All Films

El Triunfante

2015 • 50 min • Spain

What's the process of retrieving a sunken ship and preparing it for display in a museum? How do archaeologists work underwater? One of the biggest wrecks ever discovered in Spain was the 'Triunfante', sunk during a French siege in 1795. We follow the process from its discovery to its display in a museum and learn what makes this ship so special.

National Passion

2015 • 17 min • Brazil

The young Café finds the phone of Lina, a German student visiting Brazil during the 2014 World Cup, and they decide to meet so he can return it to her. After a small ride, as a thank you note, she invites him to watch the soccer match with her.

El humo denso que nos oprime el pecho

2015 • 25 min • Mexico

A family hides a terrible secret that will lead them to live their nightmares and experience a personal hell.

First Interview

2015 • 13 min • Ukraine

A girl is riding her bike to her first job interview. Suddenly, she has an accident on the road...

The Neighbours

2015 • 39 min

It's summer, a little residential neighborhood is submerged by fear when its inhabitants learn that a burglar escaped from the island facing their homes. What to do ? The streets are wide, the walls are low, the heat is punishing and he could be anywhere.

Nephtali

2015 • 3 min • France

In Nephtali, animator Glen Keane uses both film and drawing in order to depict the journey of a ballerina that is drawn towards a higher power.

One Day in Sarajevo

2015 • 60 min • Bosnia and Herzegovina

Causes and consequences of the assassination that happened in Sarajevo a hundred years ago still continue to reverberate in Europe. On June 28, 1914 Gavrilo Princip assassinated the heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire Franz Ferdinand sparking World War I that marked the start of the 20th century. As Sarajevo commemorated the centennial of the assassination, different people had different interpretations of what happened in the city a century ago and different emotions about it. ONE DAY IN SARAJEVO tells about various perspectives of the anniversary in Sarajevo combining and contrasting footage filmed by citizens of Sarajevo (with small cameras and mobile phones) with scenes from feature films about the assassination by directors from Austria, Bosnia-Herzegovina and the United Kingdom

The Moustache

2015 • 4 min • Finland

This town is too small for the both of them. And for their moustache.

Neither God Nor Santa María

2015 • 12 min • Spain

“Since airplanes did not exist, people moved around using prayers; they went from one land to another and returned early, before dawn. In old audio recordings, the voices of pastors speak of the mythical existence of witches and their travels. In the daily life of a woman, the magic of her tales begins to materialize as night falls. Night is the time when travel is possible.”—Samuel Delgado & Helena Girón

Sry Bsy

2015 • 4 min • Germany

Sry bsy - no time for nothing. This digital 2D animation is about obsessions, compulsions and the pressure of keeping up with the challenges of modern working life. By combining a dark sense of humor with absurd elements, this film is amusing and disturbing at the same time.

Jáaji Approx.

2015 • 8 min • United States of America

Against landscapes that the artist and his father traversed, audio of the father in the Ho-Chunk language is transcribed using the International Phonetic Alphabet, which tapers off, narrowing the distance between recorder and recordings, new and traditional, memory and song.

Terror Pizza

2015 • 11 min • Puerto Rico

Employees at a local pizzeria are being stalked by a former coworker, who was fired years ago.

Restart

2015 • 15 min

Andrea is trapped in a temporal loop. Will she be able to break it?

Same Same is Not the Same

2015 • 19 min • Thailand

After seeing his mother criticize a gay relationship that appears on television, Inn decides to come out out to her with the help of his boyfriend, Max.

Very Lonely Cock

2015 • 6 min • Russia

The lonely rooster had a rough day. Perhaps tomorrow will turn out better.

Yang

2015 • 7 min

A woman attempts a prayer circle to rid a household of a witch’s dark curse, but an encounter with evil will forever leave its mark on her.

A 4363 Trip

2015 • 3 min • United Kingdom, France

A musical directly animated on film where the leitmotiv is the circle and its variations.

Last Conversation

2015 • 11 min • United States of America

LAST CONVERSATION plays homage to thrillers of the 1970's, weaving together a married couple, a mysterious thumb drive and an activist group into one wild tale..

Noon

2015 • 3 min

A silent short about a moment in the day.

Painless

2015 • 12 min • United States of America

Two sisters struggle to repair their fractured relationship while plotting to kill their sick mother.

Drowning on Dry Land

2015 • 48 min • United Kingdom

Very few people have seen life from as many angles as Ray Jones. After a regular upbringing in a working-class area of Swansea, Ray veered off the rails into a life of shoplifting and small-time drug dealing fuelled by alcohol and driven by gambling. Inevitably, Ray was sent to prison and eventually left Swansea for London such was his growing notoriety with the police and magistrates in his home town. In London he settled in Ladbroke Grove and became a key figure in the burgeoning music and art scene emerging from the boho pubs around Notting Hill. He toured with Joe Strummer, hung out behind the scenes in Paris fashion houses and ran Dylan's bar in San Francisco before being ripped off in a massive drugs deal, leaving him destitute.

Liberian Boy

2015 • 5 min • Canada, France

Jules had been hard at work rehearsing the steps to "Billie Jean" for the end-of-the-year show. That same year, he jumped onstage in the middle of a post-rock concert, took off his shirt, leapt into the crowd. That’s when we started to film him. Then we offered to spend a day in a studio and film him dancing.

634 Pasos

2015 • 33 min • Chile

Gus, a scientist interested in curing generational alienation by touch, subjects Santos and Burgundy to a clandestine experiment, connecting them to machines that transport them to a mental world where they meet, discover and be reborn together.

Recommendation

2015 • 17 min • Russia

A salesgirl at a grocery store recommends a sausage to a customer in such a sincere and humble way that he falls in love for her.