All Films

Mondays at Racine

2012 • 39 min • United States of America

Every third Monday of the month, two bold, brassy sisters open the doors of their Long Island hair salon to women diagnosed with cancer. As locks of hair fall to the floor, women gossip, giggle, weep, face their fears, and discover unexpected beauty.

Come Back Springtime

2012 • 13 min • Mexico

Eddie is an old rock'n'roller who lives tormented by his memories, which make him unable to live in the present.

Summer Bummer

2012 • 2 min • United States of America

A man about to go swimming imagines what horrors could be lurking deep in in the waters of his backyard pool.

The Skull Rosary of Frao' Ranggoh

2012 • 36 min • United States of America

Life-long treasure hunter, Weston Giroux is attempting to find an ancient and mysterious relic for the second time. Things don't quite go as planned when his past catches up with him and his new "side-kick" along the way.

Doctor Who: P.S.

2012 • 5 min

Rory says goodbye to his father.

Oscar Etiquette

2012 • 5 min • United States of America

Sir Cecil Washington teaches Academy Award winner Kevin Kline about handling and caring for the coveted statue. Aspiring winners take note. You don't want to deal with this madman.

The Nightshift Belongs to the Stars

2012 • 23 min

Matteo and Sonia meet in a hospital on the eve of their respective open heart surgeries. They share a common passion for mountaineering and make a vow that if their operations succeed, they will meet in 6 months time to climb together a peak in the Italian Alps. Will their hearts survive the challenge?

The Blood

2012 • 7 min

Blood - a destructive element or a life-giving substance, a symbol of death or hope of deliverance.

Lemari Kyo

2012 • 6 min • Indonesia

A young woman lives within the confines of her closet.

RAZ on Air

2012 • 31 min • South Korea

A transgender girl, RAZ is a BJ (broadcasting jockey) for a website, 'Afreeca TV' Though she couldn't get a job in an entertainment spot for the simple reason that she's not pretty, she's not a kind of common transgenders that we know. Her message board is plastered with abuse of her look and transgender people, but she still smiles and burp them off!

Tage in der Stadt

2012 • 27 min • Germany

Where Do We Go From Here

2012 • 9 min • Canada

An adolescent dreamer struggles to find closure after the untimely death of his older brother.

and/or

2012 • 5 min • United States of America

The agony and beauty of the creative process are explored in this reflective work, first inspired by a piano solo by Yo La Tengo’s Ira Kaplan, which reminds us that the act of creation can feel like “cracking the code in another dimension.”

Behind the word

2012 • 20 min • Rwanda

A young student finds her lack of English brings her considerable ridicule from her classmates.

Amor de madre

2012 • 22 min • Spain

The love that a mother feels justifies everything, a mother is capable of murder because of her child, she kills, she steals, she works the corner or any other thing that keeps her child alive; the love that a mother feels, brings up the better and the worst in every woman. Ursula (Ana Polvorosa) is a mother and she is living two tragedies at the same time, a zombie invasion and the fact that her husband left home with their son, Nicolas. To Ursula, the zombie invasion is just “an anecdote” because she, as a mother and as a woman, only cares about her missing child, helpless and alone in a world surrounded by green and crazy beings.

Salty Dog Blues

2012 • 52 min • United States of America

The film looks at men and women of color in the U.S. Merchant Marine from 1938-1975. Through chronicling the lives of these men and women who, with a median age of 82, are beset with a host of life-threatening illnesses, the movie tells how they navigated issues of racism, disparities in the workplace, gender and familial relations.

Yelo

2012 • 30 min • United States of America

After a tragic accident involving his mother, Franck, a man in his 20's, alters reality to help him make the most difficult decision of his life: the decision between life and death.

Summits of My Life - A Fine Line

2012 • 52 min • France, Spain

A breathtaking journey over the spectacular snow-covered peaks of the Alps as we join a small group of extraordinary mountain athletes in their pursuit of happiness and fulfillment.

A Therapy

2012 • 3 min • France

Short by Roman Polanski shot for Prada.

Alekhin

2012 • 42 min • Russia

Fly-on-the-wall documentary on the day-to-day life of Evgeniy Alyokhin, russian poet and musician, and his girlfrend Oksana.

Staging Success: The PlayhouseSquare Story

2012 • 56 min

As PlayhouseSquare celebrates its first 90 years, “Staging Success: The PlayhouseSquare Story” pays tribute to the people who were instrumental in saving the theaters and shows how the community worked together to create a cultural showplace in the heart of downtown Cleveland. This new documentary, a production of WVIZ/PBS, in collaboration with Think Media Studios, reveals a Cleveland rags-to-riches tale as dramatic as any on Broadway.

Other

2012 • 14 min • United States of America

Patrick is a brilliant doctor, in an obsessive race to alter his own grim prognosis. During a series of unconventional experiments, he discovers a scientific loophole unlike anything he had ever imagined. In pursuit of this dark prize, Patrick will risk everything to ensure he sees his experiment to the end...even if it means accepting the sinister results.

Tek Ölüm Yetmez

2012 • 21 min

God Save My Shoes

2012 • 60 min • United States of America

God Save My Shoes is the first documentary film to explore the intimate relationship between women and shoes, questioning why shoes are the most addictive item in a woman's closet and how shoes have become a totem object.