All Films

Oaxaca Tohoku

2011 • 11 min

On March 11, 2011, there was an earthquake in the coastal region of Tohoku (Japan). The rupture of tectonic plates expanded through an area of 100,000 sq km. On the other side of the Pacific Ocean, in the coastal area of Oaxaca (Mexico) a tsunami alert was issued.

La dette

2011 • 10 min • France

Yasmine becomes enraged when her romantic weekend trip with the indebted Hassen is canceled. Can she do something about it?

Yesterday My Friend Bought a Bike

2011 • 10 min • Germany

A young woman is walking through the city. She meets a friend at a coffee shop. This friend tells her every detail about how she bought a bike the day before. The young women listens.

i mae

2011 • 22 min • Costa Rica

Gaby and Elena are two young Costa Rican university students with dreams, plans and a troubled relationship with their respective partners. Both are invited to attend a picnic to celebrate a friend's birthday. The conviviality will last until the night and will show the complex and confusing reality that the youth of the country lives, where individualism, apathy and conformity abound. That long day, only one of them will make the right decision. iMae was made thanks to the support of Bayer and its Social Responsibility program Your Life Your Decision.

Jump

2011 • 2 min • Belgium

A drug dealer accomplishes an impossible jump to escape a violent police brigade...

Follow the Sun!

2011 • 4 min • United States of America

While we have a few minutes before the show, stop by our refreshment stand! We have all kinds of tasty treats! Popcorn for all eternity! Hell's on it's way!

One Day of Zhora Vladimov

2011 • 40 min • Russia

The turning point for Russia is 1991. Exiled from the country, writer, dissident and human rights activist Georgiy Vladimov found himself in a forced, joyless emigration in Niedernhausen. Later, Vladimov will begin writing a novel in three parts, "Long Way to Tipperary," which, according to the plan, would cover the period from August 1946 to August 1991. But he will have time to write only the first part, where he will again and again return to the almost unconscious childish act of one day in August 1946. On that blurry day in memory, cadet-Suvorov student Zhora Vladimov went to support the disgraced writer Mikhail Zoshchenko.

The Final Crazy

2011 • 13 min • Canada

A man explores the relationship with his drifter father as he carries his body to its final resting place.

Hope

2011 • 6 min • Cyprus

A short film set in Cyprus, an island in the Mediterranean divided by war and characterized by people on both sides, both Greek-Cypriot and Turkish-Cypriot, waiting and hoping for a resolution and some, waiting and hoping for missing loved ones to return. This is the story of one such woman.

Čikāgas piecīši. Par mani, draudziņ, nebēdā

2011 • 60 min • Latvia

A documentary about the band of Latvian exile musicians, "Čikāgas piecīši".

Gwangong VS Alien

2011 • 16 min • Hong Kong

When a dangerous alien creature attacks Hong Kong and disrupts our harmonious society, the People's Liberation Army sends out its greatest weapon - A giant Lei Feng robot controlled by elite operators from Mainland China, Macau, and Hong Kong. But when even the best of Mainland Chinese technology fails us, there's always one man we can count on: Gwangong, the legendary hero who stands for loyalty, justice, and righteousness. This ambitious, larger-than-life sci-fi action satire shows that faith is the greatest weapon we have against even the greatest evil.

Portrait

2011 • 6 min

Locked in a bunker and faced with an impossible commission a young artist has to look beyond reality and logic, and face himself.

The Path Without End

2011 • 6 min

Anishinaabe stories of the Moon People are retold through an experimental steampunk animation by Irish, Anishinaabe, and Métis Elizabeth Aileen LaPensée with music by Cree cellist Cris Derksen. Named in honor of Basil Johnston's work. Curated in the Museum of Contemporary Native Art's Turtle Island Rising: Past and Futures Program.

Celebrated and Understood

2011 • 10 min

A hole in the earth emitting a mysterious sound is monitored by two scientists.

Clowns

2011 • 15 min • Ireland

Andy, Fleabag, Chains, and Marcus are an Irish gang with seldom an intelligent thought between them. Needing money to pay off a debt, they set out to kidnap a rich man to settle their debts. Of course, nothing goes as planned.

Clara's Tale

2011 • 9 min

A young girl gets lost in a forest and spends the night in a supposedly empty mansion. In the morning she meets the owner of the house... As time goes by she realizes she can't get out of the house and discover that a curse is set upon its owner.

Sacred Music: God's Composer

2011 • 59 min

The Sacred Music journey continues with this special celebration marking the 400th anniversary of the death of the Spanish composer Tomás Luis de Victoria. One of the greatest choral composer of the Renaissance, Victoria devoted his life to the church and his music is profoundly spiritual. Interwoven with Victoria’s music, this documentary follows Simon Russell Beale as he takes us through the life and times of Victoria. Harry Christophers and his award-winning ensemble, The Sixteen, perform Victoria’s music in the glorious setting of the Church of San Antonio de los Alemanes in Madrid, founded in 1606 by Philip III in Victoria's lifetime.

Balance

2011 • 52 min

Balance is a documentary about Bryndís Pétursdóttir, geopathic stress, electromagnetic waves and the effects on these invisible and untouchable phenomena on the well-being of people. Bryndís senses those waves and makes them harmless with the Balance cube she invented. We meet people she assists and hear explanations and counter-arguments from specialists who research those waves.

Knife

2011 • 40 min

It takes you into the extreme sports world of cycling featuring the talents of Matt Schubring, Danial Reardon and Nate Adams and more.

WigWigWig

2011 • 1 min

Experimental self portrait

Louise, Queen of Greenwood

2011 • 5 min • United States of America

Short film of found 16 mm family footage from the 1940s edited to the song "Louise, Queen of Greenwood" by Whale Belly

Kidnapper

2011 • 4 min

The anatomy of a kidnapping as seen from the kidnapper's point of view.

Whistlin' Dixie: Queer Sounds, New South

2011 • 30 min

Welcome to the South, where amidst confederate flags and pop country radio there lies a new generation of queer activists who spend their nights creating independent music, promoting acceptance and celebrating queer visibility. WHISTLIN' DIXIE aims to investigate the complex historical relationship between Southern music, identity politics and resistance through personal interviews, rich landscapes and riveting performances.

The Girl from Paradise

2011 • 4 min • United States of America

A man enters a salon/spa and leaves with something else