All Films

Short Story on the Planet

2015 • 15 min • Argentina

Two astronauts arrive on a strange planet and tour it in search of intelligent life; but when the encounter with the local civilization finally takes place, the mission of the travelers suffers a new and unexpected setback.

Jānis. Elza. Mīlas grāmata

2015 • 58 min • Latvia

The chance meeting between Aspazija and Rainis in January 1894 changed not only the lives of Latvia's future royal couple of poetry, but also the lives of the entire Latvian people. This creative union gave birth to a new language and poetry, revolutionary ideas, and the demand for an independent state. Elza and Jānis' love story, full of twists of fate and difficult trials, is very intimate, poignant, and beautiful.

Catherine Adelaide

2015 • 14 min • Canada

Two people spend an evening together in North America's oldest city, contemplating their relationship as well as their surroundings.

and, end

2015 • 4 min • Japan

"Someday, this will end. I hate it. I wanna live forever," murmurs a girl over and over again. Does she repeat the same moments, or does she move forward? It looks and sounds either way. A wordplay animation.

Mario Was Watching the Sea With Love

2015 • 13 min • Slovenia

Mario operates a crane in a small shipyard on an idyllic island. On a windy and gloomy day he gets struck by a thought that the sea could be something different in his eyes. He decides to run away from his loneliness and routine.

Detective Mārtiņš

2015 • 26 min • Latvia

The film tells about an active senior, Mārtiņš Ziebergs (65), who is spending his old days and retirement looking for lost people; there are hundreds of them in Latvia. Following his activities, the film discloses both the everyday routine of the senior – life of “a detective” and process of investigation – as well as the outcome of it – unexpected reunions of the ones who have been searching for each other for years and also unmade reunions or cases never solved.

A Pedra Fundamental

2015 • 17 min • Brazil

A curious little girl enters the Royal Portuguese Office of Reading attracted by its grandiose façade. Inside the building, she meets a mysterious man who tells her the story of the place and teaches that there are not only books in the library but also other interesting materials such as periodicals and manuscripts.

Regissören: En film om Mai Zetterling

2015 • 58 min • Sweden

A celebrated movie star, Mai Zetterling stepped behind the camera in the early 1960's as one of the few female directors in the world. Her works were immediately celebrated worldwide but were later marginalized and forgotten. Always controversial, she stepped on some male toes while telling stories of marital oppression and human liberation. How come we know so little about one of Sweden's most innovative directors? And is what we know true?

Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs

2015 • 11 min • United States of America

Once upon a time, there were three hungry Dinosaurs: Papa Dinosaur, Mama Dinosaur...and a Dinosaur who happened to be visiting from Norway. One day - for no particular reason - they decided to tidy up their house, make the beds, and prepare pudding of varying temperatures. And then - for no particular reason - they decided to go...someplace else. They are definitely not setting a trap for some succulent, unsupervised little girl.

Winter Flower

2015 • 28 min • France

Yoon is a South Korean. He lives in France. Someday, he encounters a woman who seems lost, alone, and miserable. That is Sulhwa, from North Korea. Yoon offers her a roof for a night. It is the first time Yoon has ever met a North Korean, and that Sulhwa has ever been in the real world.

James Bond: In Service of Nothing

2015 • 11 min

An aging former super spy struggles to find his place in a self absorbed world without boarders, where service to one's nation is an antiquated concept.

The Guests

2015 • 11 min • Australia

A woman and her baby have just moved into a new home. After she calls her mother, guests start to come up the stairs: isn’t this where the housewarming is? When she hesitantly lets them in, it turns out to be the beginning of a nightmare.

The Guards Themselves

2015 • 54 min • United States of America

In a city secretly controlled by the rich and selfish, local anarchists have organized themselves into a single force with the goal of sabotaging the corrupt corporate figureheads.

When the Rain Is Over

2015 • 14 min • Germany

Overworked and underpaid, the 30 year-old film set runner Jonathan tries to complete all the tasks that pelt down on him like a relentless rain shower. When he's suddenly taken by surprise by a real downpour, he finds shelter where he least expects it. After the rain, he at last finds the strength to face up to his life with renewed energy.

A Dream School in the Steppes

2015 • 55 min

The passion to describe every moment of one's life through images - Could it give the power to struggle against all kinds of obstacles to someone fascinated by cinema? Ahmet Uluçay, well-known by his idiosyncratic short films and his only feature film "Boats out of Watermelon Rinds", had to face the fact that he had a brain tumor, and had his first operation 12 years ago. This documentary film, in accordance with Uluçay's life between reality and dream, draws us from the half-lit corridors of a hospital to the village, to childhood and dreams, and into the world of a passionate cinéaste.

Lavender

2015 • 7 min

A portrait of a depressed mother and her child.

Greta Garbo

2015 • 50 min • Italy

"Greta Garbo" is a man who possesses the secret of a recipe, or an actor/actress who insists and hopes to always be a muse for someone. The illusion, the power that this creates, its allure, but also its sense of loneliness and insecurity that grips, and finally chooses vanity as a possible substitute for love. A project for Damir Todorovic - artist, actor and performer.

Harvey's Dream

2015 • 8 min • United States of America

A woman's senile husband predicts her daughter's death. Based on the Stephen King story of the same name.

Reunion

2015 • 15 min • Finland

Anja has been waiting for thirty years for this day to arrive – for the day when her brother will die. She herself is already dead. She was twelve at the time. She and her brother were playing a game that went too far and then it happened. Anja has lived in limbo ever since; her job is to help the people of her small town who have just lost their lives to find their way to the other side. She shows them they are not alone. Sometimes the right music can help. Or a little dance – which cannot be seen by the living – where the accident happened. Today, at home on the couch in front of the television, fate takes its course for her brother. He struggles to drag himself upstairs to Anja's old room where he dies. That is where Anja died too. She is happy to see him again; he can hardly bear it. But she has something to say to him. And a song for him. A song about a country where there is no such thing as fear.

Insomnia

2015 • 10 min • Costa Rica

Tonight, an ill man has to die in spite of his pregnant wife.

El canto del Colibrí

2015 • 53 min

'El Canto del Colibrí' is a story of Latino fathers dealing with issues of immigration, faith, marriage equality, machismo, culture, and the process of their LGBTQ+ children coming out.

Türk İşi Korku Filmi

2015 • 58 min

Anxiety #5

2015 • 6 min • Canada

A man's fate is sealed within a Brooklyn tenement housing bathroom in 1983.

Zerch

2015 • 7 min

Zerch asks his boyfriend Cano to do something terrible for him. Cano, driven by a powerful love, agrees without knowing he is about to sacrifice more than he imagined.