All Films

Damascus, My First Kiss

2012 • 42 min

Syria is a vibrant melting pot of nationalities, religions and minorities, living together as one. The nation's multiplicity imbues its population with a dynamic spirit. Yet Syria remains a patriarchal society, meaning that the daily lives of Syrian citizens are defined and dominated by men. Lina Alabad's beautiful film asks the question: What, then, is the role of women in Syria? How extensive is their access to freedom and autonomy? And what effect do the limitations imposed upon them by society have on their attitudes towards sexuality and their own bodies.

Hey! They ate Grandma's Snack!

2012 • 1 min • Brazil

A beautiful and sweet little girl, who was taking lunch to her sick grandmother, is fiercely attacked by a hungry beast. Now she will have to act fast to prevent something more terrible from happening.

Jackson/Marker 4am

2012 • 4 min • Austria

Introduced with a quote that invents its own creator, someone is dancing in a figure skating costume to a piece of music that conceals its source.

Struggles in Opposition

2012 • 45 min

A young woman struggles to free herself from the shackles of her living situation, while at the same time trying to find a new way of understanding herself, her thoughts, and her ideas. She has the desire to progress and grow intellectually.

Sisters

2012 • 8 min • Belgium

An animation triptych that evokes the atmosphere of old Dutch paintings, where sisters are trapped in melancholy, facing the loss and emptiness over the missing one.

Walk-Through

2012 • 18 min

In a combination of documentary and fictionalised reconstruction, a multi-faceted analysis of contemporary art education and the particular impact of Michael Asher’s ‘post-studio class’ at the California Institute of the Arts in the 1970s.

Invisible Women. Forgotten Artists Of Florence

2012 • 26 min • United States of America

Invisible Women sheds light on ground-breaking women artists and their thousands of little-known works. It's a public television special where rediscovery and restoration are the guiding forces behind an extraordinary quest: rescuing art Florence's 'forgotten' women artists.

Arrows

2012 • 3 min

A short film written and directed by Martika Ramirez Escobar.

Dogs are said to see things

2012 • 12 min

An omen, a shred of time only. Suddenly the huge-bellied man jumps into the pool holding a glass of whiskey.

fábula

2012 • 13 min • Argentina

One summer afternoon, on the banks of a river, a boy and a girl are starting to get to know each other. The landscape and the distance are the scene of a possible beginning.

Salir a escena

2012 • 46 min • Argentina

Documentary about two women admitted to a Neuropsychiatric Hospital, about the changes they experience after starting a drama workshop and the fight they undertake to overcome their fears and take charge of their lives again

Angel Falls, the Great Falls

2012 • 24 min

Venezuela, Guiana Shield, Tepuis, Canaima, Gondwanaland, magical words in the Nature World, this documentary explores the adventure of travelling to the highest falls in the world, Angel Falls, passing thru dangerous rapids, fantastic falls, otherworldly.

Bundists

2012 • 48 min

Bundaim explores the personal journey and opinion of the Israeli director Eran Torbiner, who examines the Bund alternative, why it was forgotten following the Holocaust, and how necessary it is today. Torbiner follows the last surviving comrades in Israel of the socialist and anti-Zionist Bund movement, the strongest Jewish movement in Poland and the main opponent of the Zionists before WWII.

The Opening

2012 • 7 min • United States of America

An early cut of the footage seen in Chants and Dances for Hand.

The Summer

2012 • 14 min

The summer after their senior year of high school, three friends find themselves caught up in a pointless love triangle.

White Box: Act I

2012 • 19 min

A pony grasps the minimal world around them, and is interrogated. The first part of a 3 piece trilogy of short films based on the show "My Little Pony".

The Shadow Out of Time

2012 • 15 min

In 1908 Nathaniel Wingate Peaslee, a university professor, suffers a sudden mental breakdown during a class. In 1913 he seems to recover but has no memory of the last five years. He sets out to discover what happened.

Sled

2012 • 12 min • Morocco

Ismail is an 8 year old child living with his sister in a mud house in the Atlas Mountains. After the death of their parents, the sister insists on him to continue his education. However, she loses control over his life, when he starts to live his life the way he wants to.

Der fremde Fotograf und die Einsamkeit

2012 • 5 min • Germany

Thierry is a photographer on a visit in a foreign city. He is looking for the museum. Isabelle is lonesome and helps him out. Together they go for a drink in a nearby pub. There, Thierry soon discovers that his prearranged phrases in the foreign language won't lead to the results he desires. The dialogues of this boy-meets-girl-tragedy were adapted from an audio language trainer.

Apocalypse Pizza Video

2012 • 4 min

Since all over the world the dead have risen, it seems like the end of the world. Billions of glassy gazing zombies roam about limply, decomposed as they are, and regain a little liveliness only to run after the last survivors who have the misfortune to come out of their lair. In Paris, three losers realize that ultimately all this does not change much in their lives. Deciding to take their destiny into their own hands, they open a pizza delivery and home video business. After a difficult start, their success grew as soon as they promoted themselves by stapling leaflets on the faces of the dead. But then one morning, they discover that it has just opened, right in front of their shop, a Captain Pizza HD franchise: the world's largest chain of delivery of pizzas and HD movies on USB key... Curse! Will our heroes triumph over this unfair competition?!

Second Chance

2012 • 55 min • United States of America

It’s not always easy for Christian teenagers to live for God and stand for what’s right. All too often they find themselves caught up in secret sin, hanging out with the wrong crowd, and living in outright rebellion toward authority. Such is the case for Jeremy (Wyatt Cope), in "Second Chance." With his relationship with his parents at the breaking point, he ignores their loving pleas to get right with God and delves even deeper into the evil life of “freedom” he’s always wanted, until a horrific tragedy changes everything. It’s his final wake-up call. One last time, God reaches out to give Jeremy a second chance.

De piel

2012 • 23 min • Argentina

A woman in search of independence, leaves her home. He faces obstacles and receives help from whom he least expected.

Dalia

2012 • 15 min • Iraq

Iraq now has become a place for explosion by some people. in this place, you have to live with stress.

After Office Hours

2012 • 5 min • Norway

We are presented with a world where humanity's days are numbered, and nature has once again taken over. What happens when night falls and the office is closed?