All Films

We Lived Alone: The Connie Converse Documentary

2014 • 41 min • United States of America

This 40-minute experimental documentary explores the life of Elizabeth Eaton 'Connie' Converse. After being commercially ignored as a singer/songwriter, Connie disappeared in 1974 at the age of 50, leaving only goodbye notes and a filing cabinet full of her extraordinary life's work. Her deeply personal songs were ahead of their time. Faced with major surgery and a crippling sense of failure, Connie Converse drove off in her Volkswagen bug and was never heard from again. 'We Lived Alone' uses an archive of recordings, photos, interviews, and symbolic footage to investigate the life of Connie Converse through the lens of her own music.

Clareando

2014 • 16 min • Brazil

Clara lives in a city too big for her taste. The days go monotonous and lifeless. When she begins to receive intriguing anonymous messages, the feeling that a change will soon happen becomes to rise. But at the same time, she is faced with a fundamental question: it would there be movement if it were not the impulse? This plot is developed across the film only by the sensory experience of the character.

Sepiring Nasi Basi di Pagi Hari

2014 • 10 min • Indonesia

What's the best activity to start the day with? Breakfast? What kind of breakfast?

Water Snake

2014 • 7 min • Philippines

Someday, the sea will devour our land. Balud is a response to Typhoon Haiyan, which wiped out the director’s hometown in November 2013.

Every Country In The World vs. The U.S.!

2014 • 3 min • United States of America

A series of still drawings detailing a fictional attack on the United States by every other country on the planet.

My Life in Houses

2014 • 13 min

A Journey through life, through houses

Minja

2014 • 15 min • Finland

A fertilized egg develops into a human. He is born, lives his life and eventually dies. Human life is a journey, the path we take from birth to death. The film is a story about the journey of Minja's life. At the end of the film, there is a dedication to Minja, Minja’s mother and grandmother. There are no other texts at the end of the film. The film also lacks a director as it is cut from existing film material. The Creator has directed Minja's life.

Bearmania

2014 • 3 min • United States of America

Two men face off in an erotic explosion of glitter.

Aquí no pasa nada

2014 • 2 min • Mexico

A history of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.

The War of the Frames

2014 • 3 min

This film is based on a self-published comic by Peter Looles. The basic idea of the movie is that the characters within a comic page can penetrate each panel and interact with each other, so they go to war. The first official screening of the film was at the 2015 Camera Zizanio film festival.

Vanishing Points

2014 • 6 min • Canada

Like two molecules unknowingly affecting one another in space and briefly crossing paths, conceptual hip-hop dancers collide and share fleeting moments of intimate synchronicity on the streets of Montreal. Sucked into a choreographic time warp, viewers slowly realize things are not as they seem.

Zella: Monster Martial Law

2014 • 41 min • Japan

Clocking in at a mere 41 minutes and inspired by Godzilla, Gamera, and stop-motion guru Ray Harryhausen, production on the film was assisted by Hiromasa Mitsudome, who worked as special effects supervisor on the “Ultraman” TV series.

Bad Girl

2014 • 10 min • France

On the brink of her 18th birthday, Mathilde must come to terms with the monster that haunts her at night.

The Elephant Might Know

2014 • 17 min • Indonesia

Two scientists, a husband and wife, found a way to create a dream as we want to when we sleep. The husband is so proud by this invention, but the wife, she's not so happy. Because something is stand behind all of this. Something pathetic, sad, and dangerous.

Monotony

2014 • 3 min

'Monotony' explores themes of fantasy and desire through an examination of morning ritualism.

Robot Virus

2014 • 6 min • Latvia

Sometime in the near future, after the end of the world, a person gets into a family fight with a robot.

For Francis

2014 • 15 min

Francis is a seven year old boy who loves dresses. When his teacher makes Francis a dress, his father Matt becomes enraged. Fearing the worst, Matt is forced to face his own fears and to choose between protecting his son from an intolerant world, or allowing the boy to live truthfully.

The collector

2014 • 5 min • Argentina

He came to collect a debt with Hell.

Spachtel

2014 • 22 min • Israel

An activist couple finds a temporary shelter in a decaying flat at the verge of the city after taking part in an anarchist action. He's obsessively trying to make the place a safe haven while she longs back to the riots. The film was made after the Tel-Aviv riots for social justice and it shows the conflict between the will to fight for change and the need in a more quiet and bourgeois life. The conflict is represented by the two characters and by the tension between the shut interior and the chaotic urban exterior.

SHAPATH - Can't Take This Shit Anymore

2014 • 52 min • India

Story of Six Indian Married Women, left their husband's home due to non availability of toilets. This is the story of human grit and compassion.

Éramos Todos Loucos

2014 • 50 min • Brazil

A documentary about the production of Hugo Carvana's successful film "Vai Trabalhar, Vagabundo", from 1973.

Queer Arts Festival: SD Holman Interview

2014 • 10 min • Canada

SD Holman talks with BTGWTV about the Queer Arts Festival 2013 and the societal need for radical representation of queer art. Performances by Cris Derksen and Kinnie Starr are included.

Azerbaijan: Forts of Azerbaijan

2014 • 60 min

A discovery journey to the ancient sites and forts of Iranian Azerbaijan, Zahhak castle near Mianeh and the Babak Khorramdin stronghold in Kalaybar, who fought the Abbasid Caliphate in early centuries of Islam in Iran.

Azerbaijan: The History of Iranian Turks

2014 • 60 min

History of Iranian Azerbaijan from Oghuz Turks to the Qara Qoyunlu rulers who built the Blue Mosque (Pers. Masjed-e kabud); and to Hasan Padeshah Aq Qoyunlu who chose Tabriz as their capital.