All Films

The Battle of San Lorenzo

2009 • 30 min • Argentina

Piedra Blanca, San Luis, Argentina, 1930. A school teacher loved by his students, must confront parents for his particular pedagogy.

Hilario (Músico extraviado)

2009 • 52 min • Mexico

Chronicles the life and the last days before the disappearance of the chiapanecan jazz musician, Hilario Sanchez.

The Dimestore Video

2009 • 21 min

Dime's first video when they were known as the Dimestore but didn't have a store yet

Pendular

2009 • 11 min • Brazil

Brazilian short film, directed by Julia Murat.

Pitch

2009 • 14 min • United States of America

A returning businessman finds his wife in bed with another man and a smooth-talking demon saunters in looking for trouble. A guardian angel intervenes and the battle between earnest Good and snarky Evil is on in this darkly humorous fantasy-thriller.

An Inaugural Ride to Freedom

2009 • 45 min

This heartwarming and at times touching documentary chronicles the preparation, experience, and aftermath of the University of Nebraska at Omaha's Black Studies Department, students, and community persons as they embark upon the inauguration of President Barack Obama. A mixture of cinema verity and interview, this documentary provides an eyewitness accounting of the event through emerging primary stories representative of a broad array of cultural and occupational backgrounds. It is the cinematic documentation of the joy, the laughter, and the tears as 55 passengers board a bus and travel over 2,000 miles for an experience of a lifetime.

The Japanese Boy

2009 • 18 min • Brazil

Two men talk by a window while they observe the neighborhood.

Breaking Stones

2009 • 8 min • Nepal

A internally displaced Nepali schoolboy works on the construction of a road to support his family, Ram Kumar heaves large boulders and smashes rocks while dreaming of a future as a pilot, a doctor or the next great leader of Nepal.

Literature

2009 • 7 min

A man reading on the street.

Dust Kid

2009 • 10 min • South Korea

In bed, late on a sleepless night in the depth of winter, Eujin finds a small dust kid. She decides to do the cleaning she has been putting off for so long. Cleaning every corner of her room, she keeps finding other dust kids here and there, and starts clearing them up one by one. Just when she thinks she has cleaned her room and the dust kids are all gone now, she comes face to face with another one… When I am at home alone, I sit silently and mull over many things. As I think, my brain fills with pointless worries and anxiety. That’s when I start to clean my room. As I clean busily, wash the dishes and do the laundry I’ve been putting off, my anxiety disappears naturally.

Lygia de Pele a Pele

2009 • 14 min • Brazil

Fictional work focusing on the character Lygia Clark in her creative processes that, through catharsis, materialize works that free her from her controversial worldview, enabling her to be realized as an artist.

Jean-Louis Trintignant, "an honest man"

2009 • 52 min • France

Portrait of Jean-Louis Trintignant, for the "empreintes" collection, produced by Pierre Bouteiller and written and directed by François Chayé.

Horse Camp

2009 • 11 min • Austria

A door opens, a cone of light falls into the room, then darkness again. As the door opens a second time, this time from the inside, two people slip out who had apparently retreated into the room - for a moment of undisturbed intimacy?

El Hijo del Naranjo 2

2009 • 42 min

El Hijo del Naranjo, after recovering from his wounds, encountered a network of organ traffickers, who did not hesitate to enlist the services of the mercenaries of the drug lord "Peche" to seek revenge.

Visionary Iraq

2009 • 17 min • Portugal

Story about Incest and the Iraq war.

Rudy Maxa's World Exotic Places: Tokyo, Japan

2009 • 56 min • Japan, United States of America

Rudy can't get enough of the sheer vitality of Tokyo. Exciting, edgy, and full of life, Tokyo is shopping madness by day and a carnival at night. Join the throngs at one of the world's most exciting street intersections to witness its blazing neon and JumboTron shows. Greet the new day at the Tsukiji fish market, where a staggering 2,000 tons of seafood pass through each day. Get caught up in cherry blossom mania, visit distant neighborhoods via the subway, and wander the streets in search of new restaurants, a Tokyo obsession!

Jackpot

2009 • 50 min • Canada

Die-hard regulars at a Canadian bingo hall, hope their next card will be the one that wins them the jackpot.

Paredes Nuas

2009 • 58 min • Brazil

A successful businessman is arrested on suspicion of committing financial crimes. In the sitting room of his house, four characters – the driver, the nanny, the lawyer and the wife – discuss how and why the businessman was arrested and, consequently, try to understand their own lives.

Casablanca, les enfants du bitume

2009 • 52 min • France

There are at least seven thousand children and adolescents wandering the streets of Morocco's economic capital. Sold by their parents, abused, beaten, or abandoned, they struggle to survive. Since 1995, the Bayti association has been fighting to reintegrate these sacrificed children and give them a second chance.

Clint Eastwood

2009 • 15 min • United States of America

For 30 y/o security guard, Clint Eastwood-Fogerty, a lifetime of living in the shadow of his namesake has left him bitter and frustrated. Enough is enough when Clint's arch-nemesis, a finicky vending machine, gets the best of him yet again. Is this the last straw? Or will Clint finally be able to live up to his namesake?

Behaviour

2009 • 19 min • Denmark

A young woman, Julie 23, starts her first day at her job, caring for the intellectually disabled. Suddenly she is left alone with two young men she has to take responsibility for.

Britney Spears: Unbreakable

2009 • 60 min

Look into the glamorous and tumultuous life of pop sensation Britney Spears. From her incredible skyrocketing ascent into stardom to her personal troubles and downfalls, see the inside of the star's life with exclusive interviews.

Women

2009 • 7 min • United States of America

The bodies of women lying on the ground weave relationships around them, they breastfeed, they connect with the ground ... Carla Simón's first short, shot on 16 mm in the Californian forests. An experimental exercise that connects with the cinematographic avant-gardes of the early twentieth century.

People from the Milky Way

2009 • 29 min • Croatia

A story about arduous everyday life, anxiety, plans and dreams of popular dairywomen from Zagreb's green markets, with Croatia on the way to joining the European Union. Do they and their cheese have a future?