All Films

Snow Bunnies

2015 • 4 min • Russia

Miracles always happen in a New Year’s fairy tale. When the evil Wolves and the kind Hares unexpectedly meet in the winter forest, they end up dancing together around a decorated tree.

Moving On from Vanilla

2015 • 2 min • United States of America

Written by Kaye Blegvad and Lessa Millet Illustration by Kaye Blegvad Animation by Lessa Millet Music by Grant Cutler Narrated by Karley Sciortino

Permission

2015 • 14 min • United States of America

Chinese middle class student Hua decides to propose to his American upper-class girlfriend Virginia, but first, he has to get her father's permission.

Eu Vi Dublado

2015 • 16 min • Brazil

Our Body

2015 • 15 min • Bosnia and Herzegovina, Germany, Serbia

From here, you can see everything: the sea to the right, the mountains to the left, the sky in between.

The Wonderful Flight

2015 • 15 min • Mongolia

The Mongolia of 1996 was a very different country to the Mongolia of 2015. The sudden transformation to a market economy left health services at breaking point. A mother learns that local doctors are unable to cure her young son’s sudden loss of hearing; and that her son will no longer be able to play his beloved Horse-Head Fiddle. This news does not stop the boy’s older brother trying, with the help of his best friends, to find a cure of their own – no matter how ambitious.

Auteur in Space

2015 • 5 min • United States of America

A video essay on how Andrei Tarkovsky’s Solaris transcends science fiction.

Armenia Sings on in Our Hearts

2015 • 52 min • Argentina, Armenia, Brazil, France, United States of America

From the beaches of Rio de Janeiro to a cafés in Paris, Armenia Sings On in Our Hearts explores the diversity of the Armenian diaspora. When the massacres forced many Armenians to find a new home, they struggled to overcome numerous difficulties to maintain their identity and keep their culture and spirit alive throughout the world. The film spans several generations to explain the history of the diaspora and what it means to be Armenian today. Through food, music, and dance, viewers can embark on a unique, cultural journey that includes festive celebrations, insightful interviews, and stories that tell of the challenges and success stories in remaining connected to one´s roots while simultaneously redefining what it means to be Armenian.

Those of the Treetops and Heaven

2015 • 3 min • France

A young boy, living in a village on a giant tree, falls into the depths of the forest where he meets two indigenous beings who will help him return home.

Mary No More

2015 • 24 min

A contemplative coming of age drama. With her grandmother's impending death, 18 year old Mary finds it difficult to connect, instead growing ever closer to her cousin Cameron.

Catharsis

2015 • 20 min • United States of America

A gay twentysomething in Brooklyn sets out to find himself after a break up. He realizes the only way to do this is by going back and moving forward.

In This Town

2015 • 27 min

A group of youngsters gathers in Noryangjin, tucking their lives behind. They are here with a same goal to pass the exam, but it can't be done by everyone. They live a repetition of the same routine every day.

The Mannequin

2015 • 13 min • Italy

In suburban Rome, a kid is intrigued by a mannequin abandoned in a field. The fascination for this lifeless body, will mark the discovery of a new world, made of impulses, dreams and desires.

If the Photo Is Good

2015 • 22 min • France

In a small town of France, Martin shares his everyday life between his family and the local brass band. At the fanfare, Francis disturbs his well-ordered life. To stop the impulses, Martin will try to go to the end of his fantasies.

The Birthday

2015 • 17 min • Germany, Italy

Ron, a nineteen-year-old girl, is deeply in love with May, her best friend. A short time after Ron moves from Taipei, May decides to join her in Berlin. The love between them is strong but contrasting: Ron does not openly tell May her feelings but May is conscious of what she represents to her friend.

Roots of Evil

2015 • 23 min • Serbia

Essay of mosaic structure and close-up, filmed in the poetic tradition of cinema verité about the roots of family violence and the thin line between violators and victims. The protagonists are convicts who committed crimes after years of psychological and (or) physical violence. Film seeks answers to these questions: Is it possible to resolve family conflicts in a more peaceful way? Where does the deep and uncontrolled evil towards the loved ones come from?

Outside

2015 • 12 min • Slovenia

A young couple walks through the wilderness. She is free and he follows, somewhat reluctantly. After spending a stormy night under a rock shelter, they meet a man from her past. Together they come upon a road.

The Halloween Girl

2015 • 19 min • United States of America

Ten years after her tragic death on Halloween night, Charlotte begins to reappear to her mother, Marie, in a series of nightmares - or are they? Only adding to her distress is the news that her young son, Luke, now has a mysterious teenage friend he calls 'The Halloween Girl' - and her name is Charlotte. Has Charlotte really returned - and is Marie's dark secret now in danger of being revealed...?

Ujantali

2015 • 26 min • India

Journey of an elderly lady who came to India at an early age but still has her soul living in Bangladesh.

Christianias Børn: Skyggesiden af eventyret

2015 • 58 min • Denmark

In 1971, the Christiania refuge was created in Copenhagen. It became a boundless playground for the adults but perhaps not for the children who were left to themselves while their parents engaged in free sex and drugs.

Skinhearts

2015 • 5 min • Netherlands

What if you could not touch each other anymore? What if you became touch-phobic? What if we became an organised, impersonal, faceless, untouchable society set up to avoid all physical contact as a rule of proper behaviour to the point of making physical interaction illegal? Zoë lives in such society and she is committed to finding what’s missing in her life by adhering to the Skinhearts. The ones who have to hide and traffic to put back in touch human skin. But will the most radical act there is in those times, make up for her need of human touch?

Palindromes

2015 • 8 min • Australia

A lonely man obsessed with symmetry is forced to reveal a peculiar imperfection when he falls in love with the seemingly perfect woman.

El novio actual

2015 • 11 min • Argentina

A filmmaker meets her ex-boyfriend, who plays a role in her new film, in which the authenticity or falsity of a kiss in a gay scene is debated, with backstage included. Metacine or metagay? Gay cinema within cinema or cinema within gay cinema, variations of a daedalus of representations. "The current boyfriend" feeds on lateral humor, on the political of desire as a talk in the kitchen, on the flicker-free observation of who we are and what we pretend to be, as a nucleus that is reinterpreted with always different gestures, once as drama and another like comedy, almost without knowing which is appropriate.

The Oka Legacy

2015 • 45 min • Canada

The Oka Legacy is a POV documentary that explores how the Oka Crisis has influenced Indigenous identity in Canada. In the summer of 1990, all eyes were on the small town of Oka, Quebec. Triggered by plans to expand a golf course on ancestral land, it was a standoff between the Mohawk people of Kanehsatake, the police and eventually the army. The Oka Crisis lasted 78 days and drew worldwide attention. The standoff had a profound impact on Indigenous peoples in Canada setting the tone for Indigenous resistance throughout the ‘90s.