All Films

Kolá San Jon é Festa di Kau Berdi

2012 • 60 min • Portugal

This documentary follows a group of habitants from Cova da Moura neighborhood into a journey to Cape Verde, to celebrate St. John festivities. Recovering the rituals and rhythms of these festivities, the cape verdean people living in that neighborhood near Lisbon, try to recover their roots and transmit it to their children.

The Southern Belle

2012 • 10 min • United States of America

Bob is a longtime, aging taxi driver. Josh, his last fare for the night is a young man who has had everything handed to him in life and is discovering it's all unraveling. The two men could not be more different. But when Josh begins to divulge his grievances to Bob the two quickly discover that they share a dark and destructive bond that will change their lives in an instant.

Mongolian Bling

2012 • 56 min • Australia, Mongolia

Forget about nomads and monks, it's hip hop that's making Mongolia move in the 21st century. Mongolian Bling jumps into the thriving music scene in the capital; Ulaanbaatar, and follows stars as they rap nationwide.

Hatsumi

2012 • 55 min • Canada

In Japanese, “shi kata ga nai” means “it can't be helped”. As a phrase, it represents the philosophical basis of the Japanese cultural reserve, through which adversity is never acknowledged. Nancy Okura is a Canadian of Japanese decent. During the Second World War, she was involuntarily removed from her home and relocated to an internment camp by the Government of Canada. Shi kata ga nai prevented Nancy Okura from ever speaking about her internment.

Fish Meat

2012 • 29 min

The age of fish meat is here. Our hunger for seafood grows and grows but the seas are running out of fish. But what exactly is farmed fish? Where does it come from, and how is it made? Two friends, a fish scientist and environmental engineer, take a sailing voyage through the cradle of western civilization to pull back the cover on modern fish farming. Along the way they discover the tragedy of Bluefin Tuna and the joy of carp.

Cross Continental

2012 • 6 min

There's not much to write about here. Mark is a one-of-a-kind talent. Watch this and then go blow off school or work. Skateboarding is the greatest thing to happen on planet earth. Atlas is a skateshop located in San Mateo, in the San Francisco Bay Area. Mark Suciu has been down since day one.

Tattoo

2012 • 28 min • Finland

The documentary film, Tattoo, tells about teenage students who had tattoos performed on them during their art lessons at upper comprehensive school. This happened in the small Finnish town of Forssa in 1995.

Sealed Video 10: Cursed Alumni

2012 • 54 min • Japan

Mirror Dweller: A young woman hears voices emanate from an antique mirror at night. At the instructions of a psychic, she installs a camera in the room and records ungodly things! Little Red Riding Hood: A surveillance camera in a school elevator captures continues shocking footage of a strange girl wearing a red hood. Behind the Drapes: Posted by a voyeur, spying on a woman living on the second floor of an apartment building, until one day the appearance of police man in uniform is caught on tape. Manga Cafe: Room F6: Posted by a college student, following up on rumours surrounding a manga cafe, by spending the night with a camera. Cursed Reunion: Posted by a male secretary who received an e-mail from someone that could not possibly have attended the reunion.

When One Stops

2012 • 7 min • Finland

The world won't stop turning even when one stops turning with it.

Ö

2012 • 12 min • Finland

A creature finds a little island in the middle of the endless sea. He sets up his own empire, builds a wall and drives away intruders.

Jja

2012 • 50 min • France

An eighty-five year old man, isolated in his luxurious house, tells the story of his economic success and the reasons for his exile in Switzerland. The multiple disputes between him and his acquaintances, and his relations to the place he now inhabits shape his narrative, which unfolds in alternating from one day to another, from one place to the other of his residence.

Requiem for Romance

2012 • 8 min • Canada

A young couple end their love affair via a phone call, with their break-up spectacularly visualised as an epic martial arts battle in ancient China against vivid watercolour backdrops.

Lingo

2012 • 13 min

Maryam is an Afghan immigrant, living with her young son in Canada. After a fire breaks out in their neighborhood they both become entangled in the consequences.

Inside Chernobyl

2012 • 37 min • United Kingdom

A short film based on current conditions in Chernobyl & Pripyat. Made on a shoe string budget by the director. An amateur documentary with some professionally fleshed out ideas and research. ” Please note, I am an amateur documentary filmaker and this documentary was made on no budget. The only cost involved were just the travel expenses to the Ukraine.”

Horrible Things

2012 • 12 min

Dédé, Carole and Steve aren't horrible people, they just did horrible things. Negligence, forgetfulness, larceny. Ugly things, with dark consequences. Eaten by guilt, they try to buy back their faults by buying things. Horrible things.

Devils, Angels & Dating

2012 • 9 min • United States of America

Cupid, Devil and a rather sexy young judge, jury and executioner in the form of Death gather in the After Life War Room, just past Heaven's Gates, to attend to their daily routine of manipulating our lives down on Earth with modern techniques that would put our internet dating generation to shame. Each of them, reluctantly compelled to play out their role in the game of love and life in order to maintain the balance. There's an unspoken attraction in the room and their true contradictory personalities are gradually revealed to each other, when someone gets a bright idea and re-purposes their high tech weapons to turn the tide of war and flip everything on it's head. This is a love triangle with cosmic repercussions!

But Milk Is Important

2012 • 10 min • Norway

A man with social anxiety gets followed by a naive and clumsy creature. Terrified the man tries to escape, unaware that the creature is actually a helper with slightly unconventional methods.

Tsjernobyl Hearts

2012 • 23 min

Orphaned siblings Adrien (17) and Jules (16) decide to go back to the house in France where they once grew up with their parents, to see how everything in and around it has changed with time. They find themselves in confrontation with the new habitants of the house, a woman Marie and her daughter Delphine, who see no harm in welcoming the young teenagers and allow them to discover the changes.

Much Better Now

2012 • 6 min

A bookmark is stuck in a forgotten book that is one day knocked over by wind. It experiences its environment by surfing the pages that turn in to ocean-waves, enjoying the ride of its life. As the book cover closes light reveals new challenges.

Welcome and Our Condolences

2012 • 28 min • Israel

A family of Russian immigrants is going through the absurd Israeli immigration bureaucracy with an immigrating corpse.

House at the Road

2012 • 9 min • Ukraine

He lives alone. He has nothing but a small house at the road. An old man loves to seat at the threshold and smoke a pipe. There are no neighbors for many miles around. Guests at his house are rare occurrence. But once a big black jeep appears near his house...

Five in the Afternoon

2012 • 11 min

A boy and girl meet in the middle of a public cemetery for the first time.

Un Sauvage Honnête Homme

2012 • 52 min • France

A Wild Honest Man

The Woolworths Choir of 1979

2012 • 18 min • United States of America

Concerned with processes of assembly, CHOIR brings together disparate bodies of material and archival technologies into dissonant concert. It is a work of several parts. Part one constructs an auditorium in which an action will be staged. Part two assembles the chorus to narrate the action. Part three supplies the action.