All Films

A Girl in the Apple Farm

2013 • 42 min

The Mikami family lives within the foot of Mount Iwaki. The Mikami family makes a living by running an apple farm. Eldest daughter Rinko is a middle school student who keeps running away and coming back home with her boyfriend Kenichiro. Rinko’s mother Mayumi has difficulty raising her kids and the apples. One night, before Rinko's birthday, Rinko's father Tamao brings a horse with a ribbon as her birthday present. Tamao actsas he pleases. The mother suffers from his impulsiveness. To borrow money, Rinko comes back home after a long time away from home. There, Rinko sees the horse.

Portrait of an Impatient Filmmaker: Luis Buñuel

2013 • 16 min • France

A documentary about the making of Luis Buñuel's 1977 film THAT OBSCURE OBJECT OF DESIRE, featuring interviews with the assistant director and cinematographer.

Retreat

2013 • 22 min • United Kingdom

A deaf woman finds herself caught between an unforgiving world on the brink of ruin and an isolated commune in the grips of paranoia. The capture of a thief forces her into a life-changing choice.

Roadside Picnic

2013 • 24 min • Japan

"Roadside Picnic" is a piece produced by Hiroyuki Nagashima and Shigeru Matsui, pursuing the possibilities of “a new form of story telling, by the usage of digital sound technology” (financed by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science :JSPS24652030) . At first, this was planned simply as a sound installation, but visuals made by director/film maker Naoki Kato was joined in, eventually bringing to completion as a full film piece.

Scotch Mist in Sussex

2013 • 31 min • United Kingdom

Cast and crew look back at the making of Terror of the Zygons.

Browsers

2013 • 25 min • United States of America

Set in contemporary Manhattan, it follows four young people as they start their first jobs at a news website.

Hatching by Cirque du Soleil

2013 • 46 min

A Documentary on the Creation of OVO, by Cirque du Soleil

The Man Who Was There

2013 • 30 min • Spain

The Spanish journalist Manuel Chaves Nogales (1897-1944) was always there where the news broke out: in the fratricidal Spain of 1936, in Bolshevik Russia, in Fascist Italy, in Nazi Germany, in occupied Paris or in the bombed London of World War II; because his job was to walk, see and tell stories, and thus fight against tyrants, at a time when it was necessary to take sides in order not to be left alone; but he, a man of integrity to the bitter end, never did so.

You Like It, I Love It

2013 • 17 min • Australia

Two brothers kill time in a series of ambiguous vignettes that create a mood both playful and unnerving, taking us through the looking glass of middle-class Australia.

The Last Lioness: Birth of a Pride

2013 • 50 min • South Africa

A haunting call echoes across the Liuwa Plain. There is no answer, there hasn't been for years. She has no pride, no support - she alone must safeguard her own survival. Her name is Lady Liuwa, and she is the Last Lioness. Isolated by a scourge of illegal trophy hunting that wiped out the rest of her species in the region, Lady Liuwa is the only known resident lion surviving on Zambia's Liuwa Plain. For four years, cameraman Herbert Brauer watched her lonely life unfold, until, in her solitude, she reached out to him for companionship. But Herbert knows he is not the companion this lonely lioness needs - she should be amongst her own kind. Now, in May of 2009, plans for a male lion translocation have come through, and there is hope for ending her isolation. For the first time in more than five years, Lady Liuwa will no longer be the Last Lioness This is just a re-titled version of "The Last Lioness"

Der Berührbare - Der Filmregisseur Oskar Röhler

2013 • 52 min • Germany

The "Enfant terrible", the scandalous person, the hope of the German cinema, the new Fassbinder. The director, author and autodidact Oskar Roehler separates the opinions. The actrice Hannelore Elsner even describes him as genius and monster. Roehler got his breakthrough with the film "No place to go", who was celebrated enthusiastically by its audience and critics.

Boudica: A Norfolk Story

2013 • 6 min • United Kingdom

Despite a gap of nearly two thousand years, Boudica remains at the forefront of the public imagination. Her story has been passed down the generations from the original writings of the Romans and she has been continually reinvented to serve as a woman of our age. Set against beautiful watercolours of Norfolk, Emma Calder's film looks at Boudica the woman, what motivated her to keep her freedom and what her story means to us now, that we know so much more about her and her people from recent archaeology. The film shows Boudica and the Iceni tribe and their rebellion against the Romans in first century Britain. The film contrasts the worlds of the indigenous people and their Roman Invaders. In Boudica A Norfolk Story, The film contains all the key ideas about this very interesting period in British history whilst being attractive, playful and engaging for all ages.

Cold Snap

2013 • 11 min • New Zealand

A boy in a forest, trapping animals for a living. The woman next door, planning a fresh start. As a desolate winter sets in, their lives begin to intertwine.

Tanz mit ihr

2013 • 25 min • Germany

A young dance student lives in two worlds, one of which exists merely in her head: a world of sounds with words that cannot be spoken. A world that, as the young woman painfully experiences, cannot be controlled.

Kernel

2013 • 6 min • United Kingdom

When the world has been pushed past breaking point, an aging neurobotanist collects and preserves what little of value remains.

Earthy Eyes

2013 • 5 min • United States of America

A short film based on the song "Earthy Eyes" by Whale Belly shot in Brooklyn, NY.

Narnia's Lost Poet: The Secret Lives and Loves of C.S. Lewis

2013 • 60 min • United Kingdom

C.S. Lewis's biographer A.N. Wilson goes in search of the man behind Narnia, a highly secretive man whose personal life was marked by the loss of the three women he most loved.

Daisies

2013 • 7 min • Canada

A young girl inspires her mother to pursue her dreams.

A Thoughtful Night

2013 • 7 min

A woman and a man are sitting side by side. It is a thoughtful night.

Jupiters Bane

2013 • 8 min • Norway

Martin hits a cat while driving, and has to tell the owner of what he has done.

Death Muffins

2013 • 7 min • United States of America

Marty gets more than he bargained for when he tries to eat 24 full sized bakery muffins with horrifying results.

Hello

2013 • 8 min

I wouldn't answer if I were you' Hello is the story of a young lady who falls prey to an evil killer.. alone in her apartment, eagerly awaiting the return of her boyfriend, the phone rings...

More Porkchop

2013 • 10 min • United States of America

A meek record producer and the Russian underworld meet for a discussion of snare drums, tube mics and railroad tracks.

The Film That Didn't Get Made

2013 • 55 min • Sweden

What happens to a person's self when she retires and no longer has the job to lean on? Documentary filmmaker Lars Lennart Forsberg asked that question to about ten retirees but never had the chance to complete his project. Olle Häger and Kjell Tunegård had to take over and let the e-mails exchanged between Lars Lennart Forsberg and Olle Häger become keys to "The Film That Didn't Get Made".