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The Hunter

The Hunter

2012 • 7 min • Australia
In this stop motion sand animation, a lone hunter undertakes a search for a missing boy deep in the snow covered mountains. THE HUNTER premiered at SXSW in 2012, has featured in competition at over 50 international festivals and won several awards including the AFI/ AACTA in 2013.
Katinoula

Katinoula

2012 • 47 min • Greece
Cairo 2010. Katinoula has grown old, but still actively serves a Greek-Egyptian lady of her age and origin. She does the chores around the house, haggles with the Egyptians in the marketplace and blesses each day even though what's left of her loved ones is just smiling faces in a picture. Where have all these people gone? All these years? Let them go... Let them be blown wherever...
The Grammar of Happiness

The Grammar of Happiness

2012 • 52 min • Australia
The Grammar Of Happiness follows the story of Daniel Everett among the extraordinary 'nonconvertible' Amazonian Pirah tribe, a group of indigenous hunter- gatherers whose culture and outlook on life has taken the world of linguistics by storm. As a young ambitious missionary three decades ago, Dan, a red-bearded towering American, decamped to the Amazon rain forest to save indigenous souls. His assignment was to translate the book of Mark into the tongue of the Pirah, a people whose puzzling speech seemed unrelated to any other on Earth. What he learned during his time with the Pirah led him to question the very foundations of his own deep beliefs. As a 'born again' atheist, Dan divorced his devout Christian wife and became estranged from his children. Having lost faith and family, his new life is dominated by the desire to leave behind his legacy. Everett's most controversial claim is that the Pirah language lacks 'recursion' - the ability to build an infinite number of sentences.
The Invisible Men

The Invisible Men

2012 • 60 min • Israel, Netherlands
An untold side of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: gay Palestinians - Louie, Abdu and Fares - are hiding in Tel Aviv, and until they escape, they must remain 'the invisible men'.
Iceberg

Iceberg

2012 • 17 min • United States of America
A married woman falls in love with a 19-year-old girl, and she has to make a choice between her family and the one who might be the love of her life.
Fille du calvaire

Fille du calvaire

2012 • 20 min • France
Jérôme is trying to seduce a woman. Day after day, he tells the story of this relationship to Patrick, a fellow who he always encounters at the city subway on his way back, who gives him advice and lives through his stories of love.
Heart In The City

Heart In The City

2012 • 12 min • United Kingdom
A story by Mark Duggan: part short film, part music video. Part 1 (Own Worst Enemy) was released online to coincide with 'You Animals' debut album, 'Crimes, Creeps & Thrills'. The 3-minute music video is set in present day Manchester and contains cameos from every member of the band, as Terence J Corbett plays a man on the verge of a breakdown. Part 2 (You Left Your Heart in the City) delves deeper into that same man's story, as we follow him through love, marriage, separation and parenthood, in a film designed to bend expectations of genre, as short film and music video become entwined. The narrative for Part 2 takes place before, during, and after the events depicted in Own Worst Enemy.
Racing the Rez

Racing the Rez

2012 • 58 min
Racing the Rez reveals the transformative potential of cross-country running at the team level. The story follows two rival high school teams focusing on five teens growing up on the Navajo and Hopi reservations — two distinct cultures but both richly steeped in the legacy of running as a powerful cultural tradition and a sport. Unfolding over two years of careful, patient observation, this documentary offers a rare view into the surprising complexity and diversity of contemporary reservation life, from the point of view of the young runners.
Absteigend

Absteigend

2012 • 7 min • United States of America
A film by Paul Clipson.
The Oresteia

The Oresteia

2012 • 30 min
Vengeful gods and a family curse. Happy days are here again in this semi-comedic backyard adaptation of Aeschylus' classic of Greek tragedy that tells a timeless story of bloody revenge, familial deceit and guilt.
PERSONA 4 the Animation: No One Is Alone

PERSONA 4 the Animation: No One Is Alone

2012 • 30 min • Japan
After the Investigation Team capture the culprit behind the murders that took place the previous year, Yu realises that the group still don't know the identity of the person who spread the rumours of the Midnight Channel. 'PERSONA 4 the Animation: No One Is Alone' serves as a conclusion to the anime series and adapts the true ending from the PS2 video game.
Just Ancient Loops

