All Films

Good Vibrations

2009 • 4 min • France

A workman is oblivious to the danger he causes.

Charles Darwin and the Tree of Life

2009 • 60 min • United Kingdom

Darwin's great insight – that life has evolved over millions of years by natural selection – has been the cornerstone of all David Attenborough’s natural history series. In this documentary, he takes us on a deeply personal journey which reflects his own life and the way he came to understand Darwin’s theory.

Professor Godoy

2009 • 14 min • Brazil

Mr. Godoy teaches math at a Private High School's senior year. Stubborn and severe, Godoy lives a dull life defined by rules, but something is about to change.

Everything Is Terrible! The Movie

2009 • 52 min • United States of America

The fine folks at EIT have spent years digging thought thrift establishments, video caverns, and haunted houses throughtout the country in order to create the most mind-melting VHS mash-up imaginable. Literally thousands of hours of video gold have been chopped up into millions of pieces and gluded back together into an ever-multiplying bizarre path to allegorical self-enlightenment and surreal resurrection. Obviously!

Jubilee Year

2009 • 56 min • Estonia

The documentary takes the viewer on a visual journey to the recent past where extreme optimism is going to be replaced by sobering reality in the course of a year in Estonia.

The Adventures of Ledo and Ix

2009 • 5 min • United States of America

Two 8-bit video game characters confront the void.

Ukay-Ukay

2009 • 45 min • Philippines

Kayla is engaged to be married to Harold. She has long been waiting for this ideal wedding. A mysterious vintage gown catches Kyla's attention and gets fixated on it. Unbeknownst to Kyla the wedding gown is evil, passed by a demented bride way back in 1948.

Mother

2009 • 20 min • Bosnia and Herzegovina

Mother compiles clips of mother figures from classic Hollywood cinema and television dramas. The figures range from the Virgin Mary and Mother Courage, to characters from Maude (1972–78), Aliens (1986), Imitation of Life (1959), and American Gangster (2007). The characters play out scenes of care, loss, emotional manipulation, abandonment, and grief. The intense relationships between mothers and daughters are especially prominent.

Adha Cup

2009 • 23 min

Two bored social workers, Shahid and Ash, reluctantly agree to reunite the cast of legendary Bollywood musical ‘Pappa Kehta Hain’ for a return performance at the Pakistan Centre where they work.

Cold Front

2009 • 18 min • Croatia

While parquet floors are drying out in the apartment they've just moved in a couple of days ago, her and him are spending the night on the rooftop of their building. It's the end of summer, and their whole life together is in front of them. Premiered at Zagreb Film Festival in 2009 in Checkers programme (Croatian shorts), where it won the Golden Pram, the best film award.

Family Guy Presents: Seth & Alex's Almost Live Comedy Show

2009 • 30 min • United States of America

A commercial-free variety special starring Seth MacFarlane and his "Family Guy" co-star Alex Borstein. The half-hour special will highlight the duo's subversive and unique comedic sensibilities and feature original animation, live-action performances of "Family Guy's" most memorable musical numbers, comedy sketches and surprise celebrity guests.

Flight of the Conchords: On Air

2009 • 25 min • New Zealand, United States of America

Behind the scenes look at the cult comedy series about Kiwi folk musicians Bret and Jemaine trying to make it big in their adopted home of New York. It follows the duo in the United States before and after the release of the first series, as they speak candidly about the road to fame, and we meet the other personalities, cast and crew that helped make their show a smash hit in America, NZ and the rest of the world. As Bret McKenzie's long-term partner, director Hannah Clarke was in a unique position to gain access to the Conchords at their most relaxed, as well as their most frantic and exhausted, and was able to get an up-close-and-personal glimpse into this experience. Through her insider's eye we are granted an intimate look into the lives of this great comedy act and discover how they won the hearts of America.

Apocrypha

2009 • 13 min

A young boy picks up his father's camera, with which he accidentally films a dying romance between a man and a woman-

The Macabre World of Lavender Williams

2009 • 26 min

Eight year-old Lavender Williams, who recently lost her mother to cancer, sets off on an epic journey to find her Dad, whom she's never met. Her only companion is Lester, her late pet who's returned from the grave to help her. But the journey won't be easy for the girl and her zombie dog, for the evil presence of Sheriff Murdstone stalks them at every turn.

Live Music

2009 • 6 min

A crowdsourced animated musical about a rock n' roll guitar that falls in love to the wrong song but ends up with the violin of his dreams.

A Son's War

2009 • 26 min • Czech Republic, United States of America

Jan Wiener is a young Czech Jew struggling to survive at the outset of Nazi occupation during World War II.

Jim Jefferies: I Swear to God

2009 • 58 min • United States of America

Jim Jefferies: I Swear to God: The easily offended might do best to avoid Jim Jefferies’ raunchy, rude humor (or at least imbibe the two-drink minimum beforehand), but the Australian-born comedian provides plenty of laughs for everyone else in this HBO special. In I Swear to God, Jefferies continues his patented brand of comedy that once got him punched by an audience member, discussing the idiocy of no-smoking signs, sluts vs. studs, and his father’s Holocaust jokes.

30th Gundam Perfect Mission

2009 • 2 min • Japan

30th Gundam Perfect Mission is a short original video animation (OVA) officially released by Sunrise in celebration of the 30th anniversary of the Gundam metaseries. It features all the titular and mascot gundams of the main series in a non-cannon conjoint mission.

Efterfesten

2009 • 13 min • Sweden

An after party, three people and three different experiences of the evening.

Five Miles Out

2009 • 19 min • United Kingdom

Cass is sent away on holiday with her cousins where she meets a boy on a secret mission. All the while, in the back of her mind, is her sister back home in a hospital bed.

And for Dessert?

2009 • 11 min • Spain

A boy and a girl meet in a restaurant for a first date, and find that their meal takes them through all the phases of a romantic relationship.

Cinematic Correspondences: Jaime Rosales - Wang Bing

2009 • 42 min • China, Spain

This correspondence between Spanish auteur Jaime Rosales and critical chronicler of contemporary China Wang Bing is divided into three short films each consisting of documentary observations.

She-Rex

2009 • 38 min • Canada

Dan and Stan are sent to a lost island to rescue a wealthy pair of treasure hunters. The adventurers encounter a tribe of sexy jungle girls who worship a flesh-eating T-Rex.

Washingtonienne

2009 • 30 min • United States of America

A comedy that revolves around the professional and personal lives of three smart, sophisticated twenty-something girls working on Capitol Hill.