All Films

Lugaw

2012 • 17 min • Philippines

Out of luck Boyong, a father of a sick child, tries to look for money.

The Arrival

2012 • 16 min

Michael and John have been married for two years and are ready to take the next step into fatherhood. Having failed to adopt a baby, through all the legal routes, Michael discovers a website where pregnant women sell their babies, little knowing that these women are not what they seem.

Raw: The Movie

2012 • 54 min

Action / Documentary / Other - Raw the Movie is a new vision in surf filmmaking, combining surfing, cinematorgraphy, and a mindful use of editing that synchronizes video and audio. It showcases a diverse range of professional and everyday surfing that has not been seen in years.

Dr Breakfast

2012 • 7 min • United Kingdom

One day at breakfast, a man's soul bursts out of his eyeball. While the soul roams the earth eating everything in sight, two wild deer bathe, clothe, and feed the man's catatonic body. A surreal meditation on the quirky but rejuvenating nature of friendship.

Cousin is Online

2012 • 36 min

The new film 'Ibn al-'Am Online' is a portrait of the opposition figure Riyad al-Turk from inside the Syrian Revolution. This important opposition figure remains active underground in Syria until this day. The film resorts to Skype and other social networks not merely as part of its narrative and construction, but also as part of the filming process itself. In the end, the Internet was the first means through which we decided to present the film. Filming took place over the course of several of months, and began at start of the Syrian revolution on 15 March 2011 and was completed at the beginning of 2012.

Free Havana

2012 • 58 min

Gay Rights is an issue heard around the world, including Cuba. Free Havana paints a vivid picture of what it has been like to be gay in Cuba through the candid stories of six gay and lesbian individuals. From the Batista era to the Revolution to the Mariel Boatlift to present-day Cuba, Free Havana exposes the evolution of gay life from a time when homosexuality was considered a punishable crime to current efforts to promote a greater acceptance of freedom of sexual orientation. Honest in approach and poignant in content, the stories of the six Cubans will inform and inspire as they touch your heart.

After the Sky Turned Black

2012 • 12 min • United States of America

After losing his vision in a terrorist bombing, renowned photographer Frankie West closes off from the world, eventually forcing his frustrated boyfriend, Graham, to abandon him. Months later, a bitter and reclusive Frankie dedicates his time to seducing young men who sound exactly like his ex.

Gay Art Seeking a Home

2012 • 50 min

In 2005 the NGO Cultural Association Visible in Madrid begins to create a collection of gay-themed art (LGBT), with works donated by artists from around the world. The Visible Collection contains more than four thousand works of artists from thirty countries, what's making it in one of the world's largest of its kind, and now is looking for a space to be displayed. The documentary tells the story of how a project was realized that only seven years ago seemed impossible and now is looking for a "home", a museum to house the collection of a stable way and protect it from inclement weather and the vagaries of history and politics.

11:08

2012 • 2 min • Japan

Sae Okamoto's first independent animation work, featuring music by Shouta Murasato.

Makkhi

2012 • 30 min

The film follows the story of Pipal and Tutur, both employed as ’Fly Killers’ at a restaurant. They have the responsibility to keep the restaurant fly-free as the drainage next to the premise attract too many flies. When the drainage is closed the officials plan to shoo away the ‘Fly Killers’ like flies.

Inside Costa Concordia: Voices of Disaster

2012 • 45 min • Italy

An in-depth look at how Italy's largest cruise ship ran aground off the Italian coast.

Sexual Activity Addicted To Lust And His Wife Live With Their Mother

2012 • 60 min

Images of Water

2012 • 11 min • France

This film describes different forms and manifestations of water. The experience of the filmmaker's body immersed in water, sunken into the liquid element, represents the main theme of this poetic essay on the imagination of this element.

Cain and Abel

2012 • 20 min

A loose interpretation of the Biblical story of the first murder, enacted as a rebellion against a God who loves some of his children more than others.

Olivier Dazat ou L'amour du Vélo

2012 • 50 min

Filmed on the Longchamp cycling circuit in Paris, the writer Olivier Dazat, author of the books Seigneurs et forçats du vélo (published by Calmann-Lévy) and Panache (published by Le Dilettante), shares his thoughts on the champions Fausto Coppi, Hugo Koblet, Jacques Anquetil, Raymond Poulidor, Luis Ocaña and Eddy Merckx.

Alien Mummies

2012 • 49 min

From Long Island's Montauk Monster to Mexico's Metepec creature, this special probes the facts and fiction of the world's most mysterious remains.

Green Gold

2012 • 48 min • Finland, Italy

Environmental film maker John D. Liu documents large-scale ecosystem restoration projects in China, Africa, South America and the Middle East, highlighting the enormous benefits for people and planet of undertaking these efforts globally.

Le commissaire Perdrix ne fait pas le voyage pour rien

2012 • 27 min • France

Paul Anselmini is a former mobster and businessman. A romantic character, a barbouze with no morals, no scruples, no values other than himself. Alone, yes, but free and once powerful. But this freedom is precisely what Commissaire Perdrix and Lieutenant Webb have come to take, two cops lost in a country and a time that are not their own.

David Suchet: People I Have Shot

2012 • 46 min • United Kingdom

David Suchet follows in the footsteps of his grandfather, Fleet Street photographer Jimmy Jarche, in a quest to capture on camera how Britain has changed in the past century.

Le clown de Belleville

2012 • 28 min

One year after the death of his mother Tristan finds himself stuck between his 'two families'. His dad on one side, and on the other, his own new family, his wife and 6 month old daughter.

Koller and Freud

2012 • 7 min

This found-footage piece is based on an early study of the effects of cocaine by the filmmaker’s great-grandfather Carl Koller and Sigmund Freud, when the two were in medical school together in Vienna.

Bear 71

2012 • 20 min • Canada

THE LIFE OF A GRIZZLY IN A CANADIAN NATIONAL PARK FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF DATA POINTS AND SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS PRESENTS A FASCINATING LOOK AT WHAT IT MEANS TO BE WILD IN THIS INTERACTIVE FILM FROM THE NFB.

Quite Ordinary

2012 • 16 min • Japan

Tamotsu Nirasaki is a gay high-school teacher who can't get laid.One day, he finds out one of his pupils, Yu Shiotsu, is also gay. "Can I finally become happy?" Nirasaki asks himself, but it turns out Shiotsu is in love with the top student of the class. As Nirasaki gets depressed that he doesn't have a chance from the start, he makes Shiotsu confess his love to the other student, and tries to take advantage of his failure.

Stanley Kubrick: One-Point Perspective

2012 • 2 min • United States of America

Kogonada's visual essay about the formalistice choices of master filmmaker Stanley Kubrick