Encounters 13 · Bristol
264 films from 33 countries are recorded in the archive for this edition, with 7 award winners.
The festival continued to grow its international reach with a dedicated Singapore Showcase and Canada Calling programme alongside the competition strands. Shane Meadows and Royston Tan appeared together in conversation, while Peter Lord and comedian Phill Jupitus celebrated thirty years of Morph in a special Desert Island Flics event. A preview of Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis anchored the feature programme. Peter Baynton's Over the Hill screened in competition — Baynton later contributed to the Oscar-winning Peter Rabbit franchise. The Animation Training Day brought UK and European schools together to debate the industry's skills needs.
One Saturday morning, eight guys in sweatshirts gather for a seminar, hoping to find new solutions to the challenges they face with their partners. Pat, the instructor, certainly has some original propositions…
Hilary Flamingo feels bored, distracted and miserable in her industrialised job. Her apathetic mood is unexpectantly illuminated by the spontaneous arrival of a shining plate of little cakes that wriggle and entice her to eat them.
Our character finds himself being followed home by a small plain-looking man who starts to tap him with a walking stick. He can't get rid of his new unwelcome companion no matter what he tries.
Isabella, a long way from home, lonely and isolated, dreams of a way out by bringing hope and life into a place that is surrounded by death.
Suicidal Harry gets a crash course in dogging.
An 18 year-old white inmate becomes increasingly disturbed in the oppressive atmosphere of a multi-racial young offender’s institution.
Poor Mrs Dombilard, her cat 'Pushkin' has gone missing. Where is her little darling? Will she ever see him again?
Flat Earth weaves material found online, taking us on an extraordinary seven-minute journey around the world as seen through the eyes of web-bloggers.
An account of the creation of a 9-year old 'disturbed' animated character. As the draughtsman's hand goes to work and Francis attains animated conciousness, his behavious is observed and asessed by a child psychologist.
Natural magnetic fields are revealed as chaotic ever-changing geometries as acientists from NASA's space sciense laboratory excitedly decribe their discoveries.
The Life Size Zoetrope is the morose life story of one man, told via a one-take live-action shot of a human zoetrope containing the film.
The poet Hafez, 'The Teller of Secrets', used the language of human love and metaphor to describe his intoxication with the mysteries of the Universe.
When I was young, all those people, emotions, things and affairs in my mind.
An uncontrolled high voltage discharge of 30,000 volts exposes photographic paper which is then arranged in time to create new visual systems of electron organisation.
Moving Painting #7 to reach coexistent point where abstract and figure are equally fused.
Armed with the formal vocabulary of presentation management, Le Grand Content puts the philosophical potential of PowerPoint presentations to the test.
Lumpy Diversity works with space that has no out-side like in dreams, and where the idea of resonance has been in focus; i.e. that every object in the universe is animated or otherwise vibrates.
The story of a relationship between a battery and a toy.
Hiroshima, 1914 to 2006.
Ozymandias splices four marked frames into a pulsating, celebratory spotted dance routine. Glimpses survive of top-corner movie-action: hats and hair-dos, curtains and lampshades: an inventory of life’s peripherals.
A symbolic history of capital.
A film that confronts the beauty and pleasures of life with life's difficulties.
On hot summer afternoon in a remote Spanish village a stranger arrives, the first man to hop around the world.
Sophie, a teenager with learning difficulties, is a talented painist. When her best friend Danko enters her into a prestigious composer competition she discovers that the world is not quite ready for her unorthodox musical style.
In a bid to gain longed for attention a son discovers his father's secret second family.
A musical short film using the language of hip hop and spoken word that portrays two central characters walking down the same road recording the different stages of their own life journeys.
Fureer Goro Fureer uses spoken word and expressionist imagery to explore moments of intimacy and beauty in the physical journey and spiritual growth between mothers and daughters, covering intergenerational relationships.
Breasts are bubbles, rising in wet marshlands', is how Kutty Revathy's controversial Tamil poem 'Mulaigal' (Breasts) begins. Mulaigal uses the poem as a backdrop to explore the relationship that Asian women enjoy with their breasts.
