All Films

100 dagar - Sverigedemokraterna

2011 • 58 min • Sweden

100 days has passed since the parliamentary election September 19, 2010. What immediate impact has the Sweden Democrats (SD) had so far? Sweden Democrats or Swedish Democrats (Swedish: Sverigedemokraterna, SD) is a national-conservative, populist political party in Sweden founded in 1988. The party describes itself as social conservative with a nationalist foundation. The party has been characterized by others as right-wing populist or far-right, national-conservative, and anti-immigration. Jimmie Åkesson has been party leader since 2005. The Sweden Democrats crossed the 4% threshold necessary for parliamentary representation for the first time in the 2010 general election, polling 5.7% and gaining 20 seats in the Riksdag/Parliament.

Hinter den sieben Bergen

2011 • 29 min • Germany

Behind the seven mountains lies the fortune of the boy without a name. Hidden in music, in the ground and in the sea, within having a high; between his friends. But what lasts, when happiness collapses? A dark fairy-tale for adults.

Romance

2011 • 7 min • Switzerland, Canada

While on an airplane, a traveller's spirit plunges into a dream world. Here, under the influence of the unknown, the logic of his desires prevails, and a romantic saga takes shape.

Coffee & Pie

2011 • 15 min • United States of America

In this self-proclaimed anti-romantic comedy, couple June and October are breaking up. Manipulative June feels her moral superiority justifies the breakup. A "confucked" October learns from seasoned waitress Billy-Jean, that revenge is a dish best served with pie.

Dark Passage

2011 • 6 min • United States of America

Experimental short film by Paul Clipson

To Die By Your Side

2011 • 6 min • France

Designer Olympia Le-Tan's embroidered clutch-bags spring to life in director Spike Jonze’s tragicomic stop-motion animation.

Serious Games 1–4

2011 • 44 min

Harun Farocki: Serious Games I–IV (2009–10) explores the use of virtual reality and gaming technology in U.S. military recruitment, training and after-action therapy, revealing fundamental links between technology and violence in a time of war. Young recruits engage in simulated combat training, which barely differs from video games produced as entertainment. Footage is included from a workshop demonstrating the use of computer re-enactments in the psychological care of veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. As a large-scale installation, Serious Games critically focuses on the role of audiovisual culture in the spectacle of war.

Drawn to You

2011 • 24 min

Two high school dreamers bump into each other in the morning, and as the day progresses, slowly realize that they inhabit each other's daydreams.

Killer Sharks: The Attacks of Black December

2011 • 45 min • United States of America

Killer Sharks is a recreation of the world-famous attacks along the coast of Durban, South Africa, during the summer of 1957/1958. Called "Black December," these attacks partly inspired Peter Benchley's Jaws.

The Kid and the Clown

2011 • 53 min • Denmark

We follow Angus the hospital clown as his relationship with the six-year old Tobias evolves into a friendship that just might help Tobias beat the cancer. This is a story about being all alone and having someone to be alone with.

The Infinite Jest

2011 • 18 min

The economy conditions our lives. Scarcity is a restriction imposed by nature itself. It is not a human invention. It is an unresolved dilemma. An endless fight for survival.

Yours Truly

2011 • 16 min • Indonesia

Todi, a young man who lives alone and hardly socialize at all, works in a flower shop called 'Yours Truly'. The shop provide a flower delivery services with the message that can be sang. Being an introvert and rigid, while working as a message singer, Todi actually wish to be more outgoing and affable in nature. Until one day, Todi deliver an order to Kyla, a talkactive and friendly beautiful woman. From that moment, there is a immediate attraction between the two. As they get closer, the nightmare begins.

Aline Barros e Cia - Vol.3

2011 • 55 min

"Aline Barros & Cia 3" is the fifth children's studio album by Aline Barros, being the third by MK Music, released in 2011. The following year, the album was announced as the Latin Grammy winner in the "Best Christian Music Album in Portuguese" category.

An Alley Behind Our House

2011 • 11 min • Iran

The story of two youngster girls who became the victims of female genital mutilation.

Munk

2011 • 3 min

The Present

2011 • 18 min • Spain

Olivia, a 6 year old girl, will celebrate her birthday in a couple of days. While helping her mother to prepare the party, she dreams of a special gift she wishes to receive.

Nao Yik

2011 • 60 min • Spain

Documentary which, through the letters of Frances Wilkinson, an English woman who lived in China between the unsettled 30’s and 50’s, takes us on a journey to today’s China, comparing the letters’ point of view with that of the documentary-maker. A game of contrasts video-diary style involving the intimate reading of the letters by Frances’ granddaughter.

Somnolence

2011 • 52 min • France

Close and daily, sometimes comical but often tragic, sleepiness takes an important place in our lives. Suddenly falling asleep, sometimes with their eyes still open, affects more than 10% of the population. The leading cause of fatal accidents on motorways, drowsiness is also prevalent in the world of work. A silent, irrepressible phenomenon... a flaw in a system of performance, speed, reactivity. So what is happening in our brain? Can we control the conditions of sleepiness? By working on sleep and especially on the functioning of wakefulness, researchers are trying to understand the biological and environmental mechanisms that keep humans at the peak of their abilities. After a clear technological improvement, it turns out that man, having become an expert and process controller, finds it very difficult to focus his attention over time.

Curtain

2011 • 13 min • United States of America

An unemployed deadbeat runs into a heap of girl-trouble when he's forced to choose the lesser of two evils: the succubus haunting his bathtub or the psychotic girlfriend lying in his bedroom.

O Canto dos Cisnes

2011 • 10 min • Portugal

A couple takes refuge in an underground car park during an epidemic. She is desperate, having been wounded and infected and he tries to help her overcome the pain while he tries to instill some hope in a future that seems uncertain to them. She does not believe in his words, her boyfriend, only to find that the moment that he saved her from an infected person, he ended up wounded and subsequently infected. From now on generates an atmosphere of discomfort and attempt at reconciliation by both. The last proof of love. The last flame. The last chant. The Swan's Song.

The Road to Paradise

2011 • 43 min

The Road to Paradise follows Leila, a mother of two living illegally in France, trying to raise her kids while failing to connect with her husband who has crossed the border to England.

Watch the Skies

2011 • 4 min

An ever vigilant sentry watches the skies, lying in wait for invaders from another world.

Guatemala mi amor

2011 • 10 min • Serbia

Author adapted his dream into a short movie.

Burn

2011 • 5 min • United States of America

Revenge is a dish best served burned.