All Films

CBeebies Prom: From the Royal Albert Hall

2014 • 45 min • United Kingdom

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London, Katie Derham presents the first-ever CBeebies Prom. The BBC Philharmonic under conductor Stephen Bell are joined by Cbeebies favourites.

The Girl Who Spoke Cat

2014 • 6 min • United Kingdom

In a dull, organised world, a curious girl longs for some colour and joy — against the wishes of her rule-obeying mother. When the girl follows a strange cat that doesn’t fully fit into society’s black and white standards, she discovers a boisterous underground filled with life. She decides to introduce it to the surface and shake up the dreariness of the world around her.

Through the Windows

2014 • 3 min • Japan

The gaze of a woman from a window at other windows leads to a recollection of various scenes. The metamorphosed windows transfer, expand, reflect, conserve, and sometimes shine like a lighthouse.

Cyan Eye

2014 • 6 min • United States of America

A cabin deep in a remote forest lures four women into a trap with its French punk rock spell. Its forbidden fruit turns the beauties into beasts, savage monsters under the control of the hypnotic sound. Only one can elude the trance. But... can she escape the horrors of the house and save her rabid friends?

Wer ist Zoé?

2014 • 9 min • Germany

Julia, 28, lives a double life as Escort and tells her daughter Lilli, 10, that she works as a secret agent.

Tension Building

2014 • 9 min • United States of America

"Tension Building is a composite of linked architectural spaces, some are real and some are models. It combines stop motion and live action filmmaking shot at the Harvard University Coliseum in Boston (1935) and the Municipal Stadium in Florence (1932), built in by Luigi Nervi. It features Boston Symphony Orchestra percussionist Richard Flanagan, and the U Mass Minute Man Marching Band. I used my camera like a surveyor’s transit and created some rules for its path around the stadium." - Ericka Beckman

Wrong Planet

2014 • 9 min • Germany

Marco lives in a world of his own. He wants to spend the event of the total eclipse concentrated and by himself at a junkyard. Lena crosses his path and stays by his side because she likes him and tries desperately to get closer during this special moment.

All We Share

2014 • 25 min

Two arborists, Samir and Sara, are hired to take down a healthy tree in a family's backyard. Why the tree is to be taken down seems at first quite incomprehensible.

The Human Mirror

2014 • 15 min • Spain

A 17-year-old girl watches the cruelties being reported on the news every day, bringing her mind closer and closer to the dangerous nature of society.

Dream Enclosure

2014 • 19 min • China

An enclosed dream of dream, trance of a innocent past to a dance of shamans.

Hollywood Propaganda and World War II

2014 • 25 min

FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT was released a year before the U.S. entered World War II. The ending of the film was added at the last minute to bolster anti-isolationist sentiment among American viewers.

Sketches

2014 • 5 min • Canada

A story of a hopeless romantic, who's only means of communication are voiced through a sketchbook.

Delicacy

2014 • 14 min • United Kingdom

Belgium - France border, May 1940 During the British retreat to Dunkirk, two soldiers take cover in a church cellar. Trapped behind enemy lines, they must try to survive without any resources.

Care

2014 • 15 min • United Kingdom

Confused and solitary, an elderly woman sits in a remote, abandoned care home. Haunted by memories, will she discover why she is there and is she really alone?

Índio Cidadão?

2014 • 52 min • Brazil

The Kaiowa and Guarani Nation, oblivious to Law and Justice, reveals the testimonial narrative of the indigenous genocide underway in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul.

Maquette 1:1000

2014 • 30 min • United States of America, Taiwan

Maquette 1:1000 investigates a Taiwanese young architect’s self-awareness through the observation of two difference cities. Impacted by the cultural shock in the foreign environment of the West, Lan Lin makes her decision as she is again facing the same experience, unexpected pregnancy. Having the space-sensitive mind of an architect, she also reconstructs her artistic faith in her career within this extraordinary journey.

Walls

2014 • 11 min • Hungary, Spain

A day in the life of Mr. Istvan and Ms. Magdi, neighbors for many years, is narrated by the building of Budapest where both live. The walls surrounding them reveal their small passions, stories and routines.

Con amigos así

2014 • 10 min • Argentina

The Falklands War began on April 2, 1982, with the Argentine landing on the islands ordered by Leopoldo Fortunato Galtieri, and culminated with the cessation of hostilities between Argentina and the United Kingdom of Great Britain on June 14, 1982. Through dynamic editing and the use of archival materials, the documentary considers the war as part of our recent past, but also opens up multiple questions and reflections on contemporary society and the future projection of what such a conflict generates for us Argentines.

En Vogue

2014 • 4 min • United States of America, United Kingdom

A high-concept, in-your-face experimental short showcasing the unique beauty, energy and exuberance of one of NYC's last underground subcultures: Voguing & Ballroom

January

2014 • 38 min • United States of America

a young man loses his job and tries to stay productive. it is a narrative film, and 38 minutes long.

Mashka

2014 • 26 min • Russia

Mashka and her two brothers are living in a small village located far from the big cities. Children are forced to survive: their mother died and their constantly drinking father doesn’t need them. Life goes on as usual, but the fate prepared yet another ordeal for the family.

Pena Fria

2014 • 15 min • Portugal

A man from a village in the interior of portugal is back to visit the family that is left. But the true reasons for his return are not clear.

Shelters

2014 • 24 min • Montenegro

Luka moves to a small coastal town to live with his aunt, while his parents are in the middle of a divorce. A sense of numbness seems to hang above the town, but there is also Jana, a girl from the neighborhood who loves to sunbathe. The end of a lazy summer is near...

9:30 Am

2014 • 9 min • Mexico

Ernesto, a child spending summer vacations at his grandmother house, show us how moments of daily life are full of complex emotions with simple meanings. When an unfortunate conflict that only adults understand happens, the special child's days were affected. Ernesto without understanding the reason of the problem, must discover the solution to return everything to normal. The answer seems simple, feel more and think less.