All Films

Games on the Battlefield

2015 • 54 min • France

Built on archive footage – much of it previously unseen – this film reveals one of the most unexpected legacies of the First World War -- popular participation in sports, once the realm of the elite. For four years, sport represented a welcome respite from the killing fields of Europe.

Visions

2015 • 5 min

In split screen we see both a utopian and a dystopian day in the life of a girl called Sam.

Blight

2015 • 10 min • Ireland

A young priest is sent to battle dark supernatural forces threatening a remote Island community.

The Girl and the Typhoons

2015 • 52 min • France

French actress Marion Cotillard travelled to the Philippines to meet with children and young people on climate change and what they want big-polluting governments to do about it. One of the girls she met is Marinel, a survivor of the Super Typhoon disaster in the Philippines in 2013, who is taking action on climate change in her own community. She participates in Plan International’s climate change adaptation projects and now teaches at youth camps to pass on everything she has learnt to the younger children. Marinel travelled to Paris with Plan International for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) 21st Conference of the Parties (COP21) in December 2015.

Tap Shoes & Violins

2015 • 20 min

When two unlucky in love 20 somethings meet at a coffee shop and neither ask for the others number, they return home realizing that they met someone special and set out to find each other once again.

Big Bad World

2015 • 13 min • Australia

Two teenage girls skip school for an afternoon sampling the vices of adulthood and experience a loss of innocence.

Krampus

2015 • 13 min • United States of America

A couple spends their first Christmas together, but their holiday is threatened when a dark secret is revealed.

See You Once Again

2015 • 14 min • Hong Kong

It was the time when thousands of families left Hong Kong to look for a ‘better future’. After almost 20 years of separation, here comes the reunion dinner for a father and his daughter. The awkward distance between the two make them seem like strangers, but deep in their hearts hide their missing for each other. Memories intertwined with the present, both of them know that what really matters is your beloved ones are all well.

Clean Sex

2015 • 13 min • Mexico

Mariana has an obsessive cleaning habit. After starting a troubled relationship with Enrique. She must accept that sex is dirty and impulsive.

Our Broken Heart

2015 • 11 min • Sweden, United Kingdom

A story about a broken heart.

Naked As You Came

2015 • 27 min

A film about endless love, relationship and arguments between two young homosexual men. They seem to be the happiest couple in the world but...

700 Days with Ryuichi Sakamoto

2015 • 50 min • Japan

Mirror Man

2015 • 22 min • Latvia

Budding lawyer Vik is disappointed in himself. He tries to change and please everyone until he loses sight of himself. Vik meets the mysterious Mirror Man who offers to help him regain his self-esteem and become the kind of person Vik dreams of becoming. Vik agrees, but the Mirror Man at times leaves Vik in situations where he surprises others not just by his new-found self-confidence, but also by insolence that causes a rift with his closest friends. Soon the Mirror Men in Vik’s life are too many to control, and when he tries to back away – it’s too late.

None

2015 • 4 min

NONE is a short film that explores the balance of light and darkness. It has a personal narrative which plays with the notion of finding yourself amidst the noise around you.

Queen: From Rags to Rhapsody

2015 • 60 min

To mark the 40th anniversary of Bohemian Rhapsody, this documentary digs deep into archive to tell the story of Queen as it follows their journey from a struggling band gigging at pubs and colleges to the moment they captured the UK's hearts and minds with what was to become one of - if not the - greatest song of all time. Queen's formative years have never been explored in such detail. With a wealth of unseen interviews, recently unearthed rushes of Queen's first ever video and outtakes from the recording sessions of Bohemian Rhapsody itself, this is the unique story of early Queen, told by the band themselves. This documentary completes the final part of the trilogy alongside Days of Our Lives and Freddie Mercury: The Great Pretender. It's simple. It's real. It's raw. It's what happened.

The Manners of Downton Abbey

2015 • 54 min • United Kingdom

Detailing the daily lives, responsibilities, and dress of the upper class, Alastair Bruce, historical Downton Abbey advisor, takes us on a journey through 1900s Britain.

Every 90s Commercial Ever

2015 • 2 min

Liquid Slam's ad campaign for their "Big Game" line of snacks and sugary beverages was pulled almost immediately.

Birdman

2015 • 13 min • United Kingdom

A portrait of Robert, a troubled but poetic soul struggling with his purgatorial existence in a hackney scrapyard.

Bus Stop

2015 • 11 min

He just lost his job. She just got dumped. These two strangers meet at a bus stop right when they needed each other the most. In an impromptu attempt to cheer each other up they go on an tour of his home town however before the tour is over reality bumps into them.

Hacker's Birthday Bash: 30 Years of Children's BBC

2015 • 58 min • United Kingdom

It's 30 years since CBBC started airing short links between shows. To celebrate, Hacker has brought together the finest presenters, past, present and even a new one, to reminisce and laugh at a few bloopers.

Absence

2015 • 3 min • United Kingdom

Absence offers a snapshot of a man mourning someone very close to him, and over the course of the film we get some clues as to the sinister cause of his grief.

Dear Director

2015 • 15 min • Sweden

During the summer of 1980, the American jazz concert pianist Kazzrie Jaxen writes a 16 pages long letter to director Ingmar Bergman. His film 'From the Life of the Marionettes' have sent her on a dramatic inner journey, making her realize that she is not alone in her own body.

F.f.p.

2015 • 2 min • United States of America

Controversial photographer and filmmaker Richard Kern’s ode to podophilia, aka foot fetishism.

Lose Your Mask, Lose Yourself

2015 • 12 min • United States of America

An aging Luchador finds himself behind a computer working in a cube. His successful wife helps him find his way.