All Films

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.

Four Photographic Sonatas Starring Michael Fassbender

2015 • 4 min • United States of America

Four-part short starring Irish actor Michael Fassbender.

Backwards

2015 • 20 min • Slovenia

Matej returns from Germany to visit his father Rado in Slovenia to ask him for help in financing the apartment he wants to buy with his pregnant girlfriend. At the meeting, he learns that his father was thrown over the threshold of his own company, and after additional research, he learns that he is in very large debts, and his house is also hanging in the balance. Matej wants to solve his father's problems, even if by less legal means.

Crooked Rainbow

2015 • 23 min • South Africa

A hermit, living in a mini-museum of South African 'glory days' is forced to face reality and shed his naive 'Rainbow Nation' idealism after he finds out his hero Nelson Mandela has passed away.

Gay Mean Girls

2015 • 14 min

Lucy Kim, prom committee president, seeks to establish Gay Prom Royalty in order to pursue a crush on her out lesbian best friend.

Les verdines d'Antoine

2015 • 18 min • Belgium

Taking as its starting point his "verdine" (caravan in the language of travellers), the animated documentary film portrays Antoine Wiertz, a member of the Traveller community. Now retired, he makes wooden caravans like the ones he spent his childhood in. He tells us about life on the road with his large family, the death of his father when he was fourteen and the need to provide for his family, his marriage and the birth of his children. As the nomadic life became less and less compatible with modern society, Antoine gradually settled down, not without regret; he currently lives in a house in the Belgian countryside but keeps trailers and a caravan to go back on the road whenever possible.

Cropped

2015 • 6 min • United Kingdom

'Cropped' tells the story of a group of UFO enthusiasts on the hunt for proof of extraterrestrial existence at the site of one of rural Britain's mysterious crop circles. As events unfold and night falls, the group are forced to set their differences aside when the mystery of the crop circles is revealed.

Winter Love

2015 • 8 min • Italy, Spain

While a couple walks along the river, hunters hide behind a hill and friends in the forest recall the Dancer of Clavesana, a metaphor of free love that slowly vanishes into the winter landscape

Dias de Trovão

2015 • 45 min • Brazil

Eric is in love with his best friend Eduarda. But Michel is quicker and gets her heart first. At the kart tracks, Eric has a chance to beat his opponent in a wild competition. Love and speed, love for speed. Those were the Thunder Days.

Anomie

2015 • 13 min

Awakened by a midnight fever dream, a nameless woman tries to escape her memories of a heinous crime, the youthful face of its perpetrator, and an overwhelming sense of doom.