All Films

Psychic Migrations

2015 • 58 min

Psychic Migrations is yet another inspired Veeco Production that builds on more than 20 years and 30 influential films from the world of Volcom. Directed by veteran surf filmmaker Ryan Thomas and shot on location in the West Indies, East Indies, Australia, Polynesia, and Central and South America, the film weaves the physical expression of riding a rousing score of waves with a cerebral odyssey through the scapes and textures travelled to find them. Made by Volcom in 2015.

Without an Alibi

2015 • 15 min

Charlie Sullivan has been wrongfully committed of murder. When it comes time to prove his innocence Charlie finds himself with his back against the wall, his only alibi is the last person he should be caught with.

Southern for Pussy

2015 • 5 min • United States of America

Over a long weekend, a mother and daughter discuss thinning vaginal walls and humiliate a handsome stranger.

Frequencies: The Music of League of Legends

2015 • 46 min • United States of America

Go behind the scenes with the Riot music team as they challenge themselves and each other to reveal a part of the League of Legends universe that hasn’t been heard before.

El Fondillo Maravilloso

2015 • 20 min • Puerto Rico

Chique Bonbón, with a peculiar mixture of street talk and sweet talk, uses his pimped up candy truck to seduce women. His technique seems infallible, until he encounters a woman he thought could not exist.

Belonging

2015 • 17 min

The story takes place in 1948, in post WWII Europe. Amelia, a young girl, who struggles to communicate with her mother after the death of her father, is sent to the Portuguese provincial town of Elvas for a holiday with her uncles. There she meets Thomas, an Austrian refugee boy, who is being fostered by her Aunt and Uncle while they find his parents from whom he was separated during the war. After a rocky start, these children teach each other the true meaning of friendship and communication. This tale is based on a true story of the director’s grandmother who met a young refugee.

Inside the Ku Klux Klan

2015 • 48 min • United Kingdom

Dan Vernon journeys into the heart of America's most notorious supremacist group, with access to a modern day Missouri chapter: The Traditionalist American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.

The Flying Boy

2015 • 6 min • Russia

The story is about an unusual boy who, when he shouted, sang or laughed, took off.

End of the World

2015 • 38 min • Poland

The Mayan doomsday prophecy looms over a dark night in Poland. A late-night radio host takes in calls from citizens expressing their concerns, predictions and speculations on what may happen when—or even if—the sun comes up. Simultaneously, a crisis centre dispatcher fields panicked calls from people experiencing real-life traumatic situations in need of immediate attention. The voices of these callers are interwoven with an intimate therapy session and a wandering taxicab to build a profile of a place where citizens want to be heard. Never showing the callers on the other end of the line, the film creates an aural overview of a darkened city. As the night progresses, the calls continue coming in, revealing the various struggles people are experiencing in dealing with conceptual fears and current woes—all in a world that soon may be over.

Baron In The Trees

2015 • 17 min

The Baron in the Trees is a short narrative film about a pair of identical twins: one of them is playing a role in a children’s theater and the other one is a spectator of theshow. The identical appearances and different behaviors create a motif for the film. Along with Anahita’s previous short films When the Kid was a Kid and Needle, The Baron in the Trees will be the last piece to a trilogy of short films with young protagonists. Growth, gender-identity and family dynamics are the main themes of this trio.

Stony Paths

2015 • 60 min • France, Turkey

Stony Paths is the story of a walk across Anatolia. Arnaud Khayadjanian starts a trek in Turkey, on the land of his forefathers who survived the Armenian Genocide. Starting from a painting, from encounters and from accounts by his relatives, he goes on exploring the little known issue of the Righteous, all these anonymous people who saved lives in 1915.

Ladies Without Lipstick

2015 • 4 min • Australia

Lonely and struggling with getting older, Joyce eagerly anticipates a visit from her distracted granddaughter.

Wake Man

2015 • 29 min • Georgia

Rezo is a 70 year-old resident of the old people's house. He is tired of the lack of proper food at the institution, so he keeps notes from the local obituaries. He attends wakes of unknown individuals and stays for the dinner, which is the traditional feast that takes place after the funeral. At one such feast Rezo meets his former student, whom he taught Georgian dance in the 90's.

On Solace

2015 • 12 min

Filmmaker ::kogonada explores director Ingmar Bergman’s “Cries and Whispers," a film in three movements.

Island of the Blind Dead

2015 • 3 min • United Kingdom

The Triptych

2015 • 60 min • United States of America

This documentary profiles contemporary artists Wangechi Mutu, Barron Claiborne, and Sanford Biggers. Each monologue is a reflection of their life experiences, letting the viewer discover how their observations have shaped the art they create.

Lady At Baths

2015 • 19 min • South Korea

It begins in a deserted public bath house, on a sultry summer afternoon. The building is blacked out and its landlady goes into men's bath to handle the situation. There, she accidentally witnesses something which afterwards causes irreversible changes in her life.

Las Gitanas

2015 • 16 min • United States of America

Las Gitanas follows a group of hustlers as they dance their way through a night in Los Angeles, seducing lonely targets to expose their weaknesses and their wallets. It explores chance interactions amongst disparate souls and the common pulse that binds them.

Max Verstappen: The Next Generation

2015 • 26 min

The road to winning F1. Max Verstappen prepares to make history as the youngest Formula One driver ever.

Soar

2015 • 7 min • United States of America

A precocious young girl makes a new friend when a tiny boy pilot drops out of the sky on a broken flying machine. Now she must race against time to return him home, before her new friend becomes stranded on Earth forever.

Summer '78

2015 • 3 min • United States of America

"Summer '78" is a short film about the power of imagination. Watch as a young boy during the late 70s plays with his favorite Star Wars toys and learn how his simple, but elaborate front yard adventures inspire his future.

Salamanca

2015 • 41 min • Russia

For generations, the Salamanca community of Mennonites has been living in the same modest and rigidly organized way. Modern-day scenes are accompanied by a voice-over narrating a man’s recollections of his youth. “As soon as I close my eyes,” he explains, “I go back to the past, to the moment when I made the choice that shaped my entire life.” Speaking in the Plautdietsch language, he talks calmly of the strong curiosity he felt as a young boy about the world beyond Salamanca and the Mennonite faith – a curiosity for which he paid dearly.

Noite Escura de São Nunca

2015 • 22 min

Some nights never dawn.

Afterlife

2015 • 10 min • United Kingdom

A short, black comedy set in a world between the living and the dead. After Martin Stevens is killed in a car accident he finds himself in a waiting room, pending judgement.