All Films

2 Days: Nonito Donaire

2012 • 23 min • United States of America

Follow three-division champion Nonito Donaire in the 48 hours leading up to his title fight vs. Wilfredo Vazquez Jr. “To me boxing is something that I grew up with and it’s pretty much my life. It’s something that’s given me everything that I have, ” said Donaire.

Ghoul Misogyny

2012 • 12 min

A hallucinating serial killer practices his craft.

Skin of Glass

2012 • 11 min • Belgium

I started from a place on Left Bank where the children of parents who are absent for an unknown period of time (sailors, immigrants) live together, surrounded by big buildings that isolate them from the rest of the world. Their home is situated near the Scheldt, a river that runs through Belgium. They dream about the water that could take them far far away from here (just like their parents) and try communicating with their father through letters.

Toys

2012 • 60 min • Lithuania

Belarus. Town of Zhlobin. It's been 21 years since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Most of the locals survive solely by making and selling soft toys. Their only customers are the people passing through on trains. However, approaching a train with a toy in one's hands is illegal. The film tells the stories of ordinary people living in the town of Zhlobin. They all make toys, sell them, have chats, drink, go back to making toys, sing, fight and... make toys again.

Thomas and Friends: Up Up & Away!

2012 • 49 min

Thomas and Percy have a special Special as they try and try again to bring balloons to Mr. Bubbles' Big Balloon Show. At the Children's Steam Fair, Emily learns there are great rewards - and laughs - in helping others, Kevin tries his hook at Hide and Peep, and Thomas has a wonky whistle! Up, up and away for exciting adventures with Thomas & Friends!

The Manifesto I

2012 • 4 min • Lithuania

Animation short.

Son Sevişme

2012 • 18 min

Last Petting

Snow Guardians

2012 • 51 min • United States of America

A beautifully filmed documentary about the life and work of Ski Patrol at several Montana Ski Resorts and the Search and Rescue teams that respond to winter emergencies in the backcountry.

Portero Universal

2012 • 32 min

Edward Morfy is a simple building janitor with a routine life and emotionless. After his unexpected death, modern science and the co-owners try to find a way to return to his work

Thomas & Friends: A Very Thomas Christmas

2012 • 50 min

All aboard for a special holiday delivery filled with friendship, teamwork and fun! Rheneas picks the perfect Christmas tree when he finally stops to smell the evergreen. Charlie knows how fun snow can be and discovers that teamwork-in-the-snow is the most fun of all. Edward gets Salty just what he asked for - the perfect story to re-tell -- and Emily learns the best way to be Really Useful. Unwrap the holiday adventures with Thomas and his friends and best wishes for a very Thomas Christmas! Features the episodes: The Christmas Tree Express, Ho Ho Snowman, Salty's Surprise and Emily's Winter Party Special.

Jeffrey

2012 • 11 min

Jeffrey is a short film that is based on Jeffrey Dahmer, a serial killer who murdered more than twenty young boys in the late 80's and early 90's. But this film explores a different side of the murderer. We get a glimpse into Jeffrey's lonely, mundane life, and the desperation he felt that lead him to committing his atrocious acts.

Female Directors

2012 • 43 min • China

Two brilliant young women, art school graduates with deliciously profane vocabularies and supreme confidence, talk sex, cinema, and power, as they wield their shared video camera like a scalpel.

Doctor Who: Good as Gold

2012 • 3 min • United Kingdom

The Doctor and Amy land in the 2012 Olympic Games and encounter a Weeping Angel.

Human Warmth

2012 • 11 min • Belgium

Antoine has a desire. His passion and his love is so overwhelming that he has to stay close to Bruno. He loves his warmth and he needs it. But, as with any relationship, soon comes the time of detachment — and what will happen if Antoine's body stops responding?

Kill List: The Musical

2012 • 2 min

A musical twist on the hammer murder scene in Ben Wheatley's Kill List, made for the Film4 Scene Stealers competition.

The Rapscallions

2012 • 15 min • United States of America

Pilot for an unproduced Disney XD series.

Optimism and Sheer Will

2012 • 29 min • France

An interview with Thelma Schoonmaker Powell about Powell and Pressburger's 1943 film THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP.

Doctor Who - Night and the Doctor: Bad Night

2012 • 4 min

When Amy is woken in the middle of the night by the TARDIS telephone, she learns the Doctor carries on a very active social and adventuring life while his companions sleep.

White Tide

2012 • 27 min • Spain

MAREA BLANCA is a Corona Save The Beach documentary directed by Isabel Coixet. It is a tribute to the thousands of anonymous heroes who left everything to save the Galician coast. An example for all of us who fight for the recovery and conservation of our beaches.

The Sacrifice

2012 • 15 min • United States of America

In The Sacrifice, Tracey Lixx stars as the unfortunate victim of mistaken identity when she’s kidnapped instead of her boss, Jacklyn O’Connor. She finds herself tied naked on an altar in order to be sacrificed!. She pleads for her life, but the killer figures “Two hearts are better than one!”

Run Toward Them

2012 • 5 min

When a young man's wife is chosen for ascension, a propaganda-fueled means to control overpopulation, he decides to challenge the oppressors no matter how futile his actions may be.

A Tale of Longing

2012 • 3 min • Australia

This hand-painted film charts a collection of journeys both real and imagined.

In Search of Avery Willard

2012 • 24 min

In Search of Avery Willard iIlluminates the life and work of the groundbreaking, and mostly forgotten, artist Avery Willard — photographer, filmmaker, writer, publisher, leatherman, pornographer.

Ruins

2012 • 7 min • Mexico

An exploration of modern ruins that seeks to record the traces of time in Mexico City.