All Films

Three

2011 • 9 min • France

During a moment of intimacy, a couple slowly reveals its mysteries, its pains and its traps.

IMC Needs You!

2011 • 25 min • United Kingdom

Cast and crew look back at the making of Colony in Space.

Painkiller

2011 • 12 min • United Kingdom

Street-smart Dominic's armed robbery of a convenience store goes wrong when he crosses paths with hard-working Jay, a taxi driver with nothing left to lose. Mutual contempt soon turns into a kind of understanding, but not without some pain along the way.

Onna shinken-shi: Irojikake midare yubi

2011 • 60 min • Japan

Maki's father-in-law, Tsuruichi, was a legendary swordsman who made a living by gambling and playing shogi. After Tsuruichi's death, Maki makes a contract with Daruma, a serious swordsman and former yakuza of a dark casino, to play as his pinch hitter in order to repay her father-in-law's debt...

Zagorje Specialty

2011 • 45 min • Croatia

Five yuppies go on a paintball session up in the hilly area of Zagorje where they soon lose contact to one another, but they've been discovered by a family of native villagers who make a home-made delicacy. They soon find out what are the ingredients of their hosts' recipee.

Garbati Omicidi

2011 • 7 min

A bizarre detective is looking for a missing woman.

Spring

2011 • 14 min • United Kingdom

This short gay themed film touches some of the more extreme areas of gay eroticism. The encounter of the younger, possibly virgin young man, with a slightly older man is full of little ritualistic intimacies that will shape this young man's life - and his life will never be the same again....

Naruto OVA 9: Chunin Exam on Fire! and Naruto vs. Konohamaru!

2011 • 14 min • Japan

Naruto faces off against his old pupil Konohamaru in a tournament during the chuunin entrance exams.

Morya

2011 • 19 min • India

There is a history of enmity between the youngsters of Ganesh Chawl, led by Manya (Santosh Juvekar) and Khatav Chawl, led by Sameer (Chinmay Mandlekar). Their rivalry intensifies during festivals like Gokulashtami and Ganeshotsav when both camps try to out-do each other

Balrog: Behind the Glory

2011 • 12 min • United States of America

A documentary that dismantles the myths and lore surrounding one of Street Fighter's most commonly overlooked principal characters.

Voice Over

2011 • 10 min • Spain

I won't tell you whose voice over leads us through three extreme situations that are actually the same. Will you survive?

Book of Dragons

2011 • 18 min • United States of America

So you want to be a dragon trainer do you? Prepare yourself for adventure, excitement and training as Hiccup, Astrid, Toothless and Gobber tell the legend behind the Book of Dragons and reveal insider training secrets about new, never-before-seen dragons.

Scarlet

2011 • 5 min

A modern retelling of the classic fairy tale. Scarlet is on her way to her grandmother's house and crosses path with evil.

Fa no tofu

2011 • 40 min • Japan

This drama depicts the turbulent daily life of the heroine, who works in the family's tofu shop, and her father and daughter.

Bloodtraffick

2011 • 12 min

In a world torn by a war between vampires and angels, a female vigilante on the hunt for her missing sisters is lured into the den of a vampire.

Born to Be Wild

2011 • 40 min • United States of America

Born to Be Wild observes various orphaned jungle animals and their day-to-day behavioural interactions with the individuals who rescue them and raise them to adulthood. The film unfurls in two separate geographic spheres. Half of it takes place in the rain forests of Borneo, where celebrated primatologist Dr. Birute Galdikas assists baby orangutans; the other half takes place on the arid savannahs of Kenya, where zoologist Dame Daphne Sheldrick works with baby elephant calves.

Narcocorrido

2011 • 24 min • United States of America

The drug ballad of a gravely ill border cop's reckless heist of a cartel shipment, sung by a desperate soul destroyed in her wake.

The Contract

2011 • 24 min • Czech Republic

A rich man of 40 arrives at a secret hotel where he can be assisted in his unusual desire - suicide. Upon arrival, the man signs the obligatory contract relieving him of the knowledge of time and method of his death. Meanwhile, he meets another client of the hotel's services, a beautiful woman, and begins to doubt the wisdom of his decision. Yet, the unseen wheels of death are already in motion. Will love conquer death?

Rings

2011 • 2 min

A pleasant date night ends in a comic misunderstanding. [This short was produced for the "Sites. Camera. Action!" competition, which called for 2-minute films inspired by "Square with Four Circles," a 110 ft tall, multi-dimensional wall painting by Swiss artist Felice Varini.]

Blue

2011 • 14 min • New Zealand

Blue follows the anguished life of a washed up television character.

Unwatchable

2011 • 6 min • United Kingdom

The rape of a family in the rural idyll of England. Reconstruction of a true story that took place in the Congo.

Sebelah

2011 • 15 min • Indonesia

A guy welcomes a new neighbor in his apartment.

Endless Joke

2011 • 39 min • South Korea

A joke story of two men who met after a long time in Jeju Island. Their bland jokes gradually become more secretive that are repeated like serious jokes, like a Mobius strip.

Cold Fish - Original Japanese Poster - Its Creation, Influences And Film Posters In General

2011 • 9 min

A look at the creation of the original Japanese poster for Cold Fish. This segment is also conducted by filmmaker Norman England.