All Films

Koro's Medal

2011 • 14 min • New Zealand

While hiding from his brother, Billy drops his grandfather's precious war medal through a crack in their apartment floorboard into the bookshop below. At first Billy's mission is simply to get down to the bookshop to retrieve Koro's medal, but when two hapless thugs come across it while stealing rare books, Billy is forced to take matters into his own hands.

Sky With No Eternity

2011 • 60 min • Brazil

The film explores the real and imaginary narratives of the quilombola communities of Alcântara / MA who have lived in conflict for more than thirty years with the intrusion of the Brazilian Space Project.

Gemmeleg

2011 • 10 min • Denmark

Johanna (12) is babysitting her younger sister, Marion (8), as their mother, Susanna (40) is throwing a garden party for her neighbors and friends. A man at the party notices Johanna, and with sexual confusion, she takes advantage of his interest.

The Sparrow Who Kept His Word

2011 • 6 min • Russia

A story about a little sparrow that could keep his word.

There is Something in the Air

2011 • 29 min • India

As a call from the periphery of sanity, the film is a series of dream narratives, and accounts of spiritual possession as experienced by women 'petitioners' at the shrine of a Sufi Saint in North India.

The Celts

2011 • 26 min • Croatia

A documentary about the Celts, the fans of the Bilogorac football club from the Croatian village of Veliko Trojstvo. Interestingly, the members are not locals, but people from Bjelovar, a city 10 kilometers away that has a much better ranked football team. Dressed in green and white, the Celts spend every weekend escaping from provincial life to support the players.

Aldilà

2011 • 10 min • United Kingdom

Aldilà is an experimental film bringing together ideas about the afterlife, presenting them in five sections. The result resembles a deathly revue show, accompanied by a soundtrack running the gamut from gospel music to minimal electronica.

Laundriness

2011 • 24 min • United Kingdom

Serif, the manager of a launderette in London’s Bethnal Green, dedicates her time to her regulars. Serving cups of tea and listening to their stories, Serif enriches their lives by helping the local elderly community. Laundriness is a simple and sensitive observational documentary about the meaning of life, fate, hope and regrets.

Soulless

2011 • 14 min • Brazil

The love encounter of two people with different parameters of reality. Alexandra lives in an extreme way and looks for someone like that to love. The point is that when she finds it, things don't go exactly as planned.

Andaluz

2011 • 52 min • Brazil

Soup

2011 • 37 min • Finland, Latvia

The film Soup is the story of a trip in search of lost time. Only instead of Marcel Proust’s Madeleine cookie, the chicken soup by Podravka, well remembered by many generations in former Soviet countries and in Eastern Europe, is the triggering element.

Out of Play

2011 • 6 min • Russia

The mutual relationships of people with different characters and different value systems.

Tacokinesis

2011 • 4 min

A young woman uses her supernatural powers of telekinesis to construct a nice, meaty taco.

Tokyo Freeters

2011 • 43 min • France

In Japan, more than four million young people survive by taking on precarious jobs. They are called “freeters”. The film gives voice to these “discard-after-use” workers, who regard their situation with both lucidity and desperation, as well as to ex-freeters who have become activists in the fight against exclusions.

Sunrise/Sunset

2011 • 7 min • Russia

In a search of a peaceful retreat, a writer will find something both achingly familiar and long forgotten.

Fluorescent Sin

2011 • 8 min • Kenya

A poetic short that chronicles a drag queen having a nervous breakdown at a train station in an African city.

Home

2011 • 19 min • United States of America

An experimental silent film about love and two people who never fall out of love.

7, 8, 9... Bonifacio

2011 • 42 min • France

One Sunny Morning

2011 • 18 min • Singapore

Juan and Nick are intertwined in a tussle of love, confusion and agony as Juan struggles with society's expectations and the calling of his heart. Is it '...better to have loved and lost. Than never to have loved at all'?

The Gay in the Attic

2011 • 5 min • United Kingdom

A young man is desperate to bring his new girlfriend home for the night, despite a dark secret that lurks at the top of the stairs.

The World's Most Expensive Paintings

2011 • 60 min • United Kingdom

Art critic Alastair Sooke tracks down the ten most expensive paintings to sell at auction, and investigates the stories behind the astronomic prices art can reach. Gaining access to the glittering world of the super-rich, Sooke discovers why the planet's richest people want to spend their millions on art.

The Father

2011 • 16 min

Haunted by his past, a man searches for forgiveness.

Too Many Toys

2011 • 10 min • United States of America

Spencer has too many toys! His father trips over them, his mother falls over them, and the house is overflowing with junk.

Immanence

2011 • 7 min

After his brother Seth goes missing Jess must piece together his brother's whereabouts by retracing his steps.