All Films

Love Portion

2012 • 9 min

There is a married couple that has long been silent to each other. One evening, wife prepares a fatal supper and invites husband over to table. Wife brings up ‘the bitch’ on the table and husband hands her over a divorce paper. Biting her lips with fury, she makes a confession: "I poisoned your food."

A12

2012 • 10 min

A high school senior looks to escape his problems through the use of an experimental drug that allows the user to perceive the world differently.

The Road We've Traveled

2012 • 17 min • United States of America

A short documentary on the first term of President Barack Obama's administration.

Glimpscapes

2012 • 4 min

A journey through brief moments in time and space, starting from a conceptual birth of time to a fragmented reality of contemporary life.

Angry Birds: Year of the Dragon

2012 • 3 min • Finland

Fireworks popping, lanterns glowing, red envelopes bursting with money - it's Chinese New Year! This holiday is China's biggest and longest festival, a time for feasting with family and friends, setting off fireworks, and having fun. The Angry Birds are celebrating the start of the Year of the Dragon, but the piggies are trying to scare them away from their eggs! Luckily the Angry Birds have some help -- the Mighty Eagle has transformed into the fearsome Mighty Dragon!

Arthur and the Bunnies

2012 • 20 min

A man's desire to lead an upstanding life is thwarted when he starts vomiting bunnies.

Grandpas Know Best

2012 • 20 min • Turkey

When Ali's father hires a new secretary, she awakens desires in Ali that the shy 22-year-old never knew he had. But working for his father, his mother reminding him he's the right age to marry, and trying to be a good Muslim complicate things. Now he must choose between family duty and true love. Can you really make yourself and your family happy at the same time?

Harvey's Dream

2012 • 6 min • Canada

An older man with Alzheimer's disease tells his wife of a nightmare he had. She begins to fear that the events of his dream might actually have occurred. Based on the short story by Stephen King.

Maria Bamford: The Special Special Special!

2012 • 50 min • United States of America

Welcome to the special special special comedy special. It's very good. I love comedy. And who do I want to make laugh more than Marilyn and Joel Bamford, my parents? So, we've cut out the middle man of 200 strangers in a tv studio and gone right to the source. With some paid audiences, the feigned enthusiasm can be a little uncomfortable to watch, but I genuinely rock the house. My parents only wish they could be there with you when you watch this with your parents.

Jim's Tie

2012 • 8 min • France

A necktie peddlar, Jim, rings a man's door and surprises him in the middle of committing suicide. Jim will then attempt to restore motivation and interest in life to jack through his seller's arguments.

A Sick Day for Amos McGee

2012 • 9 min • United States of America

Amos McGee is a zookeeper who always makes time for his animal friends. One day, when his sniffles and sneezes prevent him from going to the zoo, he receives some unexpected guests.

A Little Off the Top

2012 • 10 min • Canada

A hair stylist and his long lost, famous client reunite for a styling session down memory lane with unpleasant consequences for one of them.

Terror Telly

2012 • 60 min • United Kingdom

Anthology Horror

Iris

2012 • 29 min • Croatia

Iris is ingenious neo-noir comedy set in Croatia 90, in the gloomy post-war era dominated by tycoons, corruption and war profiteers.

Snuff

2012 • 27 min • United States of America

A psychological drama about two people and the lengths that each will go in order to discover the true meaning of love.

Strawberryland

2012 • 32 min • Austria

A reconstruction, the replica of a complex emotional world made of desire and aggression: a teen film. Florian Pochlatko explores the agonies of adolescence and the rage and frustration caused by being dissatisfied with oneself.

Out of Earth

2012 • 17 min • Mexico

An incestuous relationship between to siblings after their mother's death, leads one of the characters to feel haunted by guilt. They try to forget their blood ties but they only become more evident and hard to manage.

Rota 69

2012 • 5 min

An experimental journey that goes from a rollercoaster ride to a drive through the streets of Rio de Janeiro.

Botong Francisco: A Nation Imagined

2012 • 30 min • Philippines

Shown in conjunction with the eponymous exhibit "Botong Francisco: A Nation Imagined" from December 2012 to March 2013, the documentary is designed and projected to be shown in large scale, together with the selected works, sketches and murals of Carlos "Botong" Francisco. Content-wise, the documentary is part first-person narrative of "Botong" Francisco's reflections (on his life, his work and his aesthetic views on the national imaginary), as well as part meta-referential tableau of the historical, mythical and fictional figures that features in Botong Francisco's works.

The Pond

2012 • 20 min

A young woman who has tragically lost the love of her life stumbles upon a powerful phenomenon while grieving at a place very special to them, a small pond.

When Walt Whitman Was a Little Girl

2012 • 12 min • United States of America

As the title suggests, this is a speculative biography of the artistic side of Walt Whitman. Starting out as an ordinary nine year old girl, young Walt is soon catapulted into the world with all her senses ablaze. Combining drama, dance, puppetry, and potato cannons, the film is a sometimes funny, sometimes sad rumination on growing up as a 'sensitive kid.'

Buta

2012 • 24 min • Japan

Buta the sword for hire is recruited by the Tufugu Pirates on their voyage to seek a stockpile of treasure. On board he discovers a child Kitsune locked away below deck. After some misunderstandings and with the promise of more money, the two of them go on their own adventure.

The Mass of Men

2012 • 17 min • United Kingdom

Richard, an unemployed 55-year-old, arrives 3 minutes late for his appointment at a job centre. An advisor, stifled by the limits of the system she works in, has no choice but to penalise him for his tardiness.

Man On The Sand

2012 • 16 min • Japan

On a premise of a prison, a guard dressed in protective clothing, who is in charge of cleaning of the sandy beach known as the special government-owned land, has been cleaning the beach as usual today. When he was finished with the cleaning, a chief guard dressed in the same protective clothing comes to the beach to take the three condemned criminals.The beach of the sea has the power to take the lives of a person who has touched the sands, and the death penalty had been executed by using such supernatural power in this prison...