All Films

Dear Keno

2011 • 5 min • Croatia

A young, innocent country girl comes to the big city to look for work. There she meets a charming businessman and their lives intertwine.

Each Two Pages are a Garden of Sounds

2011 • 13 min • United States of America

Collaboration between Tarrl Lightowler and Matthew Swiezynski. A mode of Ryoanji, shot and edited early 2011 at Pt Reyes with Tarrl Lightowler on guitar and sound processing, and Matthew Swiezynski on percussion, guitar, sound processing and camera.

The motionless journey

2011 • 9 min

From a collaboration between the Murmurante Theater and Línea de Sombra Theater, arises El viaje immóvil, a study on suicide. With testimonies of the members of the P.I.A.S. (Comprehensive Suicide Attention Program), a woman expresses her decision to take her life. Through her performative actions, she forces us to accompany her on this purpose-built journey to formulate questions and dispel myths about suicide. Is it a creation? It's spread? Is it a mental health problem or is it a social problem?

Kidnapped: A Georgian Adventure

2011 • 59 min • United Kingdom

In 1728, 12-year-old James Annesley was snatched from the streets of Dublin and sold into slavery in America - the victim of a wicked uncle hell-bent on stealing his massive inheritance. Dan Cruickshank traces James's astonishing journey from the top table of 18th century society to its murky depths. The story, which helped inspire Robert Louis Stevenson's book Kidnapped, reveals some disturbing home truths that cast a shadow over the century of the Enlightenment.

In Search of the Blue Sky

2011 • 2 min • United States of America

Short animation by Po Chou Chi about a grandson want to make his grandmom's wish come true

I Will Drink My Tears

2011 • 17 min • Israel

Yonatan, a young rascal, needs fifteen Shekels. Everything else is not important right now.

Caverne (positive version)

2011 • 6 min • France

Experimental film & Installation. This is the video editing used for video projections in the short film "Caverne". The video was then passed in negative and projected onto walls of a cave.2011

The Rainbow Fox

2011 • 7 min • Sweden

The story of the colorful fox boy, in a world devoid of color.

Breathe Out

2011 • 20 min • Egypt

The windows are closed. Everything the old man can hear is the heavy breath of his wife. The slow routines of ageing and the decay of the body are closely examined in beautiful intensity.

Ground

2011 • 4 min • Canada

A film by Zahid Jiwa.

Nothing is left to tell

2011 • 30 min

Nothing is Left to Tell is the title of both a film and social experiment. In the summer of 2010, Almborg and a group of eleven strangers of varying ages and backgrounds traveled to a small, uninhabited island off the coast of Sweden. Their mission was to collaboratively build a wooden structure without plans or blueprints and while on the island they would not communicate using spoken or written language. Three individuals in the group were responsible for documenting the process, however, their task was similarly governed by rules: they could film no more than 30 minutes of activity per day. The resulting film explores the limits of language and the relationship between communication and community.

Oh gee Oh why

2011 • 1 min • France

Or how to mastermind a nonsensical parade following a cock-a-hoop bestiary into the doors of infinity. The participants of a parade get into place with a mix of panache and pandemonium.

Lost in the Fields

2011 • 40 min • Russia

In Tver province, in the God-forsaken village of Perelogi, there are Pamiri Tajiks who fled their homeland in the 90s, when a civil war broke out in Tajikistan. Now, together with a few indigenous villagers, they have to solve a difficult state question – what is "multiculture" in action?

Le chant de la brousse

2011 • 46 min

Every year, hundreds of bushcutters go up into the woods all over Quebec to carry out forestry work. Since the 2000s, more than 80% of loggers have come from Africa.

Viktor Gramatik - The Lost Treasure

2011 • 20 min • Slovenia

An archeologist's wife is kidnapped by a mobster and he is forced to seek out an ancient book for him.

No Smokin’

2011 • 2 min • Hungary

Short stop motion animation by Nadja Andrasev and Milán Kopasz

Stopover

2011 • 3 min • Switzerland

Every road trip requires a stopover. We just hope it won't in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Stage

2011 • 30 min • Philippines

A documentary film on the lives of Philippine election seasonal workers

Goddess

2011 • 6 min • Argentina

Goddess is an experimental short film which uses family archive footage and electroacoustic music creating a dialogue between reality and myth.

Joaquín

2011 • 16 min

Joaquin (11) lives with his grandmother into Tenglo Island. Each day he prepares breakfast and gives her her medication. One day, they run out of medecine, and the little boy has to go buy drugs in the city. Joaquin runs long trails, forests and beaches to reach the boat and cross to Puerto Montt. There he realizes that he lost his money and continues to the city. Under the pressure and rhythm of the environment, the child after passing through several pharmacies, innocently decides to rob one, without worrying of what he steels. Finally he runs to the safety that the island gives.

Neunundachtzig

2011 • 3 min • Germany

Something is brewing over the no-man's land around the Wall. Nevertheless, a young man ventures onto the barricades. With his idiosyncratic protest, he defies borders and, without suspecting it, sets significant signs.

The Youngest Son

2011 • 6 min • Kuwait

Al-Jadah is a word in the Kuwaiti dialect that refers to the youngest son in the family. The film tells about the youngest boy of a Kuwaiti family, he goes to war and his news is cut off.

Fair to Midland - Welcome to the Dirt

2011 • 56 min • United States of America

45 minutes of select footage from 2007 to 2011 made for our fans by our fans.

The Happy Children

2011 • 12 min • United Kingdom

A journalist visiting the northern fishing port of Banwick in World War One has a strange encounter. Adapted from a short story by writer Arthur Machen.