All Films

Dreaming a Whole Life

2011 • 5 min

A story about someone trying to deal with an issue they have with their face.

M Farm

2011 • 52 min • Latvia

Life treads calmly in this quiet Latvian village. Almost like in a fairytale, with friendly neighbours, a safe environment, and a bustling social life. It is also the location of a successful organic farm, its produce well-known throughout the country. Tadeus, the owner, was once known as an exemplary citizen in the village. Obliging and considerate, he loved both his milk yielders – the cow, and little Laura, the granddaughter of his farm-worker Dangira. But this “love” was double-sided. One side was for the eyes of villagers, while the other was hidden behind a locked bedroom door.

Immortal Woman

2011 • 9 min • Thailand

Silent science fiction art film centring on an elderly pregnant lady.

Stop the Process

2011 • 7 min • United States of America

An experimental short playing with the different video editing features on a flip-phone.

Fisher

2011 • 7 min

Ostracized by his village for being different, Fisher is a lonely being who lives in a small cabin at the edge of the sea. His world is turned upside down one day when in a twist of fate, he is forced out of his comfort zone and thrust into a journey of self discovery.

After Life - 4 Stories of Torture

2011 • 58 min • Finland

Kebi, Serge, Musa, and Hector come from different parts of the world, but they have one thing in common: they have all been tortured in their home countries. Contrary to their expectations, they survived the torture and they now all live in Finland. Life goes on, but with certain limitations. The torture has had a severe impact on them.

Mama

2011 • 5 min • Japan

My mother loves me. She always worries about me. "Are you alright? "Even if she dies.

Trials, Tribulations & Sustainable Development of a Cock

2011 • 20 min • Montenegro

Once a year in the small coastal town of Perast, Montenegro, one out of many cocks in the region participates in a very particular event. Being the chosen one, he will face unexpected experiences. This is the story of his life in the environment of human rules and rites.

Juoigangiehta

2011 • 5 min • Norway

Juoigangiehta, the yoiking hand, is a dance film featuring the unrehearsed and natural movements of three traditional Sámi yoikers (singers).

Meeting the Functionary

2011 • 26 min

In the yard of the XXI century. But even today, people continue to face the bureaucratic system at various levels. From birth to death, he devotes his precious time to walking through the authorities and communicating with representatives of different levels of government. In St. Petersburg, in the Reception of citizens, an official conducts a reception on housing issues. For many who are desperate to achieve a solution to their problem, he is the last hope. All questions are difficult, there are a lot of dissatisfied people, but we need to find a common language with everyone and help solve the problem.

New Dimension

2011 • 27 min • Slovenia

A climbing documentary about a young Slovenian climber, Natalija Gros, discovering new dimensions in climbing. From the urban and temperamental streets of Buenos Aires and vast pampas to extraordinary landscapes of Patagonia you find variety of objects and shapes to climb. Urban style bouldering is one of the latest free climbing disciplines, exploring possibilities of urban environment as a test bed for a climber's imagination and competence. Natalija Gros goes even further and pursue for new dimensions in nature as well. She unleashes the child in herself and embraces the freedom of climbing. She can climb wherever she wants on her favorite playground all around this beautiful Argentina.

Freyja

2011 • 13 min

Freyja and her husband Albert are moving into a bigger house far from the city. Freyja being 7 months pregnant is waiting in their new home for Albert to arrive with their possessions. While waiting alone, Freyja has become increasingly uneasy and uncomfortable in the house. Albert thinks she will feel better when he is there with her, after only one nights sleep...

Woodcarver

2011 • 6 min • Canada

This project was made in response to the murder of John T. Williams by a Seattle police officer.

Journal of the No-Name Storm

2011 • 13 min

A recount of how the storm of 1991 impacted Nantucket Island.

Toi La Who

2011 • 12 min

Anne is an 8-year-old girl living in suburbia New Zealand. The world she sees is perfect, her family, her school, her friends, herself. One day, without warning or any real understanding, Anne's world comes crashing in around her revealing the imperfect world that was ignored. This forces Anne to re-examine herself and she starts to recognize her culture and identity.

Kongo-Müller: A German-German story

2011 • 52 min • Germany

When the Congo became independent in 1960, clashes between rival groups ensued. White mercenaries with war experience are also involved in the conflicts. They include Germans who, under the leadership of the former Wehrmacht officer Siegfried Müller, brutally attack the black population. After the "Stern" reporter Gerd Heidemann had uncovered the machinations, the GDR filmmaker Walter Heynowski made a politically motivated documentary about Siegfried "Kongo Müller". Now Siegfried Ressel has reconstructed the story of the German mercenaries and the propaganda argument about their use.

A Slice of Life

2011 • 4 min • United States of America

A lonely piece of toast dreams of meeting his other half.

Muhai Tang - In The Ocean Of Music

2011 • 58 min • Switzerland

MUHAI TANG – IN THE OCEAN OF MUSIC is a portrait of Chinese conductor Muhai Tang’s extraordinary life. Born in 1949, the founding year of the People’s Republic of China, and raised during the Cultural Revolution, it seemed as if he would have to abandon his dream of a career in music. However, his talent, perseverance and the support of Herbert von Karajan ultimately brought him to the world’s concert halls. Today, Muhai Tang is a global nomad. A wanderer between the worlds which he unites with music. His personal history, interspersed with historical caesurae, is typical for Chinese of his generation. He gained access to western culture early on through music. Muhai Tang’s life and work are exemplary of a changing China and the enrichment of the world by an artist between East and West.

Abused: Breaking the Silence

2011 • 50 min • United Kingdom

A group of aging former classmates begin a quest for justice when they learn from one another just how many of them had been abused as schoolboys.

Damn, We Went Back to The Convent

2011 • 10 min

Two nuns travel through time and space in search of the exact place to commit their suicides. they do this because every suicide goes to hell and finding the place for his death will be able to spread the word of the lord throughout hell ending the empire of the devil Belial.

Louie and Santa's Assistant

2011 • 22 min • France

Louie and Yoko meet Tom, one of Santa’s elves. Tom has been chosen by Santa to help him on Christmas Eve but he suffers from vertigo, he’s afraid of the dark, and lacks an enormous amount of self-confidence. With his drawings, Louie is able to help Tom overcome his fears in an adventure that leads them to Santa’s Grotto, where the elves make toys.

Edith Carlmar - bedre enn sitt rykte

2011 • 36 min • Norway

Edith Carlmar (1911 – 2003) was Norway's first female director and a prominent figure in Norwegian film history. She created some of Norway's biggest box-office successes of all time. Agnes Moxnes interviews a frank and honest Carlmar, who talks about her movies and the times they were made. This DVD was released in 2011 in conjunction with the 100-year anniversary of Edith Carlmar's birth.

Antigamente

2011 • 6 min • Brazil

The charming soul of the streets.

Göring's Secret: The Story of Hitler's Marshall

2011 • 55 min • Germany, United Kingdom

These film reels had vanished for decades and no one knew about the secret passion of Hitler's second man Hermann Goering. This footage from his private collection shows for the first time how he preferred to see himself: at the height of his power, acclaimed by the masses - as in the annexation of Austria in 1938, as Commander-in-Chief of the Luftwaffe.