All Films

Waza no Tabibito

2011 • 31 min • Japan

Humans acquired a perfect source of energy called "Patia", which brought self-sufficiency in food and fuel to all the people in the world. Trade and transportation began to diminish and finally the advance of the civilization terminated. Now the genetically modified plants cover almost all of the lands on earth and obstruct travelers.

House D

2011 • 6 min • Slovenia

Architecture is not a static but a dynamic, living thing. Similarly film is highly suited to represent and experience architectures as spaces, as stages for human encounter and interaction. In this series of short films architecture becomes animated, even transformed, with social input. Similarly it serves to animate its viewers/occupants -- architecture as stage and actor both. (Good) built projects in Slovenia generally follow a well-thought and focused approach and execution. They are, relatively speaking, of modest size. They are small not in scale nor ambition -- but small as in contained, disciplined, intelligent and specifically responsive. With room for a smile.

Secrets of the Flooded Forest - Danube National Park

2011 • 53 min • Austria

After beginning in Vienna, the Danube riverbank forests extend to the gates of Bratislava, linking the two capitals like a green ribbon, forming a unique wildlife habitat in the heart of Europe. A few years ago a 36 kilometer section was turned into a national park that now protects the last undeveloped stretch of the Danube River and also the last riparian zone of its size in Central Europe.

Cast Clinic

2011 • 30 min

Cast Clinic is a "behind the scenes" footage about the making of Tokyo Blue, the new photography book by Romain Slocombe.

Finding Love

2011 • 6 min

Two buddies help their room-mate find love- in all the wrong places.

One Winter's Night

2011 • 7 min • Ireland

This animated short film was created by Emlyn Boyle. It is a classic Gothic tale inspired by a rhyme that she wrote back in 2008.

Starry Night

2011 • 13 min

Nick Cheuk’s student short, featured in the 35th HKIFF

Ceburekai Sellers

2011 • 26 min

"Hot Čeburėkai, cold beer" -- is probably the best known slogan of illegal Lithuanian bussines. The slogan comes as a set together with the vacation at the seaside resorts for more than twenty years. But who are those young people selling čeburėkai at the seaside? How many of Čeburėkai one needs to buy to collect a kitten? How many of čeburėkai needs to be taken to the policemen at the hotel so that the next time he wouldn't chase you through the sand dunes? These questions will be answered by three old friends -"Čeburėkai sellers" - Sigis, Asta and Rokas. They will lead us to the secret world of Čeburėkai sellers, where it's hard to get and even more difficult to get out.

Doctor Who: The Doctor, The Widow and The Wardrobe Prequel

2011 • 2 min • United Kingdom

The Eleventh Doctor has his hand on a button that, when released, will blow up a ship that's about to destroy the Earth. He calls Amy Pond on the TARDIS phone to ask her to rescue him, but realises she can't fly the TARDIS, he doesn't have the co-ordinates to give her and she left the TARDIS long ago. The Doctor admits he just wanted to chat, says "Merry Christmas, Amelia", and releases the button. The ship explodes.

Tain'na hitozuma: Nettori mitsugetsu no yoru

2011 • 60 min • Japan

Pink film directed by Daisuke Goto.

My Strange Grandfather

2011 • 9 min • Russia

A creative person often seems weird, funny and a little bit crazy. Even his friends and family do not always understand him and often feel ashamed of him. But sometimes he can create a real miracle - merely from garbage.

The Years Make Their Own

2011 • 21 min • Macedonia

A story about love, war, the Holocaust, but also a legacy - Let it not be forgotten, and as Roza says: "And I only hope that one day, when people will pass by that house in Bitola where Beno and I met, and where Estreja and Jamila and Adela and all of us made plans for our future, one day, people will know about some very brave young people from Macedonia and what we did for our city and for our people."

The Ambassador & Me

2011 • 16 min

Jan Czarlewski's father is a Polish hero and diplomat who puts his heart into his work and barely pays attention to his son. "He has dedicated his whole life to his country, but he never had any time for me," says Czarlewski. In an attempt to make up for lost time, he decides to visit his dad in Brussels, where Czarlewski senior works as a diplomat.

Things to Do

2011 • 7 min

The things we do for love. How far would you go for the one you love?

A Gift

2011 • 8 min • Malaysia

A postman who had waited for 5 years to deliver a message finally makes the decision. A romantic comedy set in the mid 80s when RM2.50 can buy you a fried noodle, fish balls, soft drink and an ice stick. Love back then was cheap.

The Mill

2011 • 16 min • Czech Republic

The village priest wants no secrets among his sheep. When he is forced to undergo his own confession, no one shows great mercy.

Faruza

2011 • 21 min • Finland

Shelter

2011 • 16 min • Indonesia

A short about a sleepy couple in an empty bus.

Gangster Project

2011 • 55 min • South Africa

In Cape Town, South Africa, one of the world's most violent and unequal societies, a young white film student sets out with his cameraman to make a “gangster film,” with real gangsters. After a lengthy search for a suitably 'cinematic' character, he finds the perfect gang and settles into their everyday rhythm. The reality soon catches up and the claustrophobic gangster life doesn’t exactly fit to the expectations.

The Millionaires

2011 • 15 min

Five characters and the deadly sin of greed. A vicious cycle.

Iron Crows

2011 • 60 min • South Korea

Every day some 20,000 people in Chittagong, a small port city of Bangladesh risk their lives for 2$US. They dismantle old ships retired from all over the world. An average of 20 workers dies in Chittagong every year. Despite the harsh working environment full of contaminants and toxic gases, the ships are gifts from God. A 21 year old Belal who left home 10 years ago, a Gascutter Rufik who has devoted all his 32 years in the shipbreaking-yards and a 12 year young child laborer Ekramul tell a heart-breaking story of their lives with breathtaking views of the ship-breaking yards.

The World According to Anish Kapoor

2011 • 52 min • France

Five Minute Love Story

2011 • 7 min • Germany

A five-minute relationship going through the emotions of a lifetime-relationship. All you ever wanted, feared and lost in five minutes. But to get it, you must do the unusual.

Inside the Anarchist's Tool Chest

2011 • 59 min

After writing “The Anarchist’s Tool Chest” in 2011 people kept asking what specific tools are in Christopher Schwarz's tool chest? What follows is a one-hour tour of the tools in his chest on a summer day in 2011.