All Films

Boy

2014 • 2 min • Denmark

A story about two boys and a man who has to do something he doesn't want to.

Janaína Colorida Feito o Céu

2014 • 15 min • Brazil

The Showreel

2014 • 16 min

Nasreen is a cleaner, with dreams of movie stardom. Lacking the contacts to realize her ambition, she creates extravagant characters to play - zombie hunters, punk clubbers, high-powered corporate financiers - and imagines film crews are on every street corner and real people are just extras, and that all of life is just a film set. So equipped, she heads off on an adventure, with the most extraordinary results.

Abecedario / B

2014 • 5 min

A cinema shot. The relationship that a shoot-out has with the image becomes somewhat different; the celluloid no longer supports, at 24 frames per second, the representation of a shooting, either acted or documented, but the celluloid has now become the direct carrier, the affected, in the shot in each frame.

I've Just Had a Dream

2014 • 8 min

Two little girls from different backgrounds have a seemingly similar dream. However, one is a nightmare and the other is a beautiful dream. It all depends on your point of view.

Hitori

2014 • 12 min

In a universe made entirely of puppeteers, the puppet is always alone. Hitori is the story of a boy who is just trying to get back to where he came from. This new film from Heather Henson and Ninja Puppet Productions uses live action table top puppetry, computer compositing and body movement artist to bring a world composed entirely of human puppeteers to life.

Decommissioning Fukushima: The Battle to Contain Radioactivity

2014 • 43 min • Japan

TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant is the site of one of history's worst nuclear disasters: the meltdown of three nuclear reactors. The decommissioning program in Japan learns from the Three Mile Island decommissioning in the US after the nuclear plant accident in 1976 in Pennsylvania.

The TE:RM - Opposing Putin (English subtitles)

2014 • 51 min

Recent history repeats itself as both tragedy and farce in this fly-on-the-Kremlin-wall documentary about the rising opposition movement in 2012 against Vladimir Putin’s rule in Russia.

Jutra

2014 • 13 min • Canada

Through the magic of editing and animation, Claude Jutra is seen in dialogue with himself at various stages of his life – becoming the spirited narrator of his own biography. Excerpts from family films, interviews, and clips from some of Jutra's well-known works are seamlessly intertwined with these sequences, forming a portrait of a man whose life was devoted to creativity. Jutra is simultaneously a homage, a love letter to cinema, and the dramatic story of a brilliant artist whose life was all-too-short.

I Can't Breathe

2014 • 4 min • Sweden

A woman takes a light bulb on a romantic dinner, a certain skeleton has family issues, and one girl has a very peculiar appetite.

Aquí nuestro presente parece suspendido

2014 • 4 min

During a tour of one of the rooms of the Museo Casa de la Memoria Indómita (Museum of Indomitable Memory), which displays documents, photographs, and objects related to forced disappearances during the dirty war in Mexico, we attend the audiovisual enunciation of a phrase, perhaps diffuse, that becomes less and less circumstantial. The dirty war never ended. Our present is closed, contracted by a plane-sequence in the middle of a Memory that we desire more and more untamed.

State of Emergence

2014 • 55 min

State of Emergence is a zombie movie without zombies. Society asks: Who is the enemy? From where does he attack? How do we distinguish him from one of our own, and how do we immunize ourselves against him? But it's too late for these questions. The illness that society feels victimized by has metastasized to an irreversible degree. It can't be cured with surgery, heavy medication, or even wholesale amputation. "Stability at all costs! No life-support machine is too expensive!" But the virus is becoming stronger than its host, and its hostility is irrepressible. Something's happening. Prepare yourselves. Call the Police! Call the Army! Stock up and wait for this whole thing to blow over. But soon it's inescapable - it's everywhere. "You are stronger than us, but soon I think, they'll be stronger than you." Maybe it's time to see how the other half lives.

She Left Before I Was Ready

2014 • 5 min

A film by Dani Restack

Ink

2014 • 20 min

A man takes the path of least resistance (and cost) in an attempt to turn his body into a work of art.

