All Films

A & E: When Patients Attack

2015 • 43 min • United Kingdom

Hospital staff are reporting more violence and anti-social behaviour than ever before. In 2015, 8 staff were assaulted every hour – a new record high. At The Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham – one of the UK’s biggest hospitals – they think they have the answer. Here a private security force of 46 uniformed guards, and a sophisticated CCTV system, keep staff and patients safe. A colourful mixture of characters ranging from ex-soldiers, to bouncers, to former elite sportsmen, it’s the security team’s job to keep the hospital running smoothly. With more than 2 million visitors they have to deal with all aspects of crime and anti-social behaviour. All against a back drop of life changing and life saving procedures.

DZIDZIO: I'm going to my mom

2015 • 14 min • Ukraine

The events unfold in the hometown of Dzidzio, Lesyk and Yulik - Novoyavorivsk. Everyone has long known that Dzidzio's mother went to Portugal to work 15 years ago and stayed there to live. They communicated only via Skype and phone, but until now they have not seen each other in person, because they did not have such an opportunity. Lesyk and Yulik invent rumors and make fun of Dzidzio that his mother decided to marry a Portuguese man. Dzidzio is not happy about this and wants to go to his mother to find out if it is true. The guys have a very timely real opportunity to visit Galina's mother in Portugal through a local trader-speculator nicknamed "Rambo" who often travels abroad and knows exactly where Dzidzio's mother lives. But for help, he asks to do a favor in exchange.

Hypothetically Murdered

2015 • 51 min • Russia

In 1931 Shostakovich wrote a full-length score for the Leningrad Music Hall, for a show that involved many of the leading entertainers of the day, as well as dancing girls, a jazz band, a dancing dog, sequences of silent film, simulated air-raids and gas attacks, a lorry, a storm, waiters and waitresses in a luxury restaurant, river nymphs and even a scene in Heaven with the Devil, the Twelve Apostles, the Archangel Gabriel and all the other angels doing a blasphemous knees-up. The show was naturally a momentary scandal and the score soon disappeared. In 1991 Gerard McBurney reconstructed from the surviving sketches a sequence of 21 of the orchestral numbers to make a hilarious sequence of gallops, saucy polkas, marches and schmoozy waltzes.

2,000 Tattoos, 40 Piercings and a Pickled Ear

2015 • 60 min • United Kingdom

Featuring three bodyshockers as they prepare for difficult moments in their lives

Alarm Clock Kid

2015 • 13 min • United Kingdom

An 11 year old boy has a small enterprise waking various people up in the morning in very personalised and bizarre fashions.

Erlking

2015 • 6 min • Switzerland

A father is riding with his son through the forest. The sick child thinks he sees the Erlking, who both charms and frightens him. Based on Goethe's poem "Erlkönig" and the music of Franz Schubert and Franz Liszt.

King Kong vs. Prometheus

2015 • 21 min

Bryan Frankenstein, the son of the infamous Dr. Victor Frankenstein, uses a newly built machine to bring King Kong back from the dead. But when an unexpected lightning bolt revives the beast instead, Bryan must bring to life a new and powerful monster to hopefully destroy Kong in what is sure to be a fight to the death.

Rehearsals

2015 • 10 min • Sweden

Rehearsals is about experiences of listening in collective work. How do we listen to experiences we have not shared ourselves? What does it sound like when we talk? What actually is listening and who are "we"?

Une Libération

2015 • 16 min

On the eve of the liberation of Paris from Nazi occupation during World War Two, Juliet, a female American resistance member, risks her life by descending into the underground tunnels of Paris to deliver a secret message. However, a final deadly encounter with a pair of German deserters threatens to destroy the very thing she has been fighting for.

The Starlight Heist

2015 • 20 min

It's 1949. Marco Dejardin (36) is a waiter at the bustling Starlight Room. He’s handsome, funny, and compassionate. But he lets people walk all over him. All Marco really wants is to marry Elizabeth and create a life together. But he has crippling numbness and stabbing pain in his hands from a degenerative condition. He’s been putting away for a surgery to save the use of his hands, and storing the cash in the company safe. But when Marco needs the money, his bosses can’t pay him out. They’re overextended and need the loot to pay the mob. So aided by his fiancé, Marco decides to rob the safe during the New Year’s Eve party, and take back his surgery fund. Otherwise, he’ll become permanently crippled when his bosses use his savings to pay off the mob.

The Night Ocean

2015 • 12 min • Spain

A house anchored to the coast. An artist on vacation. An isolated dreamscape. The unnameable is to come.

Civic Dignity

2015 • 4 min • Spain

Zacarias has entered the ethical cabin E-22, regulated by the Ministry of Civic Dignity.

The Voice

2015 • 17 min • Canada

Edgar works in a pig slaughterhouse. He loves opera and he loves Ginette, the stripper of his dreams. Edgar is about to ask her to marry him when he surprises her bedding her boss. In shock, he loses his voice and unfortunately finds himself with the voice of a pig.

I Write

2015 • 29 min • Norway

In this documentary we meet a group of people at the age between 72 and 100 years who attend writing courses, led by professional writers. What happens when the elderly get room to speak, write and discuss?

Summer's Tail

2015 • 39 min • South Korea

A small village in an island. Juyeon whose mom left her only cares about her best friend-Kyunghee. One day, a transfer student-Soyoung moves to her village and everything begins to be changed.

Old Fashioned: The Story of the Wisconsin Supper Club

2015 • 51 min • United States of America

Supper club restaurants were the hot dinning trend in the mid twentieth century. They provided a place for people to spend their evenings enjoying cocktails, home cooked, high quality food and entertainment. The supper club scene slowly faded from the rest of the country, but kept a strong hold in Wisconsin due to a culture that allowed it to thrive. Around for decades, supper clubs in Wisconsin have been able to hold their own style and traditions. While chain restaurants continue to expand and threaten their future, supper clubs are fighting to survive while continuing to offer the same exceptional dinning experience and a personal touch that is not seen in the modern lifestyle of dine and dash. Old Fashioned: The Story of the Wisconsin Supper Club takes you into this uniquely Wisconsin institution.

Black Tongue

2015 • 18 min • France

Erwan is a young man from Brittany, a sailor and worker at the shipyard. He goes out with Clara. After cheating on her, he develops a strange form of guilt.

Return to Nostalgia

2015 • 53 min • Malaysia

Local filmmaker Woo Ming Jin and his crew traversed across Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore to find 'Seruan Merdeka' (1947) - the first film made in Malaya post-WWII, and also the first film in the history of Malaysian cinema to feature a biracial cast of Malays and Chinese. While tracking the film's whereabouts, Woo met many locals along the way, whom he interviewed in an effort to find out more about the country's history.

Mother Earth

2015 • 10 min • United States of America

Part of the Life's Work series. Mother Earth is a portrait of Louise Pentz, a production potter turned feminist sculptor.

Bunny Ears

2015 • 5 min • United States of America

Ryan makes his dreams come true.

Junk

2015 • 5 min • Uruguay

In a post-apocalyptic world, a humanoid robot creates a dog out of spare parts.

Spark

2015 • 11 min • United States of America

A robot from the future travels back in time to 1983 in order to kill the young boy who will grow up to invent the Internet.

Quelques Secondes

2015 • 16 min • France

The daily life of five young women living in a Paris hosting center. All haunted by their heavy past (rape, violence, abandonment...), they try to move forward... except one.

Daughters of Mother India

2015 • 45 min • India

This film examines how the fatal 2012 rape of a medical student has spurred India to start changing attitudes and laws about gender-based violence.