken from biblical laconism: Herod marries his brother's wife, Herodias, mother of Salome. John the Baptist condemns this union and is imprisoned by Herod, who nevertheless fears eliminating him given the reputation of the prophet. At a banquet that Herod offered to his hosts, Salome performs a dance that exalts the generosity of Herod ready to perform under word in front of his hosts, a wish to Salome. Herodias advises him to ask for the head of John the Baptist.

Porch

2015 • 20 min • United States of America

Andrew 'Dew' Schofield has spent his entire life taking care of others; his children, his granddaughter, and even his wife after she got sick. Now that his kids are grown and his wife has passed, Dew finds himself living alone in his familiar little suburb, with only his memories. When his granddaughter comes to visit inbetween apartments, they will both face the deeprooted loneliness they've spent so long trying to bury.

Tudo ou Nada em Soterópolis

2015 • 15 min • Brazil

After the World Cup match schedule was drawn and the holidays were added, Salvador was left with only four working days. In other words, a big “holiday in Salvador” during a World Cup. Given this unusual situation, the film portrays those who are excited about the World Cup, fans and soccer fanatics, and also those for whom the World Cup does not arrive with the same fervor. We will experience important moments during the World Cup with them, looking at the same fact from different perspectives: soccer. The film presents the viewer with a Bahia that fans, but a real Bahia with its coastal areas, suburbs, commerce, historical and tourist areas. A real Bahia in its diversity and, of course, in its good humor.

The Aviatrix

2015 • 60 min • Sudan, South Africa, United Kingdom, Uganda, Egypt, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Botswana

In 1928, Lady Heath became the first person to fly solo from Cape Town to London. Eighty-five years later, Tracey Curtis-Taylor set out in a vintage biplane to fly that adventure again. Following Tracey as she retraces the journey, The Aviatrix is more than just a film about the rapture of flying – it’s a story about living life on your own terms and having the courage and determination to realise your greatest dreams.

Gagarine

2015 • 16 min • France

Youri is 20 years old and he has always lived with his mother in a social housing district near Paris. But his building is going to be demolished because of an urban renovation project. Youri doesn't accept the idea of leaving his home : that's his spaceship.

Mémoires Sélectives

2015 • 20 min • Belgium

At the twilight of their lives, Alice and Jean would have been lovers, parents and grandparents. But if this cycle ends peacefully for Alice, Jean, for his part, experiences the slow loss of his physical and mental means.

Bruxa de Fábrica

2015 • 15 min

Girl tormented by mosquitoes is mysteriously taken to the ruins of an abandoned factory.

One, Two, Tree

2015 • 7 min • France, Switzerland

One day, a tree like any other jumps into a pair of boots and goes off for a walk inviting everyone it meets to follow.

L’Œil du Cyclone

2015 • 5 min • Japan, France

The eye of a child holds an entire life. Stunning, partly abstract animation with a beautiful soundtrack, leaving plenty of room for the viewer’s imagination. Psychedelics in soft pastel shades.

Frans Lanting: The Evolution of LIFE

2015 • 23 min • United States of America

A dazzling journey through time via the remarkable images of National Geographic photographer Frans Lanting and his epic "LIFE" project, which presents a stunning interpretation of life on Earth, from the Big Bang through the present.

Into the Boundless Sea

2015 • 8 min • Philippines

Neighbors Chino and JC are trying to find out the meaning of the color blue.

Comedy Skit 1989

2015 • 11 min • Japan

Homage to comedy skit of Showa era.

Bittersweet

2015 • 4 min • United States of America

An anxious high schooler scrambles to get back the love note accidentally sent to the boy he has a crush on.

Mickey Has Grown Up

2015 • 6 min • United Kingdom

An insight of the wandering mind of a night watchman.

Anarchy Road

2015 • 4 min • United States of America

A short videoclip for the artist Carpenter brut about a woman and a boy who tries to survive in the apocalypse

Giz

2015 • 10 min • Brazil

A man lives a routine without rest in a corporation. Unable to bond with his co-worker, he will be questioned by a hypnotic dream, to the point where he will no longer be able to see if he is really awake.

Who Watched Them Die?

2015 • 7 min • United States of America

Two victims are being terrorized and filmed by 3 masked killers in the woods. As he stalks and brutally murders his prey, his two masked partners are videotaping the whole thing.

Sinécdoque: Una historia de amour fou

2015 • 7 min

HE is an ACTOR, SHE is an ACTRESS... But this... Is not important to the story.

Maidan Is Everywhere

2015 • 38 min • Ukraine

The story of the previous year, that for me began when Maidan had started and maybe didn't end yet. The whole year we have lived in the atmosphere of revolution, then war. Whatever you did - you saw these things in the background, you always mean them, although you live not even on a border of war, but deep in in the rear. I want to remember this year, I want to keep the memory of all the people who surrounded me. The year of Maidan, the year marked by war and peace.

TAT - Transitional Euphoria or National Fraud

2015 • 48 min • Macedonia

This a documentary about the TAT pyramid scheme, a major banking scandal that rocked the city of Bitola and blighted the lives of many savers from Macedonia and abroad. In their efforts to recover the money they lost in the pyramid scheme, savers suffered many personal and family dramas—in some cases even suicide and murder as a result of unsettled credit-debt accounts. Tragically, the consequences are still being addressed and might never be overcome. The documentary revives this issue at a time when many living witnesses are speaking openly about what happened in TAT and about who the main perpetrators were. Some of the surviving victims give their own statements, which is a rarity in documentaries. One of the goals of the film is for the truth about TAT to come to light.