All Films

Conflict

2015 • 35 min

Six conflict photographers reflect on their experiences capturing the atrocities of war and other manifestations of violence on film.

What I see

2015 • 5 min

What I see is a video made in China in Haining , working city with over eight thousand textile factories. This video shows a working back whose job is to scrutinize kilometers of tissue to detect any defect. The body of the young woman oscillates in an endless coming and going right to left facing the tissue that never stops falling and thereby becomes curtain. A daylight, which grabs hold and both remotely, radiates the face we never see or with so few details that recognition is not possible.

Accompany Me

2015 • 60 min

The story of how different people try to find love and communicate their feelings and wishes.

Five Stories

2015 • 4 min

In this inventive short, celebrated actor and director R.H. Thomson playfully deconstructs narrative, parting the curtain on the five central stories that frame our understanding of the world.

Lo Sum Choe Sum

2015 • 20 min • Bhutan

The traditional ‘3 Year 3 Month Retreat’ or ‘Lo Sum Choe Sum’ is practiced by Buddhist monks, nuns and other devout practitioners. 3 years, 3 months, and 3 days is calculated as the time needed to achieve a higher state of clarity and motivation. By cutting oneself off from the world, and delving into the inner mind, the retreat is supposed to transform the practitioner. Can Lhamo, a young, wounded girl facing the harsh gaze of the world, find her own form of retreat and redemption? Lo Sum Choe Sum was Bhutan’s first entry into the Berlinale Shorts Competition. It was made in 2015 by filmmaker Dechen Roder, who later produced and wrote and directed the well-acclaimed Honeygiver Among the Dogs.

Navigator

2015 • 7 min

In Navigator, Björn Kämmerer films a set of vertical mirrors with beveled edges in monumental close-up, and vigourously edits them in a back-and-forward motion that offers a dizzying array of Cubist perspectives.

It Runs in the Family

2015 • 45 min

From Vancouver to Oakland to Manila, follow gay Filipino Canadian artist Jay Cabalu and his sister Joella, as they meet their other queer relatives and explore what the modern queer family can be in the Filipino diaspora.

Amazon Presents Paul Weller LIVE, at The Great Escape

2015 • 49 min

Live from Brighton, UK, Amazon Front Row presents Paul Weller at Great Escape. The award-winning and Multi-Platinum singer-songwriter performs songs from his new album Saturn's Patter, as well as classics songs.

Season of Wonder

2015 • 9 min

Season of Wonder is a cine-poetic work that situates us amongst the irregular cycles of a destabilized world. It intertwines that which I witness with that which I imagine. A perceptual blur arises, where the freakish quietly morphs into the everyday. I am working in the area of unnatural history in an intervened place. Cycles of time are disrupted, and loss is complicated with the spark of possibilities.

This Summer

2015 • 25 min

A boy breaks up with his girlfriend and remains alone. Later, he finds a wounded cat in front of the house and decides to take care of him. Can a cat become your life partner?

From Sea to See

2015 • 8 min • United States of America

Manifest Destiny claimed that all this land, known to the original peoples as Turtle Island, was free for the taking. European settler expansion to the west was inevitable. Outer space became the final frontier after recent conquests. Now even our space fantasies are dwindling. I set out to edit these small rolls of film together as a farewell to Ektachrome, a farewell to the last of Kodak’s color reversal films. It became a meditation on the legacy of Manifest Destiny and the greed of taking what cannot belong to anyone.

Close Before Midnight

2015 • 4 min • United States of America

Rule #1: Never stay past midnight.

Mom

2015 • 12 min

A film about women, starting from a small baby and continue to grow up to be a mother.

Toast

2015 • 9 min

While drunk one night, a curious college student makes advances toward his gay friend. The next day, both boys struggle to deal with the unintended consequences of the incident.

The Pop Ups: Great Pretenders Club

2015 • 30 min • United States of America

A collaboration between Brooklyn musicians Jason Rabinowitz and Jacob Stein, The Pop Ups have been setting the standard for children's music since 2010. The two-time GRAMMY Award nominees for Best Children's Album go on an adventure to become part of the Great Pretenders Club in this unique and imaginative rock and roll puppet musical featuring live action and animation.

Elephant in the Room

2015 • 7 min

Iman Sadiq, a recently elected governor, works late at night on his acceptance speech with his speech writer, Allen Downing, and learns the consequences of letting one's guard down.

Honto ni Atta: Toko Yami Eizo 13

2015 • 52 min • Japan

Thirteenth entry in the "Honto ni Atta: Toko Yami Eizo" series.

Stories from the Savannah: A Journey to Tanzania

2015 • 41 min

Moti Kirschenbaum in a new film journey in Africa, his favorite continent. This time he travels in the Serengeti in Tanzania and meets deadly hippos, beautiful birds and two mothers, a cheetah and a tigress, who will do anything to provide food for their hungry cubs.

Life After Guantanamo: Exiled In Kazakhstan

2015 • 31 min • Kazakhstan, United States of America

"What happens after detainees are released from the Guantanamo Bay detention facility? The answer to that question has, for the most part, been shrouded in secrecy."

少年异能事件？！

2015 • 7 min • China

The original team of the juvenile class fought for their lives to star in the talented young man who mutated in seconds. The special commissioner codenamed No. 403 risked his life to reveal a piece of "history" that has been hidden for a long time!

Of God and Dogs

2015 • 13 min

A young Free Syrian Army fighter confesses. He says he killed a man he questioned extensively, and knew to be innocent. He narrates how he had to shoot a short range bullet, before going to bury him in tears. Then he promises to avenge the God who led him to commit the murder. And he asks the director to stop filming.

3 Doors of Horrors 2015

2015 • 45 min • Malaysia

3 horror shorts from Malaysia. 1, 2, 3 - Mako started a popular children game conjuring up a spirit and now seeks help from Hui Ting, the writer who wrote the ritual which was suppose to be an urban legend. Stay With Me - Ann a struggling painter, finally being invited to had an exhibition to London. But the secret to her successful paintings come with a price, she's being help by Molly, a child ghost who had been trapped in the apartment Ann is living. Phyu Phyu - The security guard Azman is back helping the spirit of a lost migrant child, Phyu Phyu to reunite with the mother.

Penguin Baywatch Antarctica

2015 • 52 min • United States of America

A year of penguin behavior in the icy waters and volcanic islands of the Antarctic Ocean. Includes Chinstrap, Macaroni, Adele, Gentoo, King and Emperor penguins.

Alzheimer's: A Love Story

2015 • 17 min

Partners for 40 years, Michael and Gregory approach the end of their journey together with incredible love and courage.