All Films

What We'll Leave Behind

2012 • 40 min • France

The tragic story of two brothers grappling with the death of their father. One was loved and the other unfairly neglected by a father who left him nothing. The entire inheritance goes to the favorite son, who needs it less and cares little about money.

Olivia's Cross

2012 • 15 min • United States of America

Olivia, a nine year old girl gets tested to her very limits while she's on a hiking trip with her father.

Flucht nach vorn

2012 • 9 min • Germany

Visiting room in a Berlin correctional facility for women. The convict Vicky is breaking up the relationship with her longtime boyfriend Wolf. When Wolf refuses to accept that and stirs trouble with the officers he is kicked out on the street. Out there he sees only one chance to save his love for Vicky.

L'Mrayet

2012 • 11 min • Tunisia

Under Tunisia's totalitarian regime that began in 1987, Boum Mrayet is born into a world where people wear glasses from birth. As an adult, he is hired by a firm that specializes in writing the future so that it can always be controlled

The Teleported Man

2012 • 13 min

To shorten his sentence, a convict volunteers for a risky experiment that subsequently takes an unexpected turn.

Jacob Sterling

2012 • 7 min

Musical theater legend Jacob Sterling is looking for a for another big break that will get one of his shows on Broadway finally.

Powering America

2012 • 40 min • United States of America

Is nuclear energy safe? Can it really meet all of our energy needs? Powering America answers these questions and more by pulling back the veil on nuclear energy and follows the men and women who work in America's nuclear power industry.

When You Sleep

2012 • 12 min • Canada

Two unstable teens live together in a slum apartment. When, in a poetic move, rats start invading their home, they realize that they have to deal with an unspoken matter that is threatening to ruin their relationship.

Uncle Drew: Chapter 2

2012 • 5 min

Uncle Drew visits a basketball legend who sends him to Los Angeles to get his old team back together.

The LEGO® Story

2012 • 17 min • Denmark

As toy maker LEGO heads into its 80th year, Lego present this newly launched animated short film, which looks at the history of the iconic brand. A nicely produced look back at the brand LEGO.

Paper and Sea

2012 • 13 min • Brazil

The film narrates the imaginary encounter between João Cândido, leader of Revolta da Chibata and a paper picker and writer Carolina Maria de Jesus, author of the book "Quarto de despejo", in Rio de Janeiro.

The Juilliard String Quartet: Keeping Beethoven Contemporary

2012 • 55 min • United States of America

Filmed during a rehearsal and performance of Beethoven's Quartet in B Flat Major, Opus 130, "The Juilliard String Quartet: Keeping Beethoven Contemporary" is an exciting portrait that explores the creation and history of the famed Quartet, offering a glimpse inside the world of its four current members. Founded in 1946 by Juilliard School president William Schuman and violinist Robert Mann, with the intent of pursuing the brilliant musicianship of the classical genre, the Quartet continued well beyond its original membership, bringing the music along into a new era. Opening up their dialogue to us, the members of the Quartet, Joseph Lin, Joel Krosnick, Ronald Copes and Samuel Rhodes, speak in detail about the string quartet as a musical genre, its vibrant history, and the significant contributions of Beethoven

Doctor Who: The Snowmen

2012 • 60 min • United Kingdom

The Doctor has retired to 1892 London. Despite the protests of his allies, he is determined to keep out of mankind's affairs. However, a governess named Clara has stumbled upon a plot which only the Doctor can unravel, involving the death of her predecessor in ice and the sinister Dr. Simeon, who controls monsters made of sentient snow. And there is another mystery afoot: Clara is the spitting image of Oswin Oswald, whom the Doctor saw die in the Dalek asylum...

Tongue Tied

2012 • 4 min

In a bar, a speed-dating. Birth of an improbable and miraculous love in unsuitable circumstances ...

Low Tide

2012 • 14 min • Portugal

What the ocean bringeth, the ocean taketh away

Who's Afraid of the Big Black Wolf?

2012 • 25 min • Slovenia

1944. Somewhere in the occupied Central Europe. A multicultural triangle between a little shepherd and two officers from the opposite sides in a sensual and emotional Alpine story of two tunes and one whistle.

Behind the Doors of Umberto Eco

2012 • 52 min • France

Umberto Eco, the author of best-selling novels who passed away in February 2016, unveils the secrets behind his undertakings and novels.

Rod Stewart – Christmas Live at Stirling Castle

2012 • 50 min

Rod Stewart – Christmas Special Live at Stirling Castle 21 nov 2012 full broadcast With Michael Bublé, Kylie Minogue and Nicola Benedetti

The Broken Flute

2012 • 5 min

An inconsolable father mourns his sons' disinterest in family tradition but nepotism proves to be thicker than blood.

Lee Ufan: Marking Infinity

2012 • 58 min • United States of America

"Marking Infinity", Lee Ufan's recent retrospective exhibition at the Guggenheim charts the artist's creation of a visual, conceptual, and theoretical language that has radically expanded the possibilities for sculpture and painting over the past forty years. Deeply versed in modern philosophy, Lee is also an influential writer and is recognized as the key theorist of Mono-ha, an anti-formalist, materials-based art movement that developed in Tokyo in the late 1960s. Active internationally over the last four decades, Lee is acclaimed for an innovative body of Post-Minimalist work that promotes process and the experiential engagement of viewer and site.

Schrodinger's Cat

2012 • 3 min • United Kingdom

Animated version of Schrodinger's infamous thought experiment

The Big Crunch

2012 • 14 min • Finland

The Big Crunch is a video installation that presents images to the viewer that communicate the presence of humans on earth, evolution and human intelligence. All images are carefully composited according to the divine proportions. We see images poetically and metaphorically representing the beginning of mathematical innovations to the projected end of the world, the big crunch. Our observations and our learning shape the universe into being, time is a creation of our minds, laws are generated by our thoughts and conclusions.

43,000 Feet

2012 • 9 min • New Zealand

When statistician John Wilkins is sucked out of a plane at 43,000 feet, he calculates that he has exactly 3 minutes and 48 seconds before he hits the ground.

Soubresauts

2012 • 22 min • Tunisia, France

In these huge houses of the petty Tunisian bourgeoisie, when a tragedy occurs, everything is done to hide it.