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Bitter Lake

Bitter Lake

2011 • 41 min • Netherlands
After more than a decade of peace the proud and noble kingdom of Valanor is suddenly torn apart by a terrible civil war. After 12 years, when the dust settles and resources start to dwindle, the starving people of Valanor cry out for peace, forcing the leaders of Tier, Sinnah, Daneth and Osgard to lay down their arms and meet each other at the negotiation table. As each province prepares an envoy to find a diplomatic solution at the Kingdom's only neutral ground, an ancient and dark organization plots its return. Unbeknownst to the leaders of the four warring provinces this old enemy will stop at nothing to crush any hope of lasting peace. Can the four envoys put their old hatreds aside and forge a bond of trust? Or will those that crave the blood and terror of war get their way? Whatever the outcome, the fate of Valanor will be decided... at Bitter Lake.
Shhh...

Shhh...

2011 • 12 min • Canada
Shhh is a fantasy/horror short tale about a young boy, Guillermo, who uses his imagination to overcome his bully: a hair-eating monster. Tired of being scared, Guillermo eventually takes matters into his own hands. It's only then that we realize the monster might not be as fictitious as one may have thought.
O Mineiro e o Queijo

O Mineiro e o Queijo

2011 • 52 min • Brazil
The documentary tells how the artisanal cheese production technique arrived in Minas Gerais in the 18th century, brought by Portuguese adventurers in search of gold. Today, almost 30 thousand families live from the production of artisanal cheese throughout the state.
Milana

Milana

2011 • 58 min • Kazakhstan, Russia
The film features the life of mother and daughter who live in the woods near the outskirts of little city in Kazakhstan. The life on the edge of civilization, making money by selling scrap metal. Other people’s everyday life exists somewhere far away.
Ridicule

Ridicule

2011 • 5 min • France
This is the story of Romain who has always felt different because of the antlers he was born with. But one day someone is going to change his life and the way people look at him.
Deus Ex Homine

Deus Ex Homine

2011 • 4 min • United States of America
"Deus Ex Homine" comes from Latin meaning "god built by humans. With our technology, we conquered and reshaped the natural world. As we have overrun our planet's surface. The "Makers" among us forge machines - electromechanical gods - that reshape and govern humanity. Automobiles. Typewriters. Computers. The Robot Maker creates machines in our image, striving to infuse them with intelligence, emotion, and sentience. Perhaps some day they will surpass us. They already have in many ways. Perhaps we will re-engineer ourselves, integrating man and machine.
The Tale of the Christmas Tree

The Tale of the Christmas Tree

2011 • 13 min • Russia
New Year's adventure of a little Christmas tree girl.
Tandem

Tandem

2011 • 12 min • United Kingdom
Told through two interwoven time-lines, this short film offers a no-holds barred glimpse into an intense gay relationship, where the love is expressed physically, tenderly and where the emotions run deep. A dark tale of love in which two gay men find their relationship thrown into turmoil by an unexpected discovery of truths leaving an insecure lover to try making sense of reality.
Bubbleman Superstar

Bubbleman Superstar

2011 • 19 min • France
Last Fall

Last Fall

2011 • 6 min
After being taken to the afterlife with his daughter, a father is trying everything to keep her from harm.
Vamos a encontrarnos

Vamos a encontrarnos

2011 • 2 min • Uruguay
A kid plays a football game on his computer, while a group of kids play football in real life through the window.
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

2011 • 53 min • Australia
When she was 9, Zainab’s parents made the heartbreaking decision to leave their home in northern Afghanistan. They set out on a journey across the globe, putting the fate of their family in the hands of strangers. Across borders, behind bars and onto a smuggler’s boat – the family chased freedom. ‘Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea’ tells Zainab’s story, and the story of many others who have trodden the same path. Jessie Taylor and Ali Reza Sadiqi travelled across Indonesia and met with 250 asylum seekers in jails, detention centres and hostels. Through candid interviews, hidden camera footage and in the words of asylum seekers themselves, the story of the ‘refugee’ is told. What pushes people to leave home? What do they leave behind? What do they fear? Why did they choose this path? And what does it take to turn someone into a ‘boat person’? Meet the human faces behind the most controversial issue of our time.
A Very Calvin & Hobbes Christmas

