All Films

Scumbag Millionaire

2011 • 18 min • Ireland

Part one of a three part short film saga about a criminal gang member, Danny, who falls out with his boss, mates, another gang, his girlfriend is kidnapped and if that wasn't bad enough, he's gone and won the lottery. Sometimes winning isn't all that lucky.

Beautiful Enough

2011 • 10 min

When a young girl, fixated on images of beautiful women, hears her parents go to bed she sets to work on her secret project.

Talk Show

2011 • 26 min • United States of America

A sinister talk show host interrogates and psychologically abuses a captive family for the entertainment of a live studio audience.

Julia Bradbury's Iceland Walk

2011 • 59 min • United Kingdom

Julia Bradbury heads for Iceland to embark on the toughest walk of her life. Her challenge is to walk the 60 kilometres of Iceland's most famous hiking route, a trail that just happens to end at the unpronounceable volcano that brought air traffic across Europe to a standstill in 2010 . With the help of Icelandic mountain guide Hanna, Julia faces daunting mountain climbs, red hot lava fields, freezing river crossings, deadly clouds of sulphuric gas, swirling ash deserts and sinister Nordic ghost stories as she attempts to reach the huge volcanic crater at the centre of the Eyjafjallajökull glacier.

Native Sun

2011 • 21 min • Ghana, United States of America

Mumin, a precocious young boy, makes the long trip to Accra from his home in Ghana’s rural northern region. He leaves having just experienced his mothers death, her last words to him a directive to travel to Accra and find the father he has never met. Along the journey he experiences Ghana as only a child can and in so doing expands our view of what the country is and what it will be.

The Five Houses of Lea Goldberg

2011 • 52 min

She died 41 years ago, but even today, Lea Goldberg is still an enigmatic figure - she is Israel's most beloved poet, a powerful woman, who lived with her mother and never married, a woman who invented herself from the ashes of WWW1 though her magical poetry. The film is a cinematic fantasy in five acts, using animation, after affects, archives, still photos, original music and interviews that celebrate together the fascinating story of L. Goldberg.

Park City

2011 • 21 min • United States of America

A celebrity petroleum engineer discovers a rundown property in Park City.

The Dark Tower - The Gunslinger and the Man in Black

2011 • 17 min

Recreates the fifth segment of The Gunslinger. Faithfully respecting the original text, the film focuses on the scene of the gunslinger and the man in black at the time of the tarot card spread, interspersed with dreamlike scenes.

Children Are Born

2011 • 57 min • Russia

The film tells the story of a man who has just arrived to work in one of the villages as a security guard in an old club. There he meets the employees of the club, and they take turns telling him scary stories. People tend not to believe strange stories. He contradicts everything, expressing his arguments, proofs. But he's wrong. Because everything told has its roots of truth, reality and goes deep into the past times, which can not be returned.

Diptych: The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name

2011 • 28 min • Greece

Inspired by the famous gay Greek painter Giannis Tsarouhis' paintings, Diptych is a contemplation on male beauty, the impossibility of open gay love during many decades in Greek society and the pathos and sorrow of a sexual encounter.

Spoken Movie Six

2011 • 6 min • Poland

Spoken Film 6 is the latest part of the series, and the first one where the artist uses a puppet animation technique combined with photo animation. Also, it is the first time when the artist’s face is featured in the film, in the foreground, as if confirming the fact that all the films in the series actually contribute to a specific self-portrait. This black and white film is a story of a journey of the character, whose monologue describes the inability to contact his own mental states, fears and desires.

And the Going Is Good

2011 • 21 min • Norway

A film about pride, power and stopping while the going is good, told in three chapters of everyday stories.

The Girls' Grave

2011 • 17 min • Switzerland

Sissi and Victoria are sisters. Whereas the younger is slowly emerging from the world of childhood, the elder tries in vain to be a grown up. In the room they share, Sissi is preparing for her gymnastic competition and Victoria has boys coming and going.

Buying a Car

2011 • 14 min • Sweden

A young man wants to buy his first car, but when his father insists on accompanying him, the story changes and shifts focus.

Britain's Most Fragile Treasure

2011 • 60 min • United Kingdom

Historian Dr Janina Ramirez unlocks the secrets of a centuries-old masterpiece in glass. At 78 feet in height, the famous East Window at York Minster is the largest medieval stained-glass window in the country and it was the creative vision of a single artist - a mysterious master craftsman called John Thornton, one of the earliest named English artists. The East Window of York Minster is far more than a work of artistic genius, it is a window onto the medieval world and the medieval mind - telling us who were once were and who we still are, all preserved in the most fragile medium of all.

Slow Derek

2011 • 9 min • United Kingdom

The tale of Derek, an office worker, as he struggles with the true speed of planet earth.

Rootless Heart

2011 • 10 min • Japan

Two high school students are playing in the ruins. They hear something from the darkness and one of them goes deep into a dark room where something suspicious is hiding and both of them have their hearts taken out. Later a boy and his sister drop by the ruins. . .

Red Poppies

2011 • 33 min • Serbia

27-year old Vlada is moving to Belgrade from his little hometown, and he spends the last night with old friends. The night brings too much, and evokes inner struggles of all of them...

Fireworks

2011 • 22 min • France, Italy

The night of the 31st of December, in the middle of the fireworks, a group of international ecologists blows up the biggest steelworks of Europe.

Under Pressure

2011 • 6 min • Australia

When gunshots ring out at school, library geek Alex finds herself hiding with popular girl Ruby, Alex’s secret crush. Will Alex find the courage to reveal her true desire amid the overwhelming fear and confusion?

CandyMan

2011 • 7 min • United States of America

A man is hunted through the forest by a ravenous group of villagers. As he fights and evades capture, it becomes evident that there is something special this man has that the hunters want...

I Want to Know the Truth

2011 • 16 min • Mexico

This history talks about two different ways of seen a terrible situation. One is about guilty, how some times we are so inside ourselves that we don't realize that the people near to us could be feeling terribly bad. But it also shows that sometimes we feel guilty about something that wasn't in our hands.

Ink & Paper

2011 • 10 min • United States of America

McManus & Morgan is the oldest (and once most prosperous) paper shop in Los Angeles. Aardvark Letterpress is a family-run printing business dating back to the 1940s. Located on the same corner in Downtown LA, the two shops struggle to make ends meet in a decreasingly tactile world. A rare and fascinating inside peek into the archaic worlds of letterpress and paper-selling, this short documentary is a strangely touching story of two interdependent businesses hanging onto their livelihoods and passions, doing whatever it takes to keep their crafts – and dreams – alive.

The Destructions

2011 • 51 min • France

Test and spiritual training of a young man of today. When the risk of youth threatens to take everything