All Films

Monster Black Holes

2009 • 50 min • United States of America

Travel to the edge of space and beyond to discover natures ultimate abyss black holes. Explore where they are found, how they begin, and how it may be possible to harness and use the power they produce. In Monster Black Holes, scientists steadily piece together the complex dynamics of a black holes birth and are also examine the growth of a select few black holes to super massive proportions that dominate the centers of galaxies. As a monster black hole swallows everything in its path, it generates energy that shapes the universe around it in powerful ways. Journey into the heart of a black hole and explore what happens to matter when it falls into a black hole, and whether the Milky Way galaxy will one day come to an end when the black hole at the galaxy's center explodes.

On the Bus

2009 • 6 min • Canada

Teenage years, the best and worst years of our lives. Jeremy is an ordinary teenager, living an ordinary teenage life. Because of his shyness, he fantasizes conversations with his crush, Sean. But what happens when he loses control of something completely in his mind?

Piet Piraat Special: The Scottish Ghost

2009 • 34 min • Belgium

The crew of the Scheve Schuit is not afraid of much, but what do they do when a ghost appears in the Scottish castle that Berend has inherited?

What happened - No one knows

2009 • 5 min • Germany

An unlikely band of misfits has made their home on a roof between a feed mill and the municipal waste treatment plant. But life is good, away from society and living of this leftovers. Lisbeth, Herbert and Walther have created their own self-sufficient little paradise. While Herbert is hunting cats, Lisbeth tends to the self-grown vegetables and Walther angles for usable scrap from the dump down below. One morning though, the peace is disrupted: A nameless, suit wearing stranger has appeared overnight and set up his tent among their huts. He does not speak, but obviously he intents to stay. The rooftop dwellers are anxious. Will he destroy their perfect little society? Or can he be part of it… incorporated so to speak... ?

Jump!

2009 • 4 min

Standing on top of their sagging school roof, an obese headmaster attempts to 'talk down' his latest suicidal pupil.

The Man Who Slept

2009 • 12 min • Canada, France

A young woman lives with her sleeping husband. Prisoner of her loneliness, she refuses to accept that this man is only a memory.

Chuck Jones: Memories of Childhood

2009 • 27 min • United States of America

Blending the animation of Chuck Jones’ original drawings, traditional documentary elements, and one of Jones’ most intimate interviews before his death in 2002, this biography imaginatively brings to life the complicated and difficult childhood of the man who dreamed up Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck.

Aqualorius!

2009 • 12 min • Denmark

20 years ago two boys disappeared in the swimming pool at Hulgaard Elementary. Ever since children have been telling stories about a monster living at the bottom of the pool. A victim of all the school bullies, 11-year-old Lars, has written a love letter for the older girl Sherin. When Sherin’s boyfriend, the worst bad guy in school, finds the letter, he forces Lars to swim to the bottom of the pool to retrieve a shining coin. But Lars is convinced that the monster Aqualorius is waiting in the deep...

The Artifice

2009 • 7 min • United Kingdom

An experimental visual piece delving into concepts like afterlife and existence in an abstract but accessible way.

M2M Eyeball 2

2009 • 38 min • Philippines

The fun of one-time meet-ups with strangers you encounter. This is the second of the M2m Eyeball series, and the titillating and daring young men who bare give us a glimpse of the fun side of man-to-man dating… and sex.

Fugue

2009 • 24 min

Jane is recently sober and trying to get her life back together when her childhood habit of sleepwalking suddenly reappears, re-blurring the line between her waking and dreaming lives. As the divide between her two realities expands, her relationships as well as her sanity begin to suffer.

Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!

2009 • 8 min • United States of America

When a bus driver takes a break from his route, a very unlikely volunteer springs up to take his place -- a pigeon! But you've never met one like this before.

How The Hampsters Saved Winter

2009 • 25 min

Hampton and the Hampsters going on a snowy adventure where they help make a family's dream come true.

Dual

2009 • 12 min • Canada

Dual is a student film about a Vanier student named Danny who has double personalities, in the form of a devil and an angel. He experiences a lucid dream during the Ravens & Shadows sleepover--featuring the legend of the suicidal Vanier nun, the staircase she hung herself in, a devil, an angel, Asian Patra, her rabid dog, the reaper, and a cemetery--where all his fears are brought to life. Are they real, or imagined?

Are Women as Horny as Men?

2009 • 5 min • United States of America

A Class Apart: A Mexican American Civil Rights Story

2009 • 60 min • United States of America

Built around the landmark 1954 legal case Hernandez v. Texas, the film interweaves the stories of its central characters with a broader story of the civil rights movement. It also brings to life the heroic post-World War II struggle of Mexican Americans fighting to dismantle the discrimination targeted against them.

The Other Side of the Wall: The Making of Possession

2009 • 52 min • Germany

Daniel Bird narrates the making of Andrzej Zulawski’s 1981 film- Possession- covering the film’s inception, casting, shoot, it’s release in Cannes, and it’s reevaluation and cult status.

Tour

2009 • 8 min • United States of America

The second sort of offshoot of the Stunt People film "Contour," the short film "Tour," takes place among one of the many adventures of the San Francisco tour guide, Law. Law picks up a couple of tourists, Flitz and Dude, looking to see the San Francisco sites. Sadly for law, the tourist are actually looking for a tour around the city, and not the narcotics that usually come along with the "tour" Law offers. Amidst the misunderstanding Law's tour competition Carter, shows up, to snuff out law. The two tourist get caught in the middle and chaos ensues.

Katie Morgan's Sex Tips 2: Any More Questions?

2009 • 30 min • United States of America

Adult-film star Katie Morgan answers a series of sex-related questions...in the buff, of course!

The Notion of Immanent Causation

2009 • 28 min • Iceland

A pessimistic foreigner, living in Iceland, believes people have no power over their lives. Someone tries to convince him otherwise.

Routine

2009 • 5 min • Belgium

At a turning point in his life, coming face to face with his past, an old man has to make a choice.

Evald Okas

2009 • 58 min • Estonia

The documentary portrays artist Evald Okas: an exceptional painter and a diverse graphic artist, a virtuoso drawing artist and creator of thousands of ex libris. Okas was a honorary member of Florence Art Academy, author of numerous book illustrations and master of papercuts, he has practised glass painting and ceramic art. He has been called as the Picasso of Estonian art. 94-year-old Okas tells the story of his colourful life, casts light upon his artwork and reveals the secrets of his principles of working. Tireless artist radiates zest for life and reflects affection towards creative life and looks back at his life with warm humour. Hotblooded passion of creation has never left the grand master.

Monty Python in Aberystwyth

2009 • 28 min • United Kingdom

In a strange turn of events, Sue Jones-Davies became the mayor of a Welsh town where Monty Python's Life of Brian was still banned - the film where she played the female lead.

Heavy Metal

2009 • 49 min • China

For more then twenty years, tons and tons of metallic and electronic waste from all around the world has been transported to a Chinese town called Fengjang, in the south of Shanghai. Around 50,000 migrant workers have formed a real army to dismantle these metallic wastes. These "green soldiers" decompose, cut, split and recycle, with the most rudimentary means, almost 2 million tons of garbage every year. To remain and assume the minimum materials that is theirs, they work hard, bear an incredible precariousness and put in danger their own health due to the simply unacceptable working conditions. As the recognizable heaps of metal continue to pile up they provide a deeply moving image of a worldwide consumer society.