All Films

El cielo de los ratones

2009 • 19 min • Puerto Rico

Mice have taken over the household. Its silence is thick with words unspoken. A mother, a child, and a lover are pulled together and pushed apart by their love and soon find themselves trapped in a labyrinth of listlessness.

The Contract

2009 • 13 min • St. Lucia

The first ever St Lucian short film.

Fighters

2009 • 13 min • Spain, Mexico

Fighters is a portrait of the current realities of both the urban and rural Mexican woman. Filmed in Mexico City and the State of Zacatecas this film documents the primary circumstances, difficulties, obstacles and preoccupations that women face daily in this country. Poverty, hunger, * machismo*, mass migration, and social inequality -- these are some of the issues that are explored through their testimonies. Women from various professions, ages and social-economic statuses share their stories and their hopes for the future, and create a portrait of a Mexico where women are taking more of a central role.

Bond

2009 • 9 min

On January 19, 1982, Lilian lives her first disappointment. She is fifteen and after waiting for a long time, she realises that she has been abandoned. Lilian returns home alone and on her way she understands what pain is. On January 19, 1982, Elis Regina died at the age of 36. And the whole city understands what loss is. That day, Lilian and the city are the same.

Sofá Verde

2009 • 8 min • Brazil

Two young men carry a couch through the city.

Once Upon a Time...: Children of Paradise

2009 • 51 min • France

Television documentary about the making of Marcel Carné's 1945 film "Children of Paradise"

Bergen

2009 • 27 min

Two men meet in a run-down Vilnius restaurant - an old man and a young thug named Vytas. After a couple of drinks, the old man suggests that Vytas, who is emigrating to Bergen the following day, can save the restaurant's singer from hardship if he were to take her away with him.

You are a Terrorist

2009 • 2 min • Germany

You are a Terrorist! A Campaign against Terrorists. United for a safer Germany. The Campaign "Du bist Deutschland" (You are Germany) in 2005 was the beginning of a wave of positive spirit in the whole country. This combined energy has turned backwards in 2009, because now you are a potential Terrorist and you have to be watched closely.

Waterland Song

2009 • 31 min • Italy, Portugal

David, wood-mask sculptor, and Adélia, ancient songs connoisseur, are the characters of this movie set in Trás-os-Montes, north-east of Portugal. They testify the neglect condition of this land, where survive traces of a prehistoric ocean.

Fish Fry Night Milwaukee

2009 • 56 min • United States of America

The Friday night fish fry has been a Wisconsin family tradition for many years. It happens all year long, not only during Lent when Catholics don't eat meat on Fridays. "Fish Fry Night Milwaukee" is a film that takes you to some of Milwaukee's most popular, historic and unique fish fry places, to see the people who make them and enjoy them.

Park

2009 • 14 min • France

A park in a big city. On the same day, four people are going to cross each other for the first time, then again, but this time in circumstances a little bit particular.

I Speak True Things

2009 • 6 min • Croatia

An animated short drawn in chalk.

Cities of Gold and Mirrors

2009 • 9 min • United Kingdom

Ciudades de oro y espejos (2009), shot in 16mm in Quintana Roo, is a film consisting of five scenes planned to occur principally in and around the city of Cancún, which was founded in 1970. There, a group of springbreakers; a hotel with dolphins in its pool; a member of the Bloods dancing atop a Mayan archaeological site called El Rey; the demolition of a mirrored building; and the interior of the night club Cocobongo appear one after the other, set to a particular looped recording: Le feu de St. Elme, by Haïm Saban and Shuki Levy. This music is part of the soundtrack to an animated series about Spanish conquistadors, Mysterious Cities of Gold (1982).

Flash Happy Society

2009 • 8 min • Brazil

Science fiction based on real facts.

Notes on the Other

2009 • 14 min • Spain

On July 13, 1924, Ernest Hemingway was on a balcony in Pamplona, Spain and saw a wounded main lying on the other side of the street. He became consumed with the feeling that he was that man, seeing himself in the near-dead Spaniard who had been attacked by bulls. "I am him," Hemingway later wrote. It was the very first time he wanted to be someone else, so he created the character of the adventurous writer. Notes on the Other follows the example of Hemingway's remarkable sensation in the form of an annual Hemingway lookalike contest in Key West, Florida. Dozens of older men do their utmost to be Hemingway, but what are they looking for?

Chalk & Chocolate

2009 • 50 min • Slovenia

The film is a story of one of the best climbers in the world Natalija Gros, who struggles to climb one of the most challenging verticals in Slovenia: Histerija (8c+) in Mišja pec. The camera follows Natalija’s story during her conquering the Histerija and during the climbing season (trainings, competitions, injuries, testings). Natalija is the first woman in Slovenija to climb such a difficult wall (8c+). So far, only a few female climbers in the world have succeeded in acquiring such a result.

Unemployed

2009 • 27 min • Poland, Russia

They are the experts of their job. Over a hundred thousand professionals. They are brave, courageous yet simple Russian men. Their families await them but for their country they simply do not exist. In their homeland they are unemployed.

O rapto do Peixe-Boi

2009 • 15 min • Brazil

There's a party in the river bottom.

Heartstrings

2009 • 3 min • United Kingdom

Falling in love only lasts as long as a piece of string.

Nighttime with Mojca

2009 • 35 min • Slovenia

With the advent of television, many people reckoned that the days of radio were numbered. What is a voice without a face, a laugh without perceptible gesticulations, music without visible animation and so, what little magic was left to retain listeners? It is this very space that Vlado Skafar has chosen to portray in his film made with the aid of basic materials. The pictures: shots of landscapes, cities, all very ordinary, of Slovenia. The sound: the kind of night broadcast where listeners are invited to intervene by way of a game: they phone in, ask for advice, complain, chat or try to flirt with the female presenter who remains invisible to the bitter end.

Aztlan

2009 • 25 min • Chile

Two people in search of their true selves forge a friendship, bonded by their loneliness and the longing to belong somewhere, inside or outside of Chilean society.

An Unfinished Romance

2009 • 10 min • Australia

A romantic story about two strangers meeting in a cafe and how fun it can be when you think things about each other without knowing.

Gypsy and Death

2009 • 1 min • Moldova

New Year's Eve is a holiday filled with fun, joy and happiness. Even the Grim Reaper decided to take a day off and celebrate in a warm and friendly atmosphere.

Linhas e Espirais

2009 • 2 min • Brazil

Experimental animation short film, in which lines and spirals symbolizes the searchs and struggles in life.