All Films

The Curve of Forgotten Things

2011 • 9 min • United States of America

A magical girl, who exists outside of space and time, inhabits an odd, timeless landscape that is both old and modern, and spends her days playing and collecting objects from history, things that she loves.

Story Of Queen: Mercury Rising

2011 • 60 min • United Kingdom

Follow the life of four talented musicians from their origins as they soared to one of the greatest Rock n Roll bands of all time. This documentary tells the story of Freddie Mercury and his impact on a band, which would become a worldwide sensation.

Galata

2011 • 19 min • Armenia, Turkey

Kara works in the «Goldfish» eatery all day long washing dishes. Her life has become a closed circle of grey days far from the colors of the big city. Every day she walks home alone at night. She saves money for family. But one night an unexpected incident changes her daily routine.

Nuts & Robbers

2011 • 4 min • Canada

This short was created as a teaser for the feature film The Nut Job. Surly Squirrel plans a heist from the nut store, however inadvertently gets caught up in a bank robbery.

Code-Breakers: Bletchley Park's Lost Heroes

2011 • 60 min • United Kingdom

This is a documentary about unsung heroes of World War II. In 1943, a 24-year-old maths student and a GPO engineer combined to hack into Hitler's personal super-code machine - not Enigma but an even tougher system, which he called his 'secrets writer'. Their break turned the Battle of Kursk, powered the D-day landings and orchestrated the end of the conflict in Europe. But it was also to be used during the Cold War - which meant both men's achievements were hushed up and never officially recognized.

Shooting the Hollywood Stars

2011 • 60 min

Documentary in which British fashion photographer Rankin reveals the rich history of Hollywood photography and how its most influential and enduring images were created.

The Clock

2011 • 19 min • Taiwan

Suffering from dementia, Hsia flees the brand-new apartment where she now lives with her daughter and returns to her old home, only to relive the nightmare that she has long forgotten and buried.

Lack of Evidence

2011 • 9 min • France

In Nigeria, to be a twin can be a blessing or a curse. The father of O is the village chief, a witch doctor who believes in the curse of twins. One day, this witch doctor tried to kill his two sons during a ritual ceremony: O managed to escape but saw his brother being murdered. Having fled across his country, he succeeded, by chance, in leaving Nigeria and going into exile in France.

Finding Atlantis

2011 • 60 min • Canada

Using satellite photography, ground-penetrating radar and underwater technology, The film, Finding Atlantis, was screened by the National Geographic Channel in the US and fronted by Professor Richard Freund, from Hartford University in Connecticut. Professor Freund explained how he led a pursuit to find the lost civilisation, believed by many to be an ancient Greek myth, by using deep-ground radar, digital mapping and satellite imagery. He contends that Atlantis, described by Plato in 360BC, in Spain's Donaña National Park, north of Cadiz, and was wiped out by a giant tsunami. Plato wrote it had been destroyed by a natural disaster in 9,000BC. Experts are now surveying marshlands in Spain to look for proof of the ancient city.

Games

2011 • 26 min • United States of America

The life and struggles of a group of high school seniors living in Waco, Texas.

The World's Biggest Bomb Revealed

2011 • 45 min • United Kingdom

National Geographic 2011 Documentary on the World's Biggest Bomb (UK).

Dr Nazi

2011 • 15 min • France

Charles Chinaski is a guy with many problems and feels responsible for most of them: women, alcohol, his hostility towards certain groups of people. One day, he decides to consult the first doctor he comes across.

Atlas

2011 • 20 min

"I used to spend an embarrassing amount of time watching the patterns of these blinking lights, trying to calculate the sequence—two-one, one-two-three, and so on. But I could never figure it out. With three sets of lights, it's just too complicated." - Al Burian

7 Down

2011 • 47 min • United States of America

A group of friends go out of town for a haunted hay rack ride. The car breaks down and the mayhem ensues. Will any one survive?

The Barewolf

2011 • 10 min • Canada, France

The werewolves that live in this secluded place are particularly savage: when not attacking anything that moves, they spend their time arguing and fighting. Driven by instinct, one young werewolf chases pink flamingos through the wild, straying far from home. Before he knows it, he’s in a place he knows nothing about: the world of humans.

Luise Rainer: Live from the TCM Classic Film Festival

2011 • 28 min • United States of America

100-year-old Oscar-winning actress Luise Rainer sits down with Robert Osborne at the 2010 TCM Classic Film Festival.

Elsa & the Tooth Fairy

2011 • 5 min • Sweden

Everyone in kindergarten has lost a tooth. Except for Elsa, who is the only one in the world who hasn't lost one. Until one day when it finally gets loose.

The Jockstrap Raiders

2011 • 19 min • United States of America

The Jockstrap Raiders takes place during World War I in Leeds, England. A group of underdog misfits are excluded from the war due to various abnormalities. Threatened by the invading German Kaiser and his army, they must learn to become a team and overcome their deficiencies in order to save Britain and the world.

7:45 of the Dead

2011 • 2 min

Between dawn and day there is... 7:45 of the Dead!

An Undertaking

2011 • 11 min

A student in medical school in 1888 must find myself a cadaver for his final exams. What lengths does he have to go to to get one?

The Mysterious Lost State of Franklin (The story of America's first succession)

2011 • 27 min • United States of America

At the end of the American Revolution, frontier settlers beyond the Appalachian Mountains founded their own government. They named their new territory: The State of Franklin. Two men would decide its fate, John Sevier, the Governor of Franklin, a charismatic hero of the Revolution, was obsessed to see his dream realized at any cost. John Tipton, originally supported Franklin's independence, but as the new government led to chaos, he vowed to bring an end to the fledgling state and rejoin North Carolina. Their struggle would lead to bloodshed and change the U.S. Constitution forever. Discover the truth behind the myth and uncover the mystery behind what would have become America's 14th State: The Mysterious Lost State of Franklin.

The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement

2011 • 25 min • United States of America

The film features 85-year-old Mr. Armstrong, an African American barber in Birmingham, Alabama, as he experiences the manifestation of an unimaginable dream: the election of the first African American president. This colorful and courageous activist of the Civil Rights era casts his vote, celebrates Obama's victory and proudly unfurls the American flag as he is inducted into the Foot Soldiers Hall of Fame. Mr. Armstrong links the magnitude of the present paradigm shift with challenges he faced in the past: from his sons' integration into an all white school to the Bloody Sunday march for voting rights. The documentary raises questions about democracy and patriotism in the face of adversity, and the vigilance and action required to ensure continued forward movement to end racial injustice.

Me or the Dog

2011 • 14 min • United Kingdom

Due to his schizophrenia Tom believes that his dog, Dudley, is talking to him. To demonstrate that he is actually a real talking dog, Dudley sets out to prove that Tom's girlfriend is cheating on him.

The Tech

2011 • 24 min • United States of America

Jasper and the Boss hire a master thief to steal The Tech, a mysterious, shiny orb of infinite consequences. The thief soon finds himself in a strange situation: he refuses to give up The Tech. Features three musical numbers and bone-crunching martial arts action scenes by The Stunt People!