All Films

The Secret

2015 • 10 min

The Secret is a film about the themes of isolation and frustration, told through the experience of a teenage boy during what appears to be a normal day at school. The film begins with the familiar and routine start of a school day - a school bus pulls up, feet march to class, books are placed on desks. For David, his late arrival distinguishes him from the others, a distinction that frustratingly continues in class as his teacher and classmates appear to ignore him. Young Rosie offers David some clues and tells him of a secret that he must figure out for himself. She warns him of sinister others who might try to prevent him finding out. His frustrations reach boiling point before David comes face to face with his darkest imaginings. As he flees the school in fear he finally realizes the true horror of the secret.

Neverland Now

2015 • 19 min • Germany

With her reckless behavior art student Kalina (21) provokes her fellow students, her teachers and sometimes even her only friend Ruth (24). Kalina convinces Ruth take a spontaneous trip to Portugal the next day and they euphorically head out to celebrate their plan. After a half-hearted attempt to steal a car they end up on a big student party. When Ruth voices doubts about the planned trip, the night takes an unexpected turn.

Fuck Work

2015 • 13 min • Germany

Identity and performance, resistance and submission, and monotony and quiet rage crash into one another in this clear-eyed vision of a lesbian working as a professional dominatrix with a police officer as a regular client.

Best Friends

2015 • 27 min

Ferry and Robert have been best friends since the beginning of their life's. Robert slowly changes into a zombie after he gets himself into trouble. The big question is: is their friendship strong enough to last?

The 7/7 Bombing: Survivors Stories

2015 • 60 min • United Kingdom

On Thursday 7th July 2005 four suicide bombers struck in Central London. Within an hour 52 people were killed and 770 wounded in an attack that brought London to a standstill. On the tenth anniversary of the 7/7 attacks, this documentary recounts the events of that day, paying tribute to the bravery of survivors and rescuers and commemorating those who lost their lives.

As If We Were Somebody Else

2015 • 24 min • Germany

15-year-old Nike is torn between her wish of belonging to the cool clique around her friend Jess and individual autonomy, which to her is represented by her new friend Lea. When she takes Lea along to a party she does not know how to react to the competing friends - resulting in her not reacting at all. - The film deals with mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion the disorientation of young girls, whose identities are rather theatrically claimed then actually realized – a Brechtian teen drama.

Strange Alloy

2015 • 2 min

An experimental pessimistic short film about humanity. An extraterrestrial and poetic reflection on the sources of the collapse of humanity.

White Elephants

2015 • 15 min • Ukraine

An adaptation of Hemingway's story "White Elephants". The action takes place on a godforsaken old train station in the middle of beautiful Ukrainian mountains. We are witnessing the most difficult conversation in the lives of a man and a woman who are trying to justify their difficult decision and attempting to save the relationship.

The Cat and the Mouse

2015 • 13 min • Russia

The story of an unusual and touching friendship between a cat and a mouse.

Joanna Lumley: Elvis and Me

2015 • 60 min

Joanna Lumley travels to the USA to follow in the King of Rock 'n' Roll's footsteps.

Sweet Thirteen

2015 • 44 min • France

A year in the life of Imane. A fictional process in which we are both filming. Her with his mobile phone, me with a camera.

Maggie's Problem

2015 • 30 min

A young woman cannot contain her sinister desires, as love reaches the darkest depths of the ocean and enchants a swamp man-beast from the dawn of time. Maybe she’s twisted maybe she’s troubled! What ever she is, Maggie has a problem!

Of Shadows and Wings

2015 • 13 min • France, Switzerland

In a society where the greatest concern is the size and power of one’s wings, nihilist Ciobeck tries to protect Moann. But how can one survive in a barren land populated by imprisoned-mind people?

Sea Devil

2015 • 9 min • United States of America

An American fisherman attempts to smuggle two Cuban immigrants into Miami, passing them off as day laborers. While the group trawls for shrimp, a fourth person boards the boat, carrying a secret at the bottom of the Ocean.

