All Films

South Arcadia St.

2014 • 9 min

As Jordan and his teacher's escalating struggle in their high school class leads to his arrest, the pressures they each bear are revealed.

Wake Up, Girls! - Seven Idols

2014 • 60 min • Japan

Green Leaves Entertainment is a tiny production company on the verge of going out of business in Sendai, Japan. The agency once managed the careers of magicians, photo idols, fortune-tellers, and other entertainers, but its last remaining client finally quit. Faced with having absolutely no one to represent, agency president Tange thinks up a plan to produce an idol group, forming the seven-girl group known as the "Wake Up, Girls".

Super Tandem

2014 • 40 min • Japan

After quitting his job, Oishi forms a vigilante group with his bad friend Ogita out of his good intentions and urge to do something for others and be recognized by others for the rest of his life. Oishi and his friends mete out radical justice to shoplifters, but what awaits them is revenge from a motorcycle gang.

Amy Winehouse: Soul Siren (Unauthorised Biography)

2014 • 60 min • Australia

Amy Winehouse’s tremendous soulful vocal talent and songwriting ability established her as one of the most innovative artists of our time. She used the sound of her idols, Etta James & Billie Holiday, to reinvent jazz and blues for a new generation in her album Back To Black, which sold millions of copies worldwide and garnered her countless accolades, including 5 Grammy Awards. This is the story of how in just 27 short years, Amy Winehouse managed to influence the music community, fashion world and a legion of fans that understood her best through her musical genius.

A Piece of Dogu

2014 • 25 min • Japan

Nostalgic story that revolves around 'Dogu,' a mysterious clay doll.

Anima

2014 • 6 min • France

A native American is hunting and stalks an animal through a strange and mysterious forest.

L'agonie Pardonné

2014 • 4 min

A short film by Tori Pope.

The Secret World of Foley

2014 • 14 min • United Kingdom

'The Secret World of Foley', takes us on a journey into the little known world of Foley Artists, who bring films to life by adding sound effects in post-production. We follow a multi-award winning two person team of Foley Artists and watch as they work together to bring to life a film about one morning in the life of a fishing village on the English coast. With their perfectly timed and precisely judged sound effects they transform the film as they interpret every sound detail, using props from their vast props store. This film shines a light on a little know film art form and is a testament to magic and wonder of Cinema itself.

Charlatan

2014 • 25 min • Hong Kong

As a con man who actually takes professional pride in his work as a psychic scam artist, Man Chun was just released from prison. Both his uncle and girlfriend try to set his path straight again, but he revels his old days of performing rituals to tell fortunes and 'heal' people. Having a clear conscience and defending his affirmations on being a charlatan, he reconnects with his master and continues with the old trade. While Man Chun is addicted to the psychic world and thriving, the patience of his loved ones is wearing thin. When unexpected circumstances unfold, will Man Chun retain his faith in his vocation?

The Old Man of Belem

2014 • 19 min • Portugal

Don Quixote, Luís de Camões, Camilo Castelo Branco and Teixeira de Pascoaes meet in an eternal garden in the middle of a modern city and talk about life.

Dog Meet Goose

2014 • 21 min • United States of America

A troubled teenager seeks help from his neighbor who has a secret. A thrilling psychological scenario ensues.

Mirror Neurons

2014 • 10 min • United States of America

The story of Danny, a girl with Asperger's Syndrome, and Pete a circus performer. Pete enters Danny's life as a catalyst for transformation. With a Black and white selective vision, Danny fights the over protection of her mother, encouraged by the new feelings that this new character has provoke in her. Using Pete as an excuse Danny screams to her mother: 'Let Me Walk My Life', and by doing so, she manages to shift her own perception just enough, to be able to perceive some color to her life.

Salu and the Cavalo-Marinho

2014 • 14 min • Brazil

The film tells the story of Mestre Salustiano, one of the most famous folk artists in Brazil. Son of the fiddle's player, João Salustiano, Salu dreams from an early age of joining a Cavalo-Marinho group, a traditional folk dance from the region where he lives.

Mouse-X

2014 • 15 min • United Kingdom

Mouse-X is a mystery/sci-fi story about Anderson, a man who wakes in a building with no idea where he is or how he got there, before slowly discovering that in each of the rooms around him are a thousand clones of himself, all of whom woke into the same mysterious scenario. To escape he needs to outwit his 'selves' whilst overcoming the realization that he is not the only Anderson.

Florida Water

2014 • 6 min

Numa Perrier reimagines the story and moments in a distinct photograph of her mother. What results is a complex merging of memory, absence, and imagery set against the backdrop of Port Au Prince, Haiti.

El Gigante

2014 • 14 min • Mexico

After attempting to cross the US/Mexico border in search of a better life, Armando awakens in an unknown room, his body broken down and a Lucha Libre mask sewn into his neck.

Dan Cruickshank and the Family That Built Gothic Britain

2014 • 60 min • United Kingdom

As good as any Dickens novel, this is the triumphant and tragic story of the greatest architectural dynasty of the 19th century. Dan Cruickshank charts the rise of Sir George Gilbert Scott to the very heights of success, the fall of his son George Junior and the rise again of his grandson Giles. It is a story of architects bent on a mission to rebuild Britain. From the Romantic heights of the Midland Hotel at St Pancras station to the modern image of Bankside power station (now Tate Modern), this is the story of a family that shaped the Victorian age and left a giant legacy.

Curse of the Slender Man

2014 • 10 min • United States of America

With the help of a reality TV show Anna searches for her daughter who disappeared under mysterious circumstances in a forest known for many Slender Man apparitions.

The First AD

2014 • 23 min • Sweden

A Swedish independent comedy about power. The 25-year-old idealist ANTON is First AD (First Assistant Director) on a feature film shooting. 10-year-old lead character KLARA has a strong fairness pathos and she and Anton become friends during filming. Anton's role as leader of the shooting is torpedoed from all sides and he gets more and more broken down by the job - and one day he just snaps! Klara sees what happens and is forced to use the great power she actually has, to really make a change.

Zolushka

2014 • 8 min • United States of America

A very queer retelling of Cinderella.

Exotic

2014 • 2 min • Thailand

a short film by nawapol thamrongrattanarit

Son

2014 • 20 min

August has to put up with quite a lot. Ever since his parents separated, his father no longer seems to have any time for him. To console him, his Dad gives him a sweet little dog. But his mother refuses to have the animal in her house and before long there are shouting matches on the phone again. August can hear them arguing through his bedroom door – it's something he seems to have become used to. When his mother remains adamant about not having the dog, August packs his bags to move in with his father. But there’s no place for him in his father’s new family either. And so the boy makes up his mind to create a drastic wake-up call. Told from the boy’s perspective, this coming-of-age drama describes the situation for children who are caught in the middle when their parents decide to separate.

The Seventeenth Kind

2014 • 28 min • United Kingdom

Black comedy scifi about a washed up TV presenter who doesn't let small things like alien invasions stop him from broadcasting.

Imam Komunis

2014 • 5 min • Indonesia

A short documentary by Mahatma Putra and Dennis Hasangapon