All Films

I Would Like to Be Enraptured, Muzzled, and on my back Tattooed

2015 • 16 min • Brazil

Silvana is a tired woman. The world no longer belongs to her, the invisible bothers her, the daily life oppresses her. What she wants sometimes is to abandon everything and go back home.

Etlinisigu'niet (Bleed Down)

2015 • 5 min • Canada

Etlinisigu’niet (Bleed Down) is part of Souvenir, a four-film series addressing Indigenous identity and representation by reworking material in the NFB’s archives.

Action Man: Battlefield Casualties

2015 • 3 min • United Kingdom

A Veterans For Peace UK Film challenging the British Army's policy of recruiting 16 year olds into the most dangerous army jobs.

King and the Crook

2015 • 57 min • Norway

How could Gulosten, who was a major criminal during prohibition, and a resistance fighter during WW2, get away with the murder of two Germans in peacetime Norway? And what part did his friend, king Haakon of Norway, play in this?

Mon chéri

2015 • 11 min • Germany

On a hot summer‘s day, lonely Franklin is invited to play with other kids for the first time since moving to a new village. But when the children stumble across a recently moved-in house and observe his mother, things take a drastic turn – and Franklin once again has to play a role that he is not meant for…

The History of the Pit Stop: Gone in Two Seconds

2015 • 45 min • Austria

The mavericks who pioneered the modern pit stop made it a raceday staple that takes less than two seconds.

The Animal Communicator

2015 • 52 min

What if you could talk to animals and have them talk back to you? Anna Breytenbach has dedicated her life to what she calls interspecies communication. She sends detailed messages to animals through pictures and thoughts. She then receives messages of remarkable clarity back from the animals. Anna can feel the scars hidden under a monkeys fur, she can understand the detailed story that is causing a birds trauma, she transforms a deadly snarling leopard into a relaxed content cat – the whole animal kingdom comes alive in a way never seen before – wild birds land on her shoulders, fish gather around her when she swims, and wild unfamiliar baboons lie on her body as if she is one of their own. This is the first full length documentary film on the art of animal communication.

Mary Tyler Moore: A Celebration

2015 • 55 min • United States of America

Not only did Mary Tyler Moore “turn the world on with her smile,” as her show’s theme song declared, she also influenced a generation of women to become more independent and to pursue successful and fulfilling careers. Moore’s own 50-plus-year career has spanned award-winning films and Broadway shows, as well as two beloved television series that broke ground and continue to entertain viewers. ​ This one-hour special includes highlights from a recent interview with Mary Tyler Moore, tributes from her co-stars and clips from iconic moments throughout her career. The program looks at her breakthrough role on The Dick Van Dyke Show, her iconic turn as TV's first independent career woman on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and her Academy Award-nominated work on Ordinary People.

Tex: Wisdom of the Old West

2015 • 7 min • United States of America

Quentin has a problem: one of his neighbors is gradually taking over the community garden, pushing everyone else out and consolidating her claim. His friend Brent is pushing him to confront the offender, but Quentin seeks the wisdom of Tex — a genuine Old West gunslinger who just happens to find himself in the modern era.

Rojer

2015 • 8 min • Indonesia

Perpetual

2015 • 27 min • Denmark

Sebastian explores his sexuality and seeks for sex/love online. He meets Jacob, older and more experienced, who takes him to a sex club. In the new and frightening surroundings Sebastian has his first sexual experience and in their subsequent meetings love sprouts, at least for Sebastian. Outside the darkness of intense togetherness, the reality penetrates.

Arnold the Killer Clown

2015 • 13 min

A group of girls think it would be funny to invite over a clown to make fun of. What they don't anticipate is how he will react to it. It will be deadly.

John Von Neumann: Prophet of the 21st Century

2015 • 52 min • France

Unknown to most, John von Neumann, a Hungarian mathematician, impacted and shaped much of the 20th and 21st centuries. Meet the inspiration for two legendary characters, Dr. Strangelove and HAL.

Invincible Spring

2015 • 14 min • Canada

James, a sensitive young artist, is torn between nostalgia for his childhood and a longing for success in modern society. Modified memories of his lost love as a child are clashed with scenes from his current infatuation with an unfaithful businesswoman.

The Juice Stand

2015 • 7 min • United States of America

Alex makes a business proclamation.

Pangaea

2015 • 8 min • Bosnia and Herzegovina, United Kingdom

Dementia draws a woman into a world of memory loops, losing her love her spirit, her present her past.

Copyleft

2015 • 30 min

Obsessed with a heteronormative identity, Pendro confronts himself with an image that doesn’t represent who he is. On this search performed by him, the marks of violence start appearing all over his vulnerable young body.

Konstantin Koca Popovic

2015 • 51 min • Serbia

Who is Koca Popovic? Artist, poet, surrealist, philosopher, warrior, general, cynic, statesman, spoiled son of a rich man, genius war leader or a bon vivant? A Serb who learned French language before his own, a convinced communist who made fun of the communist dogma, sportsman, vice-president of Yugoslavia who drove to work in his Spacek? Answers to these questions could be: all of this and none of it really. In fact, who is Koca Popovic remains a mystery even today. A mystery that this film will at least try to unravel.

Ragnarok

2015 • 9 min • Japan

The Japanese representative robot, demonstrated at the venue of the International Giant Robot Exhibition in Odaiba, goes out of control due to an unknown cause and destroys buildings around the venue. The police and Japan Self-Defence force cannot stop the robot, and the American and Russian robots are sent out to save the situation along with the request from Japanese government and the exhibition association office.

Goodbye Phnom Penh

2015 • 17 min • Cambodia

Hidden in a hotel in the capital city of Phnom Penh, a young couple spends their final days together before one of them has to return home to her own country.

Soap

2015 • 16 min • United Kingdom

When Sami breaks into a house, he is disturbed by Sophia, the owner of the property, who lures the hot criminal into her bathtub.

On Air

2015 • 21 min • Germany

Two bohemians hijack a live radio show including the moderator and guest, all in order to broadcast their political views. Their intention to better the world takes on a however slightly different spin.

This Is Drag

2015 • 60 min • United States of America

An intimate, behind-the-scenes look at performance, glamor, fame, family, love and sacrifice as some of the world's most renowned drag queens come together for World Pride in Toronto.

The Killer

2015 • 7 min • Chile

Inspired by the Stephen King short story, this short film features a man who wakes up lost and confused in the middle of a place he doesn't recognise. Searching for answers, he makes a mistake he may end up regretting, if he manages to escape alive. The terrible truth he discovers will end up dismantling his entire universe.