All Films

Tales of Terror: The Painted Face

2009 • 48 min • Japan

Here is a school where hangs a portrait of a female whose face has been painted over. If you scratch away a portion of the whitewash, the woman actually appears to haunt and harass you. Her face is said to defy description, so horrifying in fact that one wishes for death upon seeing it. This school forms the backdrop for female teen, Yayoi Himeno, who finds herself embroiled in a terrifying mystery.

Hopeful Romantic

2009 • 17 min

One man's emotional journey through love, heartbreak, and healing.

To Symbiotic Planet

2009 • 43 min • Japan

The second movie of To. A romeo and juliet variant in space.

La vie lointaine

2009 • 56 min • France

It is a mild winter and Martin has just settled into the isolated house that was his father's. One night, at the edge of the woods, a strange man called Haruki appears before him. He invites Martin to lose himself in the forest in order to encounter a stranger. The stranger comes in the form of Yoshido, a peculiar Japanese filmmaker, who, assisted by Mathilde, is preparing to shoot a film based on Haruki's unfinished novel La Vie lointaine.

Making of "Departures"

2009 • 32 min

A documentary about the making and shooting of Yojiro Takita’s ‘Departures’ (2008)

Torihada 5: yofukashi no anata ni zotto suru hanashi wo

2009 • 50 min

A young woman is surprised to see that there is a bounty on her head on the Internet... A big reward is promised to anyone who would end her life before midnight. It is eleven o'clock in the evening when she sees the message. Does she have only one hour to live?

Making of Death Note: The Last Name

2009 • 50 min • Japan

Documentary on the second live action Death Note film.

The Dreaming: The Making of 'Warriors' Gate'

2009 • 27 min • United Kingdom

The cast and crew of Warriors' Gate look back at the making of this story.

Bonsai

2009 • 19 min • Philippines

Bonsai tells the story of Romy, an obese, insecure security guard who attempts to capture the attention of her neighbor Daisy, an ambitious laundry woman, and hopefully make her fall in love with him. The film explores insecurity and the distance one is willing to go through for love.

Brothers Incorporated

2009 • 22 min • United States of America

Brothers Incorporated takes place in Philadelphia 1963, a dynamic time period shaken by the Civil Rights movement. A young man Marcus Christianson finds himself at a crossroads. He has to choose between taking over his father's newly formed Black Mafia or leave town with his love of his life May and purse his up and coming music career.

Haiku

2009 • 2 min • Thailand

In this video diary, Weerasethakul documents the set of Primitive Project in Nabua, Thailand, particularly the scene when teenagers are hypnotized and sleep inside a time machine.

Queerantine!

2009 • 5 min

When reports break about students acting out of character, a TV reporter and police investigate. Students start behave with gay tendencies after same-sex marriage is taught in a social studies class. Things get out of control leaving the reporter and policemen to defend themselves against all of the queer students. Police decide to quarantine the school off so the gay can't spread, leaving the reporter trapped!

Believe

2009 • 20 min

The story of one man's grief following the death of his wife. The film captures a desperate journey, played out against isolated highland landscapes.

Great White Odyssey

2008 • 46 min

Follow a deep-sea expedition with world-renowned shark experts Michael Scholl & Ramon Bonfil as they tag a 12-foot great white, named for Nicole Kidman, on an epic journey across an ocean that threatens her survival.

Unlocking the Great Pyramid

2008 • 50 min

The Great Pyramid at Giza is the only one of the Seven Wonders of the World still standing and no one knows how it was built. For centuries archaeologists have been trying to figure out how ancient Egyptians moved huge stones to the top of the Pyramid.

Slaves

2008 • 15 min • Denmark, Norway, Sweden

Animated documentary about two Sudanese children who are abducted and used as slaves

Flipping Out - Israel's Drug Generation

2008 • 60 min • Israel

Military service in Israel is compulsive for all able-bodied Jewish men and women. Once their years of service is up they are granted a bonus which many use to travel to India to wind down and recover from their experiences. About 90% of them will use drugs during their travels and every year about two thousand of them will require professional help to recover from this drug use. The extreme psychotic break these people experience is commonly referred to as "flipping out".

Mars - The Quest for Life

2008 • 43 min

Following the progress of the Mars Lander mission to Mars with the University of Phoenix.

Sunrise Earth: Great Barrier Reef

2008 • 50 min

Sunrise over Australia's Great Barrier Reef.

All About Eve Live in Bonn 1991

2008 • 60 min

Live in Bonn 1991 is a concert DVD from the British alternative rock band All About Eve. The DVD comprises the full September 5 live concert at the Biskuithalle in Bonne, Germany, part of the band's 1991 European tour promoting their recently-released album, Touched by Jesus. The footage was originally recorded for the German music television programme Rockpalast.

A Machine to Die For: The Quest for Free Energy

2008 • 52 min

Machine to Die For is about the search for perpetual motion and free energy. Conventional science claims this is impossible, yet generations of inventors have been mesmerized by the promise of an engine that powers itself. The world’s reliance on diminishing fossil fuel resources and the associated problems of pollution serve to spur them on. A Machine to Die For showcases a number of dedicated, sometimes eccentric, and always obsessive individuals who have devoted their lives to this quest. The documentary could be used as a resource when studying motion and simple machines in secondary science and physics. It could also serve as a springboard for discussions about inventors and inventions and the history of scientific endeavors. It would be suitable for teachers of middle to senior secondary students in Science.

Mission to Mississippi

2008 • 44 min

A story of one family's struggle to survive after Hurricane Katrina and the emotional journey of 54 volunteers from New York who helped them rebuild their home and their lives.

Pizza in Auschwitz

2008 • 52 min

Danny Chanoch (74), survivor of several concentration camps, convinces his reluctant children to retrace his steps through the holocaust, eventually spending a night in Auschwitz-Birkenau.

The Animated Heavy Metal Parking Lot

2008 • 2 min • United States of America

An animated tribute to Jeff Krulik and John Heyn's 1986 video documentary classic, Heavy Metal Parking Lot. Remaining faithful to no-budget filmmaking, Supnet reconstructs her favorite scenes using cut-out characters made out of aged paper, glue and ink.