All Films

Fine Line

2015 • 6 min • Brazil, China, Czech Republic

A young boy takes his baby brother out for a stroll in the park, where he finds his friends playing soccer.

The Typist

2015 • 8 min

From the archives of the “queer Smithsonian,” San Francisco’s GLBT Historical Society, comes the forgotten history of a gay Korean War veteran tasked with writing the military discharges of outed gay seamen. The Typist details a conflicted clerk’s participation in discrimination and his divided allegiance to homosexuality and heroism.

Ibuseki Yoruni

2015 • 10 min • Japan

A revolutionary new prime minister liberates Japan and carries out policies he promised to the voters of Japan.

Från Haverö till Osaka

2015 • 58 min • Sweden

An exciting meeting between film & music. The film takes us on a musical journey that begins in the small village of Haverö in Västernorrland. Folk musician Göran Månsson goes with the band Mittfolk to Japan to spread his folk music. This will be an exciting meeting where two worlds are set against each other and where music is the common denominator.

Algum Lugar no Recreio

2015 • 22 min

In the corners of the school, hidden dramas that the playground promotes and conceals: Lucas and Daniel prepare a bomb; Nicolas and Jaqueline kiss to hide their real desires; Carvalho tries to control his impulses after repeated insults; Alice needs clean urine to cover her secret; and Luiza just wants to find her place.

Across the Tracks

2015 • 15 min

Tara and Ella Hines are sisters living very different lives. Tara is a big city architect with a fighting spirit that has brought her great success. Ella, a few years younger, never left the hometown of their youth and has been the primary caretaker of the family. Estranged for 40 years, they are brought together finally with the death of their mother. Through a series of flashbacks, their childhood in rural 1960s Georgia unfolds. The "Coloreds only" bathroom and side entrance to shops. The train tracks that separated the town by skin color. We see them navigate this world full of inferiority and bullying, ultimately leading to Ella's decision to become white. As the sisters lay their mother to rest, the past rises up to meet them and we're finally shown the moment that tore their family apart.

Dark Side of Crocs

2015 • 50 min

Nile crocodiles, one of the most impressive creatures in the world, live in groups in African rivers. Water comes and goes in the wilds of Africa and while all animals need access to water, few can call the river home.

Michael McIntyre's Easter Night at the Coliseum

2015 • 60 min • United Kingdom

The UK's top comedian Michael McIntyre hosts a jam-packed night of entertainment and variety from London's largest theatre, the stunning Coliseum. In this Easter special, Michael presents the world's leading comedians, music superstars and jaw-dropping speciality acts as well as his own record-breaking comic talents. Michael says: "When I heard the BBC were making a show called Michael McIntyre's Easter Night At The Coliseum, I knew I had to be involved. The London Coliseum is a truly magnificent theatre and I will be hosting an array of talent befitting this magnificent venue. This will be a true variety show for all the family to enjoy. I can't wait..."

The Family Portrait

2015 • 13 min • United Kingdom

Michael is determined to reconnect with his wife and daughter over a family dinner but his chilling past may hinder the once 'loving family'.

Bride Zombie

2015 • 5 min • Belgium

A man doubts whether or not to shoot a zombie - but decides to let her go. But did he make the right choice...?

Abnormal Behavior

2015 • 26 min • Russia, Thailand, Tanzania

A mental health doctor goes off on a journey to Thailand with his girlfriend. They live with her friends. She enjoys the vacation and he works at his dissertation in psychiatry. People around seem to him no less sick than in the nuthouse, until he falls in strange circumstances...

Die Schwefelhölzchen

2015 • 13 min • Germany

15-year-old Marie tries to escape her life. Together with her friend Kati and her clique, she sets off to celebrate New Year's Eve. A lavish party night begins, at the end of which Marie finds her personal happy ending.

Odesa

2015 • 55 min • Germany, Romania, Ukraine

What happens when a documentary film breaks out of its comfort zone and openly provokes the society? To what extent my compatriots are willing to reflect on one particular episode, the reprisals in Odessa from October 1941?

