All Films

Before She Came After He Left

2012 • 24 min • Norway

Christian is visiting his home village with his fiancée allegedly to look at churches to get married in, after living in the south for many years. But what are the true reasons for the visit? This is the story about the time before she came, after he left and everything that is untold in between that.

Sexual Happiness

2012 • 21 min

Sex is a taboo topic in China, even though China is a large importer of the Japanese Adult Video (AV) industry. What happens when a Japanese adult video star such as Yui Hatano comes to China? This film shows the China's sexual liberation in a comedic way.

A Chance Unexpected

2012 • 26 min • United States of America

A random phone call from a complete stranger makes Claire rethink love and fate. Maybe it wasn't a wrong number after all.

The Scoundrel

2012 • 27 min • Portugal

The story of a vigilante friar, zealous caretaker of goodness and order who, after suffering unrequited love for an engaged woman, becomes a terrifying villain in a quiet town.

Underwater Okavango

2012 • 51 min • South Africa

Death Beach

2012 • 47 min

Man-eating sharks seemingly flock to South Africa's Second Beach. This remote coastline was once considered a surfer's best-kept secret, but now its regarded as Earth's most dangerous beach. Here, sharks don't simply attack; they kill. Gruesome attacks have claimed six lives in five years. Something has triggered bizarrely aggressive behavior in these predators, and biologist Matt Dicken is on a quest to find out why. Join him as he confronts the killers in their own domain.

Sleep

2012 • 11 min • United States of America

Rashad manipulates his kid brother into leaving for school early on the one morning that changes the rest of their lives.

Bydlo

2012 • 9 min • Canada

An allegory of mankind heading for disaster, this animated short is a tragic vision inspired by the 4th movement of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition. Drawing on the composer’s brilliant ability to evoke work and labour in his music, animator Patrick Bouchard brings earth to life through animated clay sculptures, creating a tactile nightmare in which man is his own slave driver.

Deflated

2012 • 6 min • United States of America

Chris has come to the store with his dad to spend his allowance. His heart is set on getting a bouncy ball, but all of the balls in the ball cage are bright pink…except for one deflated green ball. Ultimately Chris must make a choice: is it okay for boys to play with the bright pink balls or will he take home the deflated green one?

Road Rant: A Week on the Road with Lydia Lunch

2012 • 52 min • United States of America

The X-rated cartoon animations of Emmy award winning director/animator Merrill Aldighieri add a comical edge to this intense documentary with Lydia Lunch, a second collaboration after their first success, ""The Gun is Loaded."" Highlights from 5 concerts are accompanied by a live music score performed by composer JOE BUDENHOLZER & horn player TERRY EDWARDS (from MADNESS) during their travels to MARSEILLE, LYON, EVREUX, & NANTES. Bonus clips include rare on-the road interview footage with Lydia and composer Joe B., and an exclusive reading done at the Père Lachaise Cemetary.

Bobcat Goldthwait: You Don't Look the Same Either

2012 • 58 min • United States of America

Bobcat Goldthwait is back with a vengeance in his long-awaited stand-up comedy special "You Don't Look The Same Either". The genre-defying Police Academy alum, comedian, actor, and now accomplished film director takes us on a hilarious journey through his 30 year career as an 80's icon to the guy who lit the tonight show set on fire... literally.

Brothers

2012 • 12 min • Germany

Two brothers embark on a road trip home for their grandmother's funeral. But on a highway rest stop, David Stern finds out no one's told his younger brother Andy - they're not headed home for Grandma Vern's birthday anymore. Now David must confront his mother and bear the bad news to Andy, as only brothers can.

Horizon

2012 • 24 min • Spain

The known world is over, only its ashes remain. In a desperate attempt to reunite their family, Ana and her mother embark on a dangerous journey in which they will face the creatures that dominate the planet and an even more dangerous monster: the one all humans carry inside.

Inside Living Things

2012 • 17 min • United States of America

This is a documentary short film by Linkin Park. The video was released a week before the band's fifth studio album, Living Things. The video album consisted of many chapters but it had some missing chapters. The missing chapters included "Piledriver" (Making of Lies Greed Misery), "Apaches" (Making of Until it Breaks), "360 Body Scan", "Making of the Album Cover" and "The Story".

The Devil's Ballroom

2012 • 16 min • Norway

Along his strenuous journey to the North Pole, a chance encounter forces a fearless explorer to make an impossible decision. After burying his last remaining companion, a fearless explorer has to find his way to the North Pole alone, fighting snow-blindness and physical strain. An unexpected encounter forces him to decide between honor and fame in the history books or keeping the moral high ground—a choice which will haunt the rest of his life. Although taking place in the early 1910s, The Devil's Ballroom tells a timeless tale of greed, self-sacrifice, the blinding yearn for success and the sacred myth surrounding European explorers.

Bff

2012 • 8 min • United States of America

Two best friends meet to discuss love and loss over a cup of tea. Things do not go as planned.

Cowboy Bebop: Don't Bother None

2012 • 6 min • Japan

When three bounty hunters accidentally meet in a bar, their stark personalities begin to clash, turning into a three way gun fight.

Calling

2012 • 50 min

A cleaning man wants to become a painter, but he continues to devote himself to his wife by giving up the dream.

Hummingbirds: Jewelled Messengers

2012 • 55 min • United Kingdom

David Attenborough narrates this close up look at these tiny pollinators captured in flight as never before. Acrobats of the air - flying jewels - iridescent partners of countless plants: hummingbirds are amongst the most remarkable creatures on our planet.

Bewitched

2012 • 11 min • Portugal

She arrives home at the end of the day, tired. While she prepares dinner, he reads the newspaper. Finally, she decides to bake some special cookies.

Simonetti Project: Kiss Me Dracula

2012 • 4 min • Italy

A vampiric Claudio Simonetti and a few of his fellow musicians sing and play in Dracula's castle.

House of Monsters

2012 • 8 min

House of Monsters is a stop-motion animated short film featuring the adventures of everyone's favorite classic monsters. Best described as 'Rankin/Bass meets Looney Tunes', House of Monsters features a return to old-school filmmaking and hand-made artistry. Being 5,000 years old can leave you a little dry and itchy. Seeking relief with a little moisturizer goes too far and in an effort to regain the vitality of his youth and the love of a very special lady, the mummy sacrifices the only thing holding him together.

Dig a Hole and Die

2012 • 9 min • United States of America

A suicide patient is forced to dig his own grave at gun point.

Hyena: Queen of the Masai Mara

2012 • 52 min

This is the unusual portrait of two hunters - the cheetah and the hyena. It is a dramatic story built around the competition for prey and territory and the fight for survival.