2016 Program
Dad’s Fragile Doll

Dad’s Fragile Doll

Dad’s Fragile Doll // 15 min // Animation // 2015 // Iran

Director: Ali Zare Ghanat Nowi

A young girl reconstructs events leading to her father’s imprisonment and execution using dolls her mother has made. The young girl takes vengeance on the prison guard doll.

No Man’s Land

No Man’s Land

No Man’s Land // 4min // Animation // 2014 // Finland

Director: Vilvi Rae

A famous story from the trenches of the First World War, when British and German soldiers made a brief truce for Christmas Day.

Ramble

Ramble

Ramble // 6min // Drama // 2015 // Germany

Writer/Director: Andreas Ramm

Based on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s ‘Osterspaziergang’, Ramble takes us on a romantic journey through nature, but sometimes we crave parodies so much that we lose track of reality.

Winged Warriors

Winged Warriors

Winged Warriors // 13min // Drama // 2014 // United Kingdom

Writer/Director: Evy Barry

A story of war, fear, courage and leadership from the First World War front line. When the survival of the last of a platoon of soldiers who reach the enemy trenches depends on their messenger pigeons.

Butchery

Butchery

Butchery // 6min  // Animation // 2014 // France

Director: Bernard Capitaine (aka Iono Allen)

World War I: 9 million dead, 8 million disabled. A short symbolic vision of this war, the first massive and technologic one, through real letters from a French soldier, German soldier, and English nurse.

A Soldier’s Story

A Soldier’s Story

A Soldier’s Story // 12min // Documentary // 2015 // USA

Director: Loren Mendell
Writer: Laura Mickelson

Major Stephen Reich was an incredible athlete and American military hero who passed-up a Major League baseball career to return to active duty then tragically paid the ultimate price.

The Rat’s Dilemma

The Rat’s Dilemma

The Rat’s Dilemma // 11min // Sci-Fi // 2014 // Israel

Writer/Director: Naor Meningher

In the Holocaust, a gifted Jewish physicist named Rudolph is forced to build a teleporter for the Nazis. Rudolph keeps telling his Nazi supervisor, Heinz, that the machine doesn’t work yet, but Heinz suspects Rudolph is hiding something.

100 Years

100 Years

100 Years // 3min // Music Video // 2015 // Australia

Writer/Director: John and Elisabeth Dykstra

A song by John and Elisabeth Dykstra, The Berrys, about remembering soldiers from The Great War.

The White Feather

The White Feather

The White Feather // 22min // Drama // 2014 // Australia

Writer/Director: Laurence de B Anderson

Albert Ellis says we shouldn’t fight Britain’s wars. Then he gets a white feather.

Reprieve

Reprieve

Reprieve // 24min // Drama // 2014 // US

Writer/Director: Lorian James Delman

An American veteran has the chance to face the remaining members of an innocent family he accidentally killed in a firefight while serving overseas.