Art Basel: A Portrait

2014 • 27 min

This documentary charts the history of an annual art fair in Switzerland that has evolved into the world's most influential gathering of its kind.

MiMO

2014 • 2 min • Singapore

A wondrous, utterly engaging ballet of shapes, incredible creatures and pure, joyous animated movement.

D Is for Deloused

2014 • 5 min • United Kingdom

A segment from the feature film – ABC’s of Death 2. A condemned man attempts to win a second chance at life.

Pigs

2014 • 8 min • Malaysia, Singapore, United States of America

Iseng, a little boy with Down's syndrome, occupies himself by wandering about the pig-sty. His mother has lost her baby and is so wrapped up in grief she barely takes any notice of her son. A sick piglet gives Iseng an idea: in an attempt to comfort his mother and gain her attention he places the animal in the empty cradle. But when his mother discovers the piglet, it is already dead. Revolted by the sight, she initially rejects her son. But then she recognises Iseng’s need for love. Concentrating on looks and gestures rather than words and music – both of which are absent – this short film makes a silent appeal not to dwell on what is lost but to recognise and cherish life’s gifts.

Why Banana Snarls

2014 • 10 min • Russia

It is not much fun having to spend the whole day in a banana costume. But things take a turn for the worse for this poor chap when one day he wakes up to discover he has grown a long tail. At first he tries to get rid of it. But no matter what he tries – doctors, saws, healers – nothing seems to help. He cannot hide it either. It is just too long and it is always poking out. And so he just tries to live with his tail. But before long the poor guy hast lost his job, his friends, everything. Nobody wants him. But would it not be a pity if there were no place in this world for such a kind person who is just a little bit different? An inventively quirky animation laced with black humour that pokes fun at narrow-mindedness and intolerance.

Ed's Smulpaleis

2014 • 15 min

Ed is the owner of a supermarket on wheels. Ed is indispensable for many residents of Amsterdam North, not only because they buy their daily pack of shag or ice cream, but mainly because of the social aspects.

Emperor's Ghost Army

2014 • 54 min • United States of America

In central China, a vast underground mausoleum conceals a life-size terracotta army of cavalry, infantry, horses, chariots, weapons, administrators, acrobats, and musicians, all built to serve China's first emperor, Qin Shi Huang Di, in the afterlife. Lost and forgotten for over 2,200 years, this clay army, 8,000-strong, stands poised to help the First Emperor rule again beyond the grave. NOVA tests the power of these weapons with high-action experiments and reports on revolutionary 3D computer modeling techniques that are revealing new insights into how the clay figures were made. The program reveals the secrets of one of archaeology's greatest discoveries and brings to life the startlingly sophisticated world of Qin's legendary empire.

Gan-Gan

2014 • 2 min • United Kingdom

My grandmother Elizabeth (or Gan-Gan as I called her) was a force of nature; she was wonderful. As a child she seemed to me like a visitor from another time or place. Her tiny terraced house in Bideford was full of treasures; hundreds of books, a medusa's head, Peter the Great's ivory letter opener, the caul of her mother tied up in blue ribbon, a tile stolen from the Alhambra, a silk blouse embroidered by nuns, deadly poison, beautiful Pre-Raphaelite artworks, a knife carved from the wood of HMS Victory, Granny Green's pince-nez, and diaries full of stories from a hard life well-lived. After her death in 2010, I helped my father and uncle sort through some of her possessions. I inherited some of her clothes to wear, books to read, a bicycle to ride. But how do you make sense of all the other things that someone leaves behind, the things nobody sees, boxes full of photographs, and bits of string?

Jandek: Kooken

2014 • 29 min • United States of America

From an episode of Hardly Sound, this is a documentary focuses on enigmatic underground Texas musician, Jandek as he weaves through a one-act play called "Kooken".

Reflexiones

2014 • 4 min

A Short film by J. F.