All Films

Jesse Owens

2012 • 53 min

Jesse Owens details Jesse's early career; describes Adolf Hitler s outsized ambitions for the 1936 Olympics; explores the movement in Western democracies to boycott the event; and explains the pressures on Owens to attend. The film also explores why, despite his success in Germany, Owens struggled to find a place for himself in a United States that was still wrestling with its own deeply entrenched racism.

Suspended

2012 • 18 min • Australia

Confronted by the stark reality that his father is in an intimate relationship with another woman, seven-year-old Caleb grapples with his sense of belonging and begins to inhabit a realm of frightening magical possibility. The cracks in his parents relationship, coupled with their drug use and inability to communicate, drive Caleb further into his imagination. It is not until he meets Eddie, a blind man with a sense of mischief and a subtle inner knowing, that Caleb begins to open up and explore his own innate potential for magic, which leads ultimately, to a fulfillment of the impossible.

Żaklina

2012 • 33 min • Poland

Two high school students are fascinated by a mature, attractive woman named Żaklina. The boys' friendship, strengthened by the common passion of filmmaking, seems to be indestructible until both of them try to seduce her.

One Piece: Glorious Island

2012 • 11 min • Japan

This short sees the crew messing around on the Sunny, leading into a party before they come upon Z in the ocean, which leads into Film Z.

The Scribe

2012 • 15 min • United States of America

In order to help his younger sister pay for college, a burnout writer-for-hire accepts an impossible gig: to pen a thesis paper in 72 hours.

Pockets

2012 • 3 min • United States of America

A homeless bum, bored of eating the same food every night, promises his girlfriend a special dinner. He plans to take her out with money robbed from a passing stranger. But the bum’s in for a surprise when the man he targets for his mugging turns out to have special – and hilarious – powers.

Lichen

2012 • 9 min

Through chance and coincidence, infinitely small decisions can produce new life.

The Collector

2012 • 15 min • United States of America

The Collector is about a young beautiful Malibu girl who pursues countless men to fulfill her desires. Until she meets a man who also prizes himself as a different sort of collector.

Still Meadows

2012 • 33 min

Washed-up horror novelist Owen Slater has hit rock bottom following his exploitation of a family's tragedy in one of his best-selling novels. But, when paranormal investigator Jack Grady recruits him for his subsequent investigation in the town of Still Meadows (the setting of Owen's book) Owen sees this as the perfect opportunity to redeem himself.

Silent

2012 • 14 min • Turkey

A woman tries to give a pair of shoes to her husband, who is in prison. The story takes place in Diyarbakır, Turkey in 1984 after the military coup in 1980, where the only language allowed to be spoken in prison is Turkish. The film won “Palme D’or” for short film in Cannes Film Festival 2012.

Marriage Material

2012 • 55 min • United States of America

Emily and Andrew, a young couple living in Memphis, agree to babysit their friend’s 6-month-old for a day. The experience causes them to examine their own relationship and their feelings about marriage and children.

Breaking Santa

2012 • 11 min • Canada

Santa goes on a blind date and ends up getting a lesson in Stockholm Syndrome.

Frost

2012 • 13 min • Canada

A young arctic hunter's search for food takes her beyond a sacred boundary and leads to a strange and terrifying discovery.

Too Much Water

2012 • 14 min • Uruguay

A young woman vacationing in a lonely country house, fills her backyard pool every night found in it empty by the morning. Strange neighbors and even stranger circumstances start to getting her paranoid about where the water is actually going.

Julian

2012 • 14 min • Australia

In school, 9-year old Julian gets into trouble for squealing a bully and therefore disturbing class.

Kamen Rider Fourze Special Bonus DVD: Astroswitch Secret Report

2012 • 12 min • Japan

The DVD is set before the Hyper Battle DVD, and features the content normally found in the Hyper Battle DVD (explaining the powers and weapons of the Kamen Riders), explained as Tachibana, with Ryusei and Gentaro's help, gathers the data of the 40 Astroswitches to find out what and where the mysterious mass of Cosmic Energy is.

Puss in Boots: The Three Diablos

2012 • 13 min • United States of America

Puss in Boots is on a mission to recover the Princess' stolen ruby from the notorious French thief, Whisperer. Reluctantly accompanied by three little kittens, Three Diablos, Puss must tame them before they endanger the mission.

Mr. Stink

2012 • 60 min • United Kingdom

Chloe recedes into herself due to her family's uncaring attitude towards her. When she meets Mr. Stink, a smelly man, she invites him to live in her garden shed.

Kin

2012 • 15 min • Sweden, United States of America

A reclusive young woman is paid a surprise visit from her estranged brother, who comes bearing bad news and a mysterious gift.

Little Girl

2012 • 17 min • Spain

Valerio lives trapped at home with her mother and the memory of his recently deceased father. His window to the outside world is his little sister, 'Little Girl', an aspiring actress with questionable talent. 'Little Girl' comes to visit them. Valerio idolizes her and waits her counting the seconds.

Tabula Rasa

2012 • 10 min • Canada

In the aftermath of the 1950 Winnipeg flood, Fernand floats listlessly through the sad, sunken landscape of ruin. His estranged wife prays for the drowned souls of Saint-Boniface.

Fire

2012 • 7 min • United Kingdom

Charles Dickens burns a lifetime of letters in one night and struggles with a desire that longs to make itself real.

First Kiss

2012 • 4 min

A guy and a girl encounter all kinds of obstacles while trying for their first kiss.

Wordplay

2012 • 36 min

The behind the scenes drama in the high stakes world of competitive spelling.