All Films

Aglaée

2010 • 20 min • France

In the schoolyard, Benoît loses a bet to his friends. His penalty: ask Aglaée, a disabled student, out on a date.

Faculty

2010 • 8 min • Philippines

Two teachers from a private college clash on their opposing views on education.

Miljön

2010 • 5 min • Sweden

Seven billion people, 400 billion trees. Who wins?

Premier anniversaire

2010 • 25 min

One year after the death of his father, a young boy makes the journey to province to meet his grandparents who he does not know, to try to convince them to give him his father's ashes. With his father's friend, he looks for the right place to release his father by scattering his ashes.

Malasangre

2010 • 11 min • Argentina

Milagros is a cleaning lady in a TV studio. While working, the bloody 200 year Argentinian history occurs, bluring the line between fiction and reality.

Avatar: Creating the World of Pandora

2010 • 23 min • United States of America

The Making-of James Cameron's Avatar. It shows interesting parts of the work on the set.

Sikat

2010 • 9 min • Canada

It's been many years since Sikat left the Philippines to work as a live-in caregiver in Canada. Now the day has finally arrived for her husband and son to rejoin her.

Powder

2010 • 22 min • Canada

Two friends spend a summer day together in the suburbs of Montreal. As the evening comes, they go to the fireworks hoping to be entertained but the event ends up igniting memories of a different nature.

Case 219

2010 • 53 min • United States of America

A journalist tries to uncover the circumstances that led to a shocking episode of violence in this drama from director James Bruce. Leonard Grey was a troubled seventeen-year-old who one day went on a shooting spree, injuring several students at his high school and killing one before he took his own life. A reporter for the Los Angeles Times is assigned to research and write an investigative piece about Grey. The journalist studies interviews conducted by the police with the boy's friends and family as well as conducting several of her own as she tries to understand what turned a seemingly ordinary youngster into a killer. She finds an especially intriguing subject in Cameron Porter, Leonard's best friend, who may have been involved in the shootings though he carefully refuses to incriminate himself.

Naruto OVA 7: Naruto, the Genie, and the Three Wishes, Believe It!

2010 • 14 min • Japan

Naruto discovers a genie's bottle while he and the gang are at a genin grill party. When everyone finds out about the genie's ability to grant wishes, the ultimate chase begins.

The Finnster

2010 • 49 min • Netherlands

Finn (15) is an uncomplicated schoolboy until one day, coming home from school, he catches his father Roelof in his moms dress. The man Finn has looked up to his whole life, wants to become a woman. Finn, just discovering his own sexuality, is troubled by this new discovery. A struggle with feelings of shame, love and loyalty follows. Luckily Lizzie, his newfound friend, is there to help him.

Fast

2010 • 2 min

A balls to the wall action film about Fast, the fastest person alive, who is also named Fast.

Scared Shrekless

2010 • 21 min • United States of America

Shrek challenges Donkey, Puss in Boots and his other fairy tale character friends to spend the night in Lord Farquaad's haunted castle, telling scary stories to see who can resist becoming scared and stay the longest.

Dangerous Ride

2010 • 14 min

Martin is on his way up the coast for a quiet weekend. Out of nowhere an attractive teenage girl appears on the side of the road. He drives past, but when he stops at a scenic spot up the road, she knocks on his window and asks him for a ride. His decision to drive her home turns into a nightmare when she coerces him inside.

One Piece: Strong World Episode 0

2010 • 19 min • Japan

The introductory chapter to the movie, Strong World, which depicts the events surrounding Gold Roger's execution.

Pulse

2010 • 53 min • United Kingdom

A year after her mother's death, Hannah resumes her training at one of the country's top teaching hospitals. She is soon terrified by strange visions and the threatening behaviour of her ex-boyfriend and star surgeon Nick and wonders if she has come back too soon. But beneath the hospital's reputation of medical excellence she discovers a secret network of dangerous experiments pushing back the boundaries of science.

Infinito

2010 • 20 min • Mexico

A young man falls in an emotional crisis after learning his girlfriend is pregnant and willing to have an abortion. Due to his incapacity to deal with the situation, the shock takes him to a sensorial and psychic travel through disturbing images in twisted environments where he struggles to find her and be together one more time.

Qué divertido

2010 • 12 min • Spain

Father and son walk by the surroundings of the village the father used to live. Many things have changed, he, for example. Now he is too "urban" and so is his son. But they just try to enjoy a day at the country.

Deus Irae

2010 • 13 min • Argentina

A fragile border separates our world from the realm of darkness, where nightmarish creatures await in the shadows. Only one thing is standing in their way: a secret order of priests, who devote their souls to protect this border. They are the 'Deus Irae'.

Armored Trooper VOTOMS: Case; Irvine

2010 • 50 min • Japan

In another corner of the VOTOMS universe, Irvine is an AT mechanic who moonlights as a Battling pilot. Although he’s content with throwing matches for money, his talents draw the attention of the Battling agent Ishruna, and the sadistic pilot Paygun.

Miedo

2010 • 25 min • Spain

It's Eva's weekend out with her friends, and her boyfriend Sergio complains she won't take him with her. He decides to go out on his own without knowing what terror he will eventually have to go through.

The Third & the Seventh

2009 • 12 min • Spain

Architecture through the cinematographic lens. The visual fusion between the third and the seventh arts. The Third & The Seventh is a full-CG animated piece that tries to illustrate architecture art across a photographic point of view where main subjects are already-built spaces.

Esquizofrenia: Una temporada en el infierno

2009 • 23 min

We Are Half of Iran's Population

2009 • 47 min

Bani-Etemad's documentary short was made during the months before last year's controversial elections in Iran. Filming a diverse coalition of women's rights activists discussing their opinions on pressing contemporary issues, Bani-Etemad asked three of the four presidential candidates to view the footage for comment, with Mahmoud Ahmedinejad declining to participate.