All Films

The Concrete River

2015 • 10 min

A mysterious hacker finds a serial killer who has been targeting women, instead of turning over the evidence he takes matters into his own hands.

Evil Bread

2015 • 1 min • Ukraine

An evil man with bread arms trying to be eviler with varying degrees of success.

A New Understanding: The Science of Psilocybin

2015 • 55 min

A New Understanding explores the treatment of end-of-life anxiety in terminally ill cancer patients using psilocybin, a psychoactive compound found in some mushrooms, to facilitate deeply spiritual experiences. The documentary explores the confluence of science and spirituality in the first psychedelic research studies since the 1970s with terminally ill patients. As a society we devote a great deal of attention to treating cancer, but very little to treating the human being who is dying of cancer.

Back Again

2015 • 13 min • Spain

Alex returns to his village with Jordi, after a while, in order to celebrate San Juan night. However, due to a summer storm, they have to shelter in an old abandoned house where both played when they were children. In there, some conflicts of the past will turn up.

Obake-chan

2015 • 10 min • Japan

Nice to meet you, I’m Obake-chan.

Saint Frankenstein

2015 • 17 min • United States of America

A call girl who comes to visit a badly scarred client at a rundown motel gets a lot more than she bargained for once her clothing is shed and the mysterious history behind a legendary name begins to unfold.

Night Land

2015 • 11 min • United Kingdom

A young pregnant couple must drive through a dense ash cloud which has plunged a section of the UK into darkness. A terrifying encounter on their journey forces them to make a life changing decision.

The Battle of New Orleans: A Meaningful Victory

2015 • 58 min • United States of America

The Battle of New Orleans: A Meaningful Victory explores how the British misjudged their opponent and miscalculated the complexities of the battle ground. It also describes why the multi-cultural population of New Orleans proved the naysayers wrong about their loyalties to a young nation. WYES Community Projects Producer Marcia Kavanaugh and Tom Gregory hosted and produced this documentary.

Discovering Jean Harlow

2015 • 44 min

From the Classic Movie Docs library- Discovering, celebrates the lives of those who soared the highest. From Marlon Brando to Elizabeth Taylor, we uncover what drove them and why the world loved them. This episode focuses on Jean Harlow.

Savant: Kali 47

2015 • 3 min • United States of America

Undead dark riders invade a wild west saloon, blasting away everyone in sight - now only a bad-ass Native American warrior can save the town.

Tati Express

2015 • 60 min • France

Tati Express dives into Jacques Tati's films and how they look at a changing world throughout the 20th century. It shows how modernity impacts human-beings and goes through that amazing body of work at 100 mph.

Fall

2015 • 11 min • Ukraine

The protagonist of the film is time in a provincial town, which is not measured in minutes, hours or days, but in certain events.

H2Obby

2015 • 4 min • Brazil

H2Obby tells the story of Hobby, a very curious little dog that develops a friendship with an ice cube. However, with the evolution of the facts, keeping this recently created bond becomes a challenge. Will Hobby succeed?

Waltz Duet

2015 • 3 min • France

Emily and Elizabeth are two peculiar sisters. They’re recluted from the world and became piano virtuosos.

In Good Spirits

2015 • 12 min • United States of America

An apathetic teenage boy's dysfunctional relationship with his family is tested when his sister's spiritually possessed soul begins to lash out.

Mezcaliente

2015 • 5 min • France

Two desperadoes in the middle of the Mexican desert, fall to the charms of a young barmaid, and use their skills in order to seduce her.

Night Drive

2015 • 15 min

A successful Brazilian businessman quenches his thirst for death on his nightly drives with his luxury car, until he decides to meet one of his to-be victims out of curiosity.

Trash

2015 • 16 min • Ukraine

A brother and sister, with a significant age difference between them, are cleaning the trailer inherited from their father. While cleaning, taboo topics are brought up and conflict ensues.

The Pink Detachment

2015 • 20 min • United States of America

The Pink Detachment is an update of “The Red Detachment of Women” (1964), a Model Opera from China’s Cultural Revolution. Here the protagonists are an accident-prone worker and a ballerina-manager who has the tools to alleviate the worker’s problems. At the center of the piece is the color equation, Red + White = Pink, from which multiple parallel meanings emerge. The first is the old term “pinko,” meaning a watered down Communism, or a liberal with uncommitted Red sympathies. The second is a proposal to solve future crises in meat supply by re-valuating hot dog and sausage production as a solution, by integrating ‘undesirable’ portions of pig with the ‘desirable’ portions, embodying perfect equivalence in consumable form. And the third is pink as femininity – not as a ‘natural’ fleshy softness, but rather a synthetic, engineered (and potentially violent) hybridity.

Testimony of a Thread

2015 • 52 min • Bangladesh, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan

Reality is a perception and it changes with perspective. Every individual who falls victim to a fatal accident is a character in their own right, but reduced to a mere number in the media! Inspired by Akira Kurosawa’s ‘Rashomon’, ‘Testimony of a Thread’ is a monologue collage in search of a face behind the numbers of the deadliest structural failure accident in modern human history.

Another Empty Space

2015 • 8 min

In the winter of Berlin, two former lovers meet for the first time since the breakup.

The School Is Watching

2015 • 6 min • United States of America

Good morning, Bear River High School. This documentary is made up entirely of high school morning announcement broadcasts from the 1990s.

Something Between Us

2015 • 10 min • United States of America

A choreographed motion study for twinkling trinkets, beaming baubles, and glaring glimmers. A bow ballet ablaze (for bedazzled buoyant bijoux brought up to boil).

Nastya

2015 • 30 min • Russia

Two women, two destinies, two Nastyas. One is a policewoman, the other a criminal. But who of them is actually in prison? At the basis of the script lies the real story of Nastya Cherepanova, a postwoman from near Nizhni Novgorod, who in 2011 stole pensions from a savings bank and went to search for a better life with her lover.