All Films

Speckled Flare

2012 • 2 min • United States of America

In memory of filmmaker, English and Film professor, roller coaster brakeman, and computer programmer Phil Rowe, who loved giraffes and hated lens flares in Hollywood films

Which Ceaselessly Float Up

2012 • 18 min

This is the first in a series of films ostensibly investigating the aesthetics of harnessing/control and the resultant opportunities for reflection. We endeavor to keep present our physical selves, as we slowly succumb to the screen’s dissociative veil.

Tight-Rope

2012 • 46 min • Japan

Tightrope tells the tale of the reluctant heir of a yakuza family and his childhood friend, and follows their love relationship that started budding in their school days and keeps developing slowly but surely.

Swelter

2012 • 2 min • United States of America

Swelter is a short sci-fi animation by Jacob Streilen. The film was made in Flash, with photoshop being used for backgrounds, after effect colours and composition.

The Amulet of Tahi

2012 • 4 min • New Zealand

This is a story about standing up against what is wrong.

Bleed / Dundas Square

2012 • 4 min • Canada

Joel Zimmerman's short film in memory of the loss of student Bobby Clifford. "Originally produced for a mau5 fan who's no longer with us in person, but in ghost, n stuff. 'Amor Fati"

Le Fobie del Guardrail

2012 • 5 min • Italy

Short film by Marco Capellacci.

The Next One

2012 • 7 min

It's the first time that Antoine and Martin meet up at a coffee bar after meeting in a chat room. Is it true love or just another hook-up? This sexy short film explores the way expectations built up over a lifetime of experiences can be shattered by unexpected encounters.

One More War

2012 • 10 min

Short-film inspired in a poem called "One More War" about a brief moment in the midst of a battle where a dying enemy soldier is granted the wish to write his last letter.

De l’autre côté

2012 • 6 min • France

Tracking a doe, a hunter get into the woods and faces a huge black wall beyond which he will discover a strange swamp

Stay In Algeria

2012 • 52 min • France

Algeria, summer 1962, eight hundred thousand French people left their native land in a tragic exodus. But 200,000 of them decided to attempt the adventure of independent Algeria. Over the following decades, political developments would push many of these pieds-noirs into exile towards France. But some never left. Germaine, Adrien, Cécile, Guy, Jean-Paul, Marie-France, Denis and Félix, Algerians of European origin, are among them. Some have Algerian nationality, others do not. Some speak Arabic, others do not. They are the last witnesses to the little-known history of these Europeans who remained out of loyalty to an ideal, a taste for adventure and an unconditional love for a land where they were born, despite all the ups and downs that the free Algeria in full construction had to go through.

Dinosaurios en 3D

2012 • 20 min • Spain

Not so long ago there were monumental movie theaters in the streets and avenues of Madrid, the capital of Spain, authentic cathedrals erected during the golden age of film exhibition, now converted into 3D dinosaurs, whose remains speak of the past and somehow anticipate the future.

English Teacher

2012 • 56 min • Georgia

Young, adventurous English teacher is assigned to carry out a ‘linguistic revolution’ in the remote Georgian village. Basically looking for new adventures, a young teacher finds himself on the frontier of the big political change in the country. In order to get rid of the Soviet legacy and engage with the western world, government initiates a project to ‘invade’ Georgia with English speakers. Excited traveler is determined to contribute to a ‘radical changes’ in a small post soviet country. But when the first wave of excitement disappears, he is confronted with the gloomy reality.

The Detective

2012 • 11 min • Kuwait

The film deals with a struggle between a young detective officer and a fugitive drug dealer.

Amne Adji Papere Mba - Carta Kisêdjê para o RIO+20

2012 • 11 min • Brazil

Kisêdjê women’s manifesto against deforestation and river pollution. Filmmaker Kamikia Kisêdjê and the Kisêdjê Cinema Collective decided to send a message from their people to the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development. The women took the lead making the statements, forcefully expressing their worry about the devastation of the Amazon and the future of their grandchildren.

Doom After the Rain

2012 • 11 min • Turkey

The story of the movie is about the complexity of a distopic world. A wrecked world can be unpredictable but the results are worse to stand. A rain all of a sudden divide mankind apart. The ones who get wet in the rain and else. The ones get in the rain lose their minds. A handful of people, trying to protect themselves against both the rain and also the “crackheads” Someone named this as the doomsday. Who get crazy? The ones who get wet in the rain? or, The ones who suppose they don’t? It’s no matter why it rains, it’s the protection effort of the people against the rain.

Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré 1970 (1ère étape)

2012 • 3 min

A few moments after the arrival of the first stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné 1970, Roanne-Chalon-sur-Saône (224 kilometers) which has just been won by the Belgian Daniel Van Rijckeghem ahead of the Dutch Jan Janssen (2nd) and Marinus Wagtmans (3rd). Filmmaker Gérard Courant photographed Raymond Delisle (yellow jersey), Luis Ocaña (final winner), Gilbert Bellone, Lucien Aimar, Roger de Vlaeminck (Belgian champion), Jan Janssen (green jersey), Harm Ottenbros (world champion), Jean Dumont, Marinus Wagtmans, Raymond Poulidor, Georges Chappe on the song "Poets" by Léo Ferré.

Long Live the Water

2012 • 15 min • Argentina

Girl, Slipped Inside

2012 • 4 min

Story of a girl who slips inside herself while meditating.

The dome

2012 • 21 min • Greece

Pavlos and Leon are two inseparable friends who dream of opening one bar once the war is over. The SS, searching the house, arrest his parents Pavlos not being able to find Leon. The two friends embark on a journey through the forests to reach Thessaloniki. Away from civilization, Paul struggles with his dark side which is slowly awakening.

A simple plan

2012 • 20 min • Greece

Greece 2011. In an uncertain economic climate, two young people suddenly find themselves out of a job when the owner of the company they work for suddenly declares bankruptcy. With nothing left to lose, they decide to take their destinies into their own hands. All they need is a plan. A simple plan...

Ceci n’ est pas un film

2012 • 3 min • Greece

A film inspired by the paintings of Rene Magritte, Marchel Duchamp and Salvador Dali.

Dialogue in Solitude

2012 • 6 min • Ukraine

Sometimes, in order to learn more, you just need to keep quiet.

Cliche 32

2012 • 16 min • Greece

A space-time journey through the memory fragments of a wandering man in the four seasons of a love story