All Films

Borello: No God, No Master, No Shareholder

2011 • 52 min • France

Educator for troubled youth, advisor to ministers, nightclub manager, and now social entrepreneur: Jean-Marc Borello has lived a thousand lives and doesn't intend to stop there. Today, as General Delegate of Groupe SOS, a group of associations and companies with over 4,000 employees in France, this man of action, charmer, and champion of outspokenness, is waging a total battle against exclusion, never letting himself be labeled or giving in to political correctness.

Pasilyo

2011 • 2 min • Philippines

A college girl discovers love at first sight upon crossing paths with a complete stranger.

The Iron Low

2011 • 3 min

Two men are fighting with guns in a corridor.

Steps

2011 • 15 min • Macedonia

A short experimental documentary by Kiro Urdin.

Hotarubi no Mori e

2011 • 45 min • Japan

One hot summer day a little girl gets lost in an enchanted forest of the mountain god where spirits reside. A young boy appears before her, but she cannot touch him for fear of making him disappear. And so a wondrous adventure awaits...

Folk ved Fjorden

2011 • 60 min • Norway

For a year, we follow the life of two farms, with calving, slaughter, dung spread and production of traditional food. We join in an entertaining journey into the realities of life, and get an insight into a disappearing culture.

DreamGiver

2011 • 7 min

A regular night of dream delivering turns into a literal nightmare when an orphan's book of Ancient Aztec Mythology comes alive. The Dreamgiver must save the orphan from his own nightmare.

Alligator Kingdom 3D

2011 • 30 min

Alligator Kingdom 3D is the first-ever 3D HD documentary shot in the protected areas of the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge. A magic carpet ride into one of the last great black water swamps on earth-- the great Okefenokee. Examines the ancient wetlands' intricate ecosystem and reveals the habits and traits of its most famous predator, the fearsome American alligator.

An Anthropological Television Myth

2011 • 54 min • Italy

An Anthropological Television Myth is a gloriously jagged collage of fragments culled from an independent Sicilian TV station's output in the mid-90s – the period just before the 'Berlusconi era'. But whereas the Milanese media mogul's spells as president were notable for the cynical degradation of his nation's television output, with its bawdy game-shows earning much overseas derision, the small broadcaster showcased here evidently foregrounded and documented local grass-roots political shenanigans. With no commentary or captions, the film plunges us into a lively day-before-yesterday epoch when the authorities' battles with the Mafia produced an atmosphere akin to Civil War on the streets. Virtuouso editing knits together a dizzyingly wide range of sights and sounds that consistently fascinate and impress.

Staring Contest

2011 • 1 min • Norway

A man is having a staring contest with something

Poppy Fields Forever

2011 • 2 min • United States of America

Visions of a flower valley, saturated with the intoxicating colours of dreams gone by.

Fungus

2011 • 9 min • Sweden

Katrin sits apathetically in her dumpy apartment after being left by her boyfriend as an old lady whose husband just died is wreaking havoc outside. Touched by the old lady’s strong emotions, Katrin decides to face her old boyfriend.

The Missing Key

2011 • 30 min • Australia

In a gloriously imagined 1920s world inhabited by people who have gramophones for heads, young composer Hero Wasabi has left Japan to study musical composition in Venice, accompanied by his oboe-playing cat Jacuzzi. Hero is a student of the terrifying Madame Zero at the Scuola di Musica, where his fellow students include the aristocratic Count Telefino, an unscrupulous telephone-head who is planning a campaign of dirty tricks to help him win the school's graduation prize, the Abacus Scroll.

The Dreamers

2011 • 56 min • Israel

Orthodox teacher and wigmaker, Ruchama and Tikva, embark on a journey to fulfill their dream of making movies within the closed society in which they live. Ruchama is writing and producing her first film while Tikva prepares for her first acting role. Like other orthodox women who in recent years have started making films for strictly female audiences, they feel a strong need to express themselves despite strict rabbinical censorship. The Dreamers delicately sketches the portrait of women trying to break new ground as artists in a patriarchal world. Will they find freedom in their art.

Debut

2011 • 5 min • Philippines

a short film by Pamela L. Reyes.

Revived

2011 • 47 min • Canada

After trespassing at an abandoned house a pair of friends become increasingly tormented by a restless spirit.

The Nightman Cometh

2011 • 20 min • China

Yejiang / The Nightman Cometh features a cast of strange figures who slip between historical eras. Strewn with symbols of past and future, civilisation and wilderness, dream and reality, the work is laden with filmic, artistic and literary meanings but surrenders to none. An ancient warrior is seen wounded and forlorn after battle, in conflict about his path in life. Yang dramatises the clash between the hero's social role or 'mask', and the more authentic face of his instincts and aspirations. For Yang, the visible world presented in this work is not an objective one but rather the externalisation of internal sentiments.

Black Mirror at the National Gallery

2011 • 6 min • United Kingdom, Canada

Black Mirror at The National Gallery is a single uninterrupted shot of a black circular mirror (designed by Martin Szekely) as it travels through the Dutch Landscape and Genre Scenes painting rooms at London’s National Gallery.

Eternal Champion

2011 • 16 min • Mexico

Eternal Champion is a tribute to the hard work that accounted for a woman of humble extract to become the best wrestler in the history of wrestling in Mexico. Made with extracts of videos available on line, is a digital impressionistic portrait of moments of pain, glory and triumph of Lola Dinamita Gonzalez.

Six Strands

2011 • 15 min • India

Partially based on true stories, 'Six Strands' is a character study inspired by the world famous Darjeeling tea industry and its undisclosed secrets.

A to A

2011 • 5 min • Austria

Hilarious overview of architectural failures. A road movie that provides new insights, but goes nowhere. Johann Lurf once again reveals his striking talent and his sense of humor. A to A is an extensive catalogue of mediocre architectural objects on roundabouts, competing for attention in the few seconds as they are passed. A unique artist's impression, shot from a spluttering Vespa.

Single Serving Friends

2011 • 6 min • Hong Kong

Just about dawn every day, the young shopkeeper meets her “friend”, the magazine delivery boy, the one she can only talk to all night long. Tonight is going to be their last night to meet. Nothing really happens, as usual.

Saturnus

2011 • 30 min • Germany

An animated science-fiction short directed by Bruno Sukrow.

My father is still a communist, intimate secrets to be published

2011 • 35 min

Ghossein searches for traces of his father's biography.