All Films

Mi Turno

2012 • 9 min • Dominican Republic

A Mini Market employee finds herself in a very terrifying situation: a robbery. This robbery is carried out by a man who, arguably, isn't the typical intimidating, burly robber we see in movies. Our protagonist doesn't fall for his games and threats, which leads to a very interesting resolution.

Guk!

2012 • 15 min • Indonesia

A scavenger boy who lives and works in Bantar Gebang, the biggest garbage dump in Indonesia, finds a lost dog which belong to a wealthy family, and bring it back to its owner. Witnessing the dog’s life, he realizes that it lives a far better life than he ever does. When he got busted stealing money from his employer, he run away from Bantar Gebang, and decided to have a better life as he knows it.

Wasted

2012 • 14 min

A low-level hitman Ceasar Rodriguez wakes up in the passenger seat of a blood-soaked car with no memory of how he got there. Beside him, the driver is dead. The streets of Liberty City are empty, but his sins are not. Haunted by visions of the people he’s killed — and the person he used to be — he stumbles through a night filled with paranoia, betrayal, and bloody flashbacks. Each clue he uncovers leads him deeper into a conspiracy that may or may not be real. He sees faces from his past. Hears voices that aren't there. Fights enemies he can't prove exist.

I Will Not Mention Your Name, Portrait of Ted van Lieshout

2012 • 53 min • Netherlands

A documentary about the Dutch artist and award winning children’s author, Ted van Lieshout. He takes a risk. He is not only working on his first novel for adults, he additionally chose for a very controversial subject. In this novel “My Mister” an autobiographical story, he describes a radical and comprehensive event from his childhood, namely his relationship as a 10 year old boy, with a 29 year old man. During the production of “My Mister”, van Lieshout gives Arno Kranenborg the opportunity to come close during this laborious process and the discussions with family and friends.

You Bet

2012 • 14 min • United States of America

As a lottery winner lies dying in an ambulance, the murder plot against him is gradually unveiled.

Trigger Finger

2012 • 3 min • United Kingdom

A sheriff and a bandit meet in the middle of a wild west. There's only one way this can go down, or is there?

Lying Down

2012 • 6 min

A man wants to continue his session with the psychologist, without realizing that his psychologist is dead and is in a cemetery.

Fishbowl

2012 • 19 min

On the verge of her 18th birthday, Sadie's faced with the hardest decision of her life...reclaiming herself at the risk of losing everything.

A invasão das Lesmas

2012 • 7 min • Denmark, Norway

As morning dawns on a Norwegian suburb, a detachment of killer-slugs, led by the notorious Sergeant Slug, prepare for a heads-on attack on a small garden – their objective? A juicy, delicious flower on the other end, deep within a flowerbed. A new conscript and his close friend, a medical officer, both suit and join in the massive charge into the garden. But as the slugs emerge into the exposed field, they stand head to head with a diligent, elderly lady, hell-bent on keeping her garden pristine and safe from pests. As the two sides clash, it is as the saying goes: All's fair in hunger and war!

Apocalypse: A Bill Callahan Tour Film

2012 • 60 min • United States of America

A collection of live performances and a glimpse of the road from the American leg of Bill Callahan's 2011 Apocalypse tour.

Adventure Caribbean 3D: Diving With Sharks

2012 • 53 min • Germany

The breathtaking underwater world of the Caribbean holds many secrets. For millions of years, sea turtles and sharks have successfully shared this habitat. Here, sunlight penetrates crystal clear water and casts its spell over fantastic coral formations. This new 3D adventure enables us to experience tiger sharks, one of the ocean’s most dangerous animals, as if they were in our own living room. Sharks evoke both fear and fascination. Fast and agile, they glide elegantly through the water, observe us with all their senses and raise a number of questions. The media describes them as »killers« or »bloodthirsty beasts«, but a shark whisperer shows us the true face of these beautiful, enigmatic and astounding predators sensitive kings of the seas with unimaginable skills and more endangered than we thought.

Citadel

2012 • 48 min • Bolivia

In the San Pedro male prison of La Paz, Bolivia, 1500 prisoners coexist in a space originally designed for only 300 nuns. Inside, it is like a small city, with businesses and services abound. The prisoners make their living inside the enclosure as they would outside. There is a strong self-organization that plans every-body's lives. As if it weren't enough, there are hundreds of women, wives of the inmates, and almost 300 children, who chose to share their captivity. They are non-convicted beings that accepted living behind bars with the only purpose of preserving a united family. The documentary shows the life of a family inside the jail of La Paz.

Dark Days

2012 • 4 min • Norway

A man goes trough dark days

Here and the Great Elsewhere

2012 • 14 min • Canada

This abstract yet compelling philosophical tale uses the Alexeïeff-Parker pinscreen as a metaphor for the particles that make up the universe. Through 4 tableaux that explore her character’s thoughts, filmmaker Michèle Lemieux takes a look at the profound reflections of this everyman, whose questions are part of humanity’s eternal quest for meaning.

On the Beach

2012 • 17 min • Switzerland

A teenager together with her little brother are sent to their mother for the summer, but there are complications when she goes to a nearby beach.

H'mong Sisters

2012 • 13 min

Among the indigenous tribes in the mountains of Vietnam, 13-year old Mu thinks she knows everything her 16-year old sister Paj, a tour guide, knows - until they encounter a sex tourist.

The Near Future

2012 • 19 min

While at work, Robin, a French immigrant pilot, receives a phone call that sends shock waves through his soul. Unseen by others, turmoil seeps into his inner world and echoes in his daily life. He will have to let this pain in, but not now. An impressionistic depiction of an all-but-ordinary day, The near future takes us to the poetic boundary between droning engines and complete silence, aerial and terrestrial, pastoral and urban, man and machine, life and death.

Antoine Et Les Héros

2012 • 20 min

Antoine, a B-film crazed teenager, becomes trapped in a mash-up world of the horror and karate movies he loves.

20malegaynyc

2012 • 11 min • United States of America

Gay men talking about gay men.

Cerro Negro

2012 • 22 min • Portugal

Developing from an idea of diptych, the story of Anajara and Allison is told from two perspectives in continuity. If late night work complicates the life of one of them, the incarceration in jail of the other determines a cycle of separation. Salaviza's skill to direct amateur actors is showed in this film, one of his more precise works.

Mannen från Jupiter

2012 • 59 min • Sweden

Hans-Erik Norberg has chosen to live trapped in his own "bubble". After a childhood marked by illness, abuse and bullying, he decided to and break all contact with the outside world and say no to friendship. Overall, he spent 45 years in self-imposed isolation behind barred windows in Fittja. The only thing that made him get up in the morning was the construction of a seven meter luxury cruiser in the living room. After meeting with the crew his life changed and suddenly he leaves the protective cover of the bubble ...

Milk?

2012 • 58 min • Canada

Using engaging interviews and arresting visuals, this documentary investigates the case for milk as a nutritious food. Is milk good for us or not?

Missing in the Mansion

2012 • 11 min • United States of America

On July 6, 2012, three friends went missing. They were last seen at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California. A Cast Member working in Lost & Found discovered a camera that belonged to them containing the following footage. It has not been altered in any way.

Bloodline

2012 • 19 min

A heroin addict is brought to the end of himself before he realizes Christ's redemptive plan for his life.