All Films

Crumbs

2009 • 33 min • France

A worker woman lives in her little house, works in a factory, shops in a market. One morning, the factory starts moving and gets out of the field…

Locks

2009 • 6 min • United States of America

A young man in Oakland, California, wakes with a heavy heart and decides to take a walk through the neighborhood to the local barbershop.

Static

2009 • 7 min • United States of America

Static was filmed from a helicopter circling around the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbour. It was shot shortly after the monument was fully re-opened following the September 11th attacks. Flying alongside the statue, the camera presents us with startling close-up views of its oxidised copper surface. The continual sense of movement is disorienting, undermining its sense of permanence and stability.

Mehyô no ori: Ikenie rankô

2009 • 60 min • Japan

Keiko, a writer who is in a slump, goes for a walk and meets Claire. Claire, who is studying abroad from France and is an anthropology researcher, says that in ancient society there was a custom of welcoming strangers by giving them something precious, and sometimes the bodies of their wives and daughters were offered to travelers. He has a personal theory that by offering his body to others, he can discover a new version of himself...

Once Upon a Time... 'Notorious'

2009 • 52 min • France

Documentary about the making of Alfred Hitchcock's 1946 film "Notorious."

Pumzi

2009 • 21 min • South Africa, Kenya

A sci-fi film about futuristic Africa, 35 years after World War III, 'The Water War'.

My Little Pony: Twinkle Wish Adventure

2009 • 44 min

When the wishing star disappears, Pinkie and all of her pony friends go on a journey to find it.

White House Revealed

2009 • 47 min

In this eye-opening documentary about the inner workings of the White House, the most famous residence in America opens its doors for a behind-the-scenes tour and a meet-and-greet with the staff who keep it running in tip-top shape. Highlights include bird's-eye musings from White House workers who've seen it all and an interview with former President George H.W. Bush, who shares his memories about living in Washington, D.C.

In Our Blood

2009 • 16 min • Belgium, France

Lionel, seventeen years old, assaulted by his father, is going to become a daddy.

Un juego absurdo

2009 • 12 min • Argentina

Javier is in love with Romina. At a party, we hear his thoughts and sometimes he even talks to us. Playing between reality and fantasy, Javier will try to overcome his fears and get the girl of his dreams.

Salomania

2009 • 17 min

Salomania reconstructs a dance: the ‘dance of the seven veils’ from Alla Nazimova’s 1923 silent film Salomé. Also shown and rehearsed are sections from ‘Valda’s Solo,’ which the choreographer and filmmaker Yvonne Rainer created after having seen Nazimova’s film.

Gettin' it Dunn with Richard Dunn

2009 • 12 min • United States of America

The Newbie

2009 • 19 min • Poland

A lonely 17 –year-old Ania (the Newbie) is seeking acceptance in a group of peers playing risky urban games. She pays for her strivings with a loss of faith in values. With nothing to lose, Ania invents a daredevil game, supposed to provoke the group and especially its leader-Czarny, to think. The surprising end of the film gives a new chance to return to normality for its characters. The film is based on the short story 'Moc słowa' [The Power of Word] by Anna Czajka and corresponds to the second Commandment: 'You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain'.

Asymmetric Cycles: The Work of Al Jarnow

2009 • 30 min

Documentary about the experimental animator.

The Day After

2009 • 15 min • Denmark

Andreas is warned by a mysterious stranger that his best friend Jannik is in danger. That's all he remembers from his night on the town last night. Was it something he dreamed? When the pieces start to fall into place, he realizes that everything he does is helping to facilitate his friends tragedy. with a circular approach to time, 'The Day After' plays with the idea of causality and the difficulties of accepting wrong doing.

Maruined

2009 • 7 min • United States of America

Two siblings become trapped on a deserted island full of danger with a strange hippopotamus/dog hybrid as their pet and protector.

Family Guy Presents: Something, Something, Something, Dark Side

2009 • 54 min • United States of America

Peter makes good on another power outage at home by retelling "Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back".

Susan's Longing

2009 • 23 min • Sweden

Susan is longing for her boyfriend Anders who is away on business. Isolated in the flat they recently moved into, she has got the feeling that someone is visiting the apartment during night-time, and she has nightmares about living in the streets searching for Anders who has left her behind.

I Know You

2009 • 30 min • Lithuania

The story of a fifteen-year old girl who feels that her room, her district, her school and even herself is too small for her.

Sabotase

2009 • 15 min • Indonesia

Evictions and illegal land placements trigger conflict. Then came the act of sabotage.

Kamen Rider Decade: Protect! The World of Televikun

2009 • 11 min • Japan

Styled as a "Choose Your Own Adventure" story. The viewer's choices throughout the DVD affect how Decade and Diend's fight against Dai-Shocker's Televi Bae-Kun plays out, as well as Yusuke Onodera's completion of the Decade Bazooka weapon from a punch out sheet in the back of a Televi-Kun magazine.

Night Mayor

2009 • 14 min • Canada

Winnipeg, 1939: Bosnian immigrant Nihad Ademi conceives of a way to harness the power of the Aurora Borealis in order to broadcast imagery of his vast and beloved adopted land from coast to coast to coast.

Chatting with Creatures

2009 • 30 min • Japan

Adaptation of Takayuki Mizushina's Kemono to Chat (Chatting with Creatures) 4-panel manga. The story centres on Chacha Kenomoto, a high school freshman girl who can understand the language of cats and speak with them. The girl's family name Kenomoto is a wordplay on the title, which literally means Chatting with Creatures.

Henna Night

2009 • 6 min

It's bride-to-be Amina's Henna Night and her best friend Nour, a witch in the kitchen, has been cooking all day. When Amina locks herself in the bathroom and refuses to come out secrets are revealed. Set within the home of a British-Arab family HENNA NIGHT takes you on a journey full of food, magic, and manipulation subtly exploring a darker side of love.