An audiovisual piece examining spoken word/oral traditions and their relationship with text based information and belief systems, in particular religious texts.
Working with a super8 from the 70s and animation, Say a Prayer is the story of an adult woman who looks back to a childhood memory. Sights and sounds of Bangladesh, a prayer is made for a brother's survival.
Jarmain never meant for things to go down the way they did. Now he is locked up. Between the four walls of his cell, Jarmain is armed with no other weapon than his pen.
Transformer focuses on the effects of socialisation on people's perceptions of gender and the fashioning of identity.
A man awakes, locked in his flat, where strange events frequently occur. Meanwhile, his very-soon-to-be mother-in-law enjoys an afternoon in a park alone, her actions influencing his life and his influencing hers, both of them waiting.
The stories of couples who've been together over 50 years come together in this charming and unsentimental film on how relationships last. A unique and ambitious short that blends animation and documentary.
A satire on what happens behind closed doors at a G8 summit on world poverty. A live action black comedy that is more aout the humour than the politics.
Champ faces his self doubts about his ability to fly after his lady love leaves him. A story with a heart told in eloquent black and white animation.
A man in a costume makes his way to a party in a field, where the party goers strangley turn upon him… Surreal, absurd and yet completely satisfying, the idea also combines a very different and unique experimental filming technique.
Kids on a school trip to a museum have a strange encounter. Thriller meets Night at the Museum in this funny, original take on a grime video.
A retro-short set in 1988, North London. A portrait of a missing girl seen through the eyes of those affected by her disappearance.
Since the sixties, concentrations of heartbreak in the atmosphere have risen dramatically. CheatNeutral.com offers a unique market-based solution to this essential problem of modern life, allowing unfaithful lovers to have their cheating 'offset' by a glo
A class of rowdy teenage schoolboys are oblivious to their teachers attempts to question them about the wider world. But they are about to have a lesson they will never forget.
Two childhood friends meet up in London for the first time in three years, but an incident that happened in Scotland still hangs over their fragile friendship.
Tina leaves her schizophrenic mother alone at home when she goes to school, but what awaits her in the classroom could shatter their fragile existence forever.
Betty, 80, suffers from advanced dementia. Her daughter, Janet, has drawn the short straw, and has the task of driving her mother to a hospice on the Kent coast.
A dark tale of the bizarre events of one beautiful summer's day in the English countryside. This is the story of a boy who discovers an aircrash survivor and uses the situation to his own ends.
Douglas Knott, a busy office manager, decides to throw a sickie. Unfortunately, his attempts to enjoy a day off are sabotaged by the voice of his conscience.
Trout is a kooky tale of Alex and Mari, highland lovers living in a tiny caravan in the West of Scotland.
An elderly couple remain sexually active later in life to the disgust of their middle-aged son, but who is it that has the problem?
Joseph is plagued by a violence and rage that's driving him to self destruction. As he falls further into turmoil Joseph scours the landscape in search of a single grain of redemption that might restore hope to his fractured life.
Paul and Rebecca's holiday is rudely interrupted when a small French boy tears through the apartment complex. Paul's anger grows irrationally and becomes focused on the boy, with potentially tragic consequences.
A film about teenage masculinity and group acceptance. Robbo is stuck between two worlds that are destined to collide – his love of ballroom dancing and his laddish new school mates.
Two lovers are lost at sea.
Drawn to the same place for very different reasons, two strangers wander a wood, each unaware of the other, until their pathways cross by an ancient Tree.
It takes brave men and women to protect children but at what cost?
Two girls, two boys, a game where nobody wins.
We meet 8-year old Ela at a very particular moment in her life: the moment she experiences loss for the first time.
A wild and affectionate confessional memoir of teenage immersion in the late 80's world of Heavy Metal.
A group of girls' drunken night out threatens to end in tragedy.
Ed Fish is an ordinary teenager doing his best to deal with school life, until one day events he could never have dreamt of, change his life forever.
A father rediscovers his fear of confrontation, at the worst possible time.
