All Films

Sterile Zone

2012 • 26 min • Latvia

Kristaps is a medical student. His father was once a great surgeon. Kristaps wants to become a surgeon as well, but during one of his first operations, he faints... The film is a tragicomic story about dreams and ways to reach them; it is about the belief in oneself, the occasional struggle, family legends and the ability to change ourselves.

Yakuaya, la esencia del agua

2012 • 54 min • Ecuador

Yaku: water; aya: essence, blood. Yakuaya is a non-verbal documentary about the descent of water and life that follows the journey of a drop of water from its birth on a glacier until its arrival at the sea. Along the way, water influences the life of a peasant, locks himself in the rhythm of a bottling factory, brings people together in the city, transforms the life of a woman, leads a river navigator, awakens hope in a desert and welcomes the innocence of two children in the sea.

When Lines Speak

2012 • 52 min • Slovenia

A documentary about modern-day comics.

Before Summer Ends

2012 • 16 min • Brazil

Small great events of a family summer in the countryside.

Red Green

2012 • 2 min • United Kingdom

A study in contrast, colour and moiré pattern in a public park in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. The film connects with a series of paintings by visual artist, Angela Allen.

Writer's Block

2012 • 15 min

An aspiring writer resorts to committing crimes as inspiration for new material, obsessing over a fellow writer in the process.

Afterglow

2012 • 20 min

"Afterglow" is a tragi-comic piece about a Parsi widow who has just lost her husband and the condolence visitors who come in to offer their mock sympathy.

First Date

2012 • 9 min

A young man prepares for an important first date, but does he have the courage to take the final daunting step?

unpi

2012 • 1 min • Japan

Short animation by Haruka Suzuki

The Thief And The Hat

2012 • 3 min • China

Three thieves are trying to get hat back from the moon,but...

Spectral Analysis Loops : Deep in the Glowing

2012 • 7 min • United States of America

"I attempt to render sections from the spectral analysis of things, to show them in many aspects and permutations simultaneously: their relations, sequences and oppositions. Unfortunately I am unable to observe things from all sides...I consider my so-called abstraction and my actual ambiguity to be moments of realism." from Hugo Huppert's (In the Prayer-Milll's Rattling): A Visit with Paul Celan in the book Translating Tradition. "Spectral Analysis Loops" 2012, a collaboration between Tarrl Lightowler (image, editing, sound) and Matthew Swiezynski (editing, sound)

Rotten Romance

2012 • 20 min

Split into three chapters, each depicting tales dealing with twisted and deranged love and relationships

The Bride

2012 • 40 min • France, Italy

Dressed in a wedding gown, the Milanese artist Pippa Bacca leaves her native city in direction of Jerusalem. Accompanied by fellow artist Silvia Moro, both women hitchhike their way across the Balkans with a clear aspiration: opening themselves towards ‘the Other’. As their travel-performance unfolds, the artists decide to take two different paths and Pippa is later found dead in Turkey. The film embarked on a journey in quest of her memories.

House of Greed

2012 • 4 min • Japan

Short animation by Iku Ogawa

Winter Fox

2012 • 1 min

Through falling snow, a lost young cub searches for home.

Zurcidos Invisibles

2012 • 9 min • Mexico

Destiny calls, waiting patiently. She dives deep into herself to heel her wounds...

The Dogmatic

2012 • 9 min

In a lawless no man's land at the edge of The Florida Everglades, society and all authority has abdicated its responsibilities. A huge vacuum consisting of underground criminal activities has filled its void. What began as an attempt to spotlight the disturbing phenomenon of dogs being dumped in the Everglades quickly turned into a controversial story of societal neglect, economic despair, morality and self-fulfillment.

Fine

2012 • 2 min

Fine is the story of birth, life and death of a soldier, represented on a hand (mine, for instance). The movie is inspired by the concept of handpainting and the finger videos movement. Dedicated transitions created with the technique of the shuft pan has been used to create a true cinematografic editing through the hand. both the initial and final soundtrack, as well as the military salute of the last scene are a hommage to Jiri Trnka’s masterpiece “The Hand”.

Retrato de uma Paisagem

2012 • 34 min • Brazil

A film about the city. A film about people. We are living at the beginning of the era of urban society. A new field still ignored and unknown. And the scenario for the future is not yet established.

The Cut

2012 • 43 min • Kenya, Uganda

Filmmaker Magoko heads to rural East Africa to understand the various traditional ceremonies and the efforts to eradicate them. She finds a community deeply divided not only along lines of age and culture. Enlightened elders lobby for the ban of the practice, others decry the loss of tradition. Among women, some seek to maintain the status quo while others flee to rescue camps. For the activists it is a clear case of basic women’s rights: circumcision is inextricably linked to early marriage and forbidden education. Who is telling the truth and what are the stakes?

Pursuit of Light

2012 • 7 min

Using extraordinarily high resolution data sets from some of the most innovative and powerful scientific instruments ever built, the media team at NASA Goddard presents PURSUIT OF LIGHT. The presentation showcases top level goals of NASA's Science Mission Directorate, with an eye toward capturing the imagination of mainstream audiences. Data visualizations at resolutions far greater than HDTV present NASA's science goals like never before. Interspersed with inventive live action footage also designed to make use of that vast canvas, this six and a half minute presentation captivates and moves viewers.

Mooncake

2012 • 8 min

You are not the only one this earth revolves around.

Little Red Riding Hood, Once More

2012 • 1 min • Croatia

Distracted by the forest's beauties on her way to Grandma, the Little Red Riding Hood loses the food basket. Having observed this, the Wolf retrieves the basket, delivers it to Grandma and the two have a good laugh about the event.

Ett försvunnet konstverk

2012 • 58 min • Sweden