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Happy Hour

Happy Hour

2011 • 9 min
City life is repetitious and all about work. It always comes with night life and a lot of drinking after work, because people always try to escape from the stress at work, or even from family and relationships. What we call "happy hour" here is the hours we have fun after work - night life. Therefore, if "HAPPY hour" is our night life, then what are those "UNHAPPY hours"?
The Story of Cholera

The Story of Cholera

2011 • 5 min
This film makes visible the invisible cholera germs as a young boy shows how to help the sick and guides his village in preventing the spread of cholera.
The Cloud of Unknowing

The Cloud of Unknowing

2011 • 28 min • Singapore
The boundary between viewer and art dissolves in Ho Tzu Nyen’s sublime work, The Cloud of Unknowing. Step inside and find a comfortable space in the room. On a screen, a narrative unfolds, set in a public housing complex in Singapore, where eight characters in eight apartments individually encounter a cloud, embodied both as a figure and a vaporous mist. The film is rear-projected and looped, integrating a complex soundtrack and synchronized steam machines to create a seamless and sublimely atmospheric sense of film/audience permeability. (Sundance Film Festival)
Operation Peter Pan: Flying Back to Cuba

Operation Peter Pan: Flying Back to Cuba

2011 • 57 min
Between 1960 and 1962 more than 14,000 cuban children were sent alone by their parents to the USA. This clandestine operation -with the participation of the CIA and the Catholic Church- became known as "Operation Peter Pan". Many of the parents had expected to follow their children, who had been granted visa waivers by the US government, but the Missile Crisis terminated the flights between the two countries and the children found themselves stranded in the USA. In 2009, for the first time a group of the Peter Pan children, now adults visited Cuba to give "closure and make peace with the land where they were born".
Polish Girl

Polish Girl

2011 • 4 min • United States of America
Tells the romantic story of a rather unconventional couple from the future.
Mrs. Rubin

Mrs. Rubin

2011 • 19 min • Macedonia
The 27-year old intern at the psychiatry wards Sophie, who’s just graduated from med school, faces the cruel reality and learns the story of the 45-year-old resident of the ward, Mrs. Erme. The professor, Sophie’s mentor and the medical administrator of the facility, sees Sophie’s obsession with her faces and brings the two women together. As the doctor-patient relationship develops, Sophie learns that Mrs. Erme shares her obsession with her face, and furthermore, discovers that Mrs. Erme’s illness is closely connected to this obsession. Through investigation and the torture of her own dreams, Sophie learns that Mrs. Erme had a son, who at the age of ten died from chicken pox, while his mother was too afraid to ruin her face by getting infected by the disease.
The Mutability of All Things and the Possibility of Changing Some

The Mutability of All Things and the Possibility of Changing Some

2011 • 16 min • France
The Mutability of All Things and the Possibility of Changing Some explores our human adaptability in light of catastrophe by way of seminal literature passages implying a transitory social body.
Seven Sins: Sloth

Seven Sins: Sloth

2011 • 2 min • Canada
Sloth pokes gentle fun at stereotypes about the Inuit people, past and present.
The Making of Day of the Daleks: Special Edition

The Making of Day of the Daleks: Special Edition

2011 • 13 min • United Kingdom
Producer Steve Broster guides us through the creation of his Special Edition of this story.
The Last Belle

The Last Belle

2011 • 20 min
The Last Belle is an animated short featuring two characters journeying towards a blind date: WALLY, who suffers a nightmarish drunken trip through London as he races against the clock to the rendezvous; and ROSIE, who waits in a bar dreaming of how wonderful her date is going to be...if he ever turns up.
Why Does God Hate Me?

Why Does God Hate Me?

2011 • 16 min • Canada
A coming-of-age comedy about a 14-year-old boy whose best friend tries to 'cure' him of being gay.
Lucky Day Forever

Lucky Day Forever

2011 • 17 min • Poland
Prole 514 dreams about winning the Great Lottery. The lottery winner is transformed and allowed admission into the elite White society, where everyone is beautiful, young and happy and people spend their carefree lives solely on fun and partying. One day, 514's wish comes true... but was this what he really wanted?
With Fidel Whatever Happens

