All Films

Monja

2011 • 16 min • Brazil

I put you on a shelf of timelessness to try to ease all this endless mourning, which does not accept you as past in any way. While I sleep, I take care not to occupy your side of the bed.

Family Meals

2011 • 50 min • Croatia

Do you remember the last time you've talked to your parents? What did you talk about? Have you gone step further from weather forecast and daily politics? Five years after last gathering, a birthday celebration brings together an ordinary four member family. They start questioning what made them turn away from each other... Can having a conversation about buried family secrets help them eat without cramps in the stomach in the future? Can a failed birthday cake help them overcome the past? Through the ritual of family meals, the film tells how important is for us to feel accepted by our loved ones.

Olmsted and America's Urban Parks

2011 • 57 min • United States of America

Frederick Law Olmsted designed New York City's Central Park with Calvert Vaux over 150 years ago, and it remains an undisputed haven of tranquility amidst one of the largest, tallest, and most unnatural places on earth. This film examines the creation of America's great city parks in the late 1800s through the enigmatic eyes of Frederick Law Olmsted, visionary urban planner and landscape architect. In his own words, Olmsted and America's Urban Parks weaves together Olmsted's engaging and poignant personal story with those of the lasting masterpieces he left for us today, featuring Academy Award-winning actor Kevin Kline as the voice of Frederick Law Olmsted.

Pygmies: The Children of the Jungle

2011 • 52 min • Slovakia

The adventurer, Ivan Bulík, traveled all through Africa. However, one of his dreams still eluded him: He desired to capture the life and customs of the smallest people on Earth, to find the undisturbed civilization of Pygmies.

Damaged Kung Fu

2011 • 17 min • Malaysia

Eric 'Iron Fan' Kao and Bronson 'Dragon' Lai are in the midst of shooting a Kung Fu film when Bronson spots Eric with Vivienne, his girlfriend. Thinking Vivienne is cheating on him with his best friend, he quits in the middle of the shoot. Crew and cast left behind try to save the day, but nobody can replace Bronson.

Ah

2011 • 5 min

Combined units of colorful blocks. They act like people. However, the color disappears, you feel it differently.

Animals for Animals

2011 • 10 min • Finland

The story of an impossible love between a frail petshop keeper and a bulky construction worker.

Airawat

2011 • 11 min • India

The film explores the mental time and space of one character, a girl, who lives in a lane in a suburb of a city (Mumbai).

Copyright

2011 • 36 min

A 2011 comedy adventure brickfilm directed by Maxime Marion and co-written with Lilian Ginet. It is the second film in the Henri & Edmond series. After downloading a song, Henri is tracked down by a copyright protection agency. There's only one plastic figure who can save him, his best friend Edmond, the fireman.

Frictions

2011 • 4 min • France

The Intruder!

2011 • 18 min

A chance encounter in a remote desert at night, threatens a couple and their unborn child. But where the intruder comes from and what it wants are the most terrifying questions.

Scumbag Millionaire

2011 • 18 min • Ireland

Part one of a three part short film saga about a criminal gang member, Danny, who falls out with his boss, mates, another gang, his girlfriend is kidnapped and if that wasn't bad enough, he's gone and won the lottery. Sometimes winning isn't all that lucky.

Beautiful Enough

2011 • 10 min

When a young girl, fixated on images of beautiful women, hears her parents go to bed she sets to work on her secret project.

Talk Show

2011 • 26 min • United States of America

A sinister talk show host interrogates and psychologically abuses a captive family for the entertainment of a live studio audience.

Julia Bradbury's Iceland Walk

2011 • 59 min • United Kingdom

Julia Bradbury heads for Iceland to embark on the toughest walk of her life. Her challenge is to walk the 60 kilometres of Iceland's most famous hiking route, a trail that just happens to end at the unpronounceable volcano that brought air traffic across Europe to a standstill in 2010 . With the help of Icelandic mountain guide Hanna, Julia faces daunting mountain climbs, red hot lava fields, freezing river crossings, deadly clouds of sulphuric gas, swirling ash deserts and sinister Nordic ghost stories as she attempts to reach the huge volcanic crater at the centre of the Eyjafjallajökull glacier.

Native Sun

2011 • 21 min • Ghana, United States of America

Mumin, a precocious young boy, makes the long trip to Accra from his home in Ghana’s rural northern region. He leaves having just experienced his mothers death, her last words to him a directive to travel to Accra and find the father he has never met. Along the journey he experiences Ghana as only a child can and in so doing expands our view of what the country is and what it will be.

The Five Houses of Lea Goldberg

2011 • 52 min

She died 41 years ago, but even today, Lea Goldberg is still an enigmatic figure - she is Israel's most beloved poet, a powerful woman, who lived with her mother and never married, a woman who invented herself from the ashes of WWW1 though her magical poetry. The film is a cinematic fantasy in five acts, using animation, after affects, archives, still photos, original music and interviews that celebrate together the fascinating story of L. Goldberg.

Park City

2011 • 21 min • United States of America

A celebrity petroleum engineer discovers a rundown property in Park City.

The Dark Tower - The Gunslinger and the Man in Black

2011 • 17 min

Recreates the fifth segment of The Gunslinger. Faithfully respecting the original text, the film focuses on the scene of the gunslinger and the man in black at the time of the tarot card spread, interspersed with dreamlike scenes.

Children Are Born

2011 • 57 min • Russia

The film tells the story of a man who has just arrived to work in one of the villages as a security guard in an old club. There he meets the employees of the club, and they take turns telling him scary stories. People tend not to believe strange stories. He contradicts everything, expressing his arguments, proofs. But he's wrong. Because everything told has its roots of truth, reality and goes deep into the past times, which can not be returned.

Diptych: The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name

2011 • 28 min • Greece

Inspired by the famous gay Greek painter Giannis Tsarouhis' paintings, Diptych is a contemplation on male beauty, the impossibility of open gay love during many decades in Greek society and the pathos and sorrow of a sexual encounter.

Spoken Movie Six

2011 • 6 min • Poland

Spoken Film 6 is the latest part of the series, and the first one where the artist uses a puppet animation technique combined with photo animation. Also, it is the first time when the artist’s face is featured in the film, in the foreground, as if confirming the fact that all the films in the series actually contribute to a specific self-portrait. This black and white film is a story of a journey of the character, whose monologue describes the inability to contact his own mental states, fears and desires.

And the Going Is Good

2011 • 21 min • Norway

A film about pride, power and stopping while the going is good, told in three chapters of everyday stories.

The Girls' Grave

2011 • 17 min • Switzerland

Sissi and Victoria are sisters. Whereas the younger is slowly emerging from the world of childhood, the elder tries in vain to be a grown up. In the room they share, Sissi is preparing for her gymnastic competition and Victoria has boys coming and going.