All Films

Kumi and Tulip

2015 • 23 min • Japan

Kumi is a little girl who lives in a world with sparkling metal skyscrapers, and where robots support everything. Kumi's playground is a garden by one of those skyscrapers with a man-made water fountain, artificial vegetation, and digital water and butterflies. Kumi meets an old man who visits the park every day to paint the artificial flowers. The old man tells Kumi of when he discovered a "breathing" tulip sprouting amidst the artificial flowers, and the two decide to watch over the tulip together as it grows. (From ANN)

Two Story

2015 • 5 min

A visual cat-and-mouse game, TWO STORY is a looped video installation that seems to hint that the various people who inevitably come in and out of your life can leave an imprint that will never quite go away.

The Loneliest Stoplight

2015 • 7 min • United States of America

The life and times of a neglected stoplight.

The Last Mango Before the Monsoon

2015 • 19 min • India

Two technicians set up cameras in a forest to capture animal activity at night. A woman moved away from the forest a long time ago. She yearns for her late husband and the forest.

Undivided: The Preston and Steve Experience

2015 • 48 min • United States of America

Told from the point-of-view of a fan, this documentary provides a behind-the-scenes look at morning radio with one show in particular as the centerpiece - The Preston and Steve Show on 93.3FM WMMR in Philadelphia, PA. Taking over a year to shoot, this film includes interviews with the talented air team of Preston and Steve, coverage of their live events and celebrity guests such as Stephen Lynch and Chris Hardwick. Fans of the show are highlighted as Preston and Steve have a wildly devoted fan base that is not afraid to go to extremes to show just how much they love this show.

Babybox

2015 • 9 min • Czech Republic, Finland

In a remote East European town, the evening bells can’t hide the cry of a hungry baby. His father, a street-musician named Baro, is also having a bad day. The social worker is blaming him on being a miserable parent, but Baro refuses to obey the advice of the worker: he definitely won’t put his little one into the BabyBox.

Gambling on Extinction

2015 • 52 min

Today, only 3,200 tigers roam in the wild. At the current rate of poaching, elephants, rhinos and tigers living in the wild will be extinct in our lifetime. Who are the global players in this deadly game of power, greed and profit? Who pulls the strings and who are the customers? And why have ivory and rhino horn become perfect investment opportunities?

Fussa Dancing Animation

2015 • 1 min • Japan

This work was created at the "Ginza Shoeikai Art Festival" event held in June 2014 in Fussa City, Tokyo, as part of a workshop that allowed visitors to experience up-close the rotoscope animation technique. Visitors drew each piece by hand. The complete short film consists of those joined individual sketches.

Joel Hunt: Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)

2015 • 11 min • United States of America

Joel Hunt served as a combat engineer from 1998-2007, with multiple tours in Iraq. While there, he endured more than 15 roadside bombs, and experienced a traumatic brain injury (TBI). Today, with the help of his dog, Barrett, he uses sports to push through the challenges of having a TBI.

God Bless the Creators of Himself

2015 • 6 min • Greece

Nick saw a dream about God's suicide. The day after dream he goes to his work and has a conversation with his boss about that dream.

Karma Police

2015 • 9 min • Australia

An eager-to-please Ticket Inspector struggles with the morality of her job after being given the following ultimatum: fine or be fired!

If I Was God

2015 • 8 min • Canada

While dissecting a frog in Biology class, a 12-year-old boy speculates about what he would do if he were God.

Girls & Boys

2015 • 30 min • Sweden

Sixteen year old Nour is a overly horny dork whose greatest desire is to get rid of virginity. But she cannot even talk to guys, how the heck will she get someone into bed then?

Uncanny Valley

2015 • 9 min • Argentina

In the slums of the future, VR junkies satisfy their violent impulses in online entertainment. An expert player discovers that the line between games and reality is starting to fade away. A glimpse into a future where First Person Shooters have become a new drug for those disillusioned with society. The films examines the consequences of this on the global society.

All About Bolex

2015 • 18 min • United States of America

"I developed a need to try to retain everything I was passing through, by means of my Bolex camera."

Williamsport

2015 • 19 min

An estranged son returns to his hometown and must reconcile with his bitter younger brother to win an annual waffle-eating contest.

Rising Voices/Hótȟaŋiŋpi

2015 • 57 min

Rising Voices is the story about the imminent peril to the Lakota language. It braids together the struggles of Lakota to learn their tribal language today, the historical attempt by the United State to annihilate the language, the rise of immersion language schools, and the participation of outsiders in the rescue of the Lakota language. History is interwoven with present-day short films about the culture, created by Lakota filmmakers and artists.

Student/Athlete

2015 • 14 min • United States of America

Profiling Notre Dame kicker Reggie Ho, who played for one season and helped the team go undefeated in 1988. As a walk-on, Ho received no financial support from the school. He was a pure student-athlete who played for the love of the game and for the love of Notre Dame.

Puma!

2015 • 50 min • Austria, Germany, Norway, United States of America

It is a powerful predator, one of the most elusive animals in Patagonia and rarely filmed. In the very South of Chile the Pumas' hunting grounds lie in the awe-inspiring Torres del Paine National Park, follow a mother Puma as she rears her cubs in the wild, teaching them to survive and thrive.

Value

2015 • 21 min • Russia

The story is about the value of human life. About circumstances that could change everything. The woman psychologist who rescues male ballet dancer while having hard times after broke up.

Nona

2015 • 25 min • Belgium, Canada, United Kingdom

Nona asks "do you love?" and the boy repeats his answer: True love will never die. As a Warden leads "The Boy" to the doctor's office, he explains what has happened on the road during Valentines night.

What the Dog Saw

2015 • 3 min • United Kingdom

All Linda wants to do is sleep but her dog Max won't stop barking. If only she knew what the dog saw…

I'd Rather Not Say

2015 • 11 min

The day begins with an exchange of favours. An interview, a football game, cigarettes after cigarettes. Routine fragments of those who live in an isolated space which labels and conditions life choices.

Foreign Office

2015 • 22 min

Foreign Office focuses on the period during which Algiers – between 1962 and 1972– became the “mecca of revolutionaries”, hosting representations of many liberation movements from Africa, Asia and the Americas, such as Eldridge Cleaverʼs International Section of the Black Panther Party, Mandelaʼs ANC, or the PAlGC (African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde) founded by Amilcar Cabral. Taking as a starting point this forgotten past of post-independence era and internationalism, Foreign Office, invites to reflect on history and its transmission, and on emancipation as essentially linked to poetry. The film shows two young Algerians “re-writing” this history through images, language, and orality, articulating an historiography defined by “cinematic montage” as well as by translation as forms of writing, investigating, and reflecting on history and its resonances.