With Fidel Whatever Happens

2011 • 47 min • Cuba, Serbia
Sierra Maestra, Cuba, 850 km east of Havana. The day before the celebration of the 52nd anniversary of the Revolution. An old man is repairing a few decades old motorcycle. A young dentist is trying to find some transport to a clinic in remote mountains. A middle-aged married couple run a public telephone booth in their modest house for villagers who have no phone. Fates of these people and many other inhabitants of Sierra Maestra are depicted on a day of ideological ecstasy, the day of the celebration of the 52nd anniversary of the Revolution. And the following day? The next day, driven by inertia, they all return to the rhythm of everyday life which is the same and is not very promising. But the revolution continues... For how long?
Bon Appétit

Bon Appétit

2011 • 16 min
Bon Appetit is like a bowl full of colorful, savory candy. It is a beautiful and magical story about two women, and the vague borders between reality, imagination, memory and dream.
Boys, Where Are You

Boys, Where Are You

2011 • 12 min • Serbia
Even though she still doesn't know what is the right thing to do, Lena made a decision.
Tunniit: Retracing the Lines of Inuit Tattoos

Tunniit: Retracing the Lines of Inuit Tattoos

2011 • 50 min • Canada
Inuit traditional face tattoos have been forbidden for a century, and almost forgotten. Director Alethea Arnaquq-Baril, together with long-time friend and activist Aaju Peter, is determined to uncover the mystery and meaning behind this beautiful ancient tradition. Together they embark on an adventure through Arctic communities, speaking with elders and recording the stories of a once popularized female artform. Central to the film is Arnaquq-Baril’s personal debate over whether or not to get tattood herself. With candour and humour, she welcomes us into her world, to experience firsthand the complex emotions that accompany her struggle. Past meets present in this intimate account of one woman’s journey towards self-empowerment and cultural understanding.
Perspective

Perspective

2011 • 8 min • Turkey
In a Dystopian Future, the real merges with virtual. And now, you, how much you are you anymore? This is now your Simulation! Your Perspective!...
Children

Children

2011 • 13 min • United Arab Emirates
The drama of a mother and her children planning a desperate escape from a scary, hungry beast that preys on them is captured in this short animation film.
Night of the Hunt

Night of the Hunt

2011 • 45 min • United States of America
Using the latest advances in camera technology, NGC penetrates the nocturnal hunting behaviors of the lion. Often asleep during the day, at night these iconic cats become active predators. With thermal imaging and infrared technology, see how experienced lions use the night to their advantage while stalking their prey
Saga City

Saga City

2011 • 17 min • Canada
This animated short tackles the twin issues of urban planning and climate change. Set in the imaginary city of Colvert, the film highlights the fact that the way a community is shaped and organized is an important factor in determining its energy consumption, and thus the quantity of greenhouse gases it releases into the atmosphere.
Andy Made a Friend

Andy Made a Friend

2011 • 11 min
Narcolepsy and an uncontrollable bladder collide in a meeting only the universe could orchestrate. Kate and Andy have something in common as their problems guide them through lifes biggest mysteries. Love, happiness and a rare bond help them escape the harsh realities of life and open them up to the world of the imperfect.
Hell

Hell

2011 • 22 min • Portugal
In the course of one afternoon, Raphael's paradise turns into a spiral of guilt and paranoia.
Unheralded

Unheralded

2011 • 28 min • Canada
This short documentary is a portrait of a tiny town, Lakefield, Ontario, and its independent weekly, the Herald. Across North America, newspapers are dying, but in Lakefield, Terry McQuitty, the town paper’s publisher, carries on a rich, 150-year-old tradition. Set to the pace of small-town life, Unheralded is a testament to the vital role newspapers can still play, and the close bond between reporter and reader.
Operation Crossbow

Operation Crossbow

2011 • 59 min • United Kingdom
The heroic tales of World War II are legendary, but Operation Crossbow is a little known story that deserves to join the hall of fame: how the Allies used 3D photos to thwart the Nazis' weapons of mass destruction before they could obliterate Britain. This film brings together the heroic Spitfire pilots who took the photographs and the brilliant minds of RAF Medmenham that made sense of the jigsaw of clues hidden in the photos. Hitler was pumping a fortune into his new-fangled V weapons in the hope they could win him the war. But Medmenham had a secret weapon of its own, a simple stereoscope which brought to life every contour of the enemy landscape in perfect 3D. The devil was truly in the detail and, together with extraordinary personal testimonies, the film uses modern computer graphics on the original wartime photographs to show just how the photo interpreters were able to uncover Hitler's nastiest secrets.