A man's love and tenderness, which he once shared with his wife, is now slipping away from him. As one sexual existence ends, another is just beginning.
How far would you go to protect your family?
A social drama about a loving father with a propensity for violence and his struggle to earn his family's trust.
Surprise birthday parties can be risky. Especially when the guest of honor is turning 40! Oscar winner.
With the viewer set down in a landscape whose scenery constantly morphs and mutates, this helter-skelter world evokes the chaos of modern life.
Using multi-layered split screens, a playful and poignant tale of a boy with an over-active imagination.
A spell of bad weather, slippery barn planks, a careless postman, and hungry goats play important roles in 'life'. Oscar winner.
A telling of the life of legendary Scottish cannibal, Sawney Beane, that only a mother could love.
An old man tells his granddaughter his personal sotry of the Second World War; a slightly tongue-in-cheek epic.
Berlin Horse presages much of the art world's fascination witht the moving image. Le Grice hand painted a short strip of archive footage, looped it and added an ambient soundtrack courtesy of Brian Eno. The result is lyrical, hypnotic and magical.
For my money John Smith should be the patron saint of short film. He works consistently in the short form, makes films which are visually outstanding, socially engaged, creative and playful. Blight is without doubt a masterpiece.
Ramsay pulls together social realism with dreamy lyricism to forge a cinematic style which catapulted her onto the international filmmaking scene.
Norman McLaren was another alumni of John Grierson's legendary GPO Film Unit and this film's mixture of animation and live action is a s innovative today as when first screened.
A reworking of Shakespeare's famous lovers to urban modern London. A beautiful and inspiring short film.
Made as a documentary to promote the services of the Royal Mail, Night Mail brought Benjamin Britten's music and W.H. Auden's poetry to create a unique and justifiably celebrated short film.
The Beatles of course changed the sound of popular music bringng experimentation into the studio and onto their albums. They carried this sensibility into what is widely seen as the first pop promo.
A pure example of filmmaking on the run, no budget but lots of energy and humour. Hilarious and infectious this film announced a major filmmaking talent.
Aardman Animations celebrated award winning style and techniques are clearly evident in this early short which was part of the 'Lip Sync' series. Working the soundtrack of a real person's story, Bill Perry - 'War Story brilliantly - with warmth and wit recreates his war experiences.
A seemingly innocent tea party takes a turn for the dramatic when two imperious aristocrats suddenly find themselves competing for the affections of the same fair lady.
Four characters are involved in a shipping accident.
He who struggles but endures will be a ninja.
Little George is about one year-old when he experiences the shock of his life.
Life from the Viewpoint of a Point – a Coming-of-Age-Road-Movie.
Little Herzog almost gets lost in a forest full of monsters, or are they letters? A graphic fairytale about language and letters.
A homeless woman who lives in an alley meets a girl that looks at her differently than other people.
Life in the Over the Hill rest home is rosy and slow, until one particularly cunning trio of grannies discover a secret so sinister that their lives are changed forever!
Our technology will finally cornquer planet earth, and ourselves. But maybe, evolution will give life another chance.
Our gremlins of energy over-consumption hit a hyperactive high.
Danny enters the magical world of his own sketchbook. He experiences Mosley’s ‘blackshirt fascists’ attempt to march through the East End.
Big, strong and vulnerable. Thirteen years old and six foot two, Ben “Westi” Westerman finds it hard to fit in to a world where bigger is not always better, but discovers that his size has its advantages.
Colin takes Cumberland for a walk in a snowstorm. Colin complains about the weather while Cumberland does his best to ignore him.
A scooter riding zelophile called Baby Shoes, his dogfart nymphomaniac girlfriend Alex, her black lover Nylon, a mentalist named Poubelles and a pair of drug dealing lesbians.
A maritime warden investigates an unauthorised presence on a private island.
Rene returns to London to track down his ex sweet heart. But why is there a £150 price on his head?
New love is a story set in the future. In a brave new world built on rationality, it plunges us into the irrational logic of love and desire.
Quentin is an entertainer onboard a North Sea passenger ferry. He has just split from his wife and daughters and is living at sea literally and emotionally.
