All Films

Afghanistan Night Stories

2015 • 60 min • Afghanistan

This documentary film follows a small band of military commandos, members of the Afghan army who fight their country's enemies during predominantly night missions. A story of war, love, life and death, it is an unprecedented look at these elite fighters, and the hopes and dreams they have rarely spoken of until now.

5 Women Wearing the Same Dress

2015 • 9 min

Based on the play by Alan Ball

Brian and John Dillner Attack Bird Dog Bartels in Lloyd Harbor NY

2015 • 10 min

Brian and John Dillner are menaces.

Sinuaria

2015 • 15 min • Italy

"Sinuaria" deals with Michele Murtas, an imprisoned young man in the Asinara's penitentiary at the end of the 70s. He has a talent for hairdressing, and all the women on the island love him for that.

Das Haus Nummer 13

2015 • 10 min • Germany

David and his wife go to an old and strange house to look for antiques. But strange things happen to the wife. She suddenly seems to have disappeared without a trace in the house. However, when she reappears, she behaves strangely and frighteningly. David doubts his sanity. Is he awake or just dreaming, or does he really have to fear for his life?

Status Change

2015 • 1 min

Vanessa's private life spills into social media, under intense circumstances.

Into Place

2015 • 5 min

short-film about finding your own place and destiny.

Age of Despair

2015 • 17 min

Primitive demonic entities, manifestations of pagan feminine deities, awaken to perform a satiety ritual.

Tienda de campaña

2015 • 5 min

Adrián and Darío have been friends since they were 15 years old, but that could change after this camping trip thanks to an accidental incident that will make them both give free rein to their thoughts that they will not want to externalize.

Toro!

2015 • 5 min • Czech Republic

A man and a woman set out for the bullfighting arena, only to miss their bus. Whose fault is it? Who bears responsibility? Who has the right to be angry and offended? Their relationship drama suddenly transforms into a relentless duel between a toreador and a bull—just as the real bullfight begins in the nearby arena.

Rubberbandits Guide to 1916

2015 • 46 min • Ireland

A documentary on the 1916 Easter Rising, written and performed by the duo Rubberbandits.

Harvey’s Dream

2015 • 11 min • United States of America

Adapted from the Stephen King short story, Harvey's Dream involves a father's nightmare bleeding through the real world.

Huemul

2015 • 5 min • Chile, United Kingdom

A mysterious Huemul (south andean deer) appears to a father who is searching for his lost baby daughter after a destructive earthquake.

The Taste of Fences

2015 • 15 min • Indonesia

A family-the mother, the son (Bagus) and the daughter (Ayu)-lives in a house located in coast area. The mother rent her son to guests who long for pleasure during their journey. He is usually blindfolded when serving his guests. One day, Ayu finds a headless woman statue and bring it home. She tells her bother that there is a guest waiting for his service. Blindfolded, at first Bagus is surprised by the woman statue. Yet, instead of being scared of it, he finds a liberty.

The Messenger

2015 • 7 min • Mexico

A man wakes up to a message telling him to go to the beach to meet an unknown person.

Toaster

2015 • 17 min

Young and without any experience, a guy gets struck earlier in life by hard times. On his way to maturity he's supposed to make a difficult choice. Who's going to win: the toaster or the bicycle?

Forgiveness

2015 • 4 min • United States of America

Two sisters argue and one runs away from home. When she crashes her car into a tree, she ends up recovering with a cast on her leg. She and her sister then reconcile through the process of forgiveness.

Singing Saved my Life

2015 • 57 min • Norway, Russia

When film director Morten Conradi´s father met Igor Trapitsin, a Russian prisoner of war, for the first time in Brønnøysund in Norway 1945, it was the beginning of a friendship that lasted until Morten’s father died in 1977. Morten always wanted to find Igor and find out how he survived the barbaric conditions in the camps during the Second World War. So in 2009 Morten went to Moscow to meet him. The answer Igor gave was unexpected, he simply said: "Singing saved my life".

Waves '98

2015 • 15 min • Lebanon, Qatar

Disillusioned with his life in the suburbs of segregated Beirut, Omar's unusual discovery lures him into the depth of the city. Immersed into a world that is so close yet so isolated from his reality, he finds himself struggling to keep his attachments, his sense of home.

Tales from the Tour Bus: Rock 'n' Roll on the Road

2015 • 60 min • United Kingdom

Rock legend and tour bus aficionado Rick Wakeman takes us on a time-travelling trip through the decades in this first-hand account of rockers on the road from the late 1950s to the 80s and beyond. It's a secret history of transport cafes, transit vans, B&Bs, sleepless roadies and of loved ones left at home or, on one occasion, by the roadside. Also audiences both good and bad, and the gigs themselves - from the early variety package to the head clubs, the stadiums, and the pubs.

Last Day of School

2015 • 7 min • Malaysia

Siew Fang, a girl with big dreams but with even bigger responsibilities towards her family. She is faced with the ultimate test when she has to choose between her studies and her family.

The Violin

2015 • 17 min • Singapore

Circa late 1930s, Boat Quay, Singapore. A young boy receives an old violin as a gift out of kindness from a foreign trader. From then on, it becomes a treasured possession as he teaches himself to play the instrument over several years, until it was lost during the Japanese Occupation of Singapore. After the war, the violin was found by a man working for the British Military Administration and given to his young daughter. The girl learns to play it and becomes a renowned violinist over the decades. She eventually passes the instrument on to her grandson, an accomplished violinist himself, who restores it and performs in a concert by the Singapore River, where the violin started its unexpected journey nearly 80 years ago.

Trials, Exorcisms

2015 • 25 min • Portugal

In Alhambra, between the mountains and the river, a train runs through the village. Oscar, forty-eight years, has worked for the last twenty-fifth years in the same factory, and finds himself awaiting for the resolution of the court on the application of the insolvency of the factory where he worked. With the suspended production and the unpaid wages, Oscar and his colleagues continue to appear daily to work hoping that they can keep their jobs.

Night Without Distance

2015 • 23 min • Spain, Portugal

An instant in the memory of landscape: the smuggling that for centuries crossed the line between Portugal and Galicia. The Gerês Mountains knows no borders, and rocks cross from one country to another with insolence. Smugglers also disobey this separation. The rocks, the river, the trees: silent witnesses that help them to hide. They just have to wait for the night to cross the distance that separates them.