All Films

Pendulum

2012 • 4 min • Japan

An intense short movie showing a turbulent marriage. The wife is always smiling. The man gets angry time and again.

Todd Barry: Super Crazy

2012 • 60 min • United States of America

Super Crazy is the first feature length special from New York City's Todd Barry.

Making of 'Like Someone in Love'

2012 • 47 min

Documentary with behind-the-scenes footage on the set of Abbas Kiarostomi's 2012 film "Like Someone in Love" with narration by the director.

In Transit

2012 • 8 min

Based on true events, the film is the meeting of two people from diametricaly opposite cultures at a typical Los Angeles bus stop. The more they interact, they realize one common factor brought them together as their lives intersect in transit.

Ice Age Death Trap

2012 • 54 min • United States of America

In a race against developers in the Rocky Mountains, paleontologists uncover a unique fossil site packed with astonishingly well-preserved bones of mammoths, mastodons, and other giant extinct beasts. The discovery opens a highly focused window on the vanished world of the Ice Age in North America.

NOVA: Secrets of the Viking Sword

2012 • 54 min • United States of America

The Vikings were the most ferocious warriors of the Middle Ages. Especially fearsome were the select few who wielded a formidable weapon: a light, razor sharp, virtually indestructible sword with its maker's name, Ulfberht, inlaid along the blade.

Wrath of God: Confrontation

2012 • 9 min

WRATH OF GOD: CONFRONTATION is the first in a series of films with overarching stories that take us from the dawn of human civilization all the way to its technological epitome. A mysterious relic lies at the heart of their pursuit. Some want power to dominate. Others want peace and freedom. In the end, the choice is our own... Adam is a man with a violent past and a desire to escape the terrible wrath he has wrought on many others. Hurt and betrayed, he turns his anger on those who gave him up in search of the relic he helped steal. Kruger is a man whose allegiance lies to whomever pays him the most. Having lost his family to war early in life, Kruger's innocence was twisted into a solitary desire for self preservation at any cost.

The Powder Room

2012 • 3 min • United States of America, Italy

An enchanting and dramatic short film set in London’s Claridges hotel. As its name suggests, the piece takes us into an ultra-feminine environment where gestures between women are traded in a ritual of opulent beauty.

Gasp

2012 • 15 min

A seventeen-year-old boy. All he wants is to feel something. Anything. One day he pushes his longing to the limit.

Going To Extremes: Yuri Morishita

2012 • 60 min • Japan

Saori is living a strange life together with her ex-husband, Tsuyoshi, whose business failed after divorcing her, and her older sister, Rika, who is planning to study abroad. The hearts of the three, who had been kept in a delicate balance, were swaying indecently with sadness and jealousy...

Teacher Of The Year

2012 • 17 min • United States of America

A day in the life of Ethan Collins, a severely depressed, foul-mouthed elementary school teacher whose wife's recent infidelity and departure have left him questioning everything in his life.

Crossing Over

2012 • 19 min • Greece

A group of old friends gather to scatter the ashes of a husband, a father, a friend in a place where present is confronted to the past. As if wasn’t flying, as if past and present were united.

TimeScapes

2012 • 52 min • New Zealand, United States of America

Stunning slow-motion and timelapse cinematography of the landscapes, people and wildlife of the American South West.

Hoverboard

2012 • 6 min • United States of America

After watching Back to the Future 2, an imaginative young girl and her stuffed teddy bear try to invent a real, working Hoverboard.

Me the Terrible

2012 • 12 min • United States of America

A young sailor parks her boat and crosses the Brooklyn Bridge in search of big-city adventure at famous landmarks she finds on an ancient map. Her journey takes her to Wall Street, the Empire State Building, and Central Park, where she confronts a band of child bandits who steal her teddy bear.

Creedy and the Bee

2012 • 3 min

The ducks and the trees, the birds and the bees, the girl looked upon them meekly. Gazed upon her, from behind a tree, was the old towns pervert Creedy...

Broken Windows

2012 • 37 min • Portugal

Life through a glass, life through a lens, life through a camera. Fade to black. General view of the access to a factory with a big wheel.

Himorogi

2012 • 17 min • Italy

This short film by Marina and Alessio Pierro was inspired by the way that Walerian Borowczyk would project photographs and drawings onto a transparent screen, the dust and and smoke-filled light becoming an almost tangible part of the experience. A 'Himorogi' is a sacred space or altar, and this one pays homage to Borowczyk's visionary cinema.

My Neighbourhood

2012 • 25 min • Palestinian Territory

Mohammed El Kurd is a Palestinian boy growing up in the neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah in the heart of East Jerusalem. When Mohammed turns 11, his family is forced to give up part of their home to Israeli settlers, who are leading a campaign of court-sanctioned evictions to guarantee Jewish control of the area. Shortly after their displacement, Mohammed’s family and other residents begin peacefully protesting against the evictions, determined not to lose their homes for good. In a surprising turn, they are quickly joined by scores of Israeli supporters who are horrified to see what is being done in their name. Among them is Jewish West Jerusalem resident Zvi Benninga and his sister Sara, who develop a strong relationship with Mohammed and his family as they take on a leading role in organizing the protests.

Kyle Christmas Special

2012 • 28 min

It's a Christmas Extravaganza featuring jokes from Kyle, stand-up comedy from Bruce Chandling, an interview with Santa, and a special surprise guest. But it's not all fun and games, as a new music video by Chris shows that it's not a merry Christmas for everyone, especially daddy.

Na Escama do Dragão

2012 • 23 min • China, Macao, Portugal

A reporter and a camera operator from a Macau TV channel embark on a journey to south of China.

Warstar - Der Film

2012 • 38 min • Germany

2034 - Earthling Dabbill Windbag is appointed Emperor Lord Leather in the fight against intergalactic AIDS. Together with his subordinates Constable Plum and Lord Liver, he then tries to rule the galaxy. But he is opposed by the bounty hunters Schwanz Solo & Superbingowoman, who make the universe unsafe with their spaceship. A merciless and hilarious battle for space-life and space-death breaks out!

The Boogeyman

2012 • 17 min • United States of America

The majority of the story occurs in the office of Dr. Harper, a psychiatrist, where a man named Lester Billings talks to the doctor about the "murders" of his three young children.

Kowabana J: After School Ghost Stories 3

2012 • 57 min • Japan

A number of terrifying experiences take place in a school! The mysterious incident "The Day You Were There" at a closed-down alma mater, "The Day of the Dead" in which an older sister in despair after losing her only living relative, her younger sister, and a former teacher standing in a school building just before it was demolished. A former teacher stands in a school building just before its demolition. What is the abominable event he had sealed away ?