All Films

Même le vent semble pleurer

2016 • 50 min • France, Japan

Golden Oldies

2016 • 2 min

In a typical fifties diner a gangly teenager tries to rock'n'roll with the prettiest girl on the dancefloor, but is opposed by an importunate cool dude and a stammering jukebox.

Flames on the Soil

2016 • 12 min • Latvia

A young Latvian boy's life faces changes as his country is occupied by the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany.

Love Bites

2016 • 12 min • Ireland, United Kingdom

Vampires Claire and Xavier have been married for 106 years. While out for their nightly feed they come across a courting couple that stir up old regrets from their past.

The Story Of An Encounter

2016 • 25 min

The Story of an Encounter is a documentary that captures the unexpected encounter between México and Cirque du Soleil creators in the mist of the creation of LUZIA, Cirque du Soleil next big top show. It is a cultural and intimate story of the meeting of creative minds seen through personal interactions and relationship building of the show creators. Filmed in Mexico City, Tijuana, Oaxaca and Montréal, this series features: Daniele Finzi Pasca (Co-author and Director of LUZIA), Patricia Ruel (Direction of Creation), Simon Carpentier (Composer), Eugenio Caballero (Set and Props Designer) as well as Majo Cornejo and Rodrigo de la Mora (Musicians).

Misterioso

2016 • 9 min • France

In an alternate reality, social networks appeared during the 80's. Following Bruno's advice, Charles is going to like a mysterious community's page, without knowing the consequences of his act. In one only night, his life will be disrupted.

The Ordinance

2016 • 33 min

An unprecedented fight to protect the poor in small town Texas. Churches, nonprofits, and cities are taking action against the payday loan industry. This inspiring story examines how a group of Texans are fighting for change and vowed to protect their neighbors from loan sharks. In a time when political disillusionment is all around, this documentary serves as an important example of how the best, and worst, of our political system can unite a community.

Ginger

2016 • 17 min

The autumn of terror has just begun and agitation is starting to spread among the unfortunates in Whitechapel. One of them is Mary Jane Kelly, who goes by the name of Ginger. Driven by the need to survive in the harsh reality of London in 1888 and her own personal greed, she delves into a world of crime. But her actions have consequences beyond her control; leading to her own death and halting the murders of Jack the Ripper.

Slapper

2016 • 15 min • Australia

Taylah is a rebellious and destitute teen from rural Australian suburbia. After a brief sexual encounter, Taylah must scrape together money for the morning-after pill before it’s too late. As she hustles for the cash, she is also stuck babysitting a wild and uncooperative five-year-old, Vegas. Taylah’s wits are tested as she navigates a suburban wasteland, determined to not let poverty strip her of her bodily autonomy.

Nome di battaglia Donna

2016 • 60 min • Kuwait

During the Resistance, in November 1943, the “Women's Defence Groups for the Assistance of Freedom Fighters” were formed. These groups organised demonstrations to demand peace in the city and in the municipalities of the province; the women collected clothing for the partisans, made flags and armbands, the older ones knitted woollen socks and jumpers, the younger ones became gappiste (female partisans), couriers or took up arms. Marisa, Carmen, Carla and the other protagonists of this story took part in the Resistance in Piedmont, and now they recount that period, illustrating its difficulties, commitment, losses, growth and achievements.

Has-Beens

2016 • 11 min • Ukraine

The Petrivka book market is a place where everyone brings their old books they no longer need. The market sellers are people of the old school who still perceive books as a sort of currency.

Mayrah

2016 • 5 min • United States of America

Mayrah is a film made from a time last summer while in Sidney, Brisbane and Melbourne. Australia was such an intense flurry of impressions, movements and environments, that the film took the form of a stone skipping across moments of this time: a series of visual memories, the surface of which both reflected some brief abstract and literal elements of my experience.

Fur Coat

2016 • 16 min • Russia

A man sees all women naked, and only his own wife he sees in a fur coat.

Adventures on the Arctic Ice

2016 • 59 min • France

France is a sailor, Eric is a scientist and it is by combining their passions and talents that they first became a couple and then a family. Today, Léonie, 9 years old, and Aurore, 6 years old, share this very special daily life 60 km north of the polar circle. For the past three years the family has been anchored on an ice floe near an Inuit village of 500 inhabitants. The objective is to share a social life with this amazing people and to allow the girls to go to the Inuit school. We will discover their extraordinary daily life.

Nail

2016 • 32 min • Liechtenstein, Ukraine, Switzerland

Valentina works in Lichtenstein. She lived in Kyiv until the age of 13. In 1996, during a hard transitive economic period in Ukraine, Valentina emigrated to Switzerland with her mother and stepfather. 20 years have passed.

Viva Água

2016 • 9 min • Italy

VIVA ÁGUA is a meditation on the philosophical work entitled ÁGUA VIVA written by Clarice Lispector in 1973. The film reflects on Lispector’s interior experimental monologue on the “instant-now” of time, the discomforts of language which are “beyond thought” and the harmonious dissonant reminders and remainders of that “sometime what is seen is ineffable.”

Online Love

2016 • 5 min • United Kingdom

Finding love can be hard, right? Even when you do find someone, what do you say to them through the social network you'll inevitably be using?

Entre deuils

2016 • 17 min • France

A Ford Mustang. A brother and a sister. Their grandmother. And a funerary urn.

Sacred Water

2016 • 56 min • Belgium

Sacred Water is a film about female ejaculation and the discussions around it.

Not too Bad

2016 • 18 min • Chile

As a Child, César always wanted to die at twenty seven, just as The 27 Club. However, he didn't know he was actually going to.

Memoria

2016 • 39 min • Indonesia, Timor-Leste

A mother tries to leave her memory of being a victim during the war in Timor Leste. A daughter tries to secure herself under a marriage. They are trying to find the real meaning of freedom. Maria is one of the female victims of sexual violence in Timor Leste in their dark years of independence. She sees that such possibility can happen as well to Flora just because of a bride price.

The Courtyard

2016 • 7 min • France

A young bored man relives his past thanks to his new neighbor clumsiness.

With A Kiss

2016 • 46 min • United States of America

Through a son’s eyes, With A Kiss tells the story of a father who had been on the Road to the Final Four his whole life, and last year, at age 73, got the call to announce his first Final Four on television. The documentary chronicles Raftery’s experience at the 2015 Final Four in Indianapolis, his 35-year broadcasting career, and ascent to one of the pinnacles in sports broadcasting as CBS Sports’ lead college basketball analyst. The show presents an intimate look at Raftery’s family life and highlights his early years in which the Kearny, N.J. native was a basketball star earning player of the year honors as a high school senior in 1959.

A Buddy Already Dead

2016 • 16 min • Greece

Apart from one chicken in a freezer, a trumpet teacher, keeps also the corpse of his mother. Is there life after death?