All Films

Children’s Game #13: Piñata

2012 • 8 min • Mexico

A piñata is a papier-mâché figure stuffed with sweets. Common at birthdays in urban patios, here we find it in a field, where a garish Superman dangles between tall poles on a rope jerked by an adult, to make hitting harder. Each player is blindfolded and spun around several times before attempting to hit the piñata with a long stick. The kids’ wild swinging is directed by the shouts of friends, while the allotted time of each turn is counted down in a singsong about finding and losing one’s way. Fierce blows are dealt with varying accuracy until the piñata is fully smashed open and its sweets shower to the ground, leaped on by all the kids at once. The hollow, punctured figure is triumphantly dismembered.

O Friend, This Waiting!

2012 • 33 min • India

A wandering poet-musician, Kshetrayya wrote for devadasis, the dancing courtesans at the courts of the 17th century Nayaka rulers. His padams became the most cherished of her songs of love. O Friend, This Waiting! reflects on the entwined fortunes of the padams and the women they were written for, from the 17th to the 20th century, while dwelling in the performance spaces of temples and courts of the Nayaka period.

En équipe

2012 • 21 min • France

16-year-old Bastien's football team just won a match. While celebrating the victory, his friend Sékou tells him that the girl in the red scarf wants to meet him.

Cerita Dari Tapal Batas

2012 • 59 min • Indonesia

STORIES FROM THE BOUNDARIES invites the audience to travel to the borders of the country and hear stories from there. These three figures of ordinary people (Martini, Kusnadi, and Ella) are the story tellers. There are many stories that have not been revealed in society. Everyday problems such as the availability of educational, health and social protection facilities for the community are retold through the personal stories of these three ordinary people. For the three figures above, being Indonesian is a tough test. They have to live a hard life in their own country while not far away the country of Malaysia seduces with all the existing establishments.

I still get lost in your eyes

2012 • 26 min • Thailand

A prisoner asked a musician to write a letter to someone, creating questions that remain unanswered.

Vanka Teplyashin

2012 • 18 min • Russia

A doctor from the regional clinic finds a guy with a rare disease in the village, and takes him to the city hospital to write a doctoral dissertation.

Der Weg des Dresdner Abwassers

2012 • 20 min

Immerse yourself in the fascinating world of sewerage! A sewage network stretching some 1,800 kilometers in length six meters below Dresden. Intelligent solutions, from traditional to modern, ensure trouble-free operation in this system.

Nostos

2012 • 13 min

A talented but failed painter struggles with everything he has to have his work recognized. When it doesn't work he must find a way to finally be noticed. But his new method is far from ordinary.

Based on a True Story

2012 • 6 min

A little girl tries to dig to the moon.

Crossed Herrings

2012 • 12 min • Norway

A woman and a man, who's lives are shaped by everyday monotony and fear of changes, would match and perfectly fulfill each other, if they would only get to meet. Once, this was almost about to happen.

Time and Memory

2012 • 23 min • Mexico

A film essay that explores the relationship between film and memory, based on the personal memoir of the director. An autobiographical attempt to analyze this relationship going from the individual to the collective. From Chris Marker to Hitchcock and on to Kennedy´s assassination, passing through Fritz Lang and Bruce Willis, the memory of the images is fused with our own story, until they cannot be separated.

Kvisa Meluchlechet

2012 • 52 min • Israel

Yael can neither forgive nor forget. After her father was convicted and imprisoned for sexual exploitation, she decides to change the rules of the game for the paralyzed and ashamed victim and files a precedent-setting civil lawsuit against her father. At the same time, she decides to document her events, the chronicle of her disintegrating family, and the heavy price she pays in her life.

Sue Thomas: Nothing but the Truth

2012 • 55 min

Meet the real Sue Thomas from the popular TV series! With passionate honesty, she shares her profound inner struggle with deafness and understanding the Lord's plan---from "accusing" God and nearly being expelled from seminary to finding forgiveness and hope. Now she calls the church to turn away from the noise of popular culture and listen for God in silence

Stick

2012 • 8 min • Norway

On the beach a persecuted stray dog finally finds someone kind, a friendly man on his day off. Afraid of loosing his new-found friend he gets attached to this man - literally attached. STICK is a slapstick comedy about friendship. But it is also a story about impossible relations, loss and how to keep good things last by the use of memory.

Gender Blender

2012 • 26 min

Gay, lesbian, bisexual, and trans gender students explore issues they face at their small town high school. Together with their allies they work towards a policy in support of the LGBTQ youth at their school.

Collapse

2012 • 45 min

May 12th, 2008, 8-magnitude Wenchuan massive earthquake happened in Sichuan province. In Bailu town, the Shangshu Seminary, built by French Catholic missionaries 100 years before, collapsed in the earthquake. The State Administration of Cultural Heritage planed to rebuild the Shangshu Seminary. During rebuilding, Tang Min, a Catholic parishioner of three generations in Bailu town, conflicted with his neighbor Jiang's family because of some interests, his wife and daughter were brutally killed by Jiang's family. Tang Min's faith also collapsed. Six years later, the reconstruction of the collapsed Seminary was completed, Tang Min also remarried and had a three-year-old daughter, life in Bailu town seemed to be returning to the calm it had been before the collapse.

One Night in the Capital City

2012 • 30 min • Hong Kong

How far would a man go for money, women and power and who would he betray? How much would a woman sacrifice for love? Nine, daughter of a triad boss, travels to Beijing in a bid to win back her boyfriend, Chung, refuting the suspicion that he’s absconded with the gang’s money. With the camera trained on her wide-eyed face, Nine leads Chung on a whirlwind adventure through the capital’s sinister underbelly where their paths cross with those of low-life thugs, each having a role to play in a clever ruse to ferret out a snitch. With 10 million dollars at stake, emotions are running high and tension is taut and each puff of smoke is harrowing.

The Vet: Surgically Degraded

2012 • 57 min • Finland

Three animal rights activists find themselves involved in a horrendous scheme of morals set up by a psychopath known only as The Vet.

Raid of the Vomit-Blood Fiends

2012 • 9 min

All is well when a husband and wife discuss politics over a candlelit dinner. That is, until the butler misplaces the wine.

The Spider's Web

2012 • 2 min

A kid asks a man driving his car to open up his house front door, but the outcome is dangerous...

Une place

2012 • 19 min • France

Alice is a young street girl, she is looking for a place where she can stay...

Aalterate

2012 • 10 min • France, Netherlands

A body experiences extreme inner tension. Its slowly mutating silhouette gradually invades an empty space to a point of complete saturation.

Inside the Tunnel

2012 • 16 min • Spain

A love letter to the fantasy films made in the 80s, and an homage to fantasy series such as The Twilight Zone, Creepshow and Alfred Hitchcock Presents.

Trattoria

2012 • 43 min • Germany