All Films

My Brother is Batman

2014 • 25 min • Russia

Sergei is seven years old. He believes in Batman. Not wanting to discuss the tragedy that happened in the family, Sergei's older brother, Misha, starts playing superhero in real life. The brothers create their own world, incomprehensible to others. But can the game last forever?

10 Years Athens Pride

2014 • 6 min

“In 2014, on the tenth anniversary of Athens Pride, I grabbed a camera and asked the thoughts of different people in the community: was there any change? Opinion was divided, but the opinion that came last was that of Zak Kostopoulos – who was right!”: these are the words of the influential figure Maria Cyber, as she looks back at her first attempt in filmmaking. “I think things are changing, getting better. They’re also getting worse at the same time, strangely enough. There’s an increase in people who are very anti [-LGBTQI+] and those who are pro… Let’s see who’ll win in the end – we will!” Zak charmingly said to the camera held by Maria, with whom he had a friendly relationship, four years before his brutal murder.

Justin Timberlake: Suited Up

2014 • 58 min • United Kingdom

Exchange and Mart

2014 • 15 min • United Kingdom

Girls boarding school in the remote Scottish Highlands, 1986. Reg is a lonely 15 year old girl, who stares longingly out of her dorm window at the chainsaw wielding tree surgeon working in the school grounds. Reg and her classmates have to take part in a self defense exercise - The Attack Test. Alone, Reg must walk through the woods until she is attacked by her masked teacher, Mike, at which point she must defend herself using force. This is intended as real life preparation for these privileged and inexperienced women living in an isolated world where rape paranoia was rife. Full of trepidation, Reg walks into the woods where Mike is waiting, but the test does not go according to plan.

Losing Your Flames

2014 • 31 min

When Chris receives a text from his boyfriend word, spreads faster than lightning in the southern town he calls home, resulting in his expulsion from the popular crowd, and worse his family.

Folaim - Joker Experiment

2014 • 3 min • Saudi Arabia

A young guy reenacts a scene of Dark Knight's "Joker" for an audition.

Folaim - Ahm Ahm

2014 • 2 min • Saudi Arabia

While a guy chokes on a date, no one around him realizes.

Itch.

2014 • 5 min

Featuring Colin Jacob, Victoria Pedretti, and Madeline Wolf. Music by Bon Iver. Choreography by Mitch Marois. Editing and cinematography by Ariel Zucker.

Urihi Haromatipë — Curadores da Terra-Floresta

2014 • 60 min • Brazil

The thunder is warning, "The earth is sick." To cure it, David Kopenawa gathered in Roraima the Yanomami shamans from various regions. With the help of the spirit food, the hallucinogenic yãkoana powder, they will treat the ills caused by cities and white diseases.

Wagonmasters

2014 • 40 min

Station wagons were America's "workhorses on wheels." Today, they conjure images of outdated family photos, over-sized hairdos and unfashionable wooden siding. In 2011, Volvo - the leading premium wagon manufacturer - will discontinue the sale of its last wagon model in the United States. There are some, however, who still cling to these vehicles and what they stand for in American culture. Wagonmasters, a full-length documentary film, offers glimpses into the lives of such wagon enthusiasts, and tells the story of the station wagon as it represents a changing America over the last one hundred years.

Hands of Bresson

2014 • 4 min • United States of America

A visual essay on the tactile world of Robert Bresson created for the Criterion Collection.

Shred Bots The Movie

2014 • 45 min • United States of America

Less like robots and more like “bro-bots”, this epic ensemble of Norwegian and Canadian riders are about to present you with a serious lesson in Kinematics: That’s android terminology for “the study of motion, as applied to robots”. Unfortunately, without an included owner or operator manual, the viewer will have to subject themselves to numerous viewings in order to apply these teachings to their own on-hill experimentations. Included, however, you will find a variety of street, park, and backcountry footage stretching from North America to Japan and Europe. Torstein, Mark, Stale and Craig will bring you beyond the lights, crowds, and podiums of the contest scene and into the backcountry, park and streets.

