All Films

Haida Gwaii: Restoring the Balance

2015 • 20 min • Canada

The conflict over forestry operations on Lyell Island in 1985 was a major milestone in the history of the re-emergence of the Haida Nation. It was a turning point for the Haida and management of their natural resources.

Burn Burn Burn

2015 • 7 min • Denmark

A movie that aims to deliver a simple message about the dangers of solar use, designed as an 80s horror teen movie directed by Christian E. Christiansen for the benefit of Kræftens Bekæmpelse and the TrygFondens Sluk Solariet campaign in 2015.

I Pity the Tool

2015 • 40 min • United States of America

TV pilot for a DIY home improvement show by Mr. T.

Fuck Buddies

2015 • 20 min • Canada

Platonic room-mates Joseph and Ellie try to 'keep it casual' when they find themselves manipulated by an otherworldly force to begin having sex with each other.

Sir Alex Ferguson: Secrets of Success

2015 • 59 min • United Kingdom

A look at Sir Alex Ferguson's guide to succeed at leading after his 26 year career as Manchester United's manager.

The Sun Has Died

2015 • 19 min • Denmark

A young woman is terrorized while working the night shift, cleaning a remote kindergarten, in this intense first-person horror film.

Lacandón. El origen de los aluxes

2015 • 1 min • Mexico

Nights at the jungles are filled with sounds, songs and laughs from the aluxes, some creatures that escaped from heaven. They can't be exposed at light, so as soon as the sun hides, they insist on building pyramids trying to get closer to where they came from.

Curricán

2015 • 15 min • Spain, United Kingdom

Xan Currican guides us through the streets of Vilanova de Arousa, a village full of picturesque portraits and endless epiphanies.

Hades

2015 • 15 min • Austria, Germany

A woman is caught in an endless dream in which she has to cross the five rivers of Hades.

Sappho: Love and Life on Lesbos

2015 • 60 min • United Kingdom

Papyrology expert Margaret Mountford goes in search of the truth behind the legend of Sappho, the most controversial writer of the ancient world and the first authentic woman’s voice in Western history. The mysterious discovery of a lost papyrus containing the words to songs unheard for 1700 years sends Margaret on a journey to discover the truth about Sappho. Was she indeed the first lesbian, a priestess, sex worker, a stern schoolmistress or an aristocratic lady of leisure as readers over the centuries have variously alleged? We ask how each generation’s view of the archetypal liberated woman of letters tells us as much about us and our fears as it does about her.

Jonas and the Sea

2015 • 11 min • Netherlands

A boy casts aside everything in pursuit of his dream, a quest we all share: the quest to find a place he can call home, even if it's underwater. He loves to swim with fishes and builds an ingenious machine to be able to dive.

The Spa

2015 • 8 min • Australia

When retiree Don declares he no longer wants the new spa he’s just ordered, Ivan the deliveryman suspects there’s more to the story than Don is willing to admit.

Spring Thaw

2015 • 45 min

A carnival gypsy seeks revenge for her husband's murder.

The Man of My Life

2015 • 26 min • France

When Alice sees Eric kissing another girl, she is devastated. To make matters worse, her rival runs with her in the same relay team. If Marie thinks that she is going to get away lightly after stealing Eric, she is mistaken. Alice might only be thirteen, but there are two things that she is sure of: she can run faster than Marie and Eric is the man of her life.

Jackie Coogan: The First Child Star

2015 • 20 min

Documentary taking a look at the career of Jackie Coogan who was considered the first child star.

Seven Others Me

2015 • 31 min • Russia

Alexandra meets her birthday with her family. Today, only the closest people are around. Why is it usually the most difficult with them?

Intercom

2015 • 24 min • Russia

The protagonist of the film - a pensioner, in the life of which brings a variety of new intercom. He becomes for her something like a second TV. This fantastic story is really about how an old person is often closer and more familiar to the past than the present, in which there are many new and frightening things. Of course, one must live in the present, but when given the chance to look one place to where you once were happy - why not ...

Churchill: 100 Days That Saved Britain

2015 • 47 min • United Kingdom

Churchill: 100 Days That Saved Britain brings to life letters, diaries, speeches and personal testimony to depict the months of May, June and July 1940. This was a period when France was collapsing, the Nazis had the Allies on the run, the British Army was being defeated at Dunkirk, and - at any moment - Britain faced invasion by Hitler’s troops.

Swallows

2015 • 15 min • Portugal, United Kingdom

Sara moved to London to find a job in graphic design, but she's stuck in a restaurant kitchen. Today, after one more rejection, she starts facing her failures and the reality of her life. Torn between her Portuguese roots and the need to make her own path, Sara finds herself on the edge of change.

Rosie O'Donnell: A Heartfelt Stand Up

2015 • 59 min

Rosie O'Donnell speaks straight from--and to--the heart in this stand-up special that delivers hilarious anecdotes about her family and details about the heart attack that changed her life. Other topics include: the headaches and joys of raising five children; her continued infatuation with Barbra Streisand; her second chance at romance; and everything in between.

Projections of America

2015 • 52 min • United States of America

Academy Award-winning screenwriter Robert Riskin headed up a secret film unit that sought to redefine America in the eyes of the world during the darkest days of World War II. The filmmakers created powerful short documentaries that showed America's strength not through images of tanks, but in portraits of farmers, school children and window washers. The "Projections of America" films were brilliant, moving portraits of America that were unlike any films ever made before, but seventy years later they are forgotten, hidden away in government archives.

The Pearl Whale

2015 • 7 min

A grandfather tells his granddaughter a fanciful fishing story but her mother disapproves of him filling her daughter's head with tall tales.

Yussef is Complicated

2015 • 19 min

Surly and silent, Yussef cuts a lonely figure at school, isolated from staff and pupils alike. But when a vicious schoolyard fight leaves a boy severely injured and Yussef on the brink of expulsion, his one ally and friend, long suffering teacher Emily Robson, is summoned to a crisis meeting to decide what to do with this aggressive outcast. The next day, she sets the class an assignment; 'the day that changed my life'.

Quit

2015 • 24 min • United States of America

Four childhood friends, now in their thirties, come together for a funeral and, over the course of a long night of drinking and fighting, make an agreement that will change their lives forever.