All Films

The Dive

2015 • 28 min • Russia

One day the host of the cultural review program, Leonid Platonov, comes to his workplace, unaware that thanks to Internet trolls, he became the star of Russian Youtube. The channel's management decides to take advantage of the situation and offers Leonid a new concept of his evening program. Now the protagonist will have to confront the new television trends.

Angela

2015 • 25 min • Hong Kong

All clothes have a story to tell. Ma was about to close the Angela laundry shop for the day when Sham appeared. A young man with a head injury and handful of dirty clothes from his stay at the street during the Umbrella Movement, Sham needs his clothes washed. Full of passion for the social cause, Sham initially chided Ma for staying in the comfort of the shop. However, these two strangers slowly opened up to each other when a number of characters passed by the shop, revealing the tumultuous world behind Ma’s stoic silence. Sham also gained new insight on meaningfulness, which exists not only within a worthy cause but also at seemingly abandoned clothes.

Bangland

2015 • 60 min • Italy

A journey into the heart of Bangland, a city in a dystopian America now under the presidency of Steven Spielberg, who has declared war on the African nation Mahaba, thereby launching his own war on terror, the gist being that anyone who isn't white is a potential terrorist. On the eve of the presidential elections that could spell the end of the Spielberg administration, the gates of a number of Bangland residents become entangled: Charlie Tucano and Tony Beretta, modern-day inquisitors working for the influential television evangelist, Gold; Loogie Boogie, an Irish loan shark with a dysfunctional family; and Dante Black, a screenwriter for TV who's wound up on the evangelist's bad side.

12 Points

2015 • 13 min • Austria

Jonas's father expresses his enthusiasm about Conchita Wurst's victory at the Eurovision Song Contest 2014. Hence, his 18-year-old son works up the courage to come out as a homosexual and introduce his boyfriend to his parents unexpectedly, his father's euphoria about the tolerance and open-mindedness displayed at the Song Contest comes to a sudden end.

The Taste of the Name

2015 • 10 min • Canada

Borrowing from an anthropological study initiated through the University of California in 1969, The Taste of The Name is a fantasia on universality. As a parallel to the elusive “umami” and its gradual scientific acceptance as a primary taste, we consider what is perceivable, knowable, and namable. Through the blue spectrum of various hermetic artifices, we are fed fables of Jules Verne's Nautilus and resurface in a virtual tanning bed, turning over in a slippery navigation of language.

A Crevice of Violence

2015 • 26 min • South Korea

"A Crevice of Violence" is a story about a boy’s life. His mother has left the family and his father is an alcoholic. The boy is a very violent troublemaker. The stand out point of "A Crevice of Violence "is that it doesn’t only show the cycle of violation but actually questions on how to exit this vicious cycle. The film tries to find a way through the attitude of his remarried mother and his judge in charge and the facial expression of the boy when he meets them.

Dreaming Big

2015 • 15 min • United States of America

Harry Johnson's nagging wife won't leave him alone. All he wants to do is drift off to sleep and dream

Awakening in Taos: The Mabel Dodge Luhan Story

2015 • 55 min • United States of America

Mabel Dodge Luhan was a trailblazing feminist 100 years ahead of her time. She was a champion for Women and Native American rights. In 1917 she moved from Greenwich Village to Taos, New Mexico. There she married Tony Lujan, a Tiwa Indian from Taos Pueblo.

Peripheria

2015 • 12 min • France

This haunting, beautifully crafted animation is set in a not-so-distant dystopia where lonely, suspicious pack dogs set the boundaries of their world amidst the remains of human presence. Within the confines of this border, the best and worst of animal behavior begin to manifest.

Actresses

2015 • 12 min • United States of America

A comedy about constructive criticism.

Over El Cielo

2015 • 35 min • Portugal, Spain

Your past already is the projection of your future. However, it was never more than a light in the sky.

