All Films

Ampelmann

2009 • 14 min • Germany

A policeman unintentionally wrecks havoc when he installs a traffic light in a small, rural community.

Next Door

2009 • 25 min • Switzerland

Serguei is a 50 year old railway worker, seemingly cheerful and sociable. But within the intimacy of his gloomy apartment, he lives a terrible loneliness that he tries to make up for by watching funny shows on television. When it breaks down, he tries to repair it and overhears a couple’s argument in the apartment next door. Driven by a growing fascination for the woman’s voice, he starts to vicariously share her everyday life, till the day he walks through her door…

Freshboys Asia: Campus Heartthrob (Go Wild)

2009 • 60 min • Philippines

Freshboy's Asia launches its series with a take on the heartthrobs of the campus often fantasized by gay men. The varsity hunk, the charismatic student leader, the cute geek, the neat guy and, the not ordinary guy are but variations to the ideal boy that young college gays want to win their hearts.

Pidgin: The Voice of Hawai'i

2009 • 57 min • United States of America

What if you are made to feel ashamed when you speak your "mother tongue" or ridiculed because of your accent? "Pidgin: The Voice of Hawai'i" addresses these questions through its lively examination of Pidgin - the language spoken by over half of Hawai'i's people.

Visited by the Light

2009 • 12 min • Portugal

"Visited by the Light" presents Fatima as a supernatural event. It narrates the apparitions of a Lady, brighter than the sun, Our Lady of the Rosary. Film from the exhibition "Fátima Luz e Paz".

On Leave

2009 • 15 min • Israel

Yotam came back from the army. He met his dad. He met his mom. He took his girlfriend for a ride. Yotam came back home, but something went wrong on the way. Gripping drama where silence shouts louder than words.

Hot Planet

2009 • 60 min • United Kingdom

Professor Iain Stewart and Professor Kathy Sykes take a timely look at global warming, exploring the world's leading climate scientists' vision of the planet's future.

Mister Cok

2009 • 10 min • France

Mister Cok is the owner of a large bomb factory. Looking for efficiency and profit, he decides to replace his workers by sophisticated robots. The formers stare helplessly at the toil of the robotic labourers. But one of the workers does not accept being discarded so easily...

Draw with Me

2009 • 3 min • Philippines

It's about a girl and a boy separated by an unbreakable glass.

Iwa

2009 • 8 min • United States of America

Based loosely on West African tree of life myths and Yoruba legend, Iwa is the story of a laborer in the Yoruba city of the gods, 'Ikole Orun' whose life turns out be one of in adverted defiance. While working on a daily task, building the city, the laborer becomes distracted, leading to the death of two of his co workers. He is branded by his creator, banished from 'Ikole Orun,' and forced to make a life anew on earth, 'Ife.' His encounter with a solitary tree of life in Ife forces the laborer to make a difficult decision.

The Rise of “Oh Dear”-ism

2009 • 7 min • United Kingdom

Short film about how mainstream media simplify complex events and present them as "scattered terrible things happening everywhere, Oh Dear", leaving the public feeling powerless to do anything about them. Screened in the third episode of the first series of Charlie Brooker's Newswipe.

Chukotka at the End of the World

2009 • 52 min

What urges a person like Roman Abramovich to be a governor at world’s end and even put a lot of effort and money into renovating and envigorating the small community of Chukotka? What do the residents in Chukotka feel for Abramovich? How is global warming affecting Chukotka? These are some of the questions that four Icelanders, headed by geophysicist and author Ari Trausti Guðmundsson, tried to find answers for among the people; both indigenous people and immigrants, from reindeer hearders and youth to scientists and town mayors.

A Model for the Motion of a Spring

2009 • 8 min • United States of America

The utilization of numerical oscillation models by physicists to accurately predict and map the simple harmonic motion of a spring device, and the utilization of timelapse photography to predict the "motion" of a spring day. 14,000 still photos, played back at varying speeds.

I Am Life

2009 • 40 min • India

A man is stalked by a mysterious girl. Mumbai based independent filmmaker Prashant Bhilare's debut with Hindi language.

