All Films

Half Value Life

2009 • 25 min • Afghanistan

A Girl listening to the radio from home, a Woman Walking at Her Workplace. The camera follows their steps in parallel, focuses on the mirror they look at, putting lipstick on. Inside the Court mistreated Women telling their stories. On television, the report of a terrorist attack, outside, in the city. Mrya Basher is the first woman in Afghanistan to have become a senior provincial investigator officer, a high-responsibility position woman are often considered incapable to carry. By actively supporting mistreated young women she puts her life in serious danger.

Nicolas & Guillemette

2009 • 10 min • France

In a store that sells characters made out of Scoubidou strings, Nicolas the Little Musician is the only character who is entirely finished. He wakes up one day and decides to make Guillemette the Little Dancer. Unfortunately, he makes a mistake when tying his strings together and she becomes entangled, starts dancing sideways, and turns into a thousand-headed monster.

The Trail of Death 2: Redemption

2009 • 60 min • Russia

Clouds gather over the heroes of the first film. They die one after another in strange mystical circumstances. Dmitry does not find a place for himself. It is he who discovers the bodies of friends and is already beginning to think about his own mental state. The police suspect him, his girlfriend Zhenya does not believe him, gradually Dmitry begins to go crazy...

Roger Schall, the man with Rolleiflex

2009 • 52 min

During the 1930s, photography took over magazines. The modern press was invested. It needed to attract and inform and an image speaks louder than words. Under these influences, fashion photography, advertising and photojournalism were really born. Roger Schall was part of this new generation of photographers, which moved from a fashion photo to a major feature with their eyes wide open. His career in the 1930 perfectly illustrates this movement. How did Roger Schall see this optimistic world as it became more humane and then soon had its dreams shattered? His pictures can tell us a lot, not only about the period and its contradictions, but also of course about how photography was practiced at that time…

Abel

2009 • 20 min • Belarus

In Belarus, a group of enthusiasts made the film "Abel" as a kind of message of peace. Starting from the first recorded murder of one person by another (the Cain and Abel brothers), the author of the film tried to create a situation in which the next organized war appears in all its futility and anti-humanity. The main points are not military scenes, but rather the relatively innocuous thoughts of the main character: El Pablo against his will was sent to war, with people to whom he does not feel hatred. The film "Abel" stands out primarily for its alternative approach to short films, while preserving at the same time many of the principles of the art genre.

Recordando a Hugo Díaz

2009 • 30 min • Costa Rica

Documental about life & work of Hugo Díaz(1930-2001), a Costa Rican caricaturist

The Power of the Peep

2009 • 43 min • United States of America

Boxed in sets of five and staring out with sugar-blackened eyes, Marshmallow Peeps have been emerging like clockwork from a factory in Bethlehem Pennsylvania since the 1950s. They were born in the mind of a Russian immigrant, hatched in Easter baskets and eaten by the dozens across the country. Then they armed themselves with lances, stood in front of trucks, mutated in microwave ovens and set out on their own. This is the story of what happened when a marshmallow met modern America. It's the story of how a sweet candy product got to the shelves of your convenience store--and what happened after it left them behind.

The Bug In The Bathroom

2009 • 59 min • United States of America

A mysterious black briefcase. A journey from the farmlands to the urban landscape. A bug that isn't what it seems to be.

Dois Mundos

2009 • 15 min • Brazil

Matroshka: Dolls of Doom

2009 • 17 min • United States of America

On a trip to the beach in Crimea, three happy-go-lucky girls come across a suspicious Matroshka doll.

António Sena - A Mão Esquiva

2009 • 53 min • Portugal

Documentary about the work of the painter António Sena and a way to see the transformation of forms over time

Gps

2009 • 5 min • Australia

GPS is a story about Thompson – a seven year old boy who has one dream in life, to be the voice of a GPS navigator. But unfortunately Thompson has a lisp.

Wandering Notes

2009 • 47 min • Brazil

Wandering Notes revealing an everyday life of the city that the author was born. Places picked by chance show her encounter with this city.

Dream

2009 • 3 min

A woman recalls a strange dream she had when she was younger.

Outlandish: Strange Foreign Bodies

2009 • 20 min • United Kingdom

Philosopher and heart transplant recipient Jean-Luc Nancy meditates on the history and integrity of bodies in a number of visual and literary passages exploring his onscreen presence, a surgical organ in search of a body and an unaccounted for, displaced invertebrate at sea. Outlandish is a journey between shores and environments, the touching of and proximity between bodies, the vanishing and appearance of crew, dimensions of form and, above all, our relations with strange foreign bodies.

Tatakox da Aldeia Vila Nova

2009 • 21 min • Brazil

In the Maxakali Vila Nova do Pradinho indigenous village, when the women miss their children who died young, the Tatakox go to dig them up and bring them to the villages for their mothers to see. Then, on the same day, the ritual continues as the living boys are taken by the spirits to stay in the men's house and learn.

Acordar do Dia

2009 • 32 min • Brazil

It's morning in a Tikmu'un - Maxakali indigenous village. The air is filled by fog, smoke from bonfires, and the smell of strained coffee - the people live go through their together and slowly. Later, they head towads the city in the back of a truck. Their presence at a market exposes a clash of two worlds.

The Cuckoo and Her 12 Hubbies

2009 • 8 min • Latvia

A sensation or good fortune? Or a lucky occurrence? The Cuckoo has 12 husbands, all of them splendid! Can this be true, and why is she the lucky one?

The Fire and Clay Master

2009 • 9 min • Latvia

The harsh environment of Latgale determines the visual language and provincial aesthetic of this film, while the particular milieu of the surrounding pottery furnaces and old cottages depict an end of the line region where one man is burning himself in the fires of his artistic passion, making of clay pots.

Inside

2009 • 8 min • Macedonia

The isolated world of a man, living in nostalgia of the past moments spent with his loved one.

Master of Ice

2009 • 24 min • Latvia

Once upon a time a strange magician arrives during the festivities at the King’s palace. He is a Master of Ice, and his specialty is to freeze everything. The King does not like the icy magic, and the magician is impolitely sent away. Even the Princess laughs at him. But later the angry magician returns and freezes the Princess, stealing her away to his ice castle. When they try to rescue her, the Mater of Ice freezes the whole kingdom. Only young Page remains unfrozen, and he is only one who can try to rescue the Princess...

Fortune’s Favourite

2009 • 52 min • Latvia

A portrait of prominent opera singer - bass-baritone Egils Silins. For 4 years, the crew followed the singer through the greatest European opera houses. The film reveals behind the scenes and perfor-mances of Richard Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman, Giacomo Puccini’s Tosca at the Latvian National Opera, Wagner’s The Valkyrie at the Zurich Opera, Georges Bizet’s Carmen at the Vienna Opera, and Wagner’s Parsifal at the Munich Opera.

Déjà

2009 • 13 min • Switzerland

Based on a series of events over the course of one day, Oscar learns that he doesn’t have very long to live. Time has passed without him having noticed or, rather, accepted this fact. Following this brutal realisation and moments filled with doubt and loneliness, Oscar notices that he isn’t really alone.

A Dark Love Story For Clowns

2009 • 5 min • United States of America

A Dark Love Story For Clowns is a hybrid of an African ritual, an autobiographical anecdote, and a modern riff of a post-abolitionist short story by William Faulkner.