All Films

Half-Life

2011 • 16 min • Belarus, United States of America

Searching for an escape from an impoverished city life, a retired couple moves to an abandoned country house in the radioactive zone of Chernobyl. Twenty five years after the disaster, the husband is convinced the land is ready to be cultivated, his wife on the other hand is less sure. A fable of love, Half-Life explores the boundaries of commitment and fear.

July 1st, An Unhappy Birthday

2011 • 27 min • Hong Kong

Handover Law met his girlfriend, Rayna, at the last July 1st march in 2010. This year, they will march again to celebrate their meeting, his birthday and protest the government. This joyful day takes a turn when Rayna runs into her 'mainland Chinese' schoolmate.

T is for Tiles

2011 • 4 min

Short directed by Victor Garcia, produced by Roxbury Pictures for the ABC's of Death (2012).

The Best Man

2011 • 7 min • Australia

Malcolm is on the verge of marriage and he wants Duncan to be his Best Man, but what is Duncan hiding? In this tale of deception, three of Australia's up and coming talents explore the question: How well do we know our friends?

Stray Dawg

2011 • 15 min • United States of America

Meet Jonny Corndawg, the underground country-music legend. A born-and-bred Virginian, Jonny has played on five continents in as many years, and every state in the lower 48. Now Jonny has given himself over, heart and heel, to the world of Running. Jonny let us follow him on a tour down the California coast as he braved injury and isolation on his quest to complete the Surf City USA Marathon in Huntington Beach, CA.

Xxit

2011 • 11 min • United States of America

Canon USA, Inc. launches their C300 with this futuristic demo.

Ctin!

2011 • 15 min • France

At midnight, a man wakes up surrounded by strangers in the middle of a weird supper...

Manifesto of the 121

2011 • 52 min • France

On September 5, 1960, the trial of about twenty French activists from the "Jeanson Network" began, supporters in the metropolis of the action of the Algerian FLN independence activists. But after a few days, the situation was reversed and the trial transformed into a political arena, it was the government, the army, their policy, it was the entire Algerian war whose trial began. Accused, witnesses, lawyers, overflowing a stunned court, transformed the courtroom into a tribune of the opposition. The trial coincided with the publication of the "Manifesto of the 121" on the right to insubordination, signed among others by Jean Paul Sartre, Arthur Adamov, Simone de Beauvoir, André Breton, Marguerite Duras, Pierre Boulez, René Dumont, François Chatelet…

Long Distance Call

2011 • 20 min • Germany

Henry is alone in a silent and darkened apartment, anxious and waiting by the phone, as his small child sleeps. Finally, a call. His wife Claire is on the other side of the world on a beach at a luxury resort, drunk, also in the dark, but apparently with another man. An adulterous affair, or a life in danger? In the harrowing wait and frantic calls that follow, is it his marriage, his wife or his sanity that is most under threat? The telephone line is the single fragile thread that connects them. All Henry can do is to hang onto that phone.

Gom

2011 • 7 min • France

In a circus, Gom, a rubber-boy, has to replace inappropriately the artist's assistant during the show.

O'Say Can You See 2

2011 • 15 min • United States of America

This is the second channel of Laura Poitras’s double video installation. It is comprised of United States military footage of interrogations, conducted shortly after 9/11, with two U.S. prisoners in Afghanistan, one of whom, Salim Hamdan, is the subject of Poitras’s feature documentary THE OATH.

Fletcher And The Snowflake Christmas

2011 • 9 min • United States of America

It's Christmas Eve and Fletcher lays sticks driecting Santa to the rabbits' new burrow. But when it snows, he wonders how will Santa find them?

Ninjas

2011 • 23 min • Brazil

In crisis after killing an innocent during action in the favela, a police officer is introduced into the unit of the "Ninjas" - extermination group that is dedicated to sadistically eliminating suspects of violent crimes.

Time Freak

2011 • 10 min • United States of America

A neurotic inventor creates a time machine and gets lost traveling around yesterday.

Fall Guy

2011 • 2 min

A stream-of-consciousness suspense cartoon.

Gerry Rafferty: Right Down the Line

2011 • 59 min • United Kingdom

Gerry Rafferty, who died in January 2011, was one of Scotland's best-loved singer/songwriters, famous around the world for hits such as "Baker Street" and "Stuck in the Middle With You". This ArtWorks Scotland film, narrated by David Tennant, tells the story of Rafferty's life through his often autobiographical songs and includes contributions from Gerry's daughter Martha and brother Jim, friends and colleagues including Billy Connolly, John Byrne, and Joe Egan, admirers such as Tom Robinson and La Roux, and words and music from Rafferty himself.

A Trick of the Light

2011 • 13 min

Best friends for life, Jonny and Joe are two young shadows who have detached themselves from their bodies in a bid for fun and adventure. But whilst Jonny embraces his newfound freedom, Joe becomes daunted by the aimlessness of this new life.

The Traveler

2011 • 18 min

A young man develops a time machine with a colleague from his university. They soon discover that with some success comes betrayal, greed, and insanity. While his partner uses the machine for the purpose of financial gain, the Traveler attempts to shut it down and cling to what salvation he has left in the form of his girlfriend.

Stake Land: Mister

2011 • 6 min • United States of America

The origin of the strong and silent vampire exterminator known simply as "Mister."

Ni una Sola Palabra de Amor

2011 • 8 min • Argentina

Soul Catcher

2011 • 14 min • Finland

A film about a man who has lost his soul. Many aboriginal tribes have believed that if someone takes a photograph of them they lose their soul.

The Seventh Pullet

2011 • 19 min • France, Sweden

The bored and self-centered Mr B secretly dreams of being acknowledged by his everyday travel companions as a distinguished and entertaining man.

Recipe for Murder

2011 • 53 min • Australia

Sydney, the early 1950's... a city in the grip of a deadly crime wave. In just over a year more than one hundred people were poisoned. Most of the killers were women. Recipe For Murder tells the true story of three notorious poisoners; Yvonne Fletcher, Caroline Grills and Veronica Monty. The 52 minute film combines gritty archive with stunning film noir re-enactments and interviews with witnesses. Narrated by Dan Wyllie in classic pulp crime style, the film dramatically reveals the unique ingredients that created a Recipe For Murder.

Ispärla

2011 • 38 min • Sweden

Krister is a police officer working on a case before his cancer treatment begins. A boy has disappeared and Krister knows exactly what it is like to lose a child. He also cares for his demented wife at home.