All Films

New Dimension

2011 • 27 min • Slovenia

A climbing documentary about a young Slovenian climber, Natalija Gros, discovering new dimensions in climbing. From the urban and temperamental streets of Buenos Aires and vast pampas to extraordinary landscapes of Patagonia you find variety of objects and shapes to climb. Urban style bouldering is one of the latest free climbing disciplines, exploring possibilities of urban environment as a test bed for a climber's imagination and competence. Natalija Gros goes even further and pursue for new dimensions in nature as well. She unleashes the child in herself and embraces the freedom of climbing. She can climb wherever she wants on her favorite playground all around this beautiful Argentina.

Freyja

2011 • 13 min

Freyja and her husband Albert are moving into a bigger house far from the city. Freyja being 7 months pregnant is waiting in their new home for Albert to arrive with their possessions. While waiting alone, Freyja has become increasingly uneasy and uncomfortable in the house. Albert thinks she will feel better when he is there with her, after only one nights sleep...

Woodcarver

2011 • 6 min • Canada

This project was made in response to the murder of John T. Williams by a Seattle police officer.

Journal of the No-Name Storm

2011 • 13 min

A recount of how the storm of 1991 impacted Nantucket Island.

Toi La Who

2011 • 12 min

Anne is an 8-year-old girl living in suburbia New Zealand. The world she sees is perfect, her family, her school, her friends, herself. One day, without warning or any real understanding, Anne's world comes crashing in around her revealing the imperfect world that was ignored. This forces Anne to re-examine herself and she starts to recognize her culture and identity.

Kongo-Müller: A German-German story

2011 • 52 min • Germany

When the Congo became independent in 1960, clashes between rival groups ensued. White mercenaries with war experience are also involved in the conflicts. They include Germans who, under the leadership of the former Wehrmacht officer Siegfried Müller, brutally attack the black population. After the "Stern" reporter Gerd Heidemann had uncovered the machinations, the GDR filmmaker Walter Heynowski made a politically motivated documentary about Siegfried "Kongo Müller". Now Siegfried Ressel has reconstructed the story of the German mercenaries and the propaganda argument about their use.

A Slice of Life

2011 • 4 min • United States of America

A lonely piece of toast dreams of meeting his other half.

Muhai Tang - In The Ocean Of Music

2011 • 58 min • Switzerland

MUHAI TANG – IN THE OCEAN OF MUSIC is a portrait of Chinese conductor Muhai Tang’s extraordinary life. Born in 1949, the founding year of the People’s Republic of China, and raised during the Cultural Revolution, it seemed as if he would have to abandon his dream of a career in music. However, his talent, perseverance and the support of Herbert von Karajan ultimately brought him to the world’s concert halls. Today, Muhai Tang is a global nomad. A wanderer between the worlds which he unites with music. His personal history, interspersed with historical caesurae, is typical for Chinese of his generation. He gained access to western culture early on through music. Muhai Tang’s life and work are exemplary of a changing China and the enrichment of the world by an artist between East and West.

Abused: Breaking the Silence

2011 • 50 min • United Kingdom

A group of aging former classmates begin a quest for justice when they learn from one another just how many of them had been abused as schoolboys.

Damn, We Went Back to The Convent

2011 • 10 min

Two nuns travel through time and space in search of the exact place to commit their suicides. they do this because every suicide goes to hell and finding the place for his death will be able to spread the word of the lord throughout hell ending the empire of the devil Belial.

Louie and Santa's Assistant

2011 • 22 min • France

Louie and Yoko meet Tom, one of Santa’s elves. Tom has been chosen by Santa to help him on Christmas Eve but he suffers from vertigo, he’s afraid of the dark, and lacks an enormous amount of self-confidence. With his drawings, Louie is able to help Tom overcome his fears in an adventure that leads them to Santa’s Grotto, where the elves make toys.

Edith Carlmar - bedre enn sitt rykte

2011 • 36 min • Norway

Edith Carlmar (1911 – 2003) was Norway's first female director and a prominent figure in Norwegian film history. She created some of Norway's biggest box-office successes of all time. Agnes Moxnes interviews a frank and honest Carlmar, who talks about her movies and the times they were made. This DVD was released in 2011 in conjunction with the 100-year anniversary of Edith Carlmar's birth.

Antigamente

2011 • 6 min • Brazil

The charming soul of the streets.

Göring's Secret: The Story of Hitler's Marshall

2011 • 55 min • Germany, United Kingdom

These film reels had vanished for decades and no one knew about the secret passion of Hitler's second man Hermann Goering. This footage from his private collection shows for the first time how he preferred to see himself: at the height of his power, acclaimed by the masses - as in the annexation of Austria in 1938, as Commander-in-Chief of the Luftwaffe.

Silenziosa-mente

2011 • 5 min • Italy

Tale of Blood

2011 • 19 min • South Korea

'Tale of Blood' is a 19 minute long paper-cut-puppet theater in the style of early silent cinema. It tells the story about the ambiguous relationship between a mother and her daughter. The story involves a midnight adventure through the dark forest, encounters with monsters and a short trip to an erotic dream land. The film is about suppressed female desires, that uncannily return as monstrous doppelgangers within the patriarchal society.

Posthumous

2011 • 17 min • Bosnia and Herzegovina

Mirsad’s father’s village is evacuated due to dam construction. The village will soon be under water. Mirsad arrives from the city intending to move his father’s remains from the old village cemetery to a grave in the new village’s graveyard.

Paranoia

2011 • 7 min

Paranoia is a story that recounts the events surrounding Matthew's life; an inquisitive student in a high school in Manhattan, who enjoys observing neighboring buildings with his camera. Unfortunately, one day, Matthew witnessed a scene, in the building across the street, that was best kept secret...

Maison sonore

2011 • 5 min • Germany

In a large building full of sounds, people are waiting for a new melody that will change their lives. No one has realised that it has already begun to play.

Dzaomalaza and the Blue Sapphire

2011 • 60 min

Dzaomalaza goes in search of a unique sapphire in Southern Madagascar in order to enrich himself. But three women are in his path: Evah wants to hand over the sapphire, Masy wants wealth and power and Revol wants to improve the fate of the entire community.

Underlife

2011 • 9 min • Poland

The film talks about birth, Coming and going; whether a person can break free from under the influence exerted on One's life by the time and place of birth, and bt the event of turning up in one's own pram. And whether one is aware of the invisible, sometimes destructive, the influence of our ancestors, which might result in one never being able to leave this pram. It is a symbolically metaphorical short story of one such pram, inspired by Lullaby/ Kolysanka by Krzysztof Komeda, among others.

Ctrl-v

2011 • 54 min • Brazil

Documentary-research on the global audiovisual industry and its effects on local cultures. Produced with a homemade digital camera in the best do-it-yourself style, without any production apparatus, director Leonardo Brant uses excerpts from films that discuss the hegemonic condition of the cultural industry and promotes dialogue with great thinkers.

V1k1: A Techno Fairytale

2011 • 28 min • Singapore

Set in a modern-day alternate universe, V1K1 tells the story of Gabriel, a human scientist, and his obsession to prove the existence of fairies. He accidentally captures one of them in his laboratory and gets invited into a dimension beyond his dreams. Produced with the assistance of the staff and students from the Institute of Technical Education (ITE) College West, V1K1 is Tzang Merwyn Tong’s third film that won the Gold Remi Award in the Fantasy/Sci Fi category at the 2011 WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival.

The Tender March

2011 • 5 min • Japan

Personal animation of planted grass flights.