All Films

Gateway

2011 • 13 min

Two scientists attempt to create a machine that prevents death, but get more than they bargained for when they turn the device on themselves.

Laughter in the Dark

2011 • 20 min • Russia

Love is blind. In the literal and figurative sense. A middle-aged man falls in love with a young girl and loses his head. As a result of an accident the man becomes completely blind. After surgery, they rent a summer house at the countryside to relax. The girl becomes his only companion and guide in this new strange blind world. But the man feels that there is someone else in the house.

Lobão – Decadence Avec Elegance

2011 • 15 min • Brazil

"Lobão - Não Há Estilo Sem Fracasso" investigates the artistic career of Lobão, one of the most famous musicians of brazilian rock in the 80s. From some interviews with people such as Edgard Scandurra, Liminha and Marcelo Sussekind, this short movie shows various points of view about music industry and it presents hits of Lobão such as "Das Tripas Coração" and "Mal de Amor".

Doctor Who: A Good Man Goes to War - Prequel

2011 • 2 min • United Kingdom

Dorium meets three cloaked figures, informing them that his agents have procured the exact security software they have requested. Dorium has extracted it from the memory of a Judoon trooper, admitting he decided that it was quicker to take the whole brain. He gives them the brain in exchange for a bag of sentient money. Dorium doesn't understand why they are doing all this to imprison one child, and says he's heard rumours about whose child they've taken. He asks if they are mad and if they've heard the stories about the Doctor. Dorium warns them "God help us if you've made him angry".

The Curve of Forgotten Things

2011 • 9 min • United States of America

A magical girl, who exists outside of space and time, inhabits an odd, timeless landscape that is both old and modern, and spends her days playing and collecting objects from history, things that she loves.

Story Of Queen: Mercury Rising

2011 • 60 min • United Kingdom

Follow the life of four talented musicians from their origins as they soared to one of the greatest Rock n Roll bands of all time. This documentary tells the story of Freddie Mercury and his impact on a band, which would become a worldwide sensation.

Galata

2011 • 19 min • Armenia, Turkey

Kara works in the «Goldfish» eatery all day long washing dishes. Her life has become a closed circle of grey days far from the colors of the big city. Every day she walks home alone at night. She saves money for family. But one night an unexpected incident changes her daily routine.

Nuts & Robbers

2011 • 4 min • Canada

This short was created as a teaser for the feature film The Nut Job. Surly Squirrel plans a heist from the nut store, however inadvertently gets caught up in a bank robbery.

Code-Breakers: Bletchley Park's Lost Heroes

2011 • 60 min • United Kingdom

This is a documentary about unsung heroes of World War II. In 1943, a 24-year-old maths student and a GPO engineer combined to hack into Hitler's personal super-code machine - not Enigma but an even tougher system, which he called his 'secrets writer'. Their break turned the Battle of Kursk, powered the D-day landings and orchestrated the end of the conflict in Europe. But it was also to be used during the Cold War - which meant both men's achievements were hushed up and never officially recognized.

Shooting the Hollywood Stars

2011 • 60 min

Documentary in which British fashion photographer Rankin reveals the rich history of Hollywood photography and how its most influential and enduring images were created.

The Clock

2011 • 19 min • Taiwan

Suffering from dementia, Hsia flees the brand-new apartment where she now lives with her daughter and returns to her old home, only to relive the nightmare that she has long forgotten and buried.

Lack of Evidence

2011 • 9 min • France

In Nigeria, to be a twin can be a blessing or a curse. The father of O is the village chief, a witch doctor who believes in the curse of twins. One day, this witch doctor tried to kill his two sons during a ritual ceremony: O managed to escape but saw his brother being murdered. Having fled across his country, he succeeded, by chance, in leaving Nigeria and going into exile in France.

Finding Atlantis

2011 • 60 min • Canada

Using satellite photography, ground-penetrating radar and underwater technology, The film, Finding Atlantis, was screened by the National Geographic Channel in the US and fronted by Professor Richard Freund, from Hartford University in Connecticut. Professor Freund explained how he led a pursuit to find the lost civilisation, believed by many to be an ancient Greek myth, by using deep-ground radar, digital mapping and satellite imagery. He contends that Atlantis, described by Plato in 360BC, in Spain's Donaña National Park, north of Cadiz, and was wiped out by a giant tsunami. Plato wrote it had been destroyed by a natural disaster in 9,000BC. Experts are now surveying marshlands in Spain to look for proof of the ancient city.

Games

2011 • 26 min • United States of America

The life and struggles of a group of high school seniors living in Waco, Texas.

The World's Biggest Bomb Revealed

2011 • 45 min • United Kingdom

National Geographic 2011 Documentary on the World's Biggest Bomb (UK).

Dr Nazi

2011 • 15 min • France

Charles Chinaski is a guy with many problems and feels responsible for most of them: women, alcohol, his hostility towards certain groups of people. One day, he decides to consult the first doctor he comes across.

Atlas

2011 • 20 min

"I used to spend an embarrassing amount of time watching the patterns of these blinking lights, trying to calculate the sequence—two-one, one-two-three, and so on. But I could never figure it out. With three sets of lights, it's just too complicated." - Al Burian

7 Down

2011 • 47 min • United States of America

A group of friends go out of town for a haunted hay rack ride. The car breaks down and the mayhem ensues. Will any one survive?

The Barewolf

2011 • 10 min • Canada, France

The werewolves that live in this secluded place are particularly savage: when not attacking anything that moves, they spend their time arguing and fighting. Driven by instinct, one young werewolf chases pink flamingos through the wild, straying far from home. Before he knows it, he’s in a place he knows nothing about: the world of humans.

Luise Rainer: Live from the TCM Classic Film Festival

2011 • 28 min • United States of America

100-year-old Oscar-winning actress Luise Rainer sits down with Robert Osborne at the 2010 TCM Classic Film Festival.

Elsa & the Tooth Fairy

2011 • 5 min • Sweden

Everyone in kindergarten has lost a tooth. Except for Elsa, who is the only one in the world who hasn't lost one. Until one day when it finally gets loose.

The Jockstrap Raiders

2011 • 19 min • United States of America

The Jockstrap Raiders takes place during World War I in Leeds, England. A group of underdog misfits are excluded from the war due to various abnormalities. Threatened by the invading German Kaiser and his army, they must learn to become a team and overcome their deficiencies in order to save Britain and the world.

7:45 of the Dead

2011 • 2 min

Between dawn and day there is... 7:45 of the Dead!

An Undertaking

2011 • 11 min

A student in medical school in 1888 must find myself a cadaver for his final exams. What lengths does he have to go to to get one?