All Films

Arkusan Martinsson

2009 • 60 min • Sweden

Arkusan is 23 years old, unemployed and still living with his mother. Nothing by choice. Not even hanging out with his "best friend" Ronkas is by choice. Being unemployed means being broke, so the only way to get by for Arkusan is to drift around his small hometown Brunkaby in Sweden and indulge in conversations about dreams, depression and masturbation with his fellow under financed com padres. During one boring, Gray day Arkusan summarizes his thoughts, views and opinions about his friends, his future prospects and living today's Sweden.

Essay for a Surveillance Video

2009 • 5 min • Brazil

The film shows images captured through a window at the same time that, in the background, the filmmaker talks to a friend who was hospitalized in a psychiatric hospital.

Edo's Petrol Station

2009 • 29 min • Finland

A film about Edo's petrol station run by two brothers that seems like it has been frozen in time since the 1950s.

In Their Room: San Francisco

2009 • 20 min • United States of America

An intimate and erotic film about 8 gay men alone in their San Francisco bedrooms

Largo al factotum

2009 • 4 min • United Kingdom

A silent black-and-white comedy inspired by the fizzing rollercoaster of Largo al factotum - the familiar aria from Rossini's The Barber of Seville - featuring the young apprentice hero and a recalcitrant, increasingly monstrous hairball.

My White Baby

2009 • 22 min • Ghana

Me Broni Ba is a lyrical portrait of hair salons in Kumasi, Ghana. The tangled legacy of European colonialism in Africa is evoked through images of women practicing hair braiding on discarded white baby dolls from the West. The film unfolds through a series of vignettes, set against a child's story of migrating from Ghana to the United States. The film uncovers the meaning behind the Akan term of endearment, me broni ba, which means “my white baby.”

Hands Solo

2009 • 15 min

What if a deaf man became an internationally famous Porn Star? This is a comedic mockumentary about someone who does just that - all because he's very, very good with his hands.

Precut Girl

2009 • 20 min • France

A young Japanese girl discovers that she cannot die. From then she will explore the moment of death by killing herself repeatedly.

Rise of The Damned

2009 • 47 min • Germany

Mike and Costa were once like brothers. Now Mike is a policeman and tries to convict his former friend. But on this day, a chemical accident in a factory not far away ensures that the two have to overcome quite different problems. The accident victims mutate into ravenous zombies and the two are already facing a new enemy. A leg-breaking fight for survival breaks out.

Solférino

2009 • 56 min • France

Revisits the two rounds of the 2007 French presidential election (April 22 and May 6, 2007), where Conservative leader Nicolas Sarkozy won a clear victory over his Socialist opponent, Ségolène Royal. Faced with the activist, the journalist, the political figure and the gigantic media device set up for the occasion, the audience is taken on board without real or comprehensive explanations. Strangely, the chaos seems organized. Just like when we are considering the range of 'unplanned' events that get media exposure, so much so that we wonder if they really are being planned. Is all this period of unrest visibly set in motion by social activists, agitators, ordinary people, politicians, publicity agents?

Rewritten

2009 • 46 min • United States of America

It's been nearly 3 years since Team Hyperlite has gathered to document their skills in a wakeboard film. A project has begun to do exactly that, featuring hammers dropped by Rusty, Murray, JD, Ruck, Rathy, O'Shea, Grubb, Schwenne, BT, Nicola and Jimmy LaRiche. This film promises to deliver a perspective never before captured in a wakeboard film. Director Keith Kipp, a former Hyperlite athlete, has an advantage when he's behind the lens because he's spent time in front of the cameras on his wakeboard. For the next 6 months, he and his crew will be spending time at different team's homes, in their backyards and in their faces to grab the necessary footage showcasing their talents, their personalities and their antics for you. Get ready for a ground breaking film with a hard hitting soundtrack featuring the A-Team, brought to you by Alliance Multi Media & Hyperlite Wakeboards!

Aphrodite's Farm

2009 • 15 min

Everyone in Taranaki (New Zealand) wants to know the secret behind the magical milk produced on Aphrodite's Farm. The family mystery has remained safe for four generations. However when patriarch Ralph Riley dies, the future of the farm is thrown into jeopardy. The timely arrival of young farm hand Friday will bring the family's destiny full circle...but things will get a whole lot worse before they get any better.

Little Red Hoodie

2009 • 14 min • United Kingdom

Modern, bizarre version of Little Red Riding Hood. Precocious girl takes a TV set to her grandmother’s. After a strange meeting on the way and a stop at the DVD store, she decides to let her friend go in. Disquieting, with chillingly fine acting by the two girls.

Granny (Muidumbe)

2009 • 10 min • Portugal

A sequence of archive images filmed by Schefer's grandfather, a former colonial administrator, is the starting point for an experimental documentary on the history and memory of Portuguese decolonisation. Double or split memory: the lived and descriptive memory of the colonizers (their texts, their images) against the fabricated memory of their descendants.

Hanging Upside Down in the Branches

2009 • 15 min • Germany

Ute Aurand’s Hanging upside down in the Branches is a gentle, generous and unsparing portrait of the filmmaker’s parents, whose passing is marked by remembrance and the loving recording of them - Andréa Picard

Love Trip

2009 • 9 min

A 7 year old boy and his father discover & rediscover 'Love' after the loss of Wife/Mom.

Doomsday Machine

2009 • 53 min • Iran

DOOMSDAY MACHINE (Mashine Rooze Ghiamat) deals with the mentally disabled war veterans in one of the permanent sanatoriums in Tehran. One of the patients "Mahmood" is under the illusion that he has built a "doomsday machine" which can destroy the world by pressing a button.

The Unknown Woman

2009 • 20 min • Syrian Arab Republic

A film written by Fajr Yacoub, adapted from a story of the same title by Colette Khoury. An experimental film about the loss of a person in the midst of an unfulfilled absence, a person who can be present or absent at any moment. The coincidence that brings the girl and her mother's lookalike together on the street is nothing more than a pretext for the narrative and the simulation of these emotions.

Dogging

2009 • 2 min • United Kingdom

A group of men meet in the woods for strange kinks.

Sleep Tight (Don't Let the Bed Bugs Bite)

2009 • 15 min • Canada

A video diary of the things a Vancouver household had to do dealing with bed bugs.

Green Careers in Supply Chain Management

2009 • 10 min • Canada

A ten minute video exploring green careers in supply chain management produced by The Van Horne Institute featuring speakers and interviews.

Saison mutante

2009 • 4 min • France

Muslim School

2009 • 48 min • United Kingdom

Zara, 7, has entered Islamia Primary school in Nottingham from a state primary. Aysha, 12, has entered Islamia Secondary, a girls only school, as the only white student. he girls will be taught the standard national curriculum, supplemented by Islamic Studies, Urdu, Arabic, and readings of Islamic Scripture. But how will they find the transition from their previous multi-faith schools?

6 Hours

2009 • 30 min

Se-ran earns her living by playing the role of her clients’ lover which is called “Dating Service”. Sun-woo who works as a taxi driver, desperately desires to talk to his passengers. One day, Se-ran takes his taxi as a passenger.