All Films

Static Shock Blackout

2012 • 13 min • United States of America

Daisy Watkins, an up and coming news reporter, goes to Dakota City to to discover the name of a super-powered teenage vigilante. It's a fan adaptation of Dwayne McDuffie's comic book and television series: Static Shock.

Legs - Atavism

2012 • 11 min • Russia

In this 10-minute study the fi lm crew tries to get to the secrets of one of the wildest branches of experimental medicine.

Bird in a Box

2012 • 9 min • United Kingdom

A surreal short comedy about a lonely man whose first proper date in years is sabotaged by the unattainable love of his life, who proves to have as much control over his heart as she does over his route.

In Session

2012 • 13 min

A former Sing Sing inmate, accidentally robs and is held captive by his old shrink Dr. Beck, an ex-criminal psychologist turned librarian after the murder of his wife and son, who interrogates the intruder as though it were one of their sessions turned awry.

Practice Makes Perfect

2012 • 11 min • United States of America

The film is primarily a portrait of Kam Kelly, who teaches West African drumming to students at various New York schools, including Intermediate School 292 in Brooklyn. One of his students, Jessica Jackson, is featured. The piece was commissioned for the “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 2012.

Broken

2012 • 21 min • Hong Kong

Everyone is an opportunist if they have an opportunity, and the person below is just a stepping stone up the chain of power. When two boys are left home alone with Grandpa going about his usual business in antiques and collectibles, their improvised ball game results in the breaking of a precious vase. Sly big brother attempts to lay the blame on little brother, by hook and by crook, but Grandpa is as savvy a collector as he is a guardian. The little culprits duly accept their punishment, the blows cushioned by a padding of good humour.

Killer

2012 • 19 min

Detective John Hay is told his young son has been kidnapped and he has just 15 minutes to reach him. Forced into a desperate race against time he fights to overcome obstacles the kidnapper has prepared whilst piecing together the identity of his tormentor. In the final moments he is has to face the truth about the role he has played in this deadly game and the impact on his son, who will never again see his father with innocent eyes.

Sacred Whispers

2012 • 21 min • United States of America

The story takes place in the 1940's and in the beginning of the 1960's. Thomas Smith had a religious upbringing! His mother being quite abusive, forbade him from pursuing his passions. This suppression, turned Thomas into a deprived individual resulting in his growing up a tormented soul, constantly fighting his demons, striving for salvation.

Tom Rhodes: Light, Sweet, Crude

2012 • 56 min • United States of America

Back from traveling the world, comedian Tom Rhodes takes to the stage of Colorado's Boulder Theater for this blistering hour-long performance.

Blush

2012 • 26 min • United States of America

Two high school geeks create alter ego ski-bum spies to deal with their social anxieties.

Pendulum

2012 • 4 min • Japan

An intense short movie showing a turbulent marriage. The wife is always smiling. The man gets angry time and again.

Todd Barry: Super Crazy

2012 • 60 min • United States of America

Super Crazy is the first feature length special from New York City's Todd Barry.

Making of 'Like Someone in Love'

2012 • 47 min

Documentary with behind-the-scenes footage on the set of Abbas Kiarostomi's 2012 film "Like Someone in Love" with narration by the director.

In Transit

2012 • 8 min

Based on true events, the film is the meeting of two people from diametricaly opposite cultures at a typical Los Angeles bus stop. The more they interact, they realize one common factor brought them together as their lives intersect in transit.

Ice Age Death Trap

2012 • 54 min • United States of America

In a race against developers in the Rocky Mountains, paleontologists uncover a unique fossil site packed with astonishingly well-preserved bones of mammoths, mastodons, and other giant extinct beasts. The discovery opens a highly focused window on the vanished world of the Ice Age in North America.

NOVA: Secrets of the Viking Sword

2012 • 54 min • United States of America

The Vikings were the most ferocious warriors of the Middle Ages. Especially fearsome were the select few who wielded a formidable weapon: a light, razor sharp, virtually indestructible sword with its maker's name, Ulfberht, inlaid along the blade.

Wrath of God: Confrontation

2012 • 9 min

WRATH OF GOD: CONFRONTATION is the first in a series of films with overarching stories that take us from the dawn of human civilization all the way to its technological epitome. A mysterious relic lies at the heart of their pursuit. Some want power to dominate. Others want peace and freedom. In the end, the choice is our own... Adam is a man with a violent past and a desire to escape the terrible wrath he has wrought on many others. Hurt and betrayed, he turns his anger on those who gave him up in search of the relic he helped steal. Kruger is a man whose allegiance lies to whomever pays him the most. Having lost his family to war early in life, Kruger's innocence was twisted into a solitary desire for self preservation at any cost.

The Powder Room

2012 • 3 min • United States of America, Italy

An enchanting and dramatic short film set in London’s Claridges hotel. As its name suggests, the piece takes us into an ultra-feminine environment where gestures between women are traded in a ritual of opulent beauty.

Gasp

2012 • 15 min

A seventeen-year-old boy. All he wants is to feel something. Anything. One day he pushes his longing to the limit.

Going To Extremes: Yuri Morishita

2012 • 60 min • Japan

Saori is living a strange life together with her ex-husband, Tsuyoshi, whose business failed after divorcing her, and her older sister, Rika, who is planning to study abroad. The hearts of the three, who had been kept in a delicate balance, were swaying indecently with sadness and jealousy...

Teacher Of The Year

2012 • 17 min • United States of America

A day in the life of Ethan Collins, a severely depressed, foul-mouthed elementary school teacher whose wife's recent infidelity and departure have left him questioning everything in his life.

Crossing Over

2012 • 19 min • Greece

A group of old friends gather to scatter the ashes of a husband, a father, a friend in a place where present is confronted to the past. As if wasn’t flying, as if past and present were united.

TimeScapes

2012 • 52 min • New Zealand, United States of America

Stunning slow-motion and timelapse cinematography of the landscapes, people and wildlife of the American South West.

Hoverboard

2012 • 6 min • United States of America

After watching Back to the Future 2, an imaginative young girl and her stuffed teddy bear try to invent a real, working Hoverboard.