Gods of Lies

2009 • 19 min

Four ordinary teenagers living through the faded 90s. A lie will unite them in the name of adventure, envy, power... and, who knows, a girl with a fantastic smile!

Sphinx on the Seine

2009 • 9 min • United States of America

SPHINX ON THE SEINE is a film poem: the beginning of a metaphysical journey, musing on a series of brief, but enigmatic images taken from around the world. These images follow one after the other, but geographically span thousands of miles and large passages of time between each cut. Notions of time, space, and memory collide within a visual fabric of abstractions, landscapes, textures, superimpositions and graphic forms, to suggest the first moments of dream-sleep.

L'arc-en-ciel

2009 • 20 min • Portugal

Quitterie, a 40 year-old woman, relives the great love for her deceased 18 year-old Japanese partner, by successively meeting up with young strangers.

Clive Barker: The Man Behind the Myth

2009 • 15 min • United States of America

Short interview with Clive Barker about Midnight Meat Train, his artistic process, and his paintings. Includes a tour of his painting studio.

Lowlands

2009 • 52 min • United States of America

Lowlands explores the fragility of domestic and creative life in time of war. Its focus is Catharina Bolnes, wife and widow of 17th century painter, Johannes Vermeer of Delft. The film explores her struggle to ensure the family’s survival during the France-Netherlands War (1672-1675), and the bankruptcy she declares after Vermeer’s death leaves her with no income and ten minor children. The film is built from varied sources including paintings of Catharina by Vermeer; etchings depicting Louis XIV’s policy of rape warfare; reenactments of legal depositions by the Vermeer family about domestic violence, forged paintings and bankruptcy; archival b/w films taken in Delft during WWII; contemporary color footage tracking the movements of Louis XIV’s army near Delft in 1672; a deposition by a perpetrator of rape warfare at the Criminal Tribunal in the Hague in 1996….

What Floor Ma'am

2009 • 9 min • Philippines

A flamboyant former First Lady of the Philippines and a “Bad Boy” actor from local cinema find themselves trapped inside the elevator of an old government building. While waiting to be rescued, the First Lady emotionally reveals to the Bad Boy the shocking secret history of the Philippines.

Miss Plastic - The Beauty of the Scalpel

2009 • 57 min

A shocking story about the girls who participated in Miss Plastic Hungary, the first beauty pageant for women who have undergone plastic surgery.

Hoteru shimai: Shiri Kansen aibu

2009 • 60 min • Japan

As Morimi Shizuka leisurely sips a hot drink at the front door, a masked office worker on his way to work coughs visibly as he passes by. Shizuka, a practicing doctor, lives with her father Shigeru (Iijima), a research doctor working at a university hospital, and her younger sister Mai, but there is no word on the whereabouts of the sisters' mother. Shigeru has been feeling unwell since the night before, and as she takes a morning bath, Mai blares out loud music with no thought for her father, leaving Shizuka speechless. Mai unilaterally tells her sister that she is bringing her boyfriend home that day, and although Shizuka is concerned about Shigeru, she goes to work. Morimi Clinic is run by Shizuka and nurse Hase Shu (Salmon). However, Shizuka does not at all betray the impression of being laid-back, and in fact, her mood accelerates.

Sunday Drive

2009 • 20 min • Belgium, France, Netherlands, Portugal

The Idalecio family is close to imploding emotionally. During the weekly Sunday drive all falls apart. It starts with a claustrophobic car trip through town. Nagging children, football on the radio, a mother in law with a sharp tongue, a new pregnancy. It is a day of unhappiness, a day that will turn around their lives. An anti-Sunday.

A Tent on Mars

2009 • 60 min • Canada

Three decades after the shuttering of the mining town of Schefferville, the Innu people, who moved in after the non-natives abandoned the town, are facing a new challenge: the iron mines are about to be reopened. Land, identity and legitimacy are central to the dialogue between peoples locked in parallel struggles, the Québécois and the First Nations.