All Films

LilyMoon

2015 • 25 min • Hong Kong

Art imitates life in this charming short about the fictional actress LilyMoon. With a chance encounter and a lost autobiographical manuscript, a bartender becomes acquainted with the retired screen star. Their friendship blossoms as LilyMoon reminisces about her past including her life as a sought-after actor, non-existent childhood and memories of first love. Eventually, the young and well-meaning bartender helps to relieve LilyMoon's pent-up feelings of sadness and encourages her to meet a long-lost lover.

Picnic

2015 • 13 min • Croatia

Sarajevo, rush hour. Emir (15), accompanied by a social worker, is on his way to meet his father Safet for a weekend picnic at Igman, a semi-open penitentiary. Due to the heavy traffic they are late...

Empty Spaces

2015 • 18 min

A family of young 'chavs' and their mother unleash their anger in a clash over a parking space.

Unmade Bed

2015 • 11 min

It's a quiet morning and a middle-aged woman is lying on the bed, watching her sleeping husband's back.

Batman: The Bloody Valentine

2015 • 4 min

Short film exploring the twisted relationship between the Batman and the Joker.

Råggywood: Vi ska bli rappare

2015 • 60 min • Sweden

The homeless brothers Brouk and Bile finds a place to stay with the mean dad Johan. Now they have to find jobs to pay the rent in one week. The easiest way seems to become rappers.

Bird's Lament

2015 • 14 min • France

One day, Jeanne enters a record store and falls in love with Moondog.

Iconic Field

2015 • 8 min • Japan

People of a star similar to Earth's built civilizations on the ground of various places, like our world. They were led to the global war by evolving forces of science. But in this star, there is a secret that even residents don't know.

In Sheep's Clothing: The Ryan Guevara Story

2015 • 11 min • United States of America

In Sheep's Clothing chronicles the friendship of Ryan Guevara and Jake Winter, the foundation of Bush Wagon Productions, and Ryan's slippery descent into the unknown horrors of life after he's attacked by a mysterious force.

Ave Maria

2015 • 15 min • Germany, Palestinian Territory, France

The silent routine of 5 Nuns living in the West Bank wilderness is disturbed when an Israeli settler family breaks down right outside the convent just as the Sabbath comes into effect.

The Russian Sleep Experiment

2015 • 29 min

Russian researchers funded by the Soviet Union during WWII are testing an expirimental gas on subjects deemed enemies of the state. The experimental gas is meant to eliminate the need for sleep, but all goes wrong as the gas has unexpected effects on the subjects.

On the Roof

2015 • 11 min • Spain

A group of Spanish boys take advantage of a high roof to ogle a sunbathing woman, but the presence of an adjacent male nude complicates matters.

Mainsqueeze

2015 • 8 min

A compelling mix of attraction and repulsion, Mainsqueeze is entirely composed of footage found online, surfing the deep web.

CIA Covert Experiments

2015 • 55 min • France

It is August 1951 and an entire French village goes crazy. People are screaming in the streets and throwing themselves out of windows. 300 people are affected and 7 end up dead. Wild theories start circulating to explain the tragedy. 60 years later declassified documents from the United States reveal that the CIA conducted experiments on unsuspecting citizens.

The Satanic Thicket - Two

2015 • 30 min • Germany

Anna is milking the cows, Jakob smokes pot, Berni works on a telescope and Ulrike celebrates her birthday. So far, everything is fine in Otto's farm. When Ulrike's coffee cup breaks on the kitchen floor, something dark breaks loose. Sometimes the devil has to take the hindmost.

Copsi

2015 • 22 min • Iran

A young couple have problems in their marriage.

Men in Suits

2015 • 56 min • Romania, United States of America

Adventures of a Low Budget Hollywood Film Director at war with his Movie funding failures.

Edge of the Woods

2015 • 17 min

Pif, Behind the gimmicks

2015 • 52 min • France

Taking stock of the extraordinary adventure of "Pif Gadget", a French publishing phenomenon of the 1970s-80s and even of the whole history of children's press. For the comic-strip magazine with the iconic dog, created in 1969 by the French Communist Party, often reached a million copies. With editions available for all of Europe (including Germany, under the title Yps), and on both sides of the Iron Curtain.

Absent

2015 • 13 min • Germany

Winter in a big city. Thirty-year-old Klara arrives home with a random guy that she has just met. Both are drunk, they are giggling, having fun. But there is someone else in the apartment: Anton (9) catches them having sex. The next morning, Anton is gone.

Kihniö

2015 • 52 min • Finland

Director Saija Mäki-Nevala was born in Kihniö but moved away as soon as it became possible. The village road with few buildings, and faces that were all to familiar to her, wasn’t enough. The real life and the possibilities of achieving dreams seemed to be somewhere else. After 18 years she goes back to look at Kihniö. She observes the ex-home village with feelings between love and foreignness. Is Kihniö more than its inhabitants? Is Kihniö just a name for the roots which we can’t either choose or forget? This observational documentary is a portrait of silent village, but the main role still belongs to its people. They are proud of living in a safe place where they all know each other. The most important goals in life are to have a permanent job and to own a house. When they achieve those things and can have their family around, everything is just fine. You don’t need anything else.

În care eroina se ascunde și apoi are parte de o întâlnire neașteptată

2015 • 19 min • Romania

One stressful morning, like every other morning, Cristina suddenly stops in the doorway. She is unable to take the step that would lead her out of the house.

Amélia & Duarte

2015 • 9 min • Germany, Portugal

In this story we are guided through the relationship of Amelia and Duarte, two people that felt out of love and are trying to cope with the feelings that come after a relationship has ended.

The Law of the Jungle

2015 • 6 min • France

A clever little monkey remembers to keep his wits about him when the bigger monkeys encroach on his bounty of bananas.