All Films

The Last Supper

2009 • 20 min • Australia

The Man goes to the encounter of the Woman in a mysterious place where creatures live. While making love to one of them, he becomes her by changing gender. He opens himself to creation and the possibility of motherhood. He will be judged not for who he is, but for what he wants to become : God. On her side, the women, as she is impregnated, becomes two. She becomes a mother. She becomes mortal. As she gets pregnant, she reduces her freedom. Yet she refuses to keep this child to keep on being free. This Act isn't a humanist act trying to deny a child's life in a doomed world. This is the most selfish expression. An ultimate protection act. Having a child it is loosing our freedom. It is loosing your right to die. Abortion and guilt that follows only brings to an alternate self, monstrous, ghost around the living, condemned to torture and roaming. To the lonely night with the blind eyes.

The Chronoscope

2009 • 20 min • Ireland

A documentary about the Irish scientist Charlotte Keppel who in the 1930s invented a machine that could see into the past.

Edgar

2009 • 12 min • Germany

Edgar, a retired person who is a widower since two years is longing for a meaningful occupation. He is wandering aimlessly about the city. An unexpected encounter with a store detective gives him an idea....

Off Season

2009 • 13 min • United States of America

A man and his dog traverse a cold, barren climate and discover some disturbing things along the way.

His Majesty Little Beard

2009 • 11 min • France

Three attempts of hypnosis on children.

Bale

2009 • 15 min • United Kingdom

Bullying of younger teens by older teens goes wrong.

Vistas: Red Ochre

2009 • 3 min • Canada

Combining archival photos with new and found footage, this short film presents a personal, impressionistic rendering of what it's like growing up Mi'kmaq in Newfoundland, while living in a culture of denial. Vistas is a series of 13 short films on nationhood from 13 Indigenous filmmakers from Halifax to Vancouver. It was a collaborative project between the NFB and APTN to bring Indigenous perspectives and stories to an international audience.

Belle de Nature

2009 • 12 min • France, Venezuela

The more the knots tighten around her body, the more Clara's imagination flies away. She finds herself naked at the edge of a forest. The grass tickles her feet, a bramble scratches her, her breathing accelerates under the electric shocks of the nettles. Clara joins her lover, the forest.

Vince Guaraldi: The Maestro of Menlo Park

2009 • 37 min • United States of America

A short documentary about Vince Guaraldi, the composer most well known for his work on several 'Peanuts' animated television specials.

Down in Number 5

2009 • 18 min • United States of America

Southern Gothic tale of a coal miner pushed to his limits for the love of his son.

Shintaro!

2009 • 51 min • Australia

In 1964, a sensation swept through Australian lounge rooms leaving an indelible impression on the children of that generation. That sensation was The Samurai -the first foreign cult television series from Japan to be broadcast in Australia.

Les fleurs maladives de Georges Franju

2009 • 46 min • France

A short documentary about Georges Franju.

Making Mary and Max

2009 • 15 min • Australia

Comedic behind-the-scenes film for the production of Mary and Max, originally released as webisodes.

It Felt Like a Kiss

2009 • 54 min • United Kingdom

The story of America's rise to power starting with 1959, using archival footage and US pop music to highlight the consequences to the rest of the world and in the peoples' minds.

Burn the Wagons

2009 • 12 min • United States of America

A Tribal Court Clerk trudges through another work-day.

Angry Man

2009 • 20 min • Norway

A film about secrets that shouldn't be secret. When the mommy-fish dies, Boj has had enough, and gets power from his own fantasy to go further.

BBC Four Presents: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

2009 • 59 min

Poet Simon Armitage goes on the trail of one of the jewels in the crown of British poetry, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, written about 600 years ago by an unknown author. The poem has got just about everything - it is an action-packed adventure, a ghost story, a steamy romance, a morality tale and the world's first eco-poem. Armitage follows in the footsteps of the poem's hero, Gawain, through some of Britain's most beautiful and mystical landscapes and reveals why an absurd tale of a knight beheading a green giant is as relevant and compelling today as when it was written.

The Last Breath

2009 • 10 min • United Kingdom

Whilst on a family scuba diving trip the Kelvin family surface to find that the world's oxygen supply has suddenly dissipated. With their tanks running low they embark on a race against time to reach the nearby dive hut.

Cloudy Day

2009 • 8 min • France

In a world where drought is everywhere, a little village survives thanks to a machine that turns clouds into drinking water. Unfortunately one of the village inhabitants will make the cloud take flight.

The Last Days of Jack Sheppard

2009 • 56 min • United Kingdom

Set in the wake of Britain’s first financial crisis, the South Sea Bubble of 1720, and based on the inferred prison encounters between the thief Jack Sheppard and the writer Daniel Defoe, this critical costume drama traces connections between fiction, speculation and aesthetics.

Turn Around

2009 • 34 min

A curious housewife experiments with Internet exhibitionism and harrowing one night stands, but her life spins out of her control.

Issho ni Training: Training with Hinako

2009 • 24 min • Japan

"First muscle training animation ever," a 16-year-old girl named Hinako leads exercises in push-ups, sit-ups, and squats. Hinako was once a human, but she was turned into an anime character when she was a second-year middle-school student.

Because the Night

2009 • 9 min • Sweden

Stockholm, Sweden. A warm summer night is torn apart by flashing lights and loud music. Trembling air full of hopes and expectations. Four people end up at the same place for the same reason, because the night.

The Beatles on Record

2009 • 58 min • United Kingdom

A collection of interviews and footage of the band detailing how their sound progressed and how their albums were made.