All Films

Delilah, Before

2009 • 10 min • Singapore

A young Singaporean woman, haunted by a dark past and teenage pregnancy, has to regain her mother's trust in her rehabilitation as she reassumes custody of her young child.

Rio Uruçumirim

2009 • 15 min • Brazil

Rescue bridge of the Tupinambá de Uruçumirim village, headquarters of the Tamoia Confederation until 1567, when it was destroyed in a genocidal operation, commanded by Portuguese led by Estácio de Sá, with the support of the Jesuits Manuel da Nóbrega and Anchieta, here founding the city of Rio de January. Testimony and contemporary point of view from Pajé Sapaim Kamayurá.

Shut Up, Butterfly!

2009 • 15 min • Germany

Vincent grew up in a violent surrounding, his own family. After a new family feud Vincent decides to call the police but is taken to a youth center unintentionally. There Vincent beats up the director who touched him improvidently. It seems that violence looms large in Vincent's life. Then he meets Butterfly, a diffident young boy who collects butterflies to bear his parent's death. Vincent gets curious about the butterfly boy and tries to empathize. Step by step Vincent gains the friendship of butterfly. But one day his mother reappears to tell him he is not wanted at home anymore. Vincent is stunned. All of a sudden his feelings burst out and he beats up his defenseless roommate: Butterfly.

Miguel Otero Silva: A life and one thousand stories to tell

2009 • 30 min • Venezuela

Poet, student, fighter against Juan Vicente Gómez's dictatorship, novelist, humorist, entrepreneur, journalist and politician. Each of these pathways paints the multifaceted character that was Miguel Otero Silva

Larger Than Life

2009 • 5 min • Croatia

In the distant future, survivors in special groups on a post-apocalyptic, epidemic-ravaged Earth are tasked with finding signs of life, but are forced to leave after The Technology Unit discovered two dead bodies in a bath.

Vengeance Wears a Tampon

2009 • 3 min • Australia

Parody trailer for a low-budget grind-house thriller in which a woman rampages men with tampons.

Brumski's

2009 • 20 min

Russ is a nebbish. A nebbish with a taboo sexual secret. When his co-worker pal stumbles upon him pursuing his fantasyies at work, he takes Russ to Brumski's, a dive bar that caters to those that share his sexual preference.

The Hell Patrol

2009 • 30 min • United States of America

Lt. Sandy Fletcher leads her squad of beat up "Hell Patrollers" across a post-zombalyptic wasteland, to the safe city of San Francisco after a failed scrounging mission in Modesto, California. Her squad finds refuge in an abandoned farmhouse and they fortify the grounds for a possible attack. Lt. Fletcher, Sgt. Mark Daniels, Cpl. Chopper, Pvt. Mcwatt and Maj. Karl Brickhaus must fight their way through the unending wave of the undead to get home.

Ohm

2009 • 7 min • Brazil

One man's exploration of his desires leads to significant consequences that go far beyond his control.

Something Evil, Something Dangerous

2009 • 27 min • United Kingdom

Dallas Graffe is called to investigate a series of grisly murders. It soon becomes a race against time when the murderer invades the local hospital and isn't entirely what they expected.

Desert Castle

2009 • 53 min • Norway

The Snøhetta architects, works hard to win the competition to make a brand new city for 350 000 people, in the desert of the Arabic emirate Ras Al Khaimah.

In the Footsteps of Yellow Woman

2009 • 26 min

A Docu-Drama about a young teen Navajo girl who finds her own strengths through making a documentary about her Grandmother and their ancestral history. She imagines what it would be like to be her Great-Great-Great-Grandmother, Yellow Woman, who lived through the Navajo Long Walk of 1864 - 1868.

Kaguluhan Music Festival: The Documentary Event Experience

2009 • 55 min • Philippines

A concert documentary film about the Kaguluhan Music Festival; A Cavite based Pinoy rock and metal music event.

Finger

2009 • 5 min • Russia, Germany

The main character is watching television. Suddenly he hears a thud coming from the kitchen. The man gets up from the sofa and approaches the source of the sound - a human finger is looking at him from the drain hole in the sink. Based on the story “The Moving Finger” by Stephen King.

Snow Hides the Shade of Fig Trees

2009 • 21 min • Canada

It is through the voice of Salim, newly arrived in Canada, that we follow the journey of six immigrants who, cramped in a van, earn their living by distributing advertising leaflets. Despite their diverse origins, they share the same nostalgia for their native land and the same daily worries, which they approach with scathing humor. Among them is a young boy of Russian origin, Sacha. The biting cold and the endless stairs will get the better of his tenacity. However, Sacha will come to surprisingly break the routine of Salim and his companions...

Anatomy of a Chase

2009 • 21 min • United States of America

Thirty-five years after it was made, the climatic car chase scene in The French Connection is still jaw-dropping in its suspense and execution. Director William Friedkin recounts how he created one of the greatest action sequences ever.

Chicken Heads

2009 • 15 min

After his father's prized sheep goes missing, Yousef devises a strategy to keep the truth buried.

Legend of the Spider-Man

2009 • 52 min • France

Alain Robert - aka the “French Spiderman” – climbs all kind of skyscraper (to the great joy of the public and the despair of the police) with a weakness for the highest ones like the Sears Towers in Chicago, the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur or Taipei 101 in Taiwan. With his short frame and at almost 50, Alain is a physical phenomenon capable of hoisting his body with only one finger despite a major disability due to a fall in 1982. Paradoxically, it is after that accident that he developed his style of climbing using only his bare hands and without any security. Today, with more than 100 towers climbed, as many arrests and several stays in prison, Alain is a legend. But who’s the man behind the climber? What motivates him? Find out in this portrait full of breathtaking footage.

Iran Darroudi: The Painter of Ethereal Moments

2009 • 53 min • Iran

A look at the life and art of Ms. Iran Darroudi, one of the most important contemporary Iranian painters, who has divided her time between Tehran and Paris for the past fifty years. The film describes the various influences in her life and how she came to cultivate a style that merges the western surrealism with eastern mysticism

Goodbye, How Are You?

2009 • 57 min • Serbia

Jokes as a weapon of resistance: how satire sustains a beleaguered culture.

Ctrl + Z

2009 • 20 min

In a near future, a young man addicted to a drink discovers a dystopian world.

Waiting

2009 • 20 min • Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary

A girl – while taking a walk through the centre – discovers something very strange about the people of Sarajevo. They seem like lifeless ’zombies’, they only come alive for a few seconds to perform a little scene written down for them. She takes it as a joke first and fools around until she comes across someone with a paper: „Kill her!” written on it.

Lifeline

2009 • 6 min • United States of America

A brilliant scientist travels through various dimensions and realms in search of his lost love.

Room Zero

2009 • 52 min

Wayne Adam Ford is a convicted serial killer on Death Row. Victoria Redstall is a model who trained to be a cop. Together, and against all odds, Ford and Redstall take us on a roadtrip into the mind of a serial killer and attempt to find the identity of his first victim. All that remained of her was a dismembered torso.