All Films

The Vanishing Act of Einar

2015 • 58 min • Norway

A road-movie about the psychological consequences of living with a serious illness, and Einar's counter-moves to stimulate what is still healthy.

Dream Toy

2015 • 13 min • Greece

Something lies beneath the bed of this cluttered kid's room. What's it waiting for?

Kubler Ross

2015 • 8 min • Spain

In a quarantine period, the false stability of a couple will break down when a child knocks on their door asking for help.

Isabel In Winter

2015 • 22 min

Isabel is deeply dissatisfied with her motherhood. She expects more from her life. Will she be able to walk away, leave her son and start a new life?

Man of the House

2015 • 17 min • United Kingdom

A story about loss, desolation, sorrow and the strength found in innocence.

Tekkol

2015 • 2 min • Netherlands

A dog decides to help a hen and her chicks in crossing the river, but then he lets all kinds of animals walk all over him.

The Lion In Your Living Room

2015 • 50 min • Canada

The film is filled with fun facts that show how cats make good pets, yet in other ways are wild and untamable.

The World According to Monsieur Khiar

2015 • 55 min • Netherlands

A Fistful Of Pebbles

2015 • 7 min • Cambodia

A Fistful of Pebbles won the 3rd prize in the SEA Tropfest Film Festival 2015. The story is about a mysterious man who finds himself in the muddy monsoon in a village terrorized by a local gangster. When he’s unwittingly drawn into the village’s problem and the beautiful daughter of the village Chief is about to be taken, the hero takes matters into his own hands… with a fistful of pebbles.

Side One

2015 • 7 min

Winter 2014-15

God Johogoi

2015 • 60 min • Russia

Every year the Sakha people celebrate the festival of summer - Ysekh. This ethnic holiday celebrates the Aiyy deities and the revival of nature; it embraces ritual prayers, plenty of rich food and koumiss, dancing, folk games, and horse races. Jehegey Aiyy is a serene deity worshiped by people. Jehegey gave horses to humans, and now is the heavenly patron of horse raising. In the majority of recorded songs and legends Jehegey is a male creature, but in some of them it has feminine gender and is called sylgy aiyhyta. According to legends it sometimes appears to people as a loudly neighing light-colored stallion.

Heartless

2015 • 13 min • United States of America

Stolen art, cigarettes, and love describe Heartless, a short film that emulates the style of Godard's Breathless.

Love Is All

2015 • 12 min

Anna wastes her day in her apartment as she waits to see her boyfriend later. A short mumblecore drama about clinging to connection.

The Street Performers

2015 • 21 min • United States of America

This documentary-style short follows two impoverished teens performing on the streets of London in the days leading up to the London Blitz of 1940.

Sea Child

2015 • 8 min • United Kingdom

On the verge of becoming a woman Sora is woken by a nightmare and decides to follow a group of men into the city in the hope of finding her mom.

Ses souffles

2015 • 24 min • France

Lizon has just attended her friend Marie's birthday. The friends around the birthday cake, the candles to be blown, the wish to be made amazed her. For her ninth birthday, Lizon wants to have the same thing. A birthday with a cake, candles and her friends, at her home: in the car.

The Monster

2015 • 16 min

Trying to resurrect his once successful career, an iconic monster falls in love with his leading lady on the set of a dubious film. The results are bloody hilarious.

By God, we will reach Neuilly

2015 • 20 min • France

We hear the first strike of young workers from Velib, the Parisian rental bike company. We hear them learning how to drive and organize a demonstration, with the typical language of working-classe areas. We see Paris in black and white, in early morning with only few people on the street, in a long and slow, never ending travelling from the outskirts to Velib headquarters in Neuilly.

Sara

2015 • 20 min

In a popular neighborhood in Cali, Sara wants to be like her older, well-trained and more experienced sister. To achieve this, she tries to conquer her boyfriend, Gustavo. In a universe of teenagers, of the discovery of identity, of the body and sexuality, Sara tries to find something until now unrecognizable for her... she tries to find her own person.

Napoleon's Waterloo

2015 • 45 min

It lasted only one day on a small piece of land, but the impact the Battle of Waterloo had on history is massive and far-reaching. This is the definitive account of the fight that ended Napoleon's rule as emperor and altered the destinies of France, Europe, and the world. Based on testimonies of those involved, we reveal the tactical decisions and human dramas that transpired on both sides of the battle to give you an unprecedented look of one of history's most epic conflicts.

Biquini Paraíso

2015 • 16 min

In a beach carnival you can stay or pass through the party. Between the cornstarch clouds you can glimpse a look. And between noisy music, you can hear the silence.

The Foley Artist

2015 • 3 min • United Kingdom

A master of sound at work on a fashion film. If you’ve ever wanted to see the chasm between the finished product and the extraordinary lengths taken to produce it, this short is for you.

Builder

2015 • 51 min

Builder tells the story of trail building, through the eyes of 15 of the sport's best riders and most creative builders. From the first shaky pedal strokes of youth, to the game-changing moves of the sport's top pros, you'll see how mountain biking is shaped by shovels and chainsaws in endless pursuit of the perfect ride.

Rock in Rio 30 Anos

2015 • 55 min • Brazil

Documentary of the legendary 1985 music festival in Brazil.