All Films

Gymkhana Five: Ultimate Urban Playground, San Francisco

2012 • 10 min • United States of America

Gymkhana FIVE: the pinnacle of hooning through city streets. San Fransisco might as well be a tarmac rally stage, between all of its jumps, elevation changes, switchback streets, and naturally occurring obstacles.

Nitro Cellulose

2012 • 20 min

Audiovisual collaboration between DFH-M3 and Go Shibata, featuring music performances by Mayuki Hino, Ranko Onishi and Junko Hiroshige

Baba Noël

2012 • 16 min • France

Getting by with jobs on construction sites, squatting a flat with fellow illegal immigrants, Fed lives in fear of arrest and deportation. One day, he is offered a well paid job where he is certain to remain invisible...

Wild Alaska

2012 • 45 min

The rugged coast of our biggest state harbors the most incredible wildlife in America. When winter breaks, animals make the most of the endless sunshine before this world closes again in darkness. This is the story of the creatures that endure this harsh reality along the shoreline—Alaska's life on the edge.

Absolutely Scary Video

2012 • 54 min • Japan

The DVD contains the most popular ghost videos from the popular website "Jitsuroku: Real Fear DX" with over 20,000 members! The DVD contains the most terrifying ghost videos from the popular "Real Fear DX" website, where dangerous ghost videos submitted by the general public are now unsealed!

A House, A Home

2012 • 7 min

A love, a death, another death are reconciled in a subterranean world.

Alien Crab

2012 • 48 min

When cataclysmic forces of nature wiped out the dinosaurs, only the monstrous and alien-like horseshoe crab survived. This one hour special follows the incredible journey of the horseshoe crab from the oceanic abyss to the beach, from its egg to adulthood and from its unchanged existence half-a-billion years ago to today.

No Homo

2012 • 16 min • Iceland

A simple sentence can turn your whole world upside down. In an effort to embrace his best friend's homosexuality, Arnar goes to ridiculous lengths, which can only end badly. It's a film about friendship, acceptance - and completely incompetent straight guys coming to terms with unexpected news.

Frecuencia Modulada

2012 • 21 min • Argentina

A wacky comedy starring a famous radio host who loses his tongue. A strange dream reveals he must become a ventriloquist.

Reggie Watts: A Live At Central Park

2012 • 43 min

Hilarious, brilliant, unpredictable comedian/musician Reggie Watts is a staple of the international performance scene. Reggie's improvised musical sets are created on-the-spot using only his formidable voice and a looping machine. Reggie's second special contains an album of his best songs and storytelling.

Untitled Movie

2012 • 5 min

A young girl who sets off in a minibus experiences the stages of her life one by one as she progresses on the road. The film explains the place of women in society in a metaphorical way.

The Devil

2012 • 8 min • France

Documentary short about the Black Panther movement.

Hitman: Burning Hope

2012 • 59 min • United Kingdom

Behind the scenes documentary about the making of the game Hitman: Absolution.

Evil

2012 • 11 min • Ukraine

Pregnant Lesia with no perspective for the future lives in expectation of a miracle. Together with her friend Olia she works as saleswoman at the kiosk at night. During the day she sleeps, so she won’t have to listen to her unemployed mother’s reproaches. That’s why she calls herself an owl. Every night while going to work Lesia thinks that something’s going to happen and her life will change. Every morning the girl goes home depressed because nothing has happened. Day and night, reality and girl’s nightmares blend. She is destined for the same losses – both in her life and her dreams.

Planes

2012 • 15 min • Australia

Planes explores the eerie tale of a young man, Samuel, who finds himself half-way through a conversation in purgatory with no recollection of either himself or his life.

A Shadow of Blue

2012 • 13 min • France, Spain

A touching story in which fantasy and reality merge to make dreams come true. How determining can reality be, and how can fantasy unleash an unexpected freedom? Can a fragile world of lights and shadows show us more than a silhouette drawn against the sunlight? A mixed-technique animated short film, by Director Carlos Lascano.

Sex for Sale: American Escort

2012 • 44 min • United States of America

The world's oldest profession is now a thriving black market economy, with an underground workforce that's just an Internet connection and a phone call away. National Geographic's Mariana van Zeller journeys to the heart of the American escort industry and uncovers the gritty reality behind the supply and demand of high-end sex work.

Three-Way Serenade

2012 • 30 min • France

A short featurette on "Cesar and Rosalie"

World Natural Heritage USA: Yellowstone National Park

2012 • 51 min

The Yellowstone National Park is the oldest national park in the world. It is home to a landscape with the world’s highest concentration of geysers and thermal springs, as well as being famous for its herds of bison that roam the plateaus of the highlands.The herds are often accompanied by wolves, which were reintroduced to the Yellowstone National Park around ten years ago. Black bears, beavers and wapitis also inhabit the park, which the locals affectionately refer to as “The Yellowstone”.A park justifiably recognised by UNESCO as a World Natural Heritage Site. After all, in addition to its impressive flora and fauna, the national park provides us with an insight into the history of the Earth’s origins. It transports visitors back into a time when volcanoes and the forces of Mother Nature once shaped our world.

Mind Over Monster

2012 • 5 min • United States of America

A flesh-rotting zombie leads a support group for down and out monsters. Made at CalArts 2010.

The Death of the Wolf

2012 • 17 min • Belgium, France

Judith, a young girl, awakens from a very bloody nightmare, She looks around her, all seems in order: her sister is there a sleep.

Jo Koy: Lights Out

2012 • 60 min • United States of America

Infectiously funny and painfully honest, Jo hits on such topics as the joys and struggles of fatherhood, growing up with strong and opinionated Filipino women, sleep apnea, and role playing. If you don't already know Jo from his stand-up or regular roundtable appearances on Chelsea Lately, it's time that you do. Ting ting!

The Black Kung Fu Experience

2012 • 57 min

This film focuses on how a group of African American pioneers became respected masters in a subculture dominated by Chinese and white men.

Hitler's Island Madness

2012 • 50 min • United Kingdom

As soon as Hitler's forces occupied the Channel Islands in 1940 he ordered a series of fortifications to defend the only British territory he ever conquered. The problem was he never stopped - pouring men, concrete and weapons into the islands. By 1944 his officers talked of the Fuehrer's inselwahn - his 'island madness' and the Channel Islands had become the most fortified place on earth.