All Films

Red Letter, Normal Person

2015 • 17 min • United States of America

A man struggles with the existential consequences of poor life choices he's made in this surreal film.

Velázquez – Wild Realism

2015 • 52 min • France

He was ceaselessly in search of the human truth through the treatment of the light and the space and in the way he roams around things. His work full of boldness marks an essential stage in the history of paint.

My Wonderland

2015 • 16 min • Chile

In his own Wonderland, a Gardener falls in love with a Queen, who wants the elixir of magic plants guarded by an Archer, who the Gardener will have to confront.

Bosnian Dream

2015 • 33 min • Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mexico

Ivana is a young Bosnian working class woman that dreams about moving to the United States. Nevertheless, this dream feels very distant because she has to take care of her sick mother and works in a restaurant to be able to support her.

Millennia

2015 • 12 min • Portugal, United States of America

A young woman struggles to maintain her fantastical Universe when her love goes sour. As she seeks rescue from her vices of money and sex - faith becomes her sole companion and she soon discovers the only form of salvation will require rebirth.

Crash Site

2015 • 13 min • Canada

After her parents' death, Kaley must move from the reserve to the city to live with her older sister. After an argument, Kaley runs away to return home. During her journey, she meets a superhero who tells her how to hone her own powers.

Stolen Will

2015 • 57 min • Nigeria

In the sequel to the movie Stolen Kiss, tension mounts as the good for nothing older brother of the Umejesi family, Dan (Van Vicker) fights tooth and nail against his younger brother Victor (Jim Iyke) over the will. Now Victor must take the most unbelievable action to uphold peace in the family hence taking us to a different and more interesting and suspenseful angle of the whole story.

Vazio

2015 • 15 min

Empty was the only feeling she hoped not to have at the night full of emotions.

We Are Stars

2015 • 26 min

What are we made of? Where did it all come from? Explore the secrets of our cosmic chemistry and our explosive origins. Connect life on Earth to the evolution of the Universe by following the formation of Hydrogen atoms to the synthesis of Carbon, and the molecules for life. Narrated by Andy Serkis. For planetariums and digital dome theatres.

The Chicken

2015 • 11 min • Czech Republic

A serial killer masked as a chicken hunts the streets of Prague. A police investigator will follow his tracks in search of his identity, trying to catch up to him before he can kill his next victim.

Teenage and Gay

2015 • 48 min

A documentary that follows five British teenagers as they come out, capturing intimate first-hand experiences, and empathizing with them as they seek acceptance for their sexuality. From the 14-year-old footballer who describes herself as a ‘butch lesbian’ to the transgender boy forced out of home and school, the program features a cross-section of characters. Intimate, confessional, and raw, the film celebrates their bravery and exposes the ostracism and bullying they can suffer.

Female Fantasy

2015 • 12 min

A young sexually dissatisfied young girl's sexual fantasies.

Hurşit

2015 • 9 min • Turkey

Hursit lives with his mother and disabled brother in Cappadocia. He sees that what he has learned at the religious school is quite different from what is going on around him in real life.

Special Delivery

2015 • 5 min • United States of America

A short film made by Academy Award-winning studio, Aardman Animations (creators of Wallace and Gromit and Shaun the Sheep). Find yourself following the adventures of a humble caretaker, who is disturbed by a mysterious stranger on the roof. Who’s there? And the chase begins… room to room… up and down… somehow, mysteriously, just out of sight. But the elusive stranger is always one step ahead, leaving behind only a trail of gifts…

Lana Del Roy

2015 • 24 min • France

Jean-Philippe is finally rebuilding his life since dating Lana. But when she meets his son, Morgan, he discovers that Lana is a former porn star.

Instants saisis

2015 • 45 min

Through the exploration of the Trutat collection, this documentary questions the premises of photography. What are the possibilities offered by fixing an instant on a glass plate?

Outburst

2015 • 39 min • Denmark

In a world on the verge of collapse, a young girl must use her survival instincts to survive the destructive epidemic that suddenly breaks out and ravages her once safe childhood home. Pustule infected creatures of pure terror, wrought from the deepest depths of hell, stand in line to make life miserable for the "GIRL WITH NO NAME"... But they have disturbed the wrong girl!

Unknown Energies, Unidentified Emotions

2015 • 40 min • Croatia

A Foundation reporter, Isidor Dukas comes to the Institute to make a report. For the purpose of objective reporting, the Foundation uses agents with induced, synthetic identities. In confrontation with one of the test subjects, what was supposed to be a routine control turns into a never ending maze.

A Brief History of Graffiti

2015 • 59 min • United Kingdom

Dr Richard Clay goes in search of what it is that has made us scribble and scratch mementoes of our lives for more than 30,000 years. From the prehistoric cave paintings of Burgundy in France, through gladiatorial fan worship in Roman Lyons to the messages left on the walls of Germany's Reichstag in 1945 by triumphant Soviet troops, time and again we have wanted to leave a permanent record of our existence for our descendants. And it may be that this is where what today we call art comes from - the humble scratch, graffiti.

Soccer Moms in Peril!

2015 • 8 min • United States of America

After a night out drinking, a soccer mom wakes up bound to a chair in the basement of a masked killer. But as luck would have it, there's someone else in the basement that she wants to see even less.

Alison

2015 • 1 min

Alison is giving birth to a creature, who runs away when faced with the oppressing stares of huge statues surrounding them. Alison then runs after her creation, to be finally confronted with the eyes of the crowd.

William in White Shirt

2015 • 13 min • Canada

William in White Shirt portrays a young man contending with life in a difficult neighborhood of Vancouver. In observing his various daily encounters, the film explores his lighthearted approach towards the transitions he is living through.

Father's Son

2015 • 7 min

A young fishboy and his birdude friend must choose between the satanic babes by the cliffs and the open road ahead.

Riding the Highline

2015 • 16 min

A short documentary film about poet brothers Kai and Anders Carlson-Wee hopping freight trains across the country. Shot over the summer of 2013 on the Burlington Highline route from Minneapolis, Minnesota to Wenatchee, Washington.