All Films

Frank Skinner on George Formby

2011 • 58 min • United Kingdom

George Formby was a huge star of stage and film. In his heyday he was as big as The Beatles, earning vast sums of money on stage and starring in films which broke box office records. Formby's trademark ukulele still inspires millions of dedicated fans, including comedian and performer Frank Skinner, who believes Formby was the greatest entertainer of his time. Playing the ukulele and performing the songs that keep the Formby legend alive today, Skinner follows the music hall star's extraordinary rise to fame and fortune, explores his worldwide popularity and reveals the ruthless exploitation that surrounded his sudden and tragic death.

Planet Z

2011 • 10 min • France

Somewhere in the Universe, the Planet Z. A miracle happens. A water jet springs up and gives birth to a new life: plants. A desert planet became a green planet… The film shows natural phenomena – and not subjects – to tell a story about a living, evolving and dying planet.

No One But Us

2011 • 35 min • Israel

Andrei, a new immigrant from the former Soviet Union, discovers that in order to save his sick father's life he must find a large sum of money that is well beyond his means. At the same time, Andrei and his two good friends, Zura and Marat, also living alone in the country, try to achieve their dream to be heard and understood via the rap music. Andrei decides to get the money for the medicine his father so desperately needs at all costs. This is a story about the solitude of the new immigrants and their endless struggle to survive, to be accepted and to be a part of Israeli society.

Along the Road

2011 • 8 min • Sweden

Truck drivers Ronny and Micke have a secret relationship. They meet up at rest areas along the road, where no one can see them.

Drömmen Om Sverige

2011 • 59 min • Sweden, United States of America

Missing

2011 • 19 min

What would you do if a loved one went missing? What lengths would you go to find them? Missing follows the disappearances of Mimi and Truffles and the people who attempt to trace them down and bring them home safely.

The Club-Footed Goose

2011 • 14 min • Kazakhstan

About the life of the goose family. The youngest of the goslings has a short leg from birth — and therefore he is in conflict with the outside world.

When The Kid Was A Kid

2011 • 17 min • Iran

Taha, a ten years old, is involved in a play in which children imitate their parents' roles. Living with his divorced mother, Taha understands new things about his mom by playing her role.

Jam Today

2011 • 15 min • United Kingdom

Robert is stuck on a boating holiday with his parents in the English countryside. Impatient to grow and become a man, an unexpected sight cracks his world open.

Return to Seraing

2011 • 33 min • Belgium

Documentary about the making of Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne's 2011 film "The Kid with a Bike"

Leaving the Herd

2011 • 5 min • Norway

A man breaks out of his group of friends to follow his own calling. His old friends will not accept this and bring him back home for punishment and subduing. The story takes place in a twisted Sámi universe in Northern Norway.

Exodus to Dimension 11

2011 • 14 min • United States of America

"Exodus to Dimension 11" is the story of Adrian (Salisbury), a man traveling through dimensions looking for his true love, Lavinya (Baxi). In his journey, he finds himself in a dimensional world he is unfamiliar with: it is a cold, snowy world, inhabited by lifeless tress and machines. He must battle the elements, the harsh world and its inhabitants, in his struggle to find his true love.

Expectations

2011 • 30 min • Sweden

Two Swedish teenage girls are traveling to India to stay for months, but it's not going as planned.

Waza no Tabibito

2011 • 31 min • Japan

Humans acquired a perfect source of energy called "Patia", which brought self-sufficiency in food and fuel to all the people in the world. Trade and transportation began to diminish and finally the advance of the civilization terminated. Now the genetically modified plants cover almost all of the lands on earth and obstruct travelers.

House D

2011 • 6 min • Slovenia

Architecture is not a static but a dynamic, living thing. Similarly film is highly suited to represent and experience architectures as spaces, as stages for human encounter and interaction. In this series of short films architecture becomes animated, even transformed, with social input. Similarly it serves to animate its viewers/occupants -- architecture as stage and actor both. (Good) built projects in Slovenia generally follow a well-thought and focused approach and execution. They are, relatively speaking, of modest size. They are small not in scale nor ambition -- but small as in contained, disciplined, intelligent and specifically responsive. With room for a smile.

Secrets of the Flooded Forest - Danube National Park

2011 • 53 min • Austria

After beginning in Vienna, the Danube riverbank forests extend to the gates of Bratislava, linking the two capitals like a green ribbon, forming a unique wildlife habitat in the heart of Europe. A few years ago a 36 kilometer section was turned into a national park that now protects the last undeveloped stretch of the Danube River and also the last riparian zone of its size in Central Europe.

Cast Clinic

2011 • 30 min

Cast Clinic is a "behind the scenes" footage about the making of Tokyo Blue, the new photography book by Romain Slocombe.

Finding Love

2011 • 6 min

Two buddies help their room-mate find love- in all the wrong places.

One Winter's Night

2011 • 7 min • Ireland

This animated short film was created by Emlyn Boyle. It is a classic Gothic tale inspired by a rhyme that she wrote back in 2008.

Starry Night

2011 • 13 min

Nick Cheuk’s student short, featured in the 35th HKIFF

Ceburekai Sellers

2011 • 26 min

"Hot Čeburėkai, cold beer" -- is probably the best known slogan of illegal Lithuanian bussines. The slogan comes as a set together with the vacation at the seaside resorts for more than twenty years. But who are those young people selling čeburėkai at the seaside? How many of Čeburėkai one needs to buy to collect a kitten? How many of čeburėkai needs to be taken to the policemen at the hotel so that the next time he wouldn't chase you through the sand dunes? These questions will be answered by three old friends -"Čeburėkai sellers" - Sigis, Asta and Rokas. They will lead us to the secret world of Čeburėkai sellers, where it's hard to get and even more difficult to get out.

Doctor Who: The Doctor, The Widow and The Wardrobe Prequel

2011 • 2 min • United Kingdom

The Eleventh Doctor has his hand on a button that, when released, will blow up a ship that's about to destroy the Earth. He calls Amy Pond on the TARDIS phone to ask her to rescue him, but realises she can't fly the TARDIS, he doesn't have the co-ordinates to give her and she left the TARDIS long ago. The Doctor admits he just wanted to chat, says "Merry Christmas, Amelia", and releases the button. The ship explodes.

Tain'na hitozuma: Nettori mitsugetsu no yoru

2011 • 60 min • Japan

Pink film directed by Daisuke Goto.

My Strange Grandfather

2011 • 9 min • Russia

A creative person often seems weird, funny and a little bit crazy. Even his friends and family do not always understand him and often feel ashamed of him. But sometimes he can create a real miracle - merely from garbage.