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The Koran: Journey to the Book's Origin

The Koran: Journey to the Book's Origin

2009 • 52 min • France
The Quran is the Holy Book of Islam, a religion shared by more than a billion followers worldwide. For the Muslim tradition, since its revelation to the Prophet Muhammad between the year 610 and 632 of the Christian era in Mecca and Medina, the Koran is immutable, and has remained maintained. However, recent discoveries of Koranic manuscripts analyzed by scientists, dated around the year 680 - the oldest known in the world - revealed that the Koran has a history. During the first century of Islam, and before the canonical version of the Caliph Uthman imposed itself, the holy book of Islam would have known competing versions, a different organization of the suras, variable readings due to a writing, in its beginnings, very rudimentary… It is to this meeting of knowledge, at the crossroads between the Muslim tradition and scientific research, that this journey to the origins of the Koran invites.
Sparks

Sparks

2009 • 24 min
In this deliciously tart adaptation of a short story by Elmore Leonard, a beautiful young widow’s hilltop mansion has just burned to the ground, and a very savvy insurance investigator (Stoltz) shows up at her home to interview her about the blaze. Joseph Gordon-Levitt (“3rd Rock from the Sun”) makes a dazzling directorial debut with this taut cat-and-mouse game played out by two equal adversaries.
The Passenger

The Passenger

2009 • 49 min • France
Fascination can drive us to take surprising action. In this same, perhaps illogical manner, I wanted, for my part, to return to the origins of "Zabriskie Point", the film by the Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni. Can we rediscover in reality the meanings lost in fictions ? How does one belong, body and soul, to a work of this nature? To these questions, I set out to find an answer. Accompanied by my camera, I put into images this long voyage that would offer me the best, as well as the worst.
Émile en ce miroir

Émile en ce miroir

2009 • 2 min • France
Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen

Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen

2009 • 56 min • United Kingdom
Drama illuminating Dr James Niven's efforts to protect the people of Manchester from the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic as millions of soldiers returned home from the Great War.
Chloe and Keith's Wedding

Chloe and Keith's Wedding

2009 • 52 min
Chloe & Keith's Wedding is a heartfelt and hilarious, romantic-comedy that tells the story of Jordan and Sarah an ex-couple who reunite again at the nuptials of their unbeknownst mutual friends, Chloe and Keith.
Jo Koy: Don't Make Him Angry

Jo Koy: Don't Make Him Angry

2009 • 43 min • United States of America
Jo Koy details life with his Filipino mom, the advantages of dancing like Michael Jackson and the strangeness of touring the South as an Asian American.
Without Bias

Without Bias

2009 • 53 min
The late Len Bias still leaves more questions than answers. When Bias dropped dead two days after the 1986 NBA Draft, he forever altered our perception of casual drug use and became the tipping point of America's drug crisis in the mid-80's. Future generations continue to face the harsh punishment of drug policies that were influenced by the public outcry after his heartbreaking death. Instead of becoming an NBA star, he became a one-man deterrent, the athlete who reminded everyone just how dangerous drug use can be. Amazingly, questions still linger about his death nearly a quarter-century later. How good could he have been in the pro ranks? Has he become underrated or overrated as the years pass? How could a University of Maryland superstar and Boston Celtics lottery pick be derailed by a cocaine binge? Was Bias a one-time user as we were led to believe, or was there a pattern of recreational use that led to his fatal last night? Did he fall in with the wrong crowd.
2:22

2:22

2009 • 9 min • United States of America
After an incredible night out with her girlfriends, Vickie Palmer is wrenched from her peaceful slumber and cast mercilessly into a world spinning out of control. Writhing half naked on the cold porcelain tile of her bathroom floor, Vickie desperately tries to piece together the tragic turn of events that has twisted her once carefree life into a nightmare of pain and suffering. But when she discovers the truth, will it be too late to save her from eternal damnation?
Protoparticles

Protoparticles

2009 • 7 min • Spain
A bold experiment in space goes very, very wrong, leaving our nameless hero in a curious predicament, far from home, in the wrong time, and in a world which is far different from his own.
Creepshow Raw: Insomnia

Creepshow Raw: Insomnia

2009 • 8 min • United States of America
A child's insomnia hides a bigger secret.
Naughty Undergarment Thighs Getting Wet

