All Films

8mm Film Operation In Nanahari

2009 • 4 min

8mm short film by Shintaro Kiyonari, with music by Abemiki.

Poor Souls

2009 • 4 min • Switzerland

A Swiss tale about a clumsy shepherd with his flock of sheep who live alone high up in the mountains and the mysterious turn of events on the glacier at night.

Entr'acte for a Dancer

2009 • 10 min

Animus of an ordinary dancer avoids her mental relationships.

The Confession

2009 • 34 min • Lithuania

The first part of the film – Island of Crete – was created in 2007, as an independent work. The second part – “Confession" – is like an other half of the Island of Crete, which reveals the reality of it as evidence of a rather cruel creative mechanism occasionally opens up even coercive elements. The author is trying to take a good look in the episodes that are often destroyed in the name of the film illusion creation.

The Tulle Curtain

2009 • 7 min • Lithuania

The film explores global issues. There is an allusion to the Berlin Wall, which is typified by a light tulle curtain with a dotted pattern of an atomic mushroom cloud which divides the area into two parts where different metamorphoses occur: a tulle curtain with concrete arches greets a poet, wraps a tank in a wedding veil, and turns into a barricade, canons and a place for ice fishing.

Ants

2009 • 18 min • Brazil

At the end of the World War II, the defeat of Japan divides the Japanese community into radical groups in Brazil. A family of immigrants find themselves in danger. For the little sisters, giant ants threaten their father.

Tales From the Pussy Pound

2009 • 32 min • Canada, United States of America

Rocco has a special Vurgin detector that he uses to find girls to bring to his hide out that he calls The Pussy Pound, but one of the girls is very special...

Coming Home

2009 • 19 min • Slovenia, United Kingdom

Lena has been forced to move home; forced to leave everything she loves behind. Her life has been turned upside down. No longer will she be able to explore the bustling streets of London and delight in playing with her dearest friends. She has arrived in an idyllic country cottage.

Spending Time With Poster Boy

2009 • 2 min • United States of America

A mini-documentary about the New York City-based street artist, Poster Boy. Poster Boy is a New York City-based street artist. By using a razor, Poster Boy slices up advertisements in the subway system to create completely original works of art. Due to the illegal nature of his work, Poster Boy remains anonymous.

Red Terror on the Amber Coast

2009 • 53 min

Red Terror documents the soviet occupation of Lithuania and the resistance movements that sprang up in opposition to the brutal tactics used by the communists from 1941 up to 1991. Stories of deportation, life in the Gulag, exile to Siberia, KGB prison torture, confiscation of land are told by living survivors. Resistance fighters and those who aided them also share their stories for the first time to an American audience. Rare historical photos and moving images are used to bring these stories to life.

Something Evil, Something Dangerous 2: The Beginning

2009 • 29 min • United Kingdom

Four months before the original nightmare began, four friends meet with the werewolf menace deep in the woods near Horton City.

Amourette

2009 • 5 min • Switzerland

Two wooden dolls are having sex on a sandpaper. By constant change of the positions they sand themselves off by rubbing the floor. The mood varies between wrestling and amorous play. Finally the love act turns into a race against time.

Baras

2009 • 49 min • Lithuania

Arturas Barysas-Baras - film artist, actor collector of music, literature, etc, the leader and vocal of avantgarde music band "And Everything what is Beautiful is Beautiful", Vilnius citizen. Some people thought he was a simple tramp. Others considered him liberty ambassador sending to the world signs of freedom - form creative ideas to western books and music records. He was one of the most vivid soviet Lithuanian underground people who were not afraid to declare freedom when all of its forms were forbidden. But when soviet system collapsed he could not find himself in a world because "freedom" does not like to be put I in any kind of system no matter how liberal it is. Five years after his death Baras' best friends meet to find the answers who was Baras and how has his beloved Vilnius changed being without him.

I Have a Friend

2009 • 29 min • Ukraine

Oleg, who is seriously ill, has no one in his life except his friend Zheka. A friend whose life is chaotic and worthless, but even he has the opportunity to do something good.

Barrabás

2009 • 45 min • Venezuela

Tells the life of Rafael Serrano Toro, a man who in the 60s and 70s became the most wanted criminal in Venezuela for countless scams, robberies and escapes that earned him the nickname Public Enemy Number 1 of the Venezuelan State. The documentary describes the circumstances that made him change and become a writer and political activist.

Designer Wines

2009 • 49 min

Only a few years ago the business of growing and selling high quality wines was tightly controlled by just a handful of countries. This unique program traces the extraordinary way in which the art of European wine making was distilled and transplanted across the world so successfully, that the new generation of wine makers now regularly beat their European parents to the top world prizes.

Dos de dos

2009 • 13 min • Spain

Short film directed by Denise Castro.

Papers for Everyone

2009 • 22 min

This documentary examines the experiences of foreign women in northern Spain engaged in the struggle for equal rights. Using personal narratives, it highlights their challenges, achievements, and the influence of their activism. With guidance from documentary filmmakers Belkis Vega and Heddy Honigmann, the film presents a perspective on displacement, identity, and justice, bringing attention to voices left unheard.

Dzaomalaza

2009 • 50 min • Madagascar

First instalment of the dzaomalaza films whose action is located in the north of Madagascar.

Don't Go Home with Satan

2009 • 4 min

"Don't Go Home With Satan is the first part of my experimental short animation series based on my dreams. Video is based on a song I heard on my dream. When waking up I could not recall it anymore. Several months later it suddenly came to me again. I found a skull from the forest, perhaps a fox, mice had eaten some of it. I turned it around and saw something creepy, like face of a devil, and as walking back to a house I start humming the song from my dream; 'Don't go home with Satan, he will eat your children'. Skull became a character and I build the story around it."

Chromatic Cocktail Extra Fizzy

2009 • 9 min • United States of America

“Motion/color/light studies shot in my studio” — Kerry Laitala ”The vibrant, abstract spirals of Kerry Laitala’s experiments with chromavision leap off the screen in pulsating 3-D.” — Kathy Geritz and Irina Leimbacher

The Capitol of the Multiverse

2009 • 8 min

A neoclassical form breathes and mutates, overlooking a shifting horizon. “… Rows of columns breathing outward, like a great stone butterfly opening its wings. It seems like we are looking at a capitol, to paraphrase St. Augustine, which is like the center of a circle, which is centered everywhere.” David Finkelstein, Film Threat

Sutinnit

2009 • 1 min

An animated poem about tinnitus.

Talking House

2009 • 2 min

It's warm inside. We should talk about it.