All Films

Le Temps Qui Glisse

2011 • 17 min

A meeting takes place for the first time between a mother and her son whom she had given up for adoption at birth. Also present is a (not too competent) translator as the mother only speaks French whilst the son only speaks English. During the meeting the son expresses his feelings of anger at being "abandoned" and given up for adoption by his biological mother. The mother is highly distressed and the situation soon takes a turn for the worse.

Out Of Control

2011 • 46 min

Drana play for young boys

Leukophobic

2011 • 4 min

This short depicts a person's attempt to cancel out the color white from his environment by painting it all black. After a short while everything reverses back to white.

A Town Betrayed

2011 • 58 min

Prelude of the Srebrenica massacre (1995).

Sinfonie der Dumpfbacken

2011 • 5 min • Germany

An emergency meeting of the sales representatives of a medium-sized company. Sales are dropping, a new strategy must be found! The current product, a bobblehead dog, seems to be eliciting the same response from the uninspired group of salesmen toward the new plan of action.

Piano Chair

2011 • 4 min • South Africa

A young man with blackened skin, dressed in formal attire reminiscent of blackface, approaches a piano simply drawn on a white wall. Unable to play it, he attempts to destroy it—with blows, weapons, and then fire.

places in pieces vol. 3

2011 • 50 min

Places in Pieces presents rich visual ideas that feel familiar, yet unorthodox within the framework of an abstract travelogue / document. This is balanced with tones of conversational and silent portraiture of different people encountered along the way. Filmed throughout the southern half of the United States, volume 3 (much like it's two predecessors) focuses on the mundane, the peculiar, and the discarded in both urban and rural settings.

Heds 2

2011 • 1 min • United States of America

Red and Ted find discover the beauty and danger of cloud thoughts.

The Final Story 1981

2011 • 46 min • Australia

Facing off in their fifth season decider in five years this was supposed to be Collingwood's moment of redemption but a close-knit Carlton outfit had no plans to end the Grand Final losing streak of their oldest and most hated foe.

Chronception

2011 • 8 min • United States of America

Jen Samson travels back in time to prevent her younger self from giving birth to a couple major mistakes.

Borello: No God, No Master, No Shareholder

2011 • 52 min • France

Educator for troubled youth, advisor to ministers, nightclub manager, and now social entrepreneur: Jean-Marc Borello has lived a thousand lives and doesn't intend to stop there. Today, as General Delegate of Groupe SOS, a group of associations and companies with over 4,000 employees in France, this man of action, charmer, and champion of outspokenness, is waging a total battle against exclusion, never letting himself be labeled or giving in to political correctness.

Pasilyo

2011 • 2 min • Philippines

A college girl discovers love at first sight upon crossing paths with a complete stranger.

The Iron Low

2011 • 3 min

Two men are fighting with guns in a corridor.

Steps

2011 • 15 min • Macedonia

A short experimental documentary by Kiro Urdin.

Hotarubi no Mori e

2011 • 45 min • Japan

One hot summer day a little girl gets lost in an enchanted forest of the mountain god where spirits reside. A young boy appears before her, but she cannot touch him for fear of making him disappear. And so a wondrous adventure awaits...

Folk ved Fjorden

2011 • 60 min • Norway

For a year, we follow the life of two farms, with calving, slaughter, dung spread and production of traditional food. We join in an entertaining journey into the realities of life, and get an insight into a disappearing culture.

DreamGiver

2011 • 7 min

A regular night of dream delivering turns into a literal nightmare when an orphan's book of Ancient Aztec Mythology comes alive. The Dreamgiver must save the orphan from his own nightmare.

Alligator Kingdom 3D

2011 • 30 min

Alligator Kingdom 3D is the first-ever 3D HD documentary shot in the protected areas of the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge. A magic carpet ride into one of the last great black water swamps on earth-- the great Okefenokee. Examines the ancient wetlands' intricate ecosystem and reveals the habits and traits of its most famous predator, the fearsome American alligator.

An Anthropological Television Myth

2011 • 54 min • Italy

An Anthropological Television Myth is a gloriously jagged collage of fragments culled from an independent Sicilian TV station's output in the mid-90s – the period just before the 'Berlusconi era'. But whereas the Milanese media mogul's spells as president were notable for the cynical degradation of his nation's television output, with its bawdy game-shows earning much overseas derision, the small broadcaster showcased here evidently foregrounded and documented local grass-roots political shenanigans. With no commentary or captions, the film plunges us into a lively day-before-yesterday epoch when the authorities' battles with the Mafia produced an atmosphere akin to Civil War on the streets. Virtuouso editing knits together a dizzyingly wide range of sights and sounds that consistently fascinate and impress.

Staring Contest

2011 • 1 min • Norway

A man is having a staring contest with something

Poppy Fields Forever

2011 • 2 min • United States of America

Visions of a flower valley, saturated with the intoxicating colours of dreams gone by.

Fungus

2011 • 9 min • Sweden

Katrin sits apathetically in her dumpy apartment after being left by her boyfriend as an old lady whose husband just died is wreaking havoc outside. Touched by the old lady’s strong emotions, Katrin decides to face her old boyfriend.

The Missing Key

2011 • 30 min • Australia

In a gloriously imagined 1920s world inhabited by people who have gramophones for heads, young composer Hero Wasabi has left Japan to study musical composition in Venice, accompanied by his oboe-playing cat Jacuzzi. Hero is a student of the terrifying Madame Zero at the Scuola di Musica, where his fellow students include the aristocratic Count Telefino, an unscrupulous telephone-head who is planning a campaign of dirty tricks to help him win the school's graduation prize, the Abacus Scroll.

The Dreamers

2011 • 56 min • Israel

Orthodox teacher and wigmaker, Ruchama and Tikva, embark on a journey to fulfill their dream of making movies within the closed society in which they live. Ruchama is writing and producing her first film while Tikva prepares for her first acting role. Like other orthodox women who in recent years have started making films for strictly female audiences, they feel a strong need to express themselves despite strict rabbinical censorship. The Dreamers delicately sketches the portrait of women trying to break new ground as artists in a patriarchal world. Will they find freedom in their art.