All Films

Winners

2012 • 12 min • Canada

Didi and Max are the most competitive best friends in the fourth grade. But their friendship hangs in the balance when Principal Jack announces a school-wide contest to see who can sell the most fertilizer.

Eugene

2012 • 13 min

A man checks into a hotel and is mysteriously delivered an intriguing gift.

The Diddler

2012 • 17 min

The Diddler is a loose homage to the immortal series 'Alfred Hitchcock Presents'. Love triangles, mickey-slipping with unusual results, imaginary friends with imaginary guns... All this leads us to one question: Who is The Diddler?

Miss Navajo

2012 • 53 min • United States of America

The role of women and tradition in Dine (Navajo) culture is explored through a young girl's quest for the Miss Navajo Nation crown.

Kyokyo Jitsujitsu

2012 • 29 min • Japan

At a job interview, Makoto tries to impress the interviewer by telling a lie: "I rode around Japan on stilts. His girlfriend, Nozomi, runs out of patience with him and leaves him after trying to pass the interview with a lie. In order to get back together with Nozomi, Makoto is determined to get the job offer and creates a story about his experience on the stilts trip, which was a lie. As he sweats it out, planning his route and carrying his backpack, he begins to see what he really wants to do. ......

Sing Meloetta: Search for the Rinka Berries

2012 • 9 min • Japan

Meowth and Wobbuffet sit on a cliff near a crystal cave, with Meowth thinking about how beautiful Meloetta is. Suddenly, Meloetta flies past, searching for something, then flies off. Meowth and Wobbuffet take off after it.

Blind Spot

2012 • 9 min • France

A woman's paranoia makes her day miserable.

Joe Rogan: Live from the Tabernacle

2012 • 60 min • United States of America

Joe Rogan's hour-long stand-up comedy special Live from the Tabernacle.

The Carol of the Old Ones

2012 • 48 min • Japan

The stage of this piece is a film school. In this setting, there is a heroine aspiring to be a director who has invited a major actress to perform in a film that will become her art project graduation piece. This actress is a lecturer and the heroine feels reverence for her. However, before one knows, the setting falls into complete disorder and the performers are forced to tackle a formidable force that is beyond the control of individuals.

Bullied

2012 • 13 min

Eli is your everyday child; he goes to school, has a loving family, and enjoys drawing. His only problem is that some of his classmates, Mark, Luke, and Will, push him around and bully him at school, eventually pushing him to his breaking point.

The Island of the Dead

2012 • 8 min • Germany

A soldier is about to be executed because of his disobedience. The execution will be carried out by an ancient machine which engraves a sentence (the committed crime) on a man's skin. What would happen if silent-film fan Franz Kafka were to ask FW Murnau to make a movie of his short story In the Penal Colony?

The Death, Her and Me

2012 • 50 min • Japan

After suffering a serious illness as a child, Yukari Tokino is able to see the dead.

Kekkon Houkoku

2012 • 46 min • Japan

Infinito

2012 • 9 min • Brazil

The breath on your skin speaks for you while you rest. The smell is deafening. Its fragrance, a poisonous composition, has the power to tear fragile hearts away. What flower wouldn't be jealous of you?

Milezim

2012 • 4 min • France

Schlusspunkt

2012 • 15 min • Germany

A random night in Munich. A young woman arrives at a police station. She wants to file charges, but as the officer takes her deposition, the tides turn.

Tinsel

2012 • 47 min • United States of America

The story of an escaped psychopath finds its way into a young woman's nightmares, turning a seemingly normal Christmas party into a whirlwind of psychological thrills and twists.

Circle Line

2012 • 26 min • South Korea

A desperate, lonely man and a homeless woman with a baby cross paths in this offbeat slice of life piece.

Ozu: Passageways

2012 • 2 min • United States of America

People constantly appear walking through passageways in the films of Japanese filmmaker Yasujirō Ozu (1903-63). His art resides in the in-between spaces of modern life, in the transitory: alleys are no longer dark and threatening traps where suspense is born, but simple places of passage.

Overtime War

2012 • 5 min • Sweden

Benefits and days off in war.

Goodnight, Mr. Foot

2012 • 4 min • United States of America

Bigfoot checks into Hotel Transylvania to get some sleep but keeps getting disturbed by a zealous witch maid.

Another Dimension

2012 • 26 min • Estonia

UFOs and spirits can be seen in Salme municipality on the island Saaremaa. There are viking skeletons and the Sõnajalg family wind turbines coming out of the depths of the earth and a helicopter flying to a village shop scares away cow herds. There are two realities here that do not fit together.

How the Snowman Came Back to Life

2012 • 60 min • United Kingdom

Raymond Briggs gives a rare glimpse into his world as we visit the animation studios where a small army of people are working to produce the new film, The Snowman and The Snowdog.

Aria

2012 • 3 min

French ballet dancer and Black Swan choreographer Benjamin Millepied captures the freeform movement of rising dance star Lil Buck.