All Films

Headlong

2012 • 17 min • Belgium

On the occasion of a dance competition a young ballet dancer is in a foreign place. Alone in his hotel room loneliness overpowers him, until he meets a stranger on the run.

Ordinary Life

2012 • 6 min

"Ordinary Life" questions our awareness about environmental issues. The standard morning routine, part of the family’s normal day their unvarying routine continues each and every day. A spotlight is shone on the environmental issues that are gradually forgotten in day-to-day actions.

Defining Fay

2012 • 9 min • United Kingdom

A greedy multinational company, a poetic vision of the end of the world, an extraordinary drug-induced dream, great love. Not necessarily in that order.

Splitter

2012 • 15 min • Sweden

Two people and the brief 'shatters' of the moments they spent together in happiness and sadness.

The Pub

2012 • 8 min • United Kingdom

Kemi lives and works in the murky slipstream of a North London pub. As the booze flows the line between who belongs behind and in front of the bar becomes increasingly blurred.

The Arm

2012 • 9 min • United States of America

In an attempt to keep up with social pressure in a technologically advanced world, Chance starts a texting relationship with Genevieve - a girl he meets at a yogurt shop. But when Genevieve dies while texting and driving it forces Chance to realize he was never in a relationship at all.

Roses

2012 • 7 min • United States of America

Wisdom comes in many forms, but we seldom take it. Especially when it comes in the guise of a heartbroken youth, sitting on a bench in Central Park. But his message is timeless: You cannot appreciate life unless you stop and smell the roses.

Alaska is a Drag

2012 • 14 min • United States of America

Leo's dreams of being an international drag superstar are hard fought working in a fish cannery in Alaska.

Entry Level

2012 • 30 min

About a guy who gets his heart broken by his girlfriend and now has to work one cubicle away from her at an ad agency.

The Napkin

2012 • 15 min

A neurotic young man attempts to handle the recent death of his father while hosting a bachelor party for his best friend.

Jesse Owens

2012 • 53 min

Jesse Owens details Jesse's early career; describes Adolf Hitler s outsized ambitions for the 1936 Olympics; explores the movement in Western democracies to boycott the event; and explains the pressures on Owens to attend. The film also explores why, despite his success in Germany, Owens struggled to find a place for himself in a United States that was still wrestling with its own deeply entrenched racism.

Suspended

2012 • 18 min • Australia

Confronted by the stark reality that his father is in an intimate relationship with another woman, seven-year-old Caleb grapples with his sense of belonging and begins to inhabit a realm of frightening magical possibility. The cracks in his parents relationship, coupled with their drug use and inability to communicate, drive Caleb further into his imagination. It is not until he meets Eddie, a blind man with a sense of mischief and a subtle inner knowing, that Caleb begins to open up and explore his own innate potential for magic, which leads ultimately, to a fulfillment of the impossible.

Żaklina

2012 • 33 min • Poland

Two high school students are fascinated by a mature, attractive woman named Żaklina. The boys' friendship, strengthened by the common passion of filmmaking, seems to be indestructible until both of them try to seduce her.

One Piece: Glorious Island

2012 • 11 min • Japan

This short sees the crew messing around on the Sunny, leading into a party before they come upon Z in the ocean, which leads into Film Z.

The Scribe

2012 • 15 min • United States of America

In order to help his younger sister pay for college, a burnout writer-for-hire accepts an impossible gig: to pen a thesis paper in 72 hours.

Pockets

2012 • 3 min • United States of America

A homeless bum, bored of eating the same food every night, promises his girlfriend a special dinner. He plans to take her out with money robbed from a passing stranger. But the bum’s in for a surprise when the man he targets for his mugging turns out to have special – and hilarious – powers.

Lichen

2012 • 9 min

Through chance and coincidence, infinitely small decisions can produce new life.

The Collector

2012 • 15 min • United States of America

The Collector is about a young beautiful Malibu girl who pursues countless men to fulfill her desires. Until she meets a man who also prizes himself as a different sort of collector.

Still Meadows

2012 • 33 min

Washed-up horror novelist Owen Slater has hit rock bottom following his exploitation of a family's tragedy in one of his best-selling novels. But, when paranormal investigator Jack Grady recruits him for his subsequent investigation in the town of Still Meadows (the setting of Owen's book) Owen sees this as the perfect opportunity to redeem himself.

Silent

2012 • 14 min • Turkey

A woman tries to give a pair of shoes to her husband, who is in prison. The story takes place in Diyarbakır, Turkey in 1984 after the military coup in 1980, where the only language allowed to be spoken in prison is Turkish. The film won “Palme D’or” for short film in Cannes Film Festival 2012.

Marriage Material

2012 • 55 min • United States of America

Emily and Andrew, a young couple living in Memphis, agree to babysit their friend’s 6-month-old for a day. The experience causes them to examine their own relationship and their feelings about marriage and children.

Breaking Santa

2012 • 11 min • Canada

Santa goes on a blind date and ends up getting a lesson in Stockholm Syndrome.

Frost

2012 • 13 min • Canada

A young arctic hunter's search for food takes her beyond a sacred boundary and leads to a strange and terrifying discovery.

Too Much Water

2012 • 14 min • Uruguay

A young woman vacationing in a lonely country house, fills her backyard pool every night found in it empty by the morning. Strange neighbors and even stranger circumstances start to getting her paranoid about where the water is actually going.