All Films

Balkan Xpress

2012 • 25 min • Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia, Croatia, Switzerland

A road documentary which is made up of filming in Macedonia, Kosovo, Serbia and Croatia. Both the originator and producer of the documentary, Ivana Kvesic has got in touch with the four directors from the countries, to follow one of the directors and their environment, by seeing the reflections of the city and its aura especially throughout the creative process. During this journey, through traces of the transformation experienced by those countries which previously used to make up a whole, we aim to underline the inter cultural similarities and problems with which younger generations in these regions experience.

The Sea Reminds Me

2012 • 10 min • United Kingdom

The Sea Reminds Me is a film about ‘loss'. It is also about finding memories and treasures of the heart that will never leave us… Learning Disabled writer and actor Mervyn Bradley worked alongside directors Ray Jacobs and Jonathan Tritton to tell a story, a story about finding his father.

Fortuna

2012 • 21 min

Fortuna is the second in The Blood of the Witch Trilogy. Abby Thelma visits the grave of her father wishing that she could speak with him once more. It is a desire that will lead to séances, gypsies, and dark magic. Be careful what you wish for.

Chumbak

2012 • 14 min • India

Chumbak is a story of a 10 year old boy Dinu, who is unable to connect with the people around him. Dinu is fascinated by magnets. One day he goes out to give Tiffin to his father in his factory and a sequence of events follow. A group of boys take away Dinu's magnets on his way back. After this he meets a shepherd, who much to the amazement of Dinu transforms an iron piece into a magnet for him. Like the magnet connects Dinu with the shepherd, Dinu goes back and tries to connect himself with other people in the society through his magnetic innocence. Chumbak is the journey from the disconnected to the connected.

Sarkoob

2012 • 32 min

Dust

2012 • 28 min

Experimental essay film that chronicles the real-life disappearance of the son of a French woman and her American husband from Mexico City during the politically-charged late 1970s. Polvo examines how memory is shaped by everything that surrounds us and how seemingly unrelated images, real or imagined, fuse to become one story in our minds.

Retracing the End

2012 • 8 min • Australia

After being fired from his long-time job, being dumped by his girlfriend of six years and facing the death of his life-long best friend, a man tries to piece his life back together before he takes his own life.

Yangtze Scribbler

2012 • 6 min

Debbie Ding has been documenting survey markings and graffiti in Singapore. One particular set of graffiti catches her attention. Found in the back stairwell in Pearl Centre, Chinatown, the anonymous drawer roughly sketches a man and a woman beside a series of three numbers. Several of these same scribbles are found in different parts of the stairwell. What does it mean? What is the writer trying to communicate? Debbie, like a detective tries to decipher the meaning of these scribbles and she talks also of graffiti in general. Are these acts of vandals or are they notes from people seeking to communicate with others? Or are they acts of memorialisation by the writers themselves? Perhaps it is all three. Recently, Debbie excitedly reports, in the Bugis area near NLB, the same scribble. Has the Yangtze Scribbler moved?

Waiting for Godard

2012 • 32 min

A language study on cultural production in the interior of Brazil. Three friends forever waiting for the solution of problems involving cultural policy in the inner cities of the country. Wait, armed with empty speeches, political naivety, watching their dreams being eaten away by political, commercial and public neglect.

Fire in the Neighborhood

2012 • 1 min

A colorful fleeting glimpse of a neighborhood house fire that occurred during the Christmas season of 2012 near the Gulf of Mexico in Florida. Fortunately, no people or animals died in the fire.

I had a Black Dog, His Name was Depression

2012 • 5 min

At its worst, depression can be a frightening, debilitating condition. Millions of people around the world live with depression. Many of these individuals and their families are afraid to talk about their struggles, and don't know where to turn for help. However, depression is largely preventable and treatable. Recognizing depression and seeking help is the first and most critical towards recovery.

"s"

2012 • 8 min

A woman gives birth to a baby girl in an asylum that appears to operate a brutal and abusive regime. The baby is "sold" by the doctor in charge of the asylum to the mother's extreme distress.

Rokna

2012 • 15 min

Based in the Maltese countryside this film seeks to evoke the tranquility of the simple lifestyle of a hunter/farmer. It tells the story of a hunter and his dog. One day, when they are hunting a rabbit, a tragic accident occurs.

Les Malheurs de Raoul Walsh

2012 • 10 min • France

Les Malheurs de Raoul Walsh shows the ravages of time on the print of the film Regeneration that Raoul Walsh shot in 1915. By selecting and slowing down the most damaged parts of the American filmmaker's film, I managed to create an object with abstract forms and, paradoxically, to give a second life to a major artistic work.

The Legend of the Stone Breaker

2012 • 57 min • Russia

The Khanty, an indigenous minority that lives in Russia's Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, take pains to preserve their culture. Artist Nadezhda Taligina and residents of the villages of Muzhi and Yamgort discuss their national traditions, culture, dialects and contemporary realities.

Cyclus

2012 • 21 min • Russia

A post-apocalyptic tale about the travels and quests of a pair of Legs, encounters with representatives of the remnants of society, who have literally mutated into a symbiosis with their true desires and values.

10 Minutes After Birth

2012 • 9 min • Syrian Arab Republic

A truly spring morning... Dima, and the daily details we experience each day were enough to create a new birth in ten minutes. A short human narrative film that tells the story of a girl amidst the events taking place in our country.

Brave : brave old world

2012 • 13 min

Icecream

2012 • 13 min • Ukraine

In a train compartment rushing through snow-covered fields, a married couple is traveling—a sharp-tongued wife and her unhappy husband. The clinking of spoons in cup holders, the slamming of doors, the annoying radio—everything is as usual. However, the train suddenly stops at a small station where there is nothing but, perhaps, an ice cream...

Amateur Filmmaker

2012 • 27 min • Belarus

Documentary short by Volha Dashuk about amateur filmmaker Anatol Schneider.

Form 17

2012 • 10 min • United States of America

A bomb technician faces his most hazardous situation yet: Take Your Daughter To Work Day.

Don't Be A Pussy!

2012 • 5 min • United States of America

When Bartholomeow's racing career comes to an abrupt end at the foot of Captain Moustache, he must mount the comeback of the year with the help of his coach, Rhoda Powers.

Maretta

2012 • 5 min • Indonesia

a short film by Athpal Sofie Paturusi

Maniwak

2012 • 30 min • Indonesia

Maniwak examines marriage among the Maniwak people of Papua, revealing how tradition and modernity collide in shaping gender roles. Through intimate observation, the film captures a fragile balance where custom, desire, and change intertwine.