All Films

Monster in the Closet

2009 • 4 min • Canada

A two-headed monster grabs a little girl's backpack, which leads to a transformation.

Let's Pollute

2009 • 6 min • United States of America

In the spirit of 50's & 60's educational films, 'Let's Pollute' is a modern satire on how pollution is our heritage and keeps our economy growing strong, while instructing us how to be better polluters for a better blighted tomorrow.

Die Rote und Zora

2009 • 14 min • Germany

The red haired Antonia calls her mother the radio host Zora on her show for coming home. But Zora joins a cuddle party. Antonia injures herself. The next day they meet in the metro.

Deep Red

2009 • 19 min • Israel

Gur and Yuval will stop at nothing to make enough money for a fresh start in Berlin. As they approach their goal, the tension is growing between them until an unexpected event causes Gur to question both their plan and their relationship.

Bookie

2009 • 18 min • United States of America

At a raucous soul R&B nightclub in 1963, crowds from all over Seattle gather for a chance at alcohol, wild music, and easy money. Amidst it all, a gambling bookie risks everything he has for a waitress down on her luck.

Shades of Grey

2009 • 22 min • United Kingdom

The War Games saw the end of black-and-white Doctor Who. This documentary examines the artistic limitations - and advantages - of monochrome.

The Turning Point

2009 • 48 min • United Kingdom

In The Turning Point, written by Michael Dobbs, Benedict Cumberbatch takes the role of Guy Burgess while Matthew Marsh plays the part of Winston Churchill. The play was part of the Sky Arts Theatre Live! Series, which won the Broadcasting Press Guild Best Multichannel Programme Award.

Real

2009 • 22 min • Poland

Anna – the mother of a 16-year-old Adaś, who is dying of cancer, is desperately trying to find Wiktor, an author of an internet blog. Wiktor maintains to have found a cure for cancer. Anna’s night journey through the real and virtual world ends with a shocking discovery. The film is based on the short story 'Płomyk za szybą' [Flame behind the Window] by Marcin Kaczmarek and corresponds to the tenth Commandment: 'You shall not covet your neighbour’s goods'.

Everything's Eventual

2009 • 19 min • Argentina

A reflection on contemporary privileged youth. Based on a short story by Stephen King where a nineteen-year-old loner is recruited by a strange corporation to kill specific targets from his home computer in exchange for a seemingly ideal life.

Love Suicides

2009 • 13 min • Malaysia

At an isolated fishing village of Malaysia, a woman’s relationship with her young daughter descends into a path of self-destruction and abuse when she begins to receive a series of strange and mysterious letters from her long-absent husband.

Under the Leakingest Roof

2009 • 43 min

Social activist, Marion Leonard, celebrates her 100th birthday.

The Wind

2009 • 15 min • Brazil

A small isolated town in Brazil is becoming windless.

Methodic 1.5

2009 • 22 min • United States of America

Tells the story of a parolee, given a second chance at life, who falls victim to the viral, infectious control of the evil Dollman.

Yeah, Love

2009 • 18 min

Yeah, Love is poignant and charming coming of age story about a shy high school girl who develops a debilitating and ultimately life-changing crush on an older female student.

Péripéties et perfections des acteurs de l'Opéra de Pékin

2009 • 60 min • France

From an early age, the future actors of the Peking opera undergo intensive training to be able to interpret their roles once they become adults. Their ancestral art requires a perfect mastery of their body. In addition to acting, they must learn to sing, dance or even juggle. Later, the best of them will be chosen to join Peking Opera.

Out Of Our Minds

2009 • 30 min

A fantasy world spawned from sound. Three time periods and three narratives, one connection-blood. At the center of this life force is the heart.

Axes in Bread-loafs

2009 • 3 min • Russia

Report on the nightmarish finds in our bread.

The Other Half

2009 • 11 min • Italy

It tells the story of an elderly woman, confined in a nursing home because of her poor health. Her daughters do not want to take her to the wedding of her granddaughter. The woman, with the complicity of a nurse, escaped from there, determined at all costs to attend the wedding of her granddaughter.

Milton's Heaven and Hell

2009 • 59 min • United Kingdom

Armando Iannucci journeys through Milton's life and his great poem Paradise Lost, offering his own passionate and illuminating response to what he feels is a work of genius.

Daddy, Picasso and I

2009 • 28 min • Sweden

Pablo looks up to his daddy, but when daddy's idol Picasso dies a summers day in 1973, daddy's grief and anger is directed towards the family and Pablo's mum. One day Pablo sees bruises on his mum's arm... but how easy is it to stand up against daddy when you are only 8 years old?

Moments on the Set of I Am Love

2009 • 15 min

A documentary behind the scenes of Luca Guadagnino's 𝘐 𝘈𝘮 𝘓𝘰𝘷𝘦.

The Kiln

2009 • 12 min • Mexico

At her young age, Juana has two great responsibilities: preventing her older sister from fleeing the house and passing on the secret of making bricks to her younger sister.

Tres juntos

2009 • 16 min • Argentina

Three teenage friends, between bike rides, boring classes and days at the swimming pool, trigger a strong and different attraction between two of them that they did not feel before. Maybe it will be the last summer of their childhood, maybe it will be the last summer of the three of them together.

Amtrak

2009 • 27 min • United States of America

In October 2008, Jon Jost is standing with his camera in the waiting area of ​​a train station in the USA, filming the other travelers: a mother with a child, the cleaning service, businesspeople on the phone, the conductor who falls in love and says goodbye to his wife. Finally he gets on the train himself and points the camera out of the window at the passing towns, the landscape and the clouds in the evening sky. A benevolent look at America - in the middle of the global economic crisis.