All Films

Timuti

2012 • 30 min • Canada

In Inukjuak, an Inuit community in the Eastern Arctic, a baby boy has come into the world and they call him Timuti, a name that recurs across generations of his people, evoking other Timutis, alive and dead, who will nourish his spirit and shape his destiny.

Hunting Zone

2012 • 17 min

After a few months of fine-tuning sound details and creating English subtitles, we have the short film ready for you to watch! We hope you like it!

Orthodox

2012 • 30 min

Orthodox tells the story of Benjamin, an Orthodox Jewish man who alienated himself from his community by becoming a boxer. When his life took a wrong turn he ended up in prison, losing his wife and children in the process. Now he is out and desperate to reintegrate, he finds that acceptance harder than he ever imagined. He turns back to his old boxing coach thinking there he has an ally, but a truth about the past emerges which leaves him even more isolated than he once thought. Benjamin must make a choice which will effect not just his own future but the life of a young Jewish boy whose life he can relate to. He is determined not to allow history to repeat itself.

Love Me Please

2012 • 11 min • Indonesia

a short film by Sidi Saleh

Maestra

2012 • 34 min • Cuba

Cuba, 1961: 250,000 volunteers taught 700,000 people to read and write in one year. 100,000 of the teachers were under 18 years old. Over half were women. MAESTRA explores this story through the personal testimonies of the young women who went out to teach literacy in rural communities across the island - and found themselves deeply transformed in the process.

Photonovela

2012 • 52 min

A 12-year-old girl must complete a family history assignment for school. The boring task slowly becomes a sweeping drama embodying many secrets over three generations of one family, beginning before the Second World War and ending with the fall of the collective kibbutz idealism. In the vein of Arnon Goldfinger’s The Flat, this quiet and sensitively-constructed documentary explores a family’s resistance to excavate a buried painful past.

As the Flames Rose

2012 • 27 min • Portugal

On the phone in his dark bedroom, a man relives the end of a turbulent affair, while across town, the city burns.

Profes

2012 • 52 min • Chile

An inside look of Chilean education from six teachers' point of view.

The Blue Dildo

2012 • 9 min • United States of America

Dark comedy about a young woman being stalked and the awkwardness of bringing it up to her family.

Grimm Fairy Tales Animated

2012 • 31 min

Animated adaptation of the Zenescope Comics horror/fantasy series.

Let It Begin Here

2012 • 11 min

A dramatic and strictly detailed and authentic film presentation that recounts the participants and events that came to a crescendo on April 18, 1775 and progressed to a point of confrontation on Lexington Green the next morning where the, "Shot heard round the world" was fired and the Revolution was begun.

Casablanca: An Unlikely Classic

2012 • 35 min • United States of America

The behind-the-scenes story of how "Casablanca" became an American film classic.

Vacances

2012 • 15 min • France

It is the moment of the first holiday departures, the weather is nice and warm. Leo, aged nine, is alone with his father, his mother has just died. He does not know what he is going to do, tomorrow, or later.

Tad Jones: The Hand of Nefertiti

2012 • 3 min • Spain

Jeff, Tad's dog, and Belzoni, Sara's parrot, must guard the ancient hand of Queen Nefertiti at the Metropolitan Archaeological Museum.

Michael Curtiz: The Greatest Director You Never Heard Of

2012 • 37 min • United States of America

Documentary about the work of film director Michael Curtiz.

Bud's Best - Die Welt des Bud Spencer

2012 • 52 min • Germany

Documentary is a look back at the varied life of the Olympic competitor, inventor and actor Bud Spencer, who became particularly famous in Germany for his "Hau drauf" comedies with film partner Terrence Hill. Through numerous interviews with family members, fans and connoisseurs, the film also provides a very private insight into the life of the man who, by his own admission, actually has nothing in common with the fictional character "Bud Spencer", and attempts to fathom the cult that still surrounds him today.

Tavern Man

2012 • 15 min • Finland, Portugal

A typical day in the life of a lonely man who works in an unsuccessful tavern located in the historical center of Guimarães, an old town in Portugal. During the day, the man spends his time coming up with new menu items for his tavern, while at night he gets ready to meet someone special.

Play House

2012 • 9 min • United States of America

The only thing keeping Harold's family bound is his unconditional love for them.

Bon Iver at AIR Studios (4AD/Jagjaguwar Session)

2012 • 24 min • United States of America

4AD and Jagjaguwar have collaborated on a live session that captures a truly unique Bon Iver performance, featuring Justin Vernon and Sean Carey. On recent tours fans will have become accustomed to seeing Vernon flanked by an eleven-piece band, with the swell in numbers lending a grandiose element to even his most delicate songs. Sidestepping expectations, the idea Vernon presented for this session was to provide a wildly different experience.

The Dreamer

2012 • 6 min • United States of America

Armed with a saxophone and a plastic cape, Larry "Antenna Man" Connor makes a name for himself the best way he knows how. Part of the Open City Mixtape series.

A Bend in the Road

2012 • 11 min

During one afternoon in the barren back lands of New Zealand, adolescent Josh is forced to choose between saving his mate or saving face in front of an ultra violent bully who was once his idol.

The Landfill

2012 • 4 min • United States of America

Trash becomes energy at a small New York landfill where people are thinking differently about garbage.

This Boy Caught a Merman

2012 • 28 min • Japan

When Shima nearly drowns trying to retrieve a picture, he’s saved by a merman named Isaki. Despite their differences, they begin to bond, but love across species isn’t simple.

Blitzeis

2012 • 29 min • Switzerland

Andreas is a journalist covering a story on Larissa, a patient with tuberculosis. At the hospital he meets a nurse called Yvonne. The encounter with the two women moves Andreas more than he wishes to admit. A short film about luck and its inevitable slipping away.