All Films

Seduction Theory

2014 • 22 min

Seduction Theory is a darkly comic coming of age story of a boy, his psychiatrist father and the girl he can’t get out of his mind.

Post New Bills: The Story of Green Patriot Posters

2014 • 16 min • United States of America

A short documentary illustrating how art can influence public perception towards environmental issues. Green Patriot Posters is a highly acclaimed multimedia design campaign that challenges artists to deepen public understanding and ignite collective action in the fight against climate change. So far, it has reached five million people through print media, public space and digital culture. The film features interviews with key Green Patriot Posters contributors (Shepard Fairey, Michael Bierut, DJ Spooky, Mathilde Fallot) and its founders (The Canary Project, Dmitri Siegel).

Ada et ses amis

2014 • 9 min • France

Julien, 30, works as a tourist guide at the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris over the summer. In an alley of the cemetery he runs into Ada, whom he was very much in love with and has not seen for a year.

Snowblind

2014 • 15 min • Australia

Jack is utterly fed up with living at home. He longs for love, freedom and the music by KISS.

The Girls

2014 • 60 min • Venezuela

Four lucid grandmothers tell their story forgotten by history: the militancy and resistance of the young women of the leftist youth against the dictatorship of Marcos Pérez Jiménez.

Beneath Water

2014 • 15 min • United Kingdom

On the first anniversary of a traumatic life changing event, 16 year old Daisy attempts to get through to her increasingly withdrawn mother. Is her only solace beneath water?

12th Assistant Deacon

2014 • 25 min • South Korea

Father Kim and Assistant Deacon Choi try to exorcise the demon from Young-shin, but she remains unresponsive despite their efforts.

All Those Sunflowers

2014 • 19 min • Netherlands

Marieke, a 27-year-old Dutch woman, works for an advertising agency in New York. She feels lonely in ‘the city that never sleeps’. Her boyfriend Dylan is the only one who can comfort her, although he only drops by occasionally. When she visits the verdant and quiet Long Island on an outing with colleagues, the introverted woman finally blooms. Especially when she is introduced to George. Right at that moment, Dylan asks Marieke to let him go. Subtle drama about loneliness, mourning and starting anew.

All the Rage

2014 • 1 min • Canada

A mink walks into a fur store. Fantastic Mr. Fox meets The Shining in this stop-motion cautionary tale of what happens when we don’t think enough about what we buy. Inspired by found sound of two dogs growling, proudly animal-friendly, and produced as part of the 10th edition of the NFB’s Hothouse apprenticeship.

Catherine Tate's Nan

2014 • 35 min • United Kingdom

Catherine Tate returns with one of her most beloved characters in a half-hour special following the life and hilarious antics of a potty-mouthed granny. When Nan's kitchen tap breaks, she visits the council to arrange to get it fixed. Whilst there, she causes mayhem and upset.

Mynarski Death Plummet

2014 • 8 min • Canada

A completely hand-made historical micro-epic about the final minutes in the life of Winnipeg's doomed Second World War hero, Andrew Mynarski (1916-1944). Combining wartime aviation melodrama with classical and avant-garde animation techniques (including stop-motion, silhouettes, bleaching, scratching, hand-painting and rubbing letratone patterns directly on the celluloid) Mynarski Death Plummet is a psychedelic photo-chemical war picture on the theme of self-sacrifice, immortality and jellyfish.

Aban + Khorshid

2014 • 15 min • United States of America

Inspired by true events, Aban + Khorshid is an intimate portrait of two lovers, glimpsing into the world in which they met, moments before their execution for being gay.

Coco Chanel vs Elsa Schiaparelli

2014 • 55 min • France

In the 1920s, the rivalry between fashion icon Gabrielle Chanel and her stylistic rival Elsa Schiaparelli gave rise to innovations in haute couture.

Hitler at the Opera

2014 • 30 min • Poland

Aaron is an Israeli singer who comes to Poland for a guest performance in a provincial theater. The artist is warmly welcomed by the management and the theater team. During one of the rehearsals, Aaron spots backstage what he thinks looks like Adolf Hitler. Attempts are stopped and the hosts are accused of anti-Semitism. A chain of absurd situations follows, and the revealed prejudices lead to an escalation of the conflict.

Voilà l'enchaînement

2014 • 30 min • France

With two actors and no sets, master filmmaker Claire Denis traces the arc of a strained relationship, with a focus on race and language. In this fraught arena, words omitted can be as potentially devastating as words used, and what is not seen can have greater political consequences than what is.

In Search of Livingstone

2014 • 15 min

Thor and Denni's desperate search for tobacco along the south coast of Iceland during a shortage due to a prolonged strike in the country.

Back to Earth

2014 • 14 min • Australia

A young man resurrects his recently deceased older brother for 12 hours, and they go on one last adventure together.

Irene

2014 • 28 min • Costa Rica

Irene is a single mother who works in a photocopying business. She lives with Santiago, her seven year old son, and her controlling mother Dinia. Then she meets Diego. They go out, she gets drunk, and the failed date triggers in Irene a crisis concerning her sexuality, her motherhood, and the relationship with her mother.

Boonie Bears: Robo-Rumble

2014 • 55 min • China

With Spring Festival just around the corner, logger Vick learns that he has just been laid off for the holiday season. Trying to get another job, he finally gets employed as a Forest Ranger. At first, the Boonie Bears distrust Vick, but when a giant Super Chopping Robot arrives to log the entire forest, the animal gang must learn to trust their one-time enemy and work together to defend the forest!

Die Welt da draußen

2014 • 18 min • Germany

The Patient

2014 • 17 min

A man wakes up in the hospital with amnesia and struggles to find a connection with the life and family that is presented to him.

Sensitive 70'S Turtleneck Tough Guys

2014 • 12 min • United States of America

A comedic homage to the grizzled turtleneck-wearing tough guys of 1970's cinema.

A Dangerous Woman

2014 • 29 min • South Korea

Bo-kyung is in the final year of her studies in oriental painting. Although she has a boyfriend of four years, Duk-woo, Bo-kyung has feelings for one particular senior.

Captureland

2014 • 16 min

A short film by Nabil Elderkin inspired by the words of the late Nelson Mandela, and the song 'Capture Land' by Jamaican artist Chronixx. Captureland was shot in the very welcoming and historic community or Port Royal, Kingston - Jamaica.