All Films

Read Aloud

2015 • 15 min • United States of America

Justin is a film editor surrounded by performances. Sick of sitting in a dark room watching others, he starts to envision ‘70s cabaret style performances of his own. When a new relationship starts to develop, Justin has to decide how badly he wants to come out from behind the camera.

You Are My Present

2015 • 16 min • Canada

Wounded from his past, Sam is a self-doubting dreamer who discovers a rare and intense attraction to a stranger on a bus. He fantasizes about different scenarios of approaching the girl but never finds the courage to actually do so. Conflicted, Sam takes the audience into his own mind, where he confronts his long-time ex-girlfriend, Marie, face to face.

Turnaround

2015 • 9 min • Finland

A 12-year-old girl goes on a car ride with a man she met online to prove she is not a child anymore.

Childhood Tears

2015 • 20 min • France

One night after a home party eleven-year-old Tessa is touched by her stepfather, Bruno in a way she shouldn't have been touched. Her life is forever broken.

Krabbendans

2015 • 23 min • Netherlands

In order to save their relationship, a young man and woman go to an uninhabited island. In a short period of time they go through every phase of a relationship. The couple fights in the returning cycle that is called love.

Wealth of Vision

2015 • 25 min • Japan

An experimental film created from 3 years worth of abstract pencil drawings with the goal of being a catalyst for unveiling a new mental landscape in viewers.

Mirrors of Bergman

2015 • 3 min • United States of America

Filmmaker Kogonada reflects on women and mirrors in the films of Ingmar Bergman.

What Measures to Save a People?

2015 • 59 min • Sweden

The physician and professor Herman Lundborg headed the world’s first state racial biology institute in Uppsala, Sweden, from 1922 to ’35. He was obsessed by the threat of racial mixing between Sámi, Finns and Swedes in the north. On his travels, he is drawn to a woman of Finnish-Sámi descent, and has a child with her.

Notes from a small Japanese town

2015 • 4 min

Come along and experience a hot summer day in the small Japanese town of Misato.

Almost Not Beautiful

2015 • 13 min

Two estranged sisters are reunited back at their childhood home after going their own separate ways, only to discover that some bonds can never be repaired.

Ashen

2015 • 10 min • Spain

It's little Ema's birthday, and her father sends her to read comics in the closet while he prepares for her party. But is it her party, or an alien invasion?

The Concrete River

2015 • 10 min

A mysterious hacker finds a serial killer who has been targeting women, instead of turning over the evidence he takes matters into his own hands.

Evil Bread

2015 • 1 min • Ukraine

An evil man with bread arms trying to be eviler with varying degrees of success.

A New Understanding: The Science of Psilocybin

2015 • 55 min

A New Understanding explores the treatment of end-of-life anxiety in terminally ill cancer patients using psilocybin, a psychoactive compound found in some mushrooms, to facilitate deeply spiritual experiences. The documentary explores the confluence of science and spirituality in the first psychedelic research studies since the 1970s with terminally ill patients. As a society we devote a great deal of attention to treating cancer, but very little to treating the human being who is dying of cancer.

Back Again

2015 • 13 min • Spain

Alex returns to his village with Jordi, after a while, in order to celebrate San Juan night. However, due to a summer storm, they have to shelter in an old abandoned house where both played when they were children. In there, some conflicts of the past will turn up.

Obake-chan

2015 • 10 min • Japan

Nice to meet you, I’m Obake-chan.

Saint Frankenstein

2015 • 17 min • United States of America

A call girl who comes to visit a badly scarred client at a rundown motel gets a lot more than she bargained for once her clothing is shed and the mysterious history behind a legendary name begins to unfold.

Night Land

2015 • 11 min • United Kingdom

A young pregnant couple must drive through a dense ash cloud which has plunged a section of the UK into darkness. A terrifying encounter on their journey forces them to make a life changing decision.

The Battle of New Orleans: A Meaningful Victory

2015 • 58 min • United States of America

The Battle of New Orleans: A Meaningful Victory explores how the British misjudged their opponent and miscalculated the complexities of the battle ground. It also describes why the multi-cultural population of New Orleans proved the naysayers wrong about their loyalties to a young nation. WYES Community Projects Producer Marcia Kavanaugh and Tom Gregory hosted and produced this documentary.

Discovering Jean Harlow

2015 • 44 min

From the Classic Movie Docs library- Discovering, celebrates the lives of those who soared the highest. From Marlon Brando to Elizabeth Taylor, we uncover what drove them and why the world loved them. This episode focuses on Jean Harlow.

Savant: Kali 47

2015 • 3 min • United States of America

Undead dark riders invade a wild west saloon, blasting away everyone in sight - now only a bad-ass Native American warrior can save the town.

Tati Express

2015 • 60 min • France

Tati Express dives into Jacques Tati's films and how they look at a changing world throughout the 20th century. It shows how modernity impacts human-beings and goes through that amazing body of work at 100 mph.

Fall

2015 • 11 min • Ukraine

The protagonist of the film is time in a provincial town, which is not measured in minutes, hours or days, but in certain events.

H2Obby

2015 • 4 min • Brazil

H2Obby tells the story of Hobby, a very curious little dog that develops a friendship with an ice cube. However, with the evolution of the facts, keeping this recently created bond becomes a challenge. Will Hobby succeed?