All Films

Sofia the First: Once Upon a Princess

2012 • 47 min • United States of America

Set in the storybook world of Enchancia, the music-filled movie follows Sofia, an average girl whose life suddenly changes when her mother marries the king and she is whisked off to live in a castle with her mom, new step-father, King Roland II, and step-siblings, Amber and James. Along the way this ordinary girl learns to navigate the extraordinary life of royalty, and in the process makes everyone around her feel special.

Hazel

2012 • 8 min • Switzerland

An obsessive mother, on the verge of a nervous breakdown. A father, carefully blotted out from all the family photos and a dreadful child-psychiatrist with unconventional methods - This is the summary of young Hazel's life, secretly attracted to boys...

Fire Dance

2012 • 2 min • Australia

Fire dancing is a form of Poi, a Maori art that involves spinning a set of tethered weights around a person's body in rhythmic patterns. It is a skill that takes patience to learn and years of dedication to master. The film slows the movements down to capture the lifelike characteristics of the fire, show how close it gets to the dancer's face and body, and to emphasize the grace and focus needed to control this dangerous yet beautiful entity.

Gingers

2012 • 6 min

George, hopelessly in love, has his heart broken by a fiery redhead named Ginge. As he stumbles home, fueled with grief, the familiar pathway turns into a nightmare. What appear to be figments of George's imagination, develop into haunting hallucinations by seductive females of the ginger persuasion. One after the other, they come at him from every angle. There is no escaping their zombie like presence. Is it a simple case of withdrawal, or something more ominous?

Spread

2012 • 23 min • United States of America

A sexually transmitted disease causes students to drop dead at an alarming rate on a Midwest campus. When Cameron discovers his girlfriend is the first victim, he becomes the first suspect.

Beautiful People

2012 • 60 min • United States of America

TV movie from Stephen Hopkins

Waffle Hut

2012 • 30 min • United States of America

After graduating from Brown University, Hope Danelles finds herself failing miserably trying to make a go of it in New York and ends up moving back to her hometown of Traver. Ohio. After realizing the small town has very little going on, Hope is forced to take a job at the local Waffle Hut.

The Snowman and the Snowdog

2012 • 24 min • United Kingdom

Charming animated sequel to Raymond Briggs's classic The Snowman. When a young boy and his mother move house, he builds a Snowman and a Snowdog who magically come to life.

Rockaway

2012 • 18 min • United States of America

A teenager's questionable and erratic behavior to free herself from an abusive past causes her to relive the pain of it in Rockaway, Queens, NY.

Chinese Puppy

2012 • 15 min • Spain

Rosa, a fifty-five year old single woman, and Sabina, a Cuban girl of 25, are neighbors and share a rooftop terrace in the city. Two uprooted women. They haven't met but they share a lot in common, both having left their home and past behind.

Turbo

2012 • 31 min • Denmark

As Asger peers through the rear window of his car, he cannot remember why his heart is pounding. Why there is blood pouring from his forehead? Why is his side mirror broken? And whose is that mobile on the passenger seat?

Loved Ones

2012 • 27 min • Sweden

An intricate triangle drama is placed at its apex around the deathbed of a mother.

Arundel

2012 • 18 min • Greece

In an isolated island, a young woman receives letters form someone far away. she lives under the same roof with an older woman. a young postman arrives. a stray dog follows him from the very start. the three characters seem to lead separate lives, with no obvious bond between them. Still, as the story unfolds, the sender's letters seem to interweave the three characters. is it the sender's voice or their own voices they never listened to?

Bat Eyes

2012 • 11 min • Australia

The confusion of first love, sexual awakening and the poetry of W.B. Yeats explored.

The Commitment

2012 • 21 min • Canada, United States of America

An interracial gay couple adopting a newborn baby meets the pregnant Asian birthmother and receives a surprise that threatens their relationship.

D.r.

2012 • 10 min • Brazil

Felipe is confronted by his wife, unhappy with the marriage, and by his mother-in-law. A simple discussion of relationship turns into a nightmare.

Ninety Seconds

2012 • 27 min

In the near future, a surveillance expert takes on an assignment that may prove to be his downfall.

Unwind

2012 • 7 min • United States of America

Three teens, slated to be 'unwound,' run for their lives in a future that is too close for comfort.

Li'l Spider Girl

2012 • 25 min • Japan

This story involves the shopkeeper Suzuri of Kokumondou who sells historic books and Mizuki, granddaughter of the land owner. When Mizuki releases a somewhat cute young spider demon out of a sealed book, the pair investigate the origins behind it.

Metamorphosis

2012 • 15 min • United States of America

Metamorphosis is a much darker retelling of Franz Kafka's classic providing a look into a modern family's reaction to their teenage son's revelation of his new identity, a hideous, human-sized cockroach.

The Wand

2012 • 2 min • United States of America

Finn and Jake must team up with the Ice King to stop a misbehaving wand.

Casino Moon

2012 • 15 min • China, United States of America

A debt-ridden goofball on the run from the mob in Las Vegas falls for a roulette dealer.

Americana

2012 • 60 min

A legendary fashion designer - his life, his job and his family.

The Program

2012 • 9 min • United States of America

Filmmaker Laura Poitras profiles William Binney, a 32-year veteran of the National Security Agency who helped design a top-secret program he says is broadly collecting Americans' personal data.