All Films

The Big Boy

2012 • 6 min

Cut the helping hand

Apogee of Fear

2012 • 8 min

A short science fiction film shot on the International Space Station.

The Night of the Dumb Clowns

2012 • 15 min • Brazil

A movie adaptation of a story created by one of the greatest Brazilian cartoonists: Laerte. Two dumb clowns wander at night with the task of rescuing a kidnapped mate from an organization that aims to exterminate their kind. 'The Night of the Dumb Clowns' is a contemporary fable filled with humor against intolerance.

Kinólatras

2012 • 14 min

Pacific Radio Fire

2012 • 4 min • United States of America

The largest ocean in the world starts or ends at Monterey, California. It depends on what language you are speaking. My friend's wife had just left him. She walked right out the door and didn't even say good-bye.

Fragments of Dissolution

2012 • 25 min • United States of America

"...In the film, Wilkerson presents four interviewees. Two are widows whose family members (one husband, one son) were Afghan vets who committed suicide. The other two are women who lost family members because Detroit Edison turned off their electricity during the winter. Wilkerson does nothing to draw parallels between these two forms of injustice. Rather, by simply juxtaposing the women’s stories, we are able to see how systematic indifference to human life takes multiple forms, but comes back to the same root causes, and how we are indeed fighting the same war against the poor and disenfranchised at home and abroad – ici et ailleurs. – Michael Sicinski, Mubi Notebook.

Time 2 Split

2012 • 5 min

A couple, a young child. Life is such that sometimes it is time to separate and live his life.

Lumihiutalemuodostelma

2012 • 53 min • Finland

What happens when functions of a business are intensified until there is nothing but intensifying?

Pfff

2012 • 1 min • Canada

A revolution is kicked off when one little cloud has enough of the sun’s tyranny. This film was made as part of the 8th edition of the NFB's Hothouse apprenticeship.

Sasha, Lena and Iron Dragon

2012 • 47 min • Russia

Many five-story buildings was built in Moscow during the sixties of the last century. Service life of these houses was designed for 50 years. Now these houses are destroyed in order to build new houses in their place. Digger crushes concrete blocks like cardboard. He looks like a dragon with a long neck. After two or three days dragon will grind house where Sasha and Lena live. But they don't have place to go. Relatives have taken Sasha's apartment ownership forcing him to sign the documents when he was drunk. Now Sasha's sister is ready to buy a room to Sasha, but she not allow him take Lena. Sasha does not agree, Sasha loves Lena. And Iron Dragon is coming.

Not With Us

2012 • 42 min • Russia

"When I am released, I will simply move from one prison to another" (Oscar Wilde). Freedom rarely happens with us. "Who is not with us, we have here" - the words of the head of the correctional colony, which were written at the entrance to the prison.

Reverie.exe

2012 • 1 min • Canada

A sleeping computer dreams of humans forms, transforming their digital data into abstract and playful shapes. Movements, emotions, and musical lines are added layer upon layer until the complexity overloads the system and the dream ends. Reverie.exe combines Microsoft Kinect motion capture and music-driven visuals in an exploration of the connection shared between humans and machines. This film was made as part of the 8th edition of the NFB's Hothouse apprenticeship.

C.l.a.y.

2012 • 2 min • Japan

In a gray and empty landscape, a spherical, yellow entity suddenly materializes. Though its plain appearance may not suggest much, its ability to transform is boundless, and it is not hesitant to kill. Nearby, an armed woman awaits this creature, ready to eliminate it. Will she be able to defeat it, or does this being's abilities far outclass her own?

Confetti

2012 • 15 min • Brazil

Confetti moves along with bodies through time suspended in the colors and sounds of carnival. The film follows the path of confetti from the factory to the street floors of Rio de Janeiro on Ash Wednsday.

Requiem

2012 • 3 min • Japan

Mother’s Song

2012 • 4 min • United Kingdom

Mother sits and drinks on the deck of her shack. Her son has gone and he ain't coming back. Mother did you kill your son?

Bajo el sonido del tren

2012 • 18 min • Chile

In a bar, there is a table where there is a lonely woman who spends her sorrows with a drink. On the other hand we see the bar of the room, where there is a man that does not stop talking to his companion. This man is under drugs influence and his knowledge in cinema will make him go in a non-stop talking .The lives, both of him, and the woman at the table, will intersect in a night where the zombies will begin to appear in the place

Sounds

2012 • 12 min • Russia

The young composer works as a piano tuner. In order to tune the piano, silence is needed, but in the apartment where he was invited, the sounds live their lives creating their own music.

House near the road

2012 • 57 min • Russia

Sasha and Marina are raising their three adorable children in a wooden izba in a village in Voronezh region of Russia. They have no indoor plumbing and subsist mostly on a diet of cheap processed food and bread-and-mayo sandwiches. Sasha works in the IT industry, but a person of his talents cannot find steady work in the countryside and is forced to eke out a living as a computer repairman for his colorful neighbors. Sasha drives from client to client in his 1972 Lada, making barely enough money to cover his gas expenses, while Marina is busy running their impoverished, even by village standards, household. The Kiselyovs have happiness in spades - the heart of their family is their youngest child, the precocious and charming Katya. What kind of a future awaits this little girl?

Moviemaker

2012 • 26 min • Russia

The film tells about Aleksandr Khanzhonkov - the first Russian cinema producer and famous film maker of pre-revolutionary Russia.

Not A Carwash

2012 • 49 min

It all started out innocently enough. Filmmaker and thirty-year veteran of the Albanian movie industry, Kujtim Cashku, attempted to hold a press conference to discuss a land dispute with his film academy and city officials. No one could believe what happened next in the former communist nation. Led by an half-drunk bureaucrat in long overcoat and fedora, police disrupted the peaceful gathering then tried to seize the school's garden and open air cinema. Gentian Koci's doc captures the dramatic days that followed when students, professors, activists and lovers of cinema battled to save the outdoor movie screen from destruction by police and corporate interests.

Remember Me

2012 • 15 min

It is said that December 21, 2012 is the end of the world. Different people doing different things - walking on the street with shopping bags; rushing to say I Love You; watching DVD at home; looking at the stock certificates; rushing to walk in the tunnel; having dinner with family; embracing each other warmly. What they are doing, is because the end of the world, or other reasons?

Pappa kom fram

2012 • 5 min • Sweden

Martin has a feeling of emptiness inside and decides to visit a medium. He hopes to get in touch with his dead father...

Sizígia

2012 • 17 min • Portugal

Filmed in 2012 at Piscina das Marés, a building designed by Álvaro Siza Vieira (renowned Portuguese architect) in the early 60's of the 20th century, “SIZIGIA” seeks to use moving images, not only as a method of representing architecture, but as a process of space investigation that explores its narrative qualities and the sense of place created by use, the materials, the light and the sound.