All Films

The Mechanical Waltz

2015 • 6 min • Belgium, France

On this dark and rainy morning, the puppet people trudge off to work. From day to day the routine never changes, their gazes never meet. Are they aware that their every movement, is being fully controlled and meticulously observed? It is time for change, but just a spark and their eyes will unclose...

1 + 1

2015 • 11 min • Germany

Seven short episodes, each containing one sole image, are combined together in order to create a psychological thriller. ”I’m walking. There’s somebody else walking in front of me. This has been going on for a while. At some point it might get unpleasant – it might seem as if I’m following him…”

Enforcer - Live by Fire

2015 • 41 min

Official Enforcer concert DVD recorded at Saitama Super Arena in Tokyo on October 20th, 2013.

Nick Di Paolo: Another Senseless Killing

2015 • 56 min • United States of America

If you've never seen Nick Di Paolo live, this intimate setting captures the essence of what makes him stand out from other comics. "Another Senseless Killing" is 56 minutes of funny, ferocious, but always clever material. In Di Paolo's fifth special he skillfully mines the humor in such light hearted topics as Suicide and Roadside Memorials while also educating you on the finer points of A**hole Bleaching and the Evolution of Pornography.

Gulliver

2015 • 24 min • Argentina

After a party, Agos and Ren find themselves in a strange place where they remember to have been before… A failed world bursting with dependences and doors leading to the same yet different place.

Bag of Bones

2015 • 14 min • South Korea

A novice hitman is startled by all his 'contracts' terminating themselves by accident. He celebrates the chance to be paid the big bucks while not actually killing anyone until one of his targets refuses to die.

La redención

2015 • 45 min • Puerto Rico

Portrays the importance of the use of art in the formation of adolescents; the use of art, in all its manifestations, as a tool to help them meet themselves, to resurface their emotional, spiritual, and psychological life.

Milk

2015 • 9 min

One morning a man wakes up to find all the milk in his house has gone missing. He goes a journey and does whatever it take to get some milk to finish off his breakfast cereal. As they say, it is the most important meal of the day.

Wolves

2015 • 14 min • Austria

A family displaced by war is ambushed by highwaymen. The encounter takes a turn when one of the robbers recognizes the father as his old brother in arms.

Like It

2015 • 7 min

A short film reminiscent of another era. It was written, shot and edited on an impulse - three days. It is the melancholy journey from the suburbs to the city of a woman full of doubts.

Indigestion

2015 • 5 min

Videoclub

2015 • 7 min • Spain

Cibo Di Violenza aka Food Of Violence

2015 • 12 min • United Kingdom

This film is a no holds barred shockumentary narrated by the blogger Mike Lima about the alleged baby foetus eating scandal.

Heritage Minutes: Terry Fox

2015 • 1 min • Canada

Terry Fox inspires the nation with his Marathon of Hope, a cross-country run to raise money for cancer research.

45

2015 • 13 min • Ireland

In Michael Reilly's bar in Ardmore, West Waterford, a game of 45 has been played every Friday night since 1942. Hosting this long standing card game is the highlight of Michael's week.

Kamel Messaoudi - His Life, His Work

2015 • 52 min • Algeria

On December 10, 1998, Kamel Messaoudi died in a traffic accident at the age of 37, at the height of his fame. In the early 1990s, when Algiers chaâbi was struggling to renew itself and attract young people, Kamel, born on January 30, 1961 in Algiers, into a modest family, achieved great success with his first album, notably featuring Echema’a (the candle) and other tracks where he did not hesitate to shake up the old repertoire, adding his own words, closer to the reality of an Algeria then bereaved by the violence of the dark decade of the 90s, and composing melodies supported by instruments such as the acoustic guitar or the piano.

A New Place 2 Drown

2015 • 5 min

This short documentary marks the awakening of singer-songwriter King Krule from hibernation. Paired with a 208-page art book and 12-song soundtrack, the project follows Krule (aka Archy Marshall) and his brother Jack through a few south London postcodes.

Switch

2015 • 6 min • Brazil

A man stuck in routine comes home from work and discovers an electrical problem in his home. However, he ends up concluding that the problem is within him.

Las sinsombrero

2015 • 57 min • Spain

Spain, 1914. A group of women fight with courage for their rights in a society that condemns them to mediocrity. In 1927, their most advantaged students free themselves from the intellectual, social and physical corset that constricted them to a role as wives and mothers, so they will participate without complexes in the cultural life of Spain from then until the disaster of the Spanish Civil War.

Factory of the Sun

2015 • 20 min

In this immersive work, which debuted at the 2015 German Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, Steyerl probes the pleasures and perils of image circulation in a moment defined by the unprecedented global flow of data. Ricocheting between genres—news reportage, documentary film, video games, and internet dance videos—Factory of the Sun uses the motifs of light and acceleration to explore what possibilities are still available for collective resistance when surveillance has become a mundane part of an increasingly virtual world. Factory of the Sun tells the surreal story of workers whose forced moves in a motion capture studio are turned into artificial sunshine.

Malice: Wars

2015 • 15 min

MALICE: Wars Special Episode takes place in a galaxy far far away as we follow the adventures of the Turner family on their blockade-running smuggler star ship - The Rabble Rouser. Their mission? To battle through an Imperial convoy, slip past a squadron of Tie Fighters and infiltrate enemy territory to rescue their mother who's been captured by Imperial forces. Alice goes light-saber to light-saber with a manipulative Sith warrior before making a heart-breaking discovery.

Sipping

2015 • 16 min • Mexico

Santiago and Jared , two teenagers of opposite personality spend an afternoon together looking for ways to overcome their differences. After an act that begins as a game their senses will find the space to coincide.

Prayer for a Home

2015 • 37 min • Latvia

Prayer for a Home shows how everyone needs shelter and a home – people in Latvia, Europe and troubled regions throughout the world. The film relates the story of the distinguished Latgalian poet Anna Rancāne and her family – her daughter Terēze, her grandson Daniel, and Daniel’s father, Dara Muhammad Ali – who are trying to stick together despite unfortunate circumstances. Even though Terēze and Anna are Catholic, while Dara is a Muslim from Kurdistan, their love transcends religious, national and cultural prejudice. However, due to circumstances beyond their control, the family is not destined to remain together, despite doing everything they can to stay close.

Granite & Chalk

2015 • 12 min • Ireland

As rebels planned Ireland’s 1916 Easter Rising, they were watched by two spies code-named Granite and Chalk. This documentary delves into British intelligence to tell their story, one century on. Funded by Bord Scannán na hÉireann/the Irish Film Board, After ’16 is a creative response by Irish filmmakers to the events of Easter 1916. This collection of nine short films is a mixture of live-action, animation and documentary, telling stories from the eve of the Rising all the way to the Troubles in 1970s Northern Ireland and beyond.