Internationaler Wettbewerb

Gleichgewicht (Keeping Balance)

Bernhard Wenger

AT · 2015 · DCP · 5 min ·

Festival 2015

Denise nearly every day visits the Wiener Prater to ride on the "Tagada", an electric merry-go-round. But it's not only for her pleasure.

5 Euro

Don Raca

AL · 2015 · DVD · 4 min

Festival 2015

Edon is forced by his drug addicted father to find 5 Euros. Edon has no option; he gets out on the streets...

Where is Don?

More Raca

AL · 2015 · 10 min

Festival 2015

A journalist is living an unprotected life under the nightmare of threats.

Le Constructeur de Malheur

Philipp Gratzer, Kristin Müller,Manuel Preuß,Peter Affenzeller

AT · 2015 · 9 min ·

Festival 2015

The dream to fly - with a self-constructed machine.

Ausstieg rechts (Exit right)

Rupert Höller, Bernhard Wagner

AT · 2015 · DCP · 6 min ·

Festival 2015

To look away or intervene? A dark-skinned man is attaked by a racist in a crowded bus...

Un drôle de coco (Oddbod)

various

BE · 2014 · Blu-ray · 6 min

Festival 2015

Coco, the chick was born into a penguin family. It's hard to learn how to swim and to fish like his brother and sister...

Oursi

various

BE · 2014 · Blu-ray · 4 min

Festival 2015

Oursi is desperate to leave the Isle of the Cuddly Toys, which is not to everyone's taste...

Blanc Flocon et les 7 naines (Flake White and the seven Lady Dwarves)

various

BE · 2014 · Blu-ray · 5 min

Festival 2015

Once upon a time, there was a king who sewed while watching the snow fall. One day, he had a child and named him Flake White.

Cousin Bert

various

BE · 2014 · Blu-ray · 4 min

Festival 2015

In the Pig Family, farming has been passed on from father to son. Boys and girls have their own specific tasks. This summer, Cousin Bert is coming to the farm for holiday.

SUPERLUX "Reptile Smile"

various

BE · 2014 · Blu-ray · 4 min

Festival 2015

An infinite zoom from a strange space to another one.

Schaapzucht (Longing for sheep)

various

BE · 2014 · DV · 3 min

Festival 2015

Hats and scarves made of 100% wool, nice and warm! But who cares about the sheep?

Ego

Eliena Lebeau

BE · 2015 · Video-File · 1 min

Festival 2015

"A visual experiment where I search for a language in images, a language that allows me to express my feelings and thinking through the visual aspect. I started with a quote that says : Everybody is unique within limitations. " E.L.

Ecce Homo

Lobende Erwähnungen

Dimitar Kutmanov

BG · 2014 · 16mm · 29 min ·

Festival 2015

In a faraway godforsaken place a young girl and her ill mother live in solitude and destitution. In a moment of crisis reality interweaves with the realm of the soul where hope and despair battle for dominance.

TRAFFIC

Milen Halyov

BG · 2014 · DVD · 3 min

Festival 2015

A big city people are waiting at a red light on the pavement while cars rush past them on the street noisy, dangerous, menacing. Eventually the traffic light turns green and the people set off one against the other, showing their true human nature.

A Man Called Man

Guy Charnaux

BR · 2015 · DVD · 3 min ·

Festival 2015

Family, love, violence, death. The ludicrousness of a western upbringing in a nutshell.

It's A Flower

Natty Boonmasiri

CA · 2015 · DVD · 7 min

Festival 2015

After a dream of a mysterious ball, the character is not able to shake off the feeling that something threatening will happen. Roaming around in the empty world, the character falls deeper and deeper into fear.

Religatio

Jaime Giraldo

CA · 2014 · DCP · 3 min ·

Festival 2015

Living in a world by hanging from ropes, all try to avoid falling into the void below.

Ruben Leaves

Frederic Siegel

CH · 2015 · DCP · 5 min ·

Festival 2015

Ruben, on his way to work, is suffering by neurotic obsessions...

