All Films

Waiting to Drown

2011 • 30 min • Hong Kong

In our daydreams, we always dream about who we can be and what we can do. Chak is always living between his dream state – where he is admired and can get any girl he wants – and the reality – where he is constantly teased by his sexually frustrated, foul-mouthed friends. One day, Chak's dream becomes reality when he finds the acceptance of a girl he likes, but cruel reality eventually stops him once more. Instead of running away, Chak must face the real world head-on this time around.

The Teacher's Lounge

2011 • 7 min • United States of America

Mary is a school teacher who slacks off at her job; always trying to get ahead while doing the least amount of work. Mary's boss is about to give her a promotion, but the promotion comes at a very sinful price.

Acid Spiders

2011 • 16 min • Australia

A group of girls, rehearsing for their psychedelic rock band, take liquid acid to explore new sounds unobtainable by normal perception. What they didn’t count on was an invasion of evil alien spiders intent on turning their home into a nest of bloody carnage!

Anonymous

2011 • 9 min • Italy, Spain

Two people look for each other in Venice: a labyrinth of streets, bridges and water canals.

Galicia 1936-2011. Estudos sobre o filme de Carlos Velo

2011 • 36 min

Three studies on Galicia (Carlos Velo, 1935), built from reels rediscovered in 2010 containing previously unseen footage. As Nuria Cubas notes, the film renews the spirit of the Misiones Pedagógicas: where authorship once dissolved into anonymity, here it multiplies through a shared purpose, becoming an act of fidelity to Galician land and to the images themselves — a raw, essential testimony finally recovered.

Stuff Everywhere

2011 • 58 min • Netherlands

"Stuff Everywhere" is a personal documentary about the connection between people and their stuff. Things are handy, they make life easier and we think they will bring us joy. But they invade our houses, the streets, the sea and our minds. In how we think about ourselves, about the economy and about cubicle space. Stuff Everywhere is a poetical film filled with questions, numbers and searching words.

T is for TOILET

2011 • 4 min • United Kingdom

A kid is scared to use the toilet much to the amusement of his father. Was his apprehensions unfounded?

Continu-discontinu 2010

2011 • 6 min • Poland

An abstract animated short blending floating particles, light, and classical music. The director's first use of computer animation mirrors his first animated short Continu-discontinu (1959).

Chasing Water

2011 • 19 min

For six million years, the Colorado River ran to the sea. Follow a 1500-mile quest to see why it stopped. Supporting 40 million people across seven states and two countries, learn why the Colorado River is the "most loved and litigated" river in the world.

A Reasonable Compromise

2011 • 33 min

Helpless retired surgeon, Dr. Joshi, approaches Dr. Sukhant, a renowned psychologist & author, to get rid of a ghost. The ghost when alive was a victim of breast cancer. Despite her reluctance, the surgeon had to perform mastectomy on her to lend her with few more years of life

Sucker Punch: Feudal Warriors

2011 • 3 min

An animated short inspired by Zack Snyder's Sucker Punch

Waiting for Mum

2011 • 8 min • Georgia

A young man comes out of his apartment and forgets his key for the car at home. He shouts after his mother to make her throwing the key out of the window. He is waiting for his mum.

Mamon + Loban

2011 • 47 min • Russia

Bizarre monologues of Petr Mamonov on ego-centrism and adventures of his past.

Monja

2011 • 16 min • Brazil

I put you on a shelf of timelessness to try to ease all this endless mourning, which does not accept you as past in any way. While I sleep, I take care not to occupy your side of the bed.

Family Meals

2011 • 50 min • Croatia

Do you remember the last time you've talked to your parents? What did you talk about? Have you gone step further from weather forecast and daily politics? Five years after last gathering, a birthday celebration brings together an ordinary four member family. They start questioning what made them turn away from each other... Can having a conversation about buried family secrets help them eat without cramps in the stomach in the future? Can a failed birthday cake help them overcome the past? Through the ritual of family meals, the film tells how important is for us to feel accepted by our loved ones.

Olmsted and America's Urban Parks

2011 • 57 min • United States of America

Frederick Law Olmsted designed New York City's Central Park with Calvert Vaux over 150 years ago, and it remains an undisputed haven of tranquility amidst one of the largest, tallest, and most unnatural places on earth. This film examines the creation of America's great city parks in the late 1800s through the enigmatic eyes of Frederick Law Olmsted, visionary urban planner and landscape architect. In his own words, Olmsted and America's Urban Parks weaves together Olmsted's engaging and poignant personal story with those of the lasting masterpieces he left for us today, featuring Academy Award-winning actor Kevin Kline as the voice of Frederick Law Olmsted.

Pygmies: The Children of the Jungle

2011 • 52 min • Slovakia

The adventurer, Ivan Bulík, traveled all through Africa. However, one of his dreams still eluded him: He desired to capture the life and customs of the smallest people on Earth, to find the undisturbed civilization of Pygmies.

Damaged Kung Fu

2011 • 17 min • Malaysia

Eric 'Iron Fan' Kao and Bronson 'Dragon' Lai are in the midst of shooting a Kung Fu film when Bronson spots Eric with Vivienne, his girlfriend. Thinking Vivienne is cheating on him with his best friend, he quits in the middle of the shoot. Crew and cast left behind try to save the day, but nobody can replace Bronson.

Ah

2011 • 5 min

Combined units of colorful blocks. They act like people. However, the color disappears, you feel it differently.

Animals for Animals

2011 • 10 min • Finland

The story of an impossible love between a frail petshop keeper and a bulky construction worker.

Airawat

2011 • 11 min • India

The film explores the mental time and space of one character, a girl, who lives in a lane in a suburb of a city (Mumbai).

Copyright

2011 • 36 min

A 2011 comedy adventure brickfilm directed by Maxime Marion and co-written with Lilian Ginet. It is the second film in the Henri & Edmond series. After downloading a song, Henri is tracked down by a copyright protection agency. There's only one plastic figure who can save him, his best friend Edmond, the fireman.

Frictions

2011 • 4 min • France

The Intruder!

2011 • 18 min

A chance encounter in a remote desert at night, threatens a couple and their unborn child. But where the intruder comes from and what it wants are the most terrifying questions.