All Films

Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter: The Great Calamity

2012 • 7 min

A motion comic follow-up to a chapter from Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter novel where Abe's friend, Edgar Allan Poe, tells him the tale of historical Hungarian countess Elizabeth Bathory, often tied to vampire legends due to her brutality.

The Rifle's Spiral

2012 • 3 min • United States of America

A young magician must save her rabbit from the hands of three evil men.

Malody

2012 • 13 min • Canada

Set inside a roadside diner, a sick woman meets herself as a little girl in the reflection of a mirror. The diner 'set' is built within a large wooden wheel and is literally rolled through a studio. As the world turns upside down, the changing gravitational pull creates chaos and sets off a fateful chain of events.

People who are Eating

2012 • 3 min • Japan

People can show some other personality when eating. Some become like herbivores, chewing so many times. Some becomes like carp, crowing around bait. Some become like hamsters, with their mouths full, etc. Everyone is unique and worth observation.

O Terno do Zé

2012 • 21 min • Brazil

Flávio is a filmmaker who was famous during the 1970s, but who's now forgotten by the public. Urging to become relevant again, he's willing to try everything, even by methods in which he doesn't believe. A supernatural debt, however, may be compromising his career.

Jim Norton: Please Be Offended

2012 • 60 min • United States of America

Caustic comedian and best-selling author Jim Norton pulls no punches in his first EPIX comedy special, going after jaw-dropping laughs not intended for the faint of heart. Among his targets: the national hypersensitivity epidemic - leading celebrities, talking heads and regular Joes alike to get offended by just about anything. Norton's got a message for those people, and it's in the title.

Desconstruindo o Castelo

2012 • 33 min • Brazil

A documentary about the educational children's TV show Castelo Rá-Tim-Bum that originally ran from 1994 to 1997 and shown to this day on Brazilian public television.

Endless

2012 • 10 min • Japan

There are old stories of children disappearing by the river's edge. It's haunted Otoha ever since her friend Jiro went missing when she was young. Now she is back in her hometown covering the war, and she feels as though something is calling to her.

Auto-Erotismus

2012 • 17 min

Fotovision + Poetry by Eckhart Schmidt, published as an extra short film on "Motel Girls".

Ovo

2012 • 18 min • France

While a fascist party increases in power, Laurent flees the country. On the way which takes him to the exile, he remembers the milestones that have urged him to abandon everything.

The Bond

2012 • 5 min

A married couple become the focus of an intense police investigation surrounding a series of ritualistic murders in the small New Hampshire community of Madham.

Water to Wine

2012 • 45 min • United States of America

The film is about half-documentary, half-comedy about a kid who is thought to be the top snowboarder in the world until the day he gets put in jail. When released, he's picked up by all the other top snowboarders in the world in a party van, and to celebrate, they all go up the mountain the van for a snowboard party. All of the snowboarders in the film are real people and the story is semi-true.

Clean-cut People

2012 • 35 min • Sweden

Anders, a former factory worker, has been driven into a meaningless existence and lives outside the civilized human frame. His father Stig is a demented senior with a successful academic career. Stig is full of pride and joy of life. The gap between them is an unresolved conflict.

Love and Death in Los Angeles

2012 • 19 min • United States of America

After aborting his last assignment for moral reasons, a contract killer is given a second chance to prove his loyalty. But when he learns his mark is his girlfriend's husband, he finds himself battling the ultimate moral dilemma. With only 72 hours to fulfill the contract, he must find a way to save the innocent, and himself... but not everyone is as innocent as they seem.

Me

2012 • 6 min • France

Living in a strict and very regulated world, a man has to hide his homosexuality and dance, dance, until the moment he finds the strength to face these rules and reveal who he really is.

A Night at the Movies: Hollywood Goes to Washington

2012 • 58 min • United States of America

A survey of movies about politics, with clips from several films and interviews with filmmakers and actors.

The Auctioneer

2012 • 57 min

A portrait of auctioneer Dale Menzak and his work as undertaker of the family farm.

Bewilderbeast

2012 • 26 min • Denmark

Mads leaves his aristocratic home after his girlfriend announces her pregnancy, in the attempt to rediscover himself. Soon he joins an idealistic terror sect planning to annihilating world only to rebuild it once again. Sexually charged Mads comes to a bloody realization of what he is made of.

Turn Off Your Bloody Phone: An American Werewolf in London

2012 • 1 min • United Kingdom

One in a series of short PSAs produced for FrightFest 2012 admonishing people to turn off their bloody phones.

The 'E.T.' Journals

2012 • 54 min • United States of America

The following documentary is composed exclusively of original behind-the-scenes footage shot during the production of "E.T." in 1981. It follows the order of the scenes as they appear in the film.

The Last Reef: Cities Beneath the Sea

2012 • 41 min • Bahamas, Canada, French Polynesia, Mexico, Palau, United States of America

From the Academy-Award nominated creators of the Broadway show STOMP and the award-winning film Wild Ocean, The Last Reef is an uplifting, inspirational large-format and 3D cinema experience capturing one of nature's more vibrant and diverse wonderlands. Exotic coral reefs, vibrant sea walls in the sub-arctic pulsating with anemones and crustaceans: these biodiversity hot spots are as vital to our lives as the rainforests. Shot on location in Palau, Vancouver Island, French Polynesia, Mexico, and The Bahamas using groundbreaking 3D cinematography, The Last Reef takes us on a global journey to explore the connection of our cities on land with the ocean's complex, parallel world of the coral reefs beneath the sea.

Auditioning Fanny

2012 • 15 min • Australia

Auditioning Fanny follows an eventful week in the life of Fanny Love. A naive woman with stars in her eyes for an old Hollywood world long gone, and a dream of a love story lost in modern society. With the innocence of a child and the temper of a psychopath, she is thrilled when auditions for a new musical film starring heart throb Jack Baron are announced. With a spring in her step and a song in her heart, Fanny knows this is the big break she's been waiting for, and as long as nobody stands in her path, everything should work out just dandy.

Beatitudes

2012 • 16 min • Greece

A retiring man in rioting Athens faces ghosts and memories from the past to make choices about the present.

Head Over Heels

2012 • 10 min • United Kingdom

After many years of marriage, Walter and Madge have grown apart: He lives on the floor and she lives on the ceiling. When Walter tries to reignite their old romance, their equilibrium comes crashing down, and the couple that can’t agree which way is up must find a way to put their marriage back together.