Un Cuento de Amor, Locura y Muerte (A Tale of Love, Madness and Death)

Mijael Bustos

CL · 2015 · DCP · 22 min ·

Festival 2015

My oldest uncle is a schizophrenic and also a chronic smoker. My grandmother's lungs started to fail due to the cigarette smoke and she had to go to live with one of her daughters. Since then, my grandfather has had to take care of my uncle all by himself, being a silent witness of the imminent death of his beloved wife.

TreeMan

Li Sze Wai

CN · 2014 · 4 min

Festival 2015

I have been standing outside the circle looking at the things happening inside...

One Minute Art History

Shu Cao

CN · 2015 · DVD · 1 min ·

Festival 2015

Art history tells us what has happened, but it cannot tell us about new possibilities. The film is about waiting, waiting is absurd, as art,a kind of eternal behavior with no purpose, no ending.

Honey Trap

Mo Sha

CN · 2015 · DCP · 22 min ·

Festival 2015

Park Pa is a fisherman residing in Yanbian, a Korean autonomous prefecture in China. He accidentally falls into the sea and wakes up on South Korean soil. People think Park is a refugee from North Korea.

GOODBYE UTOPIA

Shiwei DING

CN · 2014 · DCP · 7 min

Festival 2015

God gave Moses the Ten Commandments on Mount Sinai, including 'Thou shalt not kill'. Human beings strive to create the ideal society, by killing many people. The rise and tragedy of various utopias.

Senior Teacher

Lobende Erwähnungen

Mo Sha

CN · 2015 · DCP · 23 min

Festival 2015

A well respected teacher gets into trouble : when he punishes a naughty girl by hitting her face with a book, she's passing out.

BOY

Lucas Helth Postma

DK · 2014 · Video-File · 16 min

Festival 2015

16 year old Emilie has never felt like a girl. She just wants to be a boy...

Befrielsen (The Liberation)

Anna-Sophie Beckett Stenbæk

DK · 2014 · Video-File · 10 min

Festival 2015

A warm spring evening: three boys, three tests, one secret, one ritual, one liberation. Will the friendship survive? Are they men enough?

Con la Boca Cerrada (Mouth Shut)

Anna Farré Añó

ES · 2014 · Video-File · 9 min

Festival 2015

15 year old Emma has a strong personality, but she doesnt know how to handle it.

An Angel's Tale

Sara Boix Grau

ES · 2015 · DVD · 2 min

Festival 2015

A misunderstood angel is kicked out of heaven and has to find his way back.

Sagnant (Bleeding)

Tatiana Dunyó

ES · 2014 · 14 min

Festival 2015

Virgi is 17 years old. She has a loveaffair with her Art teacher. She's used to get along with younger guys, and behave like one of them, but she has no clue how to control this situation.

Vello

Ave Taavet

EE · 2015 · DVD · 6 min

Festival 2015

Vello, a scary amateur entomologist yearns for something higher, distant and noble. Vello wants to become an insect. He tries to join the mosquitos, bees and flies, but is constantly misunderstood. Will he be accepted somewhere else?

Õnnesoovid eakatele (Seniors Choice)

Ave Taavet

EE · 2015 · DVD · 9 min

Festival 2015

Some weird old men are living together in a nursery home, surrounded by loneliness, boredom and strict staff of the house. Yet, one of them has a secret...

le lien défait (The Broken Bound)

International Young Film Makers Award 2015

Xavier Leprince

FR · 2015 · 12 min ·

Festival 2015

Olivia is beautiful and trendy. She seems to live a carefree life . Disturbing encounters reveal her melancholy.

Chulyen, histoire de corbeau (Chulyen, a Crows' tale)

International Young Film Makers Award 2015

Cerise Lopez, Agnès Patron

FR · 2015 · DCP · 20 min ·

Festival 2015

Half man, half crow, Chulyen is bored. When he covets a giant's kayak, his feelings change...

Perheenjakaja (Homebreaker)

Marko Pekkanen

FI · 2014 · Video-File · 18 min ·

Festival 2015

Eelis is a young boy: his parents are argueing with each other and his motivation at school is low - his life is at its turning point.