A shoeshine boy on the dusty streets of Lahore dreams of rescuing a beautiful courtesan.
As struggling artist Jill fights her way home through a city in electronic meltdown her sculpture takes on a new life.
Inside a suburban table tennis centre a group of people kill their time playing ping-pong. On one winter's evening Eddie Proctor steps out of the game.
What happens to those left behind when a loved one disappears without warning or explanation? Missing explores the stories we tell ourselves when we just don’t know.
Reckless boyfriend, Nav, attempts to impress new girlfriend Lisa with a surprise holiday. What Lisa thinks could be the beginning of a great weekend and bonding experience for her new man and daughter, soon descends into chaos.
Two disabled drivers fight over a disabled parking bay - with drastic consequences.
A father comes back home to find his two young daughters playing in the garden. As dusk falls, the mood begins to darken.
A small town, a growing knot, and a girl searching for her identity.
AN lives in a city built upon a heart. Each day a steamboat docks and guards take up their positions to convert the imprisoned workers into the black liquid. AN intervenes and begins his journey into the depths of the city.
A photographer tries to capture an embarrassing moment in the life of someone in the public eye. He doesn't realise that time is working against him.
Bruce, a laboratory monkey, really wants a banana. But when he is given a banana, he wants more. The story explores just how far Bruce will go to satisfy his greedy desires.
A flock of crows are threatened by the advancing shadows. With the help of the Raven Chief, they take a piece of the sun and use it to save themselves from the darkness.
In a wooded glade, three little sparrows want to sing their song but are constanly interrupted by a strange grey fellow with a back-pack propeller.
A satirical short portraying a duel between the old and the new America. Three cowboys alone in the desert awake to find their herd is gone and something sinister is approaching.
A short animation narrated by a real life bike thief and produced in East London.
A beautiful illusory butterfly seduces a little faun into a dark mysterious land, filled with icy fluttering echoes.
Videoclip for the song Opus 23, from the sound track of Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette.
The film is dedicated to all the buttons lost in the metro.
How to survive as a horsie?
Poor Mrs Dombilard, her cat 'Pushkin' has gone missing. Where is her little darling? Will she ever see him again?
Seed is a story about two creatures’ lives that come into conflict over a shining seed, but then develop a friendship and discover how the seed is connected to them both.
A love story behind garbage.
Our character finds himself being followed home by a small plain-looking man who starts to tap him with a walking stick. He can't get rid of his new unwelcome companion no matter what he tries.
A nuclear timing device becomes unstable and a nuclear fusion reactor is on the verge of exploding. Inside the device, the crew in charge of monitoring the countdown starts seeking a possible way out…
Cats are being stolen by mysterious mechanical arms for nefarious purposes!
Now that her travels are drawing to a close, Romny Ward reflects upon her journey and faces her own duty to go on.
A man, dissatisfied with a white cube for a head, gives it up in the name of self-improvement, only to find himself dealing with the unpleasant consequences.
The God of War advances on his course of death and destruction. Who will be able to stop him?
Three poor fishermen have to live with a band of terrible pirates and a curious marine creature.
A tiny witch flies around on her vacuum cleaner rescuing children from their nightmares.
Once the dreammaker made the most beautiful dreams for people. Now he lives solitary for only one purpose, the creation of a special dream - his dream, until...
A lonely overweight man regularly indulges in fantasies and daydreams to make his life more interesting.
Two robots, Enzo and Ugo are watching TV while Carmine takes care of the home, disrupting the other two…
An animated documentary about a life dedicated to the dead.
A young girl lonely and bored, dreams of another life in a distant life.
In a Japanese suburb silent creatures emerge from the unknown and isolated world of heavy electric wires and gigantic pylons.
A pack of scissor wolves hunt for their paper sheep lunch.
Solomon Grundy’s life is a series of whirlwind ceremonies and rituals over which he has no control.
A goat with an appetite for life realises that time is dangerously delicious.
As does a phoenix arise from its own ashes, so will new life be born out of the grime created by human kind.
A visual melody of images create a picture in which we see the mundane as beautiful, making the viewer aware of what they usually just pass by.
