All Films

Story 2 Couples

2015 • 4 min • France

A young and hyper man falls in love with a girl addicted to her phone.

Tuition

2015 • 21 min • Malaysia

A dark drama about the relationship between a high school student and his young tutor. When the boy is being punished for not doing his homework, he starts to develop affection for the teacher until he realizes the teacher herself maybe just like him is another victim of torment and bullying.

Cliché - Gypsy Life

2015 • 47 min • France

Ten years since the inaugural “Gypsy Tour”—Cliché Skateboards notorious pan-European road trip/survival tour — the company celebrates a decade of scraping by on 15-Euros-a-day and sleeping under the stars by combining it with their 8th full-length video release. Gypsy Life is split between documenting Gypsy Tour 4 (with guest janitor Chet Childress) and showcasing full parts from Paul Hart and Max Geronzi along with heavy footage drops from Kyron Davis, Brad McClain and Adrien Coillard. In the footsteps of Bon Appétit and Freedom Fries, Gypsy Life will introduce an entire new generation of Cliché prodigies to the world, while including hefty Gypo helpings of Lucas Puig, Joey Brezinski, Andrew Brophy and the rest of the Pro team to boot. Get in the caravan!

La canoa de Ulises

2015 • 14 min • Argentina

Itaeté, a Guaraní elder, tries to instill his traditional legacy in Ulises, but the boy's vocation is music. Due to an accident, the old man dies, and Ulysses accepts the atavistic legacy of canoe construction.

Voices of Muslim Women from the US South

2015 • 32 min • United States of America

When one thinks of the American Deep South, the image of veiled Muslim students strolling the University of Alabama campus is the last thing that comes to mind. VOICES OF MUSLIM WOMEN FROM THE US SOUTH is a documentary that explores the Muslim culture through the lens of five University of Alabama Muslim students. The film tackles how Muslim women carve a space for self-expression in the Deep South and how they negotiate their identities in a predominantly Christian society that often has unflattering views about Islam and Muslims. Through interviews with students and faculty at Alabama, this film examines representations and issues of agency by asking: How do Muslim female students carve a space in a culture that thinks of Muslims as terrorists and Muslim women as backward?

The Society of Anonymous Optimists

2015 • 35 min • Russia

Boris, in a state of deep depression, gets drunk in a bar and meets his childhood friend Kostya. He advises him to enroll in the Society of Optimists Anonymous.

Noise & Confusion

2015 • 10 min • France

A patient suffering from a rare auditory symptom faces an invisible enemy.

Bluehue

2015 • 6 min • United Kingdom

A short film about the joys of year-round naked swimming in the mountain lakes of Snowdonia, N.Wales.

It Was OK: An Album of Comedy by David Heti

2015 • 55 min

The deeper the truths, the deeper the laughs: it’s a truism that applies to most of the roster here at Stand Up! Records, especially so with David Heti’s new combined CD and DVD release, “It Was OK.” Not the set—the set is exceptional—but the experience of Heti’s life, of telling jokes he writes at 4am in a cloud of existential dread, well, that’s okay. Collective, social suffering and comedic catharsis? That’s okay, too.

Nimmikaage: She Dances for People

2015 • 3 min • Canada

Both a requiem for and an honoring of Canada's First Nations, Métis, and Inuit women, this short film deconstructs the layers of Canadian nationalism. In the process, it reverses the colonial lens by shifting the balance of power to reclaim the Canadian narrative, putting the enduring strength and resilience of Indigenous women at the forefront.

Lou

2015 • 10 min • Canada

As Lou's best friend Clem is about to move away, the boys hatch a plan so they can stay together. A short film about relationships and growing up.

The Pursuit of Endurance

2015 • 52 min • United States of America

100 years after Shackleton's South Pole expedition, a mixed crew of adventurers, sportsmen and scientists trace Shackleton's steps. They visit coast at the pole to sail and walk in the harsh conditions of this hostile and yet beautiful environment.

Jayne Mansfield: La tragédie d'une blonde

2015 • 53 min • France

Não Se Apega, Não

2015 • 45 min

Isabela is a 22-year-old woman who's been in a relationship for two years but sees herself in need of letting go.

A Lizard Under the Skin

2015 • 15 min • Belgium

Ibiza. Bodies on the sand, a warm wind, an eternal sunshine, the chatter of crickets. A child’s eye, a women’s voice. She’s calling her mom, recalling: « Maud, four years old, eczema on the face, knees, arms… »

Mayday

2015 • 12 min

Michel, subject to violent hallucinatory fantasies, must confront the imminence of death during an extradition flight to the United States. He will experience his hallucinations, the judgment of the other passengers, the firmness of the American judicial system, and the stress of an imminent crash all at once. It's all too much for this weak, aging, and disturbed man.

Saved by Language

2015 • 53 min • Bosnia and Herzegovina, United States of America

Can a language save your life? Yes it can, even an ancient one from the 15th century. Saved by Language tells the story of Moris Albahari, a Sephardic Jew from Sarajevo (born 1930), who spoke Ladino/Judeo-Spanish, his mother tongue, to survive the Holocaust. Moris used Ladino to communicate with an Italian Colonel who helped him escape to a Partizan refuge after he ran away from the train taking Yugoslavian Jews to Nazi death camps. By speaking in Ladino to a Spanish-speaking US pilot in 1944 he was able to survive and lead the pilot, along with his American and British colleagues, to a safe Partizan airport.

Caravage - Dans la splendeur des ombres

2015 • 52 min • France

In the Night

2015 • 12 min • United States of America

A.P.'s first night working for a mortuary is more than he bargained for.

Track

2015 • 6 min • Japan

A modern take on Aesop's Fable "The Frog and The Scorpion".

Portraits of Mosquito Press

2015 • 55 min • Philippines

The documentary about the history and struggle for Press Freedom of Mosquito Press during the dark days of Marcos dictatorship.

Böszörményi út

2015 • 2 min

Short, personal and poetic documentary etude

Dara Ó Briain Meets Stephen Hawking

2015 • 45 min

Since he was a teenager, Dara O Briain has been fascinated with professor Stephen Hawking, the world's most celebrated scientist. In this special film, Dara spends time with his boyhood hero as he attends the world premiere of The Theory of Everything, the movie made about his life, and then at Professor Hawking's home and place of work in Cambridge.

Louis Malle, le rebelle

2015 • 56 min • France