All Films

Zainichi

2011 • 33 min

Between 1910 and the end of World War II, Korea belonged to the Japanese Empire. Since then the Koreans, known in Japan under the name of "zainichi", are the first ethnic minority. Sometimes the zainichi still try to hide their origin. After the death of his grandmother, the last member of a Korean family begins a journey to his hometown.

Enjambre

2011 • 17 min • Argentina

Record of the set "sic semper tyrannis", a symphony of noise performed by 14 guitarists coordinated by Leandro Barzabal. Pertaining to the date of the Cycle of Improvised Action of December 19, 2010 in the city of La Plata.

El Hombre-Caja

2011 • 14 min • Argentina

The box man tells the story of a young man who wants to see the moon and the stars. On his way, specifically a girl as particular as him. However, everything gets complicated when she discovers that she can see the outside world.

The Spirit of the Duck

2011 • 4 min • Sweden

The first duck swims in the primordial pond at the beginning of time before the world was created.

Variaciones sobre Alicia

2011 • 3 min • Argentina

Made from the recycling of a Disney children's animation and a pornographic film, it seeks to link two generators that are radically opposed but have a certain common pedagogical character: they appeal to ideals through which they exert their influence. The recovered piece found tapes, manipulated and intervened manually. It is a work of found material that reuses material and resituates it, giving images new meanings and frameworks for interpretation.

The Big Swing

2011 • 1 min • Canada

The macabre tale of a child trying to overcome her fear of the swing. This film was made as part of the 7th edition of the NFB's Hothouse apprenticeship.

Día del padre (2002/2004)

2011 • 9 min • Argentina

Relationship between a trans daughter and her father.

Realisation

2011 • 2 min • France

Two men look at a woman. One wants her, the other one gets her.

Turbulent Waters

2011 • 23 min

An experiment in 3D abetted by a Pulfrich filter, originally theorized in the 1920s. Features water cinematography by Phil Solomon.

The Crow Who Wore A Suit And Worked In An Office

2011 • 3 min • United Kingdom

Feeling misplaced and trapped in an environment where he doesn't belong, he dreams of doing what he always wanted. This is the story of the crow who wore a suit and worked in an office.

Neil in Love

2011 • 5 min • Belarus

A friendzoned teen deals with rejection by felling trees with his bare hands.

Jelly Jeff

2011 • 2 min • Germany

How exciting can jelly´s life be? Jelly Jeff will show us some fun under water.

mister COWBOY

2011 • 16 min • Singapore

Meet line-dancing fanatic mister COWBOY who has to work on the night of the largest line dancing party. Our night watchman escapes the dread of working the graveyard shift by conjuring doubles of himself. Yet this imagination takes a life of its own and begins to haunt and condemn him to a journey of self-discovery.

Rumah Babi

2011 • 23 min • Indonesia

Adormecidos

2011 • 7 min • Brazil

Everywhere, at dusk, lights and advertising posters become the only living beings among the inert streets. Beings that never meet, strangers almost exactly the same.

The Hedgehog

2011 • 7 min • Russia

A man becomes determined to retrieve a winning lottery ticket which his son exchanged for an hedgehog.

Shine

2011 • 3 min • United States of America

A barbershop quartet sings for their lives in this 3D piece. From George Romero and Drew Barrymore favorite Jesse Blanchard comes a well-crafted piece that blends comedy, horror, and puppetry all filmed with a handmade 3D rig.

Inconstância

2011 • 7 min • Brazil

Cold and silence. As a company, only loneliness. Immersed in a gray world, Jacinto realizes that the simplicity of the gardener can bring the warmth and happiness that your life needs.

Grit

2011 • 23 min

Returning home from the war, Joey tries to leave his past behind and start his life a new. He goes to work at his brother Darren's restaurant, where Joey becomes the object of desire for a slightly older, and socially mixed up waitress named Jessica, who has no problem manipulating the world around her to fulfill her own selfish desires. So much for the a fresh start... Joey finds that his new life maybe just a treacherous as his old one.

Toute La Verité Sur Les Ovnis

2011 • 45 min • United States of America

Documentary about UFOs.

Following

2011 • 2 min • Australia

Who is he? Where does he come from? What does he want? An experimental short film created for the most part with a mobile phone. The filmmaker shot on the first day, animated on the second, and tried to make sense of it all on the third.

Allfader

2011 • 21 min • Norway

A story presented before the birth of civilization; a man without a community, completely at the mercy of nature.

The End Game

2011 • 52 min • Latvia

A former actor is fascinated by an idea. He meets a scientist, a speech therapist, and a juggler, and convinces them to stage Endgame by Samuel Beckett. They believe that Beckett’s play about four people trapped in a world that is about to collapse describes the situation in which they find themselves in.

Tegan the Vegan

2011 • 13 min • Australia

Tegan is 12, in love with the coolest boy in class and just found out where meat comes from. Tegan faces intolerance and peer pressure as she struggles to she find the strength to follow her heart.