A highly personal, potentially controversial but always spot-on blast of commandments for a better world.
A still image of tourists all gazing at something we cannot see. Over time, each person is blacked out as they are transformed into birds that slowly fly off into the distance.
One definition of space is the absence of contact. But gridlock is definitely death.
A conservative suburbanite struggles with an unwanted visitor, only to discover that the solution is easier than he thought. However in this world, if something is too good to be true, it probably is.
Taking the audience on a journey through the seasons of a fully-realised environment. This film challenges viewers to think carefully about the mark they are leaving on the planet.
A man, a woman, an arranged date. Will they or won't they do their families proud and fall in love the traditional way?
A doctor tries to persuade an old lady, fiercely guarded by her small granddaughter, to go into hospital. As they resist him the doctor finds something to learn from both.
Nine year old May's antics drive Mum and Gran round the bend but could her play reflect something more serious?
To the irritation of her long-suffering husband, Miss Myrtle Birtles believes her dreams foretell disaster. Indeed they might but could things be even worse than she predicts?
On a dilapidated boat Eddie waits. He's sure Rebecca will come to him. But, with another storm gathering on the horizon, will she arrive soon enough?
A weather beaten drifter finds a notepad in an old coat. It provides the clue to the identity of a missing person but the search soon drives the man beyond reason.
Amy is seven years old and hides from her parents in a world of make believe. One afternoon, a visit from her father forces her out with disturbing consequences.
The day to day life of a military world is disturbed by the appearance of a black kite behind its high walls. The army, annoyed by the existence of this kite in its clear sky, decides to solve the problem.
An amateur French sociologist presents his observations on a day in the life of two young Americans who meet by chance outside a Taco Bell.
A Lebanese-Australian family find themselves in the wrong place, at the wrong time, when they encounter a group of soldiers in rural Australia.
A fisherman catches a blue lady’s shoe floating along the river. Did it belong to Andrea, the Polish berry-picker, who fled from the tyranny of the Blueberry King?
Every year thousands of tuna fish migrate to the Mediterranean Sea. Men chase them in a ritual of blood and death: three hundred tuna fish are trapped into a ring of nets. Images of nature abused and overwhelmed.
Close to a country road is an old, lonely house. Although the house has been empty for many years, the memories of those who once lived there still exist.
Elizabeth, a restrained doctor, gives coffee to a homeless guy every morning on her way to work. But what are her real intentions?
A woman and a man meet at a hotel bar. Their intentions are obvious. A one-night-stand that turns out to be a melancholic love story between two solitary artists.
A humorous short film about the search for love and good film ideas. A meta-film where fiction becomes reality.
The Marriage Palace. This is the place where people's destinies cross over into the bureaucratic system. The most significant events of people's life, wedding, divorce, birth and death form the everyday routine of a registry office.
An impressionistic short film largely inspired by Andrew Wyeth’s paintings, Christina’s World and Overflow, Left centers around the heartbreaking separation between a woman and the man she loves.
A portrait of an old woman who fights with her neighbour to give meaning to her life. She prepares an ultimate recconing that gives fate a chance to determine the end end of this war…
For the first time of her life, Ming, 16 years old, is in love. And nothing will prevent her from loving Paul...
A young Brazilian girl named Namibia tells her dad the tale of a famous tragedy which took place many decades earlier on the opposite side of the world.
Les and Errol are two elderly brothers living on their family property of Pleasance. Their existence is well-worn, a functional marriage of needs that neither questions.
A man on the run. In a bleak landscape underneath thick fog he flees from frightful shadows, machines, and searchlights that follow him without mercy. He wants to go into the mountains.
Bob is a normal 30 year old man. He walks backwards, looses his memory and his skills, like a good citizen. But one day, he wakes up realizing that this world is not “normal”.
At the age of 14, Virginia lives alone with Gladys, her 80-year-old great aunt. It’s Christmas Eve.
A short Public Sservice Announcement warning people against being too cruel to machines.
Three people move about the same place without meeting each other: the Wanderer, the resident, and his ex-wife.
