Ichiro and the Wave

Director  Isaac Kerlow
Singapore 
Runtime   10:40
Completion Date:  May 1, 2016

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Ichiro was fishing near the coast of Banda Aceh, Indonesia, when the 2004 tsunami struck his boat. Stranded on an island during the devastation he wondered if he would ever see his family again.

Tales of Teleki Square

Director  Barbara Spitzer
Hungary  
Runtime   01:22:00

Completion Date:  March 15, 2017

The new generation of the community of the last Jewish praying house of Teleki square, Budapest start a quest unfolding the story of the praying house.

THE LAST RUSSIAN STEAMSHIP «DOSTOEVSKY»

Director  Ivan Magdesyan
Russia
Runtime  23:40
Completion Date: 19 March 2015
Debut film

The jump in time from 1956 to the present. Everything has changed in that time in Russia, and even the former country ceased to exist. Dostoevsky, a writer and namesake-steamer, was thrown from modernity.

Internal Flight (full version)

Directors  Andrii Andreiev, Olga Andreieva
Ukraine
Runtime 29:06
Completion Date: October 24, 2016

This film is an interweaving of the magical music of guitar, a monologue - revelation that was written by the musician himself and charming beautiful video that has been shot in 30 countries during 3 years by the filmmakers Olga and Andrii Andreiev (Paganel Studio). The film is called 'Internal Flight' - this is the flight that we take in order to understand ourselves, find the answers on the questions "Who am I?', 'Who has created this world?', 'Why this world is created this way and not another way?' So, sit back and take this beautiful flight together with the authors that created it from all their hearts for you!

The truth about Israel from the most unexpected place

Director  James Leong
Malaysia
Runtime 4:00
Completion Date: March 15, 2017

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I’m a Chinese from a Muslim country hoping to use my lens to capture the real Israel, planting a new perception about the people, the land and the country of Israel.

SHOWA 90

Director  Shin Yasuhara
Japan 
Runtime  1 hr 21 min  
Completion Date: May 2016
 

A story of 90 years old person. After the WWII, he came to be one of the Japanese prisoners of war in the Soviet Union. He came back to Japan after 4 years' imprisonment　in Siberia.
He established a War Museum which is perfectly a private establishment. And has been holding music concerts in which old Japanese imperial army and navy members play.
He is also famous with the activity to troop in Yasukuni-jinjya(shrine) on 15th, August every year in military uniform

Amsterdam Stories USA

Director  robert rombout
Belgium 
Runtime  6 hr  
Completion Date: Nov 2012
 

'Amsterdam Stories USA' is a 6-hour documentary film divided in 4 chapters of 90 minutes each : East, South, Midwest, West
It is, in the shape of a road movie, a portrait of 'small town America' (with a European eye) through 15 locations which have the same name in the US, from East to West coast, from New York (former New Amsterdam) to California.

Our Conversation

Director Mieczysław Krzel
Poland
Runtime 9:47
Completion Date: October 25, 2015

This is the story of a former boxer, who lost his hearing in his youth in the ring. The hero had never heard the sound of his son's voice. After three years of hassles and tribulations, the man receives a new hearing aid and goes with his grown son for a walk to test out the long-awaited equipment. The man works every day in a noisy factory, but as a person who can not hear, is the right person in the right place. This short film tells the story about imperfect technology, which does not keep pace with progressive hearing loss in hero of the film. So this is a film about the disappointment, but also optimistic at the same time...

Tilcara, our place

Director Maria Mónica Arista
Argentina
Runtime 60:23
Completion Date: January 2, 2016

“Tilcara nuestro lugar” ("Tilcara, our place") is a film about the worldview of the town of Tilcara, told by its protagonists. It is located in northwest Argentina, at the Quebrada de Humahuaca (the Humahuaca Ravine), that is a World Heritage Site.
It is an andean village closely linked to Mother Earth "Pachamama". Its various festivities are permeated by a fusion of the ancestral and the Western civilization, regarding the times of sowing and harvesting the soil. The people of Tilcara live on deep faith.

Because they are there

Director JP Fuenzalida Lorca
Switzerland
Runtime 21:09
Completion Date: 30 November 2015

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BECAUSE THEY ARE THERE takes you for a journey into a mountaineer's mind where memories, reality and dreams collide in a poetic vision of what the chase for a summit can be.

RUSTICA

Director Clode Hingant
France  
Runtime 59:14
Completion Date: 29 December 2016

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The journey towards Africa of a couple of swallows.

Burning Man: Into the Realm

Director OZ YILMAZ
Canada  
Runtime 1 hr 22 min
Completion Date: 2Feb 2017 

​A documentary on Burning Man, what makes this event so popular. Produced and Directed by OZ YILMAZ
Each year, more than 70,000 people from around the world travel to a dry desert lake. In the midst of dust, heat and wind of a Nevada desert participants build a temporary city with large-scale art installations and share an experience based on unity and peace. The event comes to an end with Burning Man, a giant effigy. This documentary tells first-hand accounts of the stories of the participant that unite them in principles of self-expression, self-reliance and community effort. Burning Man draws people from all walks of life that shed their normal daily routines to participate in a week-long celebration of living out their dreams. Burning Man: Into the realm takes us behind on a journey in which we get to hear about what makes this event so popular

Baba Evi

Director Akin Sipal
Germany
Runtime 25:09
Completion Date: October 22, 2015
Student Project

A film about the relationship between grandfather, father and son, and the importance of literature and language in relation to the family myth and the question whether a house in southeast Turkey can create common ground in the face of diversity, personal disappointments and different priorities. What is more important, the art or the family?