All Films

9/11: The Heartland Tapes

2013 • 46 min • United States of America

Across America, the morning of September 11, 2001 began routinely, with news and radio broadcasts sharing local human interest stories and traffic reports. But by 9 a.m., the day's narrative had taken a tragic turn. Most of us are familiar with the national news coverage of 9/11, but the local reporting from TV and radio affiliates across the nation was no less important and no less compelling. This is an account of the tragedy as it unfolded, and as it aired in American cities large and small, told without narration or interviews.

Salma's Letter

2013 • 11 min • Russia

A poignant story tells about a girl who, due to life circumstances, became an orphan, but thanks to her incredible inner strength and belief in her childhood dreams, she was able to become a happy adult woman, find her vocation in creativity, create a family and raise two children.

Kate Moss' Voice Vost

2013 • 17 min • France

To follow a new trend initiated by American advertisers, a female director, Margaux Bonhomme launches a casting to find women who speak, with the collaboration of casting director, Alexis Millet.

Twenty Eight Feet: Life on a Little Wooden Boat

2013 • 9 min

A short documentary about David Welsford, who has given up the luxuries of land in search for happiness and adventure on a 50 year old wooden boat he restored from a scrap heap.

The Secret of Trees

2013 • 4 min • United States of America

13-year-old inventor Aidan has discovered that trees use a mathematical formula to gather sunlight in crowded forests. Now he wonders why we don't collect solar energy the same way.

17 Seconds

2013 • 53 min • United States of America

“17 Seconds” provides an all-access pass inside the Blackhawks locker room party in Boston and the airplane ride home with the Cup following Game 6, in addition to insight from the players on the Stanley Cup-winning team and members of the organization. Fans can ride along on the players’ buses during the championship parade and follow the Blackhawks as they spend their Cup days with family and friends, sharing the greatest trophy in sports with their communities. It also includes footage from the opening night banner raising ceremony.

About a Month

2013 • 24 min • Brazil

Andre and Elida are dating for a short time. In real life and in fiction.

Amazing Grace

2013 • 5 min • Zambia

The film is an evocative story of the tenuous relationship between a charcoal burner and forests. The film follows Lloyd on his journey from burning charcoal to setting up a micro-nursery selling trees to his neighbouring community – a brief window into his deep rooted connection to forests around Livingstone.

Cat in the Bag

2013 • 7 min • Estonia, Latvia

It is nice and fun to have a cat or some other pet at home to play with. The trusting cat also thought to himself: it's so great to have a home... Until the moment it found itself trapped in a bag, somewhere out on the street, all alone, left to it's faith. Nevertheless - all is well that ends well!

Tears for Narcissus

2013 • 8 min

Tears is the story of a narcissist, Betty, whose misguided quest for self love results in a botched face. After numerous plastic surgeries gone awry, Betty and her husband, Leonard (himself a borderline who mirrors her obsession with plastic surgery in his fascination with the show Xtreme Makeover), get into a car accident in which a deer crashes through their windshield. Leonard dies, but Betty survives, albeit without a face. Waking from a three week coma, she learns from a nurse that she will require a face transplant. Worse, a doctor informs her, the face is that of a successful suicide. And finally the kicker: New life is stirring in Betty. Will she choose the fetus or her face? And how to cope with the walking dead situation of her transplant? Many quandaries, none of which are resolved.

El año pasado en Mardelplá

2013 • 4 min • Argentina

The story of a man looking for a woman whom he thinks he met a year ago. Love, poetry and the absurd, in homage to a mythical work of French cinema.

The Torment

2013 • 30 min

Home for the holidays, alone, in solace and peace, at one in his spiritual ways, until the arrivals of new neighbors and gifts unplanned cloud up his mindset - which causes a downward spiral into mental delirium. What follows is a sequence of dark downturns as his spirits plummet into the abyss as he seeks vengeance for all those who intruded his holiday peace.

Monitor

2013 • 4 min

How are we consumed through one screen and fed back through to another. Shot using an iMac, a Macbook, Skype, the TV, an iPad, and an iPhone, or as the director puts it, "all the consumerism."

Ophelia

2013 • 15 min

The forest, the dunes, the ocean. Thomas and Simon, 12 and 9 years old, pedal fast. They know she comes to sunbathe here everyday, naked, on the beach. Away from the rest of the world.

One Wrong Word

2013 • 10 min • United Kingdom

Novelist Tony faces the most difficult obstacle yet to publishing his magnum opus: his publishers.

Zoe Dunning: Repealing "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"

2013 • 12 min • United States of America

Maria Zoe Dunning is a U.S. Naval Academy graduate and gay rights activist. She is known for being the only openly gay person remaining on active duty following a series of lawsuits against the U.S. Military and the Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy during the 1990s. This is her story.

Ufo：未確認の愛

2013 • 11 min • Japan

Mia, Haru, and Yuri gathered for the first time in a long time. The reunion, which should be fun, unfolds unexpectedly with the discovery of Mia's pregnancy. With the collapse of the relationship between the three, disturbing noise began to be heard from nearby US military bases.

Four Women

2013 • 26 min • Russia

Four women, dividing their world into real and fictional, living only with feelings, constantly craving their own self-realization.

Granny

2013 • 10 min • Georgia

Continuously working on her sewing machine, a woman seems to light up the night in the neighbourhood. A tribute of the director to his grandmother, the film is a tender everyday chronicle of the frequent power outages during Georgia’s first independent years, as well as of the endurance and imagination of the people, always ready to celebrate every time the power supply is temporarily restored.

Disintegration Loops (dlp 6)

2013 • 40 min

The experience of listening to Disintegration Loops (dlp 6) "brings the trials of life and death into a sublime focus".

Deathigner

2013 • 7 min • Taiwan

Little Death, child of The Grim Reaper, have problems to follow the steps of his infamous father.

Taya

2013 • 8 min • Philippines

A 12 year-old boy learns to play traditional Filipino games through a new set of friends, who will show him that life and their games have many things in common.

Popsy

2013 • 16 min • United States of America

Sheridan abducts a young girl in order to pay off his gambling debts.

The Nose - Searching for Blamage

2013 • 53 min • India, Italy, Netherlands, Oman

Perfumer Alessandro Gualtieri wants to design his new perfume Blamage by abandoning all rules for designing perfumes. This proves a disruptive process, especially for himself. Will Blamage become a Blamage?