All Films

Unlike Me

2011 • 16 min • Canada

Crime of the Big Leagues: Lester Rodney

2011 • 11 min • United States of America

We know a lot about how major league baseball was strictly segregated before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in 1947. But strangely, few of us know much about the decade-long, fierce, organized efforts to bring that about. Lester Rodney, sports editor and writer for New York’s Communist Party newspaper The Daily Worker, made it his crusade beginning in 1936. This riveting 10-minute film, much of it in Lester Rodney’s own words, tells about the man, his passion for baseball, why he fought for equal treatment of “Negro” ball players, and his perspective on the far reaching impact of baseball’s desegregation. Enjoy this eye-opening mini-documentary about Lester Rodney (1911-2009), the unsung hero who helped desegregate Major League Baseball, narrated by baseball legends Vida Blue and Marty Lurie.

Sala's Car

2011 • 44 min

Sala wants to buy a car, but because he has no money, he has to find other ways. This leads him into unconventional ways.

NOOR (Light)

2011 • 7 min • United States of America

A tribute to the Masters of Middle Eastern Patterns. NOOR is 4D animation of classical design motifs and calligraphy from Arabic, Persian, Moroccan, and others. Inspired in part by British scholar Keith Critchlow's 1976 scholarly book "Islamic Patterns" and by my pilgrimage to The Alhambra in Granada, Spain.

The Great Estate: The Rise and Fall of the Council House

2011 • 45 min • United Kingdom

Author Michael Collins charts the rise and fall of the council house, arguing that council housing had lost its way by the 1980s - before the big sell-off under Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government - and that ultimately it was not the architects but the people themselves that contributed to its decline. Yet in the 21st century, council housing remains on the agenda, and is currently in the throes of another chapter under the coalition government.

Jag är sån är: En film om Sten Broman

2011 • 58 min • Sweden

The well known host and entertainer, but also an eccentric who enjoyed reveal parts of himself on live TV. Behind Sten Broman's colorful costumes and his comic academic comments, there was a complicated picture hidden.

Cane/Cain

2011 • 15 min

Exploring the intersections of migration, desire and intimacy between an Indian South African and a Pakistani migrant in urban Johannesburg - set against the backdrop of the recent xenophobic attacks in South Africa. The past encounters the present, histories collide and bodies come together as these two men find a common language of communication that transcend the boundaries of race, nation and diaspora.

The First 36 hours: An Inside Look at Hurricane Sandy

2011 • 22 min

This is the story of what a local news team has to go through to get their story on the air. In this case, the story is Hurricane Sandy, the biggest storm to hit the east coast in recorded history.

The Girl and the Fox

2011 • 6 min • United States of America

Ilona is a nine-year-old girl who lives in the wilderness with her mother and father. Food is running low, and when a mysterious fox starts killing their livestock, she has no choice but to track down the strange creature in order to ensure the survival of her family.

By Your Side

2011 • 22 min • Portugal

Nighttime and loneliness are filled with the devil. But then you come along. And so does the bittersweet life.

1000 Ways to Skin It

2011 • 6 min

Two metal brides sing a Nirvana-Destiny's-Child-Mashup

Bonifacio in Summertime

2011 • 26 min • France, Canada

Love has packed up and left the castle. The queen has snuck back to her Kingdom of Skedaddle. But one person’s loss is a scoundrel’s gain: Bonifacio, a teller of tall tales, sees in the forlorn queen the perfect target for his hackneyed charms. As summer approaches, he changes himself into a sweet talker and sings her praises. Things would have worked out perfectly if only Princess Molly hadn’t arrived on the scene. While visiting her mother, she quickly discovers the hoax: the queen thinks she’s found a new husband in Bonifacio. But the swindling storyteller is really only interested in the kingdom’s legends.

A Letter to Dad

2011 • 48 min • Serbia, United Kingdom

Documentary about a man fighting in the Balkan wars.

Dove Non Siamo Stati

2011 • 22 min • Italy

Corso Salani's voice for "Dove sono stato", a film about the disappearance of a friend, is now embodied in the places where he should have starred in a film. Empty fields, which will forever miss the body of the missing friend, to document the absence and listen once again to a dear voice.

Knocking on Heaven's Door

2011 • 58 min

The technicalities of Yuri Gagarin's trip into earth's orbit in 1961 are well known, but the backstory of the man himself is much more mysterious

More than Chocolate and Cheese

2011 • 30 min

What comes immediately to mind when you hear the word Switzerland? The majestic Alps, Swiss watches, international banking, chocolate and cheese? Switzerland encompasses all these things and more. Take an arm-chair journey through the sites and sounds of the real Switzerland in this fast paced, fun and informative documentary.

The Last Cannibal

2011 • 15 min • Germany

Who dares to venture into the forests of Silschede, is in deadly danger! It seems that some of the stories that inspired our earlier works are true. In the forests of Silschede not only a bloodthirsty creature is up to no good, it seems that perhaps the last cannibal in Germany is living here...

Devastation of the World

2011 • 20 min • Latvia

You are an evil genius. You create a world, and then in a single stroke you can turn it back into rubble.

The Ballad of Russell & Julie

2011 • 7 min • United Kingdom

David Tennant, Catherine Tate and John Barrowman thank Russell T. Davies and Julie Gardner for their work on Doctor Who in this charming tribute that was shown at the wrap party after their final episode.

Late: Zombie Etiquette

2011 • 30 min • United States of America

American horror television horror movie from 2011.

The Man of Flores or the tale of the last Hobbits

2011 • 52 min • France

March 2008. The renowned journal ‘Science’ publishes an article confirming that the human bones discovered in 2004 on the island of Flores in Indonesia are indeed those of a new species of man. These tiny men lived there just a few thousand years ago... Scientists have named this new cousin “Homo floresiensis”, the Man of Flores.

It Was at Westbeth

2011 • 3 min

In an old school dance studio on the Hudson River where Merce Cunningham and John Cage lived for years, one gesture is explored in varying speeds: removal.

Letter to the Engineer

2011 • 11 min • Mexico

A short documentary film about the director's relationship with his deceased grandfather.

Fat

2011 • 6 min • France

A small, isolated farm is struck by a strange phenomenon. The farmer's life changes along with his surroundings. He must adapt, in his own way, to this new zany world.