All Films

Laura

2011 • 52 min • Brazil, United States of America

Laura, a sexy Brazilian immigrant, has been living in New York for 25 years. She is a regular at NY nightclubs and frequents the most exclusive parties and upscale restaurants. However, she lives in a modest boarding house in Manhattan, where she shares a bathroom with other guests who are largely illegal immigrants. The film questions the meaning of success, examines the fear of returning home, the unconscious pressure of the family she abandoned in Curitiba, and the deliberate creation of a fantasy as a means of protection.

Best Coast Riot

2011 • 32 min • France, Sweden

We followed Said Belhaj when he showed his good friend Dani Andrada around on the Swedish west coast for ten days. They climbed some of the old classic routes and also tried some of the projects the area has to offer. We tried our best to capture the spirit, surroundings and the atmosphere around their visit here.

Blessed Blessed Oblivion

2011 • 21 min • Palestinian Territory

BLESSED BLESSED OBLIVION weaves together a portrait of masculine performativity in East Jerusalem, as manifested in gyms, body shops and hair dressing parlors.

What You Looking At?!

2011 • 10 min • United Kingdom

Two very different people in the London borough of Lambeth - a drag queen (Michael Twaits) and a woman in a burka. Only in a lift would they ever cross each another's path. But these two have more in common than they first thought.

Cabralista

2011 • 52 min • Cape Verde, Luxembourg

A 2011 documentary film by Valerio Lopes. It asserts a number of theory-based ideas born around Amilcar Cabral and the independents and human rights movements he led mainly in the 1960s.

A Function

2011 • 9 min • South Korea

In a class room, a girl is sitting on the desk, solving a math quiz. If she cannot solve it in time, a horrible thing is likely to happen.

Dance of Ganesha

2011 • 13 min

An Indian folk dancer is caught in his daily struggle of survival in an automobile factory. The burden to earn a living for his family and preserve his family tradition of ritual Ganesha dancing is humongous. His two roles - the sole bread winner of the family and the magnificent elephant god Ganesha, are so diverse that his journey from factory to village looks like time travel and his existence schizophrenic! Ganesha, the dancer lives in the fear of the day when he will have to choose between livelihood and art/tradition.

Imminent Danger!

2011 • 17 min • United States of America

Whoops! After an unintentional button pressing incident alerting Earth of its impending demise, Gail must find a way to reverse this misunderstanding and save the world!

Sleepincord

2011 • 14 min • Poland

"Sleepincord" raises the issue of dream. Dream is the meeting point of the world of body and mind; it is intangible for us and hard to examine thoroughly. It happens inside but, at the same time, outside of us and, therefore, gives rise to anxiety.

Lisbet

2011 • 28 min • Sweden

About Lisbet Palme - the wife of Olof Palme - Prime Minister of Sweden - till the night of his murder Feb 28, 1986. Lisbet Palme is a prominent child psychologist. Her social commitment specially regarding women and children are widely known.

Krass

2011 • 8 min • Iceland

Oli runs a car wash with his brother Keli. A customer who is obviously a man of violence shows up with a vintage car. He leaves them with the car and a warning that they better take extra good care of this car.

Tia Creuza

2011 • 37 min

Tia Creuza is a lady who works in a family home, and tells in a very funny way how is the day to day in the house of the bosses, personal life and everyday things. Mockumentary made by MTV, starring Marcelo Adnet.

Kidnapped

2011 • 20 min • Germany

Unconventional and unaccepted, eleven-year-old Ida is searching for love and affection - and a kiss, of course, would be a good place to start.

A Night to Remember

2011 • 30 min

the characters narrate their experience through each stage starting from proposal, throughout courtship, preparation, wedding night and ending with their life today. The film combines two forms of storytelling, formal interviews as well as re-enactments which showcases the traditional costumes, clothing, dancing, music and food in city of Mecca.

The God of Clay

2011 • 11 min • Japan

A 2011 tokusatsu kaiju short film produced by Dream Planet Japan and Marbling Fine Arts. Initially directed by Nobuaki Sugimoto, it was completed by Koichi Kawakita. It is based on the 1993 children's book of the same name by Masamoto Nasu. This was Koichi Kawakita's final film before his death in 2014.

Her Seat Is Vacant

2011 • 17 min • Ukraine, United States of America

Vira, a forty-year-old Ukrainian immigrant in New York, is preparing for her sister’s funeral. Amongst all her responsibilities, Vira suddenly finds herself falling in love…

The Fuse: or How I Burned Simon Bolivar

2011 • 6 min • Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada

Using personal home video footage, this documentary follows how a young boy's attempts to avoid a poor mark on a school assignment in 1990's Sarajevo, may have contributed to a civil war.

One Billion Happy People

2011 • 59 min • Poland

A compelling story about a clash between two powerful personalities - the backstory of cooperation of Bayer Full frontman with a Polish-born Chinese businessman. Will the most popular disco polo band make it big in China?

Canción de amor

2011 • 59 min • Argentina

"You might think that people are tired of silly love songs / but I look around and see that they are not," sang Paul McCartney. And those verses seem to guide Karin Idelson's camera in this exploration of, to call them somehow, the "popular applications" of romantic songs. Cumbia, soft-rock, reggaeton, pop, boleros, hits from the '80s and from before too: music is in the air of the city, and a love song traps it in places where it is so naturalized that we hardly pay it attention but also, and especially, in the most hidden or unusual.

Hincando

2011 • 4 min

The story of 3d glasses that make people feel strange…

Moroloja

2011 • 10 min • Italy, United Kingdom

In 1962 Cecilia Mangini, an Italian filmmaker made 'Stendali', a documentary about a group of women who practiced an Ancient Greek funeral rite in the southern Italian town of Martano (Puglia, Lecce). Shortly after the filming of 'Stendali' the women died out, with no one to replace them, the rites disappeared, leaving the town in its silence. In 2011, 50 years later, the film 'Moroloja' looks back upon the site of the funeral, revisiting the town of Martano, revealing that some of the women are still alive. Narration by Cecilia Mangini.

One Step Forward

2011 • 5 min • United States of America

Selected for the Cannes 2012 Short Film Corner. A man is standing in the middle of a river when he receives a phone call asking about his current whereabouts, and so we see the preceding moments explaining how he got there and why, all played fully in reverse from end to beginning.

Sound of the Sun

2011 • 3 min • Spain

A portrait of summer in Castellón de la Plana. Reading, ping-pong, psychedelia and the danger that always lurks, but someone writes to Robocop and everything is solved.

Destiny is for the Birds

2011 • 6 min • United States of America

A Michael Ruocco Cartoon