Anglerfish

The little anglerfish has to go to bed. But the deep waters are full of threatening creatures.

Anina

Anina charts the unfolding industrial landscape, as a container ship drifts from port to port.

Area 51, Nevada, USA

In Area 51, Nevada, USA the local residents find themselves wandering through the unthinkable.

Arr. for a Scene

In Arr. for a Scene, two foley artists produce sounds for the shower scene from Hitchcock’s Psycho.

Baronesa

Baronesa offers a rare look at the favela: the female point of view. A film made by women about women living in neighborhoods with women’s names: Leidiane and Andreia live in “Juliana” but the latter wants to move to “Baronesa”.

Beetle Trouble

Drawn in red wax pencil, Beetle Trouble follows the conflict between John and the bothersome beetles that seem to show up everywhere.

Betty – They Say I’m Different

Funk Queen Betty Davis changed the landscape for female artists in America. She “was the first Madonna before Madonna” as Miles Davis said. Despite being banned and boycotted, she went on to become the first black woman to perform, write and manage herself.

Between the Lies

During China’s big famine, Flower gets sick due to malnutrition, which leads her father to steal some millet, with devastating consequences:Between the Lies.

Blue jeans

On a beach promenade in Cannes, two boys in motorcycles talk to two Parisian girls who are vacationing there:Blue Jeans.

Juízo

Accused of crimes ranging from bicycle theft, cocaine smuggling, armed assault and premeditated murder, young Brazilians under 18 are brought before the Court of Justice in Rio de Janeiro before being sent to the Padre Severino Institute, a correctional institution for minors. Using real cases, Juízo follows these young criminals who have committed more or less serious offenses, from their incarceration until the moment their cases come up for review. Played by amateur actors due to a ban on filming the real protagonists, these minors accept their punishment, but do not seem to learn any lessons from it. For them, prison is an image of their whole lives.

Joy Division

In 1976 four young men from post-industrial Manchester, went to see the Sex Pistols. They formed a band, Joy Division. Three years later it was a matter of art, life and death. Now 30 years later, they have a profound legacy that resonates fiercely in today’s heavily careerist music industry and over-mediated pop culture. Featuring the unprecedented participation of the surviving band members (now known as New Order), the film examines the band’s story.

Kids + Money

Teens in Los Angeles discuss money: getting it, spending it and learning to live without it. An original short film by award-winning filmmaker and photographer Lauren Greenfield, Kids + Money is a conversation with young people from diverse Los Angeles communities about the role of money in their lives in a series of interview-based portraits.

Killer of Sheep

The black LA ghetto of Watts in the mid-1970s through the eyes of a dreamer who is growing numb from the psychic toll of working at a slaughterhouse. Finished in 1977 and shown sporadically, its reputation grew. The Library of Congress has declared it a national treasure. However, due to the expense of the music rights, the film was never shown theatrically or made available on video. The UCLA Archive present it in a brilliantly restored new 35mm print.

KJFG No.5

Three professional musicians, the Bear, the Rabbit and the Wolf are practicing their art in the forest but suddenly the hunter turns up on the scene.

La Vie de Château

In this unexpectedly-named halfway house, asylum-seekers from all over the world kill time waiting to find out if their requests will be accepted. Like in The Arabian Nights, time flies by as the tale is told. Together, we make a pact of fiction: a game, a step back from ourselves, our dreams and desires. Thus the château is inhabited, little by little, by a snake-spitting princess, a magnanimous king, ghosts that haunt the passages.

João e o Cão

João lives in the desolated outskirts of a big city. He’s always in trouble with the grown-up’s, and they don’t seem to understand that his fuss behavior is only a defense from the frailty of his world.

Memories (Jeonju Digital Project 2007)

Three episodes of a project created by the Jeonju Film Festival to produce and distribute short films created in digital format and directed by three directors with complete creative freedom: Respite by Harun Farocki, The Rabbit Hunters by Pedro Costa and Correspondences by Eugène Green. Farocki’s film is made of archive footage shot in Westerbork, a transit camp for deportees to Bergen-Belsen and Auschwitz.Costa focuses on the lost community of Fontainhas, showing the day-by-day stories of the residents eager for the new, better life announced with its promises of warm comfort and economic growth. In the Green segment, Virgile and Blanche, who are both 17 years old, exchange e-mails.

John and Karen

John the polar bear apologizes to Karen the penguin after an argument they had and then has some tea and a biscuit.