All Films

Children Make Terrible Pets

2011 • 8 min • United States of America

Lucy (Lucille Beatrice Bear) meets a new pet. She calls him Squeaker, because he makes funny noises. One day, he made a lot of damage. Then Lucy remembers that children make TERRIBLE pets.

Violent Youth

2011 • 15 min • Macedonia

Violent youth is a film about a group of children who are struggling in a society. The story takes place in the Nineties years, when Macedonia was at a crossroads in its independence and forming their own way. Period of transition and proof… The story takes place in the capital of its margin, in a small stubburn. The main character is a picture of alienation and a photo forgotten and disbanded youth. Youth - no idea and direction, no time in which it could be priced.

In Your Arms

2011 • 3 min

Stop-motion animation for the song “In Your Arms” by Kina Grannis. The video was made frame by frame over the course of 22 months, with 288,000 jelly beans used to create the settings Kina interacts with.

Black Swan Theory

2011 • 12 min • United States of America

A psychiatric casualty of war recently returned to the US, Sonya's imagined sense of normalcy crumbles around her; she must hunt or become the hunted.

Parkdale

2011 • 14 min • Canada

Over the course of a night, two sisters roam the inner-city streets of their neighbourhood as they try to escape another stint in the foster care system.

Catharsis

2011 • 18 min • France

Thirty year old Alexander is a budding film-maker. One night he wakes and is stunned to find he is being filmed by the very same camera that enables us to see his every move. In bed beside him, his girl-friend, Emeline, appears blissfully unaware of what is happening to him. He begins to realise that he is trapped inside a film, a delusion that seems to embody his obsession with film-making. From now on, he battles, body and soul, to set himself free.

Kermess

2011 • 30 min

In Saint-Denis, at the Stade de France district leisure center, the time for the fair comes with summer. The day before D-Day, at the Koné's, Oumou and Bakary bicker as usual while their father learns of an important letter from the Prefecture. On the morning of the party, on the other side of the ring road, host Benjamin is very late to help with the preparations and hides his lack of enthusiasm under his hangover. Around the stadium, the security system is set up for the evening concert.

Patch Town

2011 • 26 min • Canada

This satirical comedy-meets-musical clashes the folklore of Soviet era oppression with the mindless, excessive consumerism of the 1980. Welcome to Patch Town.

James L. Brooks: A Singular Voice

2011 • 37 min

A retrospective documentary on Brooks's career in television and film, featuring actresses Marilu Henner and Julie Kavner, among other collaborators.

Daughters of Bilitis Club

2011 • 59 min

Ju Yeon is a young girl who just discovered her homosexuality. She's looking for other women like her on the Internet for a movie she wants to make and that's how she meets Yeo Gyeong, another lesbian girl who's in the same school. The movie also follows Han Na, an office worker who lives with her girlfriend Yeong Eun, who will feel betrayed by her partner's pregnancy, and Myeong Hee and Hyang Ja, owners of a lesbian bar who will face the return of Hyang Ja's estranged daughter.

I Am Jazz: A Family in Transition

2011 • 60 min

This documentary special follows the life of an extraordinary family and their transgendered daughter.

Tom Papa: Live in New York City

2011 • 57 min • United States of America

From the Union Square Theater in New York City, veteran comic Tom Papa discusses a variety of topics, ranging from living with the worst roommates in the world to the difficulties of keeping up with rapidly changing technology.

My Name Is Your First Love

2011 • 14 min

Christian, a poor teen in the 1980's suburbia, is employed as a gardener by his new neighbor, Geena, a trashy but beautiful woman in her mid twenties. Working for her, he suddenly discovers a purpose for life: allowing his growing love for Geena to show through his care for her garden. When Gena recognizes the level of his devotion, a moment of reckoning will transform them in ways neither could have anticipated.

Ebony Society

2011 • 13 min • New Zealand

Young Vinnie and Jonah are bored on the mean streets — tagging, BMX-ing — when Jonah peer pressures Vinnie to join him in breaking and entering a house. When they find more than Christmas pressies inside, it tests mateship, moral codes and festive spirit.

Night Hunter

2011 • 16 min • United States of America

In this handmade film, composed of more than four thousand collages, the actress Lillian Gish is seamlessly appropriated from silent-era cinema and plunged into a new and haunting role. NIGHT HUNTER evokes a disquieting dreamscape, drawn from allegory, myth, and archetype.

Louanna Lee and The Mansion Murder Mystery

2011 • 39 min

Teenage detective Louanna Lee and her pal Victoria attend a birthday party for her Grandpa in an old mansion. When the lights go out, the murders begin. Can Louanna and Vicky discover the killer's identity before they become the next victims?

Green House

2011 • 6 min • United States of America

The Coffmans are desperate to win their bid for residency in a new, environmentally friendly condo. Putting their best face forward, they work to convince a jaded government auditor that their lifestyle makes them worthy of acceptance. But when another couple vies for the same home, a battle for environmental superiority begins.

Winx Club - The Shadow Phoenix

2011 • 46 min • Italy

The Shadow Phoenix is trying to take over the Magic Dimension. He kidnaps Bloom and casts a spell on her to make her become evil so that he could use her powers to help him with his conquest.

Fletcher and the Springtime Blossoms

2011 • 9 min • United States of America

Fletcher loves everything about spring, but then Fletcher sees something he never expected to see in spring: snow! And it turns out that spring has another surprise in store for Fletcher—a warm and wondrous one.

Candy's Room: Soleil Noir

2011 • 60 min

This is a dark Gothic story of abandonment, violence, drugs and rich dysfunctional kids.

Cork's Cattlebaron

2011 • 15 min • United States of America

A young protege and his boss sit down for the most epic steak dinner of their lives in Omaha, Nebraska.

Boobie

2011 • 6 min • United States of America

Two young men find themselves at a precarious crossroads during a typical afternoon of horseplay.

Spine-Chilling Short Stories Kowabana

2011 • 54 min • Japan

Psychic experiences, bizarre phenomena, and the darkness that eats away at people's hearts... With the keyword "scary" in mind, this film recreates horror stories collected from all over Japan, focusing on the inner lives of the people who experienced them!

In Still Waters

2011 • 15 min • Mexico

Ana is running away from her hometown while Mar, an old acquaintance of hers, is coming back after a long absence. They find each other in the middle of the road and through the night, they make a journey amongst their fears to find out that still waters run deep.