All Films

True Love

2009 • 12 min

A single guy walks into a seemingly normal restaurant filled with couples, but when he realizes the menu is filled with sexual acts, he doesn't know what to order and things start to get uncomfortable.

The Violinist

2009 • 44 min

The story of a beautiful young Russian violin virtuoso who arrives in New York in nineteen-thirteen and quickly falls in love with a demimondain, who introduces her to the speakeasies, opium dens, and dark places of the City. Rebecca's experiences with opium intertwine with her obsession for the stranger until she cannot separate one passion from the other. This leads her inexorably to a terrible fall from grace and an indeterminate future. [Overview courtesy of IMDB]

Yellow Moon

2009 • 18 min • Croatia

A young woman who has just moved into a new flat pays a courtesy visit to her pregnant neighbor. Chatting over coffee, the situation intensifies when the secretive neighbor starts begging the woman not to leave.

Socarrat

2009 • 12 min • Spain

We all have secrets. We all have family. We all search for happiness. What if we share our secrets and search for happiness together?

Samurai Sentai Shinkenger: The Light Samurai's Surprise Transformation

2009 • 15 min • Japan

Genta finds a starved member of the Nanashi Company who tells Genta that he has run away from the Rokumon Junk after being sick of his Company being abused by the stronger Gedoushu. Feeling sorry for him, Genta takes him back to the Shiba House and tries to get him a job

Kindness

2009 • 4 min

"I'm the ship's scientist, for God's sake."

Asylum Session

2009 • 60 min • Japan

Hiyoko wants to become an artist like her mother, but her father would prefer that she took a different career path. Enraged when she notices that he took all paintings done by her mother from the house, she decides to run away. Unable to find a place to sleep among her acquaintances, she ends up at Asylum Stadium, an abandoned field that is shelter for many homeless, but that is about to be torn down by the government. There she meets Akira, a strange individual capable of flying.

Spout

2009 • 17 min

A young boy and his grandmother become unlikely serial killers in a quest to eliminate his father's girlfriends, in this boldly original spin on the vampire genre.

Washdays

2009 • 11 min • United Kingdom

About a boy who has a bed wetting problem and skips school to try and fix it

Final Fantasy VII: On the Way to a Smile - Episode Denzel

2009 • 28 min • Japan

It's been four years since Meteor fell on Midgar. Denzel meets Reeve at an outskirts coffee shop about joining the World Regenesis Organization. Upon the request Denzel tells Reeve about what his life was like prior to the Meteor incident.

Unidentified Flying Mater

2009 • 4 min • United States of America

Mater finds a small UFO called Mator and they have a night out. Later, when Mator is captured by military forces, Mater sneaks up and saves him with the help of Lightning McQueen and the UFO's mother.

Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers Of Sky - Beyond Time And Darkness

2009 • 25 min • Japan

Team Poképals assist Grovyle, a Pokémon from the the future, in restoring the Time Gears and preventing a dark future.

The Flowers on Ghost Town

2009 • 46 min • Japan

A high school girl lives in a failing new town with her father, his second wife, and the wife's two children. She meets a top-notch student through a friend and begins dating. But since she lacks experience, she seeks assistance from an otaku specializing in dating sim games.

Francais

2009 • 30 min

A blind college girl submitted her French philosophy book a while ago to make a Braille version but it never returns. The thing is she has to study the book for an exam tomorrow. With just one night to study, the only solution for this crisis is asking for the help of her stubborn roommate, who doesn’t know French at all.

Elegy of a Voyage

2009 • 47 min • Netherlands, Russia, France

This intimately narrated journey from Russia to Rotterdam, via rail, road and Finnish ferry, is a melancholy meditation on divinity, time and place in art, purpose (or its lack) and the loneliness of the soul. Passing through misty snowscapes, half-glimpsed cities and the icy night sea-swell.

New Town

2009 • 60 min • United Kingdom

Starry architects Purves and Pekkala are offered the chance to redesign a Georgian church, but when the head of Scottish Heritage falls from the church tower in a mysterious accident, it becomes a question of whether he fell or was pushed.

L'échappée

2009 • 18 min • France

In her room, Mona, a young teenager, gets ready. She waits for the arrival of the one with whom she is in love.

Dug's Special Mission

2009 • 5 min • United States of America

Dug is sent on foolish missions by Alpha, Beta, and Gamma so they can hunt for the Bird of Paradise Falls by themselves. Dug may find that where he belongs is not where he's been looking.

Lizard

2009 • 50 min • Japan

Ryo reads a short story written by Banana Yoshimoto.

Washed Up

2009 • 12 min

Richard Waters loses the super powers he gained as a child and is forced into a life of mediocrity.

Curious George: A Very Monkey Christmas

2009 • 58 min • United States of America

George and The Man In The Yellow Hat are having a merry time counting down to Christmas. But neither can decide what to give each other. Will they find the answers before Christmas morning?

Krautrock: The Rebirth of Germany

2009 • 58 min • United Kingdom

Documentary which looks at how a radical generation of musicians created a new German musical identity out of the cultural ruins of war.

Jean-Claude: The Gumming Zombie

2009 • 34 min • United States of America

Philosophers have long pondered the question: What would happen if a zombie had no teeth with which to eat brains and other body parts? Now, at long last, we know the answer: Plenty! When a toothless Frenchman finds himself the latest victim of a zombie plague, he is befriended by an overly-wholesome family that belongs more in a 1950s sitcom than the world of today. Half pet, half best friend for young Timmy, and all dead, Jean Claude proves that you don't have to have brains to eat them. Or something.

Geharha: The Dark and Long-Haired Monster

2009 • 15 min • Japan

A fishing boat is attacked at sea by a gigantic, hairy monster. After examining the sole survivor (Kanji Tsuda), scientific adviser Dr Murakami (Shiro Sano) suspects the culprit is a “Keukegen spectre”, a shaggy supernatural beast from Japanese folklore. The announcement leads reporter Hideo Akihara (Ken Osawa) to a forest shrine dedicated to the Keukegen Geharha, where he finds several worshipers and learns that an ancient seal containing the monster has been broken.