All Films

Echo

2012 • 14 min • Ireland

Observing from afar, Emily does not consider herself a part of the world around her, until finally one day she must confront her existence and her own mortality.

I Kill

2012 • 9 min

The kindest slaughter: a short documentary about one man's bloody job.

The Girl Lives In Haeundae

2012 • 5 min

Family go on a picnic after a long time. But It's not all fun.

I Will Never Shoot Again

2012 • 17 min • Brazil

I Will Never Shoot Again

The Inevitable Story of Leticia Deniz

2012 • 19 min • Brazil

The movie follows the journey of a gorgeous transgender, from her troubled childhood in Porto Velho, Rondonia, to her body hormonal transformation process and her initiation in the prostitution underworld of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Last Exit Home

2012 • 11 min • United States of America

Leonard is a man of routine, as is his journey home from work. Everyday is the same. But today is an exception, when he meets a stranger who causes his fantasy and reality to collide.

St John: The Longest Night

2012 • 18 min • Chile

It's June 24 and the people of Lawan, a Mapuche community in southern Chile, are planning a big celebration for Saint John's Eve. Despite this, Cheo a restless and misfit kid, is not happy because this means the return of his father to the community. He is a violent man who, when he drinks too much, vent his anger with his family, unleashing in Cheo strong desires for revenge.

Silenced Voices

2012 • 60 min • Norway

The film is told as a personal encounter with exiled Sri Lankan journalists who have been "silenced" and almost killed in their home country because they exposed war crimes, corruption and massacres of civilians.

The Mandate

2012 • 51 min

“The Mandate“ portrays a lawyer and his mandate in the preparation of a murder trial. It follows the lawyer’s struggle to find the truth, and the difficulty in knowing what to believe. The lawyer goes deeper and deeper into the life of a broken man and a milieu that is unfamiliar to him. In spite of personal doubts, he’s in charge of doing an important and professional job.

In the Mind of a Parrot

2012 • 52 min • Sweden

A project that would initially be about alternative young people develops into a film about a cocky girl, Elle, who grows up with a mother who has a hard time showing emotions. Elle's upbringing is a struggle for acceptance. To get it both inside and outside the family, she seeks out spectacular expressions, provocative clothes and destructive behaviors.

Unfold

2012 • 18 min • United States of America

Elias and Susan in New York, between love, exile, and the Arabic revolution.

Before Summer Rain

2012 • 25 min • Taiwan

In a family with an older brother whose young life is going to the end and parents under all kinds of pressures and sorrows, a young girl saw everything pass by alone during the whole journey of growing-up.

Acorns

2012 • 6 min • United Kingdom

Upon a hill grows a grand Oak tree, which also happens to be home to a playful tree Spirit. Amber, a curious youngster, befriends this Spirit and throughout the seasons they form the strongest of friendships. One night, disaster strikes and Amber must realize the importance of caring for nature.

I Want To See The Dwarves!

2012 • 13 min • Latvia

Colourful jungle, dancing dwarves and a pirate girl Vanessa. It is a story of a regular lovely girl, and it makes no difference that she is blind! An optimistic and inspiring animation about learning and accepting our natural differences, voiced by Vanessa herself.

Narmada

2012 • 44 min

Shot on super 8, the film appears like a journey, a dream along the Narmada river in India, between myths of Progress and myths of the river. "Dams are the temples of modern India", claimed Nehru after the country's independance. Soon, one of the largest complex of dams ever conceived will be completed on the Narmada. A social struggle is getting organized. We travel on the river until the ocean, on our way to meet inhabitants, beliefs, and convictions that cohabit and are brought into conflict as this valley undergoes major transformations.

A Magical Summer Day

2012 • 14 min • China

On a scorching summer day, a woman finally finds The Hundred Years Bridal Shop hidden in a corner of the city...

The Gospel

2012 • 11 min

Sigfus is a young man who doesn't believe in God. But one day he starts seeing strange messages all around him which seem to come from God himself. Is God really trying to get to Sigfus or is somebody just messing with him?

Pishto is Leaving

2012 • 9 min • Russia

One day in the fall, Pishto got so fed up that he decided to leave for good.

Facade

2012 • 12 min • United States of America

A kindergarten teacher's ethics is questioned when she is ordered to see a psychologist by her principal. But, as soon as she walks into the door of the shrink's office, it becomes less about the patient's alleged issues and more about the psychologist.

The Butterfly

2012 • 29 min • Ukraine

With God's help, Zhanna becomes an almost perfect person. And so God frees her from her difficult existence, transforming her into a butterfly. A light, carefree life awaits her. But is that what she wanted? And does she really deserve it?

Shift

2012 • 3 min • United Kingdom

An attempt to visualize higher dimensions and unearthliness, taking into account these concepts' heightened awareness, when attempting to process or predict the end of the world.

Stewpot Rhapsody

2012 • 3 min

Three generations of a single family live together under a common roof in an uncoordinated choreography. The mother, acting as an orchestra conductor, tries without success to gather everyone around the same table for dinner.

Nakedness and Wind

2012 • 21 min

an adaptation of Aboutorab Khosravi's short story.

Chase

2012 • 13 min • France, Netherlands

An abstract pursuit that leaves you gasping for breath.