Sachi & Mayu

2015 • 48 min • Japan

Nakayama Sachi was abandoned by her mother Yumi when she was 5 years old and grew up at an orphanage. Now that she has turned 20, she works a part-time job late night at a supermarket which opens 24 hours. Besides that, drawing pictures is her only emotional refuge. One day, Sachi is accosted by one of the supermarket's regular customers, Mayu, a 17-year-old girl who has runaway from home. On the first day of their meeting, Mayu comes to live at Sachi's apartment, and like a stray cat, she ends up staying. Mayu is cheerful but there is something fragile about her, and Sachi cannot thrust her away. A couple of days later, Sachi hears from her uncle, Nakayama Naoyuki, that he has found her mother.

At Home in the World

2015 • 58 min • Denmark

Magomed is a thoughtful 10-year-old boy from Chechnya, who has just arrived in Denmark to seek asylum. His father has been both threatened and tortured by the Russians, and now the small family lives in the hope of being allowed to stay.

The Light Thief

2015 • 19 min • Bahrain, Spain

When the essence of Love is snatched from someone and locked away in a vessel with no name, what happens to those persons and how do they change? How can the broken hearted souls break that curse and recover from their pain? Can they regain their spark by overcoming dark supernatural forces?

Scotland's Einstein: James Clerk Maxwell - The Man Who Changed the World

2015 • 60 min • United Kingdom

Professor Iain Stewart reveals the story behind the Scottish physicist who was Einstein's hero; James Clerk Maxwell. Maxwell's discoveries not only inspired Einstein, but they helped shape our modern world - allowing the development of radio, TV, mobile phones and much more. Despite this, he is largely unknown in his native land of Scotland. Scientist Iain Stewart sets out to change that, and to celebrate the life, work and legacy of the man dubbed "Scotland's Forgotten Einstein".

Mansão Bem Assombrada

2015 • 60 min • Brazil

Eduardo, a teacher who heads a theater group at his school, the Troupe dos Seis, made up of students Tecão, Paty, Bruno, Fabi, Zepa and Michele. The group will perform at their school's end-of-year party, but as there is no place available to rehearse, the teacher decides to conduct the rehearsals in the old mansion of Barão Alfredo, his grandfather. What he doesn't know is that the place has two unusual inhabitants: a couple of ghosts who can now go back to scaring and messing with people.

The Voice in the Head

2015 • 11 min • United Kingdom

Psychologist David Rosenhan Ph.D - 'If sanity and insanity exist, how shall we know them?'

Brazil vs Brazil

2015 • 52 min • Brazil

The documentary seeks to contribute to the construction of the memory of the World Cup in Brazil, in 2014, launching a reflection on the multiplicity of possible views about the phenomenon of this event and generating a historical document on the relationship between politics and football in the country.

The Sex Changes That Made History

2015 • 48 min • United Kingdom

Sex reassignment surgery is now almost a commonplace procedure, but back in the early 20th century, it was seen as 'science fiction surgery'. When the news broke of a successful first attempt, it was a sensation. This is the gripping story of three extraordinary people: the world's first person to undergo a female to male transition; the former Spitfire pilot who became Britain's first to transition from male to female; and the daring advanced plastic surgeon who carried out these surgeries in the 1940s. Michael Dillon - previously named Laura - had persuaded the brilliant Sir Harold Gillies, the founding father of plastic surgery, to carry out the female-to-male operation that no surgeon in the world had ever attempted. Both then helped former race car driver and wartime pilot Robert Cowell undertake their own transition.

Candy Crush

2015 • 13 min • Romania

A young couple is having an ordinary afternoon together until Andreea finds a massage oil in the bathroom.

Cat Heaven Island

2015 • 56 min • Japan

On a far off, rural island in Japan, hundreds of cats roam a secluded fishing village, home of an aging, beautiful, and fading culture.

Home Suite Home

2015 • 14 min • Netherlands

Ludwig is an aging hotel inspector who’s become bored with his luxury lifestyle. When he meets a young woman in Paris, it might just be the wake-up call he needed.

In the Footsteps of Speedy

2015 • 31 min

Documentary short takes a tour of the New York City film locations of Speedy (1928) such as Times Square, Washington Square, Sheridan Square, Coney Island and Brooklyn.

The Life of Death

2015 • 7 min • Poland

Is it right to be treated as a weirdo just because you are Death incarnate? Even Death has feelings, and God forbid, even Death may die.