All Films

Straight Out

2011 • 20 min

Elliott is growing up and discovering his sexuality. He is coming out of the closet and he is about to shock everyone by telling them that he is straight.

O Caipira e o Chupa-cabras

2011 • 13 min • Brazil

A nice, down-to-earth little trick-or-treating accountant decides to tell a story for his children to sleep. But its causes begin to really happen.

Nyodema

2011 • 10 min • Gambia

Short documentary about turists that are helping people in Gambia

Surr-Urban-ism

2011 • 3 min

mechanical reproduction in the form of consciousness aimed at its own reflection in the revelation of the mechanical constructs of society - now saturated with nihil information circulating without meaning. A degenerative environment of flux and representational chaos achieving informational metastasis after being inscribed onto recording material. Now digital. Super-8. In-Camera edit. Stands alone but also repurposed in exodusMelancholia.

Evacuación

2011 • 2 min

"When they arrive, they didn't want to leave"

Gaelle Obiegly

2011 • 3 min • Austria

Gaelle Obiegly is a film about not being able to see, and a reversal of the gaze.

Our Most Holy Death

2011 • 59 min • Italy

Born at the crossroad between Catholicism, Yoruba and shamanism around the 50’s, then considered a prison cult since the 70’s, the cult of the Santa Muerte since at least ten years has been regarding not exclusively Mexican gangsters‘ spirituality, and it has been diffusing as a popular devotion that became a congregation of three million people in the only Mexico City. Three hundred altars are dedicated to Santa Muerte, a full-size skeleton dressed like a Virgin Mary, to which people ask protection from the crime as well as for the crime, people asks to survive and to be able to kill. The devotion is obviously strong in the most popular districts, where people usually fear for their own life and where the mothers ask her protection for their own sons.

Junior's Giants: Nothing but the Truth

2011 • 36 min

Junior learns about the importance of telling the truth, and that sometimes lies can turn into crazy lawyer crocodiles.

Living Fossils Evolution: The Grand Experiment

2011 • 53 min

Based on the popular book series “Evolution: The Grand Experiment” by Dr. Carl Werner. This DVD has the feel of a PBS documentary, with British narrator Andres Williams, and contains spectacular underwater footage of Dr. Werner diving at the Great Barrier Reef in Australia and the coral reefs in the Caribbean Sea, plus footage from dinosaur dig sites in Europe and North America.

Textilm vol.01

2011 • 11 min • Japan

Short film by Kayako Oki.

Kakibaum III

2011 • 3 min • Germany

HF359 - Super 8 (Color) film by Helga Fanderl

The Wolf in Shorts

2011 • 57 min

When is a family a family? Joshua, Federico and Sara have two moms. Luca and Francesco - two men who have been together for 15 years - are trying to have a baby. To the Italian State, their families do not exist.

Perpetuum

2011 • 7 min • Germany

A ball goes its way in this experimental animated short.

DaKings

2011 • 58 min

The women in daKings tighten up their tits and imitate men on stage. For two years they try to build up a drag king group in Norway. But can six strong women manage to work together? This is a film about strong wills and the dream of performing.

The Mirror

2011 • 44 min • Germany

A relationship, two women standing in front of an abyss. Only one of them will succeed to free herself from dependence.

Margaret & Evergon

2011 • 45 min

In 1999, the celebrated Montreal photographer Evergon took a remarkable series of nude portraits of his own mother, then 80 years old. The photographs were instantly recognized as a singular achievement: the black and white images embodied not the infirmities of old age, but the timeless strength, dignity, even majesty. In 2007 Margaret Lunt left her long-time home in Niagara Falls, Ontario and moved to Montreal to live with her son. It was shortly afterwards, that filmmaker Donald Winkler embarked on a project that would explore what lay behind that series of photographs, uncovering in the process a poignant family history, a woman's determination to be her own person, how readily she threw off her own deepest cultural conditioning when she discovered both her sons were gay and a most unique and inspiring relationship between mother and son. The result...is Margaret & Evergon.

Wariazone

2011 • 58 min

Wariazone explores the notion of transgender in Indonesia and relations between gender identity and freedom. It raises questions about the politicization of morality and religion after the reform era. Traditionally, variations in gender identity have been considered to be holy in many Indonesian cultures, but today the warias have been relegated to an outlaw zone on the outskirts of society. The consequences of the stigmatization based on the rigidity of social constructions (morals, religions, hetero-normativity, etc.) include non-recognition of their gender identity, discrimination, limited work opportunities, the sex industry, and HIV/AIDS. Wariazone not only situates itself within the context of gender and sexuality, but also points out how the expression of gender identity is ruled by ideology: the ‘truth’ is related to the power.

Colonnade

2011 • 4 min

Not in distribution.

Those Were the Days: Britain in the 40's

2011 • 53 min

The 1940's were dominated by the War. For the first half of the decade Britain was under siege. Thousands of men joined up to fight in the services, hundreds of thousands of children were evacuated from Britain's cities to the relative safety of the countryside and life changed completely for the nation's women. They did their bit for the war effort, going to work on the land and filling in for men in Britain's factories. Britain's families were subjected to almost constant rationing and austerity throughout the decade.

Somnium

2011 • 19 min

A movie about things.

Coming Out of the Nkuta

2011 • 52 min

Or 'Coming out of the Closet' as it means in Cameroon, is a criminal offence for the country's homosexuals. But Alice, a bold and intrepid lawyer, is standing alone to defend them. Ostracised by their families and imprisoned by their government, the people that Alice defends can only lead half lives in their own country. This heartbreaking documentary exposes their desperate search for acceptance.

Grandfather Never Saw the Sea

2011 • 27 min

"Why do I remember one thing and not the other?" In her film essay "Grandfather Never Saw the Sea", Christine Huerzeler explores her own family history in an unusual and unusually poetic way. The film-maker interlaces family recordings, found footage and recent images into a visual and acoustic examination of her origins. Upon closer inspection, it reveals the frictions, cracks and unconfessed longings which ultimately betray domestic happiness as merely staged. "Be nice to each other, says the father. We have a good time together". Beyond the personal, Huerzeler's film is accurate in documenting the atmosphere of an entire era. The unease of the individual is also the unease of a generation which grew up in a supposedly free society, yet lived under the constantly looming shadow of the Cold War.

Abuelas

2011 • 10 min • United Kingdom

In a small apartment in Buenos Aires, an old woman eagerly awaits the birth of her grandchild and all the joys of becoming a grandmother. However, horrific circumstances mean that she will be forced to wait for over 30 years. Using real-life testimonials this animated documentary raises issues of memory, repression and loss.

O Lado Positivo do Fabrício

2011 • 19 min • Brazil

The documentary goes on to show how this boy deals with a disease that has killed millions of people around the world, and talks about his fears and the courage to give voice and face to the thousands of people living with the virus in the country.