All Films

Buildings

2009 • 6 min • Japan

it is a story of a skyscraper that has suddenly appeared in a town. The skyscraper looks down on the low-rise buildings and wants to stand out, causing fear and annoyance among the buildings around it. As a result, it is hated. And, the town goes under water by a sudden storm.

Je sens que quelqu'un me guide

2009 • 41 min

To My Son in Spain: Finnish Canadians in the Spanish Civil War

2009 • 42 min

This documentary features the story of Jules Paivio, the last living Canadian volunteer of the infamous Mackenzie-Papineau Battallion of the “International Brigades”. When Jules left from his home near Port Arthur (Thunder Bay), Ontario, his father, a famous Finnish poet, wrote a lasting lament: “To My Son In Spain”. In 1936-37, 1700 Canadians volunteered to fight with the Spanish people against a fascist coup d’etat led by elements of the Spanish Army. Backed by Musselini and Hitler, the fascists were bent on overthrowing Spain’s democratically elected socialist government and replacing it with military and church rule. It could be argued this conflict marked the true beginning of what would become World War II.

A Journey Through Chaos

2009 • 3 min • United Kingdom

An animated, mind thrilling adventure for all ages to enjoy. A personal story of life's joy, emotional thrills and darkness.

Eaten by the Sea

2009 • 6 min • United States of America

The story of their relationship before, during and after their breakup.

Pieter Tiddens: Vooruit! Nog Één Keer Kindercabaret, Nu Nog Anders!

2009 • 51 min • Netherlands

A comedy show for children by the Dutch cabaret artist (and actor and singer and musician) Pieter Tiddens. The show is about the mutability of life. Why can't things stay as they are?

The Play of Silence

2009 • 5 min • Italy

This film is realized with the traditional technique of drawings on paper, is made by about one thousands original drawings.

Donuts and Donut Holes

2009 • 2 min • United States of America

You can tell a lot about a person from the kinds of donuts they choose.

In Space

2009 • 17 min • Thailand, United States of America

A young monk finds a safe space between the present and the afterlife.

Eggy

2009 • 4 min • Japan

The Eggy Robot project aims to synthesize a robot of which artistic appearance and emergent behaviours make us feel and imagine the emergence of primeval organisms. Of all the computer animators that pursued the goal of wild, virtual exotica, none could equal the overwhelming, needlepoint visual intensity of Kawaguchi’s work. One of the world’s leading researchers into 'blobby organic modelling, he depicted a world composed of molten, shape-shifting organs without a body.

Darwins Theory: A Film About Bullying

2009 • 17 min • Sweden

An anti-bullying film.

Manny

2009 • 6 min • United States of America

A stop motion animation of a manikin head.

Alphaville - Do Lado de Dentro do Muro

2009 • 54 min • Brazil

Alphaville is a slice of the lifestyle inside the wall. The portrait of a Brazil surrounded, where danger, unwanted interactions, all kinds of movement, heterogeneity and unpredictability of the streets are supposedly kept away.

Obscureness

2009 • 5 min

Two loners walks in the night

The Sniper

2009 • 3 min • Kuwait

A short film about the battle between the sniper and his enemy.

Banana

2009 • 25 min • Kuwait

Engineer Ahmed is looking for an alternative relationship away from his dead marriage, which he finds in Mut'ah marriage (temporary marriage).

Child

2009 • 44 min • Macedonia

The documentary film "Child" is a touching drama based on the fate of a child from a mixed marriage between an Australian woman and a Macedonian man. In fact, it is part of the fate of a large number of children in conditions of large world migrations.

Open Graves

2009 • 38 min • Macedonia

We went in search of the graves of the Macedonian vojvodas to remember their maxims. Their voice is very strong if there is someone to hear it... Only in the Macedonian language and in Macedonia the term "vojvoda" has a single meaning - a strong man, brave, leader of a rebel group or company during the time of Turkish slavery.

Migrant

2009 • 52 min • Russia

The film is based on the real life story of a twenty-year-old boy. The main character comes from Russia to Germany with his parents, Russian Germans. In the cycle of Berlin life, he is trying to find himself and his place in a new environment for him. A student of a German school, a part–time worker, a seller of a Russian fish shop, a statistician of the "German Opera", a petty criminal - his path runs through such a bizarre line. The multifaceted Russian Berlin with all the tragic comedy of emigrant life becomes the background of its existence. Here he meets many different people, finds his love, indulges in dashing fun with friends, the same immigrants as him, works, paints, makes plans for the future and ... by chance becomes an accomplice to murder. So the breadth of central Russia narrowed around him to the size of a prison cell in Germany.

O Quarto Morador

2009 • 18 min • Brazil

Three friends decide to rent an apartment, but they didn't know what could happen...

Sergo The Rogue

2009 • 46 min

A short story from the life of a refugee family from Abkhazia.

Slaughter

2009 • 60 min • United Kingdom

Slaughter is the feature film debut of writer and director Juno Jakob and takes horror back to its nasty, gritty and often tongue in cheek roots of the 1970's and 80's. The film follows escaped mental patient David Ward as he hides in his derelict caravan spending his days hiding from the police and doctors and filming himself raping and murdering while police slowly discover his crimes and get closer to him. The film is told from two view points. The traditional third person camera and David's own Hi8 camcorder.

Jennifer

2009 • 5 min

In the short film 'Jennifer', filmmaker Stewart Copeland explores his relationship with his mother through a recorded conversation between eighth-grade students and astronauts aboard the International Space Station.

Arividerci, Sir!

2009 • 11 min • Ukraine

He had been dreaming about this day for a very long time. Run away! As far away as possible from this provincial country, from degraded people. Finally, the suitcases are packed, the ticket is in hand, only a few kilometers separate this park from the airport and that's it: arividerci, Ukraine, bonjorno, Italy! But some heavy sadness in the soul does not let go. Whether it's autumn, or premature nostalgia... who among these worthless people wandering around the park could understand it? Explain to him where this aching melancholy came from, and how to get rid of it? Listen to the confession of the future emigrant will have a person who, at first glance, is not very suitable for this…