All Films

The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom

2011 • 39 min • United States of America

On 11 March 2011, an earthquake caused a tsunami to hit the Tōhoku (Northeast) region of Japan. In this film, survivors of the tsunami rebuild as cherry blossom season begins. The film is a stunning visual haiku about the ephemeral nature of life–and of the healing power of Japan's most beloved flower.

Love

2011 • 6 min • Canada

New Years' Eve. Boy meets girl. Boy doesn't have condom. A film about unprotected sex, destiny, and soul music.

Sei hanzai sôsa III: Hishin o nurasu kiba

2011 • 59 min • Japan

Chief Saki of the Sex Crimes Investigation Division. The Sex Crimes Investigation Division was specially established to tackle sex crimes occurring day and night. At times, Chief Saki herself conducts undercover operations using her own body. Tsuchiya, the boss of the First Investigative Division, disapproves of this. He constantly obstructs Saki, yet orders her to work alongside a female investigator dispatched from the Hong Kong Police

Sunny Boy

2011 • 12 min • United Kingdom

Danny has a rare skin condition that prevents him from being in the sun and a desire to be a regular teenager.

Reactionary

2011 • 9 min • United States of America

With the continuing fight in war torn Afghanistan, two US Soldier friends Gonzalez and Regan face a new threat each day in the most dangerous land in the world. During an operation to extricate insurgents from a civilian town, Regan makes a crucial knee jerk reaction that will change the dynamics of the two friends relationship forever.

Children of 9/11: Revealed

2011 • 60 min

In this special film commemorating the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, children who lost a parent speak for the first time as adults. All of them experienced the same tragedy; each has responded in a remarkably different way. The film features four families who, between them, lost three fathers and a mother.

The Red Bike

2011 • 12 min • United Kingdom

One boy, one bike, one day.

Melville-Delon: Honor and Night

2011 • 23 min • France

Documentary exploring the friendship between French director Jean-Pierre Melville and actor Alain Delon, and their collaboration on the 1967 film Le samouraï.

Exit

2011 • 2 min • Spain

When a child is exploited there is no turning back.

Love is Like Life But Longer

2011 • 10 min

A young nun meets a blind writer in a posh hotel elevator.

Kangootomik

2011 • 5 min • France

During a world nuclear disaster, Kangootomik is a lonely lumberjack fighting the insanity of humanity. He loves cigars and sometimes he smokes some. He loves trees and sometimes he has sex with some. He also loves humans but only for lunch time. They'll never catch him alive because he's the spirit of this wilderness.

Wakasa

2011 • 51 min • Japan, Portugal

We went on discovering the story of princess Wakasa who fall in love with Fernão Mendes Pinto and was exchanged for a gun's secret.

Scène

2011 • 17 min • France

Every time I go on stage, he's there, sitting in the audience. This guy terrorizes me. Last night I dreamt I killed him. What does he want from me?

Icehouse

2011 • 6 min

Strange things afoot on this frozen little lake.

Save Prince Plutonium

2011 • 11 min

Mini-space epic starring two headstrong young heroines, taking on the mechanical scum of the galaxy.

Beachworld

2011 • 9 min • Italy

The two surviving members of a spacecraft’s crash find themselves on an uncharted planet made up entirely of sand which they remark as being similar to a beach. The planet’s mystery is revealed when a second spacecraft arrives to rescue them.

Notes on: Biology

2011 • 6 min • United States of America

An animated account of an organism adapting to its environment.

Rosa

2011 • 9 min • Spain

Rosa is an epic sci-fi short film that takes place in a post-apocalyptic world where all natural life has disappeared. From the destruction awakes Rosa, a cyborg deployed from the Kernel project, mankind’s last attempt to restore the earth’s ecosystem. Rosa will soon learn that she is not the only entity that has awakened and must fight for her survival.

Miss South Pacific: Beauty and the Sea

2011 • 39 min • United States of America, Fiji

What does a beauty pageant in Suva, Fiji have to do with climate change? Quite a lot, as it turns out. 'Miss South Pacific: Beauty and the Sea' is a short documentary film about the 2009-2010 Miss South Pacific Pageant that brought contestants, or Queens, from all the major Pacific Island Nations to compete in a week long pageant for the crown of Miss South Pacific. Addressing the theme of Climate Change and its impact on Pacific Island countries, the Queens eloquently and passionately implore judges, spectators, and the world at large to reduce global carbon emission lest their island homes will be lost to rising seas. Is it too late to turn back the tide? Watch Miss South Pacific and see.

Land of the Heroes

2011 • 17 min • Belgium, Iraq

Iraq, 1988. A land devastated by war (Iraq-Iran conflict). Dilleer (10) and his sister Zienee want to watch cartoons on television, but that becomes more difficult than expected when bully Malo comes along.

Requiem 2019

2011 • 5 min • Denmark

The last surviving whale in the oceans meets its greatest enemy - man.

«Soyuz» Over the Tropics

2011 • 52 min • Russia

A film about the first launch of the Soyuz launch vehicle from the Kourou cosmodrome (French Guiana). About the long-term joint work of Russian and European specialists who built a Russian launch complex in the impenetrable jungles of Guiana. For the first time since the Caribbean crisis, Russian missiles are based on the American continent. The Soyuz launches from the tropical cosmodrome in French Guiana are something new in the history of domestic and world cosmonautics. Will Russia be able to expand its presence in the global space market? And is it possible to do this today within the framework of one country and industry?

The other Emma

2011 • 20 min • Mexico

Overwhelmed by fury and delight, a woman burns her clothes, her photographs, and souvenirs. She cuts her hair, and in front of a mirror, chooses a new name: Emma. From hereon, she fabricates a new life for herself.

Miss Mishima

2011 • 14 min • Portugal

Explores the ambiguity of sensations, the boundaries between pleasure and pain, a filmmaker's piece about death as the final fetish and the ritual suicide Seppuku.