All Films

Hot Lasagne

2014 • 21 min • Slovenia

When Boris returns from work earlier than planned, he finds his wife Tanja in bed with his best friend Gregor.

Death & the Maiden

2014 • 30 min • Germany, Israel

Shortly after World War II, over 1,000 paintings were found in a cellar in southern France. The paintings were created by a young Jewish woman named Charlotte Salomon. She painted her turbulent life story in a unique creation called: ‘Life? Or Theater? – A Tri-Colored Operetta.’ Death and the Maiden unravels the story behind her creation.

Line by Line - a film on the composer Ernstalbrecht Stiebler

2014 • 32 min • Germany

A cello piece A punt ride Thoughts about music and composition The eight lines of Ernstalbrecht Stiebler’s cello piece Sequenz 2 alternating with his thoughts about slowness, space, reduction, repetition, resonance, liveliness and emotion A cinematic continuum

Pray

2014 • 15 min

Mind and matter, separated and then joined together by a terrifying religious experience translated into 7 books: A power from beyond the realm of science and consciousness made into tangible objects for mankind. Who will control this gift that can easily be turned into a curse? Is this going to be the end of a long cycle in human experience?

The Day the World Series Stopped

2014 • 43 min • United States of America

An eyewitness account from a baseball fan with a video camera of the 7.0 earthquake that struck Candlestick Park at Game Three of the 1989 World Series. A riveting tale of sport, tragedy, and triumph of the human spirit.

Uzumi - The Power to Open a Wind Cave

2014 • 15 min

A Butoh Performance by Butoh Company Kiraza.

Paper Boats

2014 • 8 min • United States of America

Paper Boats is a poetic and surreal drama about Jayden, a 12 years old boy. that can't enjoy the present moment because he is too afraid of death and time passing by. Eventually, his encounter and friendship with Amaziah, an older man from his neighborhood will open his mind to the beautiful parts of the world and will make him realize that in life not everything is black or white

Jam Man

2014 • 27 min

Troubled by his past, former Paratrooper Chris must deal with the arrival of his estranged daughter. Set on a journey to rediscover their relationship Chris must challenge his own demons to save Kelly from hers.

Tratado sobre la crueldad

2014 • 9 min • Argentina

Based on Sun Tzu's "The Art of War," they play on the dehumanizing theoretical line and childhood memories of a dictator.

Alexander Cockburn: Beat the Devil

2014 • 30 min

In his Lost Coast home, Alexander Cockburn recounts a personal history of Beat the Devil, the John Huston movie. When Lennard first read Beat the Devil – the book – she was amazed to discover James Helvick was the pseudonym for journalist Claud Cockburn, father of her friend Alexander. 2014, Elizabeth Lennard and CounterPunch.

They Live by Night

2014 • 8 min • Croatia

A film about a cockroach who is a bad flier, but would so ambitiously want to do it better. Thanks to an amorous, compassionate firefly, he will manage to eventually fly. He lives off the dark and she lives off the light.

Rudenio meta

2014 • 5 min • Lithuania

Animated short.

El Legado del Padre Grella

2014 • 60 min • Argentina

A historical tour of the life of Club Atlético Patronato de la Juventud Católica, through its protagonists: fans, supporters, players, and managers who make up the essence of a neighborhood club that grew.

Salinas grandes

2014 • 50 min

The Ooli Moves

2014 • 8 min • United States of America

Animation by Adebukola Bodunrin. Music by Nicole Mitchell.

The Hope

2014 • 10 min

Afif

2014 • 15 min

Afif is fired from his job and his home at the movie theater. He looks for a place to sleep but little does he know that he will walk the steps of glory.

Los intrusos

2014 • 10 min • Argentina

Pedro is 15 years old and lives in the Piñalito Norte neighborhood, deep in the Misiones jungle. While his rural school teacher assigns him a practical project related to the Malvinas conflict, his father and brothers involve him in a nighttime outing in the woods. They are armed with rifles and shotguns. They are searching for intruders who threaten to occupy their land and exploit it illegally.

Newborns

2014 • 8 min • India

Laxmi Agarwal, a human rights activist and a survivor of acid violence, gazes back at us, as we contemplate together, the meaning of memory and loss. What does it mean to survivors of acid violence? What does it mean to people in their environment? How do the two world-views interact? What do concepts of 'fear', 'power', 'innocence' and 'beauty' mean to us? The Newborns attempts to provide a lens to the survivors of acid violence, to look forward and gaze back. They take us through the ennui of their domestic and public spaces in a nameless dystopian city, its factories, houses and motels, and its promises, never honored.

Le moment et la manière

2014 • 59 min • France

The Runner

2014 • 6 min • Croatia, Slovenia

First breath is a decision. Each subsequent breath is a struggle for a goal still not in sight. A struggle for life. He is a former professional runner. A marathon runner. He reveals his suffering, pain and effort which are crucial elements of each and every race.

Heavy Mental

2014 • 52 min • United States of America

The lack of snow in much of the world, and a lack of snowpack stability in most other places, made this winter exceptionally challenging. Mentally and otherwise. A bit like a riddle, a maze, and a game of chicken rolled into one. With heavy consequences for not playing at the very top of your game. Lucky for you, (and for Absinthe) we were at the right place at the right time. But that would be a long and weird name for a movie, so we decided to call this one HEAVY MENTAL. You will be rocked. Riders include Victor De Le Rue, Austen Sweetin, Bode Merrill, Jason Robinson, Mat Schaer, Wolfgang Nyvelt, Manuel Diaz, Victor Daviet, Johnnie Paxson, Romain De Marchi, Blair Habenicht, Scot Brown, Ozzy Henning, Rusty Ockenden, Nils Arvidsson, Mathieu Crepel, Sylvain Bourbousson, Helen Schettini, and Mike Basich

layover

2014 • 6 min • United States of America

A swan song for the factory age. Every autumn, a South America-bound colony of Vaux’s Swifts numbering in the tens of thousands enjoy a layover in a Portland, Oregon elementary school chimney. Sunset brings a vortex of swirling shapes, whose each tiny piece combines to form a hypnotic, ever-changing pattern; an equinoctial rhythm beats in every swoop of the organic overhead spiral. The defunct industrial chimney is our own demise, and yet the relentless, fluid choreography of the tiny migrants signals a new start, the turning wheel.

Wrapped

2014 • 5 min

The deterioration of one is the foundation of another one's life. The world with it`s never-ending interplay of eating and being eaten, takes on new dimensions when the unexpected forces of nature clash with the existing structures of our civilization. What was meant for eternity, melts away in seconds. The only constant is change.