All Films

Marx Reloaded

2011 • 52 min • Germany

Marx Reloaded is a cultural documentary that examines the relevance of German socialist and philosopher Karl Marx's ideas for understanding the global economic and financial crisis of 2008-09. The crisis triggered the deepest global recession in 70 years and prompted the US government to spend more than 1 trillion dollars in order to rescue its banking system from collapse. Today the full implications of the crisis in Europe and around the world still remain unclear. Nevertheless, should we accept the crisis as an unfortunate side-effect of the free market? Or is there another explanation as to why it happened and its likely effects on our society, our economy and our whole way of life?

Betrayed

2011 • 39 min • United States of America

Doug Collins has been a highly-respected analyst at the FBI for twenty-five years. He is liked and admired by all the members of his team, but they've seen changes in Doug recently: an attractive young girlfriend, working odd hours, increased frustration at work. And then there was the time he was seen texting on his Blackberry from inside the SCIF. It's all probably nothing. They know his recent divorce has been tough on him. It's not like he's a spy. But what if he is? What is the price of silence?

Sister

2011 • 5 min • Austria

A conflict between two sisters turns out in a dramatic finish

Despertar

2011 • 15 min

Rosa, a domestic worker in Mexico City, is at a crossroads in her relationship, her job and her life.

Happy Hour

2011 • 9 min

City life is repetitious and all about work. It always comes with night life and a lot of drinking after work, because people always try to escape from the stress at work, or even from family and relationships. What we call "happy hour" here is the hours we have fun after work - night life. Therefore, if "HAPPY hour" is our night life, then what are those "UNHAPPY hours"?

The Story of Cholera

2011 • 5 min

This film makes visible the invisible cholera germs as a young boy shows how to help the sick and guides his village in preventing the spread of cholera.

The Cloud of Unknowing

2011 • 28 min • Singapore

The boundary between viewer and art dissolves in Ho Tzu Nyen’s sublime work, The Cloud of Unknowing. Step inside and find a comfortable space in the room. On a screen, a narrative unfolds, set in a public housing complex in Singapore, where eight characters in eight apartments individually encounter a cloud, embodied both as a figure and a vaporous mist. The film is rear-projected and looped, integrating a complex soundtrack and synchronized steam machines to create a seamless and sublimely atmospheric sense of film/audience permeability. (Sundance Film Festival)

Operation Peter Pan: Flying Back to Cuba

2011 • 57 min

Between 1960 and 1962 more than 14,000 cuban children were sent alone by their parents to the USA. This clandestine operation -with the participation of the CIA and the Catholic Church- became known as "Operation Peter Pan". Many of the parents had expected to follow their children, who had been granted visa waivers by the US government, but the Missile Crisis terminated the flights between the two countries and the children found themselves stranded in the USA. In 2009, for the first time a group of the Peter Pan children, now adults visited Cuba to give "closure and make peace with the land where they were born".

Polish Girl

2011 • 4 min • United States of America

Tells the romantic story of a rather unconventional couple from the future.

Mrs. Rubin

2011 • 19 min • Macedonia

The 27-year old intern at the psychiatry wards Sophie, who’s just graduated from med school, faces the cruel reality and learns the story of the 45-year-old resident of the ward, Mrs. Erme. The professor, Sophie’s mentor and the medical administrator of the facility, sees Sophie’s obsession with her faces and brings the two women together. As the doctor-patient relationship develops, Sophie learns that Mrs. Erme shares her obsession with her face, and furthermore, discovers that Mrs. Erme’s illness is closely connected to this obsession. Through investigation and the torture of her own dreams, Sophie learns that Mrs. Erme had a son, who at the age of ten died from chicken pox, while his mother was too afraid to ruin her face by getting infected by the disease.

The Mutability of All Things and the Possibility of Changing Some

2011 • 16 min • France

The Mutability of All Things and the Possibility of Changing Some explores our human adaptability in light of catastrophe by way of seminal literature passages implying a transitory social body.

Seven Sins: Sloth

2011 • 2 min • Canada

Sloth pokes gentle fun at stereotypes about the Inuit people, past and present.

The Making of Day of the Daleks: Special Edition

2011 • 13 min • United Kingdom

Producer Steve Broster guides us through the creation of his Special Edition of this story.

The Last Belle

2011 • 20 min

The Last Belle is an animated short featuring two characters journeying towards a blind date: WALLY, who suffers a nightmarish drunken trip through London as he races against the clock to the rendezvous; and ROSIE, who waits in a bar dreaming of how wonderful her date is going to be...if he ever turns up.

Why Does God Hate Me?

2011 • 16 min • Canada

A coming-of-age comedy about a 14-year-old boy whose best friend tries to 'cure' him of being gay.

Lucky Day Forever

2011 • 17 min • Poland

Prole 514 dreams about winning the Great Lottery. The lottery winner is transformed and allowed admission into the elite White society, where everyone is beautiful, young and happy and people spend their carefree lives solely on fun and partying. One day, 514's wish comes true... but was this what he really wanted?

With Fidel Whatever Happens

2011 • 47 min • Cuba, Serbia

Sierra Maestra, Cuba, 850 km east of Havana. The day before the celebration of the 52nd anniversary of the Revolution. An old man is repairing a few decades old motorcycle. A young dentist is trying to find some transport to a clinic in remote mountains. A middle-aged married couple run a public telephone booth in their modest house for villagers who have no phone. Fates of these people and many other inhabitants of Sierra Maestra are depicted on a day of ideological ecstasy, the day of the celebration of the 52nd anniversary of the Revolution. And the following day? The next day, driven by inertia, they all return to the rhythm of everyday life which is the same and is not very promising. But the revolution continues... For how long?

Bon Appétit

2011 • 16 min

Bon Appetit is like a bowl full of colorful, savory candy. It is a beautiful and magical story about two women, and the vague borders between reality, imagination, memory and dream.

Boys, Where Are You

2011 • 12 min • Serbia

Even though she still doesn't know what is the right thing to do, Lena made a decision.

Tunniit: Retracing the Lines of Inuit Tattoos

2011 • 50 min • Canada

Inuit traditional face tattoos have been forbidden for a century, and almost forgotten. Director Alethea Arnaquq-Baril, together with long-time friend and activist Aaju Peter, is determined to uncover the mystery and meaning behind this beautiful ancient tradition. Together they embark on an adventure through Arctic communities, speaking with elders and recording the stories of a once popularized female artform. Central to the film is Arnaquq-Baril’s personal debate over whether or not to get tattood herself. With candour and humour, she welcomes us into her world, to experience firsthand the complex emotions that accompany her struggle. Past meets present in this intimate account of one woman’s journey towards self-empowerment and cultural understanding.

Perspective

2011 • 8 min • Turkey

In a Dystopian Future, the real merges with virtual. And now, you, how much you are you anymore? This is now your Simulation! Your Perspective!...

Children

2011 • 13 min • United Arab Emirates

The drama of a mother and her children planning a desperate escape from a scary, hungry beast that preys on them is captured in this short animation film.

Night of the Hunt

2011 • 45 min • United States of America

Using the latest advances in camera technology, NGC penetrates the nocturnal hunting behaviors of the lion. Often asleep during the day, at night these iconic cats become active predators. With thermal imaging and infrared technology, see how experienced lions use the night to their advantage while stalking their prey

Saga City

2011 • 17 min • Canada

This animated short tackles the twin issues of urban planning and climate change. Set in the imaginary city of Colvert, the film highlights the fact that the way a community is shaped and organized is an important factor in determining its energy consumption, and thus the quantity of greenhouse gases it releases into the atmosphere.