Selfie from Hell

2015 • 2 min • Canada

A girl's just taking a selfie for her boyfriend when something really creepy happens.

Goodbye Theresienstadt

2015 • 59 min • Denmark

Poignant, compelling, dramatic Danish documentary from 2015. Over 7,000 Jews escaped from Denmark to Sweden when the occupying Germans tried to round up Danish Jews in October 1943. Yet regrettably, 470 Jewish men, women and children were captured and put into cattle cars bound for the Theresienstadt concentration camp. Seventy years after they were miraculously rescued from Theresienstadt, six Danish Jews who were children at the time return to the concentration camp where they suffered for a year and a half, consumed by hunger, anxiety and fear of what tomorrow might bring. The six individual stories are intertwined, as the survivors tell of their failed escape to Sweden, the horrible journey to Theresienstadt, the appalling conditions in the concentration camp, and finally of their rescue from Theresienstadt in the final weeks of the war.

Poetry of Witness

2015 • 60 min • United States of America

Through the interviews of poets and scholars, this documentary sheds light upon those who have chosen poetry to preserve the memories of war, torture, exile, and repression.

Wingmen

2015 • 52 min

Three of the world’s best wingsuit flyers—Espen Fadnes, Ludovic (Ludo) Woerth and Jokke Sommer—set out on a global journey in search of perfect spots for proximity flying and BASE jumps. From Brazil to China, the trio face some of the most thrilling and challenging flights of their lives.

Paradise

2015 • 5 min

A seal witnesses its home change as it tries to adapt to a new reality.

Remembering Maria Chapdelaine

2015 • 53 min • Canada

This feature documentary by Jean-Claude Labrecque recounts the bold and astounding enterprise of French filmmaker Julien Duvivier, who shot a film adaptation of Louis Hémon’s classic novel Maria Chapdelaine in Péribonka, a village in Quebec’s Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region, in 1934. What was the impact of the original film’s production on the life of the community? What memories remain? What town secrets lie hidden in those memories?

Holland Road

2015 • 52 min

"Holland Road, located off NY Route 5 in between the town of Angola and Evangola State Park, is more frequently known as "Pigman Road" and it has been at the forefront of Western New York folklore for decades. Scores of high school students, ghost hunters, and area residents all have their own tales of headless spirits, photographic and audiotape abnormalities, and unusual activity emanating from this mile-long street. With an alluring mix of historical background regarding a train accident and urban legends about a pork-crazed serial killer, Pigman Road has become a rite of passage for anyone in the region wishing to access the world of the unknown." says Joran Zyglis and Jill Gregorie in their article "The Mystery of Pigman Road".

Sara's Runaway

2015 • 18 min • Spain

Sara lives in a foster-care facility. Her youth days seem to slip through her fingers while she awaits for her father to come back.

Zimbo

2015 • 11 min • Mexico

Zimbo is a puppet that longs for freedom. He discovers all he has to do to get it is to cut the strings that keep him captive.

Deception by Design

2015 • 58 min • Australia

Artists and the military might seem strange bedfellows, but painters, sculptors, photographers and set designers have played a critical but little-known role in modern warfare. Despite resistance and often ridicule, artists were recruited in both the first and second world wars to devise ways to protect troops and deceive the enemy by using their artistic skills and intimate knowledge of perspective, illusion, shadow and movement. Inspired by nature and influenced by the modernist art movements of their day, camoufleurs created bizarre decoys, dummy tanks and elaborate sets to conceal military installations. They painted thousands of ships in bold, arresting stripes and patterns to confuse enemy submarines. When war went hi-tech there was no room for artists, but over the past few decades artists have reclaimed camouflage for their work.

De Maude à Justin

2015 • 47 min • Canada

Maude is 17 years old. At birth, she shows signs that make it impossible to identify her gender. The doctors decide she's a girl. Today, she's preparing for a surgical procedure that will transform her into a young man named Justin.