All Films

Nike and a snail

2012 • 12 min • Japan

Nike, who is good at ballet, is to be asked by the art department to model. A strange boy appears there and Nike has a wonderful experience in the moonlight.

Ashes

2012 • 20 min • Thailand

In collaboration with Lomo, an Austrian camera company, and Mubi, a global film website, Weerasethakul was invited to make a work to launch the new LomoKino, a portable motion picture camera. Ashes juxtaposes the intimacy of his daily routine with the destruction of memories and his observations of the dark side of Thailand’s social realities.

The Legend of Space Sheriff Gavan

2012 • 25 min • Japan

The Legend of Space Sheriff Gavan is a special DVD released with Televi-Kun in 2012 to promote the film Space Sheriff Gavan: The Movie. It features the second Space Sheriff Gavan, Geki Jumonji and his partner, Shelly as well as the members of the Space Mafia Maku.

The Pit

2012 • 17 min

Fusing comedic and dramatic elements, "The Pit" is a fun, stylish and entertaining portrayal of early twenty-somethings in Bushwick. Inspired by such films as "Dazed and Confused" and "Masculine Feminine", the film serves both as a snapshot of the current hipster scene in Brooklyn and an exploration of the pitfalls of attempting to integrate oneself in a largely apathetic and hedonistic counter-culture.

The Club of Ugly Children

2012 • 26 min • Netherlands

Under president Isimo, the Netherlands must be made clean and fresh. All ugly children are deported, but some escape and launch an uprising. Adapted from Koos Meinderts’ children’s book.

Andwele/Zumbi

2012 • 8 min • Mexico

Andwele and Zumbi, two black siblings, share an intimate secret from their childhood.

Roundabout

2012 • 19 min • Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary

As an escape from his early mid-life crisis and wrecked marriage a Bosnian man puts the fate of his life in the hand of his new lady-friend: his GPS. As the GPS leads him to unknown places he embarks on a more and more personal relationship with her.

The Show Must Go On

2012 • 25 min • United States of America

When a dying theater’s last hope for business suddenly goes from a murder mystery show to an actual murder mystery, the cast must play it off in order to save their jobs!

Ismael

2012 • 18 min • Mexico

Ismael, widower of his beloved wife Teresa, walks the streets of the city in search of cardboard, in his extensive travels he has confrontations with Juan - a mental patient who thinks he is a dog and with Luigi - the most famous baker in the city. , who always scolds her daughter, because she did not inherit his gift in baking. But the destiny of these people is about to change, thanks to a magical event that Ismael will unleash.

Hybris

2012 • 10 min • Netherlands

Two women hide a dead man in an autumnal forest. He wakes up again the next day. In a flashback it becomes clear what happened and why. Now that everything is different, the man struggles with his karma and the hereafter.

Hitokowa

2012 • 60 min • Japan

An anthology of odd and eerie stories. Each one a contemporary precautionary tale.

Tricked

2012 • 55 min • Netherlands

During his 50th birthday party thrown by his wife, Remco's life takes a turn for the worse. His business partners are scheming behind his back to sell him and his former mistress shows up pregnant.

Curvas

2012 • 4 min • Spain

Particular revision on the urban legend "the girl of the curve".

Dear Dracula

2012 • 43 min • United States of America

Sam loves scary movies, especially the ones with Dracula. This year, instead of writing to Santa for Christmas, Sam writes to Dracula, telling Dracula that he wants to be a real vampire on Halloween this year. Sam is in for quite a surprise as the most famous of all vampires himself responds.

Dublin

2012 • 29 min • Sweden

Daoud lives in a limbo that he is trying to break. He cannot go back to Somalia and he is expelled from one European country to another. He is a 'Dublin-case'. Daoud is accused of lying about his age. He has almost given up. The film depicts his time in Sweden.

Tennis Elbow

2012 • 17 min • France

Like every year, it's time for the big match between Philippe and Yannick, father and son. Like every year, the son is a little stronger. Like every year, the father is a little older. It's never easy for a champion to relinquish their title.

Heartland

2012 • 3 min • United States of America

Commissioned by fashion label Vena Cava, Josh Safdie’s short replaces a runway show with an eerie, late-1970s Los Angeles-inspired tale about a women’s cult; it premiered online in November 2012.

The Blue Man

2012 • 27 min • Sweden

A man wakes up in a blue costume and tries to figure out what has happened.

Monster High: Escape from Skull Shores

2012 • 45 min • United States of America

It's officially Spring Break at Monster High, and Lagoona takes her gilfriends across the sea to the Great Barrier Reef, but they are ship wrecked and end up on a mysterious skull shaped island. At Skull Shores, they enjoy the local hospitality until they realize that they are being used by a slippery showman named Farnum to lure the rarest, most mysterious monster of them all, "the Beast.”

I'm Coming to Get You

2012 • 54 min • Japan

Movie consists of 5 different segments based on stories in the novel "Ima, Yari ni Yukimasu: RE-DUX Kyofu Jitsuwashū" by Yumeaki Hirayama (published 2010 by Kobunsha).

Nunchaku

2012 • 58 min • Uruguay

At 28, Santiago still lives with his mother and has no real job projects. In order to feel independent, he decides to move to his family's summer house in a seaside resort during the winter. His human ties in this deserted place will be reduced to his neighbor, a paranoid family man, and the local bike rider, an alcoholic man who carries a homemade nunchaku and claims his friendship.

Nuclear Aftershocks

2012 • 54 min • United States of America

It’s been almost a year since a devastating earthquake and tsunami crippled Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex, leaving the country’s once popular energy program in shambles. In response, Germany decided to abandon nuclear energy entirely. Should the U.S. follow suit? FRONTLINE correspondent Miles O’Brien examines the implications of the Fukushima accident for U.S. nuclear safety, and asks how this disaster will affect the future of nuclear energy around the world. In particular, he visits one emerging battleground: The controversial relicensing of the Indian Point nuclear plant, located only 38 miles from Manhattan. What lessons can be learned from the disaster in Japan?

The World of Arata: World's/Start/Load/End

2012 • 30 min • Japan

Four high school girls in uniforms walk silently on the barren earth. These girls are time travelers who had been sent 6000 years into the future, from their present in which the same day is endlessly repeated, in order to evade human extinction. They studied time travel in school, were examined by the aptitude test, and were sent to the future as told. What should they do now? They had no idea. The only thing they could take with them from the present was a light, toy-like cellphone. Of course, it receives no signal here. As the girls are walking, they see strange birds flying in the sky, and a discolored river in the distance. Then, one girl finds an abandoned house, and recognizes the name inscribed on the front gates. * A mixed-media project by Iruma Hitoma, who wrote the novel, created the story for the manga version, scripted the anime, and penned the lyrics for the music.

Kamen Rider Fourze: Rocket Drill States of Friendship

2012 • 12 min • Japan

Gentaro (Kamen Rider Fourze) aims to become friends with Kamen Rider Amazon in hopes of obtaining the Clear Drill Switch, which has crash landed in the Amazon River. However Amazon has been defeated by an upgraded Suddendath, and it's up to Kengo and Yuki to find Kamen Rider Amazon in the Rain forest, while Fourze takes on Suddendath!