All Films

This documentary focuses on a little-known episode in the recent history of Uruguay: how hundreds of Uruguayan citizens took refuge in the Mexican embassy at the time of the military dictatorship. Between 1975 and 1976, Mexico was the only country whose embassy gave shelter to people persecuted by the regime, and this sparked off a difficult period in the relations between the two nations. We learn about conditions at the embassy at that time and how the fugitives lived. Sixteen of the men and women involved talk about what that period was like and the events that led up to this confrontation between the two countries. The documentary is also a homage to the Mexican ambassador, don Vicente Muñoz Arroyo.

Two uruguayan lawmakers Zelmar Michelini and Héctor Gutiérrez Ruiz, were looking for a democratic outcame for Uruguay, governed by militars. Those lawmakers were part of an important movement that worked against the uruguayan dictatorship. Michelini and Guitérrez were tortured and ejecuted with Rosario Barredo and William Whitelaw, two members of the Tupamaros guerrilla. The crime was one of the first examples of the Condor Plan, that the dictatorships of South America coordinated to elminate all kind of political opponents.

We meet a group of rural worker and their families in the north of Uruguay, people who are struggling to continue their lives working on the land. Mandiyú is a group of small milk producers who are landless. In 2007 they finally ran out of patience waiting for an official ruling about a plot of land, and as there was no response from the Institute of Colonisation they occupied an unproductive space belonging to the Uruguayan state. This documentary tells the story of these workers and their families.

A frog daydreams of flying like a bird and starts trying different ways to achieve his goal.

A teenager pours over the obsessive notes he documented during his childhood. Screened at the Sundance Film Festival and the Dallas International Film Festivals in 2007.

A Stranger Comes to Town reworks animations from the Department of Homeland Security, combining them with stories from the border, impressions from the online game, World of Warcraft, and journeys via Google Earth to tell a tale of bodies moving through lands familiar and strange.

The spirit of humanity is stronger than cultural differences when a little girl mistakes a Hasidic Jew for Santa Claus.

Lakshmi is a professional singer and dancer at funerals. Krishnaveni makes her living by burying and cremating unclaimed dead bodies from the rivers and streets. Sethuraku never went to school and instead took to the sea at an early age.

Concert film recorded from YUI's "Can't Buy My Love" national tour. This specific film is from YUI's last day of her national tour.

A killer stalks a slumber party in this tongue-in-cheek parody of classic slasher horror movies.

Macedonian TV drama.

Through footage derived from a 16 cam self-surveillance videodiary we are swept into the pro-paranoia world view of Dutch Cocaine Factory. Champions league cocaine consumer Arend, a lawyer and a drugs scientist unveil a well-kept secret of the past, the Dutch Cocaine Factory. Until World War II, the Netherlands were the largest producer of quality cocaine in the world. An attempt to fair trade? What if cocaine production prices would not extend the price of coffee? Who surveys the surveillance?

Short film by Chiara Ambrosio.

A surreal, sparkling figure (Space Girl) appears on a farm and observes the complicated relationships of its inhabitants.

Ordinary people, nightmares in the evening...

A warrior fighting for his freedom.

A charming guest saves the life of a noble lady and becomes a Count.

When you think of snowboarding, you think of perfect weather, perfect snow conditions, nice pow pow lines, backcountry kickers, just you and your buddies out there in the woods, or maybe a perfect shaped park and pipe. But reality sometimes teaches us something different- totally overcrowded resorts, the best lines are already taken by others, the 'secret spot’ was also hit by someone else, and the waitress in the bar just dated your best friend. No wonder that you get a little 'snowbored’ once in a while. But Snowbored? is anything else than boring! This movie, brought to you by the guys from mellow mood productions out of switzerland, is about to show you that all the waiting for the perfect day is worth it. Riders like Markus Keller, Gian Simmen, Danny Kass, Stephan Maurer, Jon Cartwright and others will show their skills in every terrain you could imagine and will make you long for the next season to come!

Experimental short by Brandon Bauer.

A choir of young women is singing in a sacred music evening. Carried away by the voice and the beauty of a young singer, a man recalls an old memory.

Long, bright day. Rabbit on the road. You try to avoid it. You crash. Two parallel worlds.

In 1937 and 1938, Sten Bergman published In Korean Wilds and Villages in Stockholm and in London, respectively. This book, also translated into Korean in 1999, was presented as part of the author's zoological and ethnographical interest in East Asia. The text for this film, Summer Days in Keijo—written in 1937 (2007), is inspired by two minor chapters about the city Keijo (out of a total of 34 eloquent chapters on "Korean wilds and villages"). Keijo is the Japanese pronunciation of the old word for Seoul, known as Kyungsung to many contemporary Koreans. The city, since 1937, has repeatedly been revamped, relocated, displaced, demolished, or destroyed by the capricious needs of the ever-sliding bar of present times. This film documents the dated modernization of Keijo as previously witnessed by Bergman's generation; what was witnessed then is now recognized only with textual specters over the site.

An existentialist outlook on the horrifying futility of life. A man (Tesla) awakens in his bath tub and reckons with this dark perception.

Jerry Macri's Pennsylvania Railroad is huge, 4300 square feet of big time four track mainline! In fact this may be the largest home layout ever built! This HO layout runs from Chicago to New York and can handle more than 1200 pieces of rolling stock. It takes a train 25 minutes to run across the layout. Along the line there is a massive steel mill and a 30 foot deep Horseshoe Curve-- two signature elements of Western Pennsylvania. The Pennsy began in 1990 in a 2800 square foot basement. But then Jerry decided to add more layout space and more house and even a patio above. So the layout is now 3 inter-connected rooms with about 50% of the scenery completed. There are more than 20,000 trees on the layout. This is a prototype-based HO layout with a lot of freelanced scenic elements. Creating realistic and evocative scenes is Jerry's favorite part of the hobby because this helps him remember special times and places from his youth in the late 50s and early 60s.