All Films

Syrie : les escadrons du djihad

2015 • 57 min

A camera crew follows a Jihadi group for a week in Syria

En Attendant le Soleil

2015 • 27 min • Togo

Tristan, a 24-year old man, is leaving at last the town where he has always lived. But some important things are going to make him hesitate...

Sugar

2015 • 2 min • Iran

The story of a mysterious boy who loved his cat better than his girl.

Childbirth: All or Nothing

2015 • 50 min • United Kingdom

What's your idea of the perfect birth? Do you want every medical intervention known to science or do you want to go it alone, without the help of a doctor or midwife? And what about after birth? Perhaps you'll hang on to your baby's placenta and carry it around with your newborn until it dries and drops off naturally? Or maybe you'll decide to eat it by whizzing it up into a smoothie? This film follows four pregnant women all making very different choices around their births, all determined to do it their way. Fending off bewildered looks and concerns from friends, family and medical professionals, each woman is going against convention to have the birth she wants. There are free and frank discussions between mums and daughters and decisions to go against medical advice. So does breaking with the norm and sticking to your guns pay off? And what really is the perfect birth?

Marble City

2015 • 8 min • South Korea

Marble City sheds a light on the skateboarding scene in Seoul, South Korea. The film focuses on Wongyu Kim, a skateboarder who has been part of the city's skateboarding scene for the last 16 years. Over the last two decades, Seoul and skateboarding have become gradually entwined. The scene, which was virtually nonexistent in the 90s, is now one of the jewels in Asia's crown.

Fur Away

2015 • 3 min • United Kingdom

A tale about a young boy who is unhappy in his home. One night he receives a peculiar visit that transforms his world.

Living Night

2015 • 2 min • Sweden

"Living Night", also known as "A Livermere Poem", was written by English scholar and ghost story writer Montague Rhodes James.

A Letter for Santa

2015 • 56 min • Serbia

On the eve of Christmas, a working couple struggle to get back home, while their children write a letter to Santa, asking him to grant them time with their parents.

Coexistence

2015 • 2 min

Sunflowers

2015 • 34 min • Malaysia

A struggling makeup artist finally lands a job only to find that its not makeup for the living.

Islet

2015 • 11 min • Tuvalu, Australia

Caught looking at naughty magazines, a thirteen-year-old boy must now navigate through the torments of his ultra conservative South Pacific island community.

Flotsam

2015 • 15 min • Germany, United States of America

An urban essay film searching for meaning and philosophy: "When you enter an existential crisis, all filters fall. Reality is shaded in low contrast, low key, foggy. Every outside signal grinds down mind and teeth and gets caught in a feedback loop. Every thought is a downward spiral."

Hard Pill

2015 • 8 min

A dark night of the soul as a young woman takes a final stand against her inner demons and reclaims her sense of self.

Black Peak: A War Story

2015 • 57 min

In the Fossvogur Military Cemetery in Reykjavik Iceland there are 6 gravestones with the names of the crew of a Wellington bomber that in 1941 crashed into Svartahnjúk (Black Peak) mountain in the Snæfellsnes Peninsula in West Iceland. But the rescue team only found 4 bodies. The documentary Black Peak - a war story, tells us how the Second World War collided with the peaceful countryside in Eyrarsveit county and how the legend of the crew and the airplane have lived on for more than 70 years.

Double Aliens

2015 • 56 min • Georgia, Latvia

The Samtskhe-Javakheti region in southern Georgia, which has a mostly Armenian population, suffers under silent ethnic tensions caused by a historical burden. It is a unique place to study the role of the human factor in ethnic conflicts through the eyes of a Georgian photographer and the ears of a Latvian film director.

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.