All Films

Stance

2015 • 4 min • United Kingdom

Stance... drag queen boxing, drag queen endurance, drag is a non-contact sport, so it's a kind of parody, no pain, no glory... the courage to be yourself and to appropriate typically masculine spaces with cheerfulness and femininity.

Le Saphir de Saint-Louis

2015 • 35 min • France, Spain

In Saint-Louis Cathedral, at La Rochelle, in a chapel filled with merchant marine ex-votos, there’s a painting that witnesses the tragedy of The Saphir in 1741. This schooner was becalmed for days and days in inter-tropical waters, with 271 slaves and 30 crew members on board. This painting is like a secret door in a Cathedral that opens on to the great History…

Black

2015 • 5 min • United States of America

Simultaneously boundless and intimate, collective and personal, an ode to and an example of a cinematic experience that is becoming increasingly rare, the darkness of a movie theatre in the course of the projection of a 35mm film print.

La lisière - The Edge

2015 • 16 min • France

In a near future, in the heart of a forest in the North where anarchy reigns, a young girl Hawa and her father live as refugees along with other survivors.

Jihad: A Story of the Others

2015 • 50 min

An unflinching but sensitive and personal examination of jihadism and radicalisation, its causes and its possible solutions.

Children of Bodom: The making of I Worship Chaos

2015 • 16 min

Behind the scenes of the making of I Worship Chaos. The ninth studio album by Finnish melodic death metal band Children of Bodom. It was released on October 2, 2015.

No Matter What Happens, I Love You

2015 • 14 min

Peter returns to Poland from Iraq war. He is not happy to find his sister living with her lesbian girlfriend in their family home. Brother does not accept his sister's sexual orientation and tries to get rid of her partner, but even the mother defends the girls. Will the family manage to overrule him?

Neil Sedaka - Legends in Concert

2015 • 49 min

Recorded live at Jubilee Hall in Canada, the Brooklyn born entertainer and composer plays his best songs, including “Standing On The Inside.”

The Preylude

2015 • 7 min

The fifth unsuspecting victim is stalked by a sociopath hell bent on making her suffer. Will she survive or will she die trying?

The Wing

2015 • 15 min

After being forced into a mental institution by his own family to be "fixed", Christopher must keep his wits through agonizing experiments in order to escape with life.

Louie - Sight Sound and Story

2015 • 5 min

"Sight Sound and Story" is an annual event presented by Manhattan Edit Workshop that brings audiences "behind the scenes" with legends of visual storytelling. Each year the one day summit brings together a collection of diverse and intriguing high-profile speaker series to discuss the evolving world of post-production.

Vertigo Sea

2015 • 48 min • United Kingdom

Vertigo Sea is a three-screen film installation that explores what Ralph Waldo Emerson calls 'the sublime seas'. Fusing archival material, readings from classical sources and newly shot footage, Akomfrah's piece focuses on the disorder and cruelty of the whaling industry and juxtaposes it with scenes of many generations of migrants making epic crossings of the ocean for a better life.

Far East

2015 • 26 min

Siberia, 2011: the crossing of a territory as in an awakened dream. As the journey progresses, nature reveals itself to be magnificent and brutal, human presence rare and uncertain.

Mind/Game: The Unquiet Journey of Chamique Holdsclaw

2015 • 56 min

Women's college basketball player Chamique Holdsclaw battles mental illness.

So Quiet Underwater

2015 • 17 min

In the midst of the rough nature of the Scottish Highlands, two young men are confronted with the reality of their love, and for the first time, sex is no cure-all, communication becomes inevitable.

moon blink

2015 • 10 min • Austria

Moon Blink was entirely generated by complex software, no camera was used. The result of this formal method is an abstract digital artwork that not only manages to convince thanks to its mathematical precision, but primarily also due to its incredible beauty and surprising narrative structure. Comparison to the classic abstract films from the 1920s by, for instance, Ruttmann, seems justified.

The Single Men: Masters of the Incredible and the Beautiful

2015 • 39 min

Philip Selkirk’s time-less documentary will lend a visual depiction of the watch-making process: the inception interwoven with craftsmanship, and finally unveiling the “pièce de résistance”. The "Single Men" speak fervently of their common goal: ensuring that the mechanical watch continues to thrive. The documentary features some of the works of art made by the likes of Svend Andersen, Vincent Calabrese, Philippe Dufour, Paul Gerber, Vianney Halter and Francois-Paul Journe.

La mélancolie des télésièges

2015 • 52 min • France

Josephine is persuaded to get a very rare and particular syndrom called the "Ski Intructor Syndrom". She thinks she contracted this desease at the age of 8 when she went with her family on a ski trip. Now the unhappiness and the love disorders she is experiencing are the results of this syndrom. With her friend Kinga, they decide to go to a ski resort and find how to cure this syndrom. This film is about their journey within the childhood dreams and a world of ski instructors.

Tierra Caliente

2015 • 21 min • Colombia

TIERRA CALIENTE is the story of an ordinary family in the state of Guerrero, Mexico. As they go about their normal lives, they are caught in the crossfire between the Narco drug cartels and the military. The screenplay is an edited transcript of conversations from the family recorded over a period of two years. Actors play the members of the family to protect their identity, but we are able to hear the actual recordings throughout the film, to remind the audience that these people are real.

The Rush

2015 • 3 min

A little girl is drawing some musicians in a driving car where her parents are arguing. Suddenly she faces with her drawings being animated. She wants to show it to her mother, but mother thinks it's a trash and through it away...

Les Ânes ont soif

2015 • 54 min

The french mainstream media ignored the last visit in Paris of the leftist Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa. It's however this small country of Latin America, Equator, that serves as a model for Greek activists who are taking part in Syriza party or for non-orthodox economists from the spanish movement Podemos in order to solve the issue concerning the public debt. The Correa government declared a part of this debt « illegitimate » to implement public investment, and social inequalities reduction policies.

Zéro m²

2015 • 19 min • France

After a series of unsuccessful flat hunting in Paris, Paul finds finally a nice and affordable studio. However, he soon notices that something must be clearly going wrong considering his neighbors´ strange behavior and the dubious noises during the night. Besides that, what if his apartment were shrinking?

Up to the Sky and Much Much More

2015 • 35 min • Netherlands

In her recent film Up to the Sky and Much Much More, Meter uses letters sent to her by her father during World War II to provide the film's narration, while interviews with her mother expand on his opposition to fascism — as well as to constraints of any kind, including the bonds of family — and his eventual conscription to the Eastern front. Remarkably, her father's epistolary accounts of his daily life as a soldier also include fantastical watercolour illustrations of his travels, which Meter incorporates to movingly amplify the emotional resonance of a father-daughter bond made fraught by distance and war.

Trash Heaven

2015 • 13 min • Canada

Maisie (14) and Kohe (6) talk about the work of their dad, Chad Baba, an artist, junk repurposer, local Edmonton treasure and awesome dad.