All Films

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.

Too Black to Be French?

2015 • 52 min • France

Approximately, because so-called "ethnic" statistics are prohibited, there are an estimated 3.3 million black French citizens. Distant descendants of slaves from the Caribbean or "indigenous" peoples from the French colonial empire in Africa, they constitute a minority that is often discriminated against. Isabelle Boni-Claverie, a mixed-race woman raised in the affluent neighborhoods of Paris, daughter of an Ivorian politician and granddaughter of Alphonse Boni, a Black man who became a magistrate of the French Republic in the 1930s, examines what is blocking the social advancement of Black French people and the full recognition of their citizenship.

ELBA - Napoleon's Legacy

2015 • 38 min • Italy

In the 1814 Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of the French, was forced to abdicate and go in exile to the Italian island of Elba. 200 years later the General will fight his biggest battle.

Initiation

2015 • 9 min

When a college senior is reluctant to haze her freshman soccer teammates, she's bullied into becoming the worst culprit of them all.

Sovereign

2015 • 18 min • United States of America

Plagued with survivor's guilt, an Iraq war veteran turned mercenary stumbles upon a plot to sabotage America's energy independence. Fighting to free the demons in his head, he sets out to eradicate the traitors amongst us.

Where You Will Never Die

2015 • 16 min • Mexico

Diana is a dreamer and a painter, after the murder of a journalist she meets Leo, another young journalist who finds it impossible to exercise his professional ethics. Both inevitably end up plunging into the rough and limited world of journalism.

Break Fruit

2015 • 10 min

In a city with unbreathable air, a young woman pays a farewell visit to her older lover, a widower who became agoraphobic after his wife’s death. Both immigrants, they argue over her impending return to Nigeria from their place in diaspora, charting an emotional path together through fear, loss, and a thirst for freedom, all marked by an underlying secret. It’s a story of exile, homecoming, what gets left behind, and the truths that change everything.

Love Is Blind

2015 • 7 min • United Kingdom

Alice is in the passionate embrace of her young lover, as she finally succumbs to temptation. However, when her husband James returns home early, Alice finds herself in an emotional minefield as she attempts to save her marriage while simultaneously negotiating her lover's escape.

There Are Ghosts

2015 • 13 min • United States of America

A closeted homosexual with a death wish must choose between himself or his suicidal wife when he encounters The Grim Reaper.

No Wolf Has a House

2015 • 25 min • Croatia

Sandra is an overly sensitive young woman who, when under pressure, has trouble with deciphering the line between reality and her twisted fantasies. During her husband's birthday party, she has to spend a day with his family. Their barely concealed hostility is making her gradually lose her mind.