All Films

Benches No. 0458

2015 • 7 min • Russia

Sleight

2015 • 12 min • United Arab Emirates

A late night radio host goes off on a rant about his disdain for magicians. But when a man claiming to be a magician calls on air, things get increasingly sinister.

Lembusura

2015 • 10 min • Indonesia

Lembusura, or the legend of the mountain demon. A rain of ash falls on Java. Kelud, a volcano located to this east of the Indonesian island, is active. As one of the island’s most dangerous mountains, it is known for violent and explosive eruptions. And when it rains ash, it pours. Time and again, everything gets covered in fine grey dust – houses, streets, blossoms and umbrellas. According to legend, the ash rain is caused by an angry demon named Lembusura who wears a magic hood and lives inside the volcano.

Fray

2015 • 19 min • Finland

It ain't easy being a mercenary on a dead world: a ruined world where the sun blocks everything with it's heat. Sarcastic risk-taker Fray finds herself chased by everyone from underworld thugs to Federal Agents as she leads an expedition out into the sun burned areas of the north where they will learn, that some things are better left unlearned.

S.o.s.

2015 • 33 min • South Korea

Yeonhee questions herself while being in a relationship with her boyfriend, Junhee. One day, she tries to meet a lesbian girl, Wonjin.

The Wheel

2015 • 14 min • Egypt

An Egyptian couple employed by a circus is bored. When the couple is introduced to a new show: "The Wheel", hope and excitement for a reignited passion in their lives returns.

Warm Snow

2015 • 5 min • Israel

An animated short about the relationship between a father and his grown up daughter. The daughter is waiting for her dinner and is irritated by her father’s nagging questions and suggestions. Soon we’re transported into the surreal and snowy world swirling in her head.

Respiro

2015 • 7 min • Italy

When a refugee from Syria has to crosso the Italian border, she finds out that only one thing can save her: her breath.

Lenz Elegy

2015 • 23 min • France

A Short film by Christophe Bisson

You Are Boring!

2015 • 14 min • United States of America

YOU ARE BORING! discusses the troublesome nature of “looking” and “being looked at” in larger contexts including labour within the new economy, performer/spectator relations, participatory culture, contemporary art display and queer representational politics.

Down to Earth

2015 • 51 min

Ernesto Gainza stands 4,000 meters above the ground in Dubai, preparing to set a Guinness world record skydiving with the smallest and fastest parachute in history. Experts say he is likely to die, but he jumps. Born in Valencia, Venezuela, Ernesto's father died days before he was born, leaving his mother to care for him and his sister singlehandedly in humble circumstances. After a difficult divorce, Ernesto gave up everything to move to Europe and took a skydiving course. His life changed forever and a career in parachute stunts quickly developed in a dream of setting a world record by April 5, 2014.

Dia dos Namorados

2015 • 9 min • Brazil

On the evening of Valentine's Day, Celina, a 75 years old woman, summons a young call girl with the same physical characteristics that defined her decades ago.

Sex, Drugs and Gore

2015 • 11 min • United States of America

Offended by lyrics they deemed too sexual and violent, Tipper Gore and Susan Baker campaigned to put warning labels on albums in 1985. Years later, warning labels have ended up in some unexpected places.

In

2015 • 2 min

The following content is a cartoon based on Buster Keaton's character. There is no connection with Keaton's personal life or his films.

I Said I Would Never Talk About Politics

2015 • 10 min

The shadows of politics served up in an exquisite dish.

All the Days of Our Lives

2015 • 56 min • Portugal

From the bride's room to the dance floor, through the situations created by photographers, we follow three couples on their wedding day. People working in the industry invite us to imagine the choices that the preparation of this day implies, the course of marriage preparation leads us to project the future that starts now: a daily life together. When looking at it - we all know how’s a wedding - All the Days of Our Lives tries to think about the desires that guide our life choices, ideals of love, having a family, belonging to the community.

The Legacy of Rubies

2015 • 28 min • Germany, Nigeria

Mfalme, a young forest boy is kidnapped and brought to the strange palace of Airegin, with the claim that he is the blood son of the dying King Obankosi and the chosen successor to the throne.

Untitled

2015 • 1 min

Behrouz Rae cuts to the heart of the matter in the artist’s ongoing series of works dealing with immigration and objective observations.

Snap

2015 • 5 min

A short horror movie about snapchat.

Live Free or Kill Hard

2015 • 45 min • United States of America

In the epic conclusion to the Killogy, The Mute and Davit reckon with the past and future consequences of the things they've done, The Clam joins the investigation, and the Custodian closes in.

The Good Life

2015 • 29 min • Netherlands

A multi-narrative drama set in a typical southern Dutch village that prepares for the holidays. It turns out the compulsory conviviality can’t drown out the everyday problems of some of the inhabitants: troubles at the town council, the silent struggle of a lonely grandmother, and a bullied teenager.

Smut Hounds

2015 • 9 min • Australia

It’s a story that made headlines: “Festival Film Banned!” In the late 1960s, the majority of films screened in Australia were censored in some way or another. DELETE the lovemaking. CUT the ‘Open Mouth Kissing’. REMOVE the fondling of the breast sequence. Deemed too ‘inappropriate’ and ‘morally corrupting’ for Australian eyes, these scenes were hacked from feature films and locked away in government archives. When young Sydney Film Festival director David Stratton attempted to program a Swedish film that the censors believed contained ACTUAL sex, a scandal erupted. In a mash-up of never-before-seen banned clippings, SMUT HOUNDS tells the story of how seventy-seven seconds of celluloid scandalised a government and transformed Australian cinema.

It Is Good To Wander The World

2015 • 19 min • Russia

Having learned of a friend's death, Petya goes to the morgue, the cemetery and the wake

Southland Soldiers

2015 • 55 min

A group of guerrillas retreated from Burma to Taiwan during the Chinese Civil War in 1961. They settled down and lived in virtual seclusion in four villages in the south of Taiwan. Now, fifty years later, excavators are digging uncanny holes on their land for the sake of economic development. To them, the days of forest battles have long gone, but another silent inner war has just begun.