All Films

Fade Into You

2012 • 13 min • United States of America

A dark and violent murder involving a couple and an estranged ex-boyfriend.

The Life of Trees

2012 • 33 min

A lady bug and a glow worm use visuals and comedy to teach their class about the amazing things trees do. On the way they must fight an evil spider, befriend a talking tree and find the true meaning of friendship.

Sleepwalk

2012 • 20 min • Taiwan

A continuation of Tsai Ming-Liang's Walker series, featuring Lee Kang-Sheng as a barefoot monk who walks very slowly.

Excavating the 2000 Year Old Man

2012 • 43 min

A brief look at Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner's 2,000 Year Old Man routine and how it influenced countless comedians since its inception.

The Nightmare of TV Centre

2012 • 13 min • United Kingdom

A look back at the somewhat troubled production of Nightmare of Eden with three of the behind-the-scenes crew who worked on it.

Nonviolent Resistance : How to Shut Up Your Wife Peacefully

2012 • 7 min • South Korea

In the family dinner time, mercilessly following the mother-in-law and wife's chatter, the new groom becomes confused. How to deal with violence.

Hedgehogs and The City

2012 • 10 min • Latvia

One spring morning, animals wake up from their winter sleep and find that their forest is taken over by people who have built a city there. They understand they need to find new survival strategies and learn to earn money.

Reckoning

2012 • 11 min

Some secrets can't be buried.

One Way Street

2012 • 12 min • Brazil

Shows a day in the lives of security guards and criminals that live in São Paulo. Through depositions and daily actions, it gives life to those who do not see a way out of a wolrd guarded by walls.

Shackled

2012 • 12 min

Held captive by a circus, Malu is frantically rescued from her shackles by her husband. As she waits anxiously in the darkness for her chance to escape, a disturbing truth she's hidden away seeps back in.

The Greyness of Autumn

2012 • 14 min • United Kingdom

The Greyness of Autumn follows the final days of the life of Danny McGuire, an ostrich living in Scotland. Danny's life is suddenly turned upside down when he loses his job and his girlfriend in the same day. As Danny struggles to reinvent himself in a society that treat him as a second class citizen, he questions whether there is much point living in a world that will never see past the feathers.

The Pyramidical Silence

2012 • 25 min

A description of the decay of mountains in connection to the end of cosmos. Man is described in a geological timescale; they are alien visitors.

Émile de 1 à 5

2012 • 4 min • Switzerland

Two young men are playing in a bathtub. Then a third and fourth slip in to join them. They are called Émile and they are looking for their “perfect mother” when a fifth man arrives, the Émile who reconciles them all.

I'm a Self-Made Woman

2012 • 27 min • Croatia

Željka’s younger sister Silvija begs her to let her spend the night, because their mom has just read her shameless blog and she doesn't want to go back home. The next morning, Željka takes Silvija and her best friend Danica to a TV studio where she works as a make-up artist. While getting ready to return home and face their mom, the two sisters exchange some pearls of wisdom about life.

Handbags: The Window to a Woman's Soul

2012 • 52 min • France

2012 French documentary where the interviewer gets 6 seemingly random women to empty their handbags and then asks probing questions to get to their "soul". Simone 33, a model. Ilhem 36, a sports coach. Caroline 33, a curator. Anne-Sophie 29, a press attache. Catherine 43, a teacher. Valentina 23, a student. French with English sub-titles.

Overdue

2012 • 9 min

Krissy and Brendan want a natural birth. In New York City, parents have two weeks from their due date before doctors must induce. Today is Krissy and Brendan's due date and they'll try anything to avoid inducing now that they're overdue.

Skin

2012 • 13 min • United States of America

SKIN is the story of a child taxidermist, an outsider in his small town. He is entranced by a girl who finds his work beautiful. But just as their relationship begins to progress, he does something that drastically changes everything.

So It Goes

2012 • 28 min • Finland

Out into the big wide world as fast as possible. That’s Elli’s plan. But where should she get the money from, if not steal it? When Heze falls for her, she steals from him and both have to learn: “Adulthood is a big pain in the arse”.

Timka

2012 • 17 min

A young boy named Timka sets out on an adventure with his best friend Hyduke, a mouse.

Mountain in Shadow

2012 • 14 min • Spain

A poetic view into the relationship of immensity between man and landscape. We contemplate, from the distance, the activity of the skiers on the snowy mountain. The pictorial image and the dark and dreamlike atmosphere transforms the space into something unreal, imprecise, converting it also in a spectral presence.

Little Anna and the Tall Uncle

2012 • 47 min • Sweden

No two friends are more different than Little Anna and the Tall Uncle. She is short, he is very tall. Little Anna is brave, the Tall Uncle is a scared cat. And yet there is nobody who Little Anna would rather go swimming with, build a tree house with or ride a motorcycle with than the Tall Uncle. And there is nobody the Tall Uncle would rather bake a yummy cake for than his best friend Little Anna.

Hellion

2012 • 6 min

Little seven-year old, Petey, falls prey to his older brothers' hellion ways.

Ceremony

2012 • 31 min

A family is preparing a wedding for one of their family members, and despite having many material problems and having a father in hospital, they are planning to buy coins. To give their families their return as a wedding gift in order to preserve honor in front of the bride's family ...

Revolution

2012 • 15 min

A coming-of-age story about Jack, a 16-year old Iranian boy growing up in 1989 Los Angeles. With the 1979 Iranian Revolution a distant memory, the AIDS movement as a backdrop, and a haunting score by Vampire Weekend's Rostam Batmanglij, Jack learns how to stage his own much smaller revolution within the confines of his traditional family.