All Films

140 Drams

2014 • 18 min

the story of a young boy who must go to the store by himself for the first time. Things get complicated when the 140 Dram his mother gave him for milk are not enough, and he has to make a difficult choice.

Le Ciné-Club Universitaire de Dijon

2014 • 35 min • France

Le Ciné-Club Universitaire de Dijon is the recording of this radio programme - a first for Gérard Courant - which allows him to talk about some of the films that are close to his heart: The Death of Maria Malibran by Werner Schroeter, La Cicatrice intérieure by Philippe Garrel, Hotel Monterey and Jeanne Dielman 23 quai du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles by Chantal Akerman, La Chinoise (The Chinese) by Jean-Luc Godard, Né by Jacques Richard.

Don’t Touch with Dirty Hands

2014 • 52 min • Macedonia

A documentary about Tanas Lulovski, a Macedonian painter and a refugee from the Civil War in Greece.

Cairo Year Zero

2014 • 25 min

In the culminating months before the 2011 Egyptian Revolution, four young friends spend a casual evening roaming their native Cairo before an unexpected altercation fatefully transforms one of them into an unlikely revolutionary symbol.

The Drive

2014 • 6 min • Ireland

An unhappy mother struggles to connect with her infant daughter.

Stevie's Trek to the Holy Land: Messiah's Promise

2014 • 31 min

Have you ever wanted to float on the Sea of Galilee and see where Jesus grew up and where He performed His miracles? Well, Stevie is in the land of the Bible to find out!

Mustang Jeans

2014 • 8 min • Germany

The work draws an abstract image of a human that has internalized the images and stories of the world of advertising. A woman is sitting in front of a camera telling a story about an experience she had. Even though she is able to describe the events in great detail, the story also seems to be unlikely or implausible.

Stevie's Trek to the Holy Land: The Throne of David

2014 • 32 min

Have you ever wanted to be a hero or wondered what it would be like to walk in a realm with giants? Well, Stevie is in the land of the Bible to find out!

The Jitterbugs: Pioneers of the Jit

2014 • 60 min

A one-of-a-kind documentary highlighting the founders of Detroit's leading dance legacy: the Jit. Combining historical footage and exclusive interviews, get a glimpse of the Jitterbugs' past, career, and how a key contemporary is carrying the torch, featuring a bonus instructional on Jit steps and style.

Midnight Muse Milestones in Music Las Vegas

2014 • 57 min • United States of America

The story of the musicians behind the biggest stars on the Las Vegas strip back in their days.

Door 11

2014 • 14 min • Costa Rica

Alvaro is the best psychiatrist in the country, and he has been called to see a very particular patient behind door 11.

Zhila

2014 • 20 min • Iran

Zhila takes Zeinab and Zahra to a wise woman because of their congenital disorder.

Sex: M

2014 • 23 min

When Lucas was seen as a girl named Laura, he always wanted to be a boy. Now he is one. This candid documentary follows Lucas Waldron, a 21 year-old man transitioning from female to male, as he negotiates what it means to be transgender after years of struggling to identify himself. Told through personal interviews, old photos, and footage, SEX: M seeks to explain what the T in LGBT really means.

Bekendor

2014 • 30 min • Ukraine

The film features the special world of the Bekendor fishing village of Bessarabian wine lands, Odesa region, Ukraine, with its daily joys and concerns, calm life and courageous characters, real human virtues and daily struggle with the sea.

Devilry 8: Tiburon!

2014 • 14 min • Ukraine

Massacre on the beach. To stop the monster, Hand and Captain go on a sea hunt.

Confession

2014 • 22 min • Ukraine

Volodymyr Kalnenko is a freelance artist-painter who was recognized in St. Petersburg, had a wide circle of communication, money, and a workshop. After returning to Ukraine, everything changed dramatically. The artist faces great challenges. After all, every creator is thin-skinned before the gray everyday life. The hero involuntarily confesses, having come to the conclusion that while God allows painting, it is necessary.

Panorama

2014 • 7 min

Panorama is the first chapter of a trilogy about the city. A review of a polis extended over an infinite space without uninhabited places or borders to take refuge. A landscape without readmission for the excluded, like imaginary worlds in search of balance.

The Hill

2014 • 23 min • Czech Republic, Romania

The short documentary gives a glimpse into the life of one of the last very isolated and archaic settlements in the Romanian mountains. It is a portrait of a place where life has a different meaning and time has another pace. In a world that is more and more driven by fast gains by any means, the Hill and its people appear to be one of the last enclaves hidden from time, where man has still a deep connection to nature, his land and animals. Life is simple and rough, the land is imposing its own rules, but people preserve a sense of freedom and serenity almost forgotten by the modern man.

The Voice

2014 • 16 min • Ukraine

To rejoice or to suffer, to live or to die, to go mad or to be happy? And what will the Voice tell you?

Teacher of German

2014 • 28 min • Ukraine

The film is a memoir of a boy who was 10 years old during the Nazi occupation. The war stole his childhood from him forever, but he left one brief meeting as a memory. A meeting with a German soldier, a teacher, a worthy son of his people, whose noble deed became a great victory in his personal war against fascism.

Tenderness

2014 • 19 min • Ukraine

A look at young lovers and their delicate relationship. And about making a hard choice between the life of your lover of the life of an elderly neighbour.

Shattered Memories

2014 • 10 min • United States of America

What happens when you are possessed? What happens in your mind?

Barquito

2014 • 12 min • Argentina

The coastal geography is crossed by a number of streams, tributaries, streams and basins. Some furrow, imperceptible, the cities and towns. Silently, these springs meander below the cities and since unthinkable times have been living witnesses of history, a transport of feelings and desires and an essential source of inspiration for many artists.

Regulado

2014 • 23 min • Guinea-Bissau

Filipa César, in her films and installations, explores the post-colonial constellations that were spawned by the recent history of Portugal. Since 2011, her research is focused on the film production in Guinea-Bissau, the beginnings of which were closely linked to the struggle for liberation. In February 2014, in Birbam, about three hours north of the capital Bissau, for the period of three weeks she has been documenting, together with the filmmaker Suleimane Biai, the construction of a house that will serve the surrounding villages as a meeting space. Alongside his work as a filmmaker, Suleimane Biai is the régulo in this region and hence has assumed the duties of the head and conciliator of the community.