All Films

Finding Benjamin

2011 • 10 min • United States of America

Benjaman Kyle was found unconscious outside of a Burger King in 2004, without any clothes, any identification, or any memories. Even after seven years, the FBI still doesn't know who he is. Neither does he.

The Silence of Pelešjan

2011 • 52 min • Italy

A documentary about the Armenian avant-garde filmmaker, Artavazd Pelešjan.

When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth

2011 • 10 min

When a vacationing family's car breaks down, the youngest member must take it in his own hands to keep the bickering grownups from sabotaging their chances at survival. He quickly discovers, though, that this is easier said than done.

If You Have No Place to Cry

2011 • 12 min

A group of fishermen decide to initiate their youngest one through a different kind of storytelling - telling of an obese woman who will guide him through his sexuality.

The World of Amateur Radio

2011 • 20 min • United States of America

A production designed to update previous undertakings by the ARRL and Dave Bell Productions to introduce those interested inside Amateur Radio on the evolving and wonderful world of the Ham.

Imagining Emanuel

2011 • 52 min • Georgia, Norway

Emanuel's identity is unknown, and his life has been put on hold for eight years. He claims to be from Liberia, but the Norwegian authorities believes he's from Ghana. He can't be returned to a country he's not registered in.

Block 66

2011 • 14 min • France

Hani must escape from the implacable and ruthless Nazi machine of death. She must survive and save the baby she is carrying. The fate of this baby is bound to the fate of these children, first innocent victims of the death camps. They were gathered in one single barrack called Block 66...

Le cinéma de Boris Vian

2011 • 51 min • France

On June 23, 1959, Boris Vian died of a heart attack while watching the film "I Spit Οn Your Graves", a frivolous adaptation of his novel of the same name, which he released under the pseudonym Vernon Sullivan. Taking as a starting point this fateful date for Vian's relationship with cinema, the documentary looks back at his cinematic experiences, his appearances in several films, his friendship with director Pierre Cast and his many unrealized screenplays. From the post-war period to the dawn of the 1960s, from the cellars of Saint-Germain-des-Prés to his apartment in Place Blanche, it is about the portrait of a diverse author who loved cinema with passion.

Us: A Family Album

2011 • 8 min

Since their invention, amateur cameras have been used to document family life. In the shaky footage of candle-blowing, lawn-watering, a new car, or a family vacation we rediscover our lives, reach new conclusions about the way we live, and glimpse what is most intangible: time. In "Us: A Family Album", we reexamine those familiar images to tell a story that proves that all family and all love is equal.

The Subterraneans

2011 • 5 min • United Kingdom

A series of visions relayed through a heightened consciousness. These views frame the shadowy recesses that offer access to the underworld and draw us closer to the presences that lurk beyond these thresholds.

Lady M

2011 • 54 min • United States of America

A spiritual, bloody tale of revenge from beyond the grave! A woman (Kenyon Page) who is in a hit and run accident and left for dead by numerous witnesses, calls upon the avenging spirit of Lady Midday to wreak havoc on the guilty.

The Memory of Ice

2011 • 2 min • China, France

Short animated film about the clima crisis from CUC Anima and Gobelins

Hide and Seek

2011 • 5 min

On a rainy day, a little girl plays hide and seek.

Ramesses II: The Great Journey

2011 • 52 min • France

3,200 years ago, Egypt is living the final hours of its golden age under the reign of Ramesses II. After ruling the country for 67 years, the great pharaoh dies at the old age of 92. His mummy is burried in the heart of the Valley of the Kings. This is the beginning of his great journey towards the afterlife but only under one condition: that his tomb remains off limits forever. However, in the 19th century, many European adventurers explore the tomb of the king searching for the burial chamber. Then begins an archeological investigation, which reveals the story of Ramesses II after-life.

Jesus Loves Youssef

2011 • 12 min

A week before his First Communion, Youssef, a ten-year-old Maronite boy, discovers masturbation and with it, the concept of sin. He tries to negotiate his own deal with God while pressure mounts on him from all directions: his mother, brother, and the parish priest.

Farm to Fridge

2011 • 12 min • United States of America

Narrated by Academy Award nominee James Cromwell, this powerful film takes viewers on an eye-opening exploration behind the closed doors of the nations largest industrial poultry, pig, dairy, and fish farms, hatcheries, and slaughter plants - revealing the often-unseen journey that animals make from Farm to Fridge. Using arresting images covertly recorded on hidden camera, this provocative film puts into focus the harsh reality faced by farmed animals - creatures granted no federal protection from abuse during their lives on factory farms.

Café Regular, Cairo

2011 • 11 min • Egypt, India

In a regular cafe in Cairo a relationship goes through its first big test.

Bad Gones

2011 • 13 min • France

France 2011.

Guiding Sights

2011 • 18 min • Chile

Rafael Egaña (38) will soon be blind. With us, he makes the journey of the images that his father, an amateur photographer, has collected for more than 50 years. These images are memories, but what happens to them when vision is lost, do they disintegrate along with the visible world or do they become clearer because new ones can no longer be generated?

No Rest for the Wicked: A Basil & Moebius Adventure

2011 • 17 min

Two lovable rogues must break into the penthouse of an underworld gangster in order to steal a valuable artifact for their employer.

Karen Blixen – Behind Her Mask

2011 • 54 min • Denmark

Wild Serbia

2011 • 50 min • Germany

Serbia is located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Pannonian Plain and the central Balkans. It is also one of Europe’s natural wonders, filled with a rich variety of landscapes and animals.To this day a large number of Serbian people live in close communion with nature, proud of the storks’ nests in the villages, the ancient species of livestock that have been preserved and the vultures that return to make their home here. In many places people are pleased to see bears, lynx and wolves, and even jackals are at home in the forests of Serbia. This documentary presents Serbia's breath-taking, picturesque regions and unique wildlife on a journey to the most beautiful and wildest areas of the Balkan Peninsula.

Hotcorn!

2011 • 1 min • Argentina

The incredible skills of a man with corn.

Welcome

2011 • 2 min • Japan

Animation by Manabu Himeda. Music by OOIOO.