Just Ancient Loops

2012 • 26 min • United States of America
'Just Ancient Loops' employs high resolution scans of ancient nitrate footage, as well as newly created CGI renderings of space to depict different views of heaven.
Land of My Dreams

Land of My Dreams

2012 • 21 min • France, Portugal
Bianca and her mother meet again in Porto after many years. Together, they will hit the road with their stripping show, running after lost time, impossible love and strange fantasies.
Cat for Sale

Cat for Sale

2012 • 45 min • Russia
Katerina is smart and ambitious. She sees only in work. Once, Katina’s orphanage home comes to Katya’s home. “Is this your cat for sale?” The girl asks. “We don’t have any cats,” Katya wonders. In fact, Alina is cunning. She is sure that the business woman is her mother. Katerina, explains that they have not lived for a long time, but the orphan does not retreat. Katya undertakes to find her real parents, but eventually understands that she has led to the girl, and can no longer part with her. This piercing and bright story will be interesting for both adult audiences and teenagers.
Rodri

Rodri

2012 • 23 min • France, Colombia
Rodrigo hasn't worked in eight years. He'll be 47 soon.
7 Minutes of Mayhem: Hosted by Tony Reeves & Debbie Goldberg - Episode 286 B

7 Minutes of Mayhem: Hosted by Tony Reeves & Debbie Goldberg - Episode 286 B

2012 • 17 min
Hosts of the 1960s TV show '7 Minutes of Mayhem' Tony Reeves and Debbie Goldberg experience the nightmare of watching a low budget horror film made in 2 days. With commercial breaks.
Doctor Who - Night and The Doctor: Last Night

Doctor Who - Night and The Doctor: Last Night

2012 • 4 min • United Kingdom
The Doctor's first date with River has gotten more than a little complicated. With three versions of her in the TARDIS, it takes two of him to sort matters.
Eat, Fast and Live Longer

Eat, Fast and Live Longer

2012 • 59 min
British journalist and physician Michael Mosley sets an ambitious goal: to become healthier and lose weight while making as few changes as possible to his life. In working toward these goals, Mosley discovers a powerful new science behind the old idea of fasting, a program that still allows him to enjoy his favorite foods. He takes a road trip across the U.S. to investigate how a little hunger can turn on the body’s “repair genes” and, of course, tries the new science himself. Mosley learns that a diet based on feast and famine has powerful effects on the body, reducing the risks of heart disease, diabetes and some cancers. The diet seems to pack the anti-aging clout of calorie restriction while still allowing for a taste of the good life. And it turns out to be not only good for the body; it may also be good for the brain.
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Class Clown

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Class Clown

2012 • 3 min • United States of America
An animated short where Greg tries to win class clown.
Happy Hour

Happy Hour

2012 • 19 min
When two friends fall behind on their rent, they must get creative in order to please their landlord.
Fragments: The Incomplete Films of Peter de Rome

Fragments: The Incomplete Films of Peter de Rome

2012 • 42 min • United Kingdom
Filmmaker Peter de Rome talks about his career and some of the many projects he never finished.
Echoes

Echoes

2012 • 56 min
Echoes chronicles the experiences of mothers who represent three distinct aspects of the story: A Chinese mother who abandoned her baby; a white, middle-class North American mother who adopted a Chinese girl; and a Canadian mother preparing to “pick up” her baby from China. Each one of these mothers shares her experiences and struggles reconciling the powerful emotions and ideas that both abandonment and adoption, from an alien culture, entail.
Learn English with Ricky Gervais

Learn English with Ricky Gervais

2012 • 18 min • United Kingdom
Ricky explores the English language with Karl Pilkington.
9/11: Escape from the Impact Zone

9/11: Escape from the Impact Zone

2012 • 45 min • United States of America
Told for the first time, this is the story of the handful of people in the South Tower, on the actual floors hit by the hijacked plane, who made it out alive. That anyone could survive the devastating inferno ignited by 34,000 litres of jet fuel is surprising enough. But how they managed to escape before the tower collapsed is even more extraordinary. Now, those who were there recall the unique life and death struggles that took place inside the Tower that morning - and reveal how they got away.