All Films

Defy: The Danny Harf Project

2011 • 52 min

Three years in the making, Defy is a visual overdose of wakeboarding at its highest level, starring four-time X Games gold medalist Danny Harf and his crew of progressive riders. Harf co-produces the film with elite director Sean Kilgus of BFY Productions. The pair have a solid track record, winning "Best Video Performance" in 2008 for their last effort in Drive. Shot entirely in brilliant HD with the best cameras on earth, be prepared to enter a world never seen before as the crew travels the globe in search of the next step. "It's about getting out of your comfort zone," Harf said. "I want to inspire people and help them realize how much there is left to be done on a wakeboard."

Being champion is just a detail: Corinthian Democracy

2011 • 25 min

How They Smiled

2011 • 13 min • United States of America

Bestselling New York novelist Henry Jenkins (Richard Burgi) is not a man of many words. He drinks his tea and enjoys his toast, and walks no more than four blocks to seventh street to Lizzy's coffee shop, where he sits three seats away from the door. Henry has finished the final draft in his penultimate novel in the "Blood Asp" series, which have won him multiple awards over the years. Lizzy Garland (Heather Snell), on the other hand, is a woman of many words. She keeps her customers coming back with her warm spirit and inviting conversation. Henry stays for the tea, and because it takes his mind off certain things.... But he has a plan, and a machine, which if things go well, he will get them back, and will remember how they smiled...

The Thick Dark Fog

2011 • 57 min • United States of America

Walter Littlemoon attended a federal Indian boarding school in South Dakota sixty years ago. The mission of many of these schools in 1950, was still to “kill the Indian and save the man.” The children were beaten, humiliated or abused if they spoke their language or expressed their culture or native identity in any way. The trauma led many to alcoholism and violence in adulthood. At age 58, Walter began writing his memoirs as a way to explain his own abusive behaviors to his estranged children, but he could not complete the project without confronting the “thick dark fog” of his past so he could heal.

The Mushroom Kingdom

2011 • 2 min

A plumber tries to win back his girlfriend.

Martin Clunes: Man to Manta

2011 • 45 min

BAFTA winning actor Martin Clunes scuba dives in the Maldives seeking out the strange inhabitants that live beneath the sea. One resident of these warm blue waters have so far eluded him - the reef manta; one of evolution's true masterpieces. Martin will come closer to these gentle giants than he'd ever imagined possible; moved by their trust and intrigued by their mystery.

Casa Na Comporta

2011 • 20 min • Portugal

Casa Na Comporta is one of four films commissioned to different directors for the Portuguese architecture national exhibition at the Venice Biennale.

Nice Shirt

2011 • 5 min

A woman spats with her ex-girlfriend when she shows up to a friendly lunch wearing a printed t-shirt that reads 'taken!' Their local t-shirt company gets a run for its money when their lovers quarrel escalates into a war of words between the two women. But who will get the final word?

White Crow

2011 • 10 min • France, Ukraine

A small creature, awakened by a white crow, tries to reach the sun and freedom. But using this freedom is by no means easy.

Blood of the Witch

2011 • 19 min

Murder, chaos, witches, pumpkins, poison apples, and the lot. This macabre fairy tale is the first in a trilogy of short silent films. Blood of the Witch sets the expressionist tone for the entire Blood of the Witch Project.

Picking the Dawn

2011 • 15 min • Iran

The story of short film "Picking Down" is about an old woman and a child who lives in an abandoned village. The boy is lonely for days and longs for a playmate. Meanwhile, the sleeping grandmother will die soon and asked her grandson, who lives in another village, to bring her a shroud...

Inquérito Policial nº 0521/09

2011 • 13 min • Brazil

This 12-minute Brazilian short film employs the found footage style in a slightly different way. The film is presented as a merge of two separate files extracted from the police archives in Sao Paulo, Brazil. On the first one, two policemen talk to each other, while watching and analysing images captured by surveillance cameras that shows a woman being stabbed to death by a couple, just before the two aggressors get killed by a mysterious man that shows up at the place. The second portion of the movie shows the intriguing facts that happen during a police raid on the apartment where the suspect of killing the previous couple lives.

