All Films

Climate Change: A Horizon Guide

2015 • 60 min • United Kingdom

Dr Helen Czerski delves into the Horizon archive to chart the transformation of a little-known theory into one of the greatest scientific undertakings in history.

Love Me More

2015 • 25 min • Norway

A nine year old boy becomes a dangerous nemesis to his mother's new boyfriend.

Les Bosquets

2015 • 18 min • France

Art and social uproar interweave in this film based on the ballet Les Bosquets of New York City Ballet, inspired by the 2005 French suburb riots. A continuation of JR's Portrait of a Generation, it recalls his experience in the ghetto of Montfermeil using various means of expression and narration: video archives, choreography, and testimony.

Myself: Smoke

2015 • 2 min • Germany

Myself tries to quit smoking.

Savasana

2015 • 10 min • United States of America

A man in the midst of a midlife crisis attempts to sooth his existential concerns by practicing the age old art of yoga.

Wanting

2015 • 6 min • Canada

3 individuals are connected by drugs, addition and control. A crime sets their world in an unspeakable direction.

Botticelli

2015 • 53 min • Germany

Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510) is both a cultural icon and a lasting source of artistic inspiration. His famous female figures, like Venus and Primavera, have become part of our shared visual memory and influence artists worldwide. Berlin director and art historian Grit Lederer explores Botticelli’s life and work, focusing on the Gemäldegalerie’s impressive collection. The film examines how his iconic paintings continue to inspire art and advertising today. Experts reveal what makes his style unique and why his work was forgotten for centuries after his death. Contemporary artists such as French artist Orlan and American Michael Joaquin Grey present works inspired by Botticelli. The documentary traces Botticelli’s enduring impact from Florence through Paris and New York to Berlin.

Prisoner

2015 • 22 min

Trapped behind German lines in the closing months of WWII, an American takes a young German hostage and forces him to lead the way back to safety.

Where Once They Mattered

2015 • 45 min • Canada

Twenty ponies of an endangered breed are facing death from neglect and abandonment. A horse hauling team attempts a cross-continent rescue. It's a huge endeavour. And on the road, anything can happen.

Big Bird

2015 • 10 min • Ireland, Belgium

Big Bird is the story about two underdogs in love finding each other.

Any Virgin Left Alive?

2015 • 9 min • France

According to an English legend, Joan of Arc never died at the stake. Her eyes were seared with hot pokers and she was deflowered by an English stud. She was then sentenced to wander on the battlefields, like a vulture, on the look-out for life and searching for any virgins left alive.

L'art de de s'egarer ou l'image du bonheur

2015 • 46 min

The last day of the life of German Jewish writer and philosopher Walter Benjamin (1892-1940). The director re-routes Walter Benjamin between Cerberus and Port-Bou before his suicide. When we started shooting, the director's camera was stolen. The film incorporates this episode and attempts to reconcile two fates.

Spoetnik

2015 • 11 min • Netherlands

Sam starts working at Spoetnik, a clandestine chips stand named after its specialty. Right across the street is a brothel with an alluring girl who evidently needs Sam’s help.

The Lost Paradise

2015 • 56 min • Germany

He is the most performed contemporary composer in the world. And yet he rarely ventures out in public, prefers to keep quiet about his music, feels at home in the forests of Estonia and generates therewith - perhaps involuntarily - the impression of a recluse, which is attributed to him again and again: Arvo Part. In The Lost Paradise, we follow him over a period of one year in his native Estonia, to Japan and the Vatican. The documentary is framed by the stage production of Adam's Passion, a music theater piece based on the Biblical story of the fall of Adam featuring three key works by Arvo Part. The world-renowned director Robert Wilson has brought this work to the stage in a former submarine factory in Tallinn. Tracing their creative process, the film offers rare and personal insights into the worlds of two of the most fascinating personalities in the international arts and music scene.

Oedipus Complex

2015 • 10 min • United States of America

Oedipus Complex short film.

Green

2015 • 10 min • Netherlands

Absurdistic comedy about a boy who stumbles upon a group of people who are waiting for an ever-lasting red traffic light and refuse to let him pass.

Disturbtion

2015 • 6 min

Disturbtion is a visual exploration of a theme of psychic abilities. It is a story of a real person disturbed by psychic abilities such as afterlife communication, apparition and clairempathy.

Cycoskuzz

2015 • 2 min

The sun is bright, the dirt is sacred and the weed is dry 7,000 feet above sea level. Really dry. And every hit is harsh. Time stands still here. The land is challenging and mankind's presence is sparse. There's a lot of nothing and the vast stretch of space leaves you lonesome. Welcome to The Land of Enchantment: Santa Fe, New Mexico. Population: Who knows? Who cares? Google it. We'll be out in Taos running with the coyotes and lookin' for the jackalope. No gods, no newsfeed.

Mom Died

2015 • 7 min • United States of America

A short film about coping with loss

Club Penguin Monster Beach Party

2015 • 22 min

It’s summer time on Club Penguin Island and resident party planner Jangrah has prepared the perfect “Surf ‘n’ Sno-cone” Beach Party for all of her penguin friends. However, while harvesting ice from a nearby iceberg for the sno-cones, a 65 million year old Megalodon is accidentally released - causing prehistoric pandemonium! It’s up to Jangrah to flip the script and put aside her perfect plans to stop the rampaging Megalodon and save Club Penguin Island!

Slips

2015 • 6 min • United States of America

A hit man arrives at a desert motel looking for his mark only for a series of darkly comedic misunderstandings to unfold.

Audition

2015 • 5 min

When Carson auditions to play a gay character, he has to strip so the directors can see if he's equipped for the part.

Giant Sloth

2015 • 7 min • United States of America

In this existential animated short, Museum curator Gordon Boonewell's world is falling apart and his mind may be following.

Due piedi sinistri

2015 • 5 min • Italy

A few young lads are playing football in the town square when one of them espies a girl nearby. When he asks her to go for an ice cream with them he gets quite a shock!