All Films

A Thousand Empty Glasses

2012 • 15 min

A drunken evening exposing long-held secrets forces a young man to make a life altering decision.

Mountain

2012 • 4 min • United Kingdom

The film is Dave Prosser's response to the visit he made to Seoul - at the invitation of SICAF - and is drawn from his sketchbook observations of city life. The seemingly random elements tell the tale of a day in the life of three different characters who live in Seoul - all of whom are watched over by the ever present Mountains which ring the city.

The Favor 2

2012 • 9 min

In this sequel to one of our most infamous short films, we encounter bigger gay misunderstandings… or do we?

Where Are You?

2012 • 15 min

Canta, Ty-etê!

2012 • 2 min

How art can rise life awareness above apathy. A NUPA's film. NUPA is a public free animation studio-school in São Paulo. Ty-etê (True Water) is the main river in São Paulo city.

Barbeiros

2012 • 17 min

A documentary on São Paulo oldstyle barbershops.

Dance With Me

2012 • 18 min • Iran

A young mother is pregnant but her boyfriend is lost in Iran's political strikes.she must decide what to do. being pregnant without marriage is forbidden in Iran also abortion is forbidden.one week with her in her decision.

Illuminazioni

2012 • 17 min

Illuminazioni is a collaboration between Chino Amobi and Johnny Utterback. It has been featured at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, Interstate Projects in Brooklyn, hpgrp GALLERY NEW YORK in New York City, and the Byrd Theater in Richmond VA.

Fork Full of Love

2012 • 57 min • Serbia

Lo-fi documentary about bands Repetitor, Stuttgart Online, Goribor, Pionir 10 and Kriške; Hallways of BIGZ, clubs, apartments, backyards, trains, big and small cities; vagrancy, squatting and pissing against the wind. Despite everything – rock and roll!

Caravaggio – O Mestre dos Pincéis e da Espada

2012 • 52 min • Brazil

Documentary about Caravaggio

Frozen Heart

2012 • 7 min

Frozen Heart visually tells the tragic and true story of a young loving gay couple accompanied by impressive images and strong contrasts.

Encounter

2012 • 6 min • China

The stop-motion animation is about a mischief boy adventuring in an unknown house and getting caught by the owner who lost her grandson in a car accident years ago. The intruder feels the grandma's sorrow, and tries to help her find peace of mind. The setting is based on the architecture of Suzhou, a historical water-town in Southern China.

Personality Nodes

2012 • 4 min

Installation constructs every stage of human development as a separate. It visualizes and merges external and internal influences, ranging from birth to twenty-five years of age. That information creates an abstract notion of flows, arrangements, connections and relationships which are influencing a man. Final animated composition is constructed like one piece which contains four different parts.

Club

2012 • 4 min • United States of America

Writes Shimizu: "I used to work as a photographer hired by a website to promote NYC and the Hamptons nightlife. The promoters would hire the people I worked for to send me over to their party to take photos of the people there. I would go to 2-3 different clubs a night, 4 nights a week. The range in partygoers was pretty big. During my final few months with the company, I was mainly assigned to an after-party spot on Broadway called Pangaea. At Pangaea, I photographed Ice T, Sting, among others. The job, for the most part, was really fun. I drank so much Red Bull vodka."

Perfect Compost: a Master Class with Peter Proctor

2012 • 26 min • New Zealand

Peter Proctor is New Zealand's father of biodynamic agriculture. Peter has been gardening and making compost for over 65 years. "Biodymanics makes organics work." Compost is the fundamental element in all gardening & farming. This master class takes you through the biodynamic compost making process from gathering and assembling your materials to creating the perfect compost heap. Rudolf Steiner believed biodynamic compoast was the foundation of humanity and the vital link between the cosmos and the earth. In Perfect Compost, Peter Proctor walks you through every step to building perfect compost.

Primera sangre

2012 • 10 min • Argentina

In Argentina, no train engineer concludes his years of service without running over or killing someone.

La pasarela

2012 • 9 min • Argentina

Chlorinda, neighbor to Asunción, in Paraguay, is small and full of shops, stalls and warehouses. The city converges towards the "La Fraternidad" Catwalk, forty meters of wooden bridge, which crosses a nonexistent stream-boundary.

7 Days - Chile

2012 • 52 min • Chile

Chile was given its name by the Incas who respectfully called it Chili, ‘the country in the south’. Only a short journey on a gravel road and the Atacama Desert begins. At its centre it is the driest desert in the world where the forces of nature have turned it into an extraordinary landscape. The Atacama extends between the Pacific Ocean and the Cordilleras, an area of stone and sand that is perforated only by various frequently dried out salt lakes. From the Atacama Desert in the north to as far as the stormy Tierra Del Fuego in the south, Chile is a country rich in contrast. Volcanoes, arid deserts, salt lakes, lively geysers, sandstone mountains and a cosmopolitan city. All of this is to be found in Chile, a country at the end of the world!

Arjen Lubach & Tim Kamps: Het Monica Da Silva Trio

2012 • 44 min • Netherlands

Registration of the theatre program by the Dutch musical comedy duo Het Monica Da Silva Trio (Tim Kamps and Arjen Lubach).

Pouters

2012 • 17 min

It is estimated that around 1,000 Scottish people, mostly men, engage in "doo fleein," a highly competitive hobby that involves stealing each other's pigeons. The sport is practiced mostly in the poorer areas, where fallow land offers ample space for imposing dovecotes equipped with ingenious mechanisms to trap competitor's birds. This short documentary focuses on two of these men living in a working-class neighborhood in Glasgow. Rab and Danny have been battling it out for 25 years. Hilarity ensues when we follow them during their hunt, with the two men exchanging mating calls and foul-mouthed diatribes with their birds, and celebrating triumphantly when they manage to catch a prized bird. Even during the interviews, in which the heavily accented duo speak about their sport and their never-ending rivalry, they always have at least one eye pointed at the sky.

Romalone

2012 • 13 min

Alex is trying to hide his feelings behind his awesome playlist, but how long it will last?

Osvaldo Aranha, 1086: Um dia na Lancheria do Parque

2012 • 15 min • Brazil

Walking along Av. Oswaldo Aranha, a man decides to be the first to arrive and the last to leave the Lancheria do Parque. Based on this experience, this man observes the functioning and the patrons of one of the most classic establishments in Porto Alegre. A documentary journey through the daily lives of thousands of characters from Porto Alegre takes place.

More than Ice-Cream: Wong Kwong

2012 • 13 min • Hong Kong

Wong Kwong, a ninety-year-old man called Ice-Cream Uncle, keeps pulling a trolley with a load of dozens of kilometers and walks a long way to sell his ice creams everyday. He never minds working hard or thinks about retiring. All of his life shows the traditional spirit of Hong Kong, which has set an example for the young people. Although he has never been able afford to buy a Rolls-Royce in his entire life, this laborer has gained the respect of many teachers and students, as well as the neighborhood.

Thank You

2012 • 1 min • Bangladesh

This psychedelic short features the director in two roles: a smoker and an eccentric parasite in his ash tray.