All Films

Stars of Orion: Japanese Martyrs for Palestine

2012 • 56 min • Qatar

This is a documentary produced for Al Jazeera Documentary by May Shigenobu. May revisits the Japanese leftist activism in the 60s and the 70s, to understand why some Japanese students decided to dedicate their lives to the Palestinian cause by talking to the then leaders and visiting iconic locations of the time. It includes exclusive interviews with some leaders in the students' movements in Japan, Adachi Masao, as well as PFLP leaders such as Layla Khaled and Abu Ahmed Fouad. The documentary also talks about the Japanese Red Army members and their families living underground.

Dissimilated Vision

2012 • 3 min • Japan

Surreal Short Movie

Judgement

2012 • 15 min

The religious girl Katharina is having an affair with the son of her much older husband. In an attempt to discover her secret lover, her husband ties her up to a chair for 3 days, waiting for her rescuers approach. Now where do you draw the line between right and wrong? Stuck between her two fighting lovers, Katharina shoots the both of them.

Jazz Piano Gold

2012 • 60 min

A real treat for anyone who loves listening to the tinkling of the jazz piano, with classics from Count Basie, Thelonious Monk, Oscar Peterson, Abdullah Ibrahim, Stan Tracey and Jacques Loussier to Duke Ellington, Return to Forever and Herbie Hancock. The performances are culled from cult classic programmes such as Jazz 625, Show of the Week, Late Night Line Up, Love You Madly, Birdland, The Late Show and Later... with Jools Holland, and date from 1964 to 2009. Be it bebop, swing or contemporary, Jazz Piano Gold is a must for all jazz piano fans.

Sex in the Stone Age

2012 • 45 min

A fragment of a pinky bone and a tooth twice the size of today's average molar are the only remnants of a species we now know lived at the same time and place as modern humans—and interbred with them. They are a part of us we never knew existed. What did these "people" look like? And how do they fit into what we thought we knew about our biological development as a species?

Ariane

2012 • 2 min

Portrait of an actress Ariane Labed wearing Giorgio Armani.

PBS Nature - An Original DUCKumentary

2012 • 53 min • United States of America

Ducks are true originals. There are more than 120 different species of ducks in all, a fantastical group of complex characters. Ducks have a talent for survival, and life stories filled with personality and charm. Each bird is more fun than the last, and will leave you wanting more.

The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore

2012 • 15 min • United States of America

After a hurricane levels his city, a young man wanders into a mysterious library where books literally come to life. This film won the Oscar for Best Animated Short Film in 2012.

VeggieTales: The Penniless Princess

2012 • 49 min • United States of America

Sweet Sara Crewe has everything a little girl could want - a loving family, lots of friends and a closet full of frilly dresses! But when life takes a turn and Sara goes from riches to rags, will she realize that her true worth lies not in what she has, but what's in her heart?

Taper

2012 • 20 min • Ukraine

A story about a loser who was able to admit it to himself, and another who couldn't.

Living with Levene

2012 • 35 min • United Kingdom

Intrepid comedian and Doctor Who fan Toby Hadoke heads to Salisbury to spend the weekend with one of the show's most unusual actors. John Levene played Sergeant Benton on-screen for nearly a decade, but these days is a very enigmatic figure. Now Toby has 48 hours to get to know the man, and figure out what makes him tick.

The Successor of Kakiemon

2012 • 49 min

A beautifully observed account of life and work within a legendary dynasty of Japanese ceramicists.

Pretty Pretty Peggy Moffitt

2012 • 5 min • United States of America

Rob Delaney: Live at the Bowery Ballroom

2012 • 60 min

Rob Delaney may not yet have the name recognition of comedians like Louis C. K., Aziz Ansari or Jim Gaffigan. But with the help of his large and loyal Internet following, he is hoping he can take a page from his accomplished industry colleagues, and start creating material for and selling it directly online.

Knuffle Bunny Free: An Unexpected Diversion

2012 • 14 min • United States of America

This is the third and final book in the Knuffle Bunny trilogy. Trixie and her family set off on a fantastic trip to visit her grandparents in Holland! But it seems Knuffle Bunny has different plans. Join Trixie on this international adventure as she makes a very surprising and moving decision.

Beggar Writer's House

2012 • 52 min • Estonia

Why do we care for writers who don't care for anything or anybody, even not for themselves? Still we need them and feed them, we love them and give shelter. Can it be that at certain moments we would like to be writers and also have this love-hate relationship with the world that writers expose. So when we keep our poets in a special house and observe them like we watch animals in the zoo, listen how they shout and howl their poetry, we are partly freed from our everyday identity and become romantic poetry desperadoes too. Take a closer look at Estonian writers in their private zoo. Their revolts and vanity, philosophy and drinking life style. Cheap accommodation is a way to escape, but it can be a trap too.

The Great Ephemeral Skin

2012 • 42 min • Germany

Inside the claustrophobic scenery of a fancy apartment in the city of Frankfurt three men and a woman lock themselves in for ten days. Oskar and Julia are a couple. They have sex and let themselves be filmed. Benjamin and Bastian are behind the camera, trying to get pictures of absolute intimacy. Closeness as it can only be found among lovers.

A Day at the Gallery

2012 • 41 min

A young author goes to an art gallery to find paintings.

Sex Drugs & Slot Machines

2012 • 13 min

A man plays his last coin on a slot machine and wins. He leaves to go home. Suddenly, he notices someone is chasing him...

Makaton Nursery Rhymes

2012 • 40 min • United Kingdom

Nineteen popular children's nursery rhymes, signed, sung and spoken by Dave Benson Phillips of BBC Playdays fame. Funded by a grand from the BBC Children in Need Appeal 1990/91 and originally release on VHS in 1992. The Makaton signs in this video are derived from British Sign Language (BSL) with some finger spelling.

D.N.E.: Do Not Erase

2012 • 10 min

When Brian's graduate thesis on Time Travel costs him the love of his life, he forces himself to choose the best way to live out the rest of his days.

Joachim Fuchsberger erzählt...

2012 • 30 min • Germany

Joachim 'Blacky' Fuchsberger talks about his career.

D. on Ice

2012 • 12 min • Brazil, United States of America

Musical in three acts about the return of W.D., the visionary of the world of animation, who had been frozen waiting for the cure for the disease that would kill him to be discovered. In a distant future, D. comes back to life and finds his empire completely distorted. Outraged by the direction given to his dreams, D. tries to regain control, but his power has gained new dimensions.

Jay Mohr: Funny for a Girl

2012 • 58 min • United States of America

Jay Mohr's newest one hour special, and the first in over 7 years, is a hilarious set of stories of the challenges of raising two kids, keeping his family on the right path, along with his legendary impressions (Christopher Walken, Norm MacDonald, Adam Sandler and a host of others) and riotous real life Hollywood stories. As Jay says, "the stories are all true" and they're all funny too.