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2012 • 4 min • Japan

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2012 • 2 min • Japan

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Phasmides

2012 • 22 min

16mm color mute

Fertile sand

2012 • 12 min • Spain

Budha is one of the many children living in Refugee Camps for Sahrawi. One afternoon, he decides to stop playing football with his friends to play in the desert, far away from the village. Day after day, Budha is increasingly obsessed with the sand, wich hides a little secret.

Scumbags

2012 • 7 min

A short film about scumbags

Flying Fish

2012 • 6 min • United States of America

“A portrait of my sister, pregnant.” (written by Tara Merenda Nelson)

La Cueva Negra

2012 • 20 min

La Cueva Negra is a moving image project and photo series which explores the Paso del Indio site as a layered repository of symbolic and material histories. The site is well known in the archaeological community. Twenty years ago, during the construction of a multi-lane highway, a complex (possibly Archaic, definitely Pre-Taíno and Taíno) indigenous burial site was discovered and many objects and remains recovered. But the site was paved over for the construction of the expressway.

Metamorphose

2012 • 8 min • Japan

Having wavered in her thoughts a young girl establishes in her new self, a chrysalis. The girl, who has now hatched and transformed herself into a butterfly, dances wildly. This silent short was filmed in 8mm in Kyoto during the summer of 2012, and hand-developed using Caffenol, a home-made vitamin C and instant coffee-based developer. Selected for screening and nominated for an award at the 27th Image Forum Festival Japan.

The Unnamed II

2012 • 14 min • Taiwan

The second film in Huang Ya-Li's Sweet Potato trilogy.

If They Take It

2012 • 15 min • Palestinian Territory

“There are different forms of resistance. For Um Ayman, resistance is to stay in her home and take care of it. This woman and her family’s life has been turned into a hell, full of fear and terror, as settlers have ferociously attacked her land, home and orchards. Her overwhelming concern is to protect her home, “If they take my house they would take the whole mountain because it is the last house remaining on the mountain.”

Femme de la rue

2012 • 24 min • Belgium

When master student 'Documentary film' Sofie Peeters moved to Brussels, she was faced with a very frustrating phenomenon. On a daily basis, she was treated with disregard by strange men in the streets: cheap attempts to flirt, sexist roaring, intimidating persecutions,... Sofie decided to make her Master film about this. She caught the sexism on tape, confronted the offenders and questioned women about how they deal with this problem. The result: 'Femme de la rue'.

Asleep

2012 • 12 min

Asleep is an experimental and poetic documentary, shot in Super 8, about the Capelinhos volcano in the Azorean island of Faia. Also included is some footage of the successive eruptions during 1957 and 1958.

Sky Limousine

2012 • 5 min

A film by Zahid Jiwa.

The Sinking of the Concordia: Caught on Camera

2012 • 47 min

The Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia capsized after striking an underwater rock on January 13, 2012, This is a firsthand account, including cell phone footage, from passengers of this terrifying event.

Voluminous Circles

2012 • 6 min

24 Hours at the South Street Diner

2012 • 25 min

In Boston, the city that brought us Cheers, there really is a place where the staff know all the regulars by name. But it's not a bar, it's a downtown diner that's been there since the 1940s and has become a historical and cultural icon. 24 Hours At The South Street Diner introduces a diverse group of waiters, regulars, late-night revelers and local celebrities who call Boston's only 24/7 restaurant home. They share stories of why this tiny diner means so much to the neighborhood and the city of Boston and how it's survived fires, bankruptcies and even an attempt to revoke its late night license.

Losing Sonia

2012 • 50 min • Poland

"Losing Sonia" shows how a seemingly rigid monastery can be a place full of life, beauty and artistic expression. Sonia, a young nun, paints icons at night and then sleeps until noon. She has a dog, cats, exotic birds, and a body that rebelled against the strict rigour of the monks. Trying to understand her and the meaning of her life choices, we come to Sonia's family, marked with the history of Russia. At the same time, the film is a journey inside the Orthodox church, showing that the deep spirituality of the nation is being reborn. „Losing Sonia" tells the story of an unusual woman who, within the walls of the monastery, is trying to rebuild the values that Russian society has lost under successive political regimes.

Maritime

2012 • 13 min

A silent film adrift in the lost rooms of an old house. A final letter to an old friend.

Abandon

2012 • 19 min

A found-footage film that seeks to sever all narrative ties.

Give Us the Money

2012 • 59 min • Sweden

Can glitz and celebrity save the world? Thirty years ago, rock stars Bob Geldof and Bono set out on a journey to fight poverty in Africa. They tried to convince some of the wiliest and mightiest politicians on earth to change the world. Give us the Money tracks their journey through famines and palaces, and world-wide TV-audiences. But how successful have they really been? Did they manage to make the world a better place? Bosse Lindquist's film tracks the history of this idea. "A band of musicians set out to change the world" he says "and now the time has come to ask: What did they achieve, and is celebrity politics is the right way of combating world poverty?"'

Am I ?

2012 • 3 min

Deep Ocean: Revealing its Secrets

2012 • 29 min

The deep sea is the final largely unexplored part of the planet. A high-definition camera on a Japanese unmanned deep-sea probe vessel introduces the rare creatures that inhabit this amazing world off the coastal waters of Okinawa.

Aldona

2012 • 13 min • Lithuania

In the spring of 1986, Aldona lost her vision and became permanently blind. The nerves in her eyes were poisoned. Doctors claimed that it was probably due to Chernobyl’s Nuclear Power Plant explosion. In the film we follow Aldona through a daily sojourn to Grutas Park, touching both the past and the present.

The Tuner

2012 • 15 min

Paulo, a young piano tuner who works in his father's restoration workshop, wants to be a concert pianist. During a day of work, he tries to find the whereabouts of a letter from a music conservatory that he anxiously awaits.