All Films

Sol Branco

2015 • 22 min • France, Portugal

Eight-year-old Selena wakes up from a strange dream. She searches in a wooden trunk and finds her Snow White disguise. She is bored to death with her cousin in their vacation home in Portugal. While their older cousin tans in the garden, they sneak up and steal a donkey to go swimming at the dam. When they stop at a cemetery on the way, Selena sees the silhouette of an old lady in black, just like in her dream. She gets scared and then runs away, alone in the forest.

Pedra que Samba

2015 • 9 min • Brazil

Rehearsal on a roda de samba, event that takes place every week at Pedra do Sal. A tour of the African Heritage circuit in the region of the old port of Rio de Janeiro. A slave's voice evokes the past. Buildings are demolished. The city never tires of reinventing itself. Remain the people. And the samba.

Think of Me

2015 • 8 min

A young boy imagines visiting his sister to deal with her loss.

Voices of Midway

2015 • 14 min

A multimedia original film production commissioned by the USS Midway Museum in San Diego, focusing on the young men who sailed and flew into the teeth of the Japanese Navy.

Travelling

2015 • 24 min

Travelling is a violation of the rules when a player holding the ball moves one or both feet illegally. Fifteen-year-old Justyna, trying to escape her mom's life, falls into a fascination with the new neighbor. A short and intense relationship will push her to grow up quickly.

The Diary of Anne Frank: A Tale of Two Sisters

2015 • 46 min • United Kingdom

Filmed in Netherlands and London this special commemorates 70 years since Anne Frank's death. With unique interviews with Anne's step sister, Eva Schloss and Gillian Walnes, a survivor from Auschwitz who now runs the Anne Frank Trust in the UK and Ronald Leopold, the Director of the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam. In 1933, the Nazis rose to power. Five years later, in 1938, Eva Schloss remembers the Nazis marching on Austria and then she and her family fleeing and settling in Amsterdam the same year. They found they were in the same residential square as the Franks with their young daughter, Anne. Anne and Eva found a bond from the shared experience of being displaced by the Nazis.

Insect Inside

2015 • 10 min • United States of America

A man becomes host to insidious house guests. Inspired by "The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka.

A Christmas Carol

2015 • 59 min

When the miserly Ebeneezer Scrooge receives ghostly visitations one fateful Christmas Eve, he is shown the error of his ways.

Adam & Howa

2015 • 9 min

A young rickshaw driver haunted by his past finds inspiration.

Tig Notaro: Boyish Girl Interrupted

2015 • 55 min • United States of America

Known for her distinctive storytelling and offbeat sense of humor, Tig Notaro often draws on her highly personal experiences with no-holds-barred honesty. Over the course of her one-hour show, Notaro tells stories about a number of subjects, including: the search for the perfect Santa Claus; her favorite laugh noises; bringing her fiancée to meet her Mississippi family; TSA screening; flying in small planes; unusual public signs; and more.

Who Sounds Gay?

2015 • 6 min • United States of America

This short documentary as part of the New York Times' Op-Doc Series explores the reasons some men sound stereotypically gay, whether they are or not.

Margarita’s Choice

2015 • 16 min • Russia

The rhythm of the life of the heroine, a young girl named Margarita, is completely in tune with the rhythm of the city road: three colors - green, yellow and red - three senses - three persons of one person - three stages of one life. Margarita lives a turning point in the history: a stage of choice. Fifteen minutes that will become key in her life: she abruptly changes her life - she breaks the habitual relationship for the sake of obscurity. He risks everything for the sake of a dubious jackpot. The margarita loses love and finds it again, but will it escape from loneliness and emptiness? And what is the meaning in a world that denies any meaning?

Boglárka

2015 • 21 min • Hungary

An unlikely hero sets off to save the beautiful Boglárka from the dragon who kidnapped her.

1913: Seeds of Conflict

2015 • 55 min • United States of America

Explore an overlooked moment in pre-WWI Palestine when people's identities overlapped, and Jewish, Muslim, and Christian communities intermingled freely. Few could contemplate the conflict that would engulf their region for the next century.

Miss Zahra

2015 • 28 min • Finland, Turkey

Seppo, a forestry machine driver, receives an email from a mysterious woman called Miss Zahra, telling him about her money problems. Although his close friends claim the letter is a hoax, Seppo decides to follow his love abroad and save his heart for the chosen one.

Remaining Lives

2015 • 18 min

A young Romanian immigrant who recently moved to Montreal with her mother misses home, and soon realizes that her life will not be going back to the way things were.

Young Man on the Bar Masturbating with Rage and Nerve

2015 • 21 min • Mexico

Dance and prostitution play the same role for Cristhian’s body. Virtuosity, desire, technique, and sex intertwine, granting coherence to a way of life that offers many answers to few questions. A leitmotiv that reconciles opposites and contradictions. Answers that are sometimes painful, like all truths.

El dorado de Ford

2015 • 15 min • Argentina

An experienced fisherman is hired to try to find something that, apparently, is simply a fantasy installed in society.

The Tale of Creepy Wallace

2015 • 6 min • United Kingdom

A narrator tells the story of a man, Ed who finds himself with an unexpected visit.

Territory

2015 • 17 min • United Kingdom

On the Rock of Gibraltar, a battle is being waged between man and monkey. Barbary macaques have called this place home for centuries, surviving both the Moors and Spaniards and coexisting with the British since the 1700s. Abandoning the gorgeous Mediterranean view is just not a part of their plan. Increasingly though, the macaques are climbing down into town and disturbing the peace as they romp along rooftops in this peculiar British outpost. Recent efforts to keep them in line have involved only feeble peashooters, but Her Majesty’s next coordinated moves might actually make a dent. With a hint of humor, this quiet and beautifully photographed observational film captures the macaques in everyday acts of rebellion and asks us to consider the arbitrary nature of our own territorial tendencies.

Hosanna

2015 • 25 min • South Korea

Hosanna is an ancient cry of jubilation and entreaty, which according to the New Testament, was used by the crowds greeting Jesus when he rode into Jerusalem on a donkey. In a remote village in Korea lives a boy with the power to heal. He can resurrect the dead. And that is exactly what he does. Curing people of death, he gives them back life. However, the new life doesn’t cure them, on the contrary. Rejecting the chance proffered by rebirth, the fighting, killing and murder continue. They punish, spit upon and antagonise the boy. Refusing to be deterred, he goes his own way. The boy and the villagers move about in rigorously framed shots, practically devoid of emotion. There is no cry of jubilation.

Young Flaccid Gonna Die

2015 • 10 min

When naive teen rapper Young Flaccid is shot at an awards show by his nemesis, the washed-up old school rapper Lil' Unkle, he is shocked to wake up in the hospital and find that his record company faked his death in order to sell more posthumous records.

That's My Bus!

2015 • 2 min • United States of America

Bill Russell – a lovable, eccentric father, blissfully in his own world – balances family with his life's work and true passion: driving a city bus.

Raiders, Raptors and Rebels: Behind the Magic of ILM

2015 • 43 min • United States of America

Visual effects company Industrial Light & Magic motivates a generation of filmmakers and scientists; founder George Lucas and others tell about the hoverboards, Terminators and dinosaurs that are no longer the stuff of sci-fi.