All Films

Meinrad Craighead: Praying with Images

2009 • 57 min

A new documentary about the artist and teacher, Meinrad Craighead: Praying with Images tells the story of Craighead’s artistic and spiritual pilgrimage which began in her native Arkansas, where her greatest influences were the Catholic Church, the natural environment, and her grandmother who encouraged her to draw and paint. Craighead’s truly original art spans time and distance and tradition to combine imagery from Catholicism, Native American shamanism, and ancient mythology. Add to the mix her own dreams and mystic visions and the result is a unique synthesis of energy, color, and connectedness. Through this new documentary, more people will be able to meet this extraordinary artist who paints from her own inner landscape and encourages a unique way of seeing oneself and one's place in the world.

Angels of the House of Sun

2009 • 53 min • Iran

Angels in the House of Sun remains one of Rakhshan Banietemad’s most articulate critiques of the treatment of women in contemporary Iranian society. Male-on-female violence is an all-too-common occurrence in Iran. It’s part of a wider exploration of gender imbalance that permeates so much of Banietemad’s work. Here, the filmmaker journeys into the backstreets of one of the poorer districts of Tehran, to a shelter where women can find safety, community and a sense of belonging with others who understand their situation – whose lives have been marked by suffering and humiliation.

Last Summer 2: Ural Psycho

2009 • 17 min

Observers are ordinary inhabitants of the Earth, but their goal is to capture as much 'Cruel Video' as possible and sell the material on the internet. A group of observers is offered to find the body of a hanged student in the forest for a good reward. They agree and fall into a deadly trap because the Ural Psychopath is hunting them.

Retour à l'Hijigawa

2009 • 36 min • France

Céu Limpo

2009 • 15 min • Brazil

Gulliver

2009 • 13 min • Croatia

Gulliver, standing still in a center of the Universe, is a sign of awe for Lilliputians who approach him slowly to start building their civilization by using his tied body as a back bone. He is still and silent while enduring the burden of negligence the Lilliputians. Until one day the ties brake.

Het woord heeft mij gered

2009 • 53 min • Netherlands

'I can't remember the day my dreams started, but I know when my nightmares did.' These are the words of Rodaan Al Galidi, writer, poet, asylum seeker. Years ago, he fled his native Iraq and got locked up for years in various Dutch refugee centres. When his request for asylum is turned down, he goes into hiding in a student room. He keeps poems there that he wrote in Iraq and new, Dutch texts for which he has meanwhile won several awards. Rodaan turns out to be both a charming and melancholy man. He candidly talks about his life, his inspirations and passions.

Doorgaan

2009 • 10 min • Netherlands

Exerting strength at the right moment and releasing tension again at the right moment; that is what rowing is all about. As soon as someone does not slacken, the boat starts to rock. Especially with the eight, timing is of the utmost importance. With Laurens ter Keurst, 86 years old and the oldest competitive rower in the Netherlands, as its central figure, this film makes the magic of rowing tangible by means of rhythmic shots of eight elderly rowers.

No Through Road

2009 • 9 min • United Kingdom

On December 17th 2008 four 17 year old boys were found dead in their car at an abandoned farm, 10 miles from their hometown. This video contains the unedited footage from the camera belonging to one of the boys, also found in the car.

Jolly Old Farts

2009 • 28 min • Estonia

A portrait of two ageing cinema professionals who find motivation to live through endless quarrelling and challenging each other. An old film director and a camera man know a secret - when out of work you'll have to get fun and turn your own life into a film. And who would be a better partner than old colleague and mate. Their endless nagging is very much Estonian style, once one is up and the other down, and then it will all turn around.

Our Lady of Chaos

2009 • 40 min • United States of America

Lucy Lambourne is sent to Our Lady of Upir, the most prestigious girls reformatory in Europe. After a student's disappearance, Lucy takes it upon herself to solve the case.

Nothing Personal

2009 • 17 min • Croatia

Roko and Boris are getting ready to rob one house in the suburbs. Boris seams to be up to the task, while Roko is having trouble with it. When they ring the door bell, asking for help and claiming that their car broke down, the person who answers the door is, to their surprise, a priest.

Prey

2009 • 6 min

A stalker attacks a woman but he’ll soon learn that someone else has a gruesome plan for him.

Spade: The Last Assignment

2009 • 60 min

SPADE: THE LAST ASSIGNMENT is a new feature film (by Oliver Mbamara) about the career/adventures of Special Agent Spade, who goes on a last assignment to crack an international syndicate engaged in women trafficking and smuggling of African artifacts

The Betrayed Tigers

2009 • 30 min • Hong Kong

An anonymous love letter leads Bob to believe that his ex-wife had had an affair with one of his five close friends before they divorced. Eager to know who the clandestine lover was, he arranges a get-together with his old gang, the "Six Tigers", hoping to find out the truth at the table.

Nightmare Island: The Legend of Hookface

2009 • 22 min • Canada

When a wealthy landowner wishes to buy Nightmare Island, he puts a legend to the test by sending five sexy teens over to spend the night to see if it is truly haunted by the maniac Hookface.

Braver Hund!

2009 • 5 min • Germany

A rich young woman lives in a remote house with her dog. One evening she hears strange noises and suddenly someone is standing in her kitchen...

Breathing Room

2009 • 4 min

Examining nature through the lens of time. Light sweeps languidly across the tiles in a room. Outside, the flowers erupt in a riot of color. Created at Fundacion Valparaiso, an artist colony in Mojacar, Spain. Music by Edie Herrold.

Ladies, All The Ladies

2009 • 26 min

Ladies, All The Ladies is the result of Lady Lucy’s self-imposed search to meet other Ladies.

Very Humane

2009 • 32 min • Egypt

Mahmoud is a twelve years old child . He works alongside his studies on one of the buses, where he collects fares from customers. This is a profession that requires the owner to be young, but like any other child, he begins to grow, and only his honesty, frankness, and strength will intercede for him to overcome the challenges he faces.

The Most Fearful Stories by Junji Inagawa: Horrifying

2009 • 60 min • Japan

Junji Inagawa tells the latest stories in his "Most Fearful Stories" series.

The Dogs

2009 • 7 min

A battered wife and her young son seek refuge on a remote housing estate; they just need to cross a dark, open field. Adapted from a short story by Hanif Kureshi, The Dogs explores the paranoia and urban legends that inform modern life.

The Most Fearful Stories by Junji Inagawa: Reproachful

2009 • 60 min • Japan

Junji Inagawa tells the latest stories in his "Most Fearful Stories" series.

The Poot

2009 • 40 min

The Poot serves as a beautifully crafted tribute to the ancient Iranian tradition of carpet weaving, documenting the detail and precision that goes into each hand-loomed creation. No part of the process is overlooked: plants are ground into a range of colorful dyes, sheep are sheared and their wool spun into yarn, which is then plunged into enormous dye baths, plans for the next intricate pattern are diligently designed, rhythmic weaving turns string into mat, and a beautiful artifact takes shape before our eyes. In this pure visual treat, stunning cinematography and an ambient soundscape come together to celebrate handmade work in an age of mass-production.