All Films

Modest Mouse: The Lonesome Crowded West

2012 • 45 min • United States of America

Directed by RJ Bentler as part of the "Pitchfork Classic" series, Pitchfork.tv presents a 45-minute documentary on Modest Mouse's classic 1997 album The Lonesome Crowded West. For the film, Pitchfork.tv traveled to Los Angeles, London, and cities across the Pacific Northwest (Portland, Seattle, Olympia, Port Townsend) to discuss the making of the album with everyone from frontman Isaac Brock to Calvin Johnson and producer Phil Ek. We learned the album's story back to front, including the fact that halfway through its recording, Ek was called in to rerecord three songs from the original sessions.

Nightingales in December

2012 • 3 min • Canada

This metaphorical surrealist tale is an allusion. NIGHTINGALES IN DECEMBER is a trip into the memories, and the fields of the current realities. What if the Nightingales were working, instead of singing and going south? Is the innocence the only savior of birdsongs? There are no Nightingales in December... What is left, is only the history of our beginning, and our end.

East Hastings Pharmacy

2012 • 47 min • Canada

Bourges documents the daily routine of a typical pharmacy in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, where most clients are on a treatment that requires taking daily doses of methadone witnessed by the pharmacist. The architecture of the space is as much a character as the population which passes through it, with borders of glass between the street and the pharmacy and then between the pharmacist and her clients. The tension of the situation and the struggles on both sides of the glass are punctuated with moments of good humour and camaraderie.

No Country for the Young Ones

2012 • 12 min • Iceland

Strýta is a story of two twelve year old boys, who live in a small town in the east of Iceland. Just outside of town is an abandon house and rumor has it, there is a gun there. The boys, having nothing better to do, decide to steal a car and take a journey to the abandon house to find the gun.

Corrida

2012 • 7 min • Latvia

A bull fight takes place in the main arena in Madrid, the capital of Spain. This time, however, the toreador is not as successful as usual and must run away to save his life. Finding a safe place from the angry beast, the toreador uses his mobile phone to call for help. The Rescue Team receives his distress call. It is the very first call from Europe. Using their new, yellow airplane, three brave men depart immediately for a rescue mission...

A Time of Vultures

2012 • 8 min • Germany

A drifter walks into a saloon to settle a score.

Cuando nieva sobre el hielo del Infierno

2012 • 7 min • Spain

A couple is celebrating their anniversary in an enclave in the middle of an inhospitable icy place.

The Sakuramoto broom workshop

2012 • 9 min • Japan

An old couple live in a Japanese village. They make brooms for a living. They have been together. . . and worked together for a long time. Recently, the husband has noticed his wife has had some symptoms of the disease which has caused some obstacles in their work.

Kulan

2012 • 5 min • Sweden

Two friends practicing shot-put and the younger man suddenly do his best throw ever. A real world record. But did anyone notice?

Last Drop

2012 • 11 min • Serbia

Fragile trust between people and vampires has come to the end. Ancient thousand year's war continues...She is the chosen one and she will fight till the last drop of blood.

The Man that Got Away

2012 • 25 min • Canada

A musical documentary that tells the true life story of Trevor's great-uncle Jimmy in six original songs.

Charizard

2012 • 14 min • Brazil

A guy is offered a job as caretaker of a house and decides to bring his new love along. However, she still has to split with her former boyfriend. Her solution: she'll write a break-up letter, and her new boyfriend has to deliver it. A playful look at love and loyalty.

Flee

2012 • 1 min • Canada

A man wakes in a sea of sand dunes. He clutches a metal suitcase as if it holds something of great value. In the distance looms a distorted and inhuman city from which the man has apparently fled. An experiment in science-fiction/mystery, Flee wonders how many possible histories and possible futures can be implied in a single minute. This film was made as part of the 8th edition of the NFB's Hothouse apprenticeship.

on the other side of you

2012 • 16 min

It is youth that consists of many failures and many happy ends, and makes you break into tears in one moment and then smile when you think about it. Definitely everybody has their youth in the course of their life.

Shoot to Film

2012 • 48 min • Belarus

Having lost all hope of embodying a brilliant idea with the support of the producers, the young director decides to make a film without anyone's help. But his obsession and crazy approach to shooting a spy action movie lead the whole team to a conflict with real spy agents.

Kuroko

2012 • 5 min • Japan

An animation work that expresses people who support their lives as Kuroko, otherwise known as stagehands.

The Cage Bird

2012 • 14 min • Bangladesh

A documentary filmed in 2012 in Dhaka City, Bangladesh about some children who were born in brothels and a woman who escaped from a brothel and is maintaining a shelter home for those children.

Seven Days

2012 • 32 min • Czech Republic

The anatomy of a relationship between an inexperienced high school student and a grown man, a pilot. Their unexpected rapprochement soon runs into the misunderstanding of the family and the initial infatuation is replaced by a gradual cooling.

The Thread of Red Cocoons

2012 • 13 min • Japan

A short film about the "hand" that connect our world and the other side, under the background of "Matsuage" in Kyoto.

Desvelo

2012 • 15 min

Luzia falls in love with Léo, but to live that love she needs to escape the city where she lives and the jealousy of her ex boyfriend, Diogo. Along the way, the couple goes on adventures where Luzia discovers Léo's true identity.

Cycle Me Home

2012 • 57 min • Hungary

In the summer of 2011, a few film students and bike lovers decided to make a documentary movie. The original idea came from Levi, a Hungarian film student, who went to Madrid for 5 months to study, and after finishing school there, he decided to go back to Budapest on his fixie bike and asked the people of Europe to join him on his way. The journey started in July, at the European Cycle Messenger Championship, Madrid and ended at the gates of Sziget Festival, Budapest in August. Friends from film schools of Budapest, Madrid and London joined the trip to make a road-movie about the challenges and most of all the fun that Levi and the other riders had on the way to Budapest.

Love Synchronized Swimming

2012 • 1 min • United Kingdom

A short film about synchronized swimming.

A Persistente Fragilidade da Memória

2012 • 26 min • Angola

On November 11, 2020, the day on which Angola celebrates the 45th anniversary of its independence, Cine Africa joins the Angolan audiovisual production company Geração 80 to show documentaries of the project “This is our Memory”, stimulating the production of memory about this historic landmark in the country. All were acquired under the initiative of the Tchiweka Documentation Association called “Angola - On the Rails of Independence”.

Little Devil on the Fence

2012 • 7 min • Russia