All Films

Trigger

2014 • 2 min

A black screen with a reticle in its centre, vaguely reminiscent of Ego-Shooter games. Then figures from shooting galleries make fleeting appearances, lasting just fractions of a second, pistol in hand, standing or kneeling. A conglomeration of stereotypes from American gangster movies. The TRIGGER in its double meaning, as a trigger for both weapons and cameras. From 150 so-called “training targets” Björn Kämmerer made a selection for his latest film, filmed these on 35mm and with the aid of overexposure assembled them to a cinematic stroboscope. That makes a bang, even without sound!

Citizen Jane

2014 • 16 min

Canadian Forces Base, 1987 Private Jane Cross is quickly noticed during her training by Master Corporal Maryann Kirk, and for more than her skills on the battlefield. Meanwhile the military police wage a secret war on homosexuals, spying on soldiers suspected of engaging in 'immoral conduct.' If Jane and Maryann are careful, will anyone discover them?

Playmobil: Knights

2014 • 13 min

The dwarves are traveling to the big feast for the tournament performance. But nothing goes as planned: they loose their cave troll, meet a dragon, find magic weapons, and fall in the middle of a fight at the royal castle of the Knight of the Lion...

Mr. Plant

2014 • 46 min

Volcom Stone presents "Mr. Plant", a Veeco Productions film based on the travels of snowboarder and New Hampshire backwoodsman Pat Moore. Mr. Plant follows Pat as he spends a season traveling the world with the Volcom Snow family, friends and icons. Filmed by Seth Huot and Jake Price on location in Jackson Hole, Japan, Quebec, Massachusetts, Chile and Minnesota; the film unfolds across the globe to portray the only destination that really matters: Staying true to snowboarding.

Civic Affair

2014 • 23 min

Jake Kuzyk filmed and edited an independent skate video called Civic Affair, featuring an impressive crew of Canadian skaters. It has been highly anticipated among the annual wave of for-free-online indie skate flicks.

Shaun Micallef's Stairway to Heaven

2014 • 53 min • Australia

In his youth Shaun Micallef almost joined the priesthood. Now he wonders if he may have missed his one shot at the answers to life’s big questions. Heading to India, a country where spirituality and the search for meaning is very much a national past time, he immerses himself in the Hindu world of Gods, Gurus and the Ganges. In a bid to get to the heart of the faith, Shaun pushes well beyond his comfort zone on a physical, mental and spiritual adventure. He journeys to the source of the Ganges high in the Himalayas - all the while offering his own unique observations on his quest to find the meaning of life.

El Flaco

2014 • 6 min

'El Flaco' is a male prostitute that pays for police protection to be able work in downtown streets of Juarez, Mexico.

Making Movie History: Sylvia Hamilton

2014 • 5 min • Canada

Director Sylvia Hamilton reflects on her work with the NFBs Atlantic Studio and the birth of New Initiatives in Film - A Studio D initiative for women of colour and aboriginal women.

Sakura, Sakura

2014 • 3 min

2 minute film about two Japanese ladies.

Think Normal

2014 • 17 min • United States of America

Jason McElwain's 20 points in four minutes inspired sports fans around the world and fine-tuned the conversation surrounding people diagnosed with autism. But it was the perseverance and undeterred support of Jason's mother, Debbie, who coached her son and provided him with the strength and confidence to step onto his high school basketball court and hit six 3-pointers, and one 2-pointer in four minutes of play. Featuring heartfelt interviews from Jason, his mother Debbie and his brother Josh, "Think Normal" is a look at what a mother sacrificed for her sons.

For Michael Brown

2014 • 5 min • United States of America

Out of respect for his parents' request, four and one half minutes of silence for Michael Brown Jr. One minute for each hour his body lay in the streets of Ferguson, MO after he was shot to death by Officer Darren Wilson. Please watch in darkness. Please watch in silence.

A Noite É Necesaria

2014 • 5 min • Spain

Short film by Marcos Martínez Merino for the "NIMBOS Project", a series of films inspired by the poems in the book "Nimbos" by Xosé María Díaz Castro, author honored on Galician Literature Day 2014.

Pakistan's Hidden Shame

2014 • 47 min

A look into the sexual abuse suffered by the children living in the North-Western city of Peshawar in Pakistan.

The Clothes Game

2014 • 13 min

A group of youths play an extreme game of spin the bottle.

The Magic of Mushrooms

2014 • 60 min

Professor Richard Fortey delves into the fascinating and normally-hidden kingdom of fungi. From their spectacular birth, through their secretive underground life to their final explosive death, Richard reveals a remarkable world that few of us understand or even realise exists - yet all life on Earth depends on it.

Ice Floe

2014 • 22 min • Russia

A coming-of-age story of a shy girl Alya, who lives in a Russian orphanage and secretly admires her music teacher.

Going in Blind

2014 • 4 min • United States of America

As a young man anxiously gets ready for a blind date, he talks with his roommate about all the ways it could go wrong.

Eva Marie Saint: Live From the TCM Classic Film Festival

2014 • 59 min • United States of America

Academy Award-winning actress Eva Marie Saint discusses her life and career at the 2013 TCM Classic Film Festival.

Alejandro Jodorowsky's Social Psychomagic

2014 • 7 min

A short documentary about Alejandro Jodorowsky's therapeutic practice of psychomagic.

Något att berätta

2014 • 12 min

When Elsa comes home after a year off in San Francisco she has met someone. A person who sees her for who she is, someone she can be herself with, and that makes her feel loved. But how is everyone at home going to react to this? Will her father accept her for who she is?

Dagfinn Lyngbø: Stereo

2014 • 60 min

Dagfinn Lyngbø Stereo

Downtown

2014 • 2 min • Singapore

Downtown viscerally reimagined as an absurdist visual poem.

Hum

2014 • 13 min

A comedic thriller about a man driven insane by strange frequencies.

Remembering Wavelengths

2014 • 2 min • Canada, France

Jean-Claude Rousseau homage to Michael Snow’s film Wavelength.