Naughty Undergarment Thighs Getting Wet

2009 • 60 min • Japan
Aiko, a self-proclaimed 23-year-old young lady, was enjoying a conversation with a customer at her favorite bar. Konosuke, a casual visitor, watches Aiko having fun, but is invited to the hotel by his girlfriend Aiko... Konosuke is a former high school teacher who is currently a black money collector. However, due to his innate weakness, he repeatedly falls into debt, and his older brother forces him to shoulder the debt. A aimless Konosuke sets his sights on Aiko, but...
Trees' Migration

Trees' Migration

2009 • 3 min
The migration in Autumn, when the clouds carry the forests away...
Kidnapping Caitlynn

Kidnapping Caitlynn

2009 • 10 min • United States of America
A dark comedy about accidentally kidnapping your ex-boyfriend's new girlfriend.
Black Lights

Black Lights

2009 • 15 min • Mexico
Chow works at a convenience store and is also studying Spanish.
High Flyers: How Britain Took to the Air

High Flyers: How Britain Took to the Air

2009 • 60 min • United Kingdom
Documentary which tells the story of the golden age of British aviation and of how the original 'jet set' shaped air travel for generations to come. In Britain in the 1920s and '30s a revolution took place that would change forever our perspective on the world. While the country was in the grip of recession, dashing pilots and daring socialites took to the air, pushed back boundaries and forged new links across the globe. The era of commercial air travel was born.
Nowhere Kids

Nowhere Kids

2009 • 18 min
Georgia is a teen runaway on the road searching for her biological mom. After meeting a group of crust-punk street kids on their way to the Mesa - a mysterious place where "rules don't exist," Georgia must choose between her fragile family bonds and an escape to the unknown.
Above Average

Above Average

2009 • 18 min • Croatia
Shot within six hours on a single location, this documentary shows us a man who claims he has been detained 78 times which makes him a record-holder in Croatia. In these 78 times in prison, he was convicted only once. The film shows us his aversion against institutions and his peculiar life philosophy.
Yo, Natalia

Yo, Natalia

2009 • 30 min
Natalia Kohen, renowned artist, millionaire and patron, denounces having been kidnapped by her daughters and admitted to a well-known neuro-psychiatric hospital. The causes revolve around economic interests centered on his fortune. "My daughters have taken everything from me and they want to make me look crazy," she declares to the newspapers. As she goes through an insanity trial initiated by her daughters, a group of film students makes a documentary and tries to meet the character behind the case.
The Eastmans

The Eastmans

2009 • 60 min
Within a family of doctors, the parents and the adult children find themselves successful professionally but dysfunctional personally. When the patriarch ends up on the brink of death, however, they rally to bring him back from the edge. Then they wield their collective power to extract some changes from him.
Paramore: MTV Unplugged

Paramore: MTV Unplugged

2009 • 24 min • United States of America
Paramore play songs from their album, 'Brand New Eyes,' exclusively for MTV Unplugged. Set List: 1. Ignorance; 2. That's What You Get; 3. Misery Business; 4. Brick by Boring Brick; 5. Decode
Our Time

Our Time

2009 • 60 min • United States of America
America has questions about today's youth, what we care about, and where we're headed. We had those questions too. So, after graduating college, four of us loaded an RV and embarked on a journey looking for answers. We traveled to all of the lower 48 states, talking to our peers about growing up, 9/11, race, the Internet, careers, sex, love, and the American Dream. Along the way, we met a wide cross-section of young Americans, ranging from a cancer researcher in Boston to a drug dealer in New Mexico, from an Iraq veteran in Florida to the founder of Facebook in Silicon Valley. The film ultimately leads to the recent historic election, where our generation finally stands up to make its voice heard. OUR TIME is a passionate portrayal of a generation, a meditation on coming of age in 21st-century America, and a rallying cry against apathy.
Nazi Mystery - Twins From Brazil

Nazi Mystery - Twins From Brazil

2009 • 50 min
In 2009 a bizarre story spreads around the globe, reported as fact in the world’s newspapers: Josef Mengele – the infamous escaped Nazi concentration camp doctor, the Angel of Death, may have succeeded in his lifelong goal of creating a blonde, blue-eyed master race. An historian says he has evidence that Mengele’s bizarre experiments on twins may not have ended at Auschwitz, that his efforts to engineer an Aryan master race continued and succeeded while on the run in South America.
Regarding the Bald Singer...

Regarding the Bald Singer...

2009 • 57 min • Russia
Free variations on a theme by Eugène Ionesco.