All Films

A Day or Two

2012 • 15 min • Denmark

A violent image, then a mother and her son driving away from the city. They arrive at an old house where they stay for a day or two.

I'm Really Scared When I Kill in My Dreams

2012 • 31 min

Two men wander through the woods. They are gathering books, memorizing them before burning them. They are being followed; someone is leaving a trail. One of the men keeps having the same bad dream.

Without GMO

2012 • 10 min • Ukraine

Young woman’s husband died tragically. From possible kinds of burial she chooses cremation. The woman is late for a funeral… One of the crematorium workers has already received her husband ashes and is grinding them in a crusher. Then he carefully puts the package into the urn and sifts ashes there. But not all of them. He leaves a handful and sifts it into the rolling bin prepared beforehand... When the bin is full, the crematorium worker takes it home ... At his balcony, he grows tomatoes which need fertilizer. When the crematorium worker sells them, he assures customers that his product is ecologically clean.

Deadliest Volcanoes

2012 • 54 min

Millions of people around the world live in the shadow of active volcanoes. From Japan s Mount Fuji to the Sleeping Giant submerged beneath Naples to the Yellowstone Supervolcano in the United States, NOVA travels with scientists who are attempting to discover how likely these volcanoes are to erupt, when it might happen, and exactly how deadly they could prove to be.

The Beard

2012 • 25 min • Ukraine

The old man’s daughter married the foreigner and moved abroad. Only his neighbor Gienyk remembers his name. Others call him “Beard”. “Beard” feeds hens, smokes cheap cigarettes, goes fishing as an ordinary villager. But nobody, even Gienyk knows what’s on his mind. His daughter visits him while passing by. He’s not at home at that moment. When he comes back, he founds his daughter on the threshold, ready to leave. The old man sees off his daughter with sadness. And then takes the gun. Everything’s going to change in a moment… The Beard will disappear.

L’home precís

2012 • 30 min • Spain

A narrative in the form of a Christmas story filled with repetitions, the specific routines of a precise man, in which the visit of death is part of the specular game.

A Date

2012 • 12 min • Ukraine

Ania has a little son and has no husband. To take care of the child she has to work two jobs – dubbing cartoons and... providing sexual services by phone. Ania has a regular customer. He always calls in time and never misses sessions. Once the client calls to say goodbye – he leaves and won’t be able to call anymore. The girl feels sorry, so does he. They seem to have established s good relationship. The girl suggests the last sex. Ania doesn’t have an idea that it can really be the last one for the man – not everyone returns from where he goes...

Güm

2012 • 2 min • Canada

Gum begins with a bizarre premise and keeps building.

Una Furtiva Lagrima

2012 • 4 min

Requiem for a black bass who laments his pathetic fate, from his sale at the fishmarket to his final destination: the frying pan.

It's Alright

2012 • 12 min • Brazil

Camila broke up with her boyfriend recently. She's been going out and spending time with her girlfriends and her dog.

Cloro

2012 • 11 min • Italy

The locker room of a swimming pool. Chiara and Futura are like two peas in a pod: they wear the same costume, the same eye-shadow on their adolescent faces. What they are about to face is no normal competition. They're growing up and the pool isn't big enough for the both of them.

Agatha

2012 • 15 min

A psychosexual sci-fi about a planet without speech. Its narrator, ambiguous in gender and function, weaves us slowly through a mental and physical landscape, observing and chronicling a space beyond words. Based on a dream had by the radical British composer Cornelius Cardew.

Maria Ada

2012 • 7 min • Equatorial Guinea

Maria Ada is a famous urban legend that tells the story of a teacher who died leaving two sons behind while his ghost occasionally comes to life trying to recover them. Oscar and Jose, two friends and former classmates, tell about the tragic ghost apparitions and their constant bickering with an albino boy. A friend from the same classroom could only see the ghost, because in Equatorial Guinea they say that albinos have four eyes.

The Killing Joke

2012 • 16 min

Film written and directed by Sebastian Lopez

Chopin: The Space Concert

2012 • 45 min • Poland

200 years after Chopin's birth, the Space Shuttle Endeavour, like a giant piano, took the music of Chopin into orbit.

Setup

2012 • 19 min • Croatia

David never had the courage, but has always had dreams. Can he win the heart of a woman who no longer has a heart?

Man Made Place

2012 • 53 min • China, Germany

China is currently marked by a phase of rapidly growing urbanization. The film in this context deals with two particular cities. Yum en a derelict ghost town and Or dos a mythic city of the future,both are deserted. They exist because of completely different reasons. The film shows through impressive images how these two cities and the relation of inhabitants to these cities are developing in China in times of urban growth.

Deatherman

2012 • 60 min

In a small populated town located in Cyphers County there's a quaint crew of newscasters at Action 13 News. Dalton Law (John Kasper), the beloved local weatherman, never missed a day of work or misguided his towns people to imperfect forecasts. Daltons days are predictable, down to his morning coffee and daily bathroom run-ins with anchorman Dan Anders (Mike Gavern). However, this particular day in Cyphers County is not so predictable. Dalton predicts an acid rain storm this evening but does not predict his unfortunate meeting of Holley Cooper (Dominique Capone), the new intern at Action 13 News. Holley, unbeknownst to the news station crew, is a recovering psychopath on her way to becoming a lead weatherman, or should we say "weatherwoman".

Dive: Leben im Schiffswrack

2012 • 60 min • Germany

Let yourself be enchanted by this exciting diving adventure! Down into the deep blue, down into a beautiful and alien world. Meet unique creatures such as the spotted eagle ray, the Hawaiian Prussian fish, moray eels and, of course, the popular clown fish. Swim through coral reefs with an extraordinary fauna in the beautiful Egyptian Red Sea.

Menuet

2012 • 4 min • Switzerland

In 1810 in Buenos Aires, the revolution is at its height, fuelled by Rousseau's ideas. Meanwhile, thousands of miles away, in the south of the country, a rain of ash disrupts a French expedition and a young woman, Marie Archange is left behind. All alone, in her head she hears Rousseau's minuet in G Minor, which gives her the strength she needs to continue on her way.

Shinda Gaiden

2012 • 14 min • Japan, Thailand

When Junpei, a rookie cop, awakes, he finds himself tied up to a chair in a dark dingy underground complex. A body of another cop is lying on the floor. In the distance, a sharp metallic scratching sound is slowly approaching.

Eight-Minute Deadline

2012 • 8 min • Greece

People who straggle to catch up with their tight deadlines. Everyone is traveling alone on a unicycle, emphasizing the fact that life is imbalanced.

Crocodiles without Saddles

2012 • 15 min • Germany

A documentary road movie about the luck of being oneself. In the cosmos of Kaddi, there are no "correct" explanations - Why, how come, how!

Os Lados da Rua

2012 • 16 min • Brazil