A Very Calvin & Hobbes Christmas

2011 • 1 min • United States of America
Fans of “Calvin & Hobbes” should rejoice at this sweet reminder and tribute to the best comic strip of all time, using some familiar frozen faces.
Spaghetti für zwei

Spaghetti für zwei

2011 • 19 min • Germany
Likeable but lonely Finn is on his way to lunch. The outside world is already lurking menacingly, because his imagination is teeming with supposed scammers, sluts and criminals! What was supposed to be just an everyday walk turns out to be an odyssey. A confusing fight against the world and against oneself begins. And in the end, the loser wins...
Vatican: The Hidden World

Vatican: The Hidden World

2011 • 60 min • United Kingdom
To mark the papal visit to the UK, a camera crew has spent a year filming a world that few have ever seen. With unprecedented access to the Vatican and the people who live and work there, this is a unique profile of the heart of the Catholic Church and the world's smallest sovereign state. Archivists reveal the Vatican's secrets, including the signed testimony of Galileo recorded by the Inquisition. A cardinal journeys deep below St Peter's Basilica to inspect the site claimed to be the tomb of the saint himself, and curators share a private viewing of Michelangelo's extraordinary decoration of the Sistine Chapel. An intriguing behind-the-scenes look at the workings of one of the world's most powerful and mysterious institutions.
Spare Tyre

Spare Tyre

2011 • 21 min • Norway
John is driving through the most godforsaken area of Norway, when he accidently gets a flat tire. By his attempt to change the tire he realizes that that his car wasn't equipped with one. But as he takes a peek at the ditch next to the road, he sees a whole bunch of spare tires. The world's nicest guy stops to offer help. The problem is that John really do not want help, and he knows an accident rarely comes alone...
The Sky Behind the House

The Sky Behind the House

2011 • 26 min
Jon's mom is dead, yet she still comes every night before he falls asleep to wish him a good night. But one night she does not, and Jon can't sleep. His dad comes up with an idea; he ties a long red thread around his big toe and leaves Jon the other end to hold on to while he sleeps. Now Jon can tug on the thread if he becomes frightened. Late in the night, Jon wakes with a start, following the thread, he finds that it doesn't lead to his father's bedroom, but down the hall, out the front door, and into what he fears the most; the darkness in the never ending forest behind the house.
Repressed

Repressed

2011 • 14 min • Sweden
On the night bus the atmosphere is stubborn and legitimate. A stupid teenage girl is kept upright by an even boy. A man feels forced to intervene and prevent something that could happen. Unpleasantly realistic and threatening where civil courage is treated in a single long run.
Strokkur

Strokkur

2011 • 7 min • Portugal
In the beginning the idea was to make something from nothing, in a neutral and unknown place. Collect images and sounds instead of producing them. The camera, the microphone and the mini-amplifier: tools that take away and then give back. We defined a rule: the sound shouldn't illustrate the image and the image shouldn't absorb the sound. Less than a hundred kilometres from Reykjavik we found Strokkur. For three days we saw and heard the internal dynamics of the crevice: the boiling water that spat out every seven minutes and the thermal shock, given the eighteen degrees below zero of the atmosphere.
Beyond the Summit: Learning to Fly

Beyond the Summit: Learning to Fly

2011 • 45 min • Mexico
In some of the most extraordinary natural landscapes in Mexico, a group of mountaineers have set out to explore a world labeled as impossible, but from a space reserved only for birds.
Zing

Zing

2011 • 8 min • Germany
Day in, day out, Mr. Grimm is busy with his job as the Reaper, harvesting people's lives. One day, his monotonous existence is interrupted by the door bell. It's a little girl. She wants her cat back. Little does she know that she's the next life on Mr. Grimm's list.
The Day Cinema Met Santa Rosa dos Dourados

The Day Cinema Met Santa Rosa dos Dourados

2011 • 15 min • Brazil
A documentary that rescues the memories of those who built Santa Rosa dos Dourados, a small rural community in Brazil where cinema lives only in stories told, never seen. People who had never set foot in a movie theater now watch their own stories come to life on the big screen.
A Way of Saying

A Way of Saying

2011 • 8 min
A filmmaker's poetic memories of her father.
Megazorg Z

Megazorg Z

2011 • 5 min • Uruguay
Teenager with Attitude gets recruited to pilot a Giant Robot.