All Films

The Starlight Heist

2015 • 20 min

It's 1949. Marco Dejardin (36) is a waiter at the bustling Starlight Room. He’s handsome, funny, and compassionate. But he lets people walk all over him. All Marco really wants is to marry Elizabeth and create a life together. But he has crippling numbness and stabbing pain in his hands from a degenerative condition. He’s been putting away for a surgery to save the use of his hands, and storing the cash in the company safe. But when Marco needs the money, his bosses can’t pay him out. They’re overextended and need the loot to pay the mob. So aided by his fiancé, Marco decides to rob the safe during the New Year’s Eve party, and take back his surgery fund. Otherwise, he’ll become permanently crippled when his bosses use his savings to pay off the mob.

The Night Ocean

2015 • 12 min • Spain

A house anchored to the coast. An artist on vacation. An isolated dreamscape. The unnameable is to come.

Civic Dignity

2015 • 4 min • Spain

Zacarias has entered the ethical cabin E-22, regulated by the Ministry of Civic Dignity.

The Voice

2015 • 17 min • Canada

Edgar works in a pig slaughterhouse. He loves opera and he loves Ginette, the stripper of his dreams. Edgar is about to ask her to marry him when he surprises her bedding her boss. In shock, he loses his voice and unfortunately finds himself with the voice of a pig.

I Write

2015 • 29 min • Norway

In this documentary we meet a group of people at the age between 72 and 100 years who attend writing courses, led by professional writers. What happens when the elderly get room to speak, write and discuss?

Summer's Tail

2015 • 39 min • South Korea

A small village in an island. Juyeon whose mom left her only cares about her best friend-Kyunghee. One day, a transfer student-Soyoung moves to her village and everything begins to be changed.

Old Fashioned: The Story of the Wisconsin Supper Club

2015 • 51 min • United States of America

Supper club restaurants were the hot dinning trend in the mid twentieth century. They provided a place for people to spend their evenings enjoying cocktails, home cooked, high quality food and entertainment. The supper club scene slowly faded from the rest of the country, but kept a strong hold in Wisconsin due to a culture that allowed it to thrive. Around for decades, supper clubs in Wisconsin have been able to hold their own style and traditions. While chain restaurants continue to expand and threaten their future, supper clubs are fighting to survive while continuing to offer the same exceptional dinning experience and a personal touch that is not seen in the modern lifestyle of dine and dash. Old Fashioned: The Story of the Wisconsin Supper Club takes you into this uniquely Wisconsin institution.

Black Tongue

2015 • 18 min • France

Erwan is a young man from Brittany, a sailor and worker at the shipyard. He goes out with Clara. After cheating on her, he develops a strange form of guilt.

Return to Nostalgia

2015 • 53 min • Malaysia

Local filmmaker Woo Ming Jin and his crew traversed across Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore to find 'Seruan Merdeka' (1947) - the first film made in Malaya post-WWII, and also the first film in the history of Malaysian cinema to feature a biracial cast of Malays and Chinese. While tracking the film's whereabouts, Woo met many locals along the way, whom he interviewed in an effort to find out more about the country's history.

Mother Earth

2015 • 10 min • United States of America

Part of the Life's Work series. Mother Earth is a portrait of Louise Pentz, a production potter turned feminist sculptor.

Bunny Ears

2015 • 5 min • United States of America

Ryan makes his dreams come true.

Junk

2015 • 5 min • Uruguay

In a post-apocalyptic world, a humanoid robot creates a dog out of spare parts.

Spark

2015 • 11 min • United States of America

A robot from the future travels back in time to 1983 in order to kill the young boy who will grow up to invent the Internet.

Quelques Secondes

2015 • 16 min • France

The daily life of five young women living in a Paris hosting center. All haunted by their heavy past (rape, violence, abandonment...), they try to move forward... except one.

Daughters of Mother India

2015 • 45 min • India

This film examines how the fatal 2012 rape of a medical student has spurred India to start changing attitudes and laws about gender-based violence.

Fine Line

2015 • 6 min • Brazil, China, Czech Republic

A young boy takes his baby brother out for a stroll in the park, where he finds his friends playing soccer.

The Typist

2015 • 8 min

From the archives of the “queer Smithsonian,” San Francisco’s GLBT Historical Society, comes the forgotten history of a gay Korean War veteran tasked with writing the military discharges of outed gay seamen. The Typist details a conflicted clerk’s participation in discrimination and his divided allegiance to homosexuality and heroism.

Ibuseki Yoruni

2015 • 10 min • Japan

A revolutionary new prime minister liberates Japan and carries out policies he promised to the voters of Japan.

Från Haverö till Osaka

2015 • 58 min • Sweden

An exciting meeting between film & music. The film takes us on a musical journey that begins in the small village of Haverö in Västernorrland. Folk musician Göran Månsson goes with the band Mittfolk to Japan to spread his folk music. This will be an exciting meeting where two worlds are set against each other and where music is the common denominator.

Algum Lugar no Recreio

2015 • 22 min

In the corners of the school, hidden dramas that the playground promotes and conceals: Lucas and Daniel prepare a bomb; Nicolas and Jaqueline kiss to hide their real desires; Carvalho tries to control his impulses after repeated insults; Alice needs clean urine to cover her secret; and Luiza just wants to find her place.

Across the Tracks

2015 • 15 min

Tara and Ella Hines are sisters living very different lives. Tara is a big city architect with a fighting spirit that has brought her great success. Ella, a few years younger, never left the hometown of their youth and has been the primary caretaker of the family. Estranged for 40 years, they are brought together finally with the death of their mother. Through a series of flashbacks, their childhood in rural 1960s Georgia unfolds. The "Coloreds only" bathroom and side entrance to shops. The train tracks that separated the town by skin color. We see them navigate this world full of inferiority and bullying, ultimately leading to Ella's decision to become white. As the sisters lay their mother to rest, the past rises up to meet them and we're finally shown the moment that tore their family apart.

Dark Side of Crocs

2015 • 50 min

Nile crocodiles, one of the most impressive creatures in the world, live in groups in African rivers. Water comes and goes in the wilds of Africa and while all animals need access to water, few can call the river home.

Michael McIntyre's Easter Night at the Coliseum

2015 • 60 min • United Kingdom

The UK's top comedian Michael McIntyre hosts a jam-packed night of entertainment and variety from London's largest theatre, the stunning Coliseum. In this Easter special, Michael presents the world's leading comedians, music superstars and jaw-dropping speciality acts as well as his own record-breaking comic talents. Michael says: "When I heard the BBC were making a show called Michael McIntyre's Easter Night At The Coliseum, I knew I had to be involved. The London Coliseum is a truly magnificent theatre and I will be hosting an array of talent befitting this magnificent venue. This will be a true variety show for all the family to enjoy. I can't wait..."

The Family Portrait

2015 • 13 min • United Kingdom

Michael is determined to reconnect with his wife and daughter over a family dinner but his chilling past may hinder the once 'loving family'.