All Films

Why Green Lantern Matters: The Talent of Geoff Johns

2011 • 19 min • United States of America

Dan Didio, Geoff Johns, and Grant Morrison talk about bring Hal Jordan back to Green Lantern.

The Congregation

2011 • 11 min

John Christner returns from war to find that he has been shunned by his Amish family and friends for violating their beliefs. However, when a mysterious plague threatens the community, John may be their only hope for survival.

Desert Seas

2011 • 45 min • Saudi Arabia, United States of America, United Kingdom

Sir David Attenborough unveils the two stunning underwater realms of Saudi Arabia - the flamboyant Red Sea and the contrasting hot muddy Gulf, capturing for the first time the rare event of Palolo worms spawning at night.

17th Precinct

2011 • 44 min

In a modern world where magic supplanted science, the unaired pilot featured two non-intersecting stories: the death of a city executive at the hands of a wrongful convict, and the introduction of terrorists who are devoted to the destruction of magic.

Dams: The Lethal Water Bombs

2011 • 21 min

Documentary short about the disastrous dangers of aging, ailing dams.

Speak Now

2011 • 8 min • Canada

A man struggles to decide whether to follow his heart for love or let it go.

The Magic Murderer

2011 • 4 min • United States of America

While flipping through the newspaper Tom comes across an article that describes the mysterious murders plaguing his city. As he reads more closely and studies the latest crime scene photo, he is horrified by what he discovers.

Take This Lollipop

2011 • 3 min

Using information gleaned from a viewer's Facebook page, this interactive film personalizes the film for that particular viewer.

Saving Pelican 895

2011 • 39 min • United States of America

HBO Documentary Films Presents the story of the effort to save the 895th surviving oiled pelican in Louisiana, showing how conservationists, government agencies and wildlife activists joined forces to preserve this one life.

Drifting

2011 • 25 min • Hong Kong

Fai, a ten-year-old boy who is a new immigrant from mainland China, he lives in a narrow suite with his mother and his step-father.

Forest

2011 • 12 min

Murder is committed in the forest. A young man becomes caught up in the events, and this experience has an increasingly unsettling effect on him.

Dreams from a Petrified Head

2011 • 35 min

Amanda Sage was a dissident whose beliefs and ideas retain the power to disturb a long established mode of living. A restless public is re-awakening long after her death fueled by the recordings of her anti-government speeches. Jeremy's new job entails rewriting her words and her visual image; nullifying and softening the impact of her heartfelt rhetoric. While working to comprehend her lectures, to effectively alter them, he chooses a taboo course of action; he dumps her stored memory into an android body made in her likeness. This brings him dangerously close to her and her message.

Black Doll

2011 • 8 min • Mexico

Prisoners, two sisters share their life in a strange place. The mundane routine, along curiosity, will bring Prita to break the boundaries of the secure place.

God Knows Who...

2011 • 17 min

Can jealousy and a person from the past tear this couple apart?

Mr. Stache

2011 • 10 min • United States of America

Two people prove that it's who you are on the inside that matters more than what you're like on the outside.

Nashville Rises

2011 • 28 min • United States of America

Nashville Rises is the first documentary film about the city of Nashville, Tennessee's response to the 2010 Tennessee floods. It premiered at the 42nd Nashville Film Festival on April 14, 2011 and received the festival's "Ground Zero Tennessee Spirit Award for Best Short Documentary Film". The film was narrated by Billy Bob Thornton and directed by Zac Adams.

Spinning

2011 • 12 min

A woman sits at the beach and thinks over the past year of her life. The camera revolves around the woman ever closer as she remembers until we learn the truth of the events of her life.

The Lighthouse Stevensons

2011 • 59 min • United Kingdom

The story of the remarkable family who tamed the wild Scottish coastline, told 200 years after the building of their first iconic lighthouse, the Bell Rock. For nearly 150 years, Robert Stevenson, his sons and grandsons designed many of the lighthouses around Scotland's coast. His sons Alan, David and Thomas also became lighthouse engineers. His grandsons (David's sons) David Alan Stevenson and Charles Stevenson designed lighthouses too.

You & Me

2011 • 45 min • Japan

Nakamura Aoi stars as a young aspiring manga artist who's able to deal with loneliness and separation from his family through the companionship of an American Shorthair cat named Gin-o-gou.

Dreaming Novelist

2011 • 40 min • Japan

Tatsuo is an aspiring mystery writer with no talent. His new manuscript ends up in a garbage bin. On the same night, a high school girl appears before him claiming she is the protagonist of his novel and that she has come to save it.

Heart of Gold

2011 • 3 min

Heart of Gold is Jack Kyser's fourth film for Sight and Sound: Film, taught by Professor Laszlo Santha.

Alexis Ivanovitch, You're My Hero

2011 • 20 min • France

Alex and Cerise love each other with a happy love. One afternoon, Alex is attacked in front of Cerise and fear prevents him from reacting. While Cerise makes this story a simple anecdote, Alex saw it as a real humiliation.

Shadow of a Midsummer Night

2011 • 17 min • Norway

A gentle and beautifully made story about a boy's grief and acceptance, and finding a way back.

Lonely Dogs

2011 • 7 min

Life on an offshore oil drilling rig is becoming a burden for one of the riggers, who feels lonely and is frequently visited by a lone black dog that appears from nowhere.