All Films

Tarim the Brave Against the Thousand and One Effects

2015 • 19 min • France

As he is going to save a princess imprisoned in the dungeon of an evil sorcerer, Tarim understands that he is the main character of a movie, and decides to fight against the special effects.

Shopping

2015 • 10 min

An obsessive shopper is confronted by a store manager.

The Network

2015 • 59 min

The documentary follows and underground benevolent network of people who are buying chemotherapy drugs abroad and transporting them to Romanian patients, since in Romania chemotherapy drugs are not available.

What If..

2015 • 18 min • Latvia, Switzerland

1991, Riga Latvia. Lena, a child of divorced parents, escapes from home in the middle of the night when she is fed up with her fathers drinking habits. That's when her journey back home begins.

Been Too Long at the Fair

2015 • 7 min • United States of America

The Fair theater in Jackson Heights, Queens is one of the oldest continually running gay establishments in New York City. A loyal patron of the Fair tells the history of this gay porno theater and how it has managed to stay open while all the other gay porno theaters in New York City shut down. The narrator recalls the sexual encounters he had there over the last 35 years.

Kurt Vonnegut’s Indianapolis: A Writer’s Roots

2015 • 59 min • United States of America

He was one of the best-selling authors of the 20th Century. His books became movies. His writings became music. He became an icon. He was Kurt Vonnegut. First, though, he was just a kid from Indianapolis, whose early idyllic life turned tragic. Things got tougher in World War II, when he was captured by the Germans and survived the Dresden firebombing. He overcame all of that to become a literary lion who was both proud of--and frustrated with--his hometown. But as his friend Morley Safer said, he never lost his Hoosier roots. Narrated by NPR Anchor Steve Inskeep, A Writer's Roots talks with Kurt's family and friends, including his daughter, Nan Vonnegut, and fellow writers Morley Safer, Dan Wakefield and James Alexander Thom.

Echolocations: Canyon

2015 • 9 min • United States of America

Recorded in the Coyote Gulch canyons of Utah, Echolocations: Canyon is first in a series of short films and recordings which document site specific compositions performed by Andrew Bird in exceptional natural and urban environments. A Companion piece to Bird's instrumental album of the same name.

One-minded

2015 • 20 min

Shenanigans occur in an apartment shared by two Korean women as one of them brings home a man that she picked up in a club and two thieves invade the place. Meanwhile, a fan oscillates and observes.

Si

2015 • 10 min

Si, a temperamental 6 year old, gets a goldfish from her parents after begging for a puppy.

Minor Guilty

2015 • 22 min • Russia

After the divorce Mariyana returns to his native village. With her no one communicates, except for a new neighbor - a mysterious woman in a Muslim scarf.

Bank Robber's Serenade

2015 • 23 min • France

A gangster has fallen head-over-heels in love with a cashier and holds up the bank regularly so that he can see her. He decides to take the plunge and kidnap his sweetheart, in order to reveal his love for her. His clumsy declaration in his balaclava is a far cry from the traditional candle-lit dinner...

Antigone

2015 • 27 min • Russia

Diploma work of the Kabardino-Balkar State University (Alexander Sokurov's workshop)

Momentum

2015 • 16 min • Finland

In Finland, a small child is waiting for his time to begin. His heart is broken. A major heart surgery is expected. There is a fight against time. The boys parents are wandering in the corridors of the hospital. The heart is stopped during the surgery operation. Le Locle, a village in Switzerland acts as the heart of watch industry. Narrow streets of the village carry vital parts to watches and nowdays also into human bodies, for example pacemakers. Village is formed as a big factory line and appears as a time-twisting machine. There pieces are refined and workers hands turns the time on and off.

Incredible frogs

2015 • 50 min

Over the millennia, amphibians both large and small have dominated the Earth. Today, there are over 5000 different species of frog inhabiting all corners of the globe, from the tropical jungles, and dark swamps, to the desert wastelands, and frozen tundra.

Blackout: John Burris Speaks

2015 • 2 min

American civil rights attorney John Burris lends his sonorous voice to "An Oversimplification of Her Beauty" director Terence Nance’s imaginative and moving (and brilliantly edited) anti-police-brutality video in support of the non-violent Blackout Black Friday protest.

Danson

2015 • 13 min • Serbia

Danson is seducing Neven's girlfriend, taking over Neven's apartment, and gaining control over Neven's entire world, while Neven is powerless to do anything about it.

Les vacances continuent

2015 • 3 min • France

Rose (Kate Moran) performs a series of gruesome acts on sleazy men.

Amazing Grace

2015 • 20 min • Canada

Montreal, December 31, 1933. Inside the storefront window of the grand Ogilvy store, a young worker watches passersby with envy. Tonight, she has nowhere to go. When the store closes, she finds herself outside admiring a party in a neighboring house. She notices a young man. In spite of the cold, she doesn’t move, looking at the young man, and she is softly swept away into a world of dreams.

Pombo Loves You

2015 • 12 min • United Kingdom

A distant father is forced to confront a heroic but troubled past life as '80s TV character Pombo.

Little Bear

2015 • 12 min • Ireland

A short story of friendship and Imagination.

Boa Alma

2015 • 40 min • Portugal

Luís Mário Lopes wrote the solo A Boa Alma for Mónica Calle in 2015, based on the works of Bertolt Brecht marking the departure of Casa Conveniente from Cais do Sodré and their arrival in the new venue in zona J, Chelas. The original score is by JP Simões.

Doolittle's Raiders: A Final Toast

2015 • 60 min • United States of America

A detailed look at the Doolittle Raid, and the final official public reunion of the surviving Raiders.

Frames

2015 • 3 min

A nearsighted young man finds his identity and true love through a pair of prescription glasses.

Never Steady, Never Still

2015 • 18 min • Canada

A troubled young man is driven back to his childhood home by a horrible mistake — and discovers that he is not alone in his struggle. Never Steady, Never Still is a thundering whisper that beautifully captures the solace of family and home.