All Films

As Sementes

2015 • 32 min • Brazil

Neneide talks about female empowerment and how the group “Mulheres Decididas a Vencer” started working with bees in a settlement in Rio Grande do Norte. Izanete resists agribusiness that occupies extensive land in Rio Grande do Sul, where he produces ecological milk and bread for school meals. For Efigênia, gardening is therapy and working in the fields in Minas Gerais, independence. Maria dos Santos recalls struggles for land tenure and gender equality and against malnutrition in the quilombola areas of Bahia. Four seeds of solidarity economy, cooperativism, feminism, agroecology.

Silent Anger

2015 • 26 min • France

Young Julian is shopping with his father when his father suddenly disappears. Julian waits for his father to come back, while coping with his fear and anxiety. The film explores the themes of childhood, abandonment, and resilience.

Entrance

2015 • 11 min

This is an installation documentary created in 2015. The quiet process of making boxes indoors reflects the author's patience and caution, the narration when the screen is black reflects the author's familiarity and confidence in what he wants to express, and the dodging perspective and trembling picture when facing the crowd outdoors reflect the photographer's cramped and alienated. A lot of things happened after 2015, and the film was re-edited. The current version has almost used the best materials of that year.

Desperately Seeking Signal

2015 • 8 min • Canada

A 911 dispatcher helps a lost and surprisingly upbeat woman in a compromising situation and connects with more than just the call.

Romka

2015 • 14 min • Ukraine, United States of America

Story about school of life for the 12 y.o. kid, who became a hero of Maidan, during the current revolution in Ukraine

A long holiday

2015 • 16 min

Louise discovers the joys of camping by the sea with her parents. With her father she collects precious treasures having belonged, he claims, to a siren. He tells her the story of a siren who cannot sing and does not find her place in society.

The Case in Potassium Park

2015 • 26 min • Latvia

Ģirts and his friend plan an excursion to a mystical place, the abandoned Potassium Park. In order to get the family car, Ģirts lies and says he is going fishing, so his parents compel him to take his younger brother along. Ģirts’ friend backs out, and he is forced to go fishing after all. Bitter about the failed plan, Ģirts is mean, but his brother’s joy over the first fish caught is a self-revelation of his pervasive injustice towards his younger brother. As a gift, Ģirts shows him the secret entrance to Potassium Park. The brothers head off on an exciting foray through the abandoned and mysterious structures, until they accidentally uncover a box of explosives that tests their newly-developed camaraderie.

La nuit tombée

2015 • 29 min

That evening, Victor, aged thirteen, does not want to go home. Also, ayoung woman, Sandrine, pushes away the the moment when she will find her lonely flat. Night is falling, in Orléans, shortly before Christmas.

Blood Lions

2015 • 44 min

Every single day in South Africa at least two to three captive bred or tame lions are being killed in canned hunts. And hundreds more are slaughtered annually for the lion bone trade. The Blood Lions story is a compelling call to action to have these practices stopped.

Don't Look Up

2015 • 5 min • United States of America

A young woman comes home late night on public transportation and puts herself in a precarious position where she comes across an urban legend that may be true.

The Sun King

2015 • 20 min

Johnny Otto's newest project "The Sun King" is a dark, quirky short film (20 Min.) about a Young Woman named Chloe (Thessa M'Loe) who begins following a mysterious Crime Fighter, (Pedro Shanahan) who she claims has special powers, which are the result of taking some sort of drug. After encountering a Young Man named Ben, (Tim Perkins) Chloe begins to confess everything she has seen to him. But will Ben believe her strange and unlikely story or simple think that she is going mad? And, is there more to Ben than Chloe has thought?

The Follies of M

2015 • 11 min • United Kingdom

The Follies of M tells the story of the Provincial Parish of M, famed for it's quantity and variety of architectural follies and introduces the misshapen residents who indulged in suck reckless construction projects.

Perfection Is Forever

2015 • 18 min • Romania, United Kingdom

A tree is what it is, complete in its own being. Human beings, on the other hand, always aspire to become something more, doing their best to hold back time in pursuit of eternal love, youth, and beauty. In Hollywood, two lost souls seek to become heroes under the shade of a lonely palm tree.

Submarine Sandwich

2015 • 2 min • United States of America

A delicatessen wizard creates a delicious-looking sandwich from some unusual ingredients.

Dive

2015 • 14 min • New Zealand

George's reflection has turned its back on him and he'll go to great depths to get it back.

The Text

2015 • 8 min • United States of America, Brazil

How far would you go to protect your best friend's secret? In this promotional short film, a group of friends is spending some nice time having fun and playing video game. Part of this team, best buddies Rafael and Diego are teasing each other with their several talks while "fighting" each other in the game. But when one of them gets easily distracted and leaves the room, the other will check the friend's phone to see who is the person who keeps interrupting them from time to time. Then comes a unexpected revelation that will come as a test for these boys.

Lacuna

2015 • 14 min • Spain

Lacuna is an experimental short film that recuperates Neus Pipó character, the director’s mother, combining the reading of her letters, with a trip through the places where she wrote them.

Eternal Love

2015 • 52 min • France

Nathan and Lucas are together for several years, and they understand they don't fit exactly to each other : they don't have the same dreams and ideas for their future - Their love will be strong enough to overcome the obstacles.

The Joy of Mozart

2015 • 59 min • United Kingdom

Tom Service delves into the life and times of Mozart to try and rediscover his greatness.

Tomorrow

2015 • 25 min • Russia

True Tail - Pilot Animatic

2015 • 24 min • United States of America

It follows the adventures of a young kitten, named Caleb, who learns what it means to be a hero, and that sometimes there are adventures you are not ready for. However, accompanied by a sly thieving fox, a quick-witted kirin, and a song loving bunny, he will learn that with friends even the most impossible tasks can be easily overcome.

The Television

2015 • 37 min

On the seventh day, the TV showed the young man somewhere at another time, but he did not notice. On the sixth day, the man just found himself on TV.

A Thousand Words

2015 • 5 min

A short film by Dionne Copland.

Abdul & Hamza

2015 • 49 min • Serbia

Abdul & Hamza, two Somali immigrants, are hiding in an abandoned house near Serbo-Romanian border.