All Films

I'll Be With You

2012 • 15 min • South Korea

Yoon-il and Jinwoo attend to the funeral of Seong-gyu, who committed suicide. The funeral parlor is crowded, and Yoon-il can't endure the strange noises that Hyeon-jin makes.

Sweet Exorcist

2012 • 30 min • Portugal

A participant in a coup d'état by young commissioned officers, Ventura loses his way within the woods. Eventually, Ventura is admitted into a mental hospital where he has conversations with "ghosts" of the past in the hospital's elevator.

Orange Witness

2012 • 42 min • Canada

Orange Witness documents the marginalized voices of people who have been exposed to, and affected by Agent Orange. The film paints a bleak picture of the damage caused by the use of herbicides 2,4-D, 2,4,5-T and TCCD internationally. Historically, Agent Orange has been associated with war, but the industrial and domestic of use of the chemical is a story that has yet to reach the masses, until now.

Roadmap to Apartheid

2012 • 54 min • United States of America

In this award-winning documentary, the first time directors take a detailed looks at the apartheid analogy commonly used to describe the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Narrated by Alice Walker (author of The Color Purple), Roadmap to Apartheid is as much a historical document of the rise and fall of apartheid in South Africa, as it is a film about why many Palestinians feel they are living in an apartheid system today, and why an increasing number of people around the world agree with them. While not perfect, the apartheid analogy is a useful framework by which to educate people on the complex issues facing Israelis and Palestinians.

Aluga-se

2012 • 16 min • Brazil

How much does urban space influence our interior space?

Shanghai Strangers

2012 • 24 min • China

A young woman in modern-day Shanghai whose chance encounter with a stranger moves her to divulge a deep-seated secret. In atmospheric flashbacks she is shown in an old house filled with mementos of the Jewish population who were given asylum in Shanghai during World War II.

A Straight Guy Pissing All Over A Toilet Seat

2012 • 1 min

A timely exploration into sexual poverty and poetic deformation. This work has been seen throughout Europe and won every award.

Fear of Flying

2012 • 9 min • Ireland

A small bird with a fear of flying tries to avoid heading South for the winter.

Winner Winner Chicken Diner

2012 • 20 min

The chicken-suit wearing mascot of a fast-food chain meets a nice veterinarian.

The Diner's Club

2012 • 9 min

Beth seems to have met the perfect guy. Smart, charming, a fellow foodie with an expensive palate like herself. Everything is perfect - and then the check arrives.

Living Waters

2012 • 1 min • United States of America

John 4:13-14: Jesus answered, Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life

The Final Voyage of the Good Ship Demeter

2012 • 8 min • United States of America

A monologue chronicling the strange and horrific events aboard a sailing vessel transporting mysterious cargo.

The Birds: Hitchcock's Monster Movie

2012 • 14 min

This documentary short explores the origins of the monster movie and how Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds" (1963) fits in the genre.

Boner Police: The Movie

2012 • 26 min • United States of America

A world were depopulation laws prevent boners from emerging, new to the job officer Sweet Dave learns the ropes as a boner policeman. But then the story takes an unexpected turn.

Stars of Orion: Japanese Martyrs for Palestine

2012 • 56 min • Qatar

This is a documentary produced for Al Jazeera Documentary by May Shigenobu. May revisits the Japanese leftist activism in the 60s and the 70s, to understand why some Japanese students decided to dedicate their lives to the Palestinian cause by talking to the then leaders and visiting iconic locations of the time. It includes exclusive interviews with some leaders in the students' movements in Japan, Adachi Masao, as well as PFLP leaders such as Layla Khaled and Abu Ahmed Fouad. The documentary also talks about the Japanese Red Army members and their families living underground.

Dissimilated Vision

2012 • 3 min • Japan

Surreal Short Movie

Judgement

2012 • 15 min

The religious girl Katharina is having an affair with the son of her much older husband. In an attempt to discover her secret lover, her husband ties her up to a chair for 3 days, waiting for her rescuers approach. Now where do you draw the line between right and wrong? Stuck between her two fighting lovers, Katharina shoots the both of them.

Jazz Piano Gold

2012 • 60 min

A real treat for anyone who loves listening to the tinkling of the jazz piano, with classics from Count Basie, Thelonious Monk, Oscar Peterson, Abdullah Ibrahim, Stan Tracey and Jacques Loussier to Duke Ellington, Return to Forever and Herbie Hancock. The performances are culled from cult classic programmes such as Jazz 625, Show of the Week, Late Night Line Up, Love You Madly, Birdland, The Late Show and Later... with Jools Holland, and date from 1964 to 2009. Be it bebop, swing or contemporary, Jazz Piano Gold is a must for all jazz piano fans.

Sex in the Stone Age

2012 • 45 min

A fragment of a pinky bone and a tooth twice the size of today's average molar are the only remnants of a species we now know lived at the same time and place as modern humans—and interbred with them. They are a part of us we never knew existed. What did these "people" look like? And how do they fit into what we thought we knew about our biological development as a species?

Ariane

2012 • 2 min

Portrait of an actress Ariane Labed wearing Giorgio Armani.

PBS Nature - An Original DUCKumentary

2012 • 53 min • United States of America

Ducks are true originals. There are more than 120 different species of ducks in all, a fantastical group of complex characters. Ducks have a talent for survival, and life stories filled with personality and charm. Each bird is more fun than the last, and will leave you wanting more.

The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore

2012 • 15 min • United States of America

After a hurricane levels his city, a young man wanders into a mysterious library where books literally come to life. This film won the Oscar for Best Animated Short Film in 2012.

VeggieTales: The Penniless Princess

2012 • 49 min • United States of America

Sweet Sara Crewe has everything a little girl could want - a loving family, lots of friends and a closet full of frilly dresses! But when life takes a turn and Sara goes from riches to rags, will she realize that her true worth lies not in what she has, but what's in her heart?

Taper

2012 • 20 min • Ukraine

A story about a loser who was able to admit it to himself, and another who couldn't.