All Films

First Flight: A Mother Hummingbird's Story

2009 • 47 min • United States of America

One of Nature's smallest birds, a Black-chinned Hummingbird, built her nest on a backyard clothesline. Stunning close-up photography brings you into the nest as the hatchlings emerge from their shells. This enchanting and remarkably detailed nature film reveals the tireless efforts of the mother who raises and cares for two chicks from their hatching to their leaving the nest.

Footage Found

2009 • 5 min • United States of America

On Friday, Sept. 21st Film Student Dean Micheals, his college roommate Jim Ryans, and Junior Abigail Martinez disappeared from their campus apartment. The following is an account of the disturbing events as captured by Dean on a High Definition Digital camcorder. Eventually the Footage was Found.

Utopia, Part 3: The World's Largest Shopping Mall

2009 • 13 min • United States of America

A tour of the world's largest shopping mall, located near Guangzhou, China.

Nikolai Gogol's Hand

2009 • 52 min • Russia

The film is based on a video made by Sergey Lando on the Petersburg Recording Studio at the end of March 2009, before the 200th anniversary of Nikolai Gogol. Next day, Oleg Karavaichuk took the footage and assembled film. It was first shown on April 1, 2009 in Gogol's birthday at a concert "Diary of a Madman" in Culture House "Lensovet" in St. Petersburg. This film is not about Gogol, but is dedicated to him: in the intervals of playing the piano, the composer talks about the true roots of the writer's work, about the common fate of the greatest people of art, about the synthesis of music and literature, about eternity and paradoxes.

The World Record Holder in the Lighthouse

2009 • 52 min

Lighthouse keepers are a dying breed all over the world, as automated equipment has been making their job obsolete. The story of Óskar- Iceland´s last lighthouse keeper, is the unique story of a recluse who has spent all his life in Storhofdi - lighthouse, the windiest weather station in Iceland, besides setting a world record in bird tagging.

To Become Firm

2009 • 15 min • Ukraine

Animation about a person whom society is constantly trying to "mold" to its own taste: at home, at school, at work. How do you put an end to this pressure and finally take on your own shape?

Afloat at Dawn

2009 • 4 min • Canada, France

A tiny baroque ode to fleeting darkness and pretty make-believes.

Estrella de Plata

2009 • 26 min • Mexico

Bruno, an aging taxi driver who yearns for his secret past and likes "lucha libre", has trouble relating with his young son Ricardo. But his past comes back to haunt them, forcing Bruno into a final confrontation with an old enemy

20 Years

2009 • 15 min • Cuba

A woman who has been married for two decades does everything possible to save her marriage, to no avail.

Scream Queen

2009 • 16 min • Spain

The Spanish journalist Jose Manuel Serrano Cueto, author of the book "Horrormania", goes deep into an evil and dangerous underworld for an interview with a legendary "scream queen".

Lego Ninja - The Underground Fortress

2009 • 4 min • United States of America

A Lego ninja fights his way through an enemy hideout. He hopes to claim the stolen treasure, but someone's watching him...

Broken Love

2009 • 16 min

Lane hasn't spoken to Beth in several years, until she asks him to come to her hotel room after a terrible incident. Lane now has to make a choice to help out his old flame and confront a former friend, or turn his back on them both and get on with his life.

Rumor of Blue Sky

2009 • 57 min • United States of America

Through compelling remembrances of twenty-five elderly survivors of the 1948 smog disaster in Donora, Pennsylvania, Rumor of blue sky recounts one of the worst environmental tragedies in U.S. history and the town's dramatic contribution to clean air legislation. The disaster sickened over half of the town's population, killed 20 people and hundreds of animals.

Ídolos y Caciques

2009 • 10 min • Chile

Stories of some idols of the Colo Colo Social and Sports Club

The Frog Who Didn't Sing

2009 • 13 min • Latvia, Slovenia

It is a hot summer day, and the elf Tuncis is worried that the stream might dry up. Austras Koks reassures him that when it gets too dry, Varde always calls on Pērkonvīrus, and then rain falls over the forest. But this time things are different—the Underground Mother puts Vardi to sleep and orders her helpers to guard him. The time has come for Austra's tree spirits to save Tuncis and the other forest dwellers from drought.

The African Penguin

2009 • 57 min

The African penguin is the only penguin that lives on the African continent. It was known as the jackass penguin because of its donkey-like call. This film covers the life cycle of this incredible bird, fom mating to laying of eggs to hunting and the moulting cycle. Sadly, it also shows the stark reality of a bird on the road to extinction.

The Most Fearful Stories by Junji Inagawa: Terrible

2009 • 60 min • Japan

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

Serial: Amoral Uprising

2009 • 55 min • United States of America

Who is Trenton Bracks? Well, what's there to say? Loyal and honest, he's a credit to southern gentlemen. Pleasant, carefree, and highly refined. He's got what it takes to be a model citizen. He's got looks and charm, a real lady-killer. Trenton seems to have a good head on his shoulders, and one in his hands, and one in the basement.

Les Herbes Folles

2009 • 13 min

An egg. Two men. A rifle. A window. Or the awakening of two snipers in times of civil war

The 100 Watt Bulb

2009 • 28 min

The film set in the time of riots, tells the story of three characters, Vineet, Kamlesh & Suhana each a victim of circumstances caught in the web of tumultuous time that alter their lives forever.

Patient 0

2009 • 14 min

A Nazi scientist conducts insemination experiments on his own wife in an attempt to create a monster.

The Big Energy Gamble

2009 • 56 min

As President Obama embarks on a monumental agenda in his new administration, his attention must turn to the issue of global warming. NOVA examines an aggressive approach by California's Governor Schwarzenegger designed to promote energy efficiency. The possible success of this state program may well become the prototype for a new federal plan.

Metoch

2009 • 20 min • Macedonia

The twenty-minute documentary was filmed in the Macedonian monasteries “St. John the Baptist”, known as the Bigorski Monastery and in the women’s monastery “St. George the Victorious” in Rajčica, near Debar. The term “metoch” means property owned by a monastery, and the monastery in Rajčica, where most of the film was filmed, is a metoch of the Bigorski Monastery. The film shows part of the everyday life of the Macedonian monastic community and the motives that inspired some of its members to make the decision to become monks. “Metoch” talks about joy, simplicity and love for God.

Tittilibou Mr.Manding

2009 • 7 min • South Korea

Manding takes a journey across the globe and gives a penguin a coconut tree as a gift. And the penguin gives Manding a fabulous hair style in return.