All Films

Apple

2011 • 11 min

An apple. An amusement park. Rides. A short film about sexuality and its unclear, doubtful, mysterious and even fantastic nature.

Welcome to Hell

2011 • 56 min • Sweden

Alexander Ritchey showed a lot of promise in tennis & ping pong as a child and teenager, but alcoholism and drug abuse eventually took over completely.

Love Without Boundaries

2011 • 3 min

2 couples – one gay and one straight. Their delicate romance.

The Bigfoot Hunter: Still Searchin'

2011 • 59 min • United States of America

In the summer of 2006, two Sasquatch hunters led a group of curious, young paranormal investigators into the hills of southern New York on a quest for evidence of the legendary beast known as Bigfoot.

Sand Creek Equation

2011 • 23 min • United States of America

SAND CREEK EQUATION uses a poetic narrative style to explore the horrendous parallels linking the 2008-2009 war on the Gaza Strip with the 1864 Native American massacre in Sand Creek, Colorado.

Last Sunday

2011 • 10 min

The last day of the week is the first day of the week.

Coffee Club

2011 • 5 min

A dark comedy about gay-bashing...sort of. Three friends kick out a member of their coffee claque for a surprising reason.

#1

2011 • 5 min

Short movie by Tomoyasu Murata.

The Portraitist

2011 • 1 min • France

A woman comes to see the village's official portraitist to be immortalised.

Tonya Larson Fit Family

2011 • 47 min • United States of America

Fit Family Fun Circuit is a great way to have fun with your kids while getting active as a family. This workout is also an excellent low-cost option as a physical fitness class for homeschoolers.

Unwelcome in Tehran

2011 • 52 min

Mina, the director, is a girl from Shiraz who gets married in order to move to Tehran. Influenced by her own life, she decides to make a documentary about the girls nationwide who, like Azar, move to Tehran (the capital city) to start an independent life away from their families’ watchful eyes and restrictions. The film is about Mina and Azar’s constant struggle to find the answer as to why families and the society have difficulty in accepting an independent life for a single girl.

Iran, Southwestern

2011 • 52 min • Iran

A final outcry before it all disappears. 90 percent of the marshlands of Mesopotamia have already been irrevocably destroyed by war and the oil industry. A stirring account of an overlooked natural disaster.

The Fig and the Olive

2011 • 19 min • Palestinian Territory

The story of a Palestinian family living in Jerusalem, as told through a cat and the everyday objects of the house they’ve kept in the family for over 73 years despite pressures to move.

Witch

2011 • 19 min • Ukraine

The Rip

2011 • 5 min

A love letter that will send the dark underneath; hand made on clear 16mm leader with colored pens, nail polish, and found footage laying around the San Francisco Art Institute’s Studio X.

Horizontals

2011 • 11 min

Filmed on the broad, tree-less expanse of the Hay Plain, Horizontals makes a game of the endless horizon.

Sugar Beach

2011 • 4 min

Sugar Beach is one in an ongoing series of fixed-camera, multiple-exposure compositions on single rolls of film.

Letters from Palestine

2011 • 35 min

What if in your great-grandfather's letters there is a mystery your family doesn't want to talk about? In 1920 Angelo Levi Bianchini set out to Palestine on an Italian diplomatic mission and never came back. This film is my journey into the Middle Eastern conflict and into the death of a man who believed in a land shared by Arabs, Jews and Christians.

sickhands

2011 • 1 min

FUK YOUtueb P:P

Finding the Next Earth

2011 • 45 min

Join astronomers as they enter the final lap in a race to find a planet capable of sustaining life, a world like ours, the next Earth. See the launch of Frances CoRot and Americas Kepler missions, and the smoking hot worlds they discover. See a controversial and tantalizing discovery of a planet where life could exist in a strange twilight zone, that is, if the planet really exists. Astronomers are working to determine what conditions are necessary for life to exist, and they are building the radical James Webb Space Telescope, a spacecraft that can look at the atmosphere around a planet and reveal whether or not life as we know it actually exists. It could be the greatest discovery in human history and it could change how we see ourselves.

Journey of the Universe

2011 • 56 min

Journey of the Universe is an epic documentary exploring the human connection to Earth and the cosmos, from producer-directors Patsy Northcutt and David Kennard director of Carl Sagan s Cosmos and Hero s Journey: The World of Joseph Campbell. Big science, big history, big story, this one-of-a-kind film was created by a renowned team of scientists, scholars, and award-winning filmmakers, led by co-writers Brian Thomas Swimme, the acclaimed author and evolutionary philosopher, and Yale University historian of religions Mary Evelyn Tucker. They weave a tapestry that draws together scientific discoveries in astronomy, geology, biology, ecology, and biodiversity with humanistic insights concerning the nature of the universe.

A Phrase from Chris

2011 • 1 min

“Transfiguration refers to a rare process whereby both the substance and essence of an entity is reconfigured. In physical terms, a transfiguration is a change in form, a remodeling of appearance. The word derives from the ancient Greek ‘metemorphothe’ or 'metamorphosis,’ suggesting a complete reformation. However, the word takes on its fullest meaning in the spiritual context when it refers to the moment when a person or an object is transformed not by external means but from within. The resulting change is absolute and thorough, affecting the heart and soul of the subject. Although the outward appearance can sometimes be altered in this process as well, it is not necessary. A deeper, more profound, complete transformation occurs inside, out of sight and, for a person it reformulates the very fiber of their being, finally radiating outward to affect everything around it.”

Radioactive Boy

2011 • 3 min

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

Re:play-Girls リオの物語 REASON OF MYSELF

2011 • 45 min • Japan

2011 release