All Films

The Shadows

2009 • 15 min • Brazil

In a country house, the patient and her husband get involved with the young psychiatrist. The noises of the forest surround them.

The Graduate From Sudan

2009 • 52 min

Victoria Achut battled her way through medical school and escaped a civil war in Sudan, but her biggest struggle yet has been re-starting life in the 'lucky country' with three children, an absent husband and mounting bills.

The Double Of Five

2009 • 5 min

Diomedes is both a detective and a failure, who never solved a single case and plunges headlong into the bizarre world of the Great Circus, a famous circus in the past, today just a ghostly place, more like a burlesque madhouse, to find Enigmo, the magician who transformed water in wine, at the request of the pessinous Hermes.

Blue-Eyed Mary

2009 • 14 min

In the course of one afternoon, a developmentally-challenged young woman learns some painful lessons about life.

Thrush

2009 • 5 min

An entire relationship told through photos in five minutes.

San Lorenzo

2009 • 14 min • United States of America

An experimental sketch that came about while Jon Jost was teaching at Italy's National Film School. He strolled through the San Lorenzo district, observed the celebrations, the lively street life and didn't miss the nearby cemetery.

Blink

2009 • 12 min • United States of America

A rumination on the dangers of first crushes, the weight of clean guns and the habits of sea cucumbers.

Tick Tick Boom

2009 • 29 min • Denmark

Pelle is in love with Dagmar and really wants to reveal this to her, but his drunken dad keeps getting in the way. Rasmus can't accept that his newborn son is seriously ill and ends up distancing himself from his wife in order to try to hold on to the hope. Aksel wants to get back together with his ex-wife and is using his daughter as a go-between until the day when his ex-wife suddenly brings home a new boyfriend.

At the Other End

2009 • 23 min • Germany

Marianne works for a crisis line night after night; no one is able to help all the lonesome people at the other end of the line no matter how hard she tries. But tonight she will have to face her own problems ...

Old Jews Telling Jokes

2009 • 44 min • United Kingdom

An online TV show which features Jewish people over the age of 60 telling their favourite jokes.

The Crooked Symphony

2009 • 29 min • United States of America

Set in the 1920's a struggling young doctor in a failing marriage is assigned to work with a bizarre, disfigured, animal like mystery man who washed up on a nearby beach.

Alles Mama, oder was!?

2009 • 20 min

Short film about motherhood, children and single parents.

Big Guy

2009 • 23 min

Rodney hates salads, the gym and daylight, until that is, Kate comes along and changes everything.

Happiness in Other Words

2009 • 3 min • Russia

Veterans are selected for filming an “artistic provocation” dedicated to the image of an unprotected human body during a war. Only one agrees. In the pavilion, when he is painted in gold and removed, he tells what he was thinking when he went to the front in 1944, assigning to himself one extra year.

Segal

2009 • 23 min • Israel

Segal’s life of confined existence is about to drastically change when unforeseen opportunity knocks.

Singles

2009 • 3 min • United States of America

Rebecca Sugar's thesis film from New York’s School of Visual Arts.

Focal Point

2009 • 12 min • Iran, Malaysia

Minutely told short story about an old photographer with a magic photo camera. Photos taken with the camera can reveal whether one's true partner has been found. Not everyone dares be photographed and even the photographer has his doubts.

The Last One

2009 • 32 min

A man races against time to prevent the unthinkable from happening to the one he loves. The Last One is one man's journey home, where the consequences of the choices he's made slowly begin to unravel in front of him. As Alex recovers from a gunfight and comes to his senses, he realizes that his life and that of his girlfriend Abbie are in grave danger. Unable to reach her, Alex must now make the long journey back to Abbie before the people he's crossed get to her first. It won't be an easy task, as Alex is confronted by police and hunted down by a lone gunman. His only hope lies in the form of a stranger, whom he has taken hostage. As they drive into the night, Alex begins to realize just how important his relationship is, and now, he can only hope he is not too late to save it.

Life Must Go On​

2009 • 20 min • Hong Kong

High Noon was Sham Ka-ki's breakthrough in acting. At the age of eighteen, he directed his debut documentary short film, Life Must Go On. The film documents and exudes the joy of youth through cinematic images that observe Sham’s surroundings and his quotidian life in a stiff housing estate. In this short film, he questions the meaning of life, but finds answers to and proof of happiness from friends and family.

Amona putz!

2009 • 9 min • Spain

Sometimes, couple who have children miss Grandma... but only sometimes.

Hockney on Photography and Other Matters

2009 • 52 min

Hockney talks about his 40 year love affair with photography.

It's Still Me!

2009 • 17 min

A guide for people with aphasia and their loved ones, in order to help them learn how to communicate with each other more effectively.

Kristofer

2009 • 10 min • Iceland

Kristofer travels the postal trail on his route across the interiors. He is accompanied by a newly ordained vicar and a young lady, Maria. The arrogant clergyman sees Kristofer as a rival for the beautiful Maria’s attentions and is determined to demonstrate his superiority.

The Unclothed Man in the 35th Century A.D.

2009 • 8 min

About a special agent in the far future sent to impersonate a robotic life model at an art school in order to secretly break the custom against drawing real human beings