All Films

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

Biafra

2015 • 3 min

An unnamed graffiti artist produces a new piece in the biting cold of Minneapolis. Despite the illegality of his medium and the harshness of his environment, the film captures why the artist chooses to create on his own terms.

Kanamewo

2015 • 5 min • Japan

A young, unnamed woman, while biking home from the bank she works at, happens upon a weakened tree goddess whose native shrine is being demolished for construction work. She rescues her and brings the goddess home with her. The two form a relationship, but what will happen to the goddess as the construction progresses?

Ecosexual

2015 • 12 min • Portugal, United Kingdom

Ecosexual is a poetic monologue set in the Portuguese Mediterranean coast in Algarve about loving and making love with nature. It presents the male body as erotic object and as thinking, feeling subject. Through the senses of taste, touch, smell and sight, the protagonist loses himself in a communion with the natural world.

Mars Closer

2015 • 17 min • Germany

In 2024 a private organization plans to send a group of four people to Mars. Paul Leeming and Pauls Irbins are both shortlisted candidates fort the planet's first human settlement. The mission is going to be a one-way trip.

Postwar Poetry: Carol Reed and 'Odd Man Out'

2015 • 16 min • United States of America

Discussion about Carol Reed's 1947 film "Odd Man Out."

Coming Oot! A Fabulous History of Gay Scotland

2015 • 60 min • United Kingdom

A varied history of gay people and Scotland.

House on the Edge of the Planet

2015 • 33 min • Ukraine, United States of America

A child with PTSD struggles in a country and family at war, learning to dream big once again.

Warren Beatty - Mister Hollywood

2015 • 53 min • Netherlands, France

From his first major film role (In the Heat of the Night, 1961) to his most recent film (Bulworth, 1998), he sought and shunned the spotlight with equal fervor. An irresistible embodiment of the American male and a collector of women, actor-producer-screenwriter and ultimately Oscar-winning director Warren Beatty embodies the genius, candor, and excesses of Hollywood.

WillShake

2015 • 17 min • United Kingdom

WillShake is a boy with a trunk of theatrical tricks who likes to tell stories. He embarks on his first journey to share the story of Henry V.