All Films

Du côté de l'ouest lointain

2009 • 28 min • France, Spain

Around 1873, in a lost place in the West, a failed poet, a brave young woman and a mute teenager seek happiness by the side of a potato field.

Poor Clown

2009 • 15 min • Colombia

Efraín Gómez is a clown who is no longer funny; the children are no longer amused by his presence. One day he gets up to go to work, but he realizes that his life is a disaster.

Les Souvenirs

2009 • 45 min • Argentina

The biographical evolution of Antonio Francisco Manuele, a brilliant pianist who lives in the city of Paraná isolated in a strange universe where memories are confused with reality. The days pass gray and silent. Anguish increases as doubt and ghosts invade the artist's mind. An introspective film that invites reflection.

Snowy Dreams

2009 • 25 min • Iran

Kwekha and Baji are waiting for their relatives in an abandoned village but for the others, this waiting is nonsense, until…..

Green Whole Gravity

2009 • 2 min

Against all odds, a little purple octopus tries to play the piano while enduring the harsh jabs of the music store owner.

Singing Paris: The City of Lights in 20th-Century French Music

2009 • 52 min

Songs about a certain time and place are more than sentimental musings—they also serve as departure points for cultural and sociological studies. This program uses popular 20th-century French music to explore the rich character and modern-era development of Paris. Juxtaposing commentary from French scholars, performers, and business leaders with classic recordings by Edith Piaf, Brigitte Bardot, Maurice Chevalier, and other artists, the film sheds light on the evolution of Paris and its component districts since the early 1900s. It also examines the special qualities that have made Paris a hub of art and fashion for centuries and the specific ways in which both Parisians and foreigners view the city. Contains brief nudity.

Five Hole: Tales of Hockey Erotica

2009 • 5 min

A swirling animated trip through hockey's erotic behind-the-scenes world. Cam Christiansen uses his signature stylized animation, developed through motion capture and video mapping, to create a vibrant and bold musical sketch.

Pibe's

2009 • 14 min • Argentina

Pato, a young man from the Buenos Aires suburbs, decides with his friends to carry out a robbery and for this purpose rents weapons from some acquaintances in the neighborhood; But things don't go as expected and everything comes to a tragic end.

Time Lapse

2009 • 30 min • Taiwan

In an old photography studio, an old man and a group of young men meet. The old man has seen everything, but is determined to live a full life until the very end. The young men have just begun their lives, but feel aimless, lost and insecure. One man's story is ending, while the young men's stories are just beginning. Between their differences, a lesson on life is found.

A Massacre in Veronaville

2009 • 15 min

A Massacre in Veronaville is a dark comedic horror machinima by Alvin Soprano that tells a chilling tale of revenge and destruction in the quiet town of Veronaville. The story follows Pamela Landry, a vengeful Sim who uses a powerful spell to take control of the Grim Reaper and unleash havoc on the entire town — including innocent children. Driven by rage, Pamela commands the Grim Reaper to massacre every Sim in Veronaville. As chaos spreads and lives are cut short, the town quickly descends into bloodshed and terror. But in a cruel twist of fate, Pamela’s own dark magic backfires.

Bloody Mirrors

2009 • 35 min

Three friends are staying at one of their homes. At first, the weekend seems completely normal, but Sofía tells the legend of a man named Vicente, who was murdered in cold blood inside that very apartment. She says that if you say his name three times in front of a mirror, he will return to take revenge on anyone who dares to disturb his rest. The young people see it as nothing more than a bit of fun and an old legend.

Umbilical

2009 • 10 min • United States of America

A man's fear of fatherhood comes to life on the eve his child will be born.

PLAY! A Video Game Symphony

2009 • 23 min • Norway, United States of America

From the creative team that brought you the ground breaking Dear Friends-Music from FINAL FANTASY Symphony Tour, comes an entirely new celebration of video game music and images: PLAY! A Video Game Symphony is a Symphony world-tour featuring music from blockbuster video games. The music is performed by some of the finest, world-class orchestras and choirs. All concerts take place in classy, prestigious venues. Graphics on large screens suspended above the orchestra accompany the scores, highlighting memorable moments from the video games.

Honto ni Atta! Noroi no Video Vol. 32

2009 • 58 min • Japan

A collection of horrifying psychic images submitted by general posts, "It was really there! Cursed video". Fear grows! Earth-bound spirits, grudges, floating spirits, guardian spirits ... Full of mysterious images that cannot be elucidated by science; including 'Sports day', 'Dog-walking', 'Club event', 'absence', 'Series surveillance camera Internet cafe refugee', 'taxi', 'Red person' and 'Twenty Seven Part 1'.

Dane Cook: Isolated Incident

2009 • 55 min • United States of America

Dane Cook: ISolated INcident is a Comedy Central special which premiered on May 17, 2009 with the CD/DVD release following on May 19. In the special, Cook performs for a crowd of 400 people at the Laugh Factory. The entire special was shot in one take with no edits. He recently started performing the new material live for the Isolated Incident - Globo Thermo Tour 2009, which began on April 25, 2009. Dane Cook released the DVD special that was aired on Comedy Central on November 17, 2009

The Great Escape: The Reckoning

2009 • 52 min • Australia

The story behind the Hollywood film 'The Great Escape', examining the search for the Gestapo men who murdered 50 of the escapers.

Agapitova and the Rescued

2009 • 58 min • Latvia

This is a film about the return of an individual to the Far North, and to the past. Agapitova, Igarka – the vast lands of Siberia, to which Ilmārs Knaģis and 4,000 other children from Latvia were deported in 1941. In the autumn of 1942, 700 mothers and children of different nationalities were sent to the death island of Agapitova. Only 60 survived, among them six Latvian children – Biruta Kazaka, Pāvels Kliesbergs, Venta Grāvīte, Ilmārs Grāvītis, Pēteris Bērziņš and Valentīna Voiciša. The question remains: Why did this happen? And why is no one to blame?

Philippe Geubels: Droog

2009 • 59 min • Belgium

The perfect way to get acquainted with Philippe Geubels' infectious humor or to relive a wonderful evening of live stand-up comedy.

Mergulho

2009 • 7 min • Portugal

Fallen to an aquatic world, they move ineffably in a dense, clear atmosphere as if it was their first autonomous moment.

Attached to You

2009 • 9 min • Sweden

A clay animation about the life of a mother. It starts with the conception of the child, we follow her and her kid through childhood until her child is grown up, leaves home and has a child of his own.

The Love Market

2009 • 52 min

In Vietnam, there is a special market to find a mate. The Hmong people have a long tradition to go to this annual market where all people, married or single, can regain their freedom to love.

Tides of the Heart

2009 • 1 min • United States of America

A pair of friends sit on a bench and discuss their hopes and dreams when things take an unexpected turn.

Calzone

2009 • 11 min

Short - A godfather in the Mafia comes to have dinner in a trendy Italian restaurant. Faithful to his customs, he orders a calzone. In his great surprise, he does not find egg there inside. Mad with rage, he sends his two right hands to settle the situation in the kitchen. Be terrorized, the chef and his dumb apprentice, they learn that the problem comes from the hen Nuggets which, victim of a depression, refuses to lay. Numbers of dance, theater, intimidation, everything is good to obtain the saving egg.

Cages

2009 • 10 min • Mexico

An old man crosses the desert with a valuable load, a row of cages with cherubs of sublime songs; when one of them is carelessly abandoned, he reveals the divine power to give life to lifeless beings and things.