All Films

Squirly Town

2009 • 7 min • United States of America

Straight-laced squirrel Lance gets a splitting headache after his crazy friend Zoopie puts a tarantula in the acorn butter. To cure his pain, Zoopie takes Lance on an adventure that tests the meaning of true friendship.

Three Slave Women

2009 • 60 min • Japan

THREE SLAVE WOMEN is comprised of three stories of three women, who share the same slave master. Starring the sexy up-and-coming starlet ASAMI, this film includes some of the best shibari, kinbaku and slave-master scenes ever produced in Japan. All three are in love with Kajiwara, a dominant bondage master who punishes them in intricate and graphic ways. Their separate stories cross paths at a surprising culmination of eroticism, lust and S&M play.

School Gyrls

2009 • 50 min • United States of America

Three freshmen who love to sing and dance showcase their talents at an all-girl boarding school.

Samurai Sentai Shinkenger the Movie: The Fateful War

2009 • 20 min • Japan

Taking place in between Shinkenger Acts 22 and 23, the Shinkengers battle the newly revived Kusare Gedoushu Aburame Manpuku and his army for three days. The wounded and tired Shinkengers nearly lose, had the Kusare Gedoushu not needed to regain energy by soaking in the Sanzu River. As their wounds are treated, Jii reveals they he has found the Secret Disk used by the first Shinken Red to seal Manpuku at the Genryu Temple, which lies in the middle of Kusare Gedoushu territory.

Colonial Gods

2009 • 29 min • United Kingdom, United States of America

A complicated friendship between a young Somali and Nigerian man unfolds against the chaos of gentrification and displacement in the small immigrant community in Cardiff known as Tiger Bay.

I Love Thee for Good

2009 • 58 min • Japan

While the wedding day should be blissful for the bride, Eiko, there is a secret that she can’t tell her fiance...

Galaxy Express 999 - Beyond the Diamond Ring

2009 • 16 min • Japan

July 22, 2009. Galaxy Express 999 made a brief stop at Kagoshima on the day of total solar eclipse. Tetsuro gives a pass for the 999 to a boy named Kakeru dreaming of becoming an astronaut, saying "It's up to you whether you can use this pass or not". Now it's 2035, another total solar eclipse is expected in Japan, 26 years since the last one. What became of Kakeru...?

Linear

2009 • 56 min

The film is based on a story by Corbijn and Bono, and includes several of the characters Bono created for the album. The plot focuses on a Parisian motorcycle officer, played by Saïd Taghmaoui; the character has become disillusioned with his life and the conflict between immigrants and the police in the city, causing him to leave to see his girlfriend in Tripoli.

Montparnasse

2009 • 59 min • France

One night, three young women, the neon lights of the boulevards, empty streets, a mall, quiet gardens, the tower plaza, the esplanade of the station, a farewell coffee, a camera, a concert, a terrace, then the city waking up, Montparnasse.

Iris

2009 • 15 min • United States of America

When Iris White uncovers a treasure in her own back yard, her life is forever changed. But how far will she go to defend it?

Cobra The Animation: Time Drive

2009 • 60 min • Japan

When Armaroid Lady's body starts to disappear, Cobra must dive 20 years into the past to discover how to save his partner.

The One Last Time

2009 • 10 min

Two groups of robbers rob the same bank, on the same day, at the same time, after being given the same tip.

Schadenfreude

2009 • 9 min • Australia

An existential fable about a man who wakes to find himself broke, homeless, and missing one shoe.

Wimbledon Official Film 2009

2009 • 52 min • United Kingdom

Wimbledon 2009 is the definitive story of the 123rd Championships. In the Men's Singles, the defending champion Rafael Nadal dramatically withdrew because of injury leaving Roger Federer the favourite to win his sixth crown. In the Ladies Singles, defending champion Venus Williams was also attempting to win her sixth title. Andy Murray carried the hopes of the home nation.

Late Spring/Regrets For Our Youth

2009 • 5 min • United States of America

Man is destroyed by nature, saved by nature. His nature, her nature, birds, trees, lakes.

The Sets of Marinus

2009 • 9 min • United Kingdom

Designer Raymond Cusick recalls his work on The Keys of Marinus, and discusses the challenges that this story held, with its weekly changes of location and inventive set-pieces.

The Traitor

2009 • 14 min • Israel

Tomer and Shmulik are a couple. One evening, during a causal supper, one of them announces he wants to break up. Pain takes over their intimacy and the night takes an unexpected turn.

The Last Days of Lehman Brothers

2009 • 60 min • United Kingdom

The heads of Wall Street's biggest investment banks were summoned to an evening meeting by the US Treasury Secretary, Hank Paulson, to discuss the plight of another - Lehman Brothers. After six months' turmoil in the world's financial markets, Lehman Brothers was on life support and the government was about to pull the plug. Lehman CEO, Dick Fuld, recently sidelined in a boardroom coup, spends the weekend desperately trying to resuscitate his beloved company through a merger with Bank of America or UK-based Barclays. But without the financial support of Paulson and Lehman's fiercest competitors, Fuld's empire - and with it, the stability of the world economy - teeters on the verge of extinction.

Ward Three

2009 • 14 min

Eric, institutionalized as a boy, spends his life searching for harmony.

Paid Programming: Icelandic Ultra Blue

2009 • 11 min • United States of America

Learn about a revolutionary new drug (not to mention Nazi gold and chest rashes) in this informative (and fake) infomercial.

Basketball and Mathematics

2009 • 7 min • France

Jérôme and Cédric play basketball in the same team at school and are best friends. Jérôme also gives Cédric some private math lessons. During one of those sessions, Cédric's action will be interpreted by both young men in a different way.

Astoria, Queens

2009 • 21 min • United States of America

Inspired by ‘The Wizard of Oz’, four Kansas City twentysomething misfits navigate their new lives in the Emerald City of New York. Newly single Thom, our Dorothy, discovers NYC in a second “coming out party”. Jimboy, the brainless Scarecrow, wants to become the first gay white rap superstar.

Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead

2009 • 59 min • United Kingdom

A meeting in a London bus with jewel thief Lady Christina takes a turn for the worse for the Doctor when the bus takes a detour to a desert-like planet, where the deadly Swarm awaits.

Infectious

2009 • 17 min • Canada

A lonely nurse develops an unexpected passion for her unconscious patient in a 1930s tuberculosis sanatorium.