La nube

2011 • 11 min

On the boardwalk in Havana floats the cloud of uncertainties of an abandoned woman.

You Lead, I Follow

2011 • 16 min • Denmark

Niklas and Søren are old friends, and there is a clear division of power in the relationship: Niklas is the strong, Søren the docile. On a drunken night, Niklas decides to make a contest: Whoever takes a young girl with the "Anal Pro" sex toy has won. But as he makes Søren's 17-year-old sister Ida, part of the competition, Søren is driven beyond the edge of the sexual power play. Søren is horrified to see his sister brought into Niklas' sadistic power games, but is there anything he can do about it?

Los crímenes

2011 • 20 min • Argentina

A policeman relates an old case. A young widow, an insomniac businessman, a horse forgotten in a stable. The city as the scene of a trap.

The Afghan Solution

2011 • 55 min • United States of America

The Afghan Solution delivers a comprehensive grasp on the key issues the fledgling country must overcome, and will open your eyes to how Afghanistan can either move successfully toward a true democracy or once again fall into the clutches of the most vicious tyranny in its history -- the Taliban.

6th March

2011 • 30 min • Hong Kong

On 6th March 2011, 113 protesters in Hong Kong were arrested for "Unlawful Assembly" after they stormed the traffic lanes of Central during a demonstration against the budget proposal. Protesters were placed in the canteen of the police station for questioning in groups due to inadequate rooms. Three protesters and three police officers, six people with different political views sitting around the table. The copy machine is out of order; it's going to be a long night. So they started chatting.

Velázquez e a Teoria Quântica da Gravidade

2011 • 4 min • Brazil

Young scientist thinks he has found the quantum theory of gravity based on Velázquez's painting "The Girls".

The Knowing of Ali

2011 • 23 min • United States of America

Fate gives Ali the perfect opportunity to avenge his fathers death, caused by the American Bombings in Iraq. Posing as a student in America, Ali uses his intellect and knowledge to build a bomb for a terrorist organization who are planning to attack the center of Hollywood. However, after befriending the lonely daughter of his Iraqi-American host family, Ali is forced to question himself regarding his fight. Is it for selfish reasons? revenge? religion? and does it represent what his loving, hardworking father taught him to be?

Film Walk

2011 • 20 min • South Korea

Film Walk is perhaps the one plus ultra of this branch of projection performance, treating the projector literally as an instrument. In this work, which has varied in form across several years,Lee threads 16mm film through only the sound head of a projector tuned on its side, bypassing the projector’s gate. This film is double-perf, meaning a second row of sprocket holes runs along the side of the strip where that soundtrack would normally be. As these pass over the sound head, they produce an electronic purr, or, when amplified enough, an unpleasant metallic grinding comparable to the sound of a buzz saw. Lee pulls the film through the projector by hand, yanking it roughly through the sound head. The variations in speed that result from Lee’s manual movement of the filmstrip cause abrupt changes in the frequency and timbre of the sprocket sound. (Jonathan Walley, Cinema Expanded)

The Wedding Party

2011 • 19 min • Argentina

A young couple. A luxurious hotel room. A wedding party.

The Growing Pains of a Teenage Genius

2011 • 57 min • United Kingdom

A documentary about the daily life of a teenage genius with Asperger’s Syndrome. Cameron Thompson is a 13 yeah old maths prodigy from North Wales, currently taking an Open University degree in applied mathematics.

The Trip

2011 • 18 min

Antonio decides to break free of his mundane existence and rents a silver convertible to take his wife on a dream vacation. Everything seems perfect. Except he doesn't know the way.

Warren Harding - Recollections of the Wall of the Early Morning Light

2011 • 31 min • United States of America

In 1970, Warren Harding and Dean Caldwell set out to climb Early Morning Light, better known as Dawn Wall, in Yosemite National Park. Arguably the most controversial climb in the park's history, due to multiple storms and a rescue attempt by the Yosemite Service. The climb thrust the event into the media spotlight, creating a controversy within the local climbing community. In this short documentary, Warren Harding himself recounts the climb.