All Films

Clarisa

2012 • 16 min • Mexico

Clarisa is a young woman with family problems. The sudden appearance of a mysterious man immerses her in a new world - that of pornography- where she tries to look for fame to realize her dream of becoming an actress. The disappointment that the experience brings triggers a cathartic process in her, and within her family.

Stitches

2012 • 15 min

Sam and his grandfather are best friends. When his grandfather passes away suddenly, Sam must come to terms with the loss, doing so through their mutual love of baseball.

Diamond Sutra

2012 • 20 min • Taiwan

In 2012, Taiwanese architects Michael Lin and Liao Wei-li invited Tsai Ming-Liang to create moving visuals for their exhibit at the Venise Architecture Biennale. Using the space at their preview exhibition in Taiwan, Tsai Ming-Liang made two short films, "Sleepwalk" and "Diamond Sutra", using the "Walker" concept. "Diamond Sutra" was later selected to be the opening short film for the Venise Film Festival. Tsai-Ming Liang said that gazing at the steam rising from a rice cooker reminded him of his mother's face as she laid dying, exhaling her final breath.

In-Between

2012 • 3 min • France

A young woman tries to overcome her anxiety, which is personified by a crocodile.

The Magic Hockey Skates

2012 • 21 min • Canada

A boy begrudgingly buys second hand skates which turn out to make him the best hockey player ever - via three wishes.

On Sleepless Roads, the Sleepless Goes

2012 • 21 min • Hong Kong

The textbook definition of a good citizen is a person who works hard, helps others and respects the law. A night minivan driver witnesses a crime and chases the robber down an alley and confronts him. A bloody fistfight ensues. But when the shot cuts to his close-up in the confined space of the interrogation room, we find him looking ragged and unkempt, trying hard to give a coherent account of what had happened to a hostile plain clothes cop, wondering if it pays to be a good citizen when one becomes punished for one’s own good intentions.

Sealed Video 9: Uniform Grudge

2012 • 54 min • Japan

Dashboard camera: On the scene of a late-night hit-and-run accident, the camera of a taxi is running when the driver discovers a bloodied woman by the side of the road. Behind the Drapes: Posted by a voyeur, spying on a woman living on the second floor of an apartment building, until one day the appearance of police man in uniform is caught on tape. Cursed Uniform: Seized footage of documentary program covering "schoolgirl peeping room". However the program was shelved for certain reasons. Monkey Hand: Video of a Halloween party held by some young people. When they perform a ceremony, something strange was placed on the tray. Strange Shadow: -

The Doldrums or How to Cure Sadness

2012 • 12 min • Mexico

The tiricia is an illness of the soul when the heart is saddened. A story of three generations afflicted with being tiricientas: Ita, Justa and Alicia – grandmother, mother and daughter – who have at different times suffered, tolerated and allowed abuse, dragging on the disease. Alicia decides to break the cycle, eradicating it for future generations.

No Cave

2012 • 47 min • South Korea

Won-seok, who used to live in a PC room or in a war without doing anything after graduation, starts a delivery part-time job at Jisung's chicken store, which will soon be his brother-in-law at the recommendation of his sister. My sister even buys expensive Gore-Tex jumpers and hopes the gemstones will pull themselves together. Contrary to such sister's expectations and wishes, it is not easy to adapt to a new life. When a small delivery accident occurred, the gemstone scolded by Jisung took off his jumper and went back to his cave-like PC room.

Edward Hopper and the Blank Canvas

2012 • 52 min • France

The many references in contemporary film to Edward Hopper's works, as well as the widespread reproduction of some of his paintings have made his universe familiar to many. His unclassifiable figurations weave a dialogue between appearances and light, between the unmistakeable and enigma. Focusing on the artist's personal life in the context of 20th century America, "Edward Hopper and the Blank Canvas" bears witness to a fiercely independent painter, who was aware of the issues of his era, and who was hostile to the imprisonment that a modern American art opposing realism and abstraction could lead him to. This film brings the artist to life, transposing his realist and metaphysical poetry. It is a subtile and passionate work, which at last unveils one of the most important painters of American modernity.

Fade Into You

2012 • 13 min • United States of America

A dark and violent murder involving a couple and an estranged ex-boyfriend.

The Life of Trees

2012 • 33 min

A lady bug and a glow worm use visuals and comedy to teach their class about the amazing things trees do. On the way they must fight an evil spider, befriend a talking tree and find the true meaning of friendship.

Sleepwalk

2012 • 20 min • Taiwan

A continuation of Tsai Ming-Liang's Walker series, featuring Lee Kang-Sheng as a barefoot monk who walks very slowly.

Excavating the 2000 Year Old Man

2012 • 43 min

A brief look at Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner's 2,000 Year Old Man routine and how it influenced countless comedians since its inception.

The Nightmare of TV Centre

2012 • 13 min • United Kingdom

A look back at the somewhat troubled production of Nightmare of Eden with three of the behind-the-scenes crew who worked on it.

Nonviolent Resistance : How to Shut Up Your Wife Peacefully

2012 • 7 min • South Korea

In the family dinner time, mercilessly following the mother-in-law and wife's chatter, the new groom becomes confused. How to deal with violence.

Hedgehogs and The City

2012 • 10 min • Latvia

One spring morning, animals wake up from their winter sleep and find that their forest is taken over by people who have built a city there. They understand they need to find new survival strategies and learn to earn money.

Reckoning

2012 • 11 min

Some secrets can't be buried.

One Way Street

2012 • 12 min • Brazil

Shows a day in the lives of security guards and criminals that live in São Paulo. Through depositions and daily actions, it gives life to those who do not see a way out of a wolrd guarded by walls.

Shackled

2012 • 12 min

Held captive by a circus, Malu is frantically rescued from her shackles by her husband. As she waits anxiously in the darkness for her chance to escape, a disturbing truth she's hidden away seeps back in.

The Greyness of Autumn

2012 • 14 min • United Kingdom

The Greyness of Autumn follows the final days of the life of Danny McGuire, an ostrich living in Scotland. Danny's life is suddenly turned upside down when he loses his job and his girlfriend in the same day. As Danny struggles to reinvent himself in a society that treat him as a second class citizen, he questions whether there is much point living in a world that will never see past the feathers.

The Pyramidical Silence

2012 • 25 min

A description of the decay of mountains in connection to the end of cosmos. Man is described in a geological timescale; they are alien visitors.

Émile de 1 à 5

2012 • 4 min • Switzerland

Two young men are playing in a bathtub. Then a third and fourth slip in to join them. They are called Émile and they are looking for their “perfect mother” when a fifth man arrives, the Émile who reconciles them all.

I'm a Self-Made Woman

2012 • 27 min • Croatia

Željka’s younger sister Silvija begs her to let her spend the night, because their mom has just read her shameless blog and she doesn't want to go back home. The next morning, Željka takes Silvija and her best friend Danica to a TV studio where she works as a make-up artist. While getting ready to return home and face their mom, the two sisters exchange some pearls of wisdom about life.