All Films

Crazy Little Thing

2014 • 11 min • Japan

The two of them, all alone at home. All alone with her father's corpse. Memories, ideals, and reality all sink beneath the muck. Everyone is alone. Everyone is in solitude.

Happy Family

2014 • 21 min • Russia

Birthday of the head of the family. Everyone is going to their home. I wonder what will come of this?

Red, Blue and Purple

2014 • 4 min

A man's mind jumps back and forth between increasingly extreme versions of the individual and the collective.

At All Costs

2014 • 15 min • France

Due to the relocation of their company, three former employees have taken their ex manager hostage. But when their ransom demand is rejected, they have no choice but to prove how far they can go.

Smash

2014 • 8 min

The model’s feet are uncomfortably squeezed into the heels, and her movements are slippery on slick silver liquid, before she slowly and ominously destroys the glass pane separating the subject from the viewer.

Stravinsky in Hollywood

2014 • 52 min

STRAVINSKY IN HOLLYWOOD explores the short-lived film career of this legendary composer, it is the story of his trials and tribulations with the Hollywood Studios, the story of an old school European artist knocking heads with the brash New World. Igor Stravinsky lived in the heart of Hollywood from 1939 until shortly before his death in 1971 - longer than in any other single place. He came expecting to find lucrative work composing for the movies. The film uses a combination of existing archival footage (some of it never before seen), interviews with Stravinsky and his assistant Robert Craft. The documentary includes scenes from several big studio films of the 40s brought together for the first time with the music which Stravinsky wrote for them.

Salar

2014 • 4 min • United States of America

Salar is an experimental short and inspiration for "Fundir", following Boston's road salt to its source in the Atacama Desert. Filmed in Iquique, Chile, and in Chelsea, MA. Allison Cekala 2014. Shot on hand processed 16mm and Super8 film.

David Lama - Off Limits On Rock and Ice

2014 • 48 min • Austria

The Tyrolean David Lama has climbed an 8a route already at the age of ten, and he has become several times Youth World Champion and European Youth Champion in bouldering and lead climbing. In 2010, at the age of 20 years, David decided to leave the indoor climbing and competition world behind him. Since then, he is focusing on Alpinism, the most difficult routes and first ascents in the Alps, but as well in India and America. This documentary portrays David Lama from his first climbing attempts as a little boy to his big adventures in present time. We see famous locations, such as the climbing paradise on Lake Garda, the notorious Sagwand Face in the Zillertal Alps, and the 7.821m high Masherbrum in the Karakorum with its still untouched north east face.

The Big First-Grader and the Small Second-Grader

2014 • 25 min • Japan

First-grader Masaya is a crybaby despite his large stature, so he can't walk by himself on the dark path to school. The one who holds his hand is Akiyo, a tiny but capable second-grader. Masaya wants to be strong like Akiyo and admires her, but one day, something happens that leaves Akiyo in tears. To lift Akiyo's spirits, Masaya goes trekking to the distant Ipponsugi forest to find the spotted bellflowers that Akiyo loves.

We Wish You a Merry Walrus

2014 • 22 min

Set on Merry Walrus Eve, the story follows a seafaring penguin named Roofhowse who arrives at Club Penguin Island only to find himself wrapped up in an unexpected festive adventure! Following a magical Blue Crystal Puffle, Roofhowse and his new friends journey to the fabled Merry Walrus Island and learn that they must band together to stop their favourite holiday celebration from being silenced forever.

Sweet Temptation

2014 • 24 min

Eleven-year-old boy Jeong-ho lives with his mother, whose principle of life is to eat raw food. To the boy’s seemingly bright prospect of well-being befalls a crisis: When his classmate Hye-mi teases him for his refusal of snacks, he musters up all his courage and try eating a piece of chocolate, and it is unbelievably sweet. Now Jeong-ho becomes suspicious about his lifelong lifestyle, and the suspicion grows as his body grows.

Boy Wonder

2014 • 18 min

After witnessing a classmate be bullied, a young boy learns it doesn't take powers to be a hero.

Snap!

2014 • 4 min • Denmark

The film deals with loss of innocence and the danger of exposed secrets.

Incident Urbain

2014 • 27 min • Ireland, France

Two enigmatic figures with code names, Costello and the Colonel, bound seemingly by some mysterious revolutionary past, engage in an intense conversation concerning the architecture surrounding them, with possible catastrophic consequences.

Mariana's Sandwich

2014 • 11 min • Mexico

Ten year old Mariana is bullied at school, and her main tormentor is Isabel, only 3 years her senior. One day, Mariana gets up the courage to follow Isabel home and discovers something unexpected.

Vier Fünftel Nichts

2014 • 22 min • Germany

Moritz had a nervous breakdown. His friend Paul persuades him to travel to the countryside. Paul wants to do some cosmetic repairs to the cottage of his girlfriend Hanna. He is convinced that physical work is the best treatment for Moritz.

Longing

2014 • 22 min • Israel

When Michal finds out her husband Meir is having an affair with a man, her world collapses. Not only is she is forced to deal with sexual rejection from Meir, she also has to endure social rejection.

Les gars du front

2014 • 19 min • Canada

The story of the founding of the FLQ.

Phantoms of the Archive

2014 • 33 min • South Korea

It was produced to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Korean Film Archive.

The Swedish Empire

2014 • 15 min • Sweden

A live action role-playing game takes place in the 17th century. A less committed player deviates.

1984: The New World Order

2014 • 60 min • United States of America

1984: The New World Order chronicles how the ruling elite have established global domination and the ability to affect the thoughts, decisions, and worldview of human beings across the globe by systematically infiltrating the media, academia, industry, military, and political factions under the guise of upholding democracy. Learn how this malevolent consortium has dedicated centuries to realize an oppressive and totalitarian rule through any means necessary, not limited to drug trafficking, money laundering, terror attacks, and financial crisis within the world economy. Worldwide tyranny is already in full effect; the food we eat and the air we breathe are not off limits. Will we be able to stop this madness before we become an electronically monitored, cashless society wherein every man, woman, and child is microchipped? The New World Order is upon us - preserve your liberty by being prepared!

Pity

2014 • 7 min • United States of America

This is a portrait of a man at the bottom, struggling to find an answer, when the wrong things happened at the wrong time. This is a story of loss.

Medusa's Ball

2014 • 6 min • France

This short tells the story of the ghost of a woman wandering in a wreck at the bottom of the ocean and how she freed herself.

Weeping Willow

2014 • 5 min • Turkey

All the cavalry on horseback. Then one of them fell off his horse. The army did not turn to look at the fallen soldier. The horsemen marched in all their splendor to the setting sun. That's when the soldier, left alone, remembered the past. A free adaptation of Nazim Hikmet Ran's poem "Weeping Willow".