Uso Justo is at once a ridiculous and hilarious experimental film, a well-targeted send-up of avant-garde filmmaking.
An unknown virus has destroyed almost the entire human population. Oblivious to the true nature of the disease, the only remaining survivors escape to the sea. In great ships, they set off in search of uninhabited land. So begins the exodus, led by one ma
Krystyna wants to take her daughter to a casting for a girl's band but trouble forces her to seek help from a man who she hasn’t seen for a long time. This meeting will change their lives.
Two middle-aged women armed with mobile phones throw themselves into a merciless quiz. How far will they go to avoid losing face?
Very early in the morning, Marian, a 7 years-old boy from a small and poor Romanian village, wakes up his father and persuades him to go to the city to fix their old TV set.
A trainee robber holds up a late-night convenience store with unexpected consequences.
Joško Joras is a man 'between two fires'. He lives in the disputed border strip between Slovenia and Croatia.
A young man and a girl are having a secret love affair. In a society that will never support such an illegal relationship, the two are faced with a serious dilemma when the bed falls as they are making love and they run the risk of being exposed.
In a park, two men are discussing their life at the office. But they’re not who we think they are… Will they go on toying with reality for long?
Raffi dares Chris to break into the house of an old woman. Seeing the sleeping lady, Chris gets the bold idea to steal the dentures right out of her mouth.
Kate is alone in Paris for the week-end. In this unfamiliar city, she is going to meet a man and his dog.
A frozen relationship between a father and son gets a new life when the son finds a deeply buried secret in his fathers apartment.
Becker works as a security officer in a supermarket. When he catches a young Polish woman shoplifting, his calm life is disturbed. Instead of calling the police, Becker lets the woman escape through the backdoor.
Guided by the voice of Estrella, we will embark on a colorful and exciting journey through different episodes of her young life: celebrating life, ritual and culture, and the experience and power of memory in the construction of ‘realities’.
Afraid So is about fear and anxiety. It is based on a poem in which each line forms a question, with the implied response being “afraid so”.
Structured around an insomniac's journey through the deserted Jerusalem night, this film is an abstract exploration of the love-hate relationship between man, community and urban technology.
A girl and her fellow salvage objects in the "pond-world". One day, she hears one of the objects make a sound…
Katharina (KAT, 15) contacts strangers via Internet-Chat and meets them for money. One day one of her blind dates turns out to be her father….
One Saturday morning, eight guys in sweatshirts gather for a seminar, hoping to find new solutions to the challenges they face with their partners. Pat, the instructor, certainly has some original propositions…
A film noir murder mystery that takes place in a sleazy hotel. As cops investigate the gruesome murders they become victims of this evil force. What "Jaws" did to swimming, "Shuteye Hotel" will do for sleeping.
An elderly forester had planned a peaceful day to enjoy a relaxing warm bath and listen to the radio…
The rule of the universe by Sarah, a 6-year-old girl.
One night in Bangkok, Jon meets a mysterious woman. Together, they embark on a journey to the foreign land-the human heart.
You will be cold. You will be scared. You will want to give up. Only true heroes triumph.
With a surprising narrative and mythological imagery, Mammal describes the symbiotic relationship between a mother and her son. Sensuality, animalistic tendencies and permanent attempts to escape are one side, protective care and fear of change are on the
Patrick Sorlin, a successful architect is hit on the face with a custard pie. He then moves between attraction and repulsion for anything in his daily life that reminds him of the incident.
A young man comes back home from prison. He turns over a new leaf. But his old father dies. He has to slaughter a horse to bury his father by Kyrgyz traditions.
In a deserted service station, a woman is accosted by a handsome guy who offers her a brand new and quick therapy to cure her seemingly bland existence: he will look at her for 5 minutes, until she starts to feel that she exists.
The mouse is dead but the soldiers of the bathroom have decided to give it a right proper send off.
A man, in a bathroom, a morning which seems to be ordinary but turns out to be different…
Once upon a time, a young boy fancied a shepherdess, the shepherdess fancied some mushrooms, but an ogre was passing by…
A lusting voyeur gets more than he bargained for at the coin-op peepshow in this music video.
