All Films

Poste restante

2009 • 14 min • Poland

In Poland, letters with incorrect address end up at the Department of Unsent Mail in Koluszki. The film follows one of these letters, on which a child's hand has written an unusual address: 'God. Heaven.'

Wild About Safety: Timon and Pumbaa Safety Smart in the Water!

2009 • 12 min • United States of America

Timon and Pumbaa learn everything there is about water safety.

Wine Cliffs

2009 • 53 min • Italy

A journey through valleys, living rocks and the culture of the Valtellina hillsides.

Wild About Safety: Timon and Pumbaa Safety Smart Goes Green!

2009 • 12 min

Timon and Pumbaa learn everything there is to know about protecting the environment.

La verdad sobre el caso del señor Valdemar

2009 • 25 min • Ecuador

1873, Quito, Ecuador. One of the most recognized psychiatrists of the city, Mr. Romero, is experimenting new hypnosis techniques as a healing tool with his patients, finding out that hypnosis has never been tested in a dying human being. Romero wonders if this technique could stop or delay death in dying patients. Valdemar, a Brazilian diplomatic who suffers tuberculosis, is willing to collaborate with Romero and agrees to be hypnotized the night he is supposed to die. The experiment will have dramatic consequences, Romero will be accused of Satanism and sentenced to death by the Ecuadorian president. His only chance of survival, is to persuade the presidents' secretary that he is innocent. He has only one chance to tell the truth.

Dorothy the Dinosaur Meets Santa Claus

2009 • 50 min • Australia

What happens when Dorothy the Dinosaur meets Santa Claus? There's singing, dancing, reindeers and fun! Here's Dorothy's first animated adventure featuring Santa Claus, Washington, Dorothy, and a host of friends from the North Pole. Washington thinks Santa needs a rest and so uses a computer to sort toys for the children of the world, but things don't go as planned. It takes Captain Feathersword, Dorothy, and Santa's little helpers to sort things out. So follow these Christmas stars to a land of Yuletide magic as Dorothy meets Santa Claus.

June 8, 1968

2009 • 7 min

A film which reenacts images taken by Paul Fusco of the train voyage that transported Robert Kennedy’s corpse from New York to Washington D.C. on June 8, 1968. The film takes the point of view of the dead, a tracking shot moves through rural and urban American landscapes. People who have come to pay their respects line the tracks, staring as if in an immobile trance.

Aileen Wuornos: Angel of Death

2009 • 45 min • United States of America

Profile of serial killer Aileen Wuornos, who was convicted and sentenced to death for the murders of six men in Florida over the course of a year. The programme explores how police were able to gather only circumstantial evidence against Wuornos, and launched an undercover operation to lure her and a possible accomplice out into the open.

Cinderella

2009 • 39 min • Brazil

Cinderella is a nice, kind and beautiful young woman who lives with the evil stepmother and her awkward daughters. Her days are spent in front of the stove, while the three sister snobs spend their hours staring at each other in front of their mirrors. The enchanted prince, whom Cinderella doesn't even know yet, uses all his time in front of his mirror and navigating it. But an old-fashioned ballad, with the force of the Fairy Godmother, can change everything.

Gift of the Hoopoe

2009 • 23 min • United Arab Emirates, United States of America

Propelled through a magical fantasy world of imagination, two children learn how little changes in their lives can lead to great things in their future. A collection of fables teaches the children lessons in education, tolerance and conservation.

Daddy's Girl

2009 • 9 min • Norway

A girl needs to get rid of her father.

Wadley

2009 • 58 min • Mexico

A young man with a backpack walks all on his own into the endless Mexican cactus desert. He takes some peyote. How does he get out again? Pure cinema in the long-take tradition of Lisandro Alonso or Gus Van Sant

Andy's Spick-N-Span

2009 • 17 min

A compulsive cleaner, with a superhero complex, must combat his phobia of dirty drains to win his dream girl's heart.

Nachalnik

2009 • 19 min • Russia

Two burglars enter a summer house. They should have checked to whom it belonged.

The Great Combinators

2009 • 44 min • Russia

Documentary about the Soviet masters of combined composite filming, their inventions, cinematic tricks and the rivalry with Hollywood craftsmen. Through archival footage and interviews, the film shows how practical effects created in the USSR in the 1940s to 1960s anticipated or influenced later Western techniques.

Top Girl

2009 • 19 min • United Kingdom

Set in Brixton, South London, and shot using a cast of new and non-actors, "Top Girl" is a coming of age tale about fearless 15-year-old Donna and her best friend Felicia, who set off on a mission to find Legz, a 20 year old with a recording studio in the bedroom of his mom's apartment. The idea is for Donna to MC on a track, but events, as you'd expect, don't go as to planned.

The Action Hero's Guide to Saving Lives

2009 • 18 min

When lives are on the line... When there's danger at every turn... When cliches run amuck... Sometimes the best thing to do is call Mulligan! Ace Mulligan! No matter how villainous the madman... How numerous the henchmen... How sexy the damsel, one thing is for sure: Ace Mulligan will always come out on top. Sometimes. Starring Patrick Warburton (Seinfeld, The Tick, Men In Black II, Rules of Engagement), "The Action Hero's Guide To Saving Lives" is a laugh-out-loud action-comedy that takes you behind the scenes of Ace Mulligan's perilous and not-always-successful mission to stop the bad guys, get the girl, and save the day. It's not always easy being an action hero.

Still in Cosmos

2009 • 18 min • Japan

An immersive work that uses skilled manipulation of the film surface and a powerful drone soundtrack to create a layered and dense universe of controlled chaos. In about eighteen minutes we experience life to the fullest, from birth to death and eternity.

Burning Rubber

2009 • 52 min • Canada

Burning Rubber is a provocative re-framing of burnouts and rural car culture - a filmmaker's search for meaning in a disregarded and often maligned form of self-expression. Based primarily in rural Nova Scotia, Burning Rubber weaves a predominantly male car culture together with artists and the curiosity of outsiders, stimulating larger questions about identity, creativity, gender, freedom, and how we decide what is valued and given meaning as art.

Kathy Griffin: Balls of Steel

2009 • 44 min • United States of America

This special contains Kathy Griffin's performance at the San Diego Civic Center in San Diego, CA on September 26, 2009.

The Coach

2009 • 33 min • Denmark

A small-town tale of Niels, a 14-year-old boy with nothing on his mind but handball. His coach, recognizing his great goal-keeping talent, takes special care of him. On the night of the qualification rounds for the final Danish championships, the coach throws a party for the whole team and lets Niels and his girlfriend Pernille use his bedroom, but Niels falls asleep and things take a surprising turn, which puts Niels under pressure both on and off the field.

Among the Great Apes with Michelle Yeoh

2009 • 48 min • Malaysia, United States of America

Renowned actress Michelle Yeoh journeys home to Malaysia to get to know her adopted orangutan, learning from the Sepilok Rehabilitation Centre about the efforts being made to safeguard and sustain this endangered species.

The Art on Your Wall with Sue Perkins

2009 • 59 min

Sue Perkins charts the post-war change in British taste towards domestic art, and meets bestselling artists Jack Vettriano, Mel Allen, Spencer Rowell, Martin Elliot and Sam Toft.

Moustachette

2009 • 16 min

A tongue-in-cheek, satirical look at a group of unabashedly pompous and misled young artists.