All Films

Kosovo: Can You Imagine?

2009 • 30 min • Canada

Kosovo: Can You Imagine? is about the Serbs that live in Kosovo and the lack of human rights that they have today, in the 21st century. Most of the Kosovo Serbs have been ethnically cleansed by the Albanians who make up the majority of Kosovo. Kosovo has been under UN administration since 1999 when NATO bombed Serbia for 76 days to halt a crackdown on ethnic Albanian separatism in its province of Kosovo. In the years following the war, thousands of Serbs were expelled from their homes, kidnapped and killed. Their houses, cultural and religious sites were burned and destroyed. Kosovo for the Serbs is what Jerusalem is for the Jewish people. It is the cradle of their statehood, culture and religion. Most of the important Serbian Christian Orthodox monasteries are in Kosovo. Today, Serbs still have a deep spiritual and traditional connection to Kosovo, a land which is being cleansed of everything Serbian.

Weaknesses

2009 • 27 min • France

A young woman decides to go after a man she’s in love with… – Semaine de la critique

Ich bin's Helmut

2009 • 12 min • Germany, Switzerland

Helmut celebrates his 60th birthday on the day he is actually turning 57 (his wife miscalculated). As a façade of petit-bourgeois domesticity peels away, old friends drop by to offer some well-meaning advice through bizarre declarations of love and transience.

Orange

2009 • 1 min • Canada

This animated short poses some interesting questions: what if buildings pulsed, trees tapped out beats, or shadows could whistle a tune? Through the creative interpretation and animation of the city's natural rhythms, Orange orchestrates a contagious urban dance. This film was made as part of the 5th edition of the NFB's Hothouse apprenticeship.

In Madness We Believe

2009 • 4 min • Sweden

Chamber Opera on Anna Odell's art project "Unknown Woman 2009-349701". The action begins on the opera stage. Followed by a film of the recorded 'psychosis' and police intervention at Liljeholmsbron, Stockholm, Sweden. St. Görans Hospital, the Emergency Room - a still image on a belt bed with a sound recording when Anna Odell reveals to the nurse that it was all fake.

Conversation with Boxing Gloves Between Chamecki and Lerner

2009 • 5 min

Revisiting one segment from the long lost 1916 futurist film LA VITA FUTURISTA.

The Low Anthem, Live Session #57 at Hear Ya!

2009 • 21 min • United States of America

Watching The Low Anthem perform in studio was like entering a transcendent reality. They stopped in on Sunday morning, the final day of Lollapalooza and a morning that greeted most of HearYa with paralyzing hangovers.

Modelo siqueiros

2009 • 10 min • Mexico

Short Black and White

Venga Monjas: Llamadme Claudia

2009 • 28 min

The Body Watchers

2009 • 6 min • Australia

Burlesque meets science-fiction, when a peepshow stripper has a close encounter of the voyeuristic kind.

Asma

2009 • 10 min • Mexico

Postage: A Visual Letter

2009 • 18 min • Chile

Director Tiziana Panizza creates a visual letter for her family at Italy who she has never met.

And From Now On There Shall Be No More Wolves

2009 • 12 min • Portugal

The Skeleton Woman

2009 • 10 min • France

Tired and bored by her graceless daily life, a young housewife mourns her lost American lover and dreams of a better life, elsewhere. Inside her, the skeleton woman, hidden into the dark, is waiting to be saved.

The Pursuit of What Was

2009 • 22 min • Taiwan

How do those within the memories show themselves to us?

Inka Bola

2009 • 2 min • France

An irresponsible guard and a golden Maya child are about to share a dangerous journey.

Nice

2009 • 25 min • France

Martial, seventeen year-old, has ran away to Nice, to see his mother, singer with a chaotic life. Near her house, he meets three women : an employee of the Organization managing unemployment, a former classmate, and owner of the place. Three educational and sentimental fragments. Three secrets. Three songs.

Storm

2009 • 7 min • Canada, United States of America

Storm, quite simply is a video recording of a car ride at night in hurricane forces. This is visual art that delivers us from the purely visual back to the world of the physical experience with all our senses awakened. Instead of bringing us the installation photographic image – or the digitally enhanced photographic simulation – these artists direct us from the world of images to the world of things, inviting us to grapple with them at first hand.

The Azure Soul

2009 • 4 min • Italy

The crossroad of azure dreams, the meeting place of the pure and limpid soul.

Pink River

2009 • 18 min • Bosnia and Herzegovina

After living in London for 10 years, Meri returns to Sarajevo to sell a house she inheritated. While in town, she meets and catches up with Asja, her ex girlfriend. The two women and their opposing lifestyle choices will soon come in conflict.

Áurea

2009 • 16 min • Brazil

Brief view of the life of a Rio night artist.

She Monster

2009 • 10 min • Canada

Cindy, a gloomy young girl, dreams to participate in a reality tv-show. The teenager so hopes to find another life. She-Monster is the second part of a trilogy revolving around the family theme, its secrets and its lies.

Immokalee, My Home

2009 • 28 min

A portrait of life in Immokalee, Florida, the heart of industrial agriculture in the United States and home to its largest population of migrant farm workers. Ultimately, it is a tale of migration, immigration, and the persistent hope for a better life.

Tsõ'rehipãri - Sangradouro

2009 • 28 min • Brazil

In 1957, after centuries of resistance and escape, a Xavante group takes refuge in the Salesian mission of Sangradouro, Mato Grosso. Today surrounded by soy cultures, with their land and resources impoverished, they show in this film their actual preoccupations in midst of all the changes they have experienced.