All Films

artificial love

2014 • 7 min • France

Nathan searches for true love. his friends give him a surprise that he would have never liked to receive. It is an artificial love.

Viscid

2014 • 6 min

A taboo dive into divine nature providing a reminder of what greater connections we possess with the things around us

La Deutsche Vita

2014 • 60 min

Italians in Berlin are a special breed. Thousands come every year to stay - and six years ago, filmmaker Alessandro was one of them. An old saying professes that after 6 years in a foreign country, you finally realize what you really are: an immigrant. You feel disoriented and homesick. Alessandro's quest for other Italians in Berlin evolves into a hilarious real life comedy

Pretty Faces: The Story of a Skier Girl

2014 • 55 min

Pretty faces is an all female ski film featuring the best athletes from around the world in celebration of playing outside, pushing the sport of skiing and living up to our fullest potential as a supportive community. Inspired by the desire to offer young girls role models and inspiration to play outside, this film aims to capture all the girl stoke from the pioneers who have paved the way to the "never-evers" who will continue to define what it means to ski like a girl.

The Shutterbug Man

2014 • 5 min • Canada

The Shutterbug Man tells the tale of a very twisted man, whose only passion in life is taking pictures. This passion takes him to terrible and wicked places.

The Isle of Principe - The Forgotten Eden of The Atlantic

2014 • 49 min • Portugal

There is an island that is home to some of the most unique and endangered species on the planet. Time has changed the course of evolution of most of the species that inhabit this forgotten piece of land. It hides its treasures and secrets, sheltered in an impossible geography and an impenetrable forest. In the middle of the Atlantic, on this forgotten island, we can find an untouched garden designed by the forces of evolution.

The Wishing Bar

2014 • 11 min • Bulgaria

While trying to lose the men chasing them, Steve and Jake stumble upon the Wishing Bar. Will they find a safe haven or a new challenge? The chasers are no longer in sight, but the adventure is just about to begin.

Commodity Traders

2014 • 53 min • France

For the first time, a documentary dismantles the mechanisms of this great world trade to economic issues, major political and food, and reveals the daily life of those who are the main players: traders themselves, the men and women who buy , transport, sell merchandise and speculate on changes in their prices. African cotton plantations of the Hong Kong import companies, Brazilian soybean fields in the hall of the Chicago Board of Trade markets, through commercial ports of Santos and Le Havre.

Bottom Feeders

2014 • 3 min • United States of America

Bottom Feeders offers a glimpse into an imagined ecosystem generated from stream of consciousness doodlings. Divided by a barrier of fog, two disparate species fight to adapt and survive in a deliciously unsympathetic world.

The Indispensable Practice of Vagueness

2014 • 45 min • Portugal

By the director: "Ar.Co embodies each person’s geography, it escapes normalisation. Each individual’s experience is his own. This film is my experience, our experience. Pieced together from the school’s archive, from recordings of classes by Manuel Castro Caldas and from conversations at home."

Reconciliation

2014 • 15 min • Slovenia

Black soldiers are captured by red soldiers and shot dead. Then, red soldiers capture black and shoot them. And so on to the bare end.

Sweet Life

2014 • 43 min • Russia

Masha is a kept woman. She lives in Moscow with a support of her rich married lover. One day she begins to make her own video-blog on YouTube, advising other women how to behave with men. This blog starts very quickly to gain unpredictable popularity. The film follows the vicissitudes of Masha\'s life, her attempt to become independent, her travel to motherland (Ukraine) and her fails to find love without price.

Kaleb

2014 • 22 min • Mexico

A hustler meets a client in a hotel room but he realizes that the young man needs much more than sex.

Pavel Volya: Big Stand-Up 2014

2014 • 46 min • Russia

Big New Year's Stand Up of Pavel Volya. In his monologue, he discusses the problem of fathers and children, the promotion of homosexuality, sanctions, and also shares his opinion on the ban on smoking in public places.

Duetto

2014 • 7 min • Cambodia

Life is like a duet: you need the right half to make a performance beautiful.

Dia Branco

2014 • 19 min • Brazil

Giving Me A Chance

2014 • 3 min

A surreal journey into a love relationship, exploring longing, idealization and frustration. All wrapped up into four dimensions.

Slender Man

2014 • 10 min • Germany

There are strange things in the woods... Photographs from the early 1900s were the next confirmed reports, where imagery of Slenderman can be found in classical black and white and sepia imagery. Reports from this time indicate sightings in America, the UK, and Russia, as well as reports of child disappearances. At the shooting we saw and heared strange abnormal things out in the dark woods, half of the team saw something unnatural... We believe in that story about the SLENDER MAN.

Azerbaijan: Urartu and Manna

2014 • 60 min

An exploration on ancient sites of iron age Kingdom of Urartu in Iranian Azerbaijan, the Medes and the Manna civilization near Lake Urmia.

Birch Pollen of the DÖD

2014 • 22 min • Sweden

Imported birches from Chernobyl start spreading a new type of birch pollen that turns people into zombies

Radicalizing Intimacy in Queer Asian Canadian Youth

2014 • 9 min • Canada

How do multiple identities (Canadian, youth, Asian, queer) intersect and shape the way we navigate our world? This short film documentary explores how six queer Asian Canadian youth redefine and radicalize the concept of intimacy. Various types of intimacy that defy heteronormative values suggest that seemingly “concrete” notions of closeness and identity are not so straightforward after all.

Rolf Lassgård – Ett Porträtt

2014 • 60 min • Sweden

Portrait of one of Sweden's most popular actors; Rolf Lassgård. He is known for many of his roles in the Wallander films, The Hunters and My Big Fat Father, among others.

The Deaf Holocaust: Deaf People and Nazi Germany

2014 • 43 min • United Kingdom

As part of the season of programmes commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Holocaust and the liberation of Auschwitz, Clive Mason visits the killing centre of Hadamar to investigate the development and impact of the Nazi policy of enforced sterilisation and the murder of deaf and disabled people, which took place in Germany between 1933 and 1945. Members of the German deaf community, who are still living with the legacy of this brutal Nazi policy, tell their moving stories for the first time on television. From the UK, in English narration & Sign language.

Some Lots

2014 • 23 min

A historical tour of three downtown Winnipeg surface parking lots. Through clever overlapping of archival photos of downtown Winnipeg buildings with surface parking lots, Lorne Bailey offers a deadpan commentary on how we have lost many historic landmarks.