All Films

The Mystery of Dark Matter

2012 • 52 min • France

Dark matter fills the cosmos, and yet its identity is still unknown. For the first time, a film portrays the wild scientific quest find out what it is. This breath-taking thriller leads us to the dawn of a scientific and metaphysical revolution, akin to Copernic's or Galileo's. It could totally change the way we perceive our world.

Jaws: The Restoration

2012 • 9 min • United States of America

A short documentary featurette about the 2012 restoration of Jaws.

Reconstructing a Family

2012 • 36 min • Norway

How do we choose to tell the stories from our past?

Queen Victoria's Last Love: Abdul Karim

2012 • 60 min • United Kingdom

In 1897 Queen Victoria antagonized family and court with her relationship with Indian servant Abdul Karim. Originally a waiter the devious and arrogant young man won over the queen by playing on her love of Indian cuisine and romantic view of the country,teaching her Hindistani,whilst she signed letters to him 'Mother',bestowing houses and gifts on him and his family. Already shocked that a Muslim should be at the heart of the court the Royal family stepped in when Victoria announced her desire to knight him and they threatened to have her declared insane if she went ahead. It worked. And in 1901 after the queen's death Karim was banished from Royal circles,returning to India where he died.

Inside Japan's Nuclear Meltdown

2012 • 53 min • United States of America

A devastating earthquake and tsunami struck Japan on March 11, 2011 triggering a crisis inside the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex. This 2012 documentary reveals how close the world came to a nuclear nightmare. In the desperate hours and days after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the fate of thousands of Japanese citizens fell into the hands of a small corps of engineers, firemen and soldiers who risked their lives to prevent the Daiichi nuclear complex from complete meltdown. FRONTLINE tells the story of the workers struggling frantically to reconnect power inside the plant’s pitch-dark and highly radioactive reactor buildings; the nuclear experts and officials in the prime minister’s office fighting to get information as the crisis spiraled out of control; and the plant manager who disobeyed his executives’ orders when he thought it would save the lives of his workers.

Damascus Road

2012 • 25 min • United States of America

In a dystopian Washington, DC, a shadowy agency recruits a marine to assist in their human welfare program. His loyalty begins to fade when called to carry out a bizarre order.

Once Upon a Time… All About My Mother

2012 • 53 min • France

Shot in 1999, "All About My Mother" is Pedro Almodóvar's thirteenth feature film. The director was a key figure in the turbulent Movida (the movement for cultural renewal and liberation in post-Franco Spain), explores Barcelona society at the turn of the millennium through the lives of five women.

Feral

2012 • 13 min • United States of America

A wild boy is found in the woods by a solitary hunter and brought back to civilization. Alienated by a strange new environment, the boy tries to adapt by using the same strategies that kept him safe in the forest.

Artefact #3: Swandown – Culled from a Waterbound Journey from Hastings to Hackney

2012 • 3 min • United Kingdom

Each piece was edited from material that was from the SWANDOWN shoot and named Artefacts 1-5.

The Room

2012 • 12 min • Mexico

Mariana must sacrifice her dog Frida after violently beating it for having destroyed her recently deceased son's toys. The pet's death helps Mariana accept and overcome the loss of her son.

I Was Blacklisted by Thom Powers

2012 • 8 min • United States of America

Another film that Toronto International Film Festival programmer Thom Powers would rather you didn't see.

Giuseppe

2012 • 3 min • United States of America

Giuseppe is a small black Chihuahua. This is his life as told by him.

All That She Surveys

2012 • 15 min

A short film by Gary Mairs written by James Benning. Stars Amy Seimetz.

Tom Daley: Diving for Britain

2012 • 46 min • United Kingdom

The British ITV channel specially broadcasts Tom Daley's latest documentary, looking back on Daley's training and life in the four years since the last Olympic Games. This is also the first time he and his fiance and Oscar winner Dustin Lance Black have framed a documentary. The two looked back on the process of meeting and falling in love, the ins and outs of Daly's difficult decision to come out, and how he returned to the platform now is all the credit of Lance. The engagement of the two was blessed by the family and the whole team, and all kinds of loving interactions were sweet and touching. And Daley's latest jumping method "Fireworks", which incorporates traditional Russian acrobatics, also appeared in the documentary. Hope to see this different firework at the 2016 Rio Olympics.

Innocent Love Stories under Occupation

2012 • 31 min • France

Interview-based documentary looking back on the making and reception of René Clément's 1952 film "Forbidden Games."

Artefact #5: Swandown – Culled from a Waterbound Journey from Hastings to Hackney

2012 • 3 min • United Kingdom

Each piece was edited from material that was from the SWANDOWN shoot and named Artefacts 1-5.

Save the Titanic With Bob Ballard

2012 • 45 min • United States of America

Robert Ballard has been living and breathing the Titanic since he was part of the team that discovered it in 1985. In Save the Titanic With Bob Ballard, he revisits the iconic ship in an entirely different way—from the perspective of those who set sail on it some 100 years ago. Ballard travels to the shipyards of Northern Ireland to retrace the path of the doomed ship from its very incarnation. Throughout his journey, Ballard is driven by one personal question—will the Titanic survive another 100 years? As evidence mounts that the ship is under siege by natural forces, careless visitors, and even rogue salvage operators, the man who found it teams with the families of victims and survivors to protect the legacy of history’s most famous ship.

My Friend Nietzsche

2012 • 15 min • Brazil

11-year-old Lucas finds a philosophy book by Nietzsche in the city dump, discarded by its previous owner. This improbable meeting will be the beginning of a violent revolution in his mind, within his family and within society. In the end, Lucas will be no longer a boy -- He will be dynamite.

Raul Brandão was a Great Writer...

2012 • 33 min • Portugal

This film is an attempt to disclose if Raul Brandão has left any trace, in Nespereira, Gumarães.

Everything for a Laugh

2012 • 31 min • Netherlands

The rise to stardom of former comedian Rob van Liempt, which came to a grinding halt during the '90s.

The Nightmare Isn't Over! The Making of Halloween II

2012 • 45 min

Retrospective documentary about the making of "Halloween II."

No More Heroes 1.5

2012 • 9 min • Japan

Three years have passed since Travis Touchdown topped the United Assassins Association's leaderboard but danger never rests.

Breakfast Special 2: Revenge of the Omelets

2012 • 56 min

Mmm, smell the bacon! Order the grits with red-eye gravy! Get the lobster hash! Try the veggie omelet! Part food show and part travelogue, Breakfast Special 2: Revenge of the Omelets is another celebration of getting up and going out for a memorable morning meal. Visit a diner in Connecticut, admire homemade biscuits in North Carolina, and savor some big pancakes in Pittsburgh. Along the way we find seaside specialties in New Hampshire, duck breast in Philadelphia, and salmon cakes in Detroit. On the Big Island of Hawaii, we sample loco moco, Portuguese donuts and scrumptious variations on all of the above! Cooks, servers, and regulars all across America share their love and loyalty for our most important meal of the day.

Samosiuk. The Independent Film Republic

2012 • 29 min • Poland

The film is a portrait of Zygmunt Samosiuk, a great forgotten cinematographer, who died in 1983. As a director of photography he worked on such films as The Birch Wood, Landscape Afterthe Battle and Austeria. He introduced, among others, hand‑held camera shots, colour lights and shooting at minimum exposure. Reminiscences of his colleagues and friends, including Andrzej Wajda and Piotr Szulkin, show a gifted artist and a modest man who valued his work above all.