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The Rise of the Killer Virus

The Rise of the Killer Virus

2014 • 45 min
There may never be a virus as deadly or as misunderstood as AIDS. Responsible for 36 million deaths since its discovery in 1981, it remains shrouded in myths, misconceptions, and mistruths... until now. Scientists deep in the African Congo have discovered forgotten clues that are rewriting the story of the global pandemic and revealing shocking facts about its origins. Now the race is on to see if these new findings are the key to developing a vaccine that could finally win the epic battle against HIV.
Starting Point

Starting Point

2014 • 27 min
Aneta 'rebelled to the max' at the age of nineteen and wound up in prison for murder. Nine years later, her daily routine takes her from behind the walls of the prison to a care home for the elderly.
Chicken

Chicken

2014 • 12 min • Canada
After seven years together, David and Margot fill their days with challenges and play like kids. One day, they lock themselves in their apartment and test their limits.
Martin Clunes & a Lion Called Mugie

Martin Clunes & a Lion Called Mugie

2014 • 46 min
Clunes joins a mission to make wildlife history by returning endangered lions to Kora National Park, the Kenyan nature reserve of “Born Free” fame. The effort begins with Mugie, a lion cub orphaned at just three weeks old, but Clunes soon finds out why for lions there is now no “free” left.
Voltrans

Voltrans

2014 • 60 min • Turkey
The documentary features the journey of the Voltrans initiative, a solidarity platform for trans men in Turkey.
Hello

Hello

2014 • 6 min
Through his computer Hilo finds a lover. Decomposes on the fissures of the machine to go to meet him.
BB Africa

BB Africa

2014 • 57 min
Alén

Alén

2014 • 25 min
Alén wanders around the city while listening to music. Her friend Claudia distributes flyers for the March of the Whores. Alén, Miguel and Irene organize an evening with their band and the party begins: beer, a streaptease and speeches about the emancipation of women and the freedom of bodies are intertwined with the electronic sounds of a generation in transit.
1 Month & 2 Days

1 Month & 2 Days

2014 • 6 min
I've fallen in love again. I dig into my feelings, capturing instants of my fate during 1 month and 2 days.
Slow Fall

Slow Fall

2014 • 17 min
The relationship between two brothers
David LaChapelle: Evening in Space

David LaChapelle: Evening in Space

2014 • 13 min
Starting in seventh grade, artist David La Chapelle was so bullied for being gay that he dropped out of school by ninth grade. He moved to New York City, where being gay was accepted. David La Chapelle is an auteur photographer whose work has exhibited in galleries around the world and graced the pages of Vogue, Vanity Fair and Rolling Stone. In this personal short documentary, we are invited to witness a unique artist at work in his studio, while working with celebrated designer Daphne Guinness.
Sócrates, The Artist

Sócrates, The Artist

2014 • 60 min • Brazil, United States of America
Directed by Martin Ainstein as part of the "Destino Futebol" series, the documentary, produced by ESPN Films, tells the moving story of former player and doctor Sócrates, who passed away on December 4, 2011. The documentary features testimonies from members of the former Corinthians player's family, including his brothers, among them the former player Raí, his mother, and his son Gustavo. Journalists Juca Kfouri, José Trajano, and Xico Sá are also interviewed, as well as musician Toquinho and former Corinthians and Brazilian national team teammates such as Zico and Wladimir. The production showcases Sócrates' time studying medicine in Ribeirão, his journey through the teams Botafogo de Ribeirão Preto, Corinthians, Fiorentina, Flamengo, and, of course, the national team. It's a great story told by people who knew the idol, remembering key moments of Sócrates' career as a doctor, player, musician, and writer.
Bleaching Black Culture

Bleaching Black Culture

2014 • 51 min
From the birth of jazz to the evolution of hip hop; the advents of urban trends to transformative advances in technology, African Americans have played an integral role in molding American culture. Unfortunately, we tend to not be the beneficiaries of our own innovation. Bleaching Black Culture examines the continuum of America's black cultural appropriation and effects on the African American community.
Tangerine

Tangerine

2014 • 2 min • United States of America
Dimitri Basil peeled himself away from a computer screen to make this punchy short about a kidnapping that gets lost in translation.
Anacos da Noruega

Anacos da Noruega

2014 • 20 min • Spain
The penultimate week of each year, the sun exceeds the horizon of Fauske, in the Arctic Circle, for just an hour a day. This film celebrates those brief moments of light.
Mi niña mi vida

Mi niña mi vida

2014 • 20 min
A man and his giant stuffed bear move through the bustling crowds and noisy rides at an amusement park.
Happy Endings

Happy Endings

2014 • 14 min
After falling in love with an erotic masseuse, a lonely parking booth attendant must step out of his comfort zone to liberate her from her oppressive boss.
Federation Tunisienne De Football

Federation Tunisienne De Football

2014 • 4 min
The music film "Federation Tunisienne de Football" (4 min 22 sec) it's the first way chosen by C'mon Tigre to share their Mediterranean tale with all the whole world, along all the longitudes and latitudes. It based on their first single track, introducing the full album's release in October: a story about an eccentric football team, their dances and magical shoes set on a sandy playground surrounded by animals.
Carry On

Carry On

2014 • 17 min
During the brutal withdrawal of Japanese forces at the end of WWII, a Chinese father does whatever he can to save his family.
Hornaditas

Hornaditas

2014 • 19 min • Argentina
An ethnographic experimental documentary by Julio Fermepin.
Tarlabaşı

Tarlabaşı

2014 • 6 min
Featuring Turkish dancer Idil Kemer, Cynthia Madansky integrates performances of everyday movements and gestures as a direct response to the devastation brought about by the state-sponsored urban renewal project in downtown Istanbul.
Operation Stonehenge: What Lies Beneath

Operation Stonehenge: What Lies Beneath

2014 • 59 min • United Kingdom
Stonehenge is an icon of prehistoric British culture, an enigma that has seduced archaeologists and tourists for centuries. Why is it here? What is its significance? And which forces inspired its creators? Now a group of international archaeologists led by the University of Birmingham and the Ludwig Boltzman Institute in Vienna believe that a new state-of-the-art approach is the key to unlocking Stonehenge's secrets. For four years the team have surveyed and mapped every monument, both visible and invisible, across ten square kilometres of the sacred landscape to create the most complete digital picture of Stonehenge and the surrounding area over millennia. Operation Stonehenge takes the viewer on a prehistoric journey from 8000BC to 2500BC as the scientists uncover the very origins of Stonehenge, learning why this landscape is sacred, preserved and has been revered by following generations.
Walk Away the Pounds: 4 Mile Burn

Walk Away the Pounds: 4 Mile Burn

2014 • 55 min
Celebrity fitness instructor Leslie Sansone is back with this super-charged walking routine. Walk rain or shine in the comfort of your home and get in a fun and energizing workout that gets you results. This 55-minute 4-mile walking workout will get your heart pumping to torch calories and blast fat. Leslie guides you through a variety of side steps, knee lifts, arm curls and more for the ultimate full body workout. Get a leaner, more sculpted look with this low-impact workout perfect for all fitness levels!
Hey Celestial

Hey Celestial

2014 • 1 min
‘Hey Celestial’ is a video capstone project based on the texts of Toni Morrison. It examines Morrison's recurring character of the wild/wanton woman, using images of silence and absence to depict her in the isolation created by her freedom. The juxtaposition of sung text, intertext, and subtitled text deliberately recreates the interior discord of secluded madness.