2012 Movies

Born in 1944 in South Tyrol, Reinhold Messner was introduced to climbing peaks by his father as a child. He has since climbed the fourteen mountains o...

Brace yourself for a spine-tingling thrill ride through Any Other Side! In his feature film debut, China's new-generation filmmaker Fang Yaxi has craf...

Mentiroso, a period piece set in a small Mexican town, is a coming-of-age story about a boy who tells his friends that he can get a nude photograph of...

All the way back to Liverpool - as the title suggests - is a journey. The documentary follows a group of musicians and friends as they write, rehearse...

What has changed for Estonia since the Eurovision Song Contest was held in Tallinn ten years ago? How did the big event actually happen?

In 2004 Checkerboard had the privilege of filming Carrie Mae Weems discussing her body of work, comprised of 17 projects spanning more than two decade...

After a campus-wide zombie outbreak a slacker college student must protect his younger brother while becoming the unlikely leader of a small band of q...

Aziz Ansari channels his crude side taking on topics like watching porn and the struggles of dating in New York City.

Astrid is a lonely young girl, longing for human contact. Those that get close to her discover a girl with a disturbed mind. And those that reject her...

Treachery, sex and revenge take center stage for Prince Hamlet and his eventual descent into madness.

A dark, absurd morality tale about a man's desperate search for human truth in between rhyme and reason, fact and fiction, life and death.

Dutta Vs Dutta is a 2012 Bengali film directed by Anjan Dutt. This is Anjan Dutt's semi-autobiographical film. Most of the film has been shot in a hou...

Two parallel stories follow ordinary people chasing sudden wealth: a young couple unexpectedly caught up in a lottery twist, and two adults deceived b...

Drawing inspiration from the death-squad murders of several Gypsy families in Hungary in 2008, director Bence Fliegauf's chilling and unforgettable re...

A study film commissioned by Estonia's National Institute for Health Development outlining the negative effects of drug use.

Suspended in post-adolescence, twenty-something Sarah (Kristine Cofsky) alternates between hedonism and ennui. Urged on by her sister, Sarah awakens t...

When a precious little girl dies tragically of a rare heart condition, her grieving parents are left to pick up the pieces of their once perfect life....

Exploring the intersection between experimental documentary and ethnographic anthropology, this short film silently follows a herd of sheep and a face...

In Cacheu, Filipa César once again applies the economic technique of using a single shot – letting a 16mm film roll to the end – without editing. Here...