All Films

3 Variations on Ofelia

2015 • 15 min

Ofelia visits a coffee shop where she recalls all her life.

Playing the Tiger

2015 • 25 min • Croatia

Two people with wildly different views on where they currently stand in their potential relationship meet each other for dinner. Will they really turn out to be soulmates or will they both come out of this randez vous unsatisfied with the results?

Journey to Space

2015 • 42 min • United States of America

A sweeping overview of humanity’s accomplishments in space, as well as our ongoing activities and future plans.

The Ultraman

2015 • 10 min • Japan

In the spring of 1975, peace returned to the universe once more. But then members of the Ultra Brothers started being murdered by someone, one by one. The perpetrator was Jackal the Demonic Space Overlord. Just when it seemed all hope was lost, a mysterious warrior wearing a suit of armor that obscured his identity appeared from the heavens…

Parasit

2015 • 11 min • Switzerland

A woman is chained to a factory rooftop. A man offers to rescue her. Things are not always what they seem.

Lords of Riga

2015 • 26 min • Latvia

Lords of Riga allows to see an insight into a passionate subculture of bike couriers. Weaving their way through the urban traffic, they have become silent and sometimes unnoticed witnesses of everyday life in Riga as well as examples of our modern-day society. What is freedom to this bunch of rebellious messengers and where it ends?

Sayonara, Elverum

2015 • 36 min • Japan, Norway

Uncertain of what to expect, Team Me, a band from the small town Elverum in Norway, are travelling to Tokyo to play their first gig in Japan. They’ve gotten a Japanese label and they’re debut album has already sold thousands of copies. At the same time, Aiko, a girl from Osaka, starts her journey - a 10 hour busride to see the band she has fallen in love with. Her biggest dream is to meet the band and tell her how much they mean to her. To do that she has practiced the Norwegian language.

Pa-Pa

2015 • 24 min • Latvia

A father who has just been released from prison strives to reconnect with his son. Good intentions are hindered by unexpected obstacles. An unforgettable day spent by the two together might turn into the very last day for one of them.

Adventure Time Forever

2015 • 16 min • United States of America

This a fun behind-the-scenes featurette that looks back on the creation and continuing popularity of the show. Several members of the crew discuss the production's early difficulties, finding the series' tone, the growing fandom, and the show's unique appeal to all ages.

Cosmos Laundromat

2015 • 12 min • Netherlands

On a desolate island, a suicidal sheep named Franck meets his fate…in the form of a quirky salesman named Victor, who offers him the gift of a lifetime. The gift is many lifetimes, actually, in many different worlds – each lasting just a few minutes. In the sequel to the pilot, Franck will find a new reason to live…in the form of a bewitching female adventurer named Tara, who awakens his long-lost lust for life. But can Franck keep up with her?

Buñuel en el laberinto de las tortugas

2015 • 19 min • Spain

Spain, 1932. Spanish filmmaker Luis Buñuel travels to the region of Las Hurdes, in Extremadura, where he shoots his third film, a very critical and later controversial documentary about the living conditions of the poor peasants, abandoned and forgotten by the national authorities.

Inside the Dead

2015 • 9 min

Chip Higgins takes his award winning investigative journalism inside the world of the dead at necromancer Trudy Whitfield's annual Halloween party. This year, the ghosts are particularly excited to meet celebrity guest, James Dean. But not everything turns out as expected.

Tigers Tied Up in One Rope

2015 • 8 min • France

A very lazy boy, whose mother can no longer stand watching him sleeping and eating all day long, decides to set to work, revealing unsuspected powers of imagination, invention, and perseverance.

Survivors Rowe

2015 • 30 min • United States of America

For almost two decades, the Anglican Priest Ralph Rowe sexually abused First Nation boys in the north during his days as an Anglican minister. Though the true number will never be known, the documentary reports that Rowe molested as many as 500 children throughout northwestern Ontario.

We're Still Here: Johnny Cash's Bitter Tears Revisited

2015 • 54 min

The story behind Johnny Cash's lost Native American-themed concept album and his unique collaboration with folk artist Peter Lafarge. The film also chronicles the reimagining of Cash's highly controversial 1964 record on its 50th anniversary, as recorded at Nashville's historic Sound Emporium Studios. Based on Antonino D'Ambrosio's book "A Heartbeat and a Guitar: Johnny Cash and the Making of Bitter Tears."

Sister Hell

2015 • 15 min • Norway

A reclusive nun is tempted to leave the monastery. Her dream is to become a curvy, voluptuous woman; to become how she really feels inside. With cautious steps, she ventures towards the sinful city.

Warning Labels

2015 • 14 min • United States of America

Two workers for the Center For Disease Control meet for drinks, only to discover that love is the most hazardous thing of all.

White Night

2015 • 40 min • Macedonia

2 August 1903, on a night of the revolution, Manoil, the only son of a bourgeois family decides to go to the battle. His father and his wife want to stop him!

Chasing Red

2015 • 57 min

Everyone has heard of Pamplona's Running of the Bulls, yet so few know much about it. Even fewer know that there is an elite group of runners who brave dozens of bull runs each year, risking their life to run inches away from the sharp horns of the 1000+ pound ferocious animals they revere. Chasing Red is a character-driven documentary following 4 runners across the eight bull runs of a single fiesta in Pamplona. Braving through injury and looming risk of death, they embark on an endeavor that will shape their lives forever.

Mother Virgin No More

2015 • 7 min • Turkey

As an unexpected truth about a young women gets revealed to her mother, the basic fact that a mother - daughter relationship is supposed to be based on unconditional love will have to be questioned.

Stairway

2015 • 17 min • Slovenia

When you are away from an environment which evokes intense memories, especially if those are memories from your childhood, your imagination makes that environment larger and more beautiful. When you return to the place you craved for, you are often disappointed - that room is not all that nice and big, that street is empty or rainy, etc.

Backstage

2015 • 11 min • Spain

There's nothing you can't tell your mother.

Beyond Repair

2015 • 37 min

Beyond Repair explores how the past shapes people's lives and how all of us struggle - perhaps for our entire lives - to come to some of understanding of that influence. Rockaway and Coney Island, beautiful history-haunted neighborhoods, serve as the backdrop for the story of Mary and Eddie Lynott, a brother and sister, who share troubled childhood memories.

The Radical Expeditions of Walter Boudreau

2015 • 4 min • Canada

This micro-epic short film is an inspired tribute to visionary avant-garde composer Walter Boudreau: his life, work, mischief, and boundless artistic curiosity. Both a documentary biopic and a wildly abstract hallucination, the film conceives of Walter Boudreau as a radical explorer, struggling against the inert mass of the cosmos, charting bold new paths of artistic freedom and audaciously expanding the frontiers of our known musical universe.