All Films

Rest Stop

2012 • 8 min • Australia

An unsuspecting man stumbles on a terrible crime and must make a decision as to whether he intervenes. Based on the Stephen King story of the same name.

Doux-amer : cacao bio du Ghana

2012 • 52 min • Ghana, Switzerland

Ghana's cocoa is being transformed into excellent Swiss chocolate. But how can poor farmers share in the booming cocoa trade? Yayra Glover, a dual Swiss-Ghanaian national, has a visionary idea. Through the production of organic cocoa, he wants to help cocoa farmers achieve greater independence and better living conditions. The film follows Yayra in the development of his project, for which he accepts great personal sacrifice. Despite the difficulties he faces in securing funding from the Ghanaian authorities, he remains true to his vision and finally succeeds in delivering his cocoa beans to a Swiss chocolate manufacturer for the first time.

Day Dream

2012 • 5 min • Norway

A man is dreaming

Battery Man

2012 • 54 min • Serbia

Meet a man whose life was changed by electricity. An extraordinary person who can fry a hot dog with bare hands in an attempt to become the first human laser.

A Cara De Perro Zoo – La Pelicula

2012 • 51 min

Documentary about freestyle competition and hip-hop culture in Argentina.

The Genius of Roald Dahl

2012 • 47 min • United Kingdom

David Walliams explores the magic behind the storytelling of Roald Dahl, one of the world's most successful children's authors, to try to understand the great writer's special touch and appeal.

Chelsea-Barcelona

2012 • 17 min • Greece

Wednesday 6 May 2009. Andreas works as a bank teller and is in debt. He and his colleague, Marios, will watch the Champions League semi-final "Chelsea-Barcelona" together on TV. Who will finally win?

Alan Smithee

2012 • 30 min • United States of America

'Alan Smithee' is a film about a boy growing up. It delves into the darker side of what 'growing up' sometimes means: growing into your flaws, inevitably being met with the errors of your parents, and the necessity to make room for the pain. While Alan is surrounded by what is thought to be the American ideal, all the material comforts that should equate happiness, he learns that sometimes all we are is lost in the woods.

Picking Up at Auschwitz

2012 • 4 min • Australia

History is written by the losers.

A New Product

2012 • 36 min • Germany

A New Product is a corporate documentary, or, that is, a document of corporate qualities; specifically about what seems to be a small company whose purpose is to consult and design working spaces for larger corporations, exemplified by Vodafone and Unilever.

Blossom

2012 • 6 min • Japan

Angels watch over an old farmer as he works to bring a tsunami-ravaged land back to life.

Return to Nature! The True Natural Method of Healing and Living and the True Salvation of the Soul: Paradise Regained—The Core of the Body—Water, Human Curative Power, Light, Air, Earth, Food, Fruit Culture

2012 • 8 min • Canada

The Mystery of Mazo de la Roche

2012 • 52 min

The untold story of one of Canada's most famous, and now forgotten, authors.

Rising Hope

2012 • 10 min • Germany

The path is known to all, but few follow it. Rising Hope – once the fastest horse in the race, tries to be one of the few.

La casa

2012 • 31 min • Argentina

A story by Mario Levrero and a mythical house in the Paraná Delta (Tigre - Argentina) conspire to shape this film, as two pieces that complement each other but without keeping a total synchronization. The voice-over becomes the common thread of a fantastic surreal story about strange events that occurred in an abandoned house. The action highlighted with the unique presence of insects, shadows, reflections and rain, proposes scenarios for the specific spaces in the story and invites you to recreate the characters and events narrated there.

Salomé

2012 • 16 min • Colombia

It's the 16th of July Virgin del Carmen´s day, and Salomé, a beautiful 14-year-old girl, is celebrating the first anniversary of her beloved father’s death. While everybody is partying, her Grief contrasts with the festivity environment, forcing her to confront her pain, her own believes, her myths and even her most precious childhood memories and illusions to be able to understand imminent death and finally get some closure.

Peter Monaghan: A Portrait

2012 • 25 min

This documentary features a kinetic artist who creates vibrant mixed media works that push the boundary between 2D and 3D.

Necrochorume

2012 • 16 min • Brazil

Based on true research about an environmental problem recurring in cemeteries, emerged NECROCHORUME. A short film that carries the name of the liquid from the decomposition of bodies, which began to mix up to water for human consumption.

Biker Church

2012 • 3 min

The East Texas Biker’s Church has a come one, come all, as you are hospitality. But do come on your bike.

Livin' with Steve

2012 • 16 min • Australia

In Pine Falls, a secluded and usually peaceful town, multiple acts of dismemberment and cannibalism have been reported. Nate, an unemployed teenager, is too caught up in his own world to notice or even care. For Nate, a terrible tragedy is when he can't find the time to hang out with his best friend Steve. Steve is a wise cracking, quick thinking, loyal friend- at least that's how Nate sees it. The reality is that Steve is a Zombie; a living corpse, contaminated by an infection that raises the dead, giving them an unquenchable desire to feed on human flesh. Despite his gruesome appearance and lack of social skills, the people of Pine Falls consider Steve to be nothing more than Nate's handsome friend, until it's too late.

Rew

2012 • 4 min • United States of America

A man is trapped in a loop somewhere between life and death. Based on Bardo, a Buddhist term for an intermediate state between death and rebirth. This film combines elements of art house, avant-garde, surrealism, and experimental horror.

The Poet and Singer

2012 • 22 min • China

A visually splendid poem that provocatively but elegantly juxtaposes a poet, a singer, a river, a pair of murderers, and the Diamond Sutra.

Predator's Playground

2012 • 54 min • Zimbabwe

The animals of this African spring run a deadly gauntlet to survive. The spring flows out of a sandy river bed 30km inland from the Zambezi River and is the lifeline for hundreds of animals between August and the end of November each year. But taking a drink from this water source comes at a price, as it is flanked by a cliff on either side and forms a perfect ambush alley for the two resident lion prides with one shared goal: eat as much buffalo as possible. It is the perfect place to hunt, a predator’s playground

Seems So Long Ago, Nancy

2012 • 45 min • Portugal, United Kingdom

The gallery attendant in an art gallery or museum is a fundamental piece in its mise-en-scéne, his main role is to see and be seen. Seems So Long Ago, Nancy implies the spectator in an infinite gesture of circular observation — to observe the observers. A passive lens that fluctuates between the subjects and the neo-classical and post-modern architectural spaces they occupy, in a balance between silence, introspection, noise, repetition, intervals and waiting — small gestures of a fragmented post-modern flaneur.