All Films

Aziza

2009 • 53 min

A Movie For Television dealing and exercising thoughts of Men Controlled Societies which are somehow similar in the east and west both. The movie shows how a woman is treated unfair just because her husband wanted a baby boy and she delivered 4 daughters. From sunrise to sunset, this one-day-actions movies follows the nerve pressed Aziza with all the unexpected accidents.

In Motion

2009 • 44 min • Russia

They go out with slogans on streets, climb with flash-lights on the roofs, they want to be noticed. Why? They are 18-20 years old, they are in motion. What for?

Immersion (short)

2009 • 12 min

Ten-year-old Moises has just immigrated to California from Mexico. He doesn't speak English, but he's good at math, so he hopes to do well on his first math test in the USA. Using untrained child actors from public schools in the San Francisco Bay Area, “Immersion” plunges its audience into the visceral experience of a child who cannot understand his teacher. The film puts a human face on the debate about the education of English Language Learners.

Super Boy

2009 • 4 min • Lithuania

Pearl

2009 • 1 min • Canada

A lonely old lady sits in an empty room knitting. As her thoughts wander, her dreams take the shape of fanciful knitted creatures and objects that cocoon her in a pattern of wonder and comfort. This film was made as part of the 5th edition of the NFB's Hothouse apprenticeship.

Child Rush

2009 • 22 min • Germany

Because of his cancer, Pavel has to intensify his chemotherapy. One of its side effects is the loss of fertility. The exhausting therapy is to start in five days. Pavel (32) and Jasmin (26) only recently have started a relationship.

A Traditional Christmas at Small Birds Singing

2009 • 3 min

Join the Unbelievable family — Spandisman, Consommé and Delphinium — for this darkly festive look at Christmas.

L'été

2009 • 15 min

Siblings, Anais and Damien, rest with their parents in south France. They swim, eat, and quarrel endlessly. But, more free than usual, they get closer and give in to desire.

In the Deathroom

2009 • 19 min • United States of America

Mr. Adams has been captured by members of a South American government. The reason why Adams is being held is unraveled as he is brought into the titular 'deathroom'.

I'm Not Black, I'm Coloured: Identity Crisis at the Cape of Good Hope

2009 • 52 min • South Africa, United States of America

In the wake of one of the worst social experiments in the history of mankind, 'I'm not Black, I'm Coloured' is one of the first documentary films to look at the legacy of Apartheid from the viewpoint of the Cape Coloured. A people who in 1994, embraced the concept of Desmond Tutu's all encompassing 'rainbow nation', but soon thereafter realized that freedom, privilege, economic growth and equality would not include them. A people who for more than 350 years has been disregarded, ignored, belittled, and stripped of anything they can call their own enduring a complex psychological oppression and identity crisis unparalleled in South African history.

Pourquoi pas Blanche-Neige pendant qu'on y est?

2009 • 14 min • France

Lucie has just started school, full of questions. If life were just a little more like in the fairy tales ...

Dolphins in the Deep Blue Ocean

2009 • 60 min • Germany

They are inspirational, playful, powerful, interesting and very intelligent animals, which have a magical bond with the people: Dolphins. You'll see these magnificent animals in their natural habitats - reefs in Eilat, the largest marine reserve in the world. And also be able to watch a dolphins dance and play with the camera, dive or just durachatsya. Never seen so close before!

The Scent of Money

2009 • 17 min • United Kingdom

When a ruthless assassin's payment goes missing, he tracks the unwitting thief across town before kidnapping his wife, demanding his money back. Bullied and bruised, Nathan isn't going to take it lying down.

Customer Support

2009 • 5 min • Norway

A woman is about to leave her apartment, but the door won't open. She calls customer support.

Sacrifice: A Vampire Tale

2009 • 9 min • Australia

When a killer decides to stalk their next victim, all is not as it seems.

Tales of the Old Piano. Robert Schuman. Letters

2009 • 10 min • Russia

The film tells the story of Robert Schuman, his life and creative work. He could have been a talented pianist. But he invented the device to prop up his fingers while practicing. The idea was to strengthen them and develop independence, but instead, two fingers on his right hand were permanently injured. As a result Schuman became a great composer and publisher of a music magazine. He fell in love with a talented pianist Clara Wiek - the daughter of his professor - and married her against his will. The film is a romantic story based on the composer's personal notes and his drawings on the margins of sheet music.

Urs

2009 • 10 min • Germany

For many years, Urs has had to look after his aging mother. But now he sets out for a dangerous journey: He carries his mother up a mountain to find a better place for both of them. But she wants to stay at home.

Search for the Giant Octopus

2009 • 47 min

The waters of the North Pacific around Canada's Vancouver Island are a strange and little known world. The water is incredibly clean, the location is isolated and huge thermal vents heat the otherwise cold surrounding these factors combined have led to animals and plants that can grow to huge proportions. Humpback whales, orcas, wolf eels and bald eagles all thrive here. Our team of experts go in search of the elusive Pacific Giant Octopus. Growing up to 7.5 meters across with the power to kill sharks, it is a formidable creature, but also intelligent and incredibly shy. The dive team invites us into an alien world, where persistence is rewarded with encounters with three of these magnificent creatures.

Party

2009 • 15 min • Croatia

Sunny, bright summer day in Vukovar. It is almost impossible to believe that the brightness and joy can be easily interrupted, enjoying and living a day like that.

Things That Go Bump in the Night: Tales of Haunted New England

2009 • 57 min

Things That Go Bump in the Night: Tales of Haunted New England takes you on a journey throughout historic New England collecting tales of the supernatural, the unexplained, and the mysterious — spooky stories of ghosts, spirits, witches... and even a vampire!

Women in Red Stockings

2009 • 59 min

This documentary tells the story of the Icelandic Red-stocking movement in the seventies.

Bunnykill 4

2009 • 15 min • Finland

In this thrilling new chapter of the BunnyKill saga, Snowball is sent on a mission to eliminate the leader of a deadly ninja clan. As he battles waves of skilled assassins, a mysterious figure named Ruby emerges, blurring the line between friend and foe. With danger at every turn, Snowball must push his limits to survive.

Cat Ladies

2009 • 59 min • Canada

The real story behind the oft-ridiculed 'cat lady' - a cultural stereotype and figure of ridicule for women of a certain age with too many furry companions. Through the intimate portrait of four unique 'cat ladies' we create a sensitive and emotionally honest portrait of women whose lives and self-worth have become intractably linked to cats. It's not the number of cats that defines someone as a 'cat lady', but rather their attachment, or non-attachment, to human beings. They create a world with their cats in which they are accepted and in control - a world where they ultimately have value.

Alarm

2009 • 9 min • South Korea

Snooze buttons, sunlight…the inescapable cacophony of alarm alerts: waking up in the morning is a battle between the present and the future state of mind. A dream-like war with yourself and other objects that seem to take a life of its own.