All Films

Nena's Window

2015 • 40 min • Dominican Republic, United States of America

I almost did not know her, because for me she always has lived outside. The missing grandmother who appeared from time to time at the airport and called the day of my birthday. We did not talk too much but felt close, like a mountain you don't have to climb to know is there. Then I also left the country, but to a different place and never asked her how or why she immigrated. At the age of ninety-one in a town of New Jersey, she receives me. This is the story of our last meeting.

Trent Parke: The Black Rose

2015 • 28 min

This short documentary showcases Australian photographer Trent Parke’s The Black Rose exhibit while delving into his past, techniques, and philosophy of art.

El Panóptico Ciego

2015 • 56 min • Ecuador

The documentary chronicles the 139 years of the ex penitentiary García Moreno in Quito, Ecuador, and traces left by the inmates to be transferred to the new prison in the province of Cotopaxi.

The Mindful Revolution

2015 • 58 min

The revolution of mindfulness meditation in the business world - a critical look behind the facade of a modern, spiritual phenomenon.

Modulaciones en la Terraza

2015 • 5 min

Film made with two photographs taken at the Unité d’Habitation, built by Le Corbusier in Marseille. For the editing the film are used a film adaptation of the rules of the Modulor, measurement system designed by Le Corbusier himself. Includes a tribute to Paul Sharits and another to Agnès Varda.

The Bone

2015 • 5 min • Turkey

A lot of words have been said on women-men equality for many centuries. However there is a situation people don’t realize even though they know it very well.

Korath: Dawn of Darkness

2015 • 25 min • Australia

An original medieval Fantasy short film inspired by games such as Elders Scrolls Skyrim and The Witcher. In the magical world of Korath a band of adventurers is formed for good or for worse.

Time Out

2015 • 6 min • France

Albert, our clockmaker, goes inside the giant village clock to understand why it is blocked. He will discover a whole world of clock parts and cuckoos going crazy.

Roland Barthes, 1915-1980: Le théâtre du langage

2015 • 54 min • France

Most of the time, Roland Barthes is classified in the category of the 1970s intellectuals, where all his fascinating singularity fades. Our movie holds exactly to the desire of making perceptible his singularity. In this purpose, the movie is constituted by an editing of archives, articulated around Barthes presence and the progress of his career. It is thus a kind of a Roland Barthes’s cinematic version by Roland Barthes, a self–portrait that could be resumed by a point of view as accurate as possible.

Head In The Clouds

2015 • 14 min • United States of America

After their sister dies, Leah and Lucy are forced to raise their socially awkward nephew, Luke.

Ghostboy

2015 • 9 min

Arriving at their new house, Alfie's family have very different ideas about their new home. 'Ghostboy' teaches the very important lesson that some things aren't always what they seem.

As Sementes

2015 • 32 min • Brazil

Neneide talks about female empowerment and how the group “Mulheres Decididas a Vencer” started working with bees in a settlement in Rio Grande do Norte. Izanete resists agribusiness that occupies extensive land in Rio Grande do Sul, where he produces ecological milk and bread for school meals. For Efigênia, gardening is therapy and working in the fields in Minas Gerais, independence. Maria dos Santos recalls struggles for land tenure and gender equality and against malnutrition in the quilombola areas of Bahia. Four seeds of solidarity economy, cooperativism, feminism, agroecology.

Silent Anger

2015 • 26 min • France

Young Julian is shopping with his father when his father suddenly disappears. Julian waits for his father to come back, while coping with his fear and anxiety. The film explores the themes of childhood, abandonment, and resilience.

Entrance

2015 • 11 min

This is an installation documentary created in 2015. The quiet process of making boxes indoors reflects the author's patience and caution, the narration when the screen is black reflects the author's familiarity and confidence in what he wants to express, and the dodging perspective and trembling picture when facing the crowd outdoors reflect the photographer's cramped and alienated. A lot of things happened after 2015, and the film was re-edited. The current version has almost used the best materials of that year.

Desperately Seeking Signal

2015 • 8 min • Canada

A 911 dispatcher helps a lost and surprisingly upbeat woman in a compromising situation and connects with more than just the call.

Romka

2015 • 14 min • Ukraine, United States of America

Story about school of life for the 12 y.o. kid, who became a hero of Maidan, during the current revolution in Ukraine

A long holiday

2015 • 16 min

Louise discovers the joys of camping by the sea with her parents. With her father she collects precious treasures having belonged, he claims, to a siren. He tells her the story of a siren who cannot sing and does not find her place in society.

The Case in Potassium Park

2015 • 26 min • Latvia

Ģirts and his friend plan an excursion to a mystical place, the abandoned Potassium Park. In order to get the family car, Ģirts lies and says he is going fishing, so his parents compel him to take his younger brother along. Ģirts’ friend backs out, and he is forced to go fishing after all. Bitter about the failed plan, Ģirts is mean, but his brother’s joy over the first fish caught is a self-revelation of his pervasive injustice towards his younger brother. As a gift, Ģirts shows him the secret entrance to Potassium Park. The brothers head off on an exciting foray through the abandoned and mysterious structures, until they accidentally uncover a box of explosives that tests their newly-developed camaraderie.

La nuit tombée

2015 • 29 min

That evening, Victor, aged thirteen, does not want to go home. Also, ayoung woman, Sandrine, pushes away the the moment when she will find her lonely flat. Night is falling, in Orléans, shortly before Christmas.

Blood Lions

2015 • 44 min

Every single day in South Africa at least two to three captive bred or tame lions are being killed in canned hunts. And hundreds more are slaughtered annually for the lion bone trade. The Blood Lions story is a compelling call to action to have these practices stopped.

Don't Look Up

2015 • 5 min • United States of America

A young woman comes home late night on public transportation and puts herself in a precarious position where she comes across an urban legend that may be true.

The Sun King

2015 • 20 min

Johnny Otto's newest project "The Sun King" is a dark, quirky short film (20 Min.) about a Young Woman named Chloe (Thessa M'Loe) who begins following a mysterious Crime Fighter, (Pedro Shanahan) who she claims has special powers, which are the result of taking some sort of drug. After encountering a Young Man named Ben, (Tim Perkins) Chloe begins to confess everything she has seen to him. But will Ben believe her strange and unlikely story or simple think that she is going mad? And, is there more to Ben than Chloe has thought?

The Follies of M

2015 • 11 min • United Kingdom

The Follies of M tells the story of the Provincial Parish of M, famed for it's quantity and variety of architectural follies and introduces the misshapen residents who indulged in suck reckless construction projects.

Perfection Is Forever

2015 • 18 min • Romania, United Kingdom

A tree is what it is, complete in its own being. Human beings, on the other hand, always aspire to become something more, doing their best to hold back time in pursuit of eternal love, youth, and beauty. In Hollywood, two lost souls seek to become heroes under the shade of a lonely palm tree.