Is It Just Me is a series of short films that take a comic look at the tiny anxieties that shape our world. 1. Going in Public 2. Waiting for a Friend 3. Avoiding People 4. Freaking Out in Shops
A girl discovers her new nature through pain and confusion and she finds a way to achieve her lost harmony.
A young couple unwittingly bring about the end of the world at the paws of the family hamsters.
Rudolf wakes up with a huge hangover, and finds a dead girl in his bathtub. Not remembering anything, he calls a friend to help him get rid of the body, but soon things don't go as planned…
A sequel and companion piece to Dim Sum Deliverance, Phoenix Talons expands upon the attraction of eating chicken feet, and also presents a newer, superior recipe for chicken feet with black bean and garlic.
Chancing upon a scrummy piect of chocolate Pib learns the value of chewing his food properly.
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It's been seven years since the plane crashed, but Bonnie and Lloyd are still searching for their parents in the wreckage.
An urban regeneration of Adam’s fall from grace.
On Father's Day, a boy waits for his dad to arrive. With loyalties torn between father and step-father, ha has to face some difficult realities.
Graham lives with his tyrannical mother and their pet Jackdaw in a Christian bookshop, on the seedy outskirts of a decaying nowhere town. He and his mother both love God… but in very different ways.
A young boy tries to reconcile his parents.
A short animated mediation on meeting creation.
Isabella, a long way from home, lonely and isolated, dreams of a way out by bringing hope and life into a place that is surrounded by death.
A road movie with a French twist! The story of a girl who desparately wants to become a rock star.
A choreographed dance sequence which builds in intensity, to a frenetic climax.
Hello! Is anybody there? Somebody... please!
On a bleak winters day a girl's journey turns treacherous when, in the darkness of a wood, she is confronted by a savage beast.
Construction worker Grant discovers his love of girly bath bombs.
Suicidal Harry gets a crash course in dogging.
A landmine. A deserting WW2 soldier. This is no ordinary comedy.
A man remembers the day he met his foster parents.
Bath-time dirty talk goes tits up.
Two elderly painters encounter a maniac, gun-toting clown.
Filmmaking on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
A murder is not as it seems.
Lee Philips tries to sue Warner Bros.
A cross between 'Moonlighting' and 'Beauty and the Geek'.
Videomakers Sarah Sea and Fay Milton hit the streets of Austin, Texas for the annual South By South West music jamboree and run into The Noisettes, The Young Knives, The Mystery Jets, Plan B, and a whole host more bands. This personal documentary gives us an up-close look at one of the worl's biggest music festivals.
A loose filmed riff illustrating the beat-style monologue attributed to Disneyland park announcer Jack Wagner (with a soundtrack by Vivaldi) where we learn about 'one of the most interesting words in the English language'.
This live recording of The Libertines playing at a Hackney house party is a bittersweet document of more innocent times before Pete Doherty's more recent tabloid notoriety. Expect all the hits before the police come!
In 1905 Queensland, banned from male only pubs and bars, certain Women met in secret every full moon to talk politics and drink. A hundred years later, the centenary of this infamous club takes place.
So the band have a gig booked, and with a few weeks to go they've still not practised. Too busy skateboarding or arguing.
The true story of Manchester's Phase 4, made whil director Manford was reading about the War of the Worlds! Featuring situationist commentary from Tony Wilson (RIP), guy Garvey of Elbow, and I Am Kloot.
The end of the night. Wheat is silently swaying on the hillside. Some people rise, others are threatening their freedom.
Night. Kisses. A ravished heart.
An old hermit lives ina dark industrial city. One day he receives a mysterious package which gives him undreamed-of power to change his environment…
A story of a town over the sea, a little boy and his eccentric grandfather. The old man colects sounds which he keeps in tins as a way of saving memories. He also dreams that one day he will lift up into the air and fly away. Only his grandson believes it is possible.
