All Films

Deep Trouble in Lake Victoria

2012 • 58 min • Kenya, Sweden, Tanzania, Uganda

With no maps, no civilization. African Lake Victoria, the cradle of mankind, need to be measured. Trade, maritime safety and tourism will flourish if provided with a new sea chart. One day Ola Oskarsson, receives a call from his former boss, ex navy commander Göran Frisk. Göran, now retired, work as a missionary in the Lake Victoria district. In essence Göran commands Ola to produce an updated version. A film where Swedish intentions turn into costly reflections of Western colonialism. A warm, humourous and optimistic film where the Western naive meets the African native.

What's Missing in This Picture

2012 • 39 min • Serbia

The people of the village on Mount Fruska Gora every few decades are facing wars and socioeconomic turmoil. It's the same now, in the so-called transition period. In the surrounding area there is a huge hole full of water, and the fate of the people are in some way connected with it, as a result of the growing power of multinational companies that are expanding, bringing trouble and death. In contrast, and away from it all, an old lady spends his last days not knowing what fate befell her hometown ...

Serie negra

2012 • 5 min • Argentina

Somewhere in the city, an assassin waits for an old friend who is on his way to betray him.

Refugees in Cinecittà

2012 • 52 min • Italy

Cinecitta, the great movie studio built by Mussolini, became universally known as 'Hollywood on the Tiber' and as Fellini's second home. But in an interim period (1944-50) it served very different functions, quite unlike that of a dream factory. Under the Nazi occupation of Rome it was a transit camp for deportees, then following the liberation, it was transformed by the Allies into one of the largest displaced persons camps in Italy.

Salvi

2012 • 11 min

In the not too distant future, civilization, as we know it, has ceased to exist. The world reels from over population. To control this dilemma, women are sequestered in concentration camps. Meanwhile, a wandering soul navigates the hostile surroundings, with a hood that shields her identity. Sabel (Brittany Marie Baldoza) tries to stay under the radar to avoid the fate of other women. Then she finds Abet being attacked by gay thugs. Will she lend a hand at the risk of revealing her identity?

A Totally Different Me

2012 • 60 min • United Kingdom

At 21, Chris Birch was a typical, burly, rugby playing lad with a girlfriend and a job in a bank, but after a stroke everything changed. Today Chris looks different, sounds different and has a completely different life - he is a gay, image conscious hairdresser interested in fashion and interior décor. Chris has lost touch with some former friends and family and cannot recall many of the details of his life before the stroke. This film follows Chris as he gets to grips with his new life and his new personality, tries to discover who he used to be and attempts to build bridges with some of the people he has lost touch with.

Hygiène raciale

2012 • 52 min • France

Before being employed by the Nazis in what remains the most deadly program of “racial purification”, Eugenics was a very popular concept among scientists in the US and Europe. The science of “good birth”, which aims to create the perfect human being, sets out to achieve this by preventing reproduction of those perceived as weak, sick, disabled, or otherwise “degenerate”. As early as 1907, the US applied the first eugenics laws, which continued to be in force until the 1970s. In Sweden, 63,000 people were sterilized, mostly after WWII. The film switches deftly between the explanation of historians and the testimony of victims who continue to struggle for recognition of the harm they have suffered, which has been erased from the collective memory. From North Carolina to Sweden and Germany, a terrifying journey into this quest for the “best of worlds”.

Baaad Dream

2012 • 1 min • Canada

An animated short poking fun at selectively-bred mammoth sheep, whose out-of-proportion form makes them vulnerable to tipping over, and a very fat Farmer who tries to save them, with dire consequences. This film was made as part of the 8th edition of the NFB's Hothouse apprenticeship.

Eclipse

2012 • 3 min • France

On a distant planet, two scientists analyzing the field for its magnetic properties are facing an extraordinary phenomenon linked to the lunar eclipse.

The Federal Court Hearing

2012 • 20 min • Canada

Amid a severe housing crisis that made international headlines in 2011, the federal government imposed third-party management on the Attawapiskat First Nation. In response, the First Nation’s leadership filed a challenge in federal court, claiming the appointment was unreasonable, contrary to law and harmful to community members. Alanis Obomsawin documents the remarkable judicial review that ensued in April 2012 in this companion work to her feature documentary The People of the Kattawapiskak River.