Vailamideus

2014 • 7 min • Brazil

Family's party.

The Occidental Hotel

2014 • 26 min

“The Occidental Hotel is a “city” film—I was inspired to emulate the Surrealists’ sense of wandering, of flaneury, of the way a hotel and its rooms is a temporary resting place inhabited by many many people, a shared public/private space. I am interested in a creative geography of the city I've constructed. For instance, the front of the hotel is from Berlin, its interior was photographed in Copenhagen. The film offers the elliptical “scent” of espionage films (largely because of its Berlin locations) and offers that genre’s lubricating sense of voyeurism, danger, and sexuality. My source materials are Mexican comic-book figures, and these urban photos I snapped on my honeymoon with my wife Janie Geiser in the summer of 1996.” —Lewis Klahr

Sugarhiccup

2014 • 17 min

A neurotic journalist searches through digital clues trying to decipher a mysterious message left by her fiancée right before she disappears for the next 48 sleepless hours.

It's a Wonderful Knife

2014 • 11 min

Blaming him for her tragic existence, a heartbroken ex-hooker kidnaps Santa Claus in order to exact revenge, but instead finally discovers her true calling in life.

2043

2014 • 18 min

Thirty years after a plague has ravaged by the earth, Jack, disillusioned by the dystopian society he lives in, struggles with his own desires and the ultimate truce made by society - to never touch again.

Sillon 672

2014 • 5 min • France

Colours and animations drive you deeper and deeper into vinyls.

2Late

2014 • 17 min

2Late is a New Excting GA Productions film. 2Late is about a young teenage boy 'Sam Hunter' who gets Bullied for being different by School Boys and his own Dad. His best friend Reece tries to look after him and protect him. His mum doesn't know her husband beats him. Sam can't take anymore and makes the most important decision that no one would ever wish to make. This movie tells a moving story based on real life events and asks the questions many of us do not wish to know about.

Life 2,000 Meters Under the Sea

2014 • 55 min • France

Deep down at the bottom of the ocean lies the mysterious world of the abyss. In the midst of boiling, toxic geysers, a rich ecosystem flourishes. This miracle is possible thanks to bacteria, micro-organisms crucial to all living beings. How can bacteria survive in such extreme conditions?

Microbirth

2014 • 60 min

“Microbirth” is a 60 minute documentary looking at the latest scientific research about the microscopic events happening during childbirth. “Microbirth” reveals the latest scientific thinking on how best to “seed” a baby’s microbiome in order to build the strongest possible immune system. This cutting-edge science has the potential to not only improve the health of our children across a lifetime, but also across generations still to come.

Notre amour est assez puissant

2014 • 9 min • France

A video game love story.

Merge Records: 25 Years in 24 Minutes

2014 • 24 min • United States of America

Founded by Superchunk's Mac McCaughan and Laura Ballance in 1989, North Carolina’s Merge Records quickly grew to become one of America’s essential indie labels. From supporting their fertile local indie rock scene to launching international stars, for 25 years Merge has carved out uncompromising success by staying true to its independent roots. Google Play is proud to celebrate 25 years of Merge Records with this exclusive documentary and series of covers of Merge classics by Merge acts including Superchunk, the Mountain Goats, Telekinesis and more.

Goonga Pehelwan

2014 • 46 min

A documentary that follows India's most successful deaf athlete on his unlikely quest to reach the Rio Olympics 2016 and become only the second deaf wrestler in the history of the Olympics to do so. This is Virender Singh's story, a captivating account of an incredible athlete largely unknown and snubbed by the bureaucracy.Now, as Virender gears up for his third Deaflympics appearance in Bulgaria, this film delves into his life from the bylanes of a small village in Haryana to becoming India's most successful deaf athlete ever and aims at fulfilling the long cherished dream of every athlete that is competing at the Olympics.On the way, it looks at all that he has achieved through a glittering decade and a half long career.