Movies: Chess

A couple's break up gets out of hand as the man tries to woo his woman back in a strange house. Hijinks ensue....

A delusional young boy explains a day in his life and his passion for Chess....

The speed chess tournament that has taken place once in a month for already 35 years involves well-known people from the field of culture. The game has no other purposes than the game itself. Some hobbies may seem funny for bystanders; however, for t...

A chess game between two brothers gets ugly....

Elliott, a lonely young man with no family, learns of a deceased grandfather he never knew. Feeling robbed of such a connection, he decides to hire an actor, Frank, to play the role of his Grandad in his daily life....

An intense chess match between two men who become increasingly judgmental on the inside....

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A boy plays a game of chess by himself but after looking away for a moment he realizes the pieces on the board have begun to move by themselves....

A Grim Reaper forms an unlikely friendship with a young girl....

A teenage boy's mother needs money for surgery, but she can't afford it. After he finds a poster for a chess competition with a grand prize of $10k, he enters without knowing anything about the game to win the cash prize....

Selected for the Cannes 2012 Short Film Corner. A man is standing in the middle of a river when he receives a phone call asking about his current whereabouts, and so we see the preceding moments explaining how he got there and why, all played fully i...

It's constantly going on - the battle of the brains. Across the chessboard, people of all varieties and all ages meet. A rhythmic tribute to chess....

Short film interpretation of Jorge Luis Borges poem Ajedrez. Narrated in Chinese. Features the Wei Yi Immortal game against Lazaro Bruzon. Originally created as an assignment for Werner Herzog's online class on film making (one room, two actors, one ...

Two retired, aging British officers meet in the club of special forces' veterans where they stress their conflicted views about WW2 in the former Yugoslavia. One of them was delegate with the Chetniks, while the other one was with partisans....

Three weeks to make three films. Filmed in my last semester before College. "Time", "One Night", "8x8"....

When a young man finds himself in an unexpected battle he needs to act fast in order to save what he loves....

Documentary about an unlikely youth chess team from Indianapolis who went on surprise the chess world with their success. The team, made up of young African Americans with no previous experience and led by their devoted teacher, went on to win the Un...