All Films

The Trophy Thief

2015 • 15 min

Ben is a young soccer player who believes that winning his team's MVP trophy will solve his family problems. When he misses out on the award, he takes matters into his own hands.

The Rooster

2015 • 20 min • Russia

After the death of Anya's lover she has no reason to live. Suddenly she comes across a rooster who is a spitting image of her late lover. She decides to build a proper romantic relationship with this rooster in spite of that everything and everyone are against it.

Smog Journeys

2015 • 7 min • China

Jia Zhangke's short film for Greenpeace East Asia depicts the effects of air pollution in northeast China, a region frequently blanketed in dangerous levels of air pollution. 'Smog Journeys' traces two families from two different backgrounds; one a mining family in Hebei province, and the other a trendy middle class family in Beijing. Both face a similar fate. Air pollution is one of China's most pressing environmental and health issues. Greenpeace calls for a shift from coal to clean renewable energy, as well as short term measures that better safeguard people's health.

Club Penguin Halloween Panic!

2015 • 22 min

Happy Halloween from Club Penguin! Everyone is in the spirit for Halloween treats, except for master- prankster Blizzard who feels that tricks are the treat. After ruining his friends' Haunted Igloo attraction with his latest prank, Blizzard befriends a smart-aleck specter named Polter-Gus. The pranking pals accidentally unleash a swarm of unfriendly ghosts who terrorize the island! Can Blizzard convince his friends to trust him and stop the ghoulish gang from turning everyone on Club Penguin Island into gruesome ghosts?

Dinner Party

2015 • 6 min

A spoof on the nature of the dinner party and the confessions people make when hosting and thanking their friends.

Himouto! Umaru-chan: Umaru-chan One More Time!

2015 • 23 min • Japan

Unaired special of “Himouto! Umaru-chan” included with the manga’s seventh compiled volume. After being tempted by a pillow on the television shopping channel, Umaru has a dream reminding her to appreciate the pillow she has. The next day, Umaru goes with Sylphnford to the convenience store where she tries to win a lottery prize. Later, Umaru and Taihei go wild at a yakiniku restaurant, unaware that Nana is at the next table over. At the start of October, Umaru and Kirie get into the Halloween spirit early, dressing up in costume and trying various pumpkin-based snacks. Afterwards, Umaru decides to fake a fever in order to skip school, only to be overcome by guilt.

You Can't Put Your Arms Around A Memory

2015 • 20 min • United States of America

Charlie, a socially inept young man, compulsively confesses every detail of his anti-social behavior to his mother, Hazel, with whom he still lives in Harlem. When his mother asks him to finally move out of her apartment, Charlie is forced to confront his greatest fears - losing his only life witness and living in a world without his only friend and confidante.

Man and Wife

2015 • 26 min • South Korea

Bureau of Proto Society

2015 • 7 min • Japan

In the far distant future… Humans are living in the underground shelters under the complete controlled situation. “Why has the world gone to ruin, and what have made humans stay in the shelters?” Every day the members of Bureau of Proto Society debate the cause of the fall of the world from the past documentary videos… probably.

L'appareil de la Destruction

2015 • 18 min • Canada

The Apparatus of Destruction recounts Olivier’s downward psychedelic spiral, that evening of October 31st.

Double Cross

2015 • 8 min • United Kingdom

Cocky young con-artists, Jenn and George have been making all the right moves, breaking the law, and having fun doing it. But one night after making suspiciously light work of a heavy score, they find themselves crossing the line into dangerous territory... in more ways than one... DOUBLE CROSS is a five minute crime caper about two con artists who bite off more than they can chew.

Schoolcraft

2015 • 15 min • United States of America

Based on the true story of Adrian Schoolcraft, a young NYPD beat cop secretly records audio files that expose a culture of corruption within his precinct.

Vostok

2015 • 14 min • Spain

Early 60s. The Vostok programme was a Soviet human spaceflight project to put the first Soviet citizens into low Earth orbit.

A New Color: The Art of Being Edythe Boone

2015 • 57 min • United States of America

Celebrated muralist Edythe Boone uses buildings as canvases to convey her stories of pain, perseverance and hope in an effort to raise awareness about the ongoing and necessary struggles for racial justice and gender equality. The artist is at work restoring the San Francisco Women’s Building mural 'Maestrapeace" and helping middle school children and senior citizens paint their own murals.

Even Red Can Be Sad

2015 • 59 min • India

This film explores various aspects of litterateur and painter Ram Kumar's personality by structuring the film around his stories and paintings, traveling between fragments of his past, present, fiction and imagery. It strives of etch out the synthesis of word and image in Ram Kumar's creations, presenting it as a portrait of the artist himself. The text used in the film is from various short stories by Ram Kumar.

Everstar

2015 • 22 min • United States of America

When Ainslie Wickett accidentally receives an intergalactic SOS from a lighthouse in Maine, she and her best friend are brought aboard a rogue spaceship called the Everstar. After defending the ship from pirates, Ainslie unwittingly embarks on a journey across the universe where she and her crew encounter alien civilizations, uncover the mysteries of the Everstar, and search for a way back to Earth.

Jeff Ross Roasts Criminals: Live at Brazos County Jail

2015 • 51 min • United States of America

Jeff gives the most dangerous – and enlightening – roast of his life from behind the walls of the Brazos County Jail in Bryan, Texas. In this special he touches on topics surrounding incarceration such as race, solitary confinement and the death penalty.

Fallen Bird

2015 • 10 min • Ireland

While serving a sentence for assault in Wheatfield Prison, young prisoner Eric Boylan began channeling his anger and frustration into one of his childhood passions: painting. Now that he’s been released, Eric has set out to pursue a career in fine art - while attempting to navigate the challenges of life as an ex-prisoner.

Hear Me Now

2015 • 52 min

A documentary that candidly examines school bullying and how it can be dealt with, told by those who experienced it first hand.

Housewitch

2015 • 7 min • United States of America

When a neglected wife is left all alone in the new house she thinks is haunted, she's in for a change!

Behind the Magic: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

2015 • 40 min

The story of the rocky road that Walt Disney took to get his interpretation of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" (1937) to the silver screen.

Verbatim: Follow the Chicken

2015 • 6 min

This is a dramatization of a deposition given by a chicken farmer in the destruction of his chicken pasture. The chicken farmer goes off on a rant that everyone has to see.

Don't Hug Me I'm Scared 5

2015 • 7 min • United Kingdom

The two remaining puppets learn about eating healthy, but things go awry when they receive a mysterious phone call.

Black Cat

2015 • 3 min • Japan

It consists of only woman who keeps caressing a resisting cat.