All Films

Torchlighters: The John Wesley Story

2014 • 30 min

When young John Wesley is miraculously saved from his family’s burning home, his mother is certain that God has a great purpose for the boy's life. John will later refer to himself as a “brand plucked from the burning.” As a man, Wesley tries to live out that special purpose on his own strength and good works, but it only brings frustration and failure. Finally, after years of struggle, Wesley embraces saving grace! But his new message is not welcome in the established churches. Will John break all the rules and take his message outside the church walls to the needy and outcast?

The Decision

2014 • 18 min

Karim is a Dutch boy with a Moroccan background. He is a music teacher in Amsterdam. One morning Karim receives a text message on his phone. All of a sudden he has to make a decision that turns his life upside down.

Disregarded

2014 • 13 min

Trying to live up to the expectations of his peers, Blake, a seemingly ordinary college freshman, grapples with staying comfortably in the closet or stepping out and potentially losing everything he's ever known.

In the Depths of Lakes

2014 • 54 min • Lithuania

This film is a journey into the depths of Lithuanian lakes, where the underwater beauty, silence and terrain that remained unchanged for thousands of years, are accessible only for those who explore them patiently. The viewer is invited to explore them together with the filmmakers and see the unique underwater world that surprises even those who have been researching lakes and their origin for many years. Four divers share their experiences, their secret discoveries and moods of the four different Lithuanian lakes.

Hoover Road

2014 • 16 min

When Mark, a young Alabama gay man, wants to move away from his small town, he must leave behind his lover Saul and Saul's quirky bipolar father Hank. Can Mark leave behind the farm on Hoover Road and the offbeat home he's created there?

Out

2014 • 17 min

Mary is a divorced middle-aged mother living in a small English town. One weekend she receives the visit of her closet-emerging son Oscar. How will Mary make sense of her son's coming out and the small-town mentality that surrounds her?

Rigor Mortis

2014 • 16 min

Rigor Mortis is a short film about Chris, a funeral embalmer, whose family unit is threatened with the arrival of an unhinged lover at his workplace.

Tusk

2014 • 5 min • United Kingdom

A mammoth is defrosted into an unrecognisable future.

Off-History

2014 • 19 min

Off-History is a video-essay which presents, as its central ‘character’, an unfinished building located at the port of Piraeus, Greece's main harbour. The narrative of the film departs from newsreel footage shot in 1972 documenting the 'sanctification of water' in the harbour of Piraeus during Easter celebration. Throughout the clip the Piraeus Tower appears repeatedly in the background of the image and thus situates the ”off” in relating to an already written history. The “off”, in Off-History constitutes a position that wishes to shift the focus within a historical document by focusing on its margins. As a way of reading history from the backgrounds of the images, that construct it. It takes a second look at already existing narratives inspired by the concept of ”the off-modern”, a term invented by Russian/American artist Svetlana Boym.

Bailey

2014 • 7 min

School proves to be an unexpected place for Bailey to do all sorts of things he loves: reading, fetching, painting, digging, singing - and making friends!

Welcome Home

2014 • 30 min

A story about a queer elderly community in Berlin.

candle

2014 • 3 min

Monster Croc: Search for a Killer

2014 • 44 min • United States of America

Two adventurous filmmakers travel to Belize to capture a 14-foot crocodile that escaped from a sanctuary and allegedly killed five people.

A Whale Is A Whale Is A Whale

2014 • 3 min

A tribute to the disappearing Arabian humpback whale population, tracing its near extinction as a consequence of the high-speed development of the Persian Gulf.

The Girl Between a Cut and a Cut

2014 • 6 min

Off-frame. A combination of physical shots. A trace of hands joining film with film. A 200-ft lengthy question about 'something' existing between film cuts.

Bob Ross: Times Past

2014 • 60 min

Bob Ross, the host of television’s favorite art show The Joy of Painting, paints one painting - Times Past - with complete instructions for you to follow in this exclusive 60 minute DVD. Bob goes into the entire “how to” details for each painting providing you with excellent reference tools for your home studio. This episode was never seen on television!

Bob Ross: Winter Glory

2014 • 60 min

Bob Ross, the host of television’s favorite art show The Joy of Painting, paints one painting - Winter Glory - with complete instructions for you to follow in this exclusive 60 minute DVD. Bob goes into the entire “how to” details for each painting providing you with excellent reference tools for your home studio. This episode was never seen on television!

We, Palestinian refugees...

2014 • 51 min

One week in the alleys of the Burj el-Barajneh refugee camp, in the southern suburbs of Beirut. A city within a city crowded with nearly 30,000 people, with their dreams and hopes. Meeting with these exiles who, in a proverb with desperate humor, summed up their fate: "Our past is a tragedy, our present is an ordeal, fortunately we have no future."

My Brother is Batman

2014 • 25 min • Russia

Sergei is seven years old. He believes in Batman. Not wanting to discuss the tragedy that happened in the family, Sergei's older brother, Misha, starts playing superhero in real life. The brothers create their own world, incomprehensible to others. But can the game last forever?

10 Years Athens Pride

2014 • 6 min

“In 2014, on the tenth anniversary of Athens Pride, I grabbed a camera and asked the thoughts of different people in the community: was there any change? Opinion was divided, but the opinion that came last was that of Zak Kostopoulos – who was right!”: these are the words of the influential figure Maria Cyber, as she looks back at her first attempt in filmmaking. “I think things are changing, getting better. They’re also getting worse at the same time, strangely enough. There’s an increase in people who are very anti [-LGBTQI+] and those who are pro… Let’s see who’ll win in the end – we will!” Zak charmingly said to the camera held by Maria, with whom he had a friendly relationship, four years before his brutal murder.

Justin Timberlake: Suited Up

2014 • 58 min • United Kingdom

Exchange and Mart

2014 • 15 min • United Kingdom

Girls boarding school in the remote Scottish Highlands, 1986. Reg is a lonely 15 year old girl, who stares longingly out of her dorm window at the chainsaw wielding tree surgeon working in the school grounds. Reg and her classmates have to take part in a self defense exercise - The Attack Test. Alone, Reg must walk through the woods until she is attacked by her masked teacher, Mike, at which point she must defend herself using force. This is intended as real life preparation for these privileged and inexperienced women living in an isolated world where rape paranoia was rife. Full of trepidation, Reg walks into the woods where Mike is waiting, but the test does not go according to plan.

Losing Your Flames

2014 • 31 min

When Chris receives a text from his boyfriend word, spreads faster than lightning in the southern town he calls home, resulting in his expulsion from the popular crowd, and worse his family.

Folaim - Joker Experiment

2014 • 3 min • Saudi Arabia

A young guy reenacts a scene of Dark Knight's "Joker" for an audition.