All Films

The Manifesto II

2012 • 4 min • Lithuania

Animation short.

The Lemon Seller

2012 • 26 min • Russia

The poet Roald Mandelstam lived in postwar Leningrad. He was seriously ill from childhood, rarely left his house, and knew his life would be short. His visitors included the composer Isaac Schwartz and a painters that would come to be known as the "Arafiev circle," a group of independent artists working outside of official oversight. After 50 years, a fresco was discovered under the wallpaper in his communal apartment...

Tails You Win: The Science of Chance

2012 • 60 min

Professor David Spiegelhalter tries to pin down what chance truly is and how it works in the real world. With his unique storytelling method, he applies a blend of wit and wisdom, animation, graphics, and gleeful nerdery to the joys of chance and the mysteries of probability. It is a vital branch of mathematics that tells us what might happen in the future based on the events of the past.

Mauro in Cayenne

2012 • 19 min • Brazil

I really admire this capacity, Mauro. Of turning into something else. Like a dinosaur or a memory.

Boot

2012 • 10 min • Australia

Best friends Dana and Julia drink alcopops in Julia's mum's car, while the boys hang out on a park bench smoking weed. It's time to leave for the party and Julia discovers she has more than a carful, so the boys volunteer to get in the boot. When Dana refuses drive Julia takes the keys, and their fun night out takes a tragic turn. Mixing drama and gross-out comedy, BOOT shows how a good time can inexorably slide into tragedy; how sacrifice can seem like a betrayal; and how guilt is the heaviest burden to bear.

À trois sur Marianne

2012 • 20 min • France

Erwan, Magid and Clement are seventeen years old. On the eve of the second round of presidential elections in 2002, they play football and hang out in the streets of their village. In the evening, Erwan must find Morgane.

A Belgian Caper

2012 • 25 min

Muriel makes regular trips to Belgium where IVF is legal for lesbians. Getting pregnant at 40 is not easy, particularly if fertility clinics refuse to treat you, and your girlfriend is reluctant to become a mother.

Gq

2012 • 14 min • Russia

Your habitual life can end at any time if your habits are more important to you than your life.

The Mew-sician

2012 • 2 min • United States of America

A rather musical romp ending in friendship.

Happy Birthday, Mr. Zombie

2012 • 7 min • Belgium

Mr. Zombie comes back home after a hard day's work.

The Poetry Winner

2012 • 8 min • United States of America

In this cut-out animation, a college student discovers her identity after traveling to her remote West Virginia hometown to work in a discount superstore.

Fatih

2012 • 15 min • Netherlands

In this heartwarming story we meet Fatih, a boy of Turkish descent. He lives with his mother and sisters. The harmony in the family is disrupted when his macho uncle pays the family a visit.

My Father's Fault

2012 • 53 min

Father Jean-Claude Barreau, 39, announced in September 1971 his decision to marry. This announcement would have a considerable impact due to the notoriety he had acquired as a best-selling author. 40 years later, his daughter Chloé looks back on this story that marked her family and questions yesterday's and today's society on a matter that is still relevant: the priests' vow of celibacy.

A Sea Turtle Story

2012 • 9 min • Canada

This animated short chronicles the life cycle of the critically endangered sea turtle. Capturing the beauty of the ecosystems that sea turtles inhabit, the film is ideal for all audiences, and for teaching young and old alike about these fascinating creatures.

Basement

2012 • 4 min

Just sounds from the basement, sneak a peek.

Empathy Bx

2012 • 6 min

Local youth WILL got a choice that could change his life. Will he take the opportunity?

Good Farm

2012 • 4 min • United States of America

Lisa, Go Home!

2012 • 28 min • Estonia, Lithuania

A crew of film-makers made the effort to record what reflects the generation gap between the little girl Lisa and the world of adults in her family

Allegheny Creek

2012 • 11 min

A man returning from prison is desperate to reconnect with the family he left behind.

A Modern Convenience

2012 • 6 min

Against the backdrop of Niagara Falls the domestic space for laundry undergoes a change when a wringer washing machine confronts a woman whose instincts question its value.

Abigail

2012 • 17 min

At the end of what she hopes to be her last day at work, a young gas station attendant attempts to leave town permanently. We slowly learn fragmented details about her life as she treks across the decaying wasteland called home.

Krav Enayim

2012 • 20 min

Alma, a young director, seeks an actor and actress for a violent key scene which she has written.

Removed

2012 • 6 min

A shadow self seeks revenge. The shadow builds a body with which to extract the life that taunts him by it's very existence. Can be described as a day time ghost story. A daytime ghost story done to a remix of Purple Prelude by Elena Kats Churnin. The shadow self removed from participation with the self exists but resents the access to the real that same self has and so plots to recover the echo of it's lost living any way it can.

El hombre rebelde

2012 • 12 min • Argentina

Rebellion is foreign to the man of science, he is willing to dilute himself in his objectivity, he is not called to live the dissonance between man and his form. The artist, on the other hand, wants to be himself, and even if a force crushes him, he will continue to suffer and fight against it.