All Films

Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again

2011 • 60 min • United States of America

For four decades comic genius Mel Brooks and talk show king Dick Cavett have partnered to give the world scintillating conversation and sidesplitting humor. In 2010 they reunited on stage to share show business memories and hilarious stories for loyal fans and a new generation of viewers.

Offering

2011 • 14 min • Tunisia

Maher, seven years old, walks around the neighbourhood and watches other children playing with their sheep. He is the only child not to have one and his friend laughs at him… He takes refuge in his mother's arms and she is also frustrated in the face of her neighbours and complains to her husband. But how can you find a sheep when you don't have enough money ?

The Eternal Tourist

2011 • 24 min

In a Spanish hotel Sven is looking for love, but in just one night he gets dumped by all the girls. Sven's journey for emotional shelter becomes a comical odyssey between self-pity and self-discovery.

VigasioSexploitation 2

2011 • 51 min • Italy

Earth year 2022. A pig-tailed girl with tape across her nips that’s dressed like an 80s leather bar-frequenting gay man named Osso escapes prison. Skipping down a dirt road, she’s psychokinetically frozen by a boobed Grim Reaper and told to become the leader of an invisible motorcycle gang. Meanwhile, it’s hinted that earth has been struck by an asteroid, changing its overall climate to that of a desert. Weirdly, a mirror planet dubbed Arret from another dimension overlapping our own is faced with the opposite problem. As such, a Dr. Moreau attempts to raise money for a “time gate” he theorizes will open a doorway between the two worlds. That way, he and those he presumes to be super-intelligent beings can pass through it to help each other resolve their climate issues. Oh, and he secretly hopes to establish a race of super-people who don’t eat, sleep or reproduce by mating with Arret’s inhabitants.

Silent Echoes

2011 • 16 min • United States of America

Four visual essays by Silent Echoes author John Bengtson identifying Buster Keaton's shooting locations for his many short films produced between 1920-1923, many in the streets surrounding his former Hollywood studio, the same studio where, a few years earlier, Charlie Chaplin had made his brilliant series of Mutual shorts.

Earth 2050: The Future of Energy

2011 • 43 min • United States of America

Three stories from filmmakers about the expected change in the future of energy, in the year 2050.

Vasco: Campeão da Copa do Brasil 2011

2011 • 58 min • Brazil

The 2011 Copa do Brasil (officially known as the 2011 Copa Kia do Brasil for sponsorship reasons) was the 23rd edition of the Copa do Brasil, Brazil's national football cup tournament. It began on February 16 and ended on June 8. This edition's champion was Vasco da Gama, with Coritiba ending as runners-up.

Kart Driver: A Twisted Vision of Mario

2011 • 9 min

"Kart Driver" tells the story of Mario as he searches for his on-and-off again girlfriend, Pauline, but I doubt you've ever seen an imagining of the Super Mario Bros series quite like this.

Fire

2011 • 23 min • Portugal, Brazil

“There must be a different solution than the one from hell’. Full unadulterated terror (and music). 'The best class always ends with a lesson'. Almost baroque in its ambition and detail, Akerman and Seabra Lopes’ mesmerising short film delves deeply into the hard-wired dread of music lessons. Sewn around Schubert’s steely Opus 1, which is itself based on the no less terrifying legend of Goethe's Erlkönig, their film is a revelation.” International Film Festival Rotterdam.

pt.es

2011 • 23 min • Portugal, Spain

In this film there is a crescent count until the demystification of a bridge that connects and separates one country from another. Portugal and Spain, distant by fragments of their memories, images, objects, voices and ruins. Time runs out... An anxiety floats above the border and also a strength of believing that it is possible to change some things until the very last minute of our cross-over. In a world of contradictions, inequalities remain, existing surprising stories in almost forgotten lands. We are standing before a jigsaw puzzle organized into a map of ideas and memories.

I Was a Mermaid and Now I'm a Pop Star

2011 • 2 min • United States of America

A mermaid gets discovered by a, autotune-loving record producer, turning from an innocent fish into an ignorant popstar with fame, drugs and asshole-attitude.

The Informer

2011 • 25 min

An innocent man gets wrongfully accused of spying for the Communist government.

Male Femdom

2011 • 8 min • United States of America

Short documentary about Stuart, a cross-dressing dominatrix. This piece aims to look further into Stuart's identity as a man, woman, and subservient sex worker. The story follows him through one night's gig with a man from out of town.

Sex on the Map

2011 • 28 min • Sweden

A classic hand-drawn film based on teenagers' own questions. The film was designed to be used in sexual education programs in middle schools. The film is produced by RFSU and UR, with support from The Swedish Inheritance Fund Commission (Allmänna Arvsfonden).

Something Fishy

2011 • 6 min • Australia

For seven year-old Maxine, playing with her goldfish is all a game; until somebody gets hurt.

Solar Flare Arkestral Marching Band

2011 • 10 min

Sun Ra’s anthem Space Is the Place performed by The Rich South High School Marching Band in Chinatown Square, Chicago. Cauleen Smith organised and filmed this energetic flash-mob performance, showing the unsuspecting passers-by who gather to listen. The young men and women let nothing, not even rain, bring the performance to a halt.

Beautiful Bitch

2011 • 9 min • Germany, France

While with one of his clients, the young male prostitute Cédric receives a voicemail from his mother. She is going through detoxification and desperately wants him to come and visit her. Cédric embarks on a journey through Paris, attempting to get to her as fast as he can against all the odds.

The Last One

2011 • 60 min • Azerbaijan

The film tells the story of a writer-fantasist who is the author of a book called "The Last" about the end of the world. This book later creates sudden turns in the author's life - the writer unexpectedly falls into the lifeless world he describes in his work, becoming a living manifestation of his hero in his book.

When the White House Comes to Zion

2011 • 35 min

Take an entertaining journey through time as you discover the stories behind the events that brought American presidents to the Zion of the West. You'll be delighted with fascinating stories and anecdotes about American presidents' memorable visits from the time of the presidential Pullman railroad car to today's Air Force One. With hundreds of historical photographs and film clips, some never before published, this visual history highlights the warmth and hospitality of the people of the Beehive State. You may even find a photo of your grandfather, cousin, mother, or father in a crowd surrounding John F. Kennedy, Ronald Regan, or George W. Bush.

Sociologia da Crise

2011 • 24 min • Brazil

The documentary questions the knowledge of sociology in the face of the crises of the contemporary world. Experts in the subject discuss and evaluate the usefulness of this discipline and propose new ways for its application.

Waves of Desire

2011 • 15 min • Sweden

Jackie is on a caravan holiday with her mother. She lives a lonely life without friends or even someone to talk to, and the holiday has so far only reinforced her sense of isolation. Jackie longs for a place where she belongs. There, she can find something different, someone to talk to, someone to dance with.

Infinito

2011 • 10 min • Portugal

Silence is absolute and time dilates as we lose ourselves in an unpredictable space among non-existent places.

Commerce

2011 • 18 min

In the grip of a spiraling compulsion that threatens to alienate him from his family, a businessman, Ken, encounters a young gambler, Pete, on an LA City bus who could save or destroy him in the City of Commerce

Watch Dreams Attentively

2011 • 6 min • Russia

Art film by Renata Litvinova, in which she played the main and only role. One night, the heroine of the short film has an amazing, but at the same time frightening dream. A dream that turns her worldview!