All Films

Clara's Tale

2011 • 9 min

A young girl gets lost in a forest and spends the night in a supposedly empty mansion. In the morning she meets the owner of the house... As time goes by she realizes she can't get out of the house and discover that a curse is set upon its owner.

Sacred Music: God's Composer

2011 • 59 min

The Sacred Music journey continues with this special celebration marking the 400th anniversary of the death of the Spanish composer Tomás Luis de Victoria. One of the greatest choral composer of the Renaissance, Victoria devoted his life to the church and his music is profoundly spiritual. Interwoven with Victoria’s music, this documentary follows Simon Russell Beale as he takes us through the life and times of Victoria. Harry Christophers and his award-winning ensemble, The Sixteen, perform Victoria’s music in the glorious setting of the Church of San Antonio de los Alemanes in Madrid, founded in 1606 by Philip III in Victoria's lifetime.

Balance

2011 • 52 min

Balance is a documentary about Bryndís Pétursdóttir, geopathic stress, electromagnetic waves and the effects on these invisible and untouchable phenomena on the well-being of people. Bryndís senses those waves and makes them harmless with the Balance cube she invented. We meet people she assists and hear explanations and counter-arguments from specialists who research those waves.

Knife

2011 • 40 min

It takes you into the extreme sports world of cycling featuring the talents of Matt Schubring, Danial Reardon and Nate Adams and more.

WigWigWig

2011 • 1 min

Experimental self portrait

Louise, Queen of Greenwood

2011 • 5 min • United States of America

Short film of found 16 mm family footage from the 1940s edited to the song "Louise, Queen of Greenwood" by Whale Belly

Kidnapper

2011 • 4 min

The anatomy of a kidnapping as seen from the kidnapper's point of view.

Whistlin' Dixie: Queer Sounds, New South

2011 • 30 min

Welcome to the South, where amidst confederate flags and pop country radio there lies a new generation of queer activists who spend their nights creating independent music, promoting acceptance and celebrating queer visibility. WHISTLIN' DIXIE aims to investigate the complex historical relationship between Southern music, identity politics and resistance through personal interviews, rich landscapes and riveting performances.

The Girl from Paradise

2011 • 4 min • United States of America

A man enters a salon/spa and leaves with something else

Salem: Unmasking the Devil

2011 • 44 min

1692, Salem, Massachusetts; 162 people are arrested on charges of witchcraft. Five die in jail, one is crushed to death and 19 die on the gallows. The Salem witch trials have long been regarded as the textbook example of what happens when people are overwhelmed by hysteria. Now, author and historian, Katherine Howe, returns to the site of her ancestor's execution to discover how the very latest research has unearthed a chilling possibility that the most famous witch trial in the English speaking world was actually the result of a cynical plot by Salem's embattled Puritan Minister: Samuel Parris.

These were the reasons

2011 • 26 min • Canada

This film takes us into the harsh realm of BC's early coal mines, canneries, and lumber camps; where primitve conditions and speed-ups often cost lives. Then, the film moves through the unemployed' struggles of the '30s, post WWII equity campaigns, and into more recent public sector strikes over union rights.

Neat Meat

2011 • 3 min • United States of America

A man goes on a walk.

Finding Donn Fendler: Lost on a Mountain in Maine 72 Years Later

2011 • 60 min • United States of America

In 1939, 12-year-old Donn Fendler was lost for 9 days in the woods of Maine near Mount Katahdin. His story of survival inspired the nation and his book, Lost on a Mountain in Maine, continues to inspire with its powerful themes of hope, faith, and the will to live. Follow Donn's story through the lens of two filmmakers trying to turn the story into a feature film. Through interviews and footage of Donn today, discover what an amazing man Donn is and what his story has meant to the state and people of Maine.

There Will Be Oil

2011 • 58 min • Norway

There Will Be Oil is a documentary portrayal of the oil debate in Loften and Vesterålen.

A Good Calamity

2011 • 12 min

I morti di Alos

2011 • 30 min

Alos is Gairo, a small town in Sardinia. Ghost town, now uninhabited. To tell the story is the Sardinian director Daniele Atzeni, a delicate and refined documentary filmmaker who narrates life stories of mines, workers and fishermen. A Sardinia unknown to most, forgotten by many.

Study for the Wind

2011 • 10 min • Brazil

It's dusk when the wind blows.

Oliver Bump's Birthday

2011 • 16 min • Canada

A 12 year old boy, fated to die on his thirteenth birthday, has to find a way to cheat death before the clock runs out.

Over 90 & Loving It

2011 • 57 min • United States of America

This documentary features people in their 90s and 100s who are living extraordinary and passionate lives. Filmmaker Susan Polis Schutz has interviewed some of the most incredible people you can imagine - people who aren't aware of chronological age at all, but live as though the future and youth spring eternal.

That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is in French

2011 • 14 min • United Kingdom

Based on a Stephen King short story, That Feeling... presents the ultimate case of cause, effect and deja vu.

Red Dawn

2011 • 27 min • Macao, Portugal

The Red Market in Macao. The red tonalities of blood, flesh, buckets and even of the fish’s eyes, carry the audience into a strange and scary universe but also beautiful and intriguing. Rodrigues and Guerra da Mata’s camera emerges like a driving force giving us the exact balance between what exists and what we see.

Blanche Fraise

2011 • 17 min • Canada

Synopsis: A rabbit couple tries to survive in a dying forest...

Niño Bonito

2011 • 17 min • Philippines

Boni, a little boy from the slums, squares off with the stark reality of drugs, petty crime and abuse armed with his own brand of hip hop and some divine intervention.

Punk O Cine

2011 • 55 min • Finland

Documentary about Finnish punk scene in the early 2010s.