All Films

Dead Serious

2009 • 5 min

One rainy night, a lonely man, our hero, is sitting alone in a dark room and wondering about his mysterious job concerning a woman.

Why the Moon Doesn‘t Have a Dress

2009 • 6 min • Georgia

Animation based on a popular Serbian tale about the moon and why it doesn‘t have a dress.

Code Name: Butterflies

2009 • 60 min • Cuba, Dominican Republic, United States of America

In the 1950s, Patria, Minerva, and María Teresa Mirabal - who were known by their codename "The Butterflies" - created an underground resistance movement against Rafael Trujillo, dictator of the Dominican Republic. On November 25, 1960, Trujillo had all three sisters assassinated. The assassinations turned the Mirabal sisters into national heroines and symbols of feminist resistance. The documentary interweaves interviews with over forty witnesses to the story, including the Mirabal family friends, colleagues, co-revolutionaries, teachers, and most importantly, their surviving sister, Dedé, along with dramatic reenactments and archival footage.

Signals for Survival

2009 • 38 min

From Cornell University's Lab of Ornithology and the Shoals Marine Laboratory, this movie documents with startling clarity the communication system of Great Black-backed and Herring Gulls. It is a perfect adjunct to courses in animal behavior, animal communication, and behavioral ecology. While it builds on the theme of the classic Lesser Black-backed Gull film by Nobel Laureate Niko Tinbergen, the logic and presentation are framed within current concepts and principles. Beautifully filmed at the Shoals Marine Laboratory in Maine and accessibly narrated, the core 38-minute presentation is divided into self-contained chapters entitled "Territoriality and Aggression," "Courtship and Mating," and "Parental Care."

Well

2009 • 12 min • Russia

A young man comes across a well whilst playing American football. He decides to descend it and has to pass various challenges before he can reach his goal.

Música de Câmara

2009 • 9 min

A diary/essay, a journey dreamt up by places I've been and people who inhabit me, judgments fired in various directions.

Året var 1959

2009 • 58 min • Sweden

1959 - this is the hot wasp summer, when half of the Swedes stay up 'til three in the morning and listens to the WC match between Ingo and Floyd. Rock-Olga and Rockande Samen are successful and My Fair Lady draws large audiences to the Oscars. Olle Möller is indicted for the murder of Rut Lind from Fjugesta and ATP is hammered through in the Riksdag after Ture Königson cast his vote

Jupitermoon

2009 • 24 min • United States of America

One man's dream of becoming a pop star.

Aku Bukan Ismail

2009 • 15 min • Indonesia

Gito, a student in Surabaya, receives a call to come home from his father in Yogyakarta. His father dreamt that God commanded him to sacrifice his son.

The Shelter

2009 • 12 min

In the heart of a big city threatened by an impending danger, a man and a woman barricade themselves in a hotel room.

solo

2009 • 7 min

about girl's journey looking for a chocolate but she can't go out and see the society

Organism Tests

2009 • 4 min • United States of America

IN A DESERT LANDSCAPE DOTTED WITH THE SMOKING CARCASSES OF CAR WRECKS, VEHICULAR AUTOMOTIVE BEINGS RACE TOWARDS EACH OTHER, SPUTTERING, ROARING, IN LUSTY SCREECHING EMBRACE, TOWARDS TOWERING DESTRUCTION WITH FORNICATIVE FERVOR. THREE YOUNG ARE FLUNG, SPRUNG FROM THE FUMING WRECKAGE, BLASTING OFF INTO THE SUN, INTO THE GIANTS MOUTH.

Diário de uma Prostituta

2009 • 11 min • Brazil

The daily grind, saying goodbye to family, and a woman's dreams.

Uganda: Out of the Wild

2009 • 15 min

Uganda's "Impenetrable Forest," home to half the world's population of Mountain Gorillas, is also a hotbed for a number of deadly diseases that cross the species barrier from animals to humans.

Starved

2009 • 24 min

STARVED is a post-apocalyptic psychological horror machinima by Alvin Soprano, created in Fallout 3. Set in the desolate ruins of the Capital Wasteland, the film explores the descent into madness of a lone survivor trapped in an abandoned metro tunnel — cut off from food, light, and hope. After a supply run gone wrong, a scavenger named Joanna Creek finds herself trapped beneath the city in a collapsed metro tunnel. Her radio is dead, her flashlight battery fading, and all exits are sealed. Days pass. Hunger gnaws. Water runs out. Rats scurry, but offer no salvation.

Goblin Wood

2009 • 6 min • Sweden

A stroll in the woods turns into quite an adventure for a little elf.

Hunger

2009 • 18 min • Germany

Boys exploring next door apartment, after an immigrant family was forced to leave upon the capture by an immigration officer.

Chinese Are Coming

2009 • 17 min • Slovenia

Rudi and Stane are best friends. They work in a factory together and help each other out in everyday life. One day the workers get upset by the news that their employers want to cancel their right to a lunch break. The trade unions disagree, but they cannot do anything about it: workers from China have appeared on the labor market. They are "cheap and they do not even eat lunch".

Direita é a Mão que Você Escreve

2009 • 12 min • Brazil

Forgotten by her father after ballet class, Carolina finds herself encouraged by a friend to try to walk home alone. On this adventure, the girl will face her fears and encounter curious characters.

Tech Support

2009 • 10 min • United States of America

A young woman recently dumped by her girlfriend gets extra special attention when her tech support call is answered by a lonely romantic.

Para Que Este Mundo Não Acabe!

2009 • 54 min • Portugal

"Come and see this world end!" - wrote the the priest António Fontes, father of folk medicine and "burning witches" in Vilar de Perdizes, a desperate plea in his precious monograph of the Barroso region. And I (João Botelho) went. Then I saw the people and the land. Haunting on discovery. Heart sank. "God is good but the devil is not so bad!" - We learned from this Community habits and that is great, tough and generous. And I also learned that no fairer place for a demand of life and even the elusive happiness there, I assure you, it is always possible.

To Siomai Love

2009 • 27 min • Philippines

a 30-minute short film about meeting someone new and falling in love. Deeply depressed and heartbroken, Marvin is forced by his brother to use a love potion so that his aching heart would be cured. While dining at a dumpling stall, 'Siomai Sa Tisa' (Siomai Of Tisa), he meets a pretty nursing student. After having a short conversation, he feels mysteriously drawn to her so he tries to use the love potion to win her heart. Will the love potion work, or will their love take its course even without it?

Unplay

2009 • 6 min • Sweden

A girl travels around. And she is me. She sleeps around. Finally she finds two guys who are friends. Two cocks in her little feminist hands, so fucking luxurious. The film breaks conventions and norms and questions the patriarchal rules. The film deals with gender codes and their subversion. It tackles taboos about how to be more forward as a girl and what is generally accepted as ”allowed”. But above all it’s about honour among male friends.

Memory Fade

2009 • 35 min

"The images of “Memory Fade” are not lost… they are spectral and the dance steps repeated over and over in time fights the Fade – a falling down that breaks the spine of the book of life (mankind)."