All Films

The Shrine / An Argument

2011 • 8 min • United States of America

"The Shrine / An Argument" by Fleet Foxes from the album 'Helplessness Blues'

Deck'd 3

2011 • 42 min

In the final, climactic musical finale to the Deck'd series, 18-year-old Peter Bell finds himself revelling in his new Christmas celebrity status. But when Peter's Christmas-adventuring pal, Hark the Herald Angel, is accused of a heinous Christmas crime, Peter lets his ego get the best of him, and finds himself arrogantly standing up to the laws of Santa Claus himself!

Animated Holiday Card 2011

2011 • 1 min • Canada

The National Film Board of Canada wishes you a happy holiday season with this animated card by Malcom Sutherland. Best wishes for 2012!

How To Disappear

2011 • 3 min • Germany

A film about the melancholy, the end and the beginning. A hypnotic voyage without any wind.

Fortune's Smile

2011 • 16 min

An aspiring writer's life changes when he stumbles into a hidden drinking club and meets a Lester Oliphant - a colourful drunk and teller of tall stories.

Haselwurm

2011 • 16 min • Italy

Haselwurm is a short fantasy/horror film inspired on the one hand by some mythical stories of the region of Trentino, Italy, on the other hand by the narrative literature of Howard Philip Lovecraft. The main characters are a woman and a man striving to unveil a mystery as old as the mountains where the story is set. With the recklessness of a rifle shot, they make the mistake of killing a creature unlike any other. The consequences of this reckless act will soon reveal themselves and the price will be high ...

Space Miami: Abandoned Aerojet Everglades Rocket Factory

2011 • 5 min

In 1963 Aerojet-General built a rocket manufacturing plant in the middle of the Everglades. They were hoping to build rockets for the Apollo moon mission. The rockets were built and tested in a 150 ft. deep silo, the deepest hole ever dug in Florida.

Camp Dead

2011 • 46 min • United States of America

A group of college students camping near Cedar Cove ignore a hermit's warning about eerie experiments on the dead. Their curiosity leads them to Dr. Letum’s lab, where his assistant, Max Vendo, sets a horde of zombies upon them. Separated and hunted, they struggle to survive and uncover who the true mastermind is if they live long enough to find out.

Husky

2011 • 20 min • United States of America

Husky is a short film that follows Vinny, a village outcast; tormented by the people of the village. This intertwining narrative filled with suspense, emotion and heart-warming moments, sees the redemption of our hero and highlights the effects of prejudice against people from all walks of life.

HALO: Eye of the Storm

2011 • 23 min • United States of America

An alien alliance known as the Covenant has decimated the marines manning a strategically vital outpost. Now in control, they stand on the verge of claiming an ancient artifact with the power to bring about the end of mankind. As time runs out, only one hope stands between humanity and certain doom–Spartan 117. Adapted from the Halo 3 mission “The Storm.”

Neue Museen

2011 • 11 min • United Kingdom

Neue Museen is a 16mm film about the radical, modernist exhibition designs of Italian post-war architect Franco Albini and his collaboration with museum director Caterina Marcenaro in the early 1950s. The film is shot in the galleries of the Palazzo Bianco and Palazzo Rosso, and the Museo di Sant’Agostino, in Genoa.

I'm 14 and I Hate the World

2011 • 9 min

"I'm 14 and I Hate the World" is a short film released on September 17th, 2011, produced by Island Horse Productions, written and directed by Kenneth J. Harvey. It premiered at the Atlantic Film Festival.

Long Banana

2011 • 36 min • Croatia

Evil mayor Mr. Mayor and his mistress Emily want to start a war between the ranchers and peaceful Bukkake natives that live in the forest by the riverside. In order to challenge the natives, they incite the rancher Bob McAllister to attack and dishonor the daughter of the big chief Long Banana.

Our Relationships Will Become Radiant

2011 • 9 min

James Lowne’s Our Relationships Will Become Radiant, invites us to experience a digital dream, a suffocating demonic landscape where a horse runs without moving, a man vomits black bile, a plate of food oozes with it own sense of purpose, whilst a godlike visage hovers beneficently in the sky. Such uncanny occurrences allow Lowne to map out a space of oblique anomie, a world where ephemeral gestures attain meaning only by being endlessly repeated.

La libertà costa cara molto

2011 • 42 min • Italy

A documentary about the Italian resistance movement as seen (and lived) by partisan who fought in Brescia's valleys.

Le Bodyguard Danois

2011 • 35 min

Danish bodyguard Michael Hansen has devoted his life to protect famous and wealthy media figures. No terrorist is safe when Michael is around. He keeps his head cool and takes action instinctively. But Michael is blind to the flaws in his own character.

Man O War

2011 • 3 min

A macroscopic view of a Portuguese man-o-war’s beautiful, yet highly venomous tentacles.

Breathe

2011 • 51 min • United States of America

Martin Khodabakhshian (9-Time Emmy Award-winning ESPN producer) directs and produces this fascinating documentary that truly goes to new depths in the search for man's physical and mental limits. Breathe follows New Zealander, William Trubridge as he attempts to break his own world record in the extreme sport of Freediving. William attempts to dive completely unaided to a depth of 300ft, almost to the bottom of the deepest blue hole in the world - "Dean's Blue Hole" in the Bahamas.

Marfil

2011 • 30 min • Equatorial Guinea

The first filmmaker arrived in Equatorial Guinea in 1904. The last movie theatre closed in Malabo in the 1990s. In 2011, during the II African Film Festival of Equatorial Guinea, the Marfil Movie Theatre reopened its doors. Florencio, Ángel and Estrada tells us how cinema has been, and is still, present in their lives.

Broken Promise

2011 • 10 min • Netherlands

Two Afghan illegal aliens take a walk at night. To the rhythm of their nocturnal stroll, we see how the Dutch reality, from bare mattresses in a condemned building, breakdancing in the street to running from the police, is at odds with their phone calls to relatives who stayed behind and have both concerns and high expectations. To reassure the home front, one Afghan takes a picture of himself in front of a nice house and expensive car.

Bisclavret

2011 • 14 min • France

Peekaboo

2011 • 10 min • Australia

When a toddler goes missing in a car park, her mother fears she has been abducted.

Noise of Finland

2011 • 20 min • Finland

Noise of Finland is a documentary about the Finnish noise and power electronics scene. Loud distorted noise made with scrap metal and effect pedals are combined with extreme views and shocking visuals. The barriers of human limits and impossibility of commercial success are surpassed with limitless self expression. Movie includes the artists of the genre like Grunt, Bizarre Uproar, Manic/Depression, Sick Seed and Strom.EC

Céu, Inferno e Outras Partes do Corpo

2011 • 8 min • Brazil

A dog with a broken heart perceives his reality in a very peculiar way, inviting to a glance at his tragicomic routine.