All Films

18+

2013 • 30 min • Ukraine

Youth story about the first sexual experiences. The heroine is trying to get rid of her virginity for the sake of modern stereotypes, not to be the 'old maid' or 'spinster' among her peers. The film demonstrates that sex should be as the next stage in romantic relations and as a result of love, but not the starting point of dating.

Russian Dream

2013 • 52 min • Russia

The film tells about Marina Albi, a famous American woman who has been living for twenty years in Russia. She undertakes a spiritual trip to the Russian province to find 'the Heart of Russia'. It is with her eyes that we see the beauties and the joys of small Russian towns and villages, as well as their sufferings and problems. The goal of her trip is to find explanations: "What is one's own life?" "How to live one's own life?" In the end of the film, she meets someone and this great meeting reveals to her simple and great truths.

The Spanish Chainsaw Massacre

2013 • 51 min • Spain

Las Pollas del Metal (The Metal Dicks), a heavy metal band, are on tour to promote their first album. On the road to Galicia, their van suffers a flat tyre and they have to stay overnight at the "Gutierrez's town", a small village located nowhere. Next day, the town is throwing a festival where its inhabitants celebrate the patron saint's day. The Mayor invites the artists to join the celebration and they accept, without knowing a brutal danger awaits them.

Adventure Yellowstone

2013 • 60 min • Germany

Yellowstone National Park is the oldest national park in the world. It contains the largest number of geysers and hot springs in the world. The park is known worldwide for the diversity of its species: it is home to herds of bison, bears, deer and many more fascinating species. Along with its amazing fauna and flora, the national park offers an insight into the history of Earth s formation. It takes visitors to an era when the free play of volcanos and forces of nature were shaping the world. Come with us and experience in pictures the unique beauty of one of the last paradises on our planet. This film was made with the most up-to-date 4K Ultra HD technology which presents you with a fabulous spectacle.

Giving Up the Ghost

2013 • 27 min

A visual essay by filmmaker Michael Almereyda.

Sassi Keshet Never Eats Falafel

2013 • 24 min • Israel

Ido hates working at the local Falafel shop. He stays there because of his shift manager, Hadas, but he doesn't have the guts to tell her that he loves her. Will Sassi Keshet, a Game show host for the past 20 years, help him overcome his fears?

Melbhattan

2013 • 5 min • Australia

Melbhattan. Melbhattan is part homage, part pastiche of the opening sequence of Woody Allen's seminal 1979 film Manhattan. Melbhattan features more than sixty black and white tableaux of Melbourne each composed to mimic images in Allen's film.

Dog Glossary

2013 • 1 min • United Kingdom

The glossary of a book about breeding and owning Collies.

Adventures in Beauty Wonderland

2013 • 5 min • United States of America

A joyfully psychedelic animation inspired by Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland.

The Meaning of Monty Python

2013 • 60 min • United States of America

A discussion between John Cleese, Michael Palin, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones about their film The Meaning of Life

Open Heart

2013 • 40 min

Eight Rwandan children leave their families behind to embark on a life-or-death journey seeking high-risk heart surgery in Sudan. Their hearts ravaged by a treatable disease from childhood strep throat, they have only months left to live. Open Heart reveals the intertwined endeavors of Dr. Emmanuel, Rwanda's lone government cardiologist fighting to save the lives of his young patients, and Dr. Gino, the Salam Center's head surgeon, who is fighting to save his hospital, Africa's only link to life-saving free cardiac surgery for the millions who need it.

Lars Hertervig: The frenzy of light

2013 • 51 min • Norway

Lars Hertervig (1830-1902) was considered to be one Norway's greatest artists before he was diagnosed with incurable insanity and pushed out into the cold. The paintings from the last 30 years of his life were considered the scribblings of a child, but subsequently turned out to bear clear similarities to styles that gained ground in Europe several decades later. Was the painter insane or just ahead of his time?

Saturday's Lunch

2013 • 9 min

A couple stuck in a table of a restaurant faces the long hours of the weekend. A short film that explores the limits of warned-out relationships.

Fragmentos de Uma Observação Participativa

2013 • 30 min • Portugal

While observing others, Paula is also, herself, observed. ' Know the difference between an old maid and a spinster? The old maid does not have a choice. '

Fear The Living

2013 • 15 min

In a world ravaged by a zombie apocalypse, a resilient lone survivor discovers a sanctuary, seeking solace and security. However, as time unfolds, the survivor uncovers a horrifying truth: the supposed safe haven is under the control of a deranged psychopath.

John Lacklife

2013 • 18 min • Slovenia

Max, the lead character, has no life, just his best friend John. Then Max meets a girl and the film gets a twist.

Mayfly

2013 • 15 min

Loosely based on the life of the late Franz Kafka, Mayfly is a surreal drama (with odd strokes of comedy) about a shamed writer who discovers the idea for his next masterpiece in a twisted, unexpected way.

Dragons: Real Myths and Unreal Creatures

2013 • 51 min • Canada

Audiences join two peculiar characters, an unusual dream therapist and his mysterious patient, as they dig up "live" spectacular reenacted classical myths with a variety of dragon species and incarnations in the search for the root of a recurring nightmare. By mixing a fantastic storyline and a substantial dose of documentary information about the myths and realities that surround dragons, the film provides an exciting voyage of discovery for audiences, as they learn about the benevolent dragons of China, the terrifying Wyverns of the British Isles, creation stories from Ancient cities of the Middle East and dangerous water monsters described in native North American legends.

Julia’s Coffee

2013 • 7 min • Malaysia, Singapore

Ikram brings home his classmates to feed Julia, his blood-sucking stepmum. When Julia starts flirting with a classmate Ikram has been secretly admiring, he flies into a rage of jealousy.

Tender Model Circle

2013 • 38 min • China

Three girls from different backgrounds dream about being models. Chunchun, Coco, Xiao A, with their own lifestyles lives in a modern city in a southern country. Working hard to make a living in the cracks of the city, in the young modeling industry, behind this seemingly fashionable and gorgeous professional circle, is there so much sadness and helplessness that no one knows about?

One Trick Dieter

2013 • 8 min

A boy competes with the dog for dad's attention.

Little Monsters 3D

2013 • 52 min

Little Monsters presents some of the animal kingdom’s strangest survival strategies: poison dart frogs, chameleons, praying mantises and scorpions, to name but a few. Thanks to 3D visualization, large audiences can experience a chameleon thrusting out its tongue at close range, rattlesnakes striking at their targets to within fractions of an inch, praying mantises hunting and hummingbirds feeding, filmed from inside the flower! And with its ingenious combination of slow-motion 3D and timelapse 3D, “Little Monsters” even improves upon state of the art 3D for greater impact, yielding unbelievable scenes the world has never seen and “felt” before.

Dead Rush

2013 • 9 min • Canada

Experience a zombie apocalypse first-hand, told entirely from the POV perspective of a young man as he struggles with his two friends to escape the hoards of the undead that chase them at every turn.

The Winner in You

2013 • 60 min • Germany

After years Michael meets the former school bully Niko and invites him to his home.