Mêkông Mechanical

2012 • 19 min • Vietnam

Depicting the night shift of a young female worker processing cat fish in a factory in Tien Giang province, Mekong Delta, southern Vietnam, "Mêkông Mechanical" presents a day-dreaming journey of the worker, constructed from the perspective of the artist, who intertwines scenes outside of the factory with a single footage of the worker straightening the fish fillets in the assembly line. The footage is gradually slowed down, challenging viewers’ perception while commenting on the industrialization of food processing and its impact on the Mekong Delta region.

Mai, the great hunter

2012 • 3 min • Ecuador

In the present / future, Mai is a child who lives somewhere on planet Earth, where the existence of water is almost a dream. He dedicates his life to looking for it.

Forward

2012 • 3 min • Argentina

Forward. Move on is get up again

The Lion and the Unicorn

2012 • 12 min • United Kingdom

“The Lion and The Unicorn” is a short film inspired by the heraldic symbols found on the Royal Coat of Arms of The United Kingdom, the lion (representing England) and the unicorn (representing Scotland). The piece uses representations of both alliance and opposition to explore national identity within the context of the 2014 referendum on Scottish independence.

Good Morning Mumbai!

2012 • 13 min • India

The story is about a slum tenant who sets out to do his morning duties and a series of unfortunate events that cause a barrier for the purpose he had set for. He finds a way out and accomplishes his goal which in turn seeds another problem for a different group of people. The film depicts the basic problems caused by urban growth such as lack of space and infrastructure, sanitation problems, pollution, density and the inter relationship with each other.

All Boys Like That

2012 • 29 min • France

A teenager gets together with his girlfriend for the weekend. They decide to make love, whilst their parents are out of sight and nothing should stand in the way of their first time. Or that's the way teenage movies should go.

Even If My Hands Were Full of Truths

2012 • 8 min

The third part of a series about the legacy of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, this film is a mirror that contemplates how memory might or might not become history, using excerpts from classified CIA correspondence and a photo-montage taken at the Museum of Human Rights and Memory in Santiago. (CFMDC)

Ang Pagbabalik ng Bituin

2012 • 40 min • Philippines

Ang Pagbabalik ng Bituin documents a domestic helper’s Ro-Ro (roll-on, roll-off) trip from Metro Manila to Cabadbaran, Agusan del Norte.

Unicorn

2012 • 1 min • United States of America

GIRL and BOY meet little strangers

Ak Ap As

2012 • 21 min • Iran

The documentary "Ak, Ap, As" is about Kalpurgan pottery in Balochistan region and its combination with Chabahar Golfeshan.

Sebastien’s Night Out

2012 • 3 min • United Kingdom

“Sebastien’s Night Out” is the portrait of a young boy, who is haunted by a voice that confesses betrayal. He reluctantly grooms himself, getting ready for an evening of sex. It is about the numb post -relationship space, a melancholy caused by regret or disappointment.

Reality 2.0

2012 • 11 min • Germany, Mexico

Short film about drug violence in Mexico.

Erotic Fragments No. 1, 2, 3

2012 • 7 min • Thailand

Three is the rule. The film has three parts. Each part has three shots and each shot is thirty seconds in length. Three characters share their erotic desires from the point of view of a third class citizen in contemporary Thai society.

Treniņa stunda

2012 • 5 min • Latvia

The film tells the story of the struggle between good and evil, the victory of the new over the old, and the experience gained in life. These eternal values are revealed in the eyes of man, like a mirror of the soul. The film reflects the idea of the original work by combining cinematography, Igor Stravinsky's music, and elements of an ancient martial art – judo – expressed through expressive choreography. On May 29, 1913, the premiere of Russian composer Igor Stravinsky's ballet "The Rite of Spring" took place in Paris. The Paris audience was shocked and booed the ballet. Years passed, and versions of this ballet were staged by Pina Bausch, Heddy Malem, and the Royal Opera and Ballet Theatre in London.