All Films

Super Gore Girl

2009 • 44 min • Japan

At a school for girls on the outskirts of the imperial capital, there is a silent Bible reading club headed by Yukie Takatsukasa. One day, however, the student council orders the club to suspend its activities indefinitely, and the club reorganizes into the "Holy White Lily Knights" and takes on the challenge.

Little Thunder

2009 • 3 min • Canada

This animated short, inspired by the Mi'kmaq legend "The Stone Canoe" explores Indigenous humour. We follow Little Thunder as he reluctantly leaves his family and sets out on a cross-country canoe trip to become a man.

The Cave

2009 • 11 min • Canada

A hunter on horseback accidentally discovers a portal to another world in this fantastical true Tsilhqot'in story.

The Little White Cloud That Cried

2009 • 13 min • Germany

A tribute to underground filmmaker Jack Smith. The film centers around a graphic transsexual orgy.

The Razzle Dazzle

2009 • 10 min • United States of America

Short film by John Hyams.

The Crystal Lake Massacres Revisited - Part I

2009 • 18 min

A mockumentary exploring the Jason Vorhees murders at Crystal Lake with interviews from local townsfolk, skeptics, and historians.

Transatlantic

2009 • 13 min • United States of America

Two couples on either side of the Atlantic share a mysterious connection.

Hellraiser: Deader – Winter's Lament

2009 • 30 min • United States of America

Explores the background of the character Winter, while intersecting events from three entries into the series.

A Child's Christmases in Wales

2009 • 60 min • United Kingdom

One-off period comedy, peeping into the lives of a south Wales family's Christmases across the 1980s, written by comedian Mark Watson and inspired by a Dylan Thomas short story. Christmas in this household may be a less than poetic affair, but it is just as eventful. So much changes across a decade in any family, and yet so much manages to remain the same.

If You Had Been the Moon

2009 • 11 min • United States of America

Two young Hollywood hopefuls meet during their 1930s screen test. As the story progresses, this film noir portrays the boys slowly becoming enamored with each other in poetic, surrealistic dream sequences.

Life Begins

2009 • 14 min

Joseph takes a fragile step into adolescence while Matt, his big brother, stagnates in a menial job. At home, they rarely interact. One night, their house gets broken into and their father's gun is stolen.

Early Directors on Directing

2009 • 31 min • United States of America

There were more women directors before 1920 than at any other time in history. The first director to put a narrative story on celluloid was, Alice Guy Blaché in 1896. Few people know that Lillian Gish became a director in her own right in 1920. Ida Lupino directed over a hundred episodes of "Have Gun, Will Travel," "Thriller," "Gunsmoke," and many independent features.

N' Me for Myself

2009 • 19 min

Antonis always goes by train. He is in a rush to make it on time. His recent past keeps catching up on him. Reality does not allow him to escape the images. That's how it is. because that's how it goes. He couldn't give a damn about anything. He needs to pee. Dependent on his girlfriend just as he's on himself. He doesn't owe anything to anybody.

Sun Shine

2009 • 28 min

Summer. Nadja, 13 years old, is killing time, eating ice cream and lying on the beach where she becomes fascinated by a model family that she begins to follow and spy on. She meets Eskild, a boy her own age, drifting around on his bike alone, who becomes attracted to her. Nadja makes Eskild an accomplice to her voyeurism, which gradually escalates, when she tells him that the man in the family is her father.

Marry Me

2009 • 5 min • United States of America, Aruba

Jim's creative and romantic plan to propose to his girlfriend is not as easy as it sounds. Running into stops at every turn, will he have enough energy to complete his task or give up and stay single?

Anniversary

2009 • 15 min • Singapore

"Anniversary" is a story of love, of what trust mean and the need to find out the truth. "Anniversary" will touch your heart and remain in your mind long after viewing.

Knee

2009 • 16 min • Spain

"One of the thematic lines that Juanjo Giménez's cinema has covered is dedicated to football. In addition to Rodilla, his shorts Libre indirecto (1997) and Máxima pena (2005) bring us closer to this world, whose passion is not so much in the big leagues and championships, but in the emotional universe that cinema is for many people."

Ruins

2009 • 60 min • Portugal

Fragments of spaces, buildings and structures, memories and remains of past eras, places of work or leisure now inhabited by our memories alone, or really forgotten. Dead things or living proof of time, natural elements, and human predators themselves.

The Atlas Mountains

2009 • 10 min

Helen Thomas is an unhappily married woman. While spending Christmas alone at home, she forms a brief yet passionate relationship with Tarik El Bez, a quiet immigrant worker who comes to fix her computer on a cold December night. Trapped in a small living room, the two loners find themselves engaging in a gentle struggle between intimacy and privacy.

Infamy

2009 • 4 min • United States of America

The pain of the past becomes the reality of the present on the morning of September 12th, 2001 for second-generation Japanese-American George Kojima. Witnessing a government backlash to 9/11 that parallels his own experiences during the Second World War as a young man, George must question his trust and faith in the United States which he has spent his life fighting to preserve.

The Park

2009 • 17 min

A coming of age drama about three teenage boys growing up in London. Set in the summer the story tells of the secrets that they are each living with. Although best of friends, they each keep a secret to themselves, choosing not to unload their problems on to each other.

Please Forward

2009 • 8 min • United States of America

Chain Mail International has had a banner year; the tanking economy is proving an unexpected boon for the firm’s time-honored business — creating and forwarding chain letters. Through the lens of the firm’s holiday party, we get a glimpse into the inner workings of the business, and come to see that as progress moves relentlessly onward, not everyone will be sharing in the group’s success.

What Has 'The Romans' Ever Done For Us?

2009 • 34 min • United Kingdom

Actors, crew and historians look at both the reality and fantasy behind the story of The Romans. With actors William Russell, Kay Patrick, Barry Jackson, Anthony Andrews and Christopher Biggins, director Christopher Barry, designer Raymond Cusick, historian Dr Mark Bradley, writer James Moran, Doctor Who Magazine editor Tom Spilsbury and 1960s viewer Ian McLachlan. Narrated by John Bowe.

No Holds Bard

2009 • 60 min

Comedy following the lives of five people as they prepare to vie for the 2009 Cup O'Kindness, the trophy awarded to the champion in Robert Burns poetry recital. The film captures the ups and downs of each participant's progress as the pressure intensifies, the poems are recited and the champion is crowned. Held in Alloway, the birthplace of Burns himself, this prestigious competition is the centrepiece of the annual celebrations devoted to the Bard's immortal memory. And this year it may prove memorable for all the wrong reasons.