All Films

Fire

2011 • 23 min • Portugal, Brazil

“There must be a different solution than the one from hell’. Full unadulterated terror (and music). 'The best class always ends with a lesson'. Almost baroque in its ambition and detail, Akerman and Seabra Lopes’ mesmerising short film delves deeply into the hard-wired dread of music lessons. Sewn around Schubert’s steely Opus 1, which is itself based on the no less terrifying legend of Goethe's Erlkönig, their film is a revelation.” International Film Festival Rotterdam.

pt.es

2011 • 23 min • Portugal, Spain

In this film there is a crescent count until the demystification of a bridge that connects and separates one country from another. Portugal and Spain, distant by fragments of their memories, images, objects, voices and ruins. Time runs out... An anxiety floats above the border and also a strength of believing that it is possible to change some things until the very last minute of our cross-over. In a world of contradictions, inequalities remain, existing surprising stories in almost forgotten lands. We are standing before a jigsaw puzzle organized into a map of ideas and memories.

I Was a Mermaid and Now I'm a Pop Star

2011 • 2 min • United States of America

A mermaid gets discovered by a, autotune-loving record producer, turning from an innocent fish into an ignorant popstar with fame, drugs and asshole-attitude.

The Informer

2011 • 25 min

An innocent man gets wrongfully accused of spying for the Communist government.

Male Femdom

2011 • 8 min • United States of America

Short documentary about Stuart, a cross-dressing dominatrix. This piece aims to look further into Stuart's identity as a man, woman, and subservient sex worker. The story follows him through one night's gig with a man from out of town.

Sex on the Map

2011 • 28 min • Sweden

A classic hand-drawn film based on teenagers' own questions. The film was designed to be used in sexual education programs in middle schools. The film is produced by RFSU and UR, with support from The Swedish Inheritance Fund Commission (Allmänna Arvsfonden).

Something Fishy

2011 • 6 min • Australia

For seven year-old Maxine, playing with her goldfish is all a game; until somebody gets hurt.

Solar Flare Arkestral Marching Band

2011 • 10 min

Sun Ra’s anthem Space Is the Place performed by The Rich South High School Marching Band in Chinatown Square, Chicago. Cauleen Smith organised and filmed this energetic flash-mob performance, showing the unsuspecting passers-by who gather to listen. The young men and women let nothing, not even rain, bring the performance to a halt.

Beautiful Bitch

2011 • 9 min • Germany, France

While with one of his clients, the young male prostitute Cédric receives a voicemail from his mother. She is going through detoxification and desperately wants him to come and visit her. Cédric embarks on a journey through Paris, attempting to get to her as fast as he can against all the odds.

The Last One

2011 • 60 min • Azerbaijan

The film tells the story of a writer-fantasist who is the author of a book called "The Last" about the end of the world. This book later creates sudden turns in the author's life - the writer unexpectedly falls into the lifeless world he describes in his work, becoming a living manifestation of his hero in his book.

When the White House Comes to Zion

2011 • 35 min

Take an entertaining journey through time as you discover the stories behind the events that brought American presidents to the Zion of the West. You'll be delighted with fascinating stories and anecdotes about American presidents' memorable visits from the time of the presidential Pullman railroad car to today's Air Force One. With hundreds of historical photographs and film clips, some never before published, this visual history highlights the warmth and hospitality of the people of the Beehive State. You may even find a photo of your grandfather, cousin, mother, or father in a crowd surrounding John F. Kennedy, Ronald Regan, or George W. Bush.

Sociologia da Crise

2011 • 24 min • Brazil

The documentary questions the knowledge of sociology in the face of the crises of the contemporary world. Experts in the subject discuss and evaluate the usefulness of this discipline and propose new ways for its application.

Waves of Desire

2011 • 15 min • Sweden

Jackie is on a caravan holiday with her mother. She lives a lonely life without friends or even someone to talk to, and the holiday has so far only reinforced her sense of isolation. Jackie longs for a place where she belongs. There, she can find something different, someone to talk to, someone to dance with.

Infinito

2011 • 10 min • Portugal

Silence is absolute and time dilates as we lose ourselves in an unpredictable space among non-existent places.

Commerce

2011 • 18 min

In the grip of a spiraling compulsion that threatens to alienate him from his family, a businessman, Ken, encounters a young gambler, Pete, on an LA City bus who could save or destroy him in the City of Commerce

Watch Dreams Attentively

2011 • 6 min • Russia

Art film by Renata Litvinova, in which she played the main and only role. One night, the heroine of the short film has an amazing, but at the same time frightening dream. A dream that turns her worldview!

Down to Sleep

2011 • 45 min

A young woman discovers she has the power to bring dead goldfish back to life. But what else is she capable of bringing back?

Lost Way

2011 • 25 min

Collective experimental film by Team 8mm TENGOKU.

Stake Land: Jebediah

2011 • 3 min • United States of America

Jebediah’s story – the Brotherhood begins.

Gdeim Izik, the Sahrawi's resistance camp

2011 • 28 min • Spain

abel and Antonio are human rights activists. They were awoke by the loud noise of sirens and the roar of thousands of screamings. They picked what they could, between what was the camcorder. They switched it on and started recording what their eyes could not believe: the savage assault and destruction of the largest protest camp ever raised in the Sahara: Gdeim Izik. Tried to contact international press but their satellite phone had been disabled. Antonio and Isabel had to find a way to show these images to the world. It wouldn't be easy. They would have to spend nine days hidden in a safe house during one of the most obscure incidents in the Moroccan history.

Black Gold

2011 • 1 min • Canada

This animated short employs hand-drawn animation layered over stop-motion sequences of moving ink on drumskins to create a striking, mournful portrait of the Alberta tar sands. This film was made as part of the 7th edition of the NFB's Hothouse apprenticeship.

Mila Caos

2011 • 18 min • Cuba, Germany

Every weekend at an illegal drag show in the suburbs of Havana, Sebastián, a 17-year-old Cuban teenager, transforms into 'Mila Caos', his empowered, flamboyant alter-ego. When he returns to his daytime self, Sebastián suffers from his mother's indifference, dreaming that one day she will see him on stage for who he truly is.

A Standard Story

2011 • 8 min

A dreamlike short film about a girl living a mundane existence in a hotel wakes to find herself in the middle of an enchanted forest. In this alternate universe she goes on a remarkable journey of discovery.

Doctor Who: The Curse of the Black Spot Prequel

2011 • 2 min • United Kingdom

April 1, 1699: Captain Henry Avery writes in his journal onboard the Fancy. They have been stranded for eight days for lack of wind. All they can do is wait. He writes of an enemy who comes from the still ocean and takes members of the fearful crew. The captain feels an evil presence watching him and longs for the wind to pick up so they may leave, but he feels they are all doomed to die.