All Films

The Island of the Dead

2012 • 8 min • Germany

A soldier is about to be executed because of his disobedience. The execution will be carried out by an ancient machine which engraves a sentence (the committed crime) on a man's skin. What would happen if silent-film fan Franz Kafka were to ask FW Murnau to make a movie of his short story In the Penal Colony?

The Death, Her and Me

2012 • 50 min • Japan

After suffering a serious illness as a child, Yukari Tokino is able to see the dead.

Kekkon Houkoku

2012 • 46 min • Japan

Infinito

2012 • 9 min • Brazil

The breath on your skin speaks for you while you rest. The smell is deafening. Its fragrance, a poisonous composition, has the power to tear fragile hearts away. What flower wouldn't be jealous of you?

Milezim

2012 • 4 min • France

Schlusspunkt

2012 • 15 min • Germany

A random night in Munich. A young woman arrives at a police station. She wants to file charges, but as the officer takes her deposition, the tides turn.

Tinsel

2012 • 47 min • United States of America

The story of an escaped psychopath finds its way into a young woman's nightmares, turning a seemingly normal Christmas party into a whirlwind of psychological thrills and twists.

Circle Line

2012 • 26 min • South Korea

A desperate, lonely man and a homeless woman with a baby cross paths in this offbeat slice of life piece.

Ozu: Passageways

2012 • 2 min • United States of America

People constantly appear walking through passageways in the films of Japanese filmmaker Yasujirō Ozu (1903-63). His art resides in the in-between spaces of modern life, in the transitory: alleys are no longer dark and threatening traps where suspense is born, but simple places of passage.

Overtime War

2012 • 5 min • Sweden

Benefits and days off in war.

Goodnight, Mr. Foot

2012 • 4 min • United States of America

Bigfoot checks into Hotel Transylvania to get some sleep but keeps getting disturbed by a zealous witch maid.

Another Dimension

2012 • 26 min • Estonia

UFOs and spirits can be seen in Salme municipality on the island Saaremaa. There are viking skeletons and the Sõnajalg family wind turbines coming out of the depths of the earth and a helicopter flying to a village shop scares away cow herds. There are two realities here that do not fit together.

How the Snowman Came Back to Life

2012 • 60 min • United Kingdom

Raymond Briggs gives a rare glimpse into his world as we visit the animation studios where a small army of people are working to produce the new film, The Snowman and The Snowdog.

Aria

2012 • 3 min

French ballet dancer and Black Swan choreographer Benjamin Millepied captures the freeform movement of rising dance star Lil Buck.

Rubber Duckie

2012 • 17 min • United States of America

Rubber Duckie is the story of Jesse and Daniel, who on a blazing summer afternoon, are consumed with boredom and push their own limits and boundaries. This leaves us begging the question; is it simple boredom or insatiable innate appetite for more?

It's Getting Late

2012 • 9 min • Italy, United States of America

In the translucent LA dusk we discover four women living very different lives. The camera follows each as they wind down their working days, their four stories weaving together as each prepares for their evening.

The Far Cry Experience

2012 • 30 min • United States of America

Actor Christopher Mintz-Plasse goes to Rook Island for the Far Cry Experience, where he meets Vaas and his pirate gang.

Shui

2012 • 11 min • Mexico

A worldwide exodus through the desert begins, in search of the last oasis that offers life on the planet.

Rose, maintenant

2012 • 24 min • France

Rose is sixteen. Tomorrow his brother who has just committed suicide will be buried. How can you live Rose, now?

Phoenix: Bonds Chapter

2012 • 25 min • Japan

When Kai was still young, his father set out for space. For the next ten years, Kai stood on the beach, remembering the father who never returned, when he witnessed a mysterious light—the same light he had seen with his father long ago…

The End

2012 • 17 min • France

Charlotte Rampling has just watched a re-run of one of her films on television and discovered she has been entirely erased and replaced by a young actress, whom the media is calling the 'new Charlotte Rampling'.

Luís

2012 • 28 min • Portugal

A ghostly meeting with Luís de Camões, the one-eyed adventurer, widely considered Portugal’s greatest poet. Luís de Camões is considered Portugal’s national poet, an equivalent to England’s Shakespeare or Spain’s Cervantes. João Lopes’s film takes us on an otherworldly journey to Camões’s five-hundred-year-old epic Os Lusíadas, which he composed in Macau whilst he was stationed in the colony.

Monstrolândia

2012 • 4 min • Brazil

Shot in a single day, "Monstrolândia" follows the challenge of capturing Brazil's via crucis of winning the London Olympic Games.

Pretending Not to See

2012 • 25 min • Japan

While one kid is being bullied, another one witnesses the revolting situation. Filled with guilt, fear, and powerlessness; he starts wondering if just minding his own business is the right thing to do.