All Films

Salem: Unmasking the Devil

2011 • 44 min

1692, Salem, Massachusetts; 162 people are arrested on charges of witchcraft. Five die in jail, one is crushed to death and 19 die on the gallows. The Salem witch trials have long been regarded as the textbook example of what happens when people are overwhelmed by hysteria. Now, author and historian, Katherine Howe, returns to the site of her ancestor's execution to discover how the very latest research has unearthed a chilling possibility that the most famous witch trial in the English speaking world was actually the result of a cynical plot by Salem's embattled Puritan Minister: Samuel Parris.

These were the reasons

2011 • 26 min • Canada

This film takes us into the harsh realm of BC's early coal mines, canneries, and lumber camps; where primitve conditions and speed-ups often cost lives. Then, the film moves through the unemployed' struggles of the '30s, post WWII equity campaigns, and into more recent public sector strikes over union rights.

Neat Meat

2011 • 3 min • United States of America

A man goes on a walk.

Finding Donn Fendler: Lost on a Mountain in Maine 72 Years Later

2011 • 60 min • United States of America

In 1939, 12-year-old Donn Fendler was lost for 9 days in the woods of Maine near Mount Katahdin. His story of survival inspired the nation and his book, Lost on a Mountain in Maine, continues to inspire with its powerful themes of hope, faith, and the will to live. Follow Donn's story through the lens of two filmmakers trying to turn the story into a feature film. Through interviews and footage of Donn today, discover what an amazing man Donn is and what his story has meant to the state and people of Maine.

There Will Be Oil

2011 • 58 min • Norway

There Will Be Oil is a documentary portrayal of the oil debate in Loften and Vesterålen.

A Good Calamity

2011 • 12 min

I morti di Alos

2011 • 30 min

Alos is Gairo, a small town in Sardinia. Ghost town, now uninhabited. To tell the story is the Sardinian director Daniele Atzeni, a delicate and refined documentary filmmaker who narrates life stories of mines, workers and fishermen. A Sardinia unknown to most, forgotten by many.

Study for the Wind

2011 • 10 min • Brazil

It's dusk when the wind blows.

Oliver Bump's Birthday

2011 • 16 min • Canada

A 12 year old boy, fated to die on his thirteenth birthday, has to find a way to cheat death before the clock runs out.

Over 90 & Loving It

2011 • 57 min • United States of America

This documentary features people in their 90s and 100s who are living extraordinary and passionate lives. Filmmaker Susan Polis Schutz has interviewed some of the most incredible people you can imagine - people who aren't aware of chronological age at all, but live as though the future and youth spring eternal.

That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is in French

2011 • 14 min • United Kingdom

Based on a Stephen King short story, That Feeling... presents the ultimate case of cause, effect and deja vu.

Red Dawn

2011 • 27 min • Macao, Portugal

The Red Market in Macao. The red tonalities of blood, flesh, buckets and even of the fish’s eyes, carry the audience into a strange and scary universe but also beautiful and intriguing. Rodrigues and Guerra da Mata’s camera emerges like a driving force giving us the exact balance between what exists and what we see.

Blanche Fraise

2011 • 17 min • Canada

Synopsis: A rabbit couple tries to survive in a dying forest...

Niño Bonito

2011 • 17 min • Philippines

Boni, a little boy from the slums, squares off with the stark reality of drugs, petty crime and abuse armed with his own brand of hip hop and some divine intervention.

Punk O Cine

2011 • 55 min • Finland

Documentary about Finnish punk scene in the early 2010s.

Haunted House

2011 • 5 min

Parts of Mickey Mouse floating in a Haunted House

The Celtic Legacy

2011 • 51 min

The Celtic Legacy offers a trip back in time, from the Megalithic to Romanization of the Iberian Peninsula to discover the singular culture of the Castros in Galicia. Hair-rising landscapes, burial mounds, petroglyphs, fortified cities, lithic sculptures and exquisite jewels will define an era lost in time. The audience’s eye will be guided from the ancient Galicia to other places in Europe during those days: Brittany, Scotland, Ireland… where the Celtic culture left deep marks that persisted until today.

Fucked

2011 • 11 min • United Kingdom

A sixteen year old boy, having finished his exams, is allowed to celebrate by going to a gay nightclub, which will have life long ramifications.

Leva

2011 • 55 min • Brazil

T'choupi et ses amis - Font du poney

2011 • 7 min • France

Mi burro: esos huesos

2011 • 7 min

Burro and Niño live in a small Mexican village. They are friends and they are hungry. They try to get by as best they can. But Burro usually takes advantage of innocent Niño.

Payback

2011 • 16 min

One day in an egyptian town.

Glow

2011 • 15 min • Macedonia

The action takes place in one day, on the street and in the fancy part of the town. It is a hot day in August. There is a truck parked with watermelons for sale. A father and his son, both farmers, are selling the watermelons. The son, 15-year-old Dime, glares at a girl who lives here, the 14-year old Eli. They grow to like each other, exchange shy glances, their first meeting is puzzling. The fluid creates a frail glow of first love ... But, the parents interfere and they ruin the innocence of the first love.

Obsolescence

2011 • 26 min • United States of America

After suffering the sudden loss of his wife, Nick embarks on an obsessive, dangerous journey to uncover the truth behind her passing.