All Films

Pretend Not to See Me

2009 • 47 min • Canada

Life and art intersect on a spectacular Newfoundland farm where visual artist Colette Urban mounts thirteen art performances in the fields and barns of her property. Resilient, determined, self aware and funny, Colette embraces the transformative power of art as she restages the significant art performances of her thirty-year career. With the camera as her audience she transforms the quotidian into a playful world of the imagination with elaborate costumes and idiosyncratic self invented rituals.

Songs, Colours and Market

2009 • 29 min • India

Film is about Patachitra Paintings in rural West Bengal, where images of Hindu gods are made by Muslim community.

Becoming Severina

2009 • 35 min • Croatia

A look behind-the-scenes of famous croatian singer Severina. Filmed in Belgrade, during “the Hail Mary tour” (in 2009).

Memories of Lojze Slak

2009 • 54 min • Slovenia

A look at the life and musical career of Lojze Slak, a Slovenian accordionist.

Corps à corps

2009 • 3 min • Canada

The author shows photographs from the youth of her partner’s body-screen while massaging his back. A loving tussle between images of the past and a present marked by the passage of time.

Orages d'été

2009 • 24 min

In this autofiction, the director puts herself on stage. She talks about herself and the years that pass too quickly without us having time to notice. Through a meeting with a virtuoso guitarist, she reveals her love life and her intimacy. A (self)portrait imbued with poetry.

Left-brained Larry & Right-brained Rachel

2009 • 9 min • Denmark

As already foretold by modern technology, Mrs. Liddell would give birth to a certain abnormality. The sight gave her a fright and a little unease, they were not just twins, they were Siamese.

The Ghost of North Carolina

2009 • 5 min

This film is heavily influenced by the 1999 film, The Blair Witch Project, and is the first film directed by Michael J. Mantsourani, Jr. (credited as Michael Mantsourani at the time). The film follows the character Mike, as he looks through the woods of North Carolina to search for the Ghost of North Carolina, that has been told about in "stories." The film, as in the style of The Blair Witch Project, is filmed from the point of view from Mike's hand-held camera as he searches.

Anatomische Studie van het Hart

2009 • 20 min • Belgium

Sliding between hope, frustration and grief, she has begun neurotic studies and experiments due to the passage of time. These studies are still her only holdout and hopes to regain what once was...

Have a nice weekend

2009 • 4 min • Finland

Short movie about the importance of well-being at work.

Treasure Without Place

2009 • 4 min

Some of the first Iranian graphic designers talk about the history of graphic in Iran.

Diary of Childhood

2009 • 6 min • Lithuania

Narrates the story of the friendship between an injured girl and a ladybird, reflecting a special relationship between the child and nature.

Blackpool: Las Vegas of the North

2009 • 35 min

January 2009: Not many places in Britain are the world's economic woes more evident than in the north west seaside town of Blackpool. They used to call this place "the Las Vegas of the North" but that was back when it was the country's most popular holiday destination for working class families. These days, most people take cheap flights to Europe instead. Time has not been kind to Blackpool and during the winter months there's no tourists, which means that unemployment goes up by 20%. But even when it's dead, there's an undeniable magic to the place.

Angriff der Killertelefonbücher

2009 • 27 min

Postman Rolf is quite a shy fellow, but mysterious occurrences force him to take action and become a hero.

O Estranho Mundo de Von Victor

2009 • 11 min • Brazil

Comics, tattoos, rock, naughty, wet and horny women. A pastor with ideas that parents pray won't come to their children's heads. Von Victor's strange world is completely unsuitable for minors. For some he is an artist. For others, he is nothing more than a pervert. The door is open: come in and make yourself comfortable if you can.

The Lighthouse

2009 • 5 min

The movie tells a story about life's absurdity and the game of destiny which is too cruel at times. This is a movie about the consequences of a taken decision, about love, suffering and death.

Alzheimers vals

2009 • 60 min

About Bo Lycke and his enemy - the Alzheimer's disease. He lives with his wife Eva on Brännö, among friends and musicians - surrounded by the sea. At the age of 59, he received his diagnosis, And when the film ends, more than ten years have passed. "When I got my sentence I promised myself not to get depressed and that I could drink as much as I want. And I have done that. But I watch myself all the time and I see how the abilities disappear, like now this with the underpants and socks... Now I notice that the language is also starting to mess with me!"

Zona Cero

2009 • 12 min • Venezuela

Román, a member of a terrorist group, has to place one of the four bombs on the train going west. At the same station, and at the same time of the attack, Verónica, a single mother, goes to meet her son Javi to take him to school. Román and Verónica live in the same building, but they have never seen each other. Fate intervenes when, on the way to the station, they meet in the elevator.

My Beloved Monster

2009 • 9 min

Professor Cevat, a university professor, is secretly in love with his son's girlfriend, who is also his student. Jealous of their relationship, he tries to break them up by conducting a strange and unethical experiment on his son. This amateur short film explores themes of jealousy and obsession, showing how far one man will go to win the woman he loves.

Balochistan Hotel

2009 • 56 min • Pakistan

A casual day in Balochistan Hotel is turned upside down after a robbery and a chaotic musical night.

Sitis, the regression of a word

2009 • 16 min • Greece

The word sitis is read from both sides. It's a backtrack. Shape perfect. It means thirst. No saturation. Thirst for more and more self.

Rutsi reis ehk Eesti jooma eripära

2009 • 57 min • Estonia

Documentary about Ruts and his friends, who are on the way to the European capital of sex, Budapest, in hopes of finding adventures.

Oblivion

2009 • 17 min • Greece

Little Alexander lives with his father. After the Great Catastrophe he wants to visit his mother often. After all, it is the only thread which connects him with the memory from the past…

Sayed Kashua - Forever Scared

2009 • 53 min • Israel

Sayed Kashua always feels he doesn't belong. The Jews don't like him because he's an Arab. The Arabs don't like him because he's successful. The Arabs think he's a collaborator. The Jews think he's a drunk. He is always viewed as an Other, and he's always scared.