All Films

The Recorder Exam

2011 • 27 min • South Korea

Nine-year old Eunhee anxiously prepares for her recorder exam as she struggles to find a place within her own family.

Muybridge's Strings

2011 • 12 min • Japan, Canada

Koji Yamamura's allegory the immutability of time, love and devotion, and the unbreakable nature of the parent-child bond, into interlacing story.

Cooper and the Castle Hills Gang

2011 • 50 min

Cooper goes on a quest to help Castle Hills' favorite grandpa, Mr. Wilson, find his lost wedding ring

Marea

2011 • 15 min • Argentina

She is surprised in the pool with the presence of a young man who mysteriously disappears. She is seduced by him but discovers that she belongs to a parallel dimension, water. The desire is getting stronger but the incompatibility to the habit of others prevents them from being together. As in a dream, the only way to be with him will be to cross the boundary that separates: reality.

Sonríe

2011 • 7 min • Puerto Rico

Henry is a grouchy, irritable and overall unhappy birthday clown. As he complains about everything, he realizes 8-year-old birthday girl Coral has a frown just as long as his. Annoyed by the fact that she is the only kid he hasn't been able to humor, he takes it upon himself to do whatever it takes to make this girl smile.

Forged Ways

2011 • 16 min • Ethiopia, United States of America

Filmed on location in Harlem (NY) and Ethiopia, Forged Ways oscillates between the first person account of a filmmaker, a man navigating the streets of Harlem, and the day to day life in the cities and villages of Ethiopia.

John and Will's Animal Choices

2011 • 3 min • United States of America

Son of Man

2011 • 15 min • United States of America

An Allied medic, rumored to be Jesus Christ, gets into a philosophical debate with a Catholic-Nazi in Ustasha occupied Croatia during WW2.

Tonight Is Not a Good Night for Dying

2011 • 4 min • Iran

A man falls from a balcony onto the sidewalk below. A crowd gathers and an ambulance is called, but no one knows why he fell.

How (Not) to Become a Vampire

2011 • 7 min • Canada, United States of America

In order to win over a girl, Roy tries to change into what he believes she desires, which happen to be a vampire. But can he make a complete transformation and become something that he isn't destined to be? We can only hope Roy knows what he is doing.

The Real Rocky

2011 • 55 min • United States of America

Chuck Wepner is a liquor salesman from Bayonne, N.J., who drives a Cadillac with “Champ” vanity plates. A former New Jersey State Heavyweight Boxing Champion, he took abuse from Sonny Liston, got his nose broken by Muhammad Ali, and inspired Sylvester Stallone to write “Rocky” which won three Academy Awards. Wepner was left out of the “Rocky” glory, and his career took turn after strange turn as he worked to stay in the spotlight: he went on to fight Andre the Giant as “The Assassin” and boxed a 900 pound bear. Twice.

The Thief

2011 • 14 min • United States of America

When a thief enters a house desperately looking for money, he finds something more valuable.

Connected

2011 • 8 min • United Kingdom

A man is isolated by modern technology. He takes his mobile phone back to the shop - it's not working, he's not receiving any calls. But the phone is fine, it's him that's not working. But he still wants answers.

The Strange Ones

2011 • 14 min • United States of America

A man and a boy, traveling to an unknown destination, find respite in a motel swimming pool. On the surface all seems normal, but nothing is what it seems to be. Short film not to be confused with the 2017 feature film with the same name.

I'm Having a Difficult Time Killing My Parents

2011 • 15 min • United States of America

It's not that T.J. doesn't love his parents, it's just that he's trying to kill them. Thirty-two, unemployed, and derailed somewhere on the path to adulthood, T.J. has boomeranged back home. There, his ennui takes the form of increasingly real fantasies about offing his parents and becoming man of the house. When his high school sweetheart gets engaged, T.J. is forced to deal with his real life, parents and all.

Goner

2011 • 12 min

The film shows an event immediately preceding and following an act of extreme violence.

Kamen Rider W: Final Stage

2011 • 40 min • Japan

The final live stage event for the Kamen Rider W series, it takes place after the main TV series. In this stage event, Akiko accidentally becomes the Fuuto Dopant after meeting a Shinkurou Isaka from an another world.

A Parideira

2011 • 20 min • Portugal

Somewhere on top of a mountain, there is a miraculous cave: it is the PARIDEIRA. Tells the legend that if an infertile woman enters there, she becomes pregnant out of the cave. But for that to happen, an adult must die within that night.

The Pedestrian

2011 • 7 min • United Kingdom

Most of us walk to get from A to B. But some are obsessed with getting to B quicker than everyone else. Jonathon Collins is such a walker. He's never lost a 'Walk Off' in his life. This is a statistic that he's a bit too keen to share with the world. But his love affair with walking is put in jeopardy with the arrival of a new fleet-footed nemesis. And there's also the cute Charity worker who always catches his eye. If only he could slow down long enough to chat to her.

List

2011 • 29 min • South Korea

While waiting at a seaside town with her mother for a relative, a young woman creates a list of things she wants to do during her time there.

Come in Number Five

2011 • 56 min • United Kingdom

A special retrospective of Peter Davison's tenure as the Fifth Doctor.

Night of the Little Dead

2011 • 11 min

It's the little things that getcha.

A Perfect Day

2011 • 11 min • Finland

Police officer gets back to work after getting a wheelchair. Nothing is the same and even the gun must be given away.

Chester

2011 • 5 min

Based on a popular joke. This joke was popularized from a scene in "My Blue Valentine".