All Films

Bob Marley: This Land Is Your Land

2012 • 56 min

While there is little argument that Bob Marley was the finest reggae performer and songwriter of his time, it is sometimes forgotten what an effective protest singer and dynamic spokesman for the underdog this pioneering poet also was. And although his message was always one of peace and he never recommended 'fighting fire with fire', he managed to affect the political situation for better in both his homeland and around the world by preaching the simple dictum, 'Love thy neighbour'. This film documents both the music and the message of Bob Marley as it investigates his life and career in a manner not previously undertaken. Featuring contributions from many who knew him personally, rare archive interviews, seldom seen footage and photos and an array of other features which altogether reveal the kind of man Marley was and the effect he had by making his music the message.

Welcome to Candyland

2012 • 17 min

An interview with the author and, at the same time, an exciting voyage through some cult virtual-hyper-reality-simulacro. The OJ chase, Hollywood forever cemetery, Dr. Phil are just some ingredients of this delicious visual trippy cake.

Singularity or Bust

2012 • 48 min

Two A.I. Scientists agree that a Technological Singularity is coming... and that the super-intelligent machines that they are building will lead us there. However, they disagree on whether humans will survive the coming revolution.

Käufliche Liebe im Mittelalter - Wie Wanderhuren wirklich lebten

2012 • 46 min

A plot forced Marie to work as a “traveling whore” in the TV event “Die Wanderhure”. But did traveling whores really exist? What was prostitution like in the Middle Ages? How did the whores use contraception and where were the largest brothels in Europe located? The SAT.1 documentary “Love for Sale in the Middle Ages - How Traveling Whores Really Lived” uses the historically documented fate of the traveling whore Els von Eystett to shed light on these and other questions.

The Boy Who Can't Forget

2012 • 47 min

Can you remember what you were doing on 15th March 2003? Or what the weather was like on 30th May 2007? Twenty-year-old British student Aurelien can. He is one of a handful of people in the world baffling scientists with their ability to recall an incredible amount of their lives. This remarkable documentary explores the recently discovered phenomenon known as superior autobiographical memory.

The Manipulated Living

2012 • 7 min • United States of America

It's the short film about a young boy whose life is dark and manipulated in a way of child abuse. The purpose is to help the children and make the word a safer place for them.

Before the Light

2012 • 30 min

From Badr International comes the long-awaited series, Animated Stories of Islam, relating some of the great stories that took place before, during and after the Prophet Muhammad. Before the Light, the first film in the 3-part series, relates significant events that took place before the birth of Prophet Muhammad. It is a story of miracles - the miraculous discovery of the well of zamzam, and then, centuries later, the miracle of its rediscovery by the Prophet's grandfather Abdulmuttaleb; the miracle of his father Abdullah's life; and finally, the miracle during the Year of the Elephant, the year the Prophet was born. There miraculous stories - all works of God - prepared the way for the message of Islam to shine bright during Muhammad's Prophethood, and for centuries to come.

All Happy Mornings

2012 • 60 min

A personal journey into bisexual being, the film exposes the passionate, wild world found by the filmmaker in documenting his relationship with Chen, a rising rock star. Facing the pressure all around him, the filmmaker tries to find a way to feel complete without having to explain. Alongside the personal dilemma is his singular family-his brother, sister and their grand childless parents, who are longing for continuity. Like the men he talks to confidentially, they present him with the main conflict in his live. As the inevitable crisis looms, a new factor emerges and illuminates things in a new light.

Baboon

2012 • 2 min • Iceland, United States of America

All things considered, it was a bad day to punch a clown in the head.

Construct

2012 • 12 min

17 Monuments

2012 • 60 min • Argentina

Seventeen tripod-bound shots of fixed length observe the diverse and disparate settings in which 17 monuments, each bearing the words 'Memory', 'Truth' and 'Justice', were built by law to mark locations used as detention and torture centres during Argentina's military dictatorship between 1976 and 1983.

Luc Leccia

2012 • 24 min

Astons presenter

2012 • 9 min • Sweden

Jardin d'été

2012 • 18 min • France

A moment spent in a garden. Bursts of light, flowers trembling, life flies by.

Ernest Atkinson Park

2012 • 23 min

A short shot made in a children’s playground in Windsor, Ontario, is cut into three-frame sections, each of which is looped for ten seconds. Each loop advances by one one frame at a time. The process generates multiple and complex kinetic effects, which vary depending on which part of the screen the spectator fixates upon.

Gaelle Obliegly - le prochain

2012 • 2 min • Austria

The continuation of a portrait of Gaelle Obiegly. The focus of the film is not a portrait, but rather a wide variety of cable cords in a cellar, attached to diverse light sources. A pageboy, a film projector, the person named in the title, and three other women.

Time of the Plums

2012 • 9 min

It's the time of the plums and 10-year-old Yasemin lives in her own world of fantasy. On a day her fantasy world hinders her first encounter with death.

The War of Comics

2012 • 19 min • Brazil

In the 1960s, a creative production of erotic comics emerged in Brazil. But censorship conspired to bring them to an end. Satã, Chico de Ogum, Beto Sonhador, Maria Erótica and other characters join the comic artists in this battle against the dictatorship in this documentary where the worst fiction is reality.

Forsaken

2012 • 5 min

Phillips abstracts images selected from found footage, this time exploring such techniques as contact printing and hand tinting and toning. Muscle men, machinery, and building climbers become foreboding figures in this darkly apocalyptic film.

#43.4

2012 • 1 min

Short piece commissioned for the ‘Modern Times’ project by Stichting Cinema Zuid in collaboration with the One Minutes. Part of a long-running exploration of algorithms that are based on a combination of propagation and local interactions. Originally triggered by an encounter with simulations of how nerve impulses organise themselves into oscillations in tissues like heart muscle, the project has since expanded to include an interest in the more general emergence of patterns in time and space out of homogeneous starting conditions.

Contact Light

2012 • 2 min

Directed by Michael Betancourt

Responsibly Sourced

2012 • 5 min

The near future. Global population has soared and food is in short supply. What will we do?

Céphalie

2012 • 17 min • France

Super 8 Film about the end of time, the rage and despair, and how to live anyway.

Slate

2012 • 15 min

Slate, is a story about a male hustler (Slate) who finds himself under the control of a lazy overbearing pimp (Terrence) who abuses him every chance he gets. Feeling lost, alone, and unloved, Slate's fortune changes when he meets Johnny. The two quickly form a friendship that flourishes into something more. When Terrence finds out of this relationship and goes after Johnny, Slate feels like he has no choice, but to take matters into his own hands.