All Films

Mix Tape

2011 • 10 min • Netherlands

Spanish exchange student Lily is unable to settle down in the crowded city of Amsterdam. The mix tapes she records for herself drown out the sound of the city, yet her social isolation remains. When she finds out about a musician living in the same building, she reaches out.

Mens Sana in Corpore Sano

2011 • 22 min • Brazil

Flavio Danillo is a personal trainer whose students attend him at the gym. At home, Flavio works his body into a state of decay. Suddenly, his body no longer responds his mind taking over control.

Black Goat

2011 • 6 min • United States of America

Jacques Cowan is what the French call "a runner of the woods." He may be a foreigner in the new world but Jacques quickly learned the ways of the native people, their language, their routes, and their skills. But he didn't leave his life in another land for adventure, freedom, and wealth - he had much more in mind than trading pelts and cheating death. Jacques had listened intently to the stories that had crossed the ocean, extraordinary tales of mystical creatures and unknown forces. Black Goat finds Jacques mid hunt, as he closes in on what others thought was a legend. What he doesn't realize is that the legend is on a hunt of its own.

Australia

2011 • 26 min • Russia

They emigrated to Australia to start a new – wonderful – life. Their optimistic video letters to Russia, parents, grandparents, indicate that the goal is almost achieved. Almost.

Weighting

2011 • 4 min

A re-telling of the pre-telling of a story of the end.

Kawamo o Suberu Kaze

2011 • 25 min • Japan

In the story, 33-year-old Kanazawa native Noriko had decided long ago not to accept an ordinary, provincial life for herself. So, she had gone to college in Tokyo, worked on her own, married a man at an elite trading firm, and had a child. She has just returned home from five years abroad with her husband and four-year-old son. However, she senses a large emptiness in her heart since coming back. Moreover, there is a man who shares a big secret with Noriko.

Silent Agony

2011 • 16 min

Away from any urban environment, there is a place full of fears and sadness. There are children living under the worst possible treat, hoping one day some parents appear to offer love and understanding. Sometimes those wishes come true, but it can also be something frightening.

Robot Zot!

2011 • 9 min • United States of America

Robot Zot is a fearsome and fearless robot from a planet far away. He comes to earth to crush and conquer. He is powerful, relentless, and smaller than a toaster. Robot Zot destroys all in his path until he meets the beautiful queen. Battling with an emotion he has never felt before, Zot begins the biggest rescue of his life. Will he save his queen and conquer the earth?

Elefante

2011 • 9 min • Spain

Manuel is stuck in a monotonous job, has only one friend that he cannot stand, and his family despises him. Everything will change when the doctor diagnoses him with a rare disease - Manuel is going to turn into an elephant.

Mayonaka kara tobi utsure

2011 • 13 min • Japan

A short film by Satoko Yokohama

Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger: Let's Make an Extremely GOLDEN Show of it! The 36-Stage Gokai Change!!

2011 • 14 min • Japan

Captain Marvelous and Gai are accidentally fused together in one body during Insarn's attempt to put Gai inside Karizorg, the empty shell of Barizorg. Determined to retrieve Insarn's gun and reverse the process, the duo transform into a hybrid form of Gokai Silver with Gokai Red's helmet and boots, and change into the red warriors from the past 34 Super Sentai while battling dozens of Gormin Sailors!

A Child's Garden of Poetry

2011 • 30 min • United States of America

Poems by some of the greatest writers of all time are brought to life through lyrical animation and readings by some of today’s most respected performers.

The Birds of Anger

2011 • 7 min • United States of America

The best-selling mobile game, Rovio's "Angry Birds", told in the style of Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 classic "The Birds".

Prince: A Purple Reign

2011 • 59 min • United Kingdom

Part of BBC Four's Black Music Legends of the 1980s, this documentary explores how Prince - showman, artist, enigma - revolutionized the perception of black music in the 1980s with worldwide hits such as "1999," "Kiss," "Raspberry Beret" and "Alphabet Street." He became a global sensation with the release of the Oscar-winning, semi-autobiographical movie "Purple Rain" in 1984, embarking on an incredible journey of musical self-discovery that continues to this day.

Deep Blue Breath

2011 • 18 min • United States of America

A boy goes into surgery and battles his disease, which has morphed into a monster in an animated world.

Skin

2011 • 8 min • Italy

One morning, after nightmares and restless sleep, a man finds out he has a dark-skinned arm. His doctor explains that a skin mutation is in progress…

Stake Land: Origins

2011 • 6 min • United States of America

As a mysterious virus starts affecting middle America, a young boy films his father, a butcher, for a school project.

The Plain

2011 • 19 min • United States of America, Italy

Inspired by real events, it tells the story of Ayiva, a young migrant worker who seeks to reunite with his best friend in the wake of the most significant race riot in Italian history.

The First A.D.

2011 • 5 min • United States of America

Adam Scott presents this behind-the-scenes look at the world's worst first assistant director, with Ken Marino and Mark Duplass.

Notes from Underground

2011 • 32 min • Denmark

A bitterly ironical view on the absurd everyday life of a pedophile and the little girl he keeps in his cellar.

Triangle Fire

2011 • 55 min • United States of America

The Triangle Fire chronicles the 1911 fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City killing one hundred and forty-eight young women and forever changed the relationship between labor and industry in the United States.

The Maiden and the Princess

2011 • 18 min

During a game of catch-the-boy-and-kiss-him, Emmy, a precocious ten-year-old, kisses another little girl, Alice.

Passerby

2011 • 8 min • Germany

A nighttime odyssey just before New Year's Eve: a woman and a man walking along a back road, caught up in a fight. Their conflict spreads out around them: it covers the dirty coat the woman is wearing, a child she meets and a waiter who doesn't want to leave her alone. Between external stimuli and internal conditions an idiosyncratic and seemingly inescapable space of repressed aggression and confrontation emerges.

The Last Days of the USSR

2011 • 52 min • France

From 1989 to 1991 a string of unpredictable events happened that brought to light the rivalry between two men: Gorbachev, hindered by the economic results of his perestroika, and Yeltsin, embodying the hopes of the Russian people. Illustrated with interviews of top protagonists such as Mikhail Gobachev himself, the documentary recounts the critical last two years of the former USSR.