Social & External
The people behind it
Brigitte Bleu
La mére
Israël Essis Mel
Rasta
From its creation to its destruction, we follow a humanoid robot whose task is to take care of a Hungarian high-school. Every day is a new kind of torture in this weird, anti-comedic experimental short film.
A lonely man longs to get home to watch a new episode of his favorite series. While he waits at the bus stop, a mysterious man leaves a strange package in front of him.
A young man navigates a world of queer infatuation and cowboy bars, all while neglecting his unwell mother.
With no destination in mind, he lets himself be carried away by memories and melancholy. As he walks, philosophical reflections intertwine, creating an introspective and contemplative narrative about the human condition and the passage of time.
The American submarine is rushing to the intended target, from where the U.S. ballistic missiles are shot. For the third month the boat has been on a cruise, everyone is tired of this life, the captain is nervous - the speed is at the limit of the machine's capabilities. Only the chief mate, the only person on the boat who will not hesitate to press the fatal button, feels confident ... When the target is only minutes away, the radio operator raises the alarm: the Moscow radio announces that an important government message is about to be announced. The base is silent. Fearing that war has broken out, the captain declares combat readiness, but at the same time Moscow radio reports the launch of the world's first cosmonaut.
When Dane's older brother comes out, Dane doesn't react very well. But soon after he has to choose between siding with his homophobic classmates or fighting to support his brother.
Marram tells the story of a family on a Scottish Hebridean island. While they are going to great lengths to understand and revive a beloved son, the marram grass they need to thatch the roof over their heads recedes from a gradually eroding coastline.
When electrician Lloyd receives a call-out in the dead of night, he is drawn into the bizarre and melancholy world of a man haunted by Christmas. As he becomes an unwilling guest in the home of Mr. Elliot, Lloyd is forced to make a decision: should he fix the Christmas lights, or is the darkness in the house best left alone?
A highschool kid is bullied for putting lipstick on himself in a bathroom. As he dries his clothes in the laundry, he meets a mysterious girl.
These are the whispers of the last time two best friends were together one afternoon on the rooftop.
A video on the consequences of gossip.
Marty Walker, an unemployed woman desperate for an income, gets a job at the agency MIMIC. When Marty goes on her first assignment as a MIMICer, she finds herself forming an unexpected connection with the girlfriend of the man she's been assigned to impersonate.
Florence, a young vulnerable and exhausted stripper from Amsterdam melts down and deals with duality within her consciousness that ultimately defeats her chance at a happy ending.
Benjamin, a regional office manager who is willing to sell his soul for something better, is offered to swap places with the Father of Lies.
A hairdresser's hard-of-hearing hearing aids begin to malfunction...
Set in Israel during the 80's, a young boy's role model uncle - a shadow puppet artist - is slowly losing his mind, drawn ever deeper into a web of Local folklore, Israeli Ethos, and unearthly puppetry.
When a husband and wife attempt to break some sad and life-changing news to their ten-year-old daughter Sophie, their disclosures are far from what anyone could expect.
Claudia revisits the house where she spent summers.
On the morning a soldier leaves for war, he must bring his family together or risk losing them forever.
During the harrows of WWII, Jo, a young shepherd along with the help of the widow Horcada, helps to smuggle Jewish children across the border from southern France into Spain.
A conflict develops between a troubled Vietnam veteran and the sister he lives with when she becomes involved romantically with the army buddy who reminds him of the tragic battle they both survived.
A dramatization of the American general and his court martial for publically complaining about High Command's dismissal and neglect of the aerial fighting forces.
Fr. Hugh O'Flaherty is a Vatican official in 1943-45 who has been hiding downed pilots, escaped prisoners of war, and Italian resistance families. His activities become so large that the Nazis decide to assassinate him the next time he leaves the Vatican.
When Andrew Briggman — a young soldier in the US Army during the invasion of Afghanistan — witnesses the murderous behavior of fellow soldiers, under the direction of a malevolent Sergeant, he faces a moral dilemma. His increasingly-violent platoon becomes suspicious that someone in their ranks has turned on them, and Andrew begins to fear for his safety. A fictionalized dramatization based on a true story.
1917. Bakary Diallo enlists in the French army to join his 17-year-old son, Thierno, who has been forcibly recruited. Sent to the front, they will have to face the war together. While Thierno learns to become a man, Bakary will do everything to bring him back safely.
During World War I, a group of British miners are recruited to tunnel underneath no man's land and set bombs from below the German front in hopes of breaking the deadly stalemate of the Battle of Messines.
In 1918, a young, disillusioned Adolf Hitler strikes up a friendship with a Jewish art dealer while weighing a life of passion for art vs. talent at politics
An American Army officer is recruited by the yet to exist Israel to help them form an army. He is disturbed by this sudden appeal to his Jewish heritage. Each of Israel's Arab neighbors has vowed to invade the poorly prepared country as soon as partition is granted. He is made commander of the Israeli forces just before the war begins.
Members of the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division are fighting for their country amidst the rugged terrain of Bastogne, Belgium, in December 1944. Holley and his American compatriots have already seen one of their own, Roderigues, perish under enemy fire. The men try to rebuff another series of Nazi attacks, but what they really need is a change in the weather. Without clear skies, they'll never get the air support they need.
Interrogated by a customs officer, a young man recounts how his life was changed during the making of a film about the Armenian genocide.
Based on the true story of Oberleutnant Franz von Werra, the only German prisoner of war captured in Britain to escape back to Germany during the Second World War.
Camille, a young idealistic photojournalist, goes to the Central African Republic to cover the civil war that is brewing up. What she sees there will change her destiny forever.
During the war in Afghanistan a Soviet tank crew commanded by a tyrannical officer find themselves lost and in a struggle against a band of Mujahadeen guerrillas in the mountains.
A WWII veteran escapes his care home in Northern Ireland and embarks on an arduous but inspirational journey to France to attend the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings, finding the courage to face the ghosts of his past.
In may 1940, the German troops enter France. Frightened by the progress of the enemy, the people of a small village of Pas-de-Calais decide on the recommendations of the prefecture, to give up everything to go on the road, fleeing to the coast.
Japan, 1944. Trained for intelligence work, Hiroo Onoda, 22 years old, discovers a philosophy contrary to the official line: no suicide; stay alive whatever happens; the mission is more important than anything else. Sent to Lubang, a small island in the Philippines where the Americans are about to land, this role will be to wage a guerrilla war until the return of the Japanese troops. The Empire will surrender soon after; Onoda, 10,000 days later.
A war criminal in hiding forms a relationship with his only connection to the outside world - his maid.
February 1976. Somalian rebels hijack a school bus carrying 21 French children and their teacher in Djibouti City. When the terrorists drive it to a no-man’s-land on the border between Somalia and French territory, the French Government sends out a newly formed elite squad to rescue the hostages. Within a few hours, the highly trained team arrives to the crisis area, where the Somalian National Army has taken position behind the barbed wire on the border. The French unit is left with very few options to rescue the hostages. As the volatile situation unravels, the French men quickly come up with a daring plan: carry out a simultaneous 5 men sniper attack to get the children and the teacher out safely. A true story.
On the night of 16 July 1942, ten year old Sarah and her parents are being arrested and transported to the Velodrome d'Hiver in Paris where thousands of other jews are being sent to get deported. Sarah however managed to lock her little brother in a closet just before the police entered their apartment. Sixty years later, Julia Jarmond, an American journalist in Paris, gets the assignment to write an article about this raid, a black page in the history of France. She starts digging archives and through Sarah's file discovers a well kept secret about her own in-laws.
