All Films

Psychoville Halloween Special

2010 • 48 min

Psychoville returns with a spooktacular hour-long Halloween special. Four tales of terror unfold as location manager Phil Walker investigates the abandoned ruins of Ravenhill Psychiatric hospital. Does the ghost of evil governess Edwina Kenchington still walk the empty corridors? What other horrors lie within these crumbling walls?

Jordan Rides the Bus

2010 • 53 min

In the fall of 1993, in his prime and at the summit of the sports world, Michael Jordan walked away from pro basketball. After leading the Dream Team to an Olympic gold medal in 1992 and taking the Bulls to their third consecutive NBA championship the following year, Jordan was jolted by the murder of his father. Was it the brutal loss of such an anchor in his life that caused the world’s most famous athlete to rekindle a childhood ambition by playing baseball? Or some feeling that he had nothing left to prove or conquer in basketball? Or something deeper and perhaps not yet understood?

Happy Sushi

2010 • 3 min

The eternal struggle of man versus a wobbly restaurant table is explored.

Drexciya

2010 • 12 min • Ghana

A portrait of a dilapidated Olympic-sized pool in Accra, Ghana.

The Lost Town of Switez

2010 • 21 min • Poland, Denmark, France, Canada, Switzerland

Based on the 19th-century epic poem by Poland's Adam Mickiewicz

Jack + Jill

2010 • 8 min • United States of America

An action thriller that follows two homicidal assassins, named Jack and Jill, as they take over a New York news television station and hold its employees hostage

Ode

2010 • 51 min • United States of America

"Tallahatchie Bridge": With those two simple words, the powerful images of a lost innocence, a murky river and a mysterious suicide spring to mind. Scorning the demands of her overbearing family, Bobbie Lee Hartley and Billy Joe McAllister meet at their usual Choctaw Ridge trysting place and attempt to consumate their forbidden love. Ode attempts to reconcile modern moralites with a tradition-bound faith, and asks whether it's possible to commit a sin against a religion that won't even have you as a member.

Panatipata

2010 • 31 min

Kai is a mother who cooks every meal for her family. One day, the karma scanner tells her not to cook meat anymore to cure her bad leg. She believes it but her family doesn't.

Lennart

2010 • 24 min • Sweden

An elderly man tries to learn to live and be independent after the death of his wife.

Androides

2010 • 16 min • Spain

About an androgynous preteen boy, who sits while peeing and has fantasies about aliens with his deformed and badly handicapped teenage neighbor, while his macho brother rapes her, playing Mario Bro's.

Vakratunda Swaha

2010 • 21 min • India

In 1997, Ashish Avikunthak filmed a sequence -- a friend and artist, Girish Dahiwale, immersing an idol of Ganesha at Chowpati beach, Bombay on the last day of the Ganapati festival. A year later, he committed suicide. After twelve years, Avikunthak completed the film. Using his footage as the leitmotif, this film is a requiem to a dead friend, and metamorphosises into an “existential inquiry into the idea of death”.

Beard Boy

2010 • 14 min • Brazil

Due to a rare disease, a child grows a beard. He likes being himself but resents people staring at him.

Planzet

2010 • 53 min • Japan

In 2047, an unknown, alien lifeform descends upon the Earth, destroying all the major cities in one fell swoop. The survivors unite and build a Diffusor to stop the Februus, the invaders the military would later codename the FOS, and a temporary peace is achieved. Jump forward to 2053, the present. A last, desperate counterattack is being mounted against the enemy. Hiroshi Akishima, soldier in the Planetary Defense Forces Alliance, would like nothing better than a shot at the aliens responsible for his father's death six years ago. However, the new offensive requires the Diffusor to be dropped, leaving the entire planet terribly vulnerable once more. Will humanity regain the stars or lose everything in the final, ultimate gamble?

The Elevator

2010 • 4 min • United States of America

A man learns the drawbacks of using the elevator

Lustful Slut: Instructions Behind Closed Doors

2010 • 60 min • Japan

A man is invited by a bewitching woman to read aloud from an old banned book. His fiancée notices something strange about the man as he becomes trapped in this lewd world...

The Westerner

2010 • 13 min

About a young boy who runs away from home, trying to find his way to a place he once visited with his mother.

Neon Aura

2010 • 29 min

Nils Philippi, advertising photographer, accuses himself of being an incorrigible hypocrite. He's been that way since he was a child, said what earned him recognition, what made him look good. He knows his problem, he just can't get rid of it. Nils illustrates his suffering to his analyst, putting himself in the limelight once again.

Tiggaren

2010 • 3 min • Sweden

A beggar asks for money from a man in hurry.

Quiz Magic Academy: The Original Animation 2

2010 • 29 min • Japan

Following the destruction of the magical floating device, the Magic Academy falls to earth, but unfortunately lands on and breaks a demon seal, releasing hundreds of ancient demons into the forest around the academy. The teachers are barely keeping the demons away and are desperately searching for the pieces of the floating device, so to earn more magic stones, all of the students from Amelia's class decide to leave the academy (even though they were told not to) to find the missing pieces.

Here Comes Greatness

2010 • 21 min • United States of America

A documentary profiling the backyard wrestling community in Southern California in the late-1990's.

The Flesh

2010 • 21 min • Portugal

A debate arises between Jesus Christ and a beautiful nun about her nightlife and whether the scriptures address any punishment for her sins.

Bad Things That Could Happen

2010 • 6 min • United Kingdom

Playing with scale and bringing objects to life, the film creates a subverted world where the mundane becomes absurd.

The Last Norwegian Troll

2010 • 13 min • Sweden, Norway

In the old days, Norway used to be a safe haven for Trolls, but not anymore. One day three young goats decide to get rid of an old Troll who lives under a bridge. Little do they know that he is the last survivor of his species, the very last Troll of Norway...

Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life

2010 • 24 min • Canada

Jennie the terrier has everything a dog could ever wish for, but still feels that something is missing. She leaves home to discover what that is.