The Great Zoo of Mr. Vanel

2015 • 20 min • France

At Vanel's zoo, there is Rafael, Ludovic and the elegant Mr. Vanel. There is also Philippe, the little monkey, and a very discreet panda, not to mention the Dutch tourists. When Marthe, the young and inexperienced accountant arrives to save the zoo's finances, she has no idea of the strange world she is entering into. That's because Mr. Vanel's zoo is not exactly an ordinary zoo.

A & E: When Patients Attack

2015 • 43 min • United Kingdom

Hospital staff are reporting more violence and anti-social behaviour than ever before. In 2015, 8 staff were assaulted every hour – a new record high. At The Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham – one of the UK’s biggest hospitals – they think they have the answer. Here a private security force of 46 uniformed guards, and a sophisticated CCTV system, keep staff and patients safe. A colourful mixture of characters ranging from ex-soldiers, to bouncers, to former elite sportsmen, it’s the security team’s job to keep the hospital running smoothly. With more than 2 million visitors they have to deal with all aspects of crime and anti-social behaviour. All against a back drop of life changing and life saving procedures.

DZIDZIO: I'm going to my mom

2015 • 14 min • Ukraine

The events unfold in the hometown of Dzidzio, Lesyk and Yulik - Novoyavorivsk. Everyone has long known that Dzidzio's mother went to Portugal to work 15 years ago and stayed there to live. They communicated only via Skype and phone, but until now they have not seen each other in person, because they did not have such an opportunity. Lesyk and Yulik invent rumors and make fun of Dzidzio that his mother decided to marry a Portuguese man. Dzidzio is not happy about this and wants to go to his mother to find out if it is true. The guys have a very timely real opportunity to visit Galina's mother in Portugal through a local trader-speculator nicknamed "Rambo" who often travels abroad and knows exactly where Dzidzio's mother lives. But for help, he asks to do a favor in exchange.

Hypothetically Murdered

2015 • 51 min • Russia

In 1931 Shostakovich wrote a full-length score for the Leningrad Music Hall, for a show that involved many of the leading entertainers of the day, as well as dancing girls, a jazz band, a dancing dog, sequences of silent film, simulated air-raids and gas attacks, a lorry, a storm, waiters and waitresses in a luxury restaurant, river nymphs and even a scene in Heaven with the Devil, the Twelve Apostles, the Archangel Gabriel and all the other angels doing a blasphemous knees-up. The show was naturally a momentary scandal and the score soon disappeared. In 1991 Gerard McBurney reconstructed from the surviving sketches a sequence of 21 of the orchestral numbers to make a hilarious sequence of gallops, saucy polkas, marches and schmoozy waltzes.

2,000 Tattoos, 40 Piercings and a Pickled Ear

2015 • 60 min • United Kingdom

Featuring three bodyshockers as they prepare for difficult moments in their lives

Alarm Clock Kid

2015 • 13 min • United Kingdom

An 11 year old boy has a small enterprise waking various people up in the morning in very personalised and bizarre fashions.

Erlking

2015 • 6 min • Switzerland

A father is riding with his son through the forest. The sick child thinks he sees the Erlking, who both charms and frightens him. Based on Goethe's poem "Erlkönig" and the music of Franz Schubert and Franz Liszt.

King Kong vs. Prometheus

2015 • 21 min

Bryan Frankenstein, the son of the infamous Dr. Victor Frankenstein, uses a newly built machine to bring King Kong back from the dead. But when an unexpected lightning bolt revives the beast instead, Bryan must bring to life a new and powerful monster to hopefully destroy Kong in what is sure to be a fight to the death.

Rehearsals

2015 • 10 min • Sweden

Rehearsals is about experiences of listening in collective work. How do we listen to experiences we have not shared ourselves? What does it sound like when we talk? What actually is listening and who are "we"?

Une Libération

2015 • 16 min

On the eve of the liberation of Paris from Nazi occupation during World War Two, Juliet, a female American resistance member, risks her life by descending into the underground tunnels of Paris to deliver a secret message. However, a final deadly encounter with a pair of German deserters threatens to destroy the very thing she has been fighting for.