All Films

Silent Love

2014 • 4 min

Love is a train running on endless tracks and it’s going to run you over unexpectedly.

The Dark

2014 • 10 min • United Kingdom

As a family tradition every year on his birthday, a Daughter takes a picture of her Father. The Mother is a memory, a portrait looking back from the wall of the dark room. As the picture develops, a mystery emerges from the darkness which threatens to bring the past sharply back into focus.

Lost in The Dust

2014 • 14 min • Iraq

Two Friends both are in love with a Kurdish Muslim girl. The girl's parents don't want their girl to marry any of the boys, the first one is from another religion and the second one is the Baath's agent.

Roadtrip

2014 • 22 min • Germany

Julius can not sleep. To get his head empty he decides to go on a roadtrip, but somehow he can not manage to leave. A hand drawn film about failure, insomnia, a red motorbike, pretty bargirls, the desolateness of Berlin (even in summer) and waterproof socks.

Rainy Days

2014 • 8 min • Canada, Latvia

An elderly Japanese man visits a strange island, where he disappears in his own memories.

Sailor's Grave

2014 • 5 min • Singapore, Spain, Canada, China, Colombia, Cuba

The horrors of a shipwreck, the bells of aforgotten lighthouse and the coming and going of the tides surround a tale about the sea. 'Sailor’s Grave' is the result of a workshop based on a work method taking its inspiration from the exquisite corpse game, a mechanism of collective creation where the participants manipulate and transform one another's drawings to construct an intuitive, improvised narration.

Carnivore

2014 • 28 min • Greece

The story concerns Menelaus, who, fifteen years after the brutal murder of his parents, decides to take revenge, breaking into the abuser's house and violating his sanctuary.

Endless Corridor

2014 • 51 min • United Kingdom

"Endless Corridor" is the definitive account of an agonizing human rights tragedy in which hundreds of Azerbaijanis massacred after Armenian Forces stormed the city of Khojaly during the Nagorno-Karabakh War. It happened in 1992, but the full story never been told throughout the world until now.

The Necessary War

2014 • 60 min • United Kingdom

In a single documentary to mark the 100-year anniversary of the outbreak of the Great War, Sir Max Hastings presents the argument that although it was a great tragedy, far from being futile, the First World War was completely unavoidable.

Baits and Hooks

2014 • 10 min • Serbia, Switzerland

Two fishing buddies, a privatization of a fabric and some fish stew.

Pashki

2014 • 16 min • Russia

This film is about love between a father and his daughter, about the Russian soul and about the corners of the earth forgotten by civilization, where passions sometimes heat up to the limit.

Zaříkávač lží

2014 • 15 min • Czech Republic

A Job

2014 • 20 min • Canada

A Job is a short crime drama that follows a day in the life of a low level hit man as he carries out one hit. While he is quiet and unassuming, the people that he meets throughout the day are colorful and the encounters range from humorous to disturbing. 'A Job' simultaneously covers familiar ground and subverts expectations while heading towards a climax that is both unexpected and haunting. A Job .... Everyone has one.

Hippo Ganglands

2014 • 49 min • South Africa

There's a gang war happening in the Luangwa Valley in Zambia, a battle among hippos for territory, dominance, mating rights, and survival. The reason? Dry season: a seven-month drought that forces over 30,000 hippos to the deepest part of the river to stay wet and cool. Follow these three-ton beasts as they fight lions, crocodiles, and other hippo gangs, struggling to stay alive until the next rainfall. Only then can they return to the lush paradise they once called home

Teoría sobre las colonias

2014 • 11 min • Argentina, Uruguay

A story about metaphor, exploring metaphor rather than a naturalistic or contemporary narrative, avoiding the discursive. It's not difficult to find the parallel between what happens and what actually happened: a family (us as a society) protected by a violent drunk (the government at the time), his wife and son, naked victims of their father's violence and impotence. The well-meaning bourgeois family (the cultural empire of good manners) seems to be restoring order when, in the face of such a situation, what they're actually doing is appropriating what they need under the guise of imperialist civilization. Reading it merely as a vampire story reaffirms this metaphor: out of our ignorance, we despise what conquers us, only for it to conquer us again without hesitation, with morality and good manners on its side.

Circuit

2014 • 15 min • Germany

An electrician is trapped in a looping room and goes mad.

Go Daan Go!

2014 • 15 min • Netherlands

Nine-year-old Daan is really excited about taking up swimming when he discovers his mother's old swimming medals in the attic. When his school teacher encourages him to join the nearest local swimming club, Daan finds out that his mother is definitely not amused. She is afraid that Daan inherited her cardiac problems. Despite his mothers fears, Daan doesn't wait and starts training behind her back.

On the Other Side of the Woods

2014 • 11 min • Estonia

Fairytale full of light, magic and nostalgia. A clay doll awakens her surroundings that become a surreal world in constant flow of change. Shot with natural light, the visible changes of daylight emphasize the passage of time in the film.

Santa's Little Ferrets

2014 • 22 min

It's Christmas Eve in a typical suburban household -- two worn-out parents, and three wildly excited children. In a desperate attempt to get the kids to sleep, their father tells them a homespun bedtime story, an instant Christmas classic -- the story of Santa's little ferrets. Although very few people know it, it seems that Santa brings an elite security detail with him every Christmas Eve -- three highly trained ferrets. Their job? Make sure no one's awake, trying to catch a glimpse of Santa. But on this particular night the unexpected happens, and the line between fantasy and reality becomes blurred. Suddenly, the ferrets' entire security operation is in jeopardy!

The Living Stones of Sacsayhuamán

2014 • 40 min • Russia

Sacsayhuamán, an ancient citadel amidst the Peruvian Andes, is an architectural marvel. It was built more than 900 years ago, and no living person knows how such large rocks were fitted so perfectly into walls. This documentary takes us on a tour of Sacsayhuamán, offering a brief history of the site, and clues that may help to its understand how it was made. It was edited from photos and video taken in July 2012, when Russian geophysicists conducted soil research there, at the request of Peru's Ministry of Culture.

Myosis

2014 • 4 min • France

Myosis is the constriction of the iris which decreases the diameter of the pupil. It is an unconscious phenomenon which can be triggered by an intense light, fear, or the effect of epiphany.

The Springtime Sleep

2014 • 20 min • Slovenia

All of a sudden world have become very different for Jasna, or has it always been this way? She doesn't try to find out, she rather lives in now as it is. Doing so she meets a younger boy Pero which she finds a bit shady but cool and together they go on a journey to find out how meaningless is what was and will be.

The Button

2014 • 35 min • Belarus

A young couple receives a package - a box with a red button. That evening, an older man comes and offers them a deal: if they press the button, two things will happen. First: somewhere in the world, a stranger will die. Second: They will receive $200,000.

Animal

2014 • 6 min • France

In a dark underground complex where animals are stored for experiments, a sudden hope arises.