All Films

The Fire and Clay Master

2009 • 9 min • Latvia

The harsh environment of Latgale determines the visual language and provincial aesthetic of this film, while the particular milieu of the surrounding pottery furnaces and old cottages depict an end of the line region where one man is burning himself in the fires of his artistic passion, making of clay pots.

Inside

2009 • 8 min • Macedonia

The isolated world of a man, living in nostalgia of the past moments spent with his loved one.

Master of Ice

2009 • 24 min • Latvia

Once upon a time a strange magician arrives during the festivities at the King’s palace. He is a Master of Ice, and his specialty is to freeze everything. The King does not like the icy magic, and the magician is impolitely sent away. Even the Princess laughs at him. But later the angry magician returns and freezes the Princess, stealing her away to his ice castle. When they try to rescue her, the Mater of Ice freezes the whole kingdom. Only young Page remains unfrozen, and he is only one who can try to rescue the Princess...

Fortune’s Favourite

2009 • 52 min • Latvia

A portrait of prominent opera singer - bass-baritone Egils Silins. For 4 years, the crew followed the singer through the greatest European opera houses. The film reveals behind the scenes and perfor-mances of Richard Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman, Giacomo Puccini’s Tosca at the Latvian National Opera, Wagner’s The Valkyrie at the Zurich Opera, Georges Bizet’s Carmen at the Vienna Opera, and Wagner’s Parsifal at the Munich Opera.

Déjà

2009 • 13 min • Switzerland

Based on a series of events over the course of one day, Oscar learns that he doesn’t have very long to live. Time has passed without him having noticed or, rather, accepted this fact. Following this brutal realisation and moments filled with doubt and loneliness, Oscar notices that he isn’t really alone.

A Dark Love Story For Clowns

2009 • 5 min • United States of America

A Dark Love Story For Clowns is a hybrid of an African ritual, an autobiographical anecdote, and a modern riff of a post-abolitionist short story by William Faulkner.

Katia, Closest to Heaven

2009 • 52 min • France

On the border between Argentina and Chile, Katia Lafaille, widow of the mountaineer Jean-Christophe Lafaille, sets out on one of the hardest treks in the world. Thirteen days of joy and suffering, to conquer the summit of Mount Aconcagua, the 'Colossus of America', which stands at 6,962 meters... Trek movie, a roadmap of an exceptional human adventure, the film is to see for the breathtaking beauty of the landscapes and for the will of this woman who seems to have some accounts to settle with the mountain.

Pode me Chamar de Nadí

2009 • 19 min • Brazil

Ashamed of her curly hair, Nadí doesn't take off her cap for anything. Knowing her weakness, two boys take Nadí's cap and run away. Nadi faces everyone to retrieve her cap.

Conveyor Belt

2009 • 3 min

A short film by David Shrigley. Designed & directed by David Shrigley, animated and composited by James Newport.

And the Rest is Drag

2009 • 32 min • Canada

And the Rest is Drag explores gender from the perspective of drag kings who consciously and politically queer their gender, both on and off stage. Using an eclectic mix of performance footage, still photography, and interviews with members of the Alberta Beef Drag King Troupe, the film draws audiences into the sexy, rebellious, and sometimes humorous world of drag kinging. And the Rest is Drag questions how different experiences of race, class, size, sexuality and ability inform our many-gendered identities, and invites viewers to do the same.

Miramare

2009 • 8 min • Croatia, Switzerland

A look at the life on the Mediterranean borders of Europe, where tourists try to relax while "illegal" immigrants struggle for a chance of a better life. Breaking out of a strictly confined tourist zone, two Swiss children experience quickly that reality here has very little to do with the posh life in their camping site. A storm hits the shore and washes away almost all distinctions between the rich and the poor.

Austral

2009 • 22 min

Austral is a mixed work (electronic and video) for ensemble, orginally composed for Laborintus (contemporary ensemble). This creation was previously imagined in its origins to be re-interpreted by other musical aesthetics.

Rick Steves' Iran

2009 • 56 min • United States of America, Iran

Join Rick as he explores the most surprising and fascinating land he's ever visited: Iran. In a one-hour, ground-breaking travel special on public television, you'll discover the splendid monuments of Iran's rich and glorious past, learn more about the 20th-century story of this perplexing nation, and experience Iranian life today in its historic capital and in a countryside village.

The Little Ant

2009 • 10 min • Latvia

In the cemetery of small town, a Man and a Woman, both middle-aged, meet at sunset. He has a terrible plan of how to battle with cemetery vandals, but she is suspicious of his real purpose.

Kabita Mikan no Santa Claus

2009 • 2 min • Japan

This is an experimental animation made by Tarafu Otani

Her Memory Framed

2009 • 25 min

An interview with the late Iranian singer, Khatereh Parvaneh.

Our World Order

2009 • 11 min

Dr. Do Rong and Ivana Gettsum conspire to steal the world's most horrible weapon in order to sell it to Osama bin Badd. Jamie Bondo from the British Secret Service is called in to quietly rectify this situation.

4, 5, 6... Gingerbread Molly

2009 • 51 min • France

A Clockwork Cock

2009 • 11 min • China

A naughty boy had to stay in a young female teacher's office, receiving her separate and silent education. Finally, he decided to grow up as an obedient good student.

The Roe Effect

2009 • 19 min • United States of America

In a world frighteningly similar to our own, Dawn and her girlfriend Sam are madly in love. But unbeknownst to Sam, Dawn is hiding a terrible secret, one powerful enough to destroy all they hold dear.

I have tendency to you

2009 • 2 min

A man who can not tell he loves and virtual loves.

Listen to Me!

2009 • 5 min

A little dog wants attention.

Inukshuk

2009 • 8 min • France

On the ice field, the Eskimos roused the polar bears, who playfully chased each other. Tired, they napped. The sun shone brightly, and the ice sheet melted. Why were eyes in the hole we dug? A large whale had arrived! The film uses simple lines and ink, combined with rich imagination, to create a fun and light-hearted three-dimensional space through hand-drawn animation.

Have You Lived Before?

2009 • 29 min • United States of America

Join with a group of Unarius students on their journey of self-discovery, as they reenact scenes of their past lives through the process of psychodrama. Hear the students relate the success of their efforts to free themselves of present-day inhibitions and problems, after uncovering the psychic shocks and blocks of the past lifetimes portrayed in their psychodramas.