Is It Just Me?

Jamie Kendall

GB · 2015 · 5 min

Festival 2015

Is It Just Me? follows one man's unhealthy new obsession with magpies as they start to consume his every day life. It is a journey downwards through the mental struggles he faces and how to deal with his ominous situation.

Outlines

Daisy Gould

GB · 2014 · DVD · 4 min

Festival 2015

99.9999% of the universe is empty space, simply nothing at all. But still Oliver struggles to cope with his overwhelmingly chaotic life.

MIND THE GAP

Katy Wang

GB · 2015 · DVD · 1 min

Festival 2015

An animation portraying the sights, sounds, and movement of the London Underground, inspired by its iconic seat patterns.

Maniac 8.2.8

Giorgos Efthimiou

GR · 2015 · DVD · 15 min ·

Festival 2015

Maniac: a person afflicted with mania. Mania: A manifestation of bipolar disorder, characterized by profuse and rapidly changing ideas, exaggerated sexuality, gaiety, or irritability, decreased sleep and violent abnormal behavior.

ONOMASTIKA

Loeloe Hendra Komara

ID · 2014 · DCP · 15 min

Festival 2015

Why do I not have a name, asks the boy. His grandfathe, who is raising the boy, wants to convince him he does not need one. But now the boy is old enough to ask questions.

Goonj (Echo)

Madhuri Ravishankar

IN · 2015 · 18 min ·

Festival 2015

Five years old Zuvaria attempts to understand the world that unfolds around her. She is the only person in her family with impaired hearing. How does she understands what being deaf means and how does she responds to it.

Neshanehaye Yek Model (Semiotics of a Model)

Tabassom Habibzadeh

IR · 2015 · DVD · 21 min

Festival 2015

Lily wants to be a model but she can't. The company says she is still too big.

Azmayesh (Experiment)

Mohammad Reza Minapour

IR · 2015 · DV · 14 min

Festival 2015

A curious young student tries to get a microscope that has been brought to the village by his teacher...

Tant qu'il nous reste des fusils à pompe (As long as shotguns remain)

Caroline Poggi, Jonathan Vinel

FR · 2014 · 30 min ·

Festival 2015

It's damned hot. Streets are oddly empty. Palms are suffering and shot guns crying. Joshua wants to die but doesn't want to leave his brother Maël alone. Meanwhile he meets with a gang: the Icebergs.

Habetula Susie Vehakdoshot Mipetach-Tikva (Virgin Susie and the Holy Sisters from Petah-Tikva

Dafna Peled

IL · 2015 · DVD · 21 min

Festival 2015

Suzy is the last virgin in Ramat Hol, and all she wants is to get rid of the “curse”, but between trying and failing again she begins to understand that she may have something different. On her birthday, two bizarre sisters burst into her life, declaring her a holy virgin. Will Suzy denounce love and sex for the benefit of the world?

WARM SNOW

Ira Elshansky

IL · 2014 · DVD · 5 min ·

Festival 2015

Father and daughter are sitting at the kitchen table. Their conversation seems to be banal...

Aniconismo

Enrico Iannaccone

IT · 2014 · 14 min ·

Festival 2015

The impossibility of taking a photo and the struggle against the missing picture.

沫命 (Matsumei) / Life is a Bubble

Shintaro Yanagida

JP · 2014 · DVD · 5 min ·

Festival 2015

Even if a season comes, it seems to be short-lived. The Sakura disappears in the rain and returns to soil. And it blooms again in spring.

MASTER BLASTER

Sawako Kabuki

JP · 2014 · 3 min ·

Festival 2015

A girl would like to hide in her sweetheart's anus. In other words, she wants them to be together forever.

With Thy Spirit

Karim Rahbani

LB · 2014 · DCP · 17 min ·

Festival 2015

Father Geryes, a priest leading a peaceful life within his monastery, finds himself involved in a tragic accident.