Upon arrival at the Slovenian border Amir and Nedim come across a young police officer who is not allowed to let them through because Nedim does not have a proper visa for entering Slovenia. Nedim is in the last stages of cancer and does not want to die in Germany but in his own country, in Bosnia. Amir is determined not to let his brother down.
on his way to deliver a sealed envelope, a messenger see a beautiful woman. As if under a spell, he starts to sing.
Four people each gte to tell the story of their first time. These are stories that range from comedy to tragedy, stories from last year or from the 1920's, stories that are remembered with nostalgia, embarrassment or even horror.
in a society where everyone has the ability to fly, the citizens anchor themselves to the ground via 'gravitation boots'. Devoid of sunlight and the open sky, the members of the society go about their routine without any hope of personal gratification. One day, however, a man decides he has had enough and attempts to challenge the status quo.
The story of 8 year-old Vincent's earnest yet absurd attempts to make sense of the world.
Zakaria is working hard on getting better at being Zakaria.
Grandma is lying in the hospital, her life hanging by a thread. Her family gathers by her deathbed to send her off. Overwhelmed by sadness, they struggle to find their own way of coming to terms with the impending end.
A school girl’s autograph book is an eclectic collection of poems and truisms about friendship, here, it is also the cause of a rift between two twelve year old friends who must decide if their friendship is one worth keeping.
Throughout the island, different individuals are engaged in varying day-to-day activities and are caught up in their own thoughts; but they are all connected. In D.I.Y., the squeak of dirty plates, the tap of a finger against a seafood restaurant aquarium
Flat Dreams is about public housing dwellers who try to make sense of their mundane lives.
A film adaptation of a short play about a boy with a hidden life and a mother desperately trying to reach out.
A momentary encounter evokes both a sense of fondness and bitterness of the heart. Moving and lyrical, the film’s Hong Kong backdrop heightens the emotive narration.
A meditation of love and longing, this film is set in the beautiful landscape of Hokkaido, Japan. A young boy, whimsically dressed in a monkey suit, searches for lost love. Pensive, lyrical and spare, this film embodies the characteristics of a Japanese h
How does a pebble make waves? Convinced that his family has become "frogs in a well", an elderly grandfather leaves them an important departing message. This calm, peaceful film will spark thoughts about the wisdom of the aged and the beauty of death.
What happens to toilet graffiti when we're not looking?
Hilary Flamingo feels bored, distracted and miserable in her industrialised job. Her apathetic mood is unexpectantly illuminated by the spontaneous arrival of a shining plate of little cakes that wriggle and entice her to eat them.
On a romantic weekend by the coast, a video nerd films his elaborate marriage proposal. The one thing he hasn’t planned is her reply.
Stacey gets bullied about her clothes at school. She meets Carlie, a traveller girl who introduces her to magic and self-belief.
A doggone tale of a missing pet, the end of a relationship, and a nasty surprise in the woods.
A journey of exile across the arid, timeless landscapes of the Atacama Desert. Punctuated by testimonies of Iraqi exilees, this universal fiction uses choreographed gesture to evoke effacement, yearning and rebellion.
A poignant tale which shows how prejudice can escalate to violence and how destructive this is to all involved.
A bleak tale of love, loneliness, guts, gore, nudity, violence, smoking and cups of tea.
On a dark and winding river a small rowing boat cuts through the black water. An old man and a young boy flee an unseen foe lurking in the gloomy trees of the riverbank.
An 18 year-old white inmate becomes increasingly disturbed in the oppressive atmosphere of a multi-racial young offender’s institution.
My sister in law shows me a magazine for teenagers from 1980. under the heading "Wanted" I read a letter by Annelie. 24 years have passed since Annelie wrote the letter. Did she ever find Jorgen? I decide to find her to get some answers.'
Once upon a time there was a mother who was no longer allowed to exist.
Linerboard is a film about the thin paper in between cardboard. How fragile items need to be properly protected.
We all need a little bit of apreciation sometimes.
Mid summer's eve and Martin has spotted a high bridge that he wants to jump off from. Full of anticipation he brings the gang along.
After 33 years as a teacher Ulla Britt is sent on sick leave. She hasn't been able to cope with the pressure at work since then and has many thoughts on why.