All Films

Kombat Kids: Mortal Kombat Begins

2015 • 25 min

Kombat Kids is Mortal Kombat meets Muppet Babies, with a helping of South Park. It tells the heartwarming (and ripping) story of how Kombat began and features fan favorite characters like Scorpion, Liu Kang, Johnny Cage and Kitana.

The Last Lennon Interview

2015 • 23 min

Two days before John Lennon was shot, British journalist Andy Peebles did a long radio interview with Lennon and Yoko Ono, and now explains what happened.

Present Imperfect

2015 • 16 min • Argentina

It's Martin's Birthday. A confusing gift will make him wonder how the rest of the people see him.

Vanja - Born in Pain

2015 • 56 min • Macedonia

A documentary about the life and career of Vanja Lazarova, the greatest female performer of Macedonian traditional songs, the first Macedonian singer to record phonograms for PHILIPS, and the only Macedonian singer to perform in front of Queen Elizabeth the Second and Sir Winston Churchill at the Royal Albert Hall.

Alistair's Wednesday

2015 • 17 min

Alistair Jones, a twenty-something hypochondriac fears she may be suffering from mental illness when the rash spreading on her back can be seen by no one.

The Thing in the Apartment

2015 • 11 min • United States of America

There's something in Lindsay's apartment...

The Sound of Traditional Toys

2015 • 13 min • Indonesia

A group of elementary school children are playing a traditional game called "pletokkan" (traditional gun) on the empty field. They are shooting each other. One by one they fall dead, leaving behind two people who both do not want to lose.

Star Wars: Evolution of the Lightsaber Duel

2015 • 23 min • United States of America

Though lightsabers have been a force in the Star Wars galaxy since George Lucas’ original film, the weapon’s on-screen presence evolved throughout both cinematic trilogies and into Star Wars: The Force Awakens. SportsCenter is tracing the lightsaber’s lineage through the films, and a new trailer for the special will definitely delight any fan’s inner Star Wars Kid.

The Modern Adventure

2015 • 4 min

Short film about the excitement of modern living.

Cannibal Clown Killer

2015 • 14 min

Cannibal Clown Killer is an 80's style post-apocalyptic landscape where half the earth's population has been killed off by a bacteria which contaminated gluten food filler and MSG products. Of those who did not die they awoke to a new nightmare, half the survivors had been turned into man-eating mad clowns hell-bent on consuming the world. In the dawn of this new world filled with blood, horrors, and painted faces a single female warrior has emerged. With a blade at her back, this nameless hero tracks across this wilderness saving those she can while on her quest for the clown that killed her parents. Happy Jack.

The Kiss Which Seeks Me

2015 • 4 min • Spain

Alma regrets not having touched the person she loves, but nevertheless, maybe that was the best thing. If they were together, the kiss that she seeks would have been lost. In the short film, the image narrates some facts and the sounds illustrate others – two possible paths from a gesture that changes everything. By image: Alma dared to speak with Duna, they started a relationship, they were together. But after a while they argue and separate. Alma ends alone. By sound: Alma regrets not having dared to speak with Duna, believing that they had been together forever. Alma still has the memory of Duna in her memory, but one day she meets a person who really loves her.

Lux

2015 • 11 min • Portugal

Pedro is a solitary writer who decides to embark upon an imaginary disorientation in order to get to the central idea for his next novel.

I Wanted a War

2015 • 10 min

Milan, Italy, now. Ray is at his favorite bar, where he waits for his friends, Scarpa and Il Divo. Ray is celebrating his 70th birthday, but the bartender – as anyone else in the world – does not care at all. Scarpa and Il Divo – both 70 years old – arrive. They have a special present for Ray. And a plan. The present is a gun, the plan is to go to Rome and achieve something epic, something everybody will talk about.

Sol Branco

2015 • 22 min • France, Portugal

Eight-year-old Selena wakes up from a strange dream. She searches in a wooden trunk and finds her Snow White disguise. She is bored to death with her cousin in their vacation home in Portugal. While their older cousin tans in the garden, they sneak up and steal a donkey to go swimming at the dam. When they stop at a cemetery on the way, Selena sees the silhouette of an old lady in black, just like in her dream. She gets scared and then runs away, alone in the forest.

Pedra que Samba

2015 • 9 min • Brazil

Rehearsal on a roda de samba, event that takes place every week at Pedra do Sal. A tour of the African Heritage circuit in the region of the old port of Rio de Janeiro. A slave's voice evokes the past. Buildings are demolished. The city never tires of reinventing itself. Remain the people. And the samba.

Think of Me

2015 • 8 min

A young boy imagines visiting his sister to deal with her loss.

Voices of Midway

2015 • 14 min

A multimedia original film production commissioned by the USS Midway Museum in San Diego, focusing on the young men who sailed and flew into the teeth of the Japanese Navy.

Travelling

2015 • 24 min

Travelling is a violation of the rules when a player holding the ball moves one or both feet illegally. Fifteen-year-old Justyna, trying to escape her mom's life, falls into a fascination with the new neighbor. A short and intense relationship will push her to grow up quickly.

The Diary of Anne Frank: A Tale of Two Sisters

2015 • 46 min • United Kingdom

Filmed in Netherlands and London this special commemorates 70 years since Anne Frank's death. With unique interviews with Anne's step sister, Eva Schloss and Gillian Walnes, a survivor from Auschwitz who now runs the Anne Frank Trust in the UK and Ronald Leopold, the Director of the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam. In 1933, the Nazis rose to power. Five years later, in 1938, Eva Schloss remembers the Nazis marching on Austria and then she and her family fleeing and settling in Amsterdam the same year. They found they were in the same residential square as the Franks with their young daughter, Anne. Anne and Eva found a bond from the shared experience of being displaced by the Nazis.

Insect Inside

2015 • 10 min • United States of America

A man becomes host to insidious house guests. Inspired by "The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka.

A Christmas Carol

2015 • 59 min

When the miserly Ebeneezer Scrooge receives ghostly visitations one fateful Christmas Eve, he is shown the error of his ways.

Adam & Howa

2015 • 9 min

A young rickshaw driver haunted by his past finds inspiration.

Tig Notaro: Boyish Girl Interrupted

2015 • 55 min • United States of America

Known for her distinctive storytelling and offbeat sense of humor, Tig Notaro often draws on her highly personal experiences with no-holds-barred honesty. Over the course of her one-hour show, Notaro tells stories about a number of subjects, including: the search for the perfect Santa Claus; her favorite laugh noises; bringing her fiancée to meet her Mississippi family; TSA screening; flying in small planes; unusual public signs; and more.

Who Sounds Gay?

2015 • 6 min • United States of America

This short documentary as part of the New York Times' Op-Doc Series explores the reasons some men sound stereotypically gay, whether they are or not.