All Films

Postcard

2015 • 22 min

A short film about love, distance and communication that takes place between a young couple with a postcard as a medium of love that is sent to each other.

Meong

2015 • 10 min

For the sake of getting her daughter's love and attention, a mother desperately tried to be the thing her daughter's love the most.

Cascarita de plátano

2015 • 9 min

A group of teenage soccer players are abruptly interrupted by four boys who arbitrarily want to take over the field where the girls train every day, in the process the teenagers take over the field trying to deprive the young teenagers of the space where they train. The boys insist, the women do not allow their inclusion and propose a bet. The game begins, the girls see themselves dominant in soccer, at the end of the sporting confrontation, the boys lose and in consolation the girls offer to kiss them, revealing in the end that all of them are actually boys.

Three days in Donetsk airport

2015 • 50 min • Ukraine

This is not a movie about strategic actions or the history of Donetsk airport defense. This is a film about the lives of Ukrainian guys who are ready to give everything for the sake of freedom and homeland.

Real Vengeful Ghost Horror Video 13

2015 • 60 min • Japan

Numerous "things that shouldn't be shown" and "things that shouldn't be shown" captured by everyday images. Is it a warning to us from the spirit world? Or is it a warning of a curse? These are some of the psychic videos and photos that were posted to a video production company. Such contributors are almost always plagued by strange events.

'Aho'eitu

2015 • 27 min • New Zealand, Tonga

Based on the Legend of, `Aho`eitu from the Pacific Island of Tonga, 'Aho'eitu leaves his mother to find his father Tagaloa in the heavens. On his quest he finds out that he also has brothers, but will 'Aho'eitu be accepted by them and who will become heir as the first King, the first Tu'i Tonga!

The Closet

2015 • 5 min

A young man is haunted by an unknown entity hidden inside of his bedroom closet.

Auroras

2015 • 5 min • United States of America

Constantly orbiting at 400 km (250 mi) above the earth, the ISS is perfectly situated to witness the beautiful streamers of green and red light emanating from the collision of highly charged solar wind particles with oxygen and nitrogen atoms in the earth's atmosphere. Centered about the northern (Aurora Borealis) and southern (Aurora Australis) poles the Auroras move in an almost hypnotic dance below the space station.

The Pact

2015 • 10 min

A writer (Ruy Gatti) arrives to an unoccupied house where he hopes to find inspiration. He places the typewriter on the desk and takes off the sheets covering the furniture. Among them, an old mirror in which he sees his own reflection. He couldn't imagine that that little gesture would seal his fate.

What grows out of pink

2015 • 10 min • Norway

Pink: Charm, politeness, sensitivity, childhood, the feminine and the romantic.

Carface

2015 • 4 min • Canada

Filmmaker and comic strip artist Claude Cloutier has made a striking satire on big oil, a musical where cars sing and dance while the planet falls into despair.

The Mystery Beneath

2015 • 58 min • Finland, Sweden

A group of treasure hunters discover a mysterious object at the bottom of the Baltic Sea in this documentary. Theories abound about the large object's origins. It might be a UFO, manmade, or it might be a naturally occurring phenomenon. Nobody knows.

Land of the Narts

2015 • 23 min • Russia

Academic work of 4th courses of training of Kabardino-Balkarian State University (Alexander Sokurov's workshop).

Reach Your Limits

2015 • 54 min • Bulgaria

One of the best Bulgarian mountain runners – Kiril Nikolov, known as Disl, attempted to set a new record – to run through the longest and legendary Bulgarian mountain route – 600 km from the mountain peak of Kom on the west border to cape Emine on the Black Sea coast, in less than 5 days. Through steep mountain paths, pouring rain, and sticky mud, the glorious adventure takes him beyond the barriers of his own consciousness, facing hidden fears, pain and exhaustion. Tо the point where he has to make a tough choice – to quit or to push his will to the ultimate challenge, beyond his own limitations.

Seashells

2015 • 9 min

A young girl reluctantly takes her first steps into adulthood; she receives her first bra.

Ladies Of The Night’s Street

2015 • 42 min • France

Gaston Lampion is an employee in a big insurance company. Extremely skilled for all sorts of calculations, he is nonetheless restrained by his lack of charisma and difficulty for speaking. The erotic commerce of “the ladies of the night” will give him the chance to push himself further.

A Rainy Night

2015 • 13 min • Hong Kong

Fong Ka-Man, has been leading a middle class lifestyle. One day, during a heavy rain in the dusk, bearing the fear of illness, she is unwillingly staying away from the rain inside the tunnel. She first encounters a weird tramp, and then a young farmer who is rushing to deliver his harvest. It’s about how the “normal” passes by the “abnormal”. What makes them “normal” and “abnormal” seems to be realistic, but maybe it is just a void. Fong Ka-Man is anxious to find an exit from the difficult circumstance, but accidentally she finds out that what she yearns for is the disappeared end of this city.

Surviving Sandy Hook

2015 • 59 min • United Kingdom, United States of America

Investigative documentary following three families involved in the Sandy Hook shooting, as they try to make sense of the tragedy and find a way to move on and rebuild their lives.

Thanatos

2015 • 10 min • Netherlands

When Thanatos meets a lonely birdwatcher, a special friendship ensues. But he knows in advance that a farewell will be inevitable.

Bevel Up

2015 • 45 min

Bevel Up is an educational film designed to give students and instructors access to the experience of health care practitioners who work with the drug-using population of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Produced by the same street nurses who work with these users on a daily basis, the film contains invaluable knowledge that can't be found in nursing schools and teaching hospitals.

Vila do Conde Extended

2015 • 35 min • Portugal

A boy from Vila do Conde records a love letter on a cassette. His voice blends with music, archive images and stories from the past, some lived and others heard.

A Caverna

2015 • 21 min • Portugal

A bunch of spectators trapped in a cinema theatre.

Lucky Ball

2015 • 25 min

High school student Yeon-ju and Eun-chae were rehearsing for a joint performance at the school after school ahead of the school festival performance. Then suddenly, a baseball that Hee-jun threw badly from the playground flies in through the window. Hee-jun comes into the classroom looking for the ball and the Yeon-ju tries to find Hee-jun's ball.

Sisters and Brothers

2015 • 4 min • Canada

In a pounding critique of Canada's colonial history, this short film draws parallels between the annihilation of the bison in the 1890s and the devastation inflicted on the Indigenous population by the residential school system.