All Films

Un spectacle interrompu

2012 • 7 min • Belgium, France

As Above, So Below

2012 • 50 min • United States of America

For thousands of years, alchemists toiled to synthesize rare substances and universal cures, to manipulate the speed of natural processes. Today, a woman has her husband’s ashes transformed into a memorial diamond. Precious metals are extracted from obsolete electronics. What was once the world’s largest landfill– now also the final resting place of the World Trade Center’s remains– is being converted into a public park. The film intimately examines various transmutations, both microscopic and massive, that reshape matter and its meanings. What separates the permanent from the impermanent, the things we discard from those we preserve?

La boutique de forge

2012 • 16 min • Canada

The blacksmith returns to Montreal with fire and sword. He finds his old shop, now abandoned, and all the memories it holds.

Flowers with Aphasia

2012 • 30 min • Hong Kong

Seated in the front row of a funeral hall are a boy and a teenager, the picture of the deceased yet to be placed. A florist, Tung (Ai Wai), is consumed by grief but puts on a front for others. The boy drops by at the florist and orders a custom floral arrangement - a teddy bear-shaped wreath with his favourite yellow flowers — to be readied in three days' time and paid with money saved up in his piggy bank. Tung forges an unlikely friendship with his young customer, an encounter that releases bottled-up emotions so that healing process can begin.

Da Vinci

2012 • 25 min • Italy

In an operating theatre in a hospital robotic surgery department, a journey through the human body is undertaken by a specialized robot named Da Vinci. The surgeon conducts the entire operation remotely, controlling the robot’s intricate movements with a joystick.

My Name Is Boffer Bings

2012 • 21 min • Hungary

The film is based on the well-known short story 'Oil of Dog'. The rough and simple chalk animation technique is match for the absurd and surrealistic style of the story. The line-drawing character representation over a black background is in the flavour of film noir. This is the story of Boffer Bings, who lives in a village where his father manages a prosperous business producing dog-oil. Boffer Bings not only assists his father in procuring dogs for distill, but also helps to carry away the debris of his mother's studio, where she disposes of unwelcome babes. Martin is accomplished in his jobs, until his accidental invention steers the family business into an economic boom. Tragedy is inevitable.

Law and Order

2012 • 9 min • Germany

This is Real German Education: two naked elderly men in elegant surroundings talk about their relationship and the good old days, and chat in a refreshingly candid manner about their fetishes, sadomasochistic predilections and bondage.

Mamá

2012 • 21 min • Spain

One evening, two hungover friends drink wine while discussing their fascination with the song "Mama" by Valesca Popozuda.

Tooth of Hope

2012 • 15 min • Lebanon, United Arab Emirates

Walid is searching for work. His family's well-being depends on it - wife, son, unborn child... Economic crisis is in full swing.

Zanjmoore

2012 • 56 min • Iran

Three women try to protect animals The subject of the film is Zanjumeh. One of these women builds a shelter and keeps stray dogs in the shelter by spaying them. He also opposes stray dogs due to his prejudice against his village.

Kanji Ishiwara: The Man Who Triggered the War

2012 • 51 min • France

Most people think that World War II started on September 1st, 1939, when the Germans invaded Poland, and then spread to Asia on September 7th 1941, after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. However, World War II actually started ten years earlier, when Manchuria was invaded by a now-forgotten Japanese general: Kanji Ishiwara. This is the little known truth about the most famous war in history.

Where My Heart Beats

2012 • 58 min

In 1989, Swedish journalist, Khazar Fatemi narrowly fled the war torn country of Afghanistan with her life. Twenty years later, the former refugee returned to the place that has always remained in her heart. Where My Heart Beats follows Khazar's dangerous, painful, and inspirational journey back home to reconnect with the amazing people of this broken nation.

Daddy Warblocks

2012 • 15 min • United States of America

An old man attempts to build his dream family out of toy bricks, after finding out that anything he creates comes to life.

Documentary of the Mersey Townsite

2012 • 35 min • Canada

The Mersey Townsite was used to house workers (and their families) who were employed at the dam's to operate the power development on the Mersey River, when the power dams were first built in the 1920s.

Futon

2012 • 7 min • Japan

Wrapped in the futon... Memories are coming up to the mind, the future is imagined, senses are recaptured, physical feelings as a woman are deeply ingrained...Everything melts pleasantly all together. In the futon, the body wonders seeking for these sense...

The Road To

2012 • 35 min • Russia

Big cities are full of lonely people.

I'm Never Afraid!

2012 • 20 min • Netherlands

Mack is a 8 year old streetwise boy wants to win all the time. With his mirrored heart he has to perform on the motorcrosstrack while death watches him from all corners.

Human, all too human

2012 • 4 min

A short film inspired by the famous quote of the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche: “Human, all too human”

A Menina Dos Olhos

2012 • 32 min • Portugal

A documentary view of the practices of popular culture in the most jubilant of the local pagan festivities.

Window

2012 • 15 min • Latvia

Mr. Schmidt, a young man who is recovering from a recent nervous breakdown, arrives at a country manor. As he waits for the governess Mrs. Rosenbaum, Schmidt is scared by the gardener but then meets a bored, young woman, Vera, who kindly accompanies him through the house. Vera tells Schmidt about a great tragedy. Precisely three years ago, members of her aunt’s family passed away, but the bodies were never found. Mrs. Rosenbaum does not believe in the death of her relatives and continues to wait for their return. Coming close to madness, Mr. Schmidt escapes from the mansion, and the missing family members return from an actual hunting expedition. As it turns out, Miss Vera makes up legends because of boredom.

Valse with Asmahan

2012 • 20 min • Morocco

Asmahan, the famous Syrian diva of the forties reigns as queen in the small apartment of a very pretty young Moroccan woman, desperate for a plane ticket to an Egypt where she dreams of being a singer ...

Dying Green

2012 • 24 min • United States of America

A doctor's efforts to live a green life near the Appalachian Mountains lead to the development of a radical idea to use green burials to conserve one million acres of land and to create wildlife reserves.

Love Equestrian

2012 • 1 min • United Kingdom

A short film about horse racing.

The Film

2012 • 57 min • Latvia

Three young men head to an isolated country house to shoot a film that they hope will bring them fame. They have no experience, but possess the will to change their lives. They make various attempts, but none seem to work. The team comes to a creative impasse, but the stakes are too high to give up. In hopes of drawing out their talents, they spend more and more time chipping away at each other. Previously hidden character traits come to light further complicating their relationship and the making of the film. Soon it's each man for himself. Just when the experiment seems utterly failed, one of them is discovered dead. It's not clear whether it's accidental, suicide or murder, but a real body in the scene satisfies - this could be the start of The Film.