All Films

Michael Curtiz: The Greatest Director You Never Heard Of

2012 • 37 min • United States of America

Documentary about the work of film director Michael Curtiz.

Bud's Best - Die Welt des Bud Spencer

2012 • 52 min • Germany

Documentary is a look back at the varied life of the Olympic competitor, inventor and actor Bud Spencer, who became particularly famous in Germany for his "Hau drauf" comedies with film partner Terrence Hill. Through numerous interviews with family members, fans and connoisseurs, the film also provides a very private insight into the life of the man who, by his own admission, actually has nothing in common with the fictional character "Bud Spencer", and attempts to fathom the cult that still surrounds him today.

Tavern Man

2012 • 15 min • Finland, Portugal

A typical day in the life of a lonely man who works in an unsuccessful tavern located in the historical center of Guimarães, an old town in Portugal. During the day, the man spends his time coming up with new menu items for his tavern, while at night he gets ready to meet someone special.

Play House

2012 • 9 min • United States of America

The only thing keeping Harold's family bound is his unconditional love for them.

Bon Iver at AIR Studios (4AD/Jagjaguwar Session)

2012 • 24 min • United States of America

4AD and Jagjaguwar have collaborated on a live session that captures a truly unique Bon Iver performance, featuring Justin Vernon and Sean Carey. On recent tours fans will have become accustomed to seeing Vernon flanked by an eleven-piece band, with the swell in numbers lending a grandiose element to even his most delicate songs. Sidestepping expectations, the idea Vernon presented for this session was to provide a wildly different experience.

The Dreamer

2012 • 6 min • United States of America

Armed with a saxophone and a plastic cape, Larry "Antenna Man" Connor makes a name for himself the best way he knows how. Part of the Open City Mixtape series.

A Bend in the Road

2012 • 11 min

During one afternoon in the barren back lands of New Zealand, adolescent Josh is forced to choose between saving his mate or saving face in front of an ultra violent bully who was once his idol.

The Landfill

2012 • 4 min • United States of America

Trash becomes energy at a small New York landfill where people are thinking differently about garbage.

This Boy Caught a Merman

2012 • 28 min • Japan

When Shima nearly drowns trying to retrieve a picture, he’s saved by a merman named Isaki. Despite their differences, they begin to bond, but love across species isn’t simple.

Blitzeis

2012 • 29 min • Switzerland

Andreas is a journalist covering a story on Larissa, a patient with tuberculosis. At the hospital he meets a nurse called Yvonne. The encounter with the two women moves Andreas more than he wishes to admit. A short film about luck and its inevitable slipping away.

That Wasn't Me

2012 • 20 min • Spain

Aquél no Era Yo [That Wasn't Me] is a 2012 Spanish short film directed by Esteban Crespo. It tells the story of Paul and Kaney. Two characters, an African child and a Spanish woman, who could have nothing in common, but will get to join their lives forever through a life-giving shot. Kaney is an African child soldier. He lives with many child soldiers and obeys the orders given by the man who has become like their father, the General of the Rebel Army. Paula is a Spanish aid worker who moved to Africa following her boyfriend, Juanjo, in order to bring help and to rescue the child soldiers who live there. In a border crossing point, Paula and Kaney meet each other and this will be the starting point of this dramatic story, full of fear, violence and redemption. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.

Ijô shiiku: Waisetsu seikô

2012 • 60 min • Japan

Sakuya, a lackluster erotic manga artist, lives with her mother and older sister Kanoko. One day, she, who is her sister's mistress and became a manga artist thanks to her editor's ignorance, receives an offer from a new magazine. When Sakuya walks into her cross-dressing bar to study, she finds a man dressed as a woman there.

If I Am Your Mirror

2012 • 19 min • United States of America

A psychologically scarred Civil War veteran's journey to the gallows. Inspired by the 19th century Romantic era painting and Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Tell-Tale Heart'.

Land

2012 • 24 min • Italy

On a boat at night, the secret journey of a man returning home.

Do I Have to Take Care of Everything?

2012 • 7 min • Finland

A comedy about a chaotic morning in a family with kids, and a mother who is determined that it's best to take care of everything herself.

Deuce and a Quarter

2012 • 20 min • United States of America

On a road trip through the American South, two close friends experience a major radio malfunction, followed by curious encounters at an Alabama auto repair shop.

Monsters Do Not Exist

2012 • 10 min • Spain

Phonm Penh, Cambodia. Nai has nightmares in which The Yeak, a monster from Khmer mythology that eats children who misbehave, appears to him.

Killer Teens

2012 • 42 min • United States of America

Killer Teens is a one-hour crime series exploring the frightening phenomenon of murder committed by teenagers.

Danger of Complete Extinction

2012 • 26 min • Russia

Phillipp's panic fear to look like his dad-failure and to repeat dad's steps of life provoke internal riot against the whole humanity and release on a cold streets

Demi Lovato: Stay Strong

2012 • 42 min • United States of America

In this one-hour documentary film, Demi will let the MTV audience inside to witness their most private moments, during their very public recovery from their eating disorder. With MTV's cameras following, they'll return for the very first time to the treatment facility they retreated to back in November 2010 to speak candidly to their recovering peers about their experiences, and to thank the counselors and staff who they say kept them alive. They'll also let the MTV audience witness first-hand their on-going evolution as an artist - as they ditch their bubble-gum Disney past and tries on a new persona as confessional singer-songwriter, and perform an album full of deeply personal material in-front of sold-out crowds for the first time.

Player

2012 • 30 min • Sweden

On a seemingly ordinary night out, a young man, Victor, finds what he think is true love for the first time in his life. But what starts as a dream soon becomes a nightmare and before the new day, Victor will have to confront his deepest fears and re-evaluate his beliefs about life, love and sex. —Erik Lundqvist

Ngā Tamatoa: 40 Years On

2012 • 52 min • New Zealand

Actor Rawiri Paratene was 16 years old when he joined Māori activist group Ngā Tamatoa (Young Warriors) in the early 1970s. "Those years helped shape the rest of my life," says Paratene in this 2012 Māori TV documentary, directed by Kim Webby. The programme is richly woven with news archive from the 1970s, showing protests about land rights and the Treaty of Waitangi, and a campaign for te reo to be taught in schools. Several ex Ngā Tamatoa members — including Hone Harawira, Tame Iti and Larry Parr— are interviewed by Paratene, who also presents the documentary.

Degrassi: Las Vegas

2012 • 45 min

After winning tickets for a trip to Vegas at a fundraiser, a bunch of the Degrassi kids take off on a spring break adventure that none of them will ever forget.

Uncle Drew

2012 • 5 min

Pepsi MAX went to a pick-up game in Bloomfield, NJ and some magical things happened.