All Films

Nuvem

2011 • 30 min • Portugal, Switzerland

Nuvem, a young man with a strong penchant for stroll and daydream and little given to work, prefers the company of dogs and clowns. Seeing the indifference of his entourage, he lets his need for independence guide him and sets out to find the mysterious sunfish.

Etude, Solo

2011 • 18 min

A piano tuner happens to go to a children´s outdoor concert for business. There, he meets his first lover who he played the piano together with in his childhood.

Neil Young - Le Noise

2011 • 38 min

"Le Noise Film" is a 38-minute black and white film of eight live-in-studio performances of the eight songs that appear on legendary rocker Neil Young's current album Le Noise. The performances, shot by filmmaker Adam CK Vollick, feature Young on acoustic and electric guitars at Daniel Lanois' home studio in Silverlake, CA, where Young and Lanois recorded Le Noise. The eight-song Le Noise, which is Young's most critically applauded album in years, is a collaboration between the influential rock icon and musician, songwriter, and multiple Grammy Award-winning producer Lanois, known for his work with U2, Bob Dylan, Peter Gabriel, Brian Eno, Emmylou Harris, Willie Nelson, The Neville Brothers and many others.

Encounter with Earth

2011 • 30 min • Japan

A family animation programme about the Earth's environment. Chasing after a glowing particle, the root of all life, along with our main character Naoko, you will discover a vital truth about what links you with other living beings and our planet.

Trouser Snake

2011 • 11 min • United States of America

A man has a problem...anytime he thinks of sex...a huge walking penis monster terrorizes the countryside!

Pavlopetri: The City Beneath the Waves

2011 • 50 min • United Kingdom

Just off the southern coast of mainland Greece lies the oldest submerged city in the world. It thrived for 2,000 years during the time that saw the birth of western civilisation. An international team of experts is using cutting-edge technology to prise age-old secrets from the complex of streets and stone buildings that lie less than five metres below the surface of the ocean. State-of-the-art CGI helps to raise the city from the seabed, revealing for the first time in 3,500 years how Pavlopetri would once have looked and operated.

Nichijou: My Ordinary Life Episode 0

2011 • 24 min • Japan

While the title suggests a story of simple, everyday school life, the contents are more the opposite. The setting is a strange school where you may see the principal wrestle a deer or a robot's arm hide a rollcake. However there are still normal stories, like making a card castle or taking a test you didn't study for.

Apache 8

2011 • 57 min • United States of America

This is the story of the courageous all-female Apache 8 firefighting unit which has protected their reservation and responded to wildfires around the nation for 30 years. This group, which recently became co-ed, earned the reputation of being fierce, loyal and dependable--and tougher than their male colleagues. Despite facing gender stereotypes and the problems that come with life on the impoverished reservation, the women became known as some of the country's most elite firefighters. The film focuses on four women from different generations of Apache 8 crewmembers who speak tenderly and often humorously of hardship, loss, family, community and pride in being a firefighter.

Hairy

2011 • 17 min

Farah, a teenager from the USA, is a bit wilder than Nilou, who was brought up in Iran. The pair heads for a lonely hill to spend some time alone listening to music. Their differences begin to make themselves apparent when Farah tries to explain that girls should be less hairy.

Trekking the Great Wall

2011 • 50 min • Germany

They say it's over 2000 years old, and more than 4,000 miles long. But even today nobody really knows for sure. The Great Wall of China is one of the world's famous buildings but it is still the least known. British writer and historian William Lindesay has lived in China for twenty years. Exploring the Great Wall has become his lifetime obsession.

Dark Gable

2011 • 7 min • France

At first glance, the pairing of veteran American saxophonist Archie Shepp and German pianist Joachim Kuhn seems an unlikely one. Performance at the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain - May 2011.

Zombie Musical

2011 • 16 min • United Kingdom

Being a teenager gets a whole lot more complicated for Anna when a zombie outbreak forces her and her friends to fight their way to their high school to rescue their parents. Singing and dancing their way to escape, they find they have to contend with more than just the vicious undead. This action-packed musical comedy promises to be a fresh twist on the zombie genre.

Luz da Manhã

2011 • 18 min • Portugal

On a summer's day, a mother, daughter and granddaughter's care-free day trip comes to an abrupt end. Beautiful and restrained.

Jurassic Park: Prime Survival

2011 • 40 min • United Kingdom

They shouldn’t be there. They shouldn’t have come. Now they have to survive. When a group of three friends head to a deserted island, little do they know that they are about to stumble on something very big, and very dangerous.

Independência de Espírito

2011 • 10 min • Portugal

Clélia is a lonely woman that talks to her flowers.

A Doctor's Job

2011 • 10 min • Peru

Stubborn but caring ER Physician, Ramon Moran has to drive a taxicab in order to make ends meet in the city of Lima (Peru), a city that constantly challenges his pride and work ethics.

Guard Dog Global Jam

2011 • 6 min • United States of America

Double Agent: The Eddie Chapman Story

2011 • 59 min • United Kingdom

The gripping story of Britain's most extraordinary double agent; Eddie Chapman. Chapman duped the Germans so successfully he was awarded their highest honour, the Iron Cross, the only UK citizen ever to have received one.

Upstairs

2011 • 38 min • Denmark

After a six-year relationship with his girlfriend Rie, Jonas decides take a stab at the freedom of single life, but is confronted with a world filled with lonely, emotionless and sex-fixated individuals. An infernal racket from the upstairs neighbour Frank forces him to consider the possibility that noise can come from anywhere, even from the inside.

dik

2011 • 10 min • Australia

A six year old boy brings home a piece of schoolwork that provokes his parents to question his sexual orientation, and their own, with disastrous and hilarious results.

We Once Were Tide

2011 • 18 min • United Kingdom

Set on the Isle of Wight, the film tells the story of Anthony and Kyle, and their last night together as Kyle moves away leaving Anthony to look after his terminally ill mother. Poetic in nature, the film is concerned with exploring the intimate and often unspoken moment in which we give something special away.

Modern No.2

2011 • 4 min • Japan

Minimalistic abstract hand made animation from the award winning Mirai Mizue.

The Shady Sailor

2011 • 35 min • France

Laetitia and Sophie go to Quimper, town where Laetitia used to live, to pass the weekend. Sophie is having problems with her husband, while Laetitia tells her about one of her youth's boyfriends, the "masked sailor" she used to love while she lived in Quimper.

Shades of Beige

2011 • 15 min • United Kingdom

When Jodie's brother Brian is convicted of indecently assaulting a five-year-old she is thrust out of the sheltered world they have shared since their childhood. Their once close relationship becomes claustrophobic and strained as they face his imprisonment.