All Films

Last Fragments of Winter

2011 • 25 min • Japan, Malaysia

A dreamlike cinematic poem about a family. A boy runs an errand for his mother and realizes that she is dying. A man attends the funeral of a former lover and speaks to her ghost. A woman learns to appreciate the little things around her in everyday life. Meanwhile, in another place at another time, a young girl tries to photograph an incredibly beautiful snow landscape.

Forgiven

2011 • 12 min • United States of America

When a Butcher can find no trace of his boss's daughter, he must face the reality that he is responsible for her death. He wants desperately to be forgiven.

Crystallized

2011 • 30 min • Japan

Ever since the accident, Satomi has been obsessively talking to snow crystals and drawing "letters" in order to pray for her boyfriend's recovery from a deep coma.

Enco

2011 • 17 min • Chile

On a deserted beach, a little guy embarks on a mysterious ship. This is how his journey starts, a journey between dream and reality.

349 (for Sol LeWitt)

2011 • 1 min • Canada

“A digitally animated version of Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawing #349, which was commissioned by Toronto’s Mercer Union gallery in 1981. Recreating LeWitt’s geometric vocabulary and primary colour palette, 349 careens through emblazoned emblems, lifted from walls and transported into dialogue with LeWitt’s exploration of spatial systems and human emotion.” – Andréa Picard

Uma Visita Para Elizabeth Teixeira

2011 • 13 min • Brazil

Short documentary about a woman known from a film by Eduardo Coutinho.

Douce Menace

2011 • 7 min • France

Another great short created by students from Supinfocom Arles, Douce Menace plays with the ideas of representation, reality, context and scale. Staged in and focused on the city of Paris, the short tours through a number of the city’s landmark buildings, with several references to tourism, but from an unexpected narrative point of view. The film makes effective use of off-screen space combined with sound. There’s also great attention dedicated to aesthetics, framing, composition, and especially to set design. The environments’ work is impressive, with lots of attention dedicated to detail and lighting, and a number of characters populating it that help bring the staging alive. A lot of effort has also been dedicated to the animation of the pigeon, and to the destruction sequences, which are anticipated symbolically through the staining of the map of Paris (2m35) and the change in music mood.

Memórias do Meu Tio

2011 • 14 min • Brazil

The adventures of Ariel, a 10 years old boy who finds his already dead grand-uncle and with him goes in the search of an unimaginable treasure.

100k

2011 • 14 min • Puerto Rico

A man's girlfriend is kidnapped in exchange for the sum of $100,000.

The Case

2011 • 5 min • Czech Republic

Part police procedural, part mood piece, the only thing that's clear in Czech director Martin Zivocky's strikingly stylized film noir is that nothing is clear.

I Saw Mice Burying a Cat

2011 • 6 min • China, Russia

The story begins romantically, continues as a farce, turning into a thriller, but ends up as a high tragedy.

Snakes and Ladders

2011 • 3 min • United States of America

A mashup of the Lindbergh baby kidnapping and Wall Street collapses.

Armand 15 ans l'été

2011 • 50 min • France

Beat

2011 • 8 min • Israel

In a bland, utilitarian world of order, one worker finds his inner jazz

Das Badezimmer

2011 • 6 min • Germany

In reference to the trailer of Psycho (USA 1960), narrated in German by Alfred Hitchcock himself, a gardener with a chainsaw guides us through the premises of the Herbert Gerisch Foundation in Schleswig-Holstein 51 years later. The visit ends, just like in the original trailer…, in a bathroom.

Nego

2011 • 10 min • Brazil

Small, black and skinny, another street boy obeying the crook known as Parana, even unprotected and alone, he walks for hours in the dangerous streets of a nightly Sao Paulo, to deliver a mysterious package. As he goes in his journey suffering cold, distresses, loneliness and fear, Nego takes refuge into his thoughts, pictures of his life.

Married, Single, Dead

2011 • 45 min • United Kingdom

Married, Single, Dead reveals the alarming emergence of cases in which women are killed by their ex-partners after changing their relationship status from “married” to “single” on Facebook.

Symmetry

2011 • 3 min • United States of America

Is the world full of deep symmetries and ordered pairs? Or do we live in a lopsided universe? This striking video plays with our yearning for balance, and reveals how beautiful imperfect matches can be. The video made by Everynone was inspired by Radiolab's Desperately Seeking Symmetry episode.

A Drop of Sunshine

2011 • 40 min • India

Schizophrenia. It may be one word, but it immediately conjures up multiple connotations. Mad. Incurable. Violent. Suicidal. Chemical imbalances. Crazy. A lifelong condition. Inevitable dependency on Medicines. Dark. Terrible. 'A Drop of Sunshine' challenges these notions. It questions the mainstream view of the condition and seeks alternate ways of recovering from it. Through the powerful story of its young and gutsy protagonist, Reshma Valiappan, it seeks to give viewers a new vocabulary to address the stigmatized mental illness. The film proposes that the only treatment method that can work in Schizophrenia is one where the so-called 'patient' is encouraged and empowered to become an equal partner in the process of healing.

Reluctant Bachelor

2011 • 58 min • Iran

We had a comfortable life until my father went bankrupt and I blamed him for our misfortune. Being 30 and still living with my parents, I do not speak with my father. It is my brother's wedding and I'm not attending his ceremony. I asked my friend to film the wedding and specially my father. This film is an occasion for me to revise my attitude toward every member of my family by talking to them.

Spring Nights

2011 • 9 min • Brazil

Everyday the routine is repeated. The father comes home, eager to spending some time with his daughter. One day, however, his routine is shaken and he must face the future.

Lalit & Deepak

2011 • 8 min • Netherlands Antilles

A young Asian boy named Lalit is caught up in the midst of a car racketing scheme on the island of St.Maarten. The detective investigating the scheme is an old friend of Lalit's family. He finds himself in a tough position. Does he remain loyal to his family or does he obey the law and co-operate in the investigation.

Taking a Chance on God

2011 • 54 min

Taking A Chance On God chronicles the extraordinary life and legacy of 85 year old John McNeill, gay Catholic priest, founder of the LGBT spiritual movement, and pioneering voice of gay liberation. Refusing to betray his own conscience, McNeill stood up to the man who became Pope Benedict XVI and would not be silenced. The Film depicts McNeill's remarkable journey: growing up in Buffalo, escaping death as a POW in Nazi Germany, falling in love with his husband, writing groundbreaking books, coming out on national television, calling for compassion and justice during the AIDS crisis, and celebrating the unique spiritual gifts of LGBT people. Theologians, journalists, activists, and LGBT religious figures, including openly gay Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson, movingly testify to McNeill's influence and importance.

Lesha

2011 • 32 min • Russia

Summer 2010. Russia. Almost the entire European part of the country is covered with fire. The village where the film’s main character lives has been almost completely burned down. We walk with him along the former village to the ashes of his house to feed his cat and dog. We walk and talk about the fire and many other things...