All Films

Spaghetti für zwei

2011 • 19 min • Germany

Likeable but lonely Finn is on his way to lunch. The outside world is already lurking menacingly, because his imagination is teeming with supposed scammers, sluts and criminals! What was supposed to be just an everyday walk turns out to be an odyssey. A confusing fight against the world and against oneself begins. And in the end, the loser wins...

Vatican: The Hidden World

2011 • 60 min • United Kingdom

To mark the papal visit to the UK, a camera crew has spent a year filming a world that few have ever seen. With unprecedented access to the Vatican and the people who live and work there, this is a unique profile of the heart of the Catholic Church and the world's smallest sovereign state. Archivists reveal the Vatican's secrets, including the signed testimony of Galileo recorded by the Inquisition. A cardinal journeys deep below St Peter's Basilica to inspect the site claimed to be the tomb of the saint himself, and curators share a private viewing of Michelangelo's extraordinary decoration of the Sistine Chapel. An intriguing behind-the-scenes look at the workings of one of the world's most powerful and mysterious institutions.

Spare Tyre

2011 • 21 min • Norway

John is driving through the most godforsaken area of Norway, when he accidently gets a flat tire. By his attempt to change the tire he realizes that that his car wasn't equipped with one. But as he takes a peek at the ditch next to the road, he sees a whole bunch of spare tires. The world's nicest guy stops to offer help. The problem is that John really do not want help, and he knows an accident rarely comes alone...

The Sky Behind the House

2011 • 26 min

Jon's mom is dead, yet she still comes every night before he falls asleep to wish him a good night. But one night she does not, and Jon can't sleep. His dad comes up with an idea; he ties a long red thread around his big toe and leaves Jon the other end to hold on to while he sleeps. Now Jon can tug on the thread if he becomes frightened. Late in the night, Jon wakes with a start, following the thread, he finds that it doesn't lead to his father's bedroom, but down the hall, out the front door, and into what he fears the most; the darkness in the never ending forest behind the house.

Repressed

2011 • 14 min • Sweden

On the night bus the atmosphere is stubborn and legitimate. A stupid teenage girl is kept upright by an even boy. A man feels forced to intervene and prevent something that could happen. Unpleasantly realistic and threatening where civil courage is treated in a single long run.

Strokkur

2011 • 7 min • Portugal

In the beginning the idea was to make something from nothing, in a neutral and unknown place. Collect images and sounds instead of producing them. The camera, the microphone and the mini-amplifier: tools that take away and then give back. We defined a rule: the sound shouldn't illustrate the image and the image shouldn't absorb the sound. Less than a hundred kilometres from Reykjavik we found Strokkur. For three days we saw and heard the internal dynamics of the crevice: the boiling water that spat out every seven minutes and the thermal shock, given the eighteen degrees below zero of the atmosphere.

Beyond the Summit: Learning to Fly

2011 • 45 min • Mexico

In some of the most extraordinary natural landscapes in Mexico, a group of mountaineers have set out to explore a world labeled as impossible, but from a space reserved only for birds.

Zing

2011 • 8 min • Germany

Day in, day out, Mr. Grimm is busy with his job as the Reaper, harvesting people's lives. One day, his monotonous existence is interrupted by the door bell. It's a little girl. She wants her cat back. Little does she know that she's the next life on Mr. Grimm's list.

The Day Cinema Met Santa Rosa dos Dourados

2011 • 15 min • Brazil

A documentary that rescues the memories of those who built Santa Rosa dos Dourados, a small rural community in Brazil where cinema lives only in stories told, never seen. People who had never set foot in a movie theater now watch their own stories come to life on the big screen.

A Way of Saying

2011 • 8 min

A filmmaker's poetic memories of her father.

Megazorg Z

2011 • 5 min • Uruguay

Teenager with Attitude gets recruited to pilot a Giant Robot.

Waiting to Drown

2011 • 30 min • Hong Kong

In our daydreams, we always dream about who we can be and what we can do. Chak is always living between his dream state – where he is admired and can get any girl he wants – and the reality – where he is constantly teased by his sexually frustrated, foul-mouthed friends. One day, Chak's dream becomes reality when he finds the acceptance of a girl he likes, but cruel reality eventually stops him once more. Instead of running away, Chak must face the real world head-on this time around.

The Teacher's Lounge

2011 • 7 min • United States of America

Mary is a school teacher who slacks off at her job; always trying to get ahead while doing the least amount of work. Mary's boss is about to give her a promotion, but the promotion comes at a very sinful price.

Acid Spiders

2011 • 16 min • Australia

A group of girls, rehearsing for their psychedelic rock band, take liquid acid to explore new sounds unobtainable by normal perception. What they didn’t count on was an invasion of evil alien spiders intent on turning their home into a nest of bloody carnage!

Anonymous

2011 • 9 min • Italy, Spain

Two people look for each other in Venice: a labyrinth of streets, bridges and water canals.

Galicia 1936-2011. Estudos sobre o filme de Carlos Velo

2011 • 36 min

Three studies on Galicia (Carlos Velo, 1935), built from reels rediscovered in 2010 containing previously unseen footage. As Nuria Cubas notes, the film renews the spirit of the Misiones Pedagógicas: where authorship once dissolved into anonymity, here it multiplies through a shared purpose, becoming an act of fidelity to Galician land and to the images themselves — a raw, essential testimony finally recovered.

Stuff Everywhere

2011 • 58 min • Netherlands

"Stuff Everywhere" is a personal documentary about the connection between people and their stuff. Things are handy, they make life easier and we think they will bring us joy. But they invade our houses, the streets, the sea and our minds. In how we think about ourselves, about the economy and about cubicle space. Stuff Everywhere is a poetical film filled with questions, numbers and searching words.

T is for TOILET

2011 • 4 min • United Kingdom

A kid is scared to use the toilet much to the amusement of his father. Was his apprehensions unfounded?

Continu-discontinu 2010

2011 • 6 min • Poland

An abstract animated short blending floating particles, light, and classical music. The director's first use of computer animation mirrors his first animated short Continu-discontinu (1959).

Chasing Water

2011 • 19 min

For six million years, the Colorado River ran to the sea. Follow a 1500-mile quest to see why it stopped. Supporting 40 million people across seven states and two countries, learn why the Colorado River is the "most loved and litigated" river in the world.

A Reasonable Compromise

2011 • 33 min

Helpless retired surgeon, Dr. Joshi, approaches Dr. Sukhant, a renowned psychologist & author, to get rid of a ghost. The ghost when alive was a victim of breast cancer. Despite her reluctance, the surgeon had to perform mastectomy on her to lend her with few more years of life

Sucker Punch: Feudal Warriors

2011 • 3 min

An animated short inspired by Zack Snyder's Sucker Punch

Waiting for Mum

2011 • 8 min • Georgia

A young man comes out of his apartment and forgets his key for the car at home. He shouts after his mother to make her throwing the key out of the window. He is waiting for his mum.

Mamon + Loban

2011 • 47 min • Russia

Bizarre monologues of Petr Mamonov on ego-centrism and adventures of his past.