Here and Now

Agnese Kusnere

LV · 2015 · DVD · 10 min

Festival 2015

A sparsely furnished apartment in a residential district of the former USSR. An eldery, demented woman is being visited by her granddaughter. A conversation about worthless medals and the family.

Años Luz (Light Years)

Paula Hopf

MX · 2014 · 35mm · 18 min ·

Festival 2015

After the sudden death of their parents, Macarena (8) and Perla (6), embark on a journey in search of virgin Mary to bring their parents back.

Ninis

Daniel Santana Rodríguez

MX · 2014 · Video-File · 14 min

Festival 2015

Fabiola doesn't know what to do or be in life. Alvaro, a young musician, who had lost his hearing, can not do what he most loves in life. They meet each other and fall in love.Fabiola is on the threshold of change...

Vi er ikke her for å sive / We're not here to sleep

Bård Føsker

NO · 2014 · DV · 10 min

Festival 2015

Stian meets Joachim at a gay bar. After they go home to Joachim, Stian soon realizes Joachims true intensions.

Mellom himmel og hav / Between Sky and Sea

Håkon Anton Olavsen

NO · 2014 · DCP · 10 min ·

Festival 2015

A father returns to the farm to spend his last time with his son. The son refuses to let him go.

De uinviterte / Uninvited

Håkon Anton Olavsen

NO · 2014 · DCP · 10 min ·

Festival 2015

Ola, Håkon and Meron have decided to unexpectedly drop in on Ida, a girl at their school that none of them really know.

Jenter som ikke vasker hendene (Girls that don't wash their hands)

Sunniva Eir Tangvik Kveum

NO · 2014 · DCP · 19 min

Festival 2015

”She wants to know if I love her, that's all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that love is there, like new batteries in the flashlight in the emergency kit in the hall closet.” ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Mellomspill (Interlude)

Lisa Enes

NO · 2014 · DCP · 6 min

Festival 2015

Interlude provides a glimpse of a generation who are scared to death that no one is going to turn up for their own funeral.

kafal pakyo (Bayberries have ripened)

Niranjan Raj Bhetwal

NP · 2014 · DCP · 16 min

Festival 2015

During the civil war period in the countryside of Nepal, most men were either abroad or scattered because of the war. Sushmadevi, a mother of two sons whose husband is abroad, demands her sons to take their worshipped cow for fertilization. They are faced with a new challenge.

Mga Handuraw Sa Kahilitan (Daydreams of Wilderness)

Amaya Han

PH · 2015 · DCP · 13 min ·

Festival 2015

Joy Love is a mentally-ill patient with anthropophobia. Her only friend is Chickie, a talking eagle stuffed toy. Although Chickie talks to her, she never talks back to him. Chickie plans to surprise her ...

Jak zmniejszenie populacji chrzęszczyka złocistego wpływa na życie miłosne pani Krystyny (What impact does the decrease of the population of the beetler platinus take on love life of Christina

Marta Magnuska

PL · 2014 · DVD · 3 min

Festival 2015

Seemingly irrelevant events take a significant impact on our life.

Kreatury (The Creatures)

Tessa Moult-Milewska

PL · 2015 · DCP · 10 min

Festival 2015

A grotesque love story about Harold and Matylda, two caricatures of people, trying to face social ostracism.

Pena Fria

Luis Costa

PT · 2014 · DCP · 15 min

Festival 2015

A man from a village in Portugal comes back to visit the family. What are the true reasons for his return?

#LINGO

Vicente Nir õ

PT · 2015 · DVD · 10 min

Festival 2015

To overcome loneliness and contempt of others, Lingo connects to social networks to get some companionship. Briefly he'll realize that online friends, likes and selfies do not bring happiness.

Que dia é hoje? (What day is today?)

Lobende Erwähnungen

Colectivo Fotograma 24

PT · 2015 · Video-File · 12 min ·

Festival 2015

Young people take a trip down memory lane to collect the testimonies of an older generation who witnessed 40 years of dictatorship and another 40 of fable-like democracy only to find out that the struggle for basic human rights has become, over the years, a delusion fueled by controls over currency and high consumption rates that numb and manipulate todays society.