All Films

Pietro Germi - The Good, The Beautiful and The Bad

2009 • 60 min • Italy

This portrait of the Italian director & actor, Pietro Germi, explores his work, from Italian neorealism to the birth of the Italian comedy. He constructed his movies in a conventional way but also experimented new path. His favorite actresses such as Clau

Waltz's Veil

2009 • 15 min • Italy

A woman retraces a violence she suffered was born.

Apparition

2009 • 13 min • United States of America

Anne is determined to find a place to call home, but she soon discovers that New York City's realty market is satiated with sleazy brokers, strange roommates and scary dwellings. Even the perfect place she eventually finds has a secret of its own.

Fumiko Hayashida: The Woman Behind the Symbol

2009 • 16 min • United States of America

Fumiko Hayashida: The Woman Behind the Symbol is both a historical portrait of Fumiko, her family and the Bainbridge Island Japanese American community in the decades before World War II as well as a contemporary story which follows 97-year old Fumi and her daughter Natalie as they return to the site of the former Minidoka internment camp, their first trip back together in 63 years. The film reveals how the iconic photograph became the impetus for Fumiko to publicly lobby against the injustices of the past.

In the Dark

2009 • 14 min • Portugal

Once there was a boy who was afraid of the dark. One day, while playing on an abandoned factory's roof, he let a valuable belonging fall through a gap between the tiles. Going into the factory means facing his phobia and, inside, a beast's gaze awaits.

Diana

2009 • 11 min • United Kingdom

A young transgender woman rejected by her family in India, lives alone in London, working as a prostitute to pay for hormone therapy. Aleem Khan’s remarkable short film is set in 1997 in the wake of the death of Diana, Princess of Wales – whose loneliness and isolation our protagonist can identify with only too well. On this extraordinary day, she prepares to set herself free.

Le Lit près de la fenêtre

2009 • 12 min • France

Three old gentlemen are in a hospital, where amazing things seem to happen, just outside the window.

Roar

2009 • 16 min • United Kingdom

London. It's Christmas. Tom is a timid loner who cuts keys in a dry-cleaners in Soho. He's dominated by his extroverted boss, Mick, who habitually cracks on to his female clientele. One customer, Eva, is particularly unimpressed by Mick's behaviour. When Tom tries to apologise, she gives him the cold shoulder. Wanting emotional contact, Tom tries unsuccessfully to call his estranged father. Desperate, Tom takes drastic action.

Don't Step Out of the House

2009 • 43 min • South Korea

A poor boy and his sister live in a basement apartment. One day, strangers enter their house and threaten them.

The Rules of Film Noir

2009 • 60 min • United Kingdom

Matthew Sweet explores his rules of 1940s and 50s American film noir thrillers.

Plastic Bag

2009 • 18 min • United States of America

A plastic bag, thrown out in the trash, attempts to find his way back to his owner and along the way discovers the world.

The Secret of Martin Cordiani

2009 • 16 min • Mexico

Martin Cordiani is the richest man in the world, but there's a great mystery surrounding him. He has been sitting on his desk for 60 years without ever standing up for anything. Today, the shocking secret behind this mysterious behavior will be revealed.

The Feast of Stephen

2009 • 5 min • United States of America

Stephen watches a group of boys playing basketball. The look in his eyes betrays his sexual interests. When the boys realize, he becomes a victim of their homophobia. Or does it only seem so?

This Is Alaska

2009 • 11 min • Sweden

A group of people have moved to Alaska. They are searching for a higher level of freedom.

Bits & Pieces

2009 • 30 min

At a theatre during a performance of Dangerous Liaisons, a young costume dresser is having an affair with an actor, but gets a taste of reality when the leading lady discovers her partner's infidelity.

Team Qatar

2009 • 56 min • United States of America

Qatar is said to be the world's richest country, while competitive debating is said to be a training ground for future world leaders. So when the Qatari Emiress charged two recent Oxford graduates with creating the country's first national debate team and taking them to the world championships, the stakes were high. This documentary follows the journey of five ambitious teenagers as they are initiated into the cut-throat subculture of competitive high school debate. Training in London, Doha and New York, they learn more about the world as they hone their debating skills. (Storyville)

Greenspoke

2009 • 27 min • United States of America

A beautiful Japanese translator and a world-weary vehicle emissions technician awake strangely altered by the work of a brilliant scientist. Drawn to each other, their sudden compulsion and suspicions may tear them apart. A film about the dangers of altering the climate even with the best of intentions.

Wild Art: Olly & Suzi

2009 • 59 min • United Kingdom

Documentary following Olly Williams and Suzi Winstanley, two unique wildlife artists who simultaneously work on the same painting of exotic and endangered animals while on location in the wildest corners of the world. The film shows how they work and why what they do is so important.

The Bee and the Wind

2009 • 13 min • Italy

Matteo, a young engineer, returns to the mountains of his childhood to visit his father's grave.

Laurita

2009 • 20 min • Brazil

Laura and her mother are spending their vacation on the seashore, in Sao Paulo, at a middle-class beach house. Laura's adolescent body is changing but not in harmony with her coming of age. She's less bothered by that than the situation the two of them find themselves in.

I Am... Sasha Fierce (Platinum Edition)

2009 • 53 min

I Am... Sasha Fierce (Platinum Edition) is a video album by American recording artist Beyoncé. It features eight music videos for songs from her third studio album, I Am... Sasha Fierce. Including "Behind the Scenes" footage.

The Cambodian Room: Situations with Antoine D'Agata

2009 • 55 min • Cambodia, France, Italy

Antoine D'Agata, Magnum photographer since 2004, is in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, where his artistic trail seems to reach an utmost point. After devoting himself to depicting desolated landscapes and borderline realities, D'Agata focuses his art on his intimate human relations. His latest work focuses on body and flesh, in a narrow room. This film catches the hidden part of his art making; his choice of living on the edge and experiencing sex with extreme vitality. It is an apocalyptic and sublime journey, similar to the ones of other heretic artists of contemporary culture, from Jack Kerouac to Antonin Artaud, from Francis Bacon to Pier Paolo Pasolini.

How to Take a Bath

2009 • 3 min • Canada

Legendary poet John Ashbery scripted this absurdist step-by-step guide to bathing, excerpted from Guy Maddin's feature THE FORBIDDEN ROOM and restored to its original form as a stand-alone film.

Where the Boys Are

2009 • 22 min • France

A few girls in an apartment. Across the street men are building a mosque.