All Films

Delicatessen

2015 • 14 min • Germany

Guest Meier is every restaurant owner's worst nightmare. He behaves like Croesus when dealing with the staff. With his snobby and abusive conduct, Meier even manages to expel other guests from the restaurant. Meier sharply criticizes his ordered food after just a single bite and demands a completely new meal "on the house." The restaurant's chefs Harald and Tim feel their professional honor is grossly insulted. Together with waiter Peter, they discuss how to put this "problematic guest" in his place, working themselves meanwhile into a rage. Will diplomacy triumph over barbarous brutality or is violence sometimes indeed a solution? And what does an instant photo camera have to do with all this?

Queen Nanny

2015 • 59 min • Jamaica

Queen Nanny documents the struggle for freedom by the Jamaican Maroons, led by the indomitable 18th century military genius, Nanny of the Maroons.

Naked Under the Leather

2015 • 22 min • Brazil

She protects her flesh, but the leather starts to fall.

Conversations after Church

2015 • 38 min

Six Christians face a dark night of the soul that leads them to question everything they believe.

Let Me Down Easy

2015 • 15 min • Canada

In a small town where tradition has reigned, adolescents are rounded up and tested in an ultimate deviation. In their twentieth year, the youth are brought to forbidden territory and in one night will be overcome by the darkness of sin.

La variación de López

2015 • 25 min • Argentina

In a remote corner the day comes when López must settle debts with a relentless debt collector. After several failed attempts to comply and when all hope seems lost, an unexpected and tempting proposal arises...

Ozone

2015 • 21 min • Serbia

In a post-apocalyptic near future devastated by global nuclear war, Dastagir, one of the few survivors, fights to regain his lost love and rediscover his humanity. While he fights his way through the ruins of the old world, we start to understand the complicated nature of this simple love story.

Hokusotan 2015 (Action Direct)

2015 • 40 min

Performance by Takashi Makino with music composed by Otomo Yoshihide. A tribute for Teruto Soejima and Masayuki Takayanagi.

The lunch date

2015 • 8 min • South Korea

Lunchtime, Seo-yeon came to the restaurant alone, She ordered naengmyeon, but it's a thousand won short.

The Definition of Lonely

2015 • 14 min

A lonely, socially awkward man meets an outgoing dog owner at a park bench. They make a connection.

Blin Cat

2015 • 2 min • Russia

A video essay about a conversation the director had with a friend about a particular picture of a cat sitting in front of a plate of blins.

Inside Einstein's Mind: The Enigma of Space and Time

2015 • 53 min • United Kingdom

In November 1915, Einstein published his greatest work: General Relativity, the theory that transformed our understanding of nature's laws and the entire history of the cosmos. This documentary tells the story of Einstein's masterpiece, from the simple but powerful ideas at the heart of relativity to the revolution in cosmology still playing out in today's labs, revealing Einstein's brilliance as never before.

The Cowboy of Normandy

2015 • 17 min • France

Jim loves Dany. Accompanied by Billy, an orphan kid, he has to go to his own wedding, but nothing happens like planned since he decided to live like a cowboy.

Michel Serrault, un clown en liberté

2015 • 52 min

Suspendu

2015 • 15 min • France, Switzerland

At dawn, in a great classical dance conservatory, a boy falls while rehearsing some movements. Something breaks in his foot, causing sharp pain. But it's exams day and the boy refuses to quit: he tries to face his dance partner and classmates, convincing himself his body has no limits.

Broker

2015 • 23 min • Netherlands

A solitary organ broker attempts to break free from his life of deadly crime by rescuing a young woman from the ruthless syndicate he does business with.

Eden

2015 • 19 min • Colombia

While playing games on the edge of naivety and vandalism, two teenagers burst into El Edén, a health resort abandoned in the midst of a thick vegetation. They play with a scorpion, with a gun, and swim in the stagnant water of the pool. The frontier between everyday life and violence can be easily crossed.

Antonio Muñoz Molina, the Job of the Writer

2015 • 60 min • Spain

María del Puy Alvarado, through her production company Malvalanda, faced the proposal to produce a documentary about the writer Antonio Muñoz Molina, in one of the programmes offered by Televisión Española to give an account of the great creators of Spanish culture and in Spanish. On this occasion, the approach to the Andalusian writer reveals a rich portrait that comes from the writer's self-reflection who, in many moments, is spurred by the interlocution of his life partner and also writer, Elvira Lindo.

Agente Never

2015 • 5 min • Italy

Iwo Jima: From Combat to Comrades

2015 • 54 min

For the men who fought perhaps the fiercest battle of WWII, seventy years have passed. But the memories of those 36 bloody days on Iwo Jima have not. In the spring of 2015, survivors of both sides of the battle returned for the last time to join a Reunion of Honor — a unique, now-peaceful fellowship first forged of fire and bullets.

Rome's Invisible City

2015 • 59 min • United Kingdom

With the help of a team of experts and the latest in 3-D scanning technology, Alexander Armstrong, along with Dr Michael Scott, explores the hidden underground treasures that made Rome the powerhouse of the ancient world.

My Bolexes

2015 • 4 min

Jonas Mekas shows us the five Bolex cameras that he used to make all his films, 1950-2000. They also helped other filmmakers (Jack Smith, Gregory Markopoulos, Naomi Levine...). "I'm on my fifth Bolex now. They survive for one decade, then the springs retire".

Singularity

2015 • 9 min • United States of America

Singularity is a sci-fi action short film set in the near future about a civil war between humans and sentient androids. The film tells the story of a group of Delta force soldiers who are ambushed by androids as they attempt to rescue the US president.

Kim Jong-un: The Unauthorized Biography

2015 • 54 min • France

A journey through several countries to find those who really know Kim Jong-un, North Korea's leader, in an attempt to profile a contradictory dictator who seems to rule his nation with both disturbing benevolence and cold cruelty while being worshipped as a living god by his subjects in exalted displays of ridiculous fanaticism.