All Films

La proposition

2009 • 15 min • France

A woman agrees to pose nude for a painter, which causes friction with her friend.

Depresión

2009 • 4 min • Spain

Corduroy

2009 • 10 min

A story about the healing power of the sea, seen through the eyes of a young autistic woman who really shouldn't be there...

Land of the Heads

2009 • 6 min • Canada

Emile is an unhappy little vampire, doing a job he detests, in a world plunged into perpetual gloom. He serves a despotic mistress who loathes wrinkles, in the most extreme way.

The Horseman

2009 • 32 min

November, 1789. When a stranger enters a forgotten village seeking an old comrade, his haunting secret begins to unravel the lives of the quiet community, and brings him closer to the dark specters he is pursuing.

Stones

2009 • 20 min • United States of America

Stones is a mythical Hawaiian tale about a family torn between preserving their native land and life and embracing new people and cultures.

Be Good

2009 • 11 min • United Kingdom

An amiable slacker decides to do good in the world. Things don't go to plan.

Shubadak

2009 • 12 min • Canada

This one's a war movie.

Milites Christi

2009 • 15 min • United States of America

A knight and his young squire follow an evil heretic in search of a holy relic.

Bizarre Dinosaurs

2009 • 48 min • United States of America

While dinosaurs may have been some of the mightiest creatures ever to have walked the earth, they also could have been among the most bizarre. With extreme, exaggerated body parts, some predators were loaded with outlandish or disproportionately sized appendages. Join world-renowned paleontologists and travel the globe to unearth some of the lesser-known but most surprising members of the dinosaur family: Mamenchisaurus, whose neck alone was longer than the rest of its body; Chasmosaurus, adorned with a fashionable crown of frilly spikes to attract the eyes of potential suitors; Spinosaurus, with massive extensions from its vertebrae that could have supported a sail or a hump; and Parasaurolophus, whose tube-like head crest may look odd to us, but was a mating magnet back in the day.

Kink

2009 • 8 min • United States of America

Short from Wayne Pére

Narcissus Dreams

2009 • 16 min • United States of America

Profoundly dissatisfied academy award nominee, dreaming of changing his life, psychoanalyzes himself and his relationship with the world.

French Courvoisier

2009 • 14 min • France

It is the end of a meal. Eight people are gathered around a big table. They evoke the memory of a lost friend. Through the stories of each about the absentee, the character traits, the haabits or the expressions, a portrait in hollow is outlined.

Jubilee

2009 • 15 min • United Kingdom

Two members of a right wing political party are on the campaign trail in a housing estate. During the course of a day knocking on doors, it becomes clear they have differing motivations for being there.

Itiburtinoterzo

2009 • 27 min • Italy

Documentary about the desolate lives of youngsters living in the Roman suburbs.

Fragile

2009 • 23 min

Out of options, Kathleen, an estranged wife suffering from kidney failure, descends into the gritty underworld of black market human organ trafficking.

Castor & Pollux

2009 • 8 min • Australia

Told over the span of a few lost days, this restrained film depicts the simple complexities of a nomadic couple's relationship.

Rumpelstilzchen

2009 • 58 min • Germany

The king locks the miller’s daughter, Lisa, in a room full of straw to turn into gold in just one night. If she doesn’t succeed she would be executed.

Christmas Dreams

2009 • 60 min

A story of a lonely 11 year old girl (Sam) who wanders into a second-hand store in search of a Christmas present for her teenage sister. There she meets Rose (Cynthia Dale), the kind but eccentric shopkeeper, who calls her collection of castoffs “A Gallery of Temporary Art”. With Rose’s help, Sam goes on a series of magical musical adventures, and rediscovers the beauty and joy of Christmas while Rose rediscovers the beauty, joy and importance of family.

Wall Boy

2009 • 17 min • Australia

A young runaway falls prey to the city's darkest vice market - a youth worker on a visiting outreach bus becomes fixated with saving him.

The Spine

2009 • 12 min • Canada

A poignant story of redemption that takes us into the relationship between a man and a woman trapped in a spiral of mutual destruction after 26 years of marriage, the Spine continues Landreth's pursuit of a twisted, beautiful and highly original visual aesthetic, using digital imagery to create characters whose physical appearances are metaphors for their unique souls.

The Fucking Game

2009 • 10 min • Croatia

A couple goes on an imaginary journey that will take them through an entire life span. Reality and illusion, highs and lows of human existence, moments of great tenderness and moments of sheer cruelty become interchangeable.

Sustisimo Nivel

2009 • 10 min • United States of America

Mark Hicks and Ivan Martinez are long time friends and video-gamers. When Ivan beats a new horror video game, he decides to pass it on to his friends. Mark and his girlfriend Jamie Perkins soon discover that there's much more to this game than just having fun.

Little Miss Eyeflap

2009 • 11 min • Norway

Breaking with her own culture, a Norwegian-Pakistani girl escapes the force marriage her family has planned for her.