All Films

Caress

2012 • 29 min

After Carey's husband Jeff died, she accidentally found that Jeff was in love with a man named Matt before. How would she handle this? Had Jeff ever loved her? Could she forgive him? And at the same time, what will Matt do while he hasn't got Jeff's novel dedicated to him as he promised? A man dies, what changes shall it bring to other two people that loved him?

Die from a Broken Heart

2012 • 8 min

High school can be pretty rough. But for those of us who are victims of bullying, it can be downright miserable. Such is the case for Brad - a bright, introverted student just trying to stay alive. He's caught somewhere between personalities - still trying to define himself. But when the school's star swimmer, Adam, enters into Brad's camera lens; Brad develops a fascination with him that could prove deadly... as Adam turns out to be a bully himself. The questions build up and start swirling through Brad's head sending him into a downward spiral. But as he falls deeper into his own conscience, could a light be appearing at the end of the tunnel? Brad must overcome his fears and allow someone to reach out to him, so that he can define himself - and his place - in the world.

Alcatraz - Surviving The Rock

2012 • 45 min

National Geographic Alcatraz Surviving The Rock: A look at how inmates including Al Capone and `Birdman’ Robert Stroud coped with the tough conditions of the notorious prison in San Francisco Bay.

Physical Examination

2012 • 4 min

Homage to Owen Land. Physical Examination is a short structural film that shows viewers the elements of film stock that usually cannot be seen during movie projection, like sprocket holes and sound track area. It also shows an examination of breasts.

Madagascar: Land of the Chameleons

2012 • 52 min

The award winning wildlife director Adam Schmedes' personal experience of Madagascar, the stunning richness of chameleon species that are found nowhere else in the world. It's a personal journey into the most remote parts of the jungle and into the dilemma of poverty - the trade with rare species of chameleons.

Through the Window

2012 • 12 min

Yoni and Shira are seen kissing through the window of the family home by Yoni's mother and suddenly find themselves the object of her attention. Yoni, who is deep in the closet, is torn between her great love and her family, when only a window separates the two.

Zooscopie

2012 • 16 min

For the cold winter, the pouring rain, the short wavy, the violent storm, the early frost or something like that, if the fall of the leaves is late, if the smoke rises straight, if it falls, if the leaves swirling or if the dust makes the vortex, if the frogs repeated to the swamps their monotonous complaint, and when the prevailing winds become favorable.

Ngaben: Emotion And Restraint In A Balinese Heart

2012 • 16 min

Ngaben: Emotion and Restraint in a Balinese Heart takes an impressionistic look at the ngaben from the perspective of a mourning son, Nyoman Asub, and reveals the intimacy, sadness, and tenderness at the core of this funerary ritual and the feeling and force that underlie an exquisite cultural tradition. Amidst ample cultural and interpretive understandings of the cremation ceremony, the film purposefully provides a personalistic, impressionistic, and poetic glimpse of the process and the complex emotions involved.

Gallows

2012 • 32 min

Documentary chronicling the making of Gallows' 2012 self-titled third album

Eau douce eau salée

2012 • 50 min • Belgium

The summer of 2010, like many other years. I stay with my parents in Tsukishima on the banks of a river that joins Tokyo Bay. An uneventful ritual visit except that I decided to go and see and hear my brother for the first time since he locked himself up in the darkness of his room, too small for his size. Will I meet a drunken monster who only shouts grotesque words at his sisteras I had imagined him to be for so long?

Country Guitar - Legends in Concert

2012 • 55 min • United Kingdom, United States of America

This session was recorded live at the Church Street Station and stars The Jordinaires, the Osmond Brothers, Boxcar Willie and Jerry Lee Lewis.

Parallel North

2012 • 7 min

In a world that has really been turned upside down, the true is a moment of the false. (Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle). What about the boreal forest?

I'm Here

2012 • 43 min • Macao

Coming out of the closet is never easy, especially if you're living in a small city like Macau, where you bump into friends and relatives every day. Two out of the closet girls and their friends and relatives tell their stories.

Plane

2012 • 24 min

A lonely wandering poet came to the place where the grapes were grown, where no one bought his poetry, but he met a girl. A discordant couple passes by the place where the grapes are planted, the man meets the gambler who loses himself, and the woman meets the poet on the way. The gambler leaves the place where the grapes are planted, and on the way he meets an opponent who catches him off guard, and his dignity loses out to an irrepressible pleasure...

Coffee or Tea?

2012 • 6 min

Zany party girl Britney sets up her sexually confused ex-boyfriend Matt on his first gay date with kooky club kid Richie.

Groundswell

2012 • 22 min

While searching for waves, the crew documents what would be threatened if the Northern Gateway tar sands oil pipeline is built.

Posh

2012 • 24 min

A Berlin artist, experimenting with life as an extraterrestrial, witnesses the murder of a prostitute and transforms into a mutant femme-fatale avenger.

Parrilla

2012 • 11 min • Peru

Observational short film made during a barbecue

African Herbsmen: Healing and Religion along the Bight of Benin

2012 • 36 min

This film explores the integration of religion and plant-based medicine in an Ewe vodu community in southern Togo. A village priest healer, local ethnobotanists, and a religious marketeer guide us through the medicinal and religious uses of many local plants and herbs. Here in West Africa, plant-based medicines permeate spirituality and illness, and help protect the social order of the community.

Curtains

2012 • 7 min

The story of a young man who is coming to terms of being gay.

Xmas Story

2012 • 5 min

Defining actual meaning of the word 'Couple'. A proud gay boy is educating his younger brother about homosexuality by using toys.

Spiralized

2012 • 34 min • Germany

An eerie signal casts a spell over all the women and turns them into will-less puppets of evil. A psychedelic horror trip begins...

From East to West

2012 • 15 min • Greece

The camera follows from sunrise to sunset a migrant, from the hundreds who live in the port of Patras. A documentary film by Lara Kristen

Jaws: Changing The Game

2012 • 42 min

As surfers pray for waves on Maui during the winter, a select few ask for the gut-wrenching 30-plus foot walls of water that only Jaws on the North shore can provide. You may have seen surfers towed into the massive breaks behind a jet ski, but there is a group of riders who will only paddle into them, taking the sport to an even more extreme level that only a few years ago was thought impossible.