All Films

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.

Lady. Painter Dzemma Skulme

2015 • 52 min • Latvia

A documentary about Latvian artist Džemma Skulme.

Cipriana

2015 • 21 min

Traversing the tumultuous transitional period between childhood and the teenage years, Cipriana permeates a spirited combination of vulnerability, boldness and burgeoning sexual inquisitiveness.

The Rabbit

2015 • 16 min • United Kingdom

A young couple on their way home from visiting one of their parents discover, through a graphic and disturbingly prophetic incident on the road home, that their lives and aspirations have been drifting apart and that the future they thought they might have together is viewed very differently by the two of them. This Mark Duggan film, based on a screenplay by Erik Knudsen, is an evocative short road movie about the painful dissolution of a relationship.

The Strange Lives of the Not So Destined

2015 • 11 min

A man goes to a palm reader and is not prepared for the visit's impact.

On the Same Page

2015 • 4 min • United States of America

An introverted writer in a newspaper world has nothing to write about until he is whirled away into a colorful journey with his neighbor from the comic section.

Ink: Written By Hand

2015 • 7 min

INK follows Tanja Tiziana – a freelance photographer in Toronto, Canada – and her journey to rediscover the written word.

A.D. 1363, the End of Chivalry

2015 • 3 min • United States of America, New Zealand

A knight in shining armour attempts to rescue a damsel in distress but runs afoul of a little-known historical catastrophe.

Parables of War

2015 • 32 min

Three men, one an actor, one a dancer and the other a soldier, are all casualties of war in some way. The men explore the relationships between art and artist, and historical and contemporary truth in search of a way to bind the wounds of conflict.

Bat Time

2015 • 4 min • Germany

When night dawns on the farm a little bat wakes up. The little bat wants somebody to keep its company. It doesn't want to be alone. It is looking for a friend.