All Films

Glorious Accidents

2011 • 58 min • Argentina, Denmark, Sweden

Car crashes are instant art and sculptures made in seconds. At least to a certain Buenos Aires photographer, who spends his nights driving through the city in search of capturing the perfect accident. Meanwhile, another man is trying to find a legendary cock sucker who hides somewhere in the dark rooms of a gay sex club. Accidentes Gloriosos tells nine different stories of death and transformation. From the man who undergoes a heart transplant and wakes up with new and strange artistic powers, to the woman who receives a last letter from her husband, written just before he freezes to death in one of history s most dramatic polar expeditions.

Lost Cannibals of Europe

2011 • 45 min • United States of America

Cannibalism has long been considered a dark chapter in man's history. Yet we think of it only as isolated occurrences. Now a Neolithic burial pit in Germany, found filled with expertly butchered human remains, challenges those assumptions. Archaeologists have never seen anything like it--the deeper they dig, the more bizarre the scene becomes. National Geographic joins an international team of experts as they reopen the earth to understand violent events as they played out seven thousand years ago.

Kate and William: A Royal Love Story

2011 • 30 min

Special documentary celebrating the love story of William and Kate, and uncovering how they met, how they fell in love, and how they got to where they are now.

The Key Issue

2011 • 6 min • Albania

A mockumentary about four people and their idiosyncratic ways of saving the planet.

On the Beautiful Blue Danube

2011 • 6 min • Poland

Animation with coloured salt by Aleksandra Korejwo. Music by Johann Strauss performed by the Strauss Festival Orchestra.

The Desk

2011 • 8 min • United States of America

The new boy in the high school catches the eye of a beautiful girl. Out of loneliness and boredom, he starts writing notes on a his desk during his English class only to start mysteriously receiving replies.

Hi, Neighbor

2011 • 14 min

This experimental short film is about a little girl who lost her home to urban renewal, and asks her wealthy neighbor, "why?" The film is a prequel to Andrade-Watkins' documentary trilogy about the Cape Verdean community in Fox Point. "Hi, Neighbor" had its world premiere at the 2011 Cape Verdean International Film Festival and was awarded Jury Selection (first prize), in the 2012 Black Maria Film Festival.

Redemption: Bringing Warrior to Life

2011 • 32 min

The cast and crew of the 2011 film 'Warrior' discuss the movie making process and the themes explored in the film.

This House

2011 • 34 min

The true story about two college guys living in a ghost house.

Someone's Junk is Someone else's Treasure

2011 • 11 min • United States of America

Contemporary artist Koki Tanaka sets up a booth at a Los Angeles flea market to sell palm fronds. "I tried to bring something very extreme into the flea-market context. I picked the palm fronds because they are the most useless things in California – they’re what we have to sweep away after a windy day. It was an experiment in registering people’s reaction to a fundamental question about the value of objects. And I was referencing two historical pieces: David Hammons’s Bliz-aard Ball Sale [1983], where he sold snowballs during winter in New York; and a Japanese manga called Munou no Hito [A Worthless Person, 1985], in which the protagonist sells stones by the riverside – stones being sold alongside stones. So both shared quite similar ideas." - Koki Tanaka

O Hóspede

2011 • 18 min • Brazil

In a hostel in the interior of Brazil, a strange guest and a mysterious incident leave the landlord restless and obsessed with finding out who that man is and what he is doing there.

Madonna of the Mills

2011 • 51 min • United States of America

Uplifting tale of Staten Island woman who creates modern underground railroad and rescues 2,000 dogs condemned to death in Amish Country puppy mills. The film chronicles Laura F on her weekend rescue missions to Amish Country. With her Brooklyn mom and Staten Island girl friends by her side, Laura embarks on a four-year odyssey to rescue dogs from the hellish conditions of Amish puppy mills. The film follows four of the dogs from the time their lives are spared until they are nursed back to health and placed with their forever families. We see the dogs leave the cages where they have spent their entire lives and watch these dogs, who were given up for dead, transform the lives of the people who adopt them.

Minotaur Vs. Lawyer Duel

2011 • 2 min • United States of America

An age-old rivalry finally gets settled.

Munted

2011 • 18 min • New Zealand

Munted is an unusual, multi-award winning, short film about an accusation of pedophilia and its terrible consequences. Set in 1961 in a remote rural community, it tells the story of a ten-year old girl and her friendship with a brain damaged artist. Told through erosions between film and drawing the film is a lyrical and brutal account of the cost of rumour and prejudice.

Ba'adana

2011 • 33 min

Lebanon. Summer 2010. War is looming. Zeina and Toufic have been together for several years; but Toufic is preparing to leave the country...

Tongue Twisters

2011 • 11 min • France, United States of America

« How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood ? » A tongue twister is a sentence with much alliterations and is complicated to pronounce. A tongue twister must be spoken quickly and repeated a few times. Langage breaks down between and meaning. This film is a linguistic game between sound and meaning and a portrait of the linguistic reality of Berkeley. Many American people recite tongue twisters in diffrent languages and/or in English as second language : German, Englsih, Arabic, Armenian, Assyrian, Mandarin, Korean, Croatian, Spanish, French, Hebrew, Japonese, Farsi, Portuguese, Tagalog, Vietnamese.

Lo-Fi

2011 • 10 min • Argentina

How do the interhouse trips sound?

Matthew Bourne's Christmas

2011 • 48 min • United Kingdom, United States of America

This new Christmas ballet film was conceived by Matthew Bourne and directed by his long standing film collaborator Ross MacGibbon. The film celebrates Bourne's power to imaginatively transform ballet, taking dance and dancers off the stage into studio, bringing together projections, animation, and an intimate shooting style to produce a distinctive new way of presenting dance on screen. Those who know Bourne's stage work will spot extracts from many of his biggest hits (including Swan Lake, Edward Scissorhands, and Nutcracker!), but for audiences less familiar with his work this is simply a journey through a series of magical worlds where stories are told through dance.

Feet

2011 • 10 min • United Kingdom

In the darkness of a stalled underground train, two strangers get their feet swapped by some mysterious energy. One is a rugby player; the other is a ballet dancer. Can it come out well for either of them?

Every Day Is Like Sunday

2011 • 44 min • United Kingdom

As we wait to see whether Rupert Murdoch will fall from power and lose control of News International, Every Day is Like Sunday tells the forgotten story of the dramatic downfall of Cecil King—the newspaper mogul who used to dominate British media in the 1960s, before Rupert Murdoch arrived.

Cain Rose Up

2011 • 14 min • United States of America

After figuring out that his fellow students and first year of school weren't exactly what he'd hoped for, college student, Curt Garrish, decided to take matters into his own hands to prove to everyone school wasn't all fun and games.

Blue Boy

2011 • 50 min • United States of America

A coming of age drama set in Texas, about a suburban teen boy, estranged from his family, who enlists the help of his dysfunctional friends to become a professional motorcycle racer.

It's Rhys Darby Night!

2011 • 55 min • New Zealand

Hey party-goers, look who’s back! This is the long awaited return of ME on DVD. I developed this show on the road and received big LOL’s in LA, London, Edinburgh, and parts of Australia. Finally I toured my home country, New Zealand. It was absolutely choisome! (choice + awesome). Loads of you turned up, so thanks for jumping on board. Here’s the final stop on the Darby train – The mighty Civic Theatre, Auckland. In the extra’s section I have put together behind the scenes footage from the NZ tour, and my favourite characters, Bill Napier and Ron Taylor make an appearance. It’s Rhys Darby night!

Luminaris

2011 • 6 min • Argentina

In a world controlled and timed by the light, a common man has a plan that could change the destiny.