All Films

Le Bodyguard Danois

2011 • 35 min

Danish bodyguard Michael Hansen has devoted his life to protect famous and wealthy media figures. No terrorist is safe when Michael is around. He keeps his head cool and takes action instinctively. But Michael is blind to the flaws in his own character.

Man O War

2011 • 3 min

A macroscopic view of a Portuguese man-o-war’s beautiful, yet highly venomous tentacles.

Breathe

2011 • 51 min • United States of America

Martin Khodabakhshian (9-Time Emmy Award-winning ESPN producer) directs and produces this fascinating documentary that truly goes to new depths in the search for man's physical and mental limits. Breathe follows New Zealander, William Trubridge as he attempts to break his own world record in the extreme sport of Freediving. William attempts to dive completely unaided to a depth of 300ft, almost to the bottom of the deepest blue hole in the world - "Dean's Blue Hole" in the Bahamas.

Marfil

2011 • 30 min • Equatorial Guinea

The first filmmaker arrived in Equatorial Guinea in 1904. The last movie theatre closed in Malabo in the 1990s. In 2011, during the II African Film Festival of Equatorial Guinea, the Marfil Movie Theatre reopened its doors. Florencio, Ángel and Estrada tells us how cinema has been, and is still, present in their lives.

Broken Promise

2011 • 10 min • Netherlands

Two Afghan illegal aliens take a walk at night. To the rhythm of their nocturnal stroll, we see how the Dutch reality, from bare mattresses in a condemned building, breakdancing in the street to running from the police, is at odds with their phone calls to relatives who stayed behind and have both concerns and high expectations. To reassure the home front, one Afghan takes a picture of himself in front of a nice house and expensive car.

Bisclavret

2011 • 14 min • France

Peekaboo

2011 • 10 min • Australia

When a toddler goes missing in a car park, her mother fears she has been abducted.

Noise of Finland

2011 • 20 min • Finland

Noise of Finland is a documentary about the Finnish noise and power electronics scene. Loud distorted noise made with scrap metal and effect pedals are combined with extreme views and shocking visuals. The barriers of human limits and impossibility of commercial success are surpassed with limitless self expression. Movie includes the artists of the genre like Grunt, Bizarre Uproar, Manic/Depression, Sick Seed and Strom.EC

Céu, Inferno e Outras Partes do Corpo

2011 • 8 min • Brazil

A dog with a broken heart perceives his reality in a very peculiar way, inviting to a glance at his tragicomic routine.

Oaxaca Tohoku

2011 • 11 min

On March 11, 2011, there was an earthquake in the coastal region of Tohoku (Japan). The rupture of tectonic plates expanded through an area of 100,000 sq km. On the other side of the Pacific Ocean, in the coastal area of Oaxaca (Mexico) a tsunami alert was issued.

La dette

2011 • 10 min • France

Yasmine becomes enraged when her romantic weekend trip with the indebted Hassen is canceled. Can she do something about it?

Yesterday My Friend Bought a Bike

2011 • 10 min • Germany

A young woman is walking through the city. She meets a friend at a coffee shop. This friend tells her every detail about how she bought a bike the day before. The young women listens.

i mae

2011 • 22 min • Costa Rica

Gaby and Elena are two young Costa Rican university students with dreams, plans and a troubled relationship with their respective partners. Both are invited to attend a picnic to celebrate a friend's birthday. The conviviality will last until the night and will show the complex and confusing reality that the youth of the country lives, where individualism, apathy and conformity abound. That long day, only one of them will make the right decision. iMae was made thanks to the support of Bayer and its Social Responsibility program Your Life Your Decision.

Jump

2011 • 2 min • Belgium

A drug dealer accomplishes an impossible jump to escape a violent police brigade...

Follow the Sun!

2011 • 4 min • United States of America

While we have a few minutes before the show, stop by our refreshment stand! We have all kinds of tasty treats! Popcorn for all eternity! Hell's on it's way!

One Day of Zhora Vladimov

2011 • 40 min • Russia

The turning point for Russia is 1991. Exiled from the country, writer, dissident and human rights activist Georgiy Vladimov found himself in a forced, joyless emigration in Niedernhausen. Later, Vladimov will begin writing a novel in three parts, "Long Way to Tipperary," which, according to the plan, would cover the period from August 1946 to August 1991. But he will have time to write only the first part, where he will again and again return to the almost unconscious childish act of one day in August 1946. On that blurry day in memory, cadet-Suvorov student Zhora Vladimov went to support the disgraced writer Mikhail Zoshchenko.

The Final Crazy

2011 • 13 min • Canada

A man explores the relationship with his drifter father as he carries his body to its final resting place.

Hope

2011 • 6 min • Cyprus

A short film set in Cyprus, an island in the Mediterranean divided by war and characterized by people on both sides, both Greek-Cypriot and Turkish-Cypriot, waiting and hoping for a resolution and some, waiting and hoping for missing loved ones to return. This is the story of one such woman.

Čikāgas piecīši. Par mani, draudziņ, nebēdā

2011 • 60 min • Latvia

A documentary about the band of Latvian exile musicians, "Čikāgas piecīši".

Gwangong VS Alien

2011 • 16 min • Hong Kong

When a dangerous alien creature attacks Hong Kong and disrupts our harmonious society, the People's Liberation Army sends out its greatest weapon - A giant Lei Feng robot controlled by elite operators from Mainland China, Macau, and Hong Kong. But when even the best of Mainland Chinese technology fails us, there's always one man we can count on: Gwangong, the legendary hero who stands for loyalty, justice, and righteousness. This ambitious, larger-than-life sci-fi action satire shows that faith is the greatest weapon we have against even the greatest evil.

Portrait

2011 • 6 min

Locked in a bunker and faced with an impossible commission a young artist has to look beyond reality and logic, and face himself.

The Path Without End

2011 • 6 min

Anishinaabe stories of the Moon People are retold through an experimental steampunk animation by Irish, Anishinaabe, and Métis Elizabeth Aileen LaPensée with music by Cree cellist Cris Derksen. Named in honor of Basil Johnston's work. Curated in the Museum of Contemporary Native Art's Turtle Island Rising: Past and Futures Program.

Celebrated and Understood

2011 • 10 min

A hole in the earth emitting a mysterious sound is monitored by two scientists.

Clowns

2011 • 15 min • Ireland

Andy, Fleabag, Chains, and Marcus are an Irish gang with seldom an intelligent thought between them. Needing money to pay off a debt, they set out to kidnap a rich man to